Evolution from the crocodile

According to Lu Chen's original idea, he planned to leave the valley with a few crocodiles immediately after evolving to level 4 and migrate to the tropical jungle further south.

Now with new discoveries, I hesitate again.

He didn't know if the current mutation only occurred in the Hot Spring Valley, or if it had spread to the entire Blue Star.

If it's the latter, this should be considered the beginning of a new era... The days ahead will be far more exciting than imagined.

Suddenly, Lu Chen felt a sense of urgency in his heart.

The idea of ​​becoming stronger became even more urgent.

It's just that I am currently staying in the mountains, and the news is really blocked. I don't know what changes are happening in the outside world at this moment.

How about... going to the human world again soon?

Lu Chen felt it was necessary, if it was as guessed. You must prepare early, take the lead one step at a time, and take the lead step by step.

After making up his mind, Lu Chen turned his attention to the three crocodiles beside him and left the valley.

I was lucky this time. I just swam more than ten miles when I smelled the scent of prey.

It was a few sambar deer foraging for food.

They are the largest deer species living in tropical and subtropical areas. They like to forage in groups near water, mainly eating leaves, berries, buds and other plants.

Adult sambar deer generally weigh around 400 kilograms, and the leading one in front of us seems to be even more powerful. It is nearly three meters long, weighs over 500 pounds, has light brown fur, and has a nearly one-meter-long three-pronged horn on its head.

Even to Lu Chen now, this guy is a giant. But there was no fear in his heart.

Sambar deer are different from wild boars. These guys are timid in nature. Once attacked, they will immediately run away and will not fight back in place. Therefore, no matter how big it is, it is nothing more than a pile of delicious food to Lu Chen.

What's more, this time his target was not the largest leader, but a young sambar deer weighing over a hundred kilograms.

After carefully observing the environment, Lu Chen slowly came ashore from the downwind.

Leveraging on the green grass more than half a meter high, I quietly approached in a roundabout way.

As expected, he was spotted by an alert sambar deer as soon as he got within thirty meters.

Immediately, this guy shouted a warning.

The next moment, Lu Chen moved!

The limbs take wild steps and sprint towards the direction of the prey.

The panicked sambar deer fled in all directions, and many even jumped into the river and swam quickly towards the other side, in an attempt to avoid the pursuit of the hunters.

The reason why these guys are called sambar is because they have a unique ability - swimming.

Unfortunately, they miscalculated.

As the overlord of the estuary, no animal knows how to swim better than Lu Chen!

After taking aim, he disappears again.

Half a minute later, I saw a sambar deer swimming in the middle of the river. It seemed to be pulled by something and suddenly disappeared from the water.

***

Yoyo...Yoyo...

On the trail leading to the hot spring valley, a sambar deer ran quickly and screamed in terror.

After running a certain distance, it turned around and planned to escape towards another fork in the forest, so as not to be blocked by Lu Chen.

This guy had no choice but to jump and turn, then spread out his limbs and ran wildly.

Seeing that the prey did not deviate from the intended direction, Lu Chen continued to follow slowly. After several rounds of strengthening, his heart has gradually adapted to long-distance running.

In this way, the hunted and the predator traveled along the mountain road one after another, and finally entered the hot spring valley.

The reason why Lu Chen didn't kill the sambar deer directly was because he wanted to keep the three crocodiles as sparring partners to increase their hunting skills.

In recent months, the crocodiles have become accustomed to catching prey in traps. Over time, Lu Chen was afraid that they would completely forget the crocodile's own hunting instinct.

Hiss, hiss...

Seeing the sambar deer suddenly appearing in the valley, several crocodiles immediately surrounded it excitedly.

Immediately, they asked Crocodile Lao San.

After getting the affirmative answer, the three guys immediately rushed forward and started hunting sambar deer.

Crocodile Boss, the strongest one, lures the enemy from the front, while Crocodile Lao Er and Crocodile Girl are ambushing from the sides.

The size difference between the two sides was so big that Lu Chen originally thought they would be entangled for a long time.

As a result, the crocodile's second crocodile pounced and tore off a large piece of flesh and blood from the sambar's buttocks.

Within half a minute, amidst this guy's miserable howl, the crocodile boss rushed forward, opened his mouth and bit the opponent's neck.

A death roll, blood spurting out from the neck.

The sambar deer ran forward a few steps, then fell into a pool of blood, its eyes quickly losing color.

Lu Chen was quite satisfied with this result.

At least it proves that although the three Gulf crocodiles have had a comfortable life in recent months, they have not forgotten their hunting skills.

The carcass of this sambar weighed more than 100 kilograms, enough to feed four crocodiles. As the leader of the four crocodiles, Lu Chen naturally has the right to distribute prey.

He stretched out his toes and claws, grabbed them all, and divided the body into four parts of different sizes.

When the common crocodile encounters a large piece of food that cannot be swallowed, it will often hold the food in its mouth and beat it violently on a stone or tree trunk until the food is broken into pieces and then swallowed.

If that doesn't work, just leave the prey aside and let it rot and break into pieces before eating it.

The three crocodiles were different. They imitated Lu Chen's movements, waving their claws and cutting continuously until they peeled the food into tiny pieces of meat, and then opened their mouths to swallow.

What Lu Chen didn't expect was that the young bird also came closer, extended its little head and pecked at the flesh, and then swallowed it happily.

Under the care of Crocodile Laosi, the little guy's style seems to be getting more and more biased.

It is said that as this guy grows stronger day by day, his courage becomes stronger and stronger.

It often breaks away from the protective circle of several crocodiles and jumps alone in the jungle. It is not afraid even if it sees monkeys, and even dares to open its mouth to ask for food.

The monkeys also seemed to understand that the bird was being protected by several crocodiles, and they did not dare to take any chances. Some smart guys even caught small bugs from the bushes and fed them to them.

Lu Chen was busy creating rock paintings some time ago and did not pay attention to the baby birds.

Only now did he suddenly realize that this guy seemed to look more and more familiar: a gray-black pointed beak, white belly feathers, blue-black flight feathers... If coupled with a few long black tail feathers, it would look exactly like this. A magpie!

Damn...it's really a baby magpie.

Only then did Lu Chen realize why the more he looked at it, the more familiar it became.

Recalling the situation a few months ago when he had just traveled to this world and was bullied by a group of magpies, Lu Chen immediately had the idea of ​​opening his mouth and swallowing the little guy to satisfy his hatred.

He still clearly remembers the taste of Rexiang being poured into his mouth.

However, after seeing Crocodile Laosi next to him, Lu Chen gave up the idea.

Crocodile Laosi regards this bird as a treasure, so he had better not anger the little guy.

It's just a stupid bird. The adults don't remember the faults of the villain, so let it live...

Wait... Magpies belong to the family Corvidae and are known as the most intelligent birds.

Could it be that this guy has undergone some kind of mutation?