Evolution from the crocodile

Ocean temperatures gradually increase further south.

In one week, Lu Chen led three crocodile brothers and sisters to drift along the ocean currents for more than a thousand kilometers and finally arrived at their destination.

Madura is also a country that did not exist in the previous life. It has hundreds of millions of hectares of tropical rainforest, accounting for 10% of the total area of ​​​​Blue Star's tropical rainforest.

This is also one of the hometowns of the crocodile.

The best way to hide a drop of water is to put it in the ocean.

For Lu Chen, the only way to completely hide his traces was to enter the real habitat area of ​​the crocodile.

The mouth of the river in front of us is hundreds of meters wide, divided by large and small tidal flats and sandbars. Coupled with the dense towering trees on both sides, the primitive and vast feeling is overwhelming.

Not long after entering the river mouth, Lu Chen smelled the same kind of scent.

However, he had no idea of ​​saying hello, but decisively took Crocodile Boss and the others away before they arrived.

Adult male crocodiles have a strong sense of territory and can allow multiple females to live and feed in their territory. But if another male crocodile breaks in and refuses to leave, a life-and-death fight will begin immediately.

Moreover, most crocodiles eat their own kind.

Lu Chen now weighs more than 400 kilograms, but he is still a little boy compared to adult crocodiles. He didn't want to fight these guys unless necessary.

There are abundant food sources near the river mouth, so the territory of the crocodile is generally not very large.

Swimming a few hundred meters upstream, I smelled the same scent mark again. Apparently, they were about to enter the territory of another male crocodile.

Lu Chen had no choice but to continue moving forward with Crocodile Boss and the others, and finally entered a long and narrow tributary.

After carefully looking at the surrounding environment, he decided to settle here.

The first thing, as usual, starts with digging a cave.

This place is located in a tropical area, and the climate is very suitable for the survival of crocodiles. There is no need to worry about the temperature dropping at night. But for Lu Chen, digging holes has become a habit.

In the dangerous tropical rainforest, caves can often save your life.

In order to prevent the river water from pouring back into the cave during the rainy season, the entrance was specially selected in the high jungle, and two escape channels were dug.

While the crocodiles were digging holes, Lu Chen explored the animals in their territory along the river.

Wild boar, muntjac, dolphin deer, mouse deer... there are also many unfamiliar smells.

Um?

When a strange smell penetrated his nostrils, Lu Chen's eyes became more solemn.

Immediately, he climbed up the river bank with all his limbs.

In the moist soil he found broad plum blossom-shaped marks. There are still clear hanging claws on a big tree next to it.

This is...a tiger?

Are there tigers living near your new home? After receiving this signal, Lu Chen was not surprised but overjoyed.

For him, tiger hunting is a challenging job.

In the Tiannan Mountain Reserve, Lu Chen encountered South China tigers when he went hunting. Unfortunately, he was too weak at the time, so he just glanced at it from a distance, then fled into the river in despair and swam away.

Lu Chen didn't know much about the types of tigers in this world.

But the one nearby was obviously not a South China tiger. It might be an Indo-Chinese tiger, a Bengal tiger or a Malayan tiger... To Lu Chen, the species was not important.

The key is, he wants to taste tiger meat... and touch the tiger's butt by the way.

An average tiger weighs about two hundred kilograms, which is about the same weight as Lu Chen. If the environmental conditions are right, he can really fulfill this wish.

After writing down the location, Lu Chen continued moving forward.

Soon, another ugly guy was found by the water.

There are many white spots scattered on the earth-black scales. The back of the tail protrudes to form two rows of ridges. The slender tail is more than one meter long. Coupled with the thick and short limbs, it suddenly looks like a gecko enlarged many times. .

Water lizard? Lu Chen recognized the name immediately.

This guy should be an Asian water lizard in his previous life, and is also the second largest lizard in the world, second only to the Komodo dragon. They can grow over 2 meters long and weigh over 25 kilograms.

Komodo dragons are highly venomous, but water lizards don't seem to be. After all, someone was sentenced to death for eating this stuff in a previous life.

With his prey in front of him, Lu Chen did not hesitate, and his body disappeared silently on the water.

Arriving nearby, he suddenly jumped up and easily solved the battle.

After filling my stomach, I caught a giant catfish weighing more than 20 kilograms and took it home.

After throwing the food to the crocodile boss, Lu Chen took over the digging work.

His speed was faster, and in half a day, he had opened up a large enough space underground.

***

At the beginning of a new day, four crocodiles climbed out of the cave one after another amid the chirping sounds of the black spots.

Hiss, hiss

Hush...

After the crocodile boss, crocodile boss, and crocodile sister communicated with each other for a while, they started to get busy in the shallow water area. Soon, a stone circle fish trap took shape.

After listening to the exchanges between several guys, Lu Chen sighed again.

For ordinary crocodiles, although they can communicate with similar species through sound, this communication is very primitive and simple and cannot transmit too complex signals.

The guys are different. Since they started spirituality, their crocodile language has become more and more fluent and complex!

They can use the pitch and speed of their voices to express different meanings... The key is, this guy in the black spot seems to be able to understand it too.

Lu Chen didn't know if this was a sign of budding civilization.

But for him, it was a good thing.

Now Crocodile Boss and the others can quickly understand the complex commands they issued.

Seeing a few guys busy, Lu Chen had no intention of being idle.

He walked backwards again towards the upper reaches of the tributary and found a barking deer drinking water by the river.

Stealth, surprise attack...

Lu Chen did not bite the prey to death, but used his sharp claws to break off the prey's two hind legs and threw them by the water.

This area is also the territory of the fierce tiger.

After setting up the prey trap, Lu Chen sank his body into the water.

There is a layer of rotting leaves and green algae floating on the water surface, which is the best cover.

swish swish...

Within half an hour, a carnivore approached the trap.

To Lu Chen's disappointment, the tiger he was expecting did not appear. Instead, a six-meter-long black-tailed rock python came smelling the smell of blood. The scales of this snake are very similar to those of Burmese pythons, and they are similar in size and non-venomous.

Hiss... After the rock python approached its prey, it did not attack immediately.

It seemed to smell danger in the surrounding air and kept probing with its snake core.

The smell of rotten leaves on the river surface blocked Lu Chen's scent very well, and the rock python could not find the source of the danger.

Ultimately, it failed to resist the temptation of food.

Half of the snake's body suddenly ejected, its sharp teeth pierced into the little muntjac's body, and then its mouth continued to expand, slowly swallowing the prey.

Until this moment, Lu Chen suddenly jumped out.

Seeing a huge reptile appearing in the water, the black-tailed rock python showed a bit of fear in its eyes. It twisted its body rapidly and fled deep into the jungle.

In the blink of an eye, he climbed more than ten meters away.

This situation was beyond Lu Chen's expectation.

After this guy swallowed the food, he was still able to escape at such a speed?