Chapter 4 Running so fast

Author: Arion's Dolphins

Chapter 4 Running so fast

The powerful forelimbs and wide front claws give it a good digging ability. With enough patience, it is not a problem to dig a deep enough trap pit.

Of course, his claws are not as flexible as human fingers, and the process of burying the spikes and covering the holes with branches took a lot of effort, but fortunately the result is worth it.

A small slope was dug out from the side of the hole. Tang Zhao stepped on the slope, stretched out his neck and bit the hind legs of the roe deer, and used his limbs and neck to drag the deer in front of him.

The front paws pressed down on the deer's body, and Tang Zhao's sharp teeth penetrated the trachea of ​​the prey's throat. After a while, it stopped struggling and lost its vitality.

Tang Zhao dug out the dagger from the soil and stuffed it into the prey's mouth. Tang Zhao quickly dragged the prey away.

There is a smell of wolves around here, and it would be too risky to eat where you are.

As usual, he dragged the prey up the tree, and after making sure he saw no threats around him, Tang Zhao put his head into the prey's body cavity, found the blood core he needed, and swallowed it.

He didn't waste the remaining roe deer after that. He opened his mouth and feasted, raising his head to swallow pieces of flesh and blood.

A lizard can't swallow things directly like a human, so he has to tilt his head up to let the flesh and blood slide into his stomach. It's not really troublesome, but it feels strange.

[The meat is still short of 30 kilograms, and the blood core is still short of three. If we keep catching it like this, it will only take four or five days at the latest.]

He had caught prey once before using a trap. Counting the wild boar, he had now eaten three blood cores and achieved half of his goal.

[Evolve again and consider migrating or fighting against the monsters here. The strength should be about the same. 】

While he was thinking about his future plans, a low roar reached his ears.

Tang Zhao was startled and quickly looked up under the tree - there were two large dark gray wolves wandering around, staring at him fiercely.

[Is it caused by the smell of blood? Or is it the scouts of the large army? Either way is not a good thing, so retreat quickly.]

Tang Zhao immediately looked around for a feasible escape plan.

Even if these wolves were not much smaller than him, he would still be 30% to 40% sure that they could fight one against two, but the wolf in question was a social animal, so there would definitely be more than just one or two.

[The weight is too heavy to crawl along the branches, and the surrounding stream is too shallow, so swimming is impractical, so I just run away. In terms of endurance, I can't compare to a pack of wolves, which means I have to fight hard.]

After thinking clearly in his mind, Tang Zhao had no time to hesitate. He used his claws hard and jumped to the ground in a few steps along the slightly tilted tree trunk.

Facing the two wild wolves, he raised himself up on his hind legs to make himself appear as tall as possible, hoping to make the other side retreat.

But the two wolves didn't care about this intimidation and bit directly at Tang Zhao's relatively weak belly.

Tang Zhao immediately threw down his body to drive away the two wild wolves, then exposed his fangs and bit one of the wild wolves.

Seeing that the attack failed, the two wolves turned slightly to avoid Tang Zhao's bite, and then immediately dispersed, circling Tang Zhao one after another, looking for flaws.

Facing Tang Zhao's large and hard armor, they couldn't even put their mouth down for a while.

But correspondingly, it was not easy for Tang Zhao to bite them. Their bodies were flexible and they had rich fighting experience, so it would definitely not be possible to bite them hard.

It was not good for Tang Zhao if the two sides continued to deal with each other like this, so he simply changed his mind and pretended to focus most of his attention on attacking the wolf in front of him, but because of this, he neglected the protection behind him.

After all, a beast is a beast. I have never met an opponent who can pull off such a trick, so I was immediately fooled.

Taking advantage of the confrontation between Tang Zhao and the wolf in front of him, he jumped on Tang Zhao's back, opened his mouth wide and bit Tang Zhao's neck from the blind spot.

If he was really bitten, Tang Zhao wouldn't feel it too well even if he was protected by scales.

But Tang Zhao was already prepared for this. His neck was much more flexible than the wild wolf imagined. He turned slightly to the side and made the wild wolf unbalanced. Tang Zhao turned his head and opened his mouth to bite the wild wolf's jaw.

With all his strength, he directly pulled the wild wolf off him.

At this time, the wild wolf kicked its legs desperately to kick Tang Zhao away, but this had little effect on an animal that was much stronger than it.

Pressing the wolf's head with his front paws, Tang Zhao ignored the other wolf that rushed towards him and bit directly into the wolf's throat.

The wild wolf immediately let out a whimper, and the strength in his legs immediately weakened a bit.

He let go and pushed the dead wolf away with his right paw. Tang Zhao was just about to continue killing the other wild wolf that had bitten his left paw and wouldn't let go. The other wolf just released his mouth and quickly took a few steps back to distance himself.

With a hint of human anger in its eyes, it growled twice at Tang Zhao, then turned around and chose to run away, running a distance of five or six meters in the blink of an eye.

[Too fast, unable to catch up. Take this opportunity to run away.]

He hurriedly ran to the dying wild wolf, killed him with one bite, then quickly took out the blood core from the opponent's body cavity and swallowed it, and finally quickly stepped on the stream and left the scene.

Regarding the question of where to run, Tang Zhao frankly didn't have a clue. He didn't know what kind of revenge this move would bring about from the wolves.

After much thought, he decided not to go out, but to continue deeper into the forest.

Because it is too far to run directly out of the forest, and the outside is the territory of the wolves, so there is no benefit.

It's also very dangerous inside, but spiders are creatures that weave webs to hunt after all, and their mobility is not as strong as that of wolves, so they can run away if they really want.

With an idea in mind, Tang Zhao put it into action and headed into the forest.

The interior of the forest he saw this time was much better than before. Although the trees still looked a little twisted and there were some spider webs hanging on them, the spider webs were not connected into large pieces, and he did not see spiders similar to last time.

Feeling relieved, Tang Zhao began to look for a suitable habitat for himself.

[Spiders can climb trees and dig holes with no escape route. The best place to avoid those arthropods is probably in the water. Most of the existing arthropods cannot swim. 】

Tang Zhao finally found a pond and rested in it temporarily.

Like many of his cousins, he can swim and is pretty good at water.

At least you can do this by immersing your body in water while sleeping and then bringing your head up to breathe.

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After finding a place to live, Tang Zhao began to explore the surrounding environment, but the results he obtained were very strange. He didn't know how to describe it specifically, so he could only temporarily think that "the forest is sick."

The trees were covered with cobwebs, and giant spiders and giant insects appeared one after another, but there were almost no wild boars, deer, and wild birds that would be found in a normal forest.

Many skeletons could be found on the ground, covered with bite marks from the mouthparts of arthropods. They had not been in a state for a long time, which made Tang Zhao feel a little creepy.

He was certain that there must be some special monster in the woods, but he hadn't seen it yet, and he hoped he wouldn't have to see it in the future.

The fear did not remain in his heart for long, and he soon turned his attention to other things - for example, whether there was a blood core in the body of giant arthropods.

Here he can temporarily find fish and a small amount of prey such as hares, but he still needs blood cores to allow himself to evolve.
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