vrcanaries Chapter 21 Chi Long's Counterattack
Chapter 21 Chi Long's Counterattack
[Dragon Kingdom participant Bai Zhou used 1 intervention point to guide the strengthening of the feet of the Dragon Clan!]
The moment the intervention took effect, visible changes began to occur in the hind limb structure of the dromaeosaurids.
The foot bones became thicker, the soles of the feet widened, and a thicker keratin layer evolved on the soles of the feet, with hook-shaped protrusions faintly appearing at the edges.
This is not for swimming, but for gaining better grip and explosive power on soft, muddy, or uneven surfaces.
While foot enhancements don't directly increase attack power, they allow dromaeosaurids to escape danger zones more quickly and maintain balance in mud, enabling them to launch counterattacks.
This intervention cannot turn the tide of the battle, but it can at least increase Chilong's chances of winning.
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On the other side, Mickey also used intervention points, choosing to enhance the anaconda's size.
[Mickey, a participant from the Kangaroo Kingdom, used 1 intervention point to guide the anaconda group's group enhancement!]
The anaconda grew from six meters to six and a half meters in length and its weight increased by ten kilograms.
Mickey doesn't intend to engage in a large-scale battle with Shirao, but rather to harass the dragon continuously, using the anaconda's advantage of being able to move around in swamps and other areas to slowly wear down the dragon.
After its size was enhanced, Mickey once again ordered the anaconda to attack, taking advantage of the early morning fog before it dissipated to quietly sneak into the downstream silt area.
This time it was still three anacondas. The previous two successes made Mickey think that three anacondas were the best offensive combination.
However, when the anaconda slid into the ambush area, it found only five dromaeosaurids drinking water on the riverbank.
One of the anacondas suddenly lunged out and coiled around the nearest dromaeosaurid.
Just as the anaconda charged forward, the dromaeosaurid leaped off its feet and jumped more than a meter across the slippery pebble beach.
The anaconda missed its target, leaving most of its body exposed on the mudflats.
"roar!!"
A roar came from behind.
Before the anaconda could figure out what was happening, it felt a slight vibration behind it.
Turning his head, he saw the leader of the dromaeosaurs leading more than thirty dromaeosaurs, surrounding him completely. The five dromaeosaurs in front of him also stopped drinking and moved closer to him.
The three anacondas realized they had fallen into a trap and tried to break through, but the dromaeosaurids took turns harassing them, specifically targeting the junction between the anacondas' heads and torsos.
An anaconda was bitten on the side of its neck by three dromaeosaurids at the same time. In the struggle, the anaconda's thick tail swept one of the dromaeosaurids to the ground.
Ignoring its own wounds, the anaconda used its over six-meter-long body to wrap around the fallen dromaeosaur.
"Creak!"
A piercing sound of bones cracking emanated from Chilong's body.
The remaining dromaeosaurids increased their biting speed, trying to rescue the entangled dromaeosaurid.
More than a dozen small wounds appeared on the anaconda's body.
Seeing this, the other two anacondas rushed into the river without hesitation.
But the swarm of dragons had already blocked their path. They used their enhanced legs to move quickly through the shallow water, trying to intercept the two anacondas.
In the end, they successfully cornered one anaconda to the edge of the riverbank, while the other, with its body still injured, darted into deeper water and escaped. As it swam, the blood flowing from its wound gradually turned the river it passed through red.
The anaconda that was surrounded seemed to know that it could not escape, so it turned its head and bit the hind leg of a dromaeosaurid, and its whole body burst out with amazing constricting force.
Chi Long's body instantly bent over, lifeless.
The remaining dromaeosaurs instantly swarmed around, tearing at the anaconda's skin and flesh one bite after another.
Anacondas have relatively soft bodies and do not require high bite force.
A dozen minutes later, the two anacondas stopped wriggling one after the other, and the corpses of three dromaeosaurids lay beside them. The riverbank gradually returned to calm.
Faced with the anaconda carcass, which was over six meters long and weighed more than two hundred kilograms, Chilong did not waste it and made it his dinner.
More than forty dromaeosaurids surrounded and killed three anacondas. One escaped, and three dromaeosaurids were lost. This result was not impressive. Although the cost was high, at least two anacondas were killed.
During the first two anaconda attacks, the dromaeosaurids could only watch helplessly as their companions were in danger, unable to help them.
But this time they were able to kill the anaconda, which is progress.
[Trading injuries for injuries, but it's not a bad trade; as long as we can take down the anaconda.]
[Chilong's physique is still somewhat lacking when fighting an anaconda.]
I wonder what Mickey will do next.
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Inside the observation room, Mickey's expression was rather grim.
A green anaconda can give birth to dozens of offspring at a time. Although relatively few of them survive to adulthood, the large number of offspring means that even with a low adulthood rate, the anaconda population can still reach more than eighty individuals.
Therefore, the deaths of these two anacondas are far from a devastating blow to the entire anaconda population.
Mickey's grim expression stemmed from his disbelief that his anaconda would die.
Moreover, it was killed by Chilong. Just a few days ago, Chilong couldn't do anything about the anaconda, but now he has killed his own anaconda.
Li Zhengtai watched from the sidelines, expressionless, but inwardly he was secretly enjoying the spectacle.
I had warned Mickey before that Chilong was not easy to deal with, but Mickey just wouldn't believe me.
Those who do not heed the advice of their predecessors will suffer the consequences.
One can only say that the anaconda's death was a fitting consequence of Mickey's blind confidence.
[Australia: What is Mickey doing?]
[In Australia: Forests and rivers are the anaconda's home ground, so why does Mickey let the anaconda go to the shallows?]
Since the beginning of Earth Online, apart from individuals that die from birth, aging, illness, or death, there has never been a case of two anacondas dying at the same time in an anaconda population.
Therefore, the Kangaroo Kingdom was slightly dissatisfied with Mickey's actions.
Mickey seemed to realize this as well, and stopped letting the anacondas into the territory of the dragon clan.
Bai Zhou also issued an order to the Chilong tribe, forbidding any Chilong from entering the area 100 meters south of the boundary between the forest and the grassland.
This 100-meter stretch serves as a buffer zone for the two groups of dromaeosaurids and anacondas.
The anaconda will definitely seek revenge for killing Chilong, but not now.
Bai Zhou isn't stupid enough to send Chi Long into the forest to seek revenge on the anaconda.
With the orders issued by Bai Zhou and Mickey, the two groups that had been at odds miraculously ceased their conflict.
But both Bai Zhou and Mickey knew that the current situation was like an undercurrent beneath a calm surface, and that once the time was right, the conflict between the two groups would be even more intense than before.
As for how long it will be before that opportunity arrives, no one knows; it could be 100,000 years, 1 million years, or even 10 million years.
Over the next five million years, as the continent shrank by eight percent, the conflicts between the groups intensified, except in the northeastern region of the ancient continent.
Because the three dominant species in this region—elephant herds, dromaeosaurid herds, and anaconda herds—are all living in peace.
Peace between the three hegemons signifies peace in this region.
But this peace was broken five million years later when the Dracodon evolved again.