Chapter 144 New Features

For the fire dragons of the ancient tree fire dragon clan, these hunters can only be regarded as neutral units in their eyes.

In other words, what the investigation team thinks is "friendly" is actually just a biological object that can be ignored by the fire dragons in their eyes.

That friendly adaptive behavior is just to make the fire dragons familiar with their existence.

It's like meeting a golden retriever outside. Everyone knows that this thing is aggressive, so they will be vigilant at first, but when this golden retriever takes the initiative to show goodwill to people, and will retreat obediently when people obviously show irritability.

After a long time, even people who are worried about danger will begin to let down their guard. At most, they don't know whether this golden retriever will carry something unclean, so they won't allow the other party to get too close.

The attitude of the current fire dragon towards the researchers and hunters of the investigation team is similar to this. As long as they don't get too close and don't show any misunderstandings that make the dragon feel dangerous, the fire dragon will not target them.

Those with status scales can let the other party get a little closer, or even do something that the fire dragon cannot understand, and can also be slightly tolerant.

But if you want to get close to the fire dragon like Deter, or even interfere with the fire dragon's food, treat wounds, and take care of cubs, the fire dragons don't mind letting the other party know what the dignity of the fire dragon is.

At this time, even if you have star meat jerky, it will be useless.

Time passed in this wonderful way of getting along.

Because the transportation route with the investigation team was opened, the breeding plan of the cats of the ancient tree fire dragon tribe was also implemented. Every breeding site and breeding facility was carefully selected by the investigation team.

Some unsuitable terrains were even renovated, and protective measures were established one by one.

Soon, the first batch of creatures used for experiments were released. After some adjustments and risk assessments, as time passed, the first batch of breeding fragrant pigs and bite fish successfully survived.

The protective measures set up under the guidance of the investigation team also played their due role and successfully blocked some not-so-good snooping.

Although these achievements are not many and are still in the initial stage, they still bring great confidence to the cats.

After a while, after the first batch of farmed creatures are released, a large number of cats can achieve self-sufficiency. If the herbivorous dragons finally succeed in farming, there will be extra food to store at that time to deal with the situation of food shortage in the future.

That day, Luo Yun was still squatting on a platform in the earth vein branch as usual.

Suddenly, the illusory panel suddenly appeared in front of him, and the characteristic extraction progress bar was greatly increased to 99%, and the life energy above the earth vein branch felt active all of a sudden.

More than a month ago, the reward for his crusade against the battle-scarred black wolf bird had long been used up. During this period, Luo Yun had been relying on his ability to actively absorb life energy to absorb energy.

In order to make up for the reduced energy absorption rate, he would even stay here for a little longer every day.

Who would have thought that the familiar feeling would suddenly appear again, which made him a little confused.

He obviously did nothing during this period of time?

At the same time, the ancient tree forest was close to the Grand Canyon.

The scorching temperature made the air here a little distorted. A large number of loose animal corpses exuded a rotten smell under the high temperature, and there was no miasma in the air.

Even the creatures living in the Grand Canyon fled this area to avoid the two ancient dragons who were playing the game of chase.

The Mist Barrier Corpse Dragon was really depressed, very depressed.

Since being caught by the Yangyan Dragon that day, the other party was like a big cat that searched for prey and began to chase him tightly.

Often, the Mist Barrier Corpse Dragon just took a breath and was caught up by the other party. There was no way, so it could only gather miasma again to fight.

But this big cat was completely different from the Yangyan Dragon couple back then. It was actually a wise big cat!

The fighting style is completely different from that of the young couple. Whether it is combat experience, energy control, or even the reserve of life energy, it is far superior to that of the male Yangyan Dragon back then.

And the most annoying thing is that after only one battle, he determined that the part of his body that was damaged by the strange fire dragon before was his weakness.

Every time he attacked, he attacked that area and hit it hard.

This made the Mist Barrier Corpse Dragon very frustrated.

Although each injury was not serious, he could plunder the vitality of those creatures eroded by the miasma to repair it, but he couldn't stand the pain of being beaten!

It was not a life-and-death battle, and the Mist Barrier Corpse Dragon was really suppressed. Just like this, one kept running away and healing, and the other took the opportunity to hit the weak defense part a few times. In terms of the intensity of the battle, it was far less intense than when they first met.

Finally, as time went on, the Mist Hazard became tired of being chased and had no time to repair the spore sacs on its body. Moreover, the "armor" it had stored for many years also became tattered.

Originally, the good mood of coming up to relax and take a rest was gone. In addition, the Misty Corpse Dragon was too lazy to play such a game after being chased to the Grand Canyon, so he simply left the Ancient Tree Forest, crossed the Grand Canyon, and jumped directly from the Coral Terrace with a body full of miasma, returning to the Misty Valley.

Under the miasma-filled death breath of the Misty Valley, the Flame King Dragon could not sense the location of the Misty Corpse Dragon at all, and the urging feeling that had been lingering in his heart disappeared.

The mission was completed. The Flame King Dragon, who did not like the humid climate of the Coral Terrace, yawned, gathered his own power, and flew towards the other side of the terrace, the highest point of the entire New World, the Dragon Crystal Land.

Since then, the existence that caused the miasma crisis in the Ancient Tree Forest has left, and the activity of the miasma without its owner has begun to decline. Once the bodies of these creatures are decomposed, it will disappear with time.

And those white spores that can reproduce and spew out miasma will also begin to dissipate as the climate changes and lose the environment they rely on for reproduction.

At that time, with the terrifying self-purification ability of the ancient tree forest, everything in the forest will return to its original state.

In this catastrophe, except for a few areas where a large amount of vegetation was destroyed due to the battles between the ancient dragons, the vegetation in other areas will become more lush because of the large amount of fertilizer and sufficient nutrition.

Herbivorous creatures will be the first monsters to return, and carnivorous and omnivorous monsters will also begin to return after the number of creatures with low ecological niches recovers to a certain extent.

This process will take two or three years.

And this period will also be a difficult time for the ancient tree fire dragons to survive.

What happened in the forest, except for the monsters in the Grand Canyon who witnessed the chase between the ancient dragons, no other creatures knew.

The settlement of the ancient tree fire dragons at the junction of the wasteland and the forest of the big ant family has also undergone many changes.

First of all, there is the problem of food. The food shortage problem that was originally expected to appear after a year did not appear until only seven months.

The fire dragons, including Luo Yun, spent significantly longer time hunting every day. This was not a problem of strength, but simply because there were not many extra prey to be captured in the nearby hunting grounds.

Even if they occasionally encountered it, it was only a small group of herbivorous dragons, most of which were small groups of cubs. If the large herbivorous dragons were preyed upon, the small cubs would not be able to survive.

It is not known whether it was due to the instinct of the creatures or the wisdom of the monsters themselves, but in short, these small groups were not attacked by any large monsters, and no monster chose to exhaust the pond to catch fish.

Instead, they set their sights on hunting grounds farther away and deeper.

Fortunately, the fire dragons relied on their sufficient flying endurance and often chose to go deep into the wasteland of the big ant's home and go to some special areas for hunting when they could not obtain prey in the forest.

For example, the territory of the horned dragon!

That's right, it's the Ceratops, which is as famous as the Fire Dragon and is called the King of the Earth. As a flying dragon, it is not good at flying at all, but has an unparalleled ability to drill holes in the ground!

This thing has the largest body size among flying dragons. The length of an adult Ceratops can often reach more than 24 meters. At the same time, it also has absolute strength that matches its body size.

Even the Bomb Dragon, which is famous for its strength, basically does not compete with the Ceratops in strength during battle.

But what does not match its extremely ferocious appearance, like an earth demon, its irritable temper, and its extreme territorial awareness that even chases and kills creatures that stray into it to death is that it is actually a vegetarian! !

And because the Ceratops stays in the underground caves of the wasteland all year round, its hearing is greatly enhanced, and its vision is slightly affected.

Because of the habits of the Ceratops, some herbivorous shelled dragons choose to live and reproduce on the edge of the Ceratops' territory.

Monsters on land would choose to give up hunting these herbivorous shelled dragons for fear of making too much noise and attracting the attention of horned dragons, but for flying male fire dragons, they are not so afraid.

Even if they occasionally miss, it is nothing more than the loss of the prey, and they will not suffer too much damage.

At dusk, Luo Yun stood on the edge of the cliff, observing the fire dragons returning from afar. Even if they hunt in groups, they can only bring back a few prey.

And most of them are prey that do not produce much meat, such as crown dragons and pterosaurs.

Fortunately, after training by the field survival experts of the investigation team, some cats have mastered the techniques of fishing and trapping small environmental creatures. Combined with the first batch of farmed creatures that have just been released, they finally succeeded in achieving self-sufficiency before the food supply is insufficient.

This made the fire dragon families with cubs feel relieved, and they can provide all the prey they hunted back to the cubs.

On the Mao Mao side, the breeding of herbivorous dragons was finally on track after being delayed for several months compared to other breeding projects.

The reason for the delay was that the biggest problem in breeding herbivorous dragons was not from other monsters in this area, but from the relationship with the ancient tree fire dragons, which made the site selection extremely difficult.

Unlike those thief dragons that were hung with the identity scales of fire dragons, even if the herbivorous dragons were hung with several identity scales, the fire dragons still did not recognize them. In the concept of fire dragons, there is no such thing as breeding.

The thief dragon is not in the main diet of the fire dragon, and it is the mount of cats, so it can still be recognized by the fire dragon after putting on the identity scale.

The herbivorous dragon is simply food, and after wearing status scales, it is also the food that cats pay tribute to.

I originally thought that there were only a few herbivorous dragons, so maybe I wouldn't kill them all, but after I put on the identity scales, their nature was different, and the fire dragons wouldn't be polite.

This gave the investigation team and the cats a great headache. Finally, during a certain outing, they discovered a cave hidden under a waterfall. After some modifications, it could finally be used to raise a small number of herbivorous dragons.

Although the quantity is somewhat less than expected, for today’s cats, it’s good to have them, and they don’t have to choose.

The illusory panel slowly emerged in front of you. After the progress bar reached the final 100%, new features appeared again.

But when he saw this characteristic, Luo Yun was a little confused, because in his opinion, this characteristic seemed to be somewhat deviated from his past pattern of characteristics, and it did not greatly improve his strength.

[Symbiosis: Being in the same environment with the strong for a long time, weak creatures will often undergo unexpected changes, and everything about them will move closer to the strong. 】

[Column slot one; column slot two; column slot three]

Different from the straightforward descriptions of those characteristics in the past, this time the description of the symbiosis characteristics is not detailed, except that there are three more empty slots under the characteristics.

Out of curiosity, Luo Yun opened an empty slot and found that there was only one option.

[Option 1: Fire Dragon Detel]

Yes, the option is Deter, the fire dragon, not the ancient tree fire dragon clan, and there is no Yaji in the option, or a separate individual.

Luo Yun speculated that this symbiosis may be related to groups as a unit, and is related to intimacy.

related to the relationship between the two parties.

Otherwise, if we only take the group as the unit, the ancient tree fire dragon group should also be included.

Since there was only one option, Luo Yun did not hesitate and directly filled in the Fire Dragon Detel, but then, the column just turned gray, and then there was no other movement.

This made Luo Yun a little puzzled.

That's it?

Out of curiosity, Luo Yun called Detel, a fire dragon, and asked him if he had noticed anything different.

But after searching for a long time, it couldn't find anything wrong with it. Finally, it looked at Luo Yun with a pair of big eyes that didn't understand it.