Chapter 342
Target Discovered, Plan Completed
And so, the dinosaurs ran ahead.
The giant python was hot on its heels.
Despite its enormous size, it moves at a remarkably fast speed on the ground.
His body arched and straightened, like a brown lightning bolt flashing across the forest.
It uses trees as a support point, wraps its body around the trunk to propel itself forward, and can leap more than ten meters.
A large tree blocking the way was wrapped around its trunk, which groaned under the weight before snapping with a crack.
The giant python used the momentum to spring into the air and pounce on an Herrera dragon in front of it.
The Herrera dragon turned around in terror, only to see a gaping maw descending from the sky.
The python bit its upper body, then coiled its body in mid-air to wrap around its lower body as well.
Upon landing, the Herrera Dragon was broken in two, its blood splattering everywhere.
The python swallowed the front half into its mouth and dragged the back half on the ground as it continued its pursuit.
The audience was stunned.
Holy crap! It was chasing after the animal while eating?!
This is like a live-action version of Snake!
[Dinosaur in front, run! The snake behind is on fire!]
Although the dinosaurs were dwindling, observers of civilization were both surprised and delighted.
"It has finally come ashore to give chase!"
"Quick! Lead it to the area where the deinosuchus are gathered!"
"All the dinosaurs, run to the river! Let the Deinosuchus take care of it!"
Jack quickly gave instructions in the channel. His Elera Dragon, being the fastest unit, was the first to change its escape direction and run towards the wide river in the southeast.
Abin realized what was happening and ordered the Dilophosaurus not to run in a straight line, but to move towards the river in an arc.
Other civilization observers followed suit, adjusting the escape routes of the species they were observing to the same direction.
Under the guidance of the civilized observers, the dinosaurs began to consciously change their escape direction.
They ran towards the crocodile colony they had carefully cultivated over the past six months.
It was a confluence of wide rivers, with deep, slow-flowing water, and reeds and mangroves growing on both banks.
For the past six months, civilization observers have been sending old, weak, sick, and disabled dinosaurs here as bait every day, attracting a large number of deinosuchus to settle here.
This is now the burial place they prepared for the giant python.
The giant python was completely unaware that something was wrong.
It only knew that it was very hungry and that there was plenty of food running ahead of it.
It chased.
It chased.
It kept chasing.
It would occasionally pounce on the lagging dinosaurs, bite them, and then continue the chase.
An old dinosaur was running too slowly and was caught by a giant python.
The giant python tripped it with its body and then coiled around it again and again.
The dragon let out a muffled wail and kicked its four legs wildly, but soon fell silent.
The giant python did not immediately devour the carcass, but instead threw it down and continued chasing after the dinosaurs that dared to provoke it.
The chase in the forest grew increasingly intense.
As the giant python drew ever closer, the dinosaurs charged even more desperately.
Finally, the trees ahead began to thin out, and sunlight filtered through the canopy, casting bright patches of light.
We've reached the river.
The wide river stretched across the edge of the forest, its surface shimmering like a silver ribbon winding into the distance.
The riverbanks are covered with lush reeds, which ripple in the breeze.
Without hesitation, the dinosaurs plunged into the river and swam towards the other side.
Herrera dragons were the first to enter the water, their long bodies creating ripples as they moved at an astonishing speed.
Dilophosaurus followed closely behind. Although it was not as good a swimmer as Herreraosaurus, its potential for escape was fully unleashed, and it frantically paddled in the water with its claws.
The giant python chased the snake to the riverbank and paused for a moment.
It watched the dinosaurs fleeing to the other side, a hint of hesitation flashing in its vertical pupils.
There's something in the water.
It can sense it.
As a snake, the python has extremely sensitive heat-sensing organs.
It could clearly sense that there were not only the fleeing dinosaurs in this river, but also huge creatures lurking at the bottom.
Those creatures exuded a dangerous aura.
Their body temperature is lower than that of dinosaurs, but they are numerous, widely distributed, and are in a state of poised dominance.
Under normal circumstances, a python might be more cautious and observe the situation first.
But now it's both angry and hungry!
Since these dinosaurs dared to provoke it, they had better be prepared to be killed by it!
Repeated provocations have driven this giant python to the brink of madness.
Moreover, it caught up with them very soon, and giving up at this point would be a huge loss.
In addition, as the apex predator of the water, the giant python is not afraid of water.
In its mind, the water is its home ground.
Its body structure is naturally adapted to water activities, and its muscle strength can be maximized in the water. Stealth and surprise attack are its specialties.
Animals in the water are no match for it!
Thinking of this, the giant python opened its mouth and let out a low hiss, as if announcing its arrival.
Without hesitation, it rushed into the river.
boom!
The moment the giant python entered the water, it created a huge wave.
Its more than 30-meter-long body plunged into the water like a submarine, and the surface of the water was pushed apart by its huge body, forming ripples that spread outward.
On the nearby beach, several crocodiles that were sunbathing were startled by the commotion.
They were originally lying in the mud on the bank, half-closing their eyes, enjoying the morning sun.
The sound of the python entering the water immediately alerted them; they all raised their heads, pricked up their ears, and looked in the direction from which the sound came.
That was the first time the Deinosuchus had ever seen a giant python.
Their eyes went from initial confusion to wariness, and then to excitement.
For these deinosuchians, the python was not an enemy, but a super-sized takeout that fell from the sky.
A giant crocodile, the largest of its kind, slowly crawled from the shore into the water, its eyes fixed on the spot where the giant python had entered the water, and a low growling sound came from its throat.
Other deinosuchus also entered the water and surrounded them from all sides.
Their movements underwater are both elegant and deadly, like a group of experienced hunters surrounding a giant beast that has strayed into a trap.
Their bodies stirred up the originally murky silt at the bottom of the water, causing waves of mud and sand to rise.
But the crocodiles didn't care. They kept their bodies low, swam close to the riverbed, and used the aquatic plants and silt as cover to slowly approach the giant python.
Directly below the giant python as it entered the water, at the deepest point of the riverbed, lies a patch of silt covered with aquatic plants.
That is the core nest of the deinosuchus group.
Hundreds of large adult deinosuchus sleep here on ordinary days.
They do nothing but eat and sleep all day, occasionally exchanging information about their territory; they live a more comfortable life than retired cadres.
But now, the python's entry into the water has awakened them.
The silt began to tremble slightly.
A huge eye opened from the mud, its pupil vertical, cold and merciless.
Then came the second, the third, the fourth...
Pairs of cold eyes slowly opened in the darkness at the bottom of the water, like eerie green lanterns being lit one by one.
Their gazes were all fixed on the huge shadow that was moving on the water's surface.