Chapter 53

Until this disaster is closely related to everyone

As perhaps the only human in the world who knows that life can evolve and has studied biology and history, Wang Lin often feels out of place with other people.

For example, now that he has learned that Blue Star Online has planned to unleash three minor natural disasters at once—a super flood, a super volcano, and ocean oxygen depletion—Wang Lin has acted indifferent.

Super flood, but your Uncle Crocodile isn't afraid of water.

The supervolcano... Your Uncle Crocodile will burrow into the swamp and escape using the thick silt.

The ocean is oxygen-deficient, needless to say. At this stage, your original crocodile uncle has not yet evolved into a saltwater crocodile; it is a freshwater crocodile, and there haven't been any amazing little changes between it and the ocean yet.

So no matter which round of natural disaster it is, it doesn't matter to your Uncle Crocodile. At most, some unlucky people will die.

But compared to other observed species that are also on the verge of extinction, this cost is certainly bearable.

After all, we are all living beings. Many other living beings have died. Wouldn't it be a bit awkward if you didn't die?

Therefore, Wang Lin remained completely calm.

In contrast, when the audience in the Dragon Kingdom learned that this plan involved the simultaneous execution of three major natural disasters, those who had initially trusted Yuan E suddenly felt as if they had stumbled into the Heavenly Kingdom's domain.

On land, they would be swept away by floods; in the ocean, they would die from lack of oxygen; and on mountaintops, they would be even worse off, as Uncle Lava wouldn't care about any of them, treating all carbon-based life forms the same!

If they believed that the original crocodile could cleverly hide itself in the face of the first two super floods and supervolcanoes, then the lack of oxygen in the ocean meant that the original crocodile grandpa couldn't escape.

They are aware of the difference between the ocean and the lakes on land.

Even in the vast ocean, countless creatures die from lack of oxygen. So, wouldn't creatures in lakes also die from lack of oxygen?

So they quickly watched the live stream of the original crocodile and prayed in their hearts that the original crocodile could survive.

Indeed, the famous writer's quote is true:

At first, no one cared about this disaster; it was just a wildfire, a drought, the extinction of a species, the disappearance of a city, until the disaster became relevant to everyone.

If the original crocodile were alright, they certainly wouldn't be in such a hurry; after all, it's none of their business.

But now that the original crocodile might be in trouble, they're really worried.

At this moment, the entire light screen displayed a scene of beastly hell, with most of the creatures in sight lying on the ground asleep.

The floodwaters surged in from the north, carrying mud, sand, and corpses, washing over the entire plain. The walls of water were tens of meters high, advancing faster than any land animal could run.

Wherever the floodwaters reached, trees were uprooted, stones were washed away, and the soil was turned upside down.

The volcano erupted from the south, and lava, like red snakes, meandered down the mountainside, turning vegetation to ash and melting rocks wherever it went.

Where the lava flowed, the ground was scorched black, and the air was filled with the smells of sulfur and burnt wood.

The floodwaters encountered magma, the water was heated to boiling point, and the magma was cooled into stone, but the water temperature before cooling was already high enough to kill any living thing.

The entire river was bubbling, like a giant boiling pot.

A layer of white steam floated on the surface of the water, beneath which was a layer of grayish-white foam, and below the foam was churning murky water, inside which were animals that had been scalded to death.

A thick layer of grayish-white volcanic ash, like a cotton blanket, floated on the sea, completely blocking out the sunlight. The seawater had turned dark green, with bubbles rising to the surface, releasing a pungent sulfurous smell when they burst.

The corpses of ichthyosaurs floated all over the sea, belly up, like overturned boats.

Ammonites, nautiluses, and various marine reptiles, their carcasses rising and falling with the waves.

The plains were littered with animal carcasses, some charred and crumbling at the slightest touch.

Some were scalded so badly that their skin was torn open, revealing their white bones.

Some drowned and swelled up in the water, their bodies swelling like balloons.

The air was filled with a nauseating stench of sulfur, blood, and roasted meat.

The living animals struggled in the pile of carcasses; some limped along, some thrashed in the water, and some lay convulsing on the scalding ground.

Screams rose and fell, some loud, some soft, and some stopped screaming after a few cries.

After searching around, the Dragon Kingdom audience finally found the original crocodile.

It's not that the original crocodile is hard to find, but rather that the other species being observed are so eye-catching that it's hard not to take a second look.

For example, canines forced to learn to swim had their fur burned off, revealing bare skin.

Their skin was scalded red and blistered in the hot water. They swam desperately towards the shore, but the mud on the shore had been dried up by the lava, and stepping on it felt like stepping on a hot iron plate.

They stood on the shore, scalded by the lava, and jumped up. Even after jumping back into the water, they were still screaming from the heat.

In short, neither land nor sea can contain them; who wouldn't want to take a second look at this scene?

And then there's the Pteranodon, which was linked to the John Kingdom civilization. Although it was the first generation of pteranodons, its flight ability was actually not very good. In fact, its flight ability was just gliding, and at most it could only fly a few hundred meters at a time.

What's the use of this?

Even if they create miracles by gliding thousands of meters at a time, it's still not enough for the erupting volcanic lava!

When they are forced to land because they can no longer glide, the ground is either scalding lava, scalding floodwater, or suffocating thick smoke.

Faced with the first two threats—scorching lava and scalding floodwaters—after getting burned on their backsides, these Bebe-Tian Pterosaurs would create a miracle of life, squeezing out their potential to take flight once more.

Then they glide for a few hundred meters, get burned again, until they exhaust all their strength and die.

The last option—falling into the thick smoke caused by volcanic ash—is even more cruel.

Because the volcanic ash was not hot, the Beliaea did not initially notice anything unusual.

The Betian Pterosaurs that landed on the ground gasped for breath, trying to get some air, but they soon discovered that they couldn't breathe at all, and even felt a choking sensation comparable to eating chili peppers.

Their throats seemed to be blocked by something; they wanted to cough but couldn't, and wanted to call out but couldn't make a sound.

Their eyes were blinded by volcanic ash and they couldn't open them, so they could only bump around on the ground with their eyes closed.

By the time the Pteranodon tried to fly away to get fresh air, it was too late.

They no longer had the strength to fly; their wings could no longer flap, and their legs could no longer run.

They could only lie on the ground, their bodies twitching incessantly, their mouths opening and closing like fish suffocating from lack of oxygen.

Finally, they stopped moving completely, their bodies stiffening as they fell to the ground, and volcanic ash fell down, slowly covering them.

It's as if God is covering them with a white cloth.