Chapter 66
This wave is your grandpa Yuan Crocodile's ultimate victory!
At this moment, even the dumbest person could guess that these animals were sick, but what kind of illness they had was impossible to guess.
Is it food poisoning? Or a bacterial infection? Or a viral infection? Or a combination of factors?
Nobody knows.
The Blue Star Online research teams in various countries were also in a state of panic.
Although they have state-of-the-art medical equipment, examining the cause of an animal's illness still requires blood tests and a gradual search for the cause.
Now that the animals are all inside the light screen and can't even touch it, how could they possibly get blood drawn?
You can't exactly stick your hand inside the light screen, can you?
Are we supposed to learn the four diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine—observation, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation—and then study what diseases these animals have?
I'm just kidding. Even the traditional Chinese medicine diagnostic methods of observation, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation in China can't find any cause!
After all, diseases in the Triassic period are different from those in modern times, and animals in the Triassic period are also different from animals in modern times.
However, it appears to be a viral invasion, since almost all the observed species showed similar symptoms around the same time.
If it is food poisoning, only animals that have eaten the same food should be poisoned.
But the Southern Cross Dragon ate the Water Dragon, the Canine Jaw Dragon ate the Southern Cross Dragon, the Lupus Crocodile ate the Canine Jaw Dragon, and the Pegasus Dragon ate...
Although the animals eat different things, they drink the same things, and their symptoms are almost identical.
Therefore, it is highly likely that the water source has been polluted.
Seeing that if things continued this way, the entire species they were observing would be wiped out, some clever observers came up with a solution:
Since they would get sick in this area with animal carcasses, they decided to migrate to a clean place.
Without hesitation, they quickly relocated their observed species to a clean area. They found a place free of corpses and pollution, with clear water, to start afresh.
Although such migrations consume a lot of the energy of the observed species, and many species cannot withstand the strain and die during the migration.
Moreover, when they move to a new area, they have to reconsider their food sources, which can be quite troublesome.
Everything has to start from scratch.
However, it's better for some of the observed species to die than for all of them to die!
Since they have already lost a large number of observed species, it doesn't matter if they lose a few more now.
As the saying goes, as long as you're alive, there's hope!
Under the guidance of the civilization observers, the Southern Cross Dragon began to migrate north, the Eoraptor began to migrate east, and the Lupus began to migrate west.
They dragged their weary bodies away, step by step, from this purgatory overrun by corpses and viruses.
Some animals stop to catch their breath after walking a few steps, some animals collapse while walking, and some animals never get up again after collapsing.
Gradually, the area disappeared from sight of other observed species, leaving only a few scavenging species and those that were too weak to climb.
The sky above the plain was desolate, filled only with corpses, vomit, and dying animals that no longer had the strength to escape.
The stench was still strong when the wind blew, but no animals bothered to smell it anymore.
At this moment, Kim Jung-tae, the observer of Korean civilization, is still directing the canine-jawed beast to feast!
Kim Jong-tae initially did not allow his canine jawed beast to migrate because he believed that canine jawed beasts were scavengers and that eating carrion was a matter of course, so they would certainly not get sick.
All the other observed species have left, so aren't all these animal carcasses scattered all over the mountains and fields his canine jawed beast population?
So much food, eat as much as you want, eat until you're stuffed, eat until you throw up, eat until you don't want to eat anymore!
How could development not be rapid with so many animal carcasses?
Kim Jong-tae was incredibly excited to personally witness that almost all the observed species had perished.
He sat on the sofa, legs crossed, a smug smile on his face.
His canine jawed beasts remained where they were, continuing to feed on the rotting corpses.
With other observed species gone, there are fewer competitors and more food available—it's a godsend!
At this moment, Kim Jung-tae began to have a wonderful dream, in which his canine jaw beast devoured all the animal carcasses, and the population was restored to its peak!
No, it has to be even more peak than the peak!
At that time, his canine-jawed beasts will cover tens of thousands of miles, and he can easily send out tens of thousands of them. Wouldn't he be able to easily defeat other observed species?
Even if the Southern Cross Dragon is strong, can it defeat 10,000 Dogjaw Beasts?
Even the fiercest crocodile, could it withstand an attack from a thousand canine jaw beasts?
Even if Eoraptor was fast, could it outrun five hundred Cannibals?
It seems that the ultimate victor in this natural disaster dungeon is actually Lao Tzu's canine-jawed beast!
Kim Jung-tae thought to himself, and happily drank a bottle of beer.
The beer was very cold, and it felt refreshing to drink it.
He leaned back on the sofa, squinting as he watched the canine-jawed beasts still feeding on carrion on the screen, a slight smile playing on his lips.
This scene is absolutely perfect for drinking!
But soon, Kim Jung-tae's expression changed as he discovered that his canine jaw beast was also vomiting on a small scale.
At first there were only a few, then a dozen or so. The canine jawed beasts that ate the most carrion and drank the most river water were the first to show symptoms, followed by those that ate and drank less.
After observation, Kim Jong-tae discovered the reason:
Eating carrion is not a problem, but any canine jawed beast that drinks the river water will have a chance of being contaminated and then vomiting and getting sick.
Canine jawed beasts may be fine eating carrion, but they get poisoned after drinking water.
While canine jawed beasts are indeed scavengers, even they can't withstand the invasion of viruses!
Scavengers have stronger stomach acid than ordinary animals, which can kill most bacteria, but it is not a panacea.
When faced with novel viruses, highly drug-resistant bacteria, or mixed infections, one can still get sick, vomit, and die.
Upon seeing this scene, Kim Jung-tae's face turned ashen, and the beer bottle in his hand creaked as he gripped it tightly.
He stared at the canine-jawed beasts still vomiting on the screen, remained silent for a long time, then suddenly stood up and smashed the beer bottle on the ground.
Glass shards were splattered all over the floor, and beer was spilled everywhere.
In the end, however, he had no choice but to abandon this rich gold mine and order his hounds to migrate to a cleaner place.
If we stay here, all the canine-jawed beasts will die out sooner or later.
Migration, at least, allows some to survive.
It's better for some to die than for everyone to die.
Kim Jong-tae's fingers moved frantically across the light screen, issuing migration orders.
The canine-jawed beasts, dragging their weary bodies, limped away from what they had once thought was paradise.
Some canine-jawed beasts collapsed while walking, and some, after collapsing, never got up again.
Kim Jung-tae looked at the fallen canine-jawed beasts, his teeth practically grinding to dust.
After the canine-jawed beast disappeared, the plains became completely quiet.
There was no roar of the Southern Cross Dragon, no bark of the Canine Jawed Beast, no hiss of the Lupus Crocodile, and no cry of the Petratus.
The only sounds were the wind blowing through the pile of corpses and the occasional "bang" of an explosion.
In this deathly silence, the crocodiles in the river begin to silently devour the carcasses of various animals.
They crawled out of the water, dragging their four short legs, slowly walked to the corpse, opened their mouths, bit off a piece of rotten flesh, tilted their heads back and swallowed it, and then continued.
The original crocodile was not afraid of rotting flesh.
The stomach acid of the proto-crocodile is stronger than that of the canine jawed beast, and can kill most bacteria.
The immune system of the proto-crocodile is stronger than that of any observed species, or even any living organism on Earth, and can resist almost all viruses!
Other animals will vomit after eating carrion, but the crocodile will not.
Other animals get sick after drinking sewage, but the crocodile does not.
They ate and killed off the animals one by one, bite by bite.
They ate everything from small corpses to large corpses, from corpses in the water to corpses on the shore.
If you can't finish eating, just put it in the water and let it soak while you eat it slowly.
If you feel stuffed, take a break, and then continue eating.
This wave is a final and great victory for Grandpa Crocodile!