lizard lord

Chapter 2 The Big Lizard

Holding his breath, he watched and calculated not far from the Orion, and thanks to his lizard body being small enough, it would not arouse anyone's vigilance.

These hunters should be concerned about the predators that might be attracted by the smell of blood, so they didn't choose to set up camp on the spot, but walked a certain distance along the stream, and then stopped in a slightly open place.

It is said to be camping, but in fact the layout of these hunters is also very simple.

Find firewood, ignite it with the fire prepared in advance, and then spread a few animal skins on the nearby ground, and the work is basically completed.

Very envious of that large piece of fresh deer leg roasted on the fire, but Tang Zhao still did not forget the business.

It seems that the blood core is not a precious treasure in the eyes of the hunters. The middle-aged man just piled up the animal skin bag with other leather materials, and did not take strict care of it.

This made Tang Zhao secretly happy. At present, it seems that the chance of stealing the blood core is still very high.

But at this time, there was another sound of shrubs shaking from his ear, which made Tang Zhao turn his head vigilantly.

A pair of faint green eyes flashed through the bushes, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Tang Zhao, who was still a little relaxed, immediately raised his spirits, and stared nervously at the bushes that had returned to calm.

Tang Zhao is very familiar with this forest. He knows that the wolves here are very evil, and occasionally they will behave completely inconsistent with the status of wild beasts.

[Speed ​​up the progress, if you delay it, it may be too late. 】

Hiding patiently among the tree canopies, Tang Zhao waited until night fell. Seeing that the two hunters had fallen asleep, only one hunter was keeping vigil, and he seemed drowsy.

After observing the surroundings for the last time, Tang Zhao quietly climbed down the tree after not hearing any abnormal noises or finding any traces of wild animals moving around.

Tang Zhao, who was small in size and had a soft voice, did not attract anyone's attention. He shuttled back and forth between the shadows that were hard to reach by the firelight, and quickly came to the pile of animal skins.

After a short pause, Tang Zhao bit the animal skin bag with his mouth, and dragged the bag into the pile of leather.

In the darkness, he forced his claws to open the mouth of the bag, Tang Zhao couldn't wait to stick his head into the bag, sticking out his forked tongue like a snake, groping around.

After licking several pieces of cold, teeth-like objects, Tang Zhao finally licked a warm, irregularly shaped object.

The sharp teeth gently bit the object, and before Tang Zhao could think about how to swallow the object, it naturally turned into a warm current and flowed down Tang Zhao's throat into his stomach.

{Evolution standard: [-] grams of low-grade meat ([-] grams), one inferior blood core (one)}
He finally heaved a sigh of relief, and when he was about to leave this place quickly, there was a sound of clothes being torn and minions embedded in flesh and blood not far from his ears.

Then there was a burst of heart-piercing screams.

The angry roars of the other two hunters had just started, but soon turned into screams of panic.

Tang Zhao's heart tightened - the worst has happened, and these hunters have now become the prey of wolves.

The high-pitched howling and deep and heavy panting of the wolves came from his ears, and Tang Zhao realized that he was surrounded by the wolves.

The risk of escaping is very high now, because he doesn't know how to dig holes, and it takes some time to climb trees. This is an open space specially selected for camping, and the nearest tree around him is five or six meters away from him.

It's not clear how many wolves are surrounding the outside now, but you can tell by the panting sound that there must be a lot.

Tang Zhao got out now, and he himself was not sure if any wolf would catch him and use it as a teeth grinding toy.

After weighing the pros and cons, he chose to be patient, hoping that the pack of wolves would leave quickly after eating.

As he thought, the wolves seemed to have no interest in the skins that were already clean.

From time to time, the sound of clothes and limbs being torn could be heard, but no wolf came to disturb the small pile of leather where Tang Zhao was.

After waiting anxiously for an unknown amount of time, the gnawing sounds of the wolves gradually subsided, but they still did not leave.

Immediately afterwards, Tang Zhao heard a voice above his head.

It's not the low roar of wolves, but a language that contains multiple syllables, and the language contains emotions of satisfaction and joy.

"Three people, barely enough to eat, and then take away useful things."

Before Tang Zhao understood, he felt that the pile of leather he was hiding was being moved and dragged by some creature.

Hurrying to embed his claws into the fur under his body, Tang Zhao grasped it as firmly as possible to prevent himself from being thrown out like this.

[No wonder the behavior pattern is different from that of ordinary beasts. Having language means wisdom, which means that there should be some special existence among this pack of wolves. 】

Time was running out, and he didn't dare to think too much, and immediately began to think about how to escape.

There are footsteps in both directions, front and back, and it is unlikely that he will find out while carrying it.

In other words, he may have to follow the pack of wolves to their colony, and then think about things related to escape.

Since there are intelligent individuals among these wolves, he should be placed in a special snow storage area along with the leather.

As long as no one is watching him all the time, it shouldn't be a big problem if he wants to run away. After all, he is still a very inconspicuous little guy.

After thinking about this point, Tang Zhao felt relieved, and finally had the mind to pay attention to the dark green emblem on his left paw.

{Looking for a suitable place to evolve, it takes one hour (two random items)}
I took some risks, but I finally met the basic requirements of the system, and I can find time for the next evolution.

This time it took three times longer than before, but the randomly obtained strengthening ability has changed from one to two, and Tang Zhao couldn't wait for this.

After being dragged along with the fur for a while, Tang Zhao heard the sound of branches and leaves plucking, and then the panting sounds from the surroundings became much less and echoed.

After waiting for another 2 minutes, Tang Zhao was lifted up together with the fur, as if they were placed on a certain platform.

Voices could be heard in the distance, and footsteps gradually faded away until they disappeared without a trace.

Tang Zhao poked his head out cautiously, but what he saw was darkness.

He has the night vision ability bestowed by the emblem, and can easily see the surrounding situation through the dim light of a candle in the distance.

It seemed to be a storage room, with many lockers and crates, and he himself was on a row of containers.

There is also a dilapidated wooden table at the door with a sheepskin scroll on it.

Quickly climbing down the container, Tang Zhao looked for a way out.

Looking outside from the door of the storage room, the place where Tang Zhao is located should be a cave, and the entrance of the cave is covered by many vines, revealing a little light faintly.

The cave is not big, only five or six meters deep.

Wolves don't live among them, but certainly not too far away.

It is feasible to climb out directly along the wall, but Tang Zhao has other ideas now.

He climbed onto the table, with some curiosity, opened the sheepskin scroll with his head, and then examined the picture on the picture.

This is a map. The unknown text is written crookedly, and the picture part is also very rough, but it can be barely understood.

A forest occupies more than half of the entire parchment scroll, with some lines resembling streams and pools, as well as many circles and forks.

There is a big question mark in the space deep in the forest, and obviously the author of the map doesn't know much about its interior.

He knew that this map would be very useful to him, but he couldn't take it away directly, so he chose to memorize the contents.

The map does not cover much content, and Tang Zhao only chose to memorize a part of the images. It took five or six minutes to memorize all of them.

After confirming that there was nothing missing, he climbed up the uneven rock wall of the cave, and climbed along the rock wall to the vines that were responsible for covering the entrance of the cave.

Tengman was directly connected to a tree that wasn't too short, and Tang Zhao climbed to the canopy in one breath. After making sure that he was temporarily safe, he turned his head to look at the situation below him.

In the clearing that was deliberately cut down, tents were set up on it, and there was no campfire in the middle, but instead, five or six wild wolves were sleeping soundly.

Not interested in disturbing their sleep, Tang Zhao quickly moved his four claws and climbed towards the branches of another tree.

Perhaps because of a guilty conscience, Tang Zhao was worried that the sausage he ate just now still smelled on his body, so he simply jumped into the stream after climbing a certain distance, and blocked his own smell with water.

After drifting for a while, he went ashore and found another tree to hide in and evolve.

Finding a fairly spacious tree hole, Tang Zhao lay in it, curled up.

{Do you want to start? }
【start】

Tang Zhao fell into a deep sleep without resisting the feeling of sleepiness as if he had been given anesthesia.
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Opening his eyes, Tang Zhao found himself surrounded by a vast sea of ​​sand, endless as far as the eye can see.

{find and select core 0/2}
With such a message in his mind, Tang Zhao, who had experienced it once, immediately looked around and found a few half-buried pitch-black plaques in the sand.

The front paws dug part of the sand, Tang Zhao bit the corner of one end of the plaque, and pulled out the entire plaque with all his strength.

This is a hexagonal plaque with simple patterns of pentagrams engraved on it.

Tang Zhao followed the same pattern and dug out several other plaques and stacked them together.

I had already explored it when I came last time, and such plaques can be seen everywhere in the entire sand sea, which is the "core" mentioned by the dark green emblem.

The appearance of these plaques is exactly the same, but the interior cannot be analyzed under the conditions of the current Tang Dynasty.

This is a bit like drawing a blind box. Before confirming with Huiji, Tang Zhao didn't know which ability he had chosen.

Once confirmed, it cannot be changed.

Tang Zhao didn't want to spend too much time in this link, so he simply chose the first and last plaques he dug out.

【Selection completed】

{Are you sure? }
【Sure】

{Selected: Scales/Smell}
There was a sense of dizziness like weightlessness, and when Tang Zhao came back to his senses again and opened his eyes, what he saw was neither a wide desert nor a narrow tree hole.

He was lying on the top of the trunk that had been broken in two. This tree was a bit like the one that Tang Zhao got into before, but it was much smaller.

[No, it’s not that it’s smaller, but that I’ve gotten a lot bigger]

When he thought of this, his head was still a little dizzy, and he immediately regained his energy.

The claws, which were several sizes larger than before, easily embedded in the bark.Tang Zhao grasped his strength and jumped directly from the tree trunk.

He came to the nearby stream and looked at his current appearance through the not rushing stream.

Previously, Tang Zhao looked like a gecko, but now it is closer to a monitor lizard.

The skull is thicker than before; the claws are sharper than before; the tail is thicker than before.
It is not simply to enlarge the body, but to make the body suitable for hunting more powerful prey.

The dark green emblem said he checked "Scale" and "Smell", so he paid extra attention.
The most conspicuous one is of course the scales, the color changed from emerald green to dark green, and the body color was closer to the forest floor than the tree canopy.

Now he doesn't need body color to protect himself, but body color to catch prey.

The original fine scales became larger and stronger, and there were a little more bony protrusions on the back and limbs, just like crocodile skin.

It seemed to give Tang Zhao a sense of security, and it was an excellent defense by animal standards.

The improvement in the sense of smell may not sound obvious, but it is also very useful.

His tongue was originally forked like a monitor lizard, which was relatively rare among lizards.

The tongue can assist in sensing the smell in the air, which has given him a not weak sense of smell, and now it has been improved to a higher level.

Sink your heart and feel it quietly. Tang Zhao can smell the smell of plants nearby, animals in the distance, and even insects in the soil.

He used to be considered a bottom-level predator in the ecological environment of the forest, but now, if not the top-level predator, he could at least be considered a middle-level opportunistic predator.

(End of this chapter)