lizard lord

Chapter 31 Hypoxia (Combined)

During this period of time, the goblins have done their best to do enough investigation work. They all know the kind of creatures that belong to the owners of the surrounding territories.

Tang Zhao didn't plan to establish a long-term settlement in such a shallow place in the forest, but until they found enough suitable places, they would always stay near here.

The small territory of the black bear is enough for the goblins to live in, but it is inevitably too crowded, and it is not enough for Tang Zhao, whether it is predation or activities.

If the need is only for survival, then he can reduce the eating frequency to once every half a month, but he needs to maintain a high-intensity eating frequency to supply the energy needed for his own evolution.

Tang Zhao's next evolution needs [-] tons of flesh and blood and [-] blood cores.

In other words, if he doesn't want to eat an area to ecological collapse, then he needs a territory large enough to hunt.

The number of animals in the black bear's territory has decreased significantly, and he can no longer hunt in place, so he must expand his territory.

After discussing with the goblins, the most suitable is the territory of the giant python.

There are no powerful magical creatures around. He can be regarded as one of the top predators in the outer forest. Naturally, he has some right to choose. He can choose his prey and his own territory.
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The giant python's territory is centered on a pond with a considerable area, and it usually hides itself in this pond.

The goblins scattered to investigate, but did not find each other.

Most of them are hidden in the pond, and it is impossible to let the goblins go into the water to search at this time, so Tang Zhao asked them to return to their places and let him do it himself.

When it was in the Cangguan Forest before, it hid in a similar pond to sleep, and was almost killed by the field turtle in its sleep.

After that night, Tang Zhao hadn't swum before, so he had some psychological shadows. He chose this python to overcome his own psychological obstacles.

The flow of water in the pool was slow, and there were many aquatic plants and algae floating in it, and the underwater vision was very poor. Under normal circumstances, Tang Zhao would never go deep in danger, but the goblins had already done intelligence work in advance.

That giant python is certainly not small in size, at least seven meters in length, comparable to the longest modern snake on Earth.

However, given the body structure of snakes, [-] kilograms is not bad, and [-] kilograms belongs to caterpillars that are too fat to get fatter.

In terms of size and body hardware, Tang Zhao has an absolute advantage.

Tang Zhao was swimming in the water, looking around, keeping a high level of vigilance, waiting for the appearance of the giant python.

But as expected, nothing suddenly wrapped around his body, except for a few small fish and shrimp, the water was very quiet.

Boa constrictors who are familiar with the environment have the upper hand. If they encounter delicious prey in this environment, no predator will reject it.

However, monitor lizards that are several times heavier than it are not within the hunting range of pythons, and even if they can be killed, they will not be able to swallow them at all.

As a matter of course, the python chose to retreat, perhaps hiding at the bottom of the pond, or perhaps already swimming down the stream.

[The possibility of the latter is very low, there are goblins observing the situation from above, that is to say, [-]% of them are hiding at the bottom of the pond. 】

After surfacing to take a breath, Tang Zhao immediately began to dive. He clinging to the mud at the bottom of the pond, his sharp claws swept across the mud like a comb, searching for traces of prey like a carpet.

After a while, when he has the conditions to breed animals, he doesn’t mind letting wild carnivores hunt in his territory, but it’s still too early, he doesn’t have enough to eat himself, and the hundreds of kilograms of flesh and blood from pythons are also precious food .

After sweeping half of the pond like this, the other party finally couldn't bear it anymore and launched a surprise attack on Tang Zhao.

At the bottom of the dark pool, a long figure quickly approached, wrapped around Tang Zhao's body in the blink of an eye, and circled around his abdomen several times.

The position was found very cleverly, Tang Zhao couldn't bite even if he turned his head, and at the same time, it was very laborious to scratch with his claws.

After all, Tang Zhao is not an aquatic animal, and his underwater activities will inevitably be affected, and he will become much bulkier and sluggish. If he wants to roll around in place, or crush the opponent to death with his own weight, he can't do it.

However, Tang Zhao still had other ways to kill the opponent, so he was not in a hurry, but continued to dive, embedding his limbs into the mud at the bottom.

At the same time, the boa constrictor began to tighten, and the muscles covering its body exerted force, trying to strangle Tang Zhao directly underwater.

But this time it chose the wrong method of attack entirely.

Tang Zhao's body has hard scales that are almost like bone plates. There are a lot of strong muscles hidden under the scales. Inside the muscles are thick, strong bones that are hard to break.

A boa constrictor that weighed only a fraction of his weight wanted to strangle him, which was obviously a little thoughtless.

Unless it was the strangulation of a super-large boa constrictor that weighed more than a ton, he would not pay attention to it at all. This is also the reason why he dared to go into the water at will. His body is strong enough, and the opponent cannot break through the defense.

Tang Zhao was not short of patience when hunting, he stayed in the same place quietly, just like this stalemate with the other party.

After seven or eight minutes, the python obviously couldn't stand it any longer, and the force exerted on Tang Zhao's body was significantly reduced.

Tang Zhao hadn't released Tang Zhao yet and swam to the surface of the water, but Tang Zhao believed that it was almost there, unless the other party wanted to be suffocated to death.

Boa constrictors are not fish, and cannot breathe underwater. Generally, the diving time of boa constrictors can be as long as three to four 10 minutes.It strangles underwater, and the high-intensity muscle exercise consumes more oxygen than usual. In contrast, Tang Zhao is almost stationary, so it can naturally save more oxygen than it.

Before I came here, I had a special test. He can swim underwater for half an hour, which is no match for a highly specialized crocodile that can lurk underwater for four to five hours. But this result is also very good. Staying for four, five, 10 minutes is not a problem.

Now the embarrassing thing is the giant python. He is not as good at diving as Tang Zhao, but as long as he loosens his body and floats to the surface to breathe, Tang Zhao can make it miserable with claws and teeth.

Tang Zhao couldn't be harmed by strangulation, and it was difficult for the boa constrictor's long and sharp teeth like steel needles to really hurt Tang Zhao.

Finally, after waiting patiently for a few minutes, the boa constrictor chose to let go of Tang Zhao, and went upstream, trying to escape.

Tang Zhao didn't have a broad tail like an oar, nor claws connected together like webs, so his swimming speed was not fast, even worse than that of a boa constrictor.

But at this time, the disadvantage of being too long was reflected. Tang Zhao bit the python's body that hadn't completely left him, and then pulled his limbs out of the mud, dragging him forcibly, and swam towards the shore.

After coming ashore, Tang Zhao's athletic ability was greatly enhanced, while the python's athletic ability was greatly weakened.

He let go of his mouth, quickly approached the python's head, raised his left paw, and pressed down hard on the python.

He raised his right claw again, and the sharp claw pierced the center of the python's head from top to bottom.

After a crisp sound, the boa constrictor's struggle gradually weakened. Just in case, Tang Zhao opened his mouth and bit the python's head again. He didn't let go until he heard the sound of bones breaking again.

At this time, the snake's head had been destroyed to the point where it felt as if it had been run over by a truck first, and then hit several times with a mace.

Tang Zhao didn't think there was anything wrong with this, he picked up the thickest middle part of the boa constrictor's body, and dragged the python's body forward.

[Go back to the settlement, clean up, and we can almost go find those kobolds. 】

The distance between the two places was not far, Tang Zhao stuffed his food back into the cellar, and told Lalique about the general situation of the territory in detail, so he didn't bother.

After leaving again with a few teams of goblins, Tang Zhao is going to talk to those kobolds next.
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From the perspective of biological common sense, nocturnal creatures are generally not very strong, and they cannot effectively protect themselves under the sun, so they need to use the cover of the night to keep themselves away from danger.

Put those weird creatures in the underground dark area first, at least this is true in the world Tang Zhao sees, and the kobold itself is a good positive embodiment of this habit.

In the outer layer of the forest, they must use this method to protect themselves. From the perspective of an intelligent creature, the kobolds are indeed a slightly failed species.

The main purpose of Tang Zhao was "investigation" rather than "revenge", so he made the goblins invisible to avoid being discovered by the kobolds.

The kobolds' lair was not far from where he was, but he found some interesting things near the lair.

For example, the warning traps made of rope and bells were obviously made of materials stolen from the Tangzhao camp.

When Tang Zhao found the entrance of the cave, piercing alarm bells were ringing out from inside the cave, clearly warning Tang Zhao's arrival.

【Using my things to warn of my arrival is really interesting】

Of course, Tang Zhao didn't want to get angry with them. After thinking about it for a while, he started to dig.

The kobolds are small in size, and unlike the dwarves, they make the things they like very large. Their caves are not even half the height of a person. If Tang Zhao wants to go in, he can only dig a hole.

The kobolds' lair was located on a small mound higher than the surrounding area, and they dug very deep. Tang Zhao could only use his patience to dig down bit by bit.

Having such long claws is not only convenient for fighting, but also useful for other times.

The further down you dig, the wider the kobolds' caves themselves become.

The air smelled of kobolds, but not a single human-reptilian in sight.

Besides that, he dug a lot of traps in the cave.

Some are a rope that, when cut or touched, throws caterpillars with venomous spikes in hordes from the surrounding walls.

Similar to spike traps, rockfall traps
Kobolds do not have a strong body, so they can only use similar methods to make the invaders retreat.

However, these obstacles are just a bit annoying to Tang Zhao, and they can be ignored directly for more powerful existences.

[The craftsmanship is good, if you can make traps, you can also make most of the things. 】

The more complicated the trap made by the opponent, the happier Tang Zhao is, because the more complicated things he can do, the smarter and more dexterous he is.

PS. The part of the hunter's relics in the first eighteen chapters, the feedback from multiple people is not very good.

After I think about it, it is indeed the case. It has been revised yesterday. Let me talk about it here.If the readers are right in similar places, I will admit my mistakes and correct them if I can.

(End of this chapter)