lizard lord

Chapter 5
Carefully avoiding the trees entwined with spider webs, Tang Zhao searched for possible prey near the pond.

Finally he spotted a giant scorpion that was hunting.

It has a black and reflective carapace, a pair of huge and thick chelicerae, and a poisonous stinger at the end of its tail. It doesn't look much different from the rainforest scorpion.

It's just that the size is many times larger, and at first glance it is not much smaller than a large dog.

At this time, it was holding a dead hare in its pincers, and it had already eaten most of it.

The whole body is protected by scales, Tang Zhao is not very afraid of poisonous animals.As long as you are careful with its poisonous needles, the remaining pliers and mouthparts can't cause effective damage to the much larger Tang Zhao.

Of course, generally speaking, scorpions with such thick pincers rely on brute force to fight against the enemy, and they are not particularly poisonous.

But this is a different world after all, the theory from the previous life can be used as a reference, Tang Zhao will not copy it completely, he is assuming that the scorpion is highly poisonous to prepare tactics.

Even a monocular with a simple structure can still spot a large lizard approaching swaggeringly a few meters away.

Scorpion put the remaining half of the hare under his body, and at the same time propped himself up with his legs to make himself look as tall as possible, and opened his teeth and claws to face the direction Tang Zhao was coming from.

Arthropods don't have much intelligence, but they don't wave their claws and rush over to living things.

In its view, Tang Zhao was not a suitable prey for him, as he was too big.

Tang Zhao ignored the opponent's demonstration, and suddenly exerted strength in his limbs, bursting out with an astonishing speed.

He lowered his body and turned his head at the same time, so that the hard bony protrusion on his neck faced the pair of large pliers directly.

The scorpion stretched its legs, raising the height of its torso, and at the same time, its grip on the ground was a bit weak.

Under the dual effects of Tang Zhao's weight and speed, he directly slammed into the pincers in front of him, pushed the whole scorpion up from bottom to top, and finally overturned it to the ground.

Grasping the gap where the opponent was kicking and preparing to turn over, Tang Zhao bit the scorpion's head, and at the same time, his sharp claws began to grab the softer abdominal cavity of the scorpion, trying to tear it open.

The scorpion's only threatening poisonous needle is pressed under the body, and its eyes are all on the top of the head. Now it is difficult to aim at the cracks in Tang Zhao's scale armor when it is overturned, and the threat is greatly reduced.

Tang Zhao's fangs and sharp claws were also real. It didn't take long to completely remove the mouthparts and pincers of this scorpion, and its abdominal cavity was also cut open.

No matter how tenacious the vitality of the arthropod is, it is impossible to survive this kind of injury, and the scorpion's struggle soon weakened.

Tang Zhao opened his mouth and bit the middle part of the scorpion's tail, cooperated with his claws, and tore off the scorpion's poisonous needle.

The venom does not disappear immediately with the death of the creature, and it is likely that a highly poisonous needle stick is still fatal to him.

After solving the food safety problem, Tang Zhao's claws opened the scorpion's body cavity, and found a blood nucleus in it as expected.

[Maybe those spiders are still larvae, maybe those spiders have not reached a certain standard, anyway, the giant arthropods here can still give me a blood core. 】

Feeling more at ease, Tang Zhao swallowed this blood core into his stomach, and now there is only one blood core left, and he can evolve.

The movement just now was not small, and the ordinary creatures around were startled away, and at the same time, some more dangerous predators might be attracted.

He didn't intend to go deep into the woods full of cobwebs hiding murderous intentions right now. He had already eaten a better-tasting roe deer today, and he didn't have much appetite for this scorpion.

After picking and eating the fattest part of the scorpion, Tang Zhao left the scene with the severed end of the scorpion in his mouth.

Back near the pond, Tang Zhao caught a not-so-small fish, about [-] to [-] centimeters long, and experimented with it and the poisonous needle of the scorpion.

The poisonous needle was inserted into the fish, and within half a minute, the fish's movements became obviously sluggish. It only took four to five minutes for the fish to lose its vitality.

Not a little more poisonous than its rainforest scorpion relatives on Earth.

[In the future, it is best to assume that these things are highly poisonous creatures, and it will be very uncomfortable if they are recruited. 】

As he said earlier, the forest is sick, and these giant insects are not at all like natural creatures, but more like those monsters that haunt horror movies.

It was already dusk, after a full day of high-intensity exercise, the very tired Tang Zhao didn't have the energy to search for prey anymore, so he simply dived into the water, ready to sleep and rest.
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Not long after he fell into a deep sleep, a pain from his back interrupted him.

Opening his eyes vigilantly, Tang Zhao's mind quickly came to his senses, and he dived into the water, preparing to avoid the next possible attack.

However, the expected more violent attack did not come, and there was silence in the water and above the water surface, and there was no sign of any hostile creatures.

But at this moment, there were a lot of shimmering dust floating in the sky, and the dust formed a straight line of three or four meters long on the water surface of the pond, which looked like a strip of lights at night, and the impression was very good.

Tang Zhao was not in the mood to enjoy the beautiful scenery at this time, he turned his head to check the condition of his back.

Unlike the expected bloody mess, there is only a pocket arrow hanging on it.

The arrow did not embed deeply into the flesh and blood, it only pierced a little of the skin, Tang Zhao rolled in the water, and the arrow fell off his body.

During the time when the arrow fell to the bottom of the water, Tang Zhao used his night vision to observe the arrow with the faint light emitted by the dust.

The length is about the same as a signature pen, and the arrow is a finely polished sharp stone, and there should be no poison or the like.

A little confused, Tang Zhao was thinking about the causal relationship between the dust in the air and the arrow, when the water flow from the bottom of the water interrupted him.

Turning his head and looking down, there was a huge insect that looked like a turtle attacking him.

A pair of horizontally placed, extremely developed sickle-shaped sharp appendages were completely opened, heading straight for Tang Zhao's soft abdomen.

Startled suddenly, Tang Zhao frantically swung his tail and limbs to dodge, but this turtle was too close to him, and he was not a swift aquatic species.

Avoiding the key point of the abdomen, the giant appendages of the field turtle clamped his tail, and a heart-piercing pain came from the tail.

[It's not good for me to fight in the water, and there is still a chance to drag it to the shore. 】

There is not much time left for him to think, and there is not much room for him to formulate tactics in this close combat situation.

A general plan flashed in his mind, Tang Zhao resisted the sharp pain, dragged the insect with great effort, and swam to the shore.

The water in the pond was not deep, Tang Zhao held on for about half a minute, and his limbs could touch the silt at the bottom of the pond.

Reluctantly brought this soft-shelled turtle ashore, but until now it showed no sign of letting go, and seemed to be dragging Tang Zhao to the end.

The position was very awkward, no matter how much Tang Zhao turned around, he couldn't bite the turtle's body, so he could only stare at it.

The pain and sense of crisis successfully aroused Tang Zhao's ferocity, but the last straw that overwhelmed him was the characteristics of the insect, the field turtle.

[After biting the prey, the Tianbei will inject digestive juice similar to that of a spider. The digestive juice here may also be highly poisonous. 】

Putting all kinds of worries behind him, Tang Zhao's tail was disconnected from his torso at this moment, and he, having lost his restraint, this time viciously pounced on the insect that was still biting his tail and would not let go.

PS. Some trivial matters have been dealt with, and the code words can be steadfast. After tomorrow, at least 4k of normal updates will be maintained every day.
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