Invincible Bones

Chapter 38
Although the size of water bears is smaller than that of ordinary brown bears, the size of the small bones is not caused by strong winds. The place that should be big is small, and the place that should be small is also small.

Therefore, compared with the small bones, water bears still have an absolute advantage in terms of physique.

Moreover, in terms of quantity, they crush small bones!

Lin Zhian stood steadily on the surface of the water, and the little bone could not move freely in the water, so he sent the shark to act as a foothold for the little bone.

Da da da!
The little guy stood upright on the back of the shark and yelled challengingly at the group of water bears.

It will look confident after being successfully promoted to the first-level Undead Bone Race and learning two new curses.

hoohoo!

The water bear on the opposite side bared its teeth, and its two long arms dangled in the water, showing a super fierce posture.

What Lin Zhi didn't expect was that the group of water bears looked at each other, and they didn't swarm up and tear the little bone and the cowardly shark into pieces.

These seemingly stupid creatures actually chirped and quarreled!
For a while, the turbulent river became as lively as a vegetable market.

After making a lot of noise, finally, a smaller water bear was pushed and swam out of the team, and came in front of Little Bones and Shark.

Roar!
Its two powerful feet swayed alternately to keep its body balanced, and its free arms were raised from the water, pointing to the small bones on the shark's back.

"Oh Huo, does this mean to fight one-on-one?" Lin Zhi suddenly became interested.

In other words, the water bears were yelling and arguing just now, trying to decide who would stand up and challenge Little Bones.

Then, the guy who looks the weakest gets pushed out?

Lin Zhi sighed speechlessly in his heart: "This silly son seems to be underestimated by others..."

Those water bears are not powerful beasts, but beasts in the ordinary domain like the one-horned tiger. If it is before Little Bones enters the initial stage, then they may really be able to bully Little Bones.

But the little bones now are genuine elementary level undead bones!

Roar!
The water bear took the lead in attacking and plunged headlong into the water. Its powerful hind legs combined with the fins on its back made it move extremely fast in the water, not even weaker than most fishes!

Its eyes were fixed on the small bones on the back of the shark, and its sharp fangs were exposed, planning to launch the strongest attack the moment it emerged from the water.

It was very upset when it was pushed out by its companions, thinking that it would be shameful for it to fight with an opponent who seemed weak.

Therefore, it wants to kill with one blow!

Seeing the water bears rushing towards them, the humming shark dived into the water very cooperatively, leaving only an area for the small bones to move.

It is very smart and actively avoids the oncoming water bear, just to express that it does not want to provoke the other party.

One or two water bears are nothing to it, but if a group of people come around, it will be killed even if it is alone.

The creatures living in this big river have their own tacit understanding with each other.

For example, the humming sharks in the upper reaches and the water bears in the middle reaches, even if they meet each other in normal times, they will choose to turn around and leave, ignoring each other.

So the humming sharks took the initiative to avoid the water bears, and the water bears did not attack the humming sharks that seemed to be more threatening.

The speed of the water bear was indeed very fast, within a short while it had already appeared in front of the little bone, it stretched out its thick palm out of the water, and slapped the little bone suddenly.

However, even the fastest speed also requires some distance.

Cursed, there are not so many restrictions.

The power of the curse surged in Xiaoguo's body, and his empty eye sockets fixedly stared at the water bear's raised paw, and the initial curse "Body Distortion" was cast immediately.

It didn't know that the "body distortion" would work on the water bear's whole body, so it cleverly focused the power of the curse on the water bear's sole palm.

! ! ?

The water bear, which was gaining momentum, was startled suddenly, and before it could slam the little creature with only bones into the water, severe pain came from the bear's paw.

The bear's paw twisted at ninety degrees swept across Xiaogu's eyes, and the water bear lost its balance. After a tragic howl, it fell into the water with a "plop".

Little Bones took advantage of the momentum to pursue, staring at the struggling water bear's legs with empty eye sockets, it knew that it was the key to the water bear's ability to move in the water.

Hey.

A string of air bubbles came out of the mouth of the water bear that had stabilized its body in the water just now. Immediately after the palm, its legs also felt the sharp pain of bone twisting.

It wanted to swing its legs to surface the water as it would normally do, but was horrified to find that it couldn't swim anymore!

The lack of oxygen has caused the body functions of water bears to decline rapidly. They have not yet evolved the gills that fish use to breathe in water, so even if they know how to swim, they will end up bored at the bottom of the river sooner or later.

Soon, the tardigrade struggling frantically in the water lost all signs of life and was swept downstream by the rushing water.

From the time when the companion lost its ability to move and sank into the river, to when its corpse floated past them, the group of water bears did not show any extreme emotions from the beginning to the end.

This should be their population rule: during the whole process of single-handedly picking other creatures, no companions are allowed to intervene!
Lin Zhi glanced over the water bears, and all the black heads exposed on the river were silent.

It is not difficult to see that they have seen and even experienced many times such as "singling out" other races.

"It's such a strange race. With this kind of race style, they can still survive until now, blocking the river here? If they really go up one by one, that humming shark alone can wipe out the whole group."

Just as Lin Zhi thought about this question, the group of water bears on the opposite side gave him the answer.

Roar!
A burly water bear roared, jumped out of the water, and plunged into the water again.

The large dorsal fin exposed on the water cuts the water flow into two sides, and approaches the position of the small bone at a high speed.

hoo hoo hoo!
Immediately afterwards, water bears roared one after another, repeated the same action as the first water bear, and dived into the water one after another.

Groups of water bears moved out together, forming a black countercurrent under the water surface.

"I see."

Lin Zhi silently watched the Shark who abandoned the small bone on the spot, turned and ran away, and silently watched the small bone sinking into the water completely submerged by the black countercurrent.

"That's not a real heads-up, it's just picking out the weakest individual in the population and going out to test the danger of unknown creatures."

"If unknown creatures are killed, then they don't need to attack. If the weakest individual is killed, then they will attack in groups. Anyway, the dead are also the weakest, so ignore it."

"Really, a race with a bad style..."

Lin Zhi raised his gaze and landed behind the group of water bears.

Logically speaking, for a population with such hierarchical living habits, there should be one who takes the lead and is responsible for giving orders.

Sure enough, on the surface of the river more than ten meters away from the water bear group, a bear head twice the size of ordinary water bears surfaced, looking coldly at the subordinates who submerged the skeletons underwater.

Roar?
It seemed to sense something, and its dark bear eyes turned up little by little, and it looked at Lin Zhi across the river more than 30 meters away.

Roar!
The leader of the water bear grinned at Lin Zhi and let out a provocative roar.

Its IQ is obviously much higher than that of other water bears. Knowing that the big skeleton in front of it conquered the shark upstream as a mount, it must be very strong.

Subordinates to subordinates, boss to boss, this is the unwritten rule of the beasts in this jungle river.

And once the boss of one party makes a demonstrative roar, the other party must make the same response, which roughly means this:

One party: "Don't run away later if you have the ability, come up to a one-on-one fight, and see if I don't bite you into pieces!"

The other party: "Come here!"

Hmm... the beasts from another world are really on the verge of becoming fine.

After waiting for a long time, the leader of the water bear still did not get a response from the other party.

It made it feel slighted.

So, it opened its mouth to the maximum extent, trying to expose all the scary fangs inside, and roared twice: Ho Ho! ! !

With the first roar, Lin Zhi hadn't figured out what the water bear meant, but after hearing the aggressive second roar, he suddenly understood.

"Oh, are you going to challenge me one-on-one? Well then..."

Lin Zhi stood motionless on the spot, and the blue flames in his eye sockets shook very, very slightly.

Then, with a "bang", the leader of the water bear who was grinning one second, exploded on the spot the next second...

　Thanks to the book friends 20180810191813715, Lingyuxixi, ivy and moss for their rewards!

　　
　
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