Evolution from the crocodile

On a midsummer night, the sky is starry.

As night falls, the park, which was bustling during the day, becomes dark, with no human presence anymore.

Various nocturnal creatures become active, bringing vitality to the entire park.

Hua la la... There are fish jumping on the water from time to time.

The scales emerged from the water and shed countless silver lights.

There was a sudden rustling sound among the reeds on the shore, and then a huge black thing crawled out of the underground cave.

It has a thick body and thick scales. The mouth is slightly open, revealing sharp teeth. Two eyes emitted a strange and terrifying red light in the night.

A weasel that was looking for food approached with curiosity, then screamed and fled away into the distance.

Lu Chen didn't pay attention to the reckless little guy. He just shook the mud off his tail and turned to look at the cave that took more than a month to build.

Immediately, he resolutely climbed out of the reed swamp with three crocodile cubs.

Four figures, one big, three small, quickly blended into the night.

Lu Chen already knew the map of Liuhu Park by heart.

After passing two gates in succession, they dived silently into a long waterway.

At the end of the waterway is the broad Wujiang River. More than 20 kilometers downstream is the mouth of the sea, and further away is the vast ocean.

Even though they were so far apart, Lu Chen could still vaguely smell a salty smell in the air with the help of his keen sense of smell.

After entering the waters of Wujiang River, Lu Chen was much more careful and kept making noises to ask the other three cubs to follow closely.

Although this place is only two gates away from Liuhu Lake, the environment is quite different. Especially near the estuary, there are too many behemoths in the water.

For example, the most famous river sturgeon in the previous life, a proper sitting on the bottom of the prison and passing through the beast, also exists in this world.

When Lu Chen was checking information on the phone he found a few days ago, he came across a report: When a fisherman was fishing in the river, his fishing net accidentally caught a river sturgeon, which was more than 3 meters long and weighed more than 700 kilograms.

And this is not the largest one. The largest individual recorded is 5 meters long and weighs up to 1,200 kilograms, so it is known as the King of Fishes.

There is also the finless porpoise, which has a maximum body length of nearly two meters and weighs hundreds of kilograms. It is also one of the legendary jail-passing beasts.

The waters of the Wujiang River are not as good as the big rivers in the previous life, but the waters at the mouth of the sea are also very vast, and there are also two kinds of jail-sitting beasts.

As for the depths of the ocean, huge creatures abound. Even the meter level is just the starting point, and ten meters and tens of meters are not uncommon.

There are also many highly venomous creatures, such as sea snakes, light box jellyfish, etc. It kills anyone who touches it, even the crocodile.

What's more, there is another overlord in the ocean - sharks.

Among marine predators, sharks are definitely at the top of the food chain.

The swimming efficiency and energy of crocodiles are far inferior to those of sharks. If encountered in the ocean, they will only be hunted.

This is not nonsense. Lu Chen remembered reading relevant information in his previous life: a fishing boat captured a 14-foot-long tiger shark near a certain coast. After dissection, the head and forelimbs of a Nile crocodile were found in its esophagus.

Great white sharks in the Caribbean have also been recorded preying on adult American crocodiles.

Of course, if you go to the shore of shallow water, crocodiles can easily kill sharks.

On the river beach on the shore of Wujiang River, there are a few lights, which shows that many fishing friends are fighting at night. Further away, there are brightly lit modern cities.

Lu Chen and his three brothers and sisters were bobbing on the water, slowly heading downstream.

Seeing the night view on both sides of the Taiwan Strait from a different angle has a unique flavor.

However, Lu Chen was not in the mood to enjoy the scenery now, but was eager to find a hidden place to hide. After all, people come and go along the river during the day.

Soon, he found a sandbar a hundred meters away from the shore. The area is only four to five hundred square meters, and it is covered with wild grasses as tall as half a person, as well as clusters of reeds and batata. There are even a dozen large willow trees in the center of the highest point.

There are many waterbirds roosting in the reeds at night, and chirping birds can be heard from time to time.

Four crocodiles climbed onto the island silently and finally hid themselves in the grass.

With the help of his powerful night vision, Lu Chen could easily identify the types of waterfowl in the reed marsh.

Egrets, herring gulls, herons, wild ducks, droning pelicans...these are high-quality meats that provide far more energy points than fish.

However, I had just finished eating the remaining snakehead meat in the evening, and now I had no desire to eat, so I let these waterfowls go for the time being.

After confirming that it was safe, Lu Chen turned his attention back. I just feel that my body is indescribably tired, as if it has been hollowed out.

Look at the three crocodile cubs, who are also looking languid.

This situation is normal. They have been running along the waterway for more than an hour, and the energy consumed can be imagined. But I can only spend tonight among the water plants.

***

early morning.

Not far away on the main channel, sirens sounded one after another.

I was so tired last night that it was getting dark when I woke up.

After Lu Chen was awakened, he immediately checked whether the crocodile cubs were safe.

The temperature was low in the early morning, but the three little guys were still huddled together, sleeping with their eyes half-closed.

After a night, the food in the stomach has been digested, and it is time for another meal.

Lu Chen originally wanted to catch a few water birds to fill his stomach, but found that the grass was empty. Those birds had already flown out to look for food.

He could only move his limbs and slowly crawled towards the river not far away.

Ten seconds later, the body like a dead tree disappeared from the water.

The river water was turbid and visibility was very low, but it could not block Lu Chen's sight.

What's more, the scales on his body are covered with sensory organs. Any abnormal vibrations in the water flow can be clearly sensed.

So even in turbid water, Lu Chen's hunting was still simple and efficient. Just a few minutes later, a herring gull swimming in the water was swallowed.

With his prey in his belly, he began to explore the surrounding environment in earnest.

The eyes are like highly efficient radars that are constantly turned on, quickly scanning the waters everywhere.

Just after swimming not far away, Lu Chen saw a long dragon sitting on the bottom of the water near the shore, which was more than ten meters long... This was a long net cage that someone had stolen.

The mesh is fine, and several kilograms of fish and shrimp have been caught inside, and there is even a large catfish weighing more than two kilograms. Some of the white strips had their bellies turning due to lack of oxygen.

This kind of ground cage that cuts off children and grandchildren is really immoral. After catching all the big fish and small fish...if you don't say anything, they will be destroyed directly.

Lu Chen stretched out his front paws and struck a few times, stabbing, stabbing... big holes were made in the ground cage.

Lu Chen originally thought the small fish at the bottom of the net were loaches or eel seedlings, but then he realized they looked different.

First of all, the shape of the tail, and secondly, the black color of the body... it's a migratory eel fry!

Lu Chen immediately understood what the Earth Dragon was used for.

River eel is a migratory fish that grows in freshwater and reproduces in seawater.

They only lay eggs once in their lifetime and die after laying eggs.

The hatched young eels are silver-whisker-shaped and drift in the ocean for a year before turning into slender and transparent young eels. Then from December to May of the following year, they travel upriver in groups and enter fresh water.

Unlike ordinary fish fry, eel fry cannot be artificially cultivated on a large scale and can only be caught from the wild.

Therefore, it is extremely expensive and is known as soft gold.

In the previous life, an eel fry that was about the size of a toothpick and 6 to 10 centimeters in length could be sold for about 30 yuan when it was most expensive, and about 8 yuan when it was cheap.

In the early years, during the migration season of eels and eels, countless fishermen would sail out to sea along the rivers or estuaries and set up nets to catch the eels.

After working for half a year, it is said that the most I can earn is more than 100,000 yuan.

The eel fry in this world should also be very precious. The ones in front of you can probably be sold for thousands of yuan.

Soon, all the fish and shrimps in the net escaped.

After doing all this, Lu Chen continued to explore the bottom of the river.