Survival In the World of Beasts

The journey on the back of the brachiosaurus was quite new and interesting at the beginning. These big guys did not travel fast, and would stop at a suitable place to rest at night.

Regarding the one more person and one tiger, the brachiosaurus finally seemed to notice it dullly the next morning, but they just turned their long necks and glanced at them, stared for a moment, and then slowly turned their heads back. , Keep going, there is no more expression ==.

Li Shizhen expressed his satisfaction with the neglect of the brachiosaurus. It is of course the best to be able to make peace with each other (wu) and (shi). They can be so friendly (dan) and kind (ding), and Li Zhizheng repays the peach, and does not want to disturb their normal life.

The small room on the back of the brachiosaurus is relatively primitive and lacks any furniture, but it is absolutely fine to sit and lie down alone. Although the frequency of the brachiosaurus stepping was relatively slow, the vibrations were relatively large, and bumps were inevitable. Li Shizhao put a thick animal skin on the floor, which was barely considered as earthquake-resistant.

The diet is also very simple. If you want to use fire, you can’t. The furnishings here are made of bamboo and animal skins, especially animal skins. One is not easy to burn, not to mention their safety issues. Herbivores are against fire. Too sensitive, in case the alarm is another trampling tragedy, it does not conform to the principle that Li Shizhen and the brachiosaurus are safe.

Li Shizhao resolved all the jerky and pancakes he made with water, and Baihu basically followed him to eat it. Speaking of which, the jerky was not bad, and Baihu felt that eating it as a snack was quite delicious.

Brachiosaurus is not moving fast, they mainly search for food on the grassland. Some small woods on the grassland remain. Although the weather is hot, the woods are still lush. Whenever they pass by these trees, the brachiosaurus will stop, and Li Zhixun and Baihu will also go down to solve their personal problems.

At night, when the brachiosaurus was resting, the white tiger would occasionally go out hunting to fill up his stomach or something. With the living habits of the white tiger, a day or two with dried meat and clean water is okay. It can withstand hunger better, but after more than ten days, it also needs to go hunting for food and eat some fresh meat.

For this reason, Li Shizhao built a thick rope ladder on the brachiosaurus back. One person and one tiger will not disturb the brachiosaurus, especially the sharp claws of the white tiger. There is no need to worry about scratching the brachiosaurus skin. How could the brachiosaurus be aware of it.

After all, although they are very slow to react, if they are alarmed, they will react very violently. The rumbling is also quite dangerous for a small person and a tiger standing on the ground, so you must be very careful if you want to go down. Can return in time, and can not alarm the brachiosaurus group.

In fact, according to the amount of vegetation where they stayed, Li Shizhao can now judge the length of their stay. The most concerned thing in the minds of this group of foodies is probably eating. Except for the occasional stay for drinking, their pace seems to be reserved for eating. So after Li Shizhen observed several times, he saw the size of the vegetation. You can roughly guess how long the plants here will be enough for them to eat, and it's probably time to leave when they've eaten almost.

There was a rope ladder. When the brachiosaurus was drinking, Li Shizhen would sometimes go down to fetch water and take a break. Occasionally, when the brachiosaurus had enough food, Li Shizhao would go hunting with the white tiger, light a fire and cook a meal. For those who haven't eaten hot food for a long time, don't miss that taste too much.

The grassland at this time is still full of vitality. Although the drought has begun, it has not yet begun to affect the lives of most organisms. The food is still sufficient for most herbivores to survive, and they are still enjoying the last relics of the last rainy season.

During the daytime, Li Shizhen can also see many herbivorous mammals. There are wildebeests, sheep and cattle. The specific species of Li Shizhen are not quite clear. They are formed into ethnic groups, and each ethnic group occupies one area. The grassland, scattered like gravel on the vast grassland, eats the grass leisurely, and the males in it will fight for their mates and vent their energy.

Occasionally, you can see some herbivorous dinosaurs like Triceratops, Camarasaurus, and so on, wandering leisurely on the grassland with their cubs, enjoying their food. From time to time, large flying creatures pass by in the sky, and they are aiming at cubs of unknown race.

From time to time, you can see something flashing by in the grass. If you distinguish it carefully, you can see that they are lurking predators. They generally do not move around in the hot noon, but lurking in the higher grass. When you see the scattered herbivores suddenly rushing in one direction from all corners, arousing dust flying all over the sky, you can basically know that predators are hunting again.

Seeing dinosaurs and large mammals living in the same sky, it is inevitable that Li Shizhen felt a little emotional about the ecology of this peculiar continent. Therefore, the advantage of a higher field of view is that you can enjoy the prairie scenery as much as you can.

At night, Li Shizhao would also open the animal skin curtain and lie in the house to look at the starry sky outside. This is the season of drier rain. The sky is always clear and the sky is low. People lying outdoors and looking up at the starry sky will have an illusion. As if you can hold all the stars in your arms as soon as you open your arms.

Seeing those stars, Li Zhizhu would also think of the earth and his family members on earth who didn't know where they were, and fell asleep in the sound of insects and brachiosaurus jets.

This kind of journey is more like a sightseeing trip in the modern era. Usually, you can see the scenery on the "car". When you arrive at the gas station or service station, the "car" will go down and let the wind go, walk around, get some water, and get on the gas station or service station. A restroom or something, take some activities to relax.

The white tiger’s work and rest are completely opposite to Li Shizhao’s. Sometimes it goes out hunting at night, and sleeps lazily in a small room during the day. Sometimes it rests too comfortably and actually sleeps on its back. Phew, the two big plum blossoms on the front paws are curled up on the chest, and the white belly is lying down together, like a large lazy cat.

Seeing that Li Shizhao couldn't help laughing, his hands were itchy, and he wanted to scratch his white belly.

If you don’t go out at night, it will lie in the room lazily during the day and look out, but the novel and interesting scenery for Li Shizhen will only make it drowsy. Only when the brachiosaurus stays, the white tiger Suddenly he lifted his spirits, bowed his head and arched Li Zhizheng, trying to persuade him to go hunting and cooking.

At this time, Li Shizhao could only sigh. If conditions do not permit, he can only use some dried meat and candy to soothe the big cat. After all, it is necessary for a "wild animal" to travel like humans. Quite wronged it.

In short, the beginning of migration is indeed more like long-distance travel than survival.

This relaxed rhythm makes one person and one tiger quickly adapt to the life on the back of the brachiosaurus in a dozen days.

On this day, they finally arrived at the river.

If you are not mistaken, this river should be the one he often sees in the jungle.

It’s early in the morning, and you can see how magnificent this river is when you watch it up close. At least the river is seven or eight meters wide, reflecting sparkling waves. There are many animals drinking on both sides of the river. Larger Camarasaurus and Triceratops , Elephants, smaller flocks of sheep, wildebeest flocks and even zebra flocks. Many bright-feathered waterbirds linger on the moist shallows on the banks of the river.

When he approached the river, Li Shizhao was even more shocked to find that at least one meter of exposed soil on the edge of the riverbed still had washed-out wet marks. The marks were like the appearance of the sea after low tide, but it happened in the inland river. By the way, it is obvious that the entire river is already slowly descending.

It is not difficult for him to imagine how wide and turbulent this river should be in the rainy season. The river surface at least ten meters wide traverses the entire grassland, attracting countless herbivores and predators, and also nourishing the endless grassland along the coast.

Bai Hu probably heard the sound of running water too. He ravaged his eyes, yawned, turned over, stretched his body back and forth, got up half-beaten lazily, and squatted to Li Shizhen’s side and squinted his eyes. Looking out.

After Li Shizhao found that it had risen, he checked the location of the river with it sideways, and to see if it was the one near the jungle, Bai Hu gave an affirmative answer.

Li Shizhao took out his leaf notebook and drew a mark on the rough topographic map of migration he copied before, and carefully examined the three thicker lines above. The mark he just drew was on the southernmost curve.

From this point of view, the migration process of brachiosaurus is indeed not fast. This is probably related to the fact that most of them were searching for food in a roundabout way before. Perhaps it is because the dry season has just begun, and the brachiosaurus is not so eager to find food?

At this time, the daylight is still early, and most of the drinking water is herbivores. You must know that the weather is hot now, animals have a large demand for water, and the river's evaporation is also large, but there is not enough precipitation to supplement the water source, come and go. , The river level naturally drops. As the dry season progresses, this wide river will inevitably dry up even at the worst.

The arrival of the brachiosaurus team caused many animals to step aside and start flying countless waterbirds. The brachiosaurus first stopped by the river, slowly stretched their necks and leaned down to drink some water, and then slowly walked into the water amidst the long cries of the leading brachiosaurus.

Li Shizheng was a little worried after he collected his notebooks. He didn't know if the depth of the river would submerge the brachiosaurus back and wet the materials. Although he sewed some rain barriers, he still had to resist the immersion of the river. It's too reluctant.

Fortunately, as the brachiosaurus waded, Li Shizhen gradually let go of this worry. The deepest part of the river was also two or three meters away from the highest point of the brachiosaurus back. Although it looked close, the brachiosaurus moved forward. The current never really wets their things.

Li Shizhao thought that because he was worried that there would be powerful predators by the water, he didn't go down to fetch water. If he missed this river, he didn't know when he would have the opportunity to encounter such a large water source.

With an idea, he found the two bamboo buckets he used to fetch water, tied them with a long animal skin, and gently threw the bucket mouth down to the surface of the water not far away, shaking vigorously like fetching water in a well. The leather rope pulled the bamboo bucket up, and it really hit him half a bucket of water.

Bai Hu couldn't help but stretched his neck when he saw it, and continued to watch Li Shizhen fetching water.

The second bamboo bucket was thrown a little farther by Li Shizhao, and he only hit half of the bucket just after it was thrown too close. The bamboo bucket tied with animal skins made a water mark on the sparkling calm water, like a small round boat breaking the water.

Seeing that it was about to be able to be pulled up, the water surface suddenly jumped up a streamlined body three to four meters long. In the sun, like an elegant arc reflecting the dazzling water light, the water surface seemed to be suddenly shattered by a powerful force. His mirror was aroused by a violent beating, and countless splashes of water flew up.

When the thing returned to the water again, the end of the animal skin that Li Zhizhen pulled up was empty, leaving only a section of the animal skin that was sawn off by some sharp object.

Seeing calm again, with a few bamboo pieces floating on the surface of the water reflecting the sparkling waves, Li Shixun couldn't help shivering.

He clearly knew that the arc just now was only part of the streamlined body of a large underwater carnivore. Judging from the part where it was exposed to the surface of the water, he still didn't know how big its true size was. For a flat section, the teeth must be as fine and sharp as serrations. Moreover, he looked at the barrel that was half a meter in diameter next to him, and he could bite into this bamboo barrel...

If it were not on the back of the brachiosaurus, he and Baihu would cross the river directly. Even with the strength of the white tiger, it would be hard to escape this kind of thing. He didn't expect that when he was about to leave the grassland, he would see this unknown water. Under the overlord.

Bai Hu stretched his head over and sniffed, and sneezed, as if he didn't know what kind of creature it was. Probably the water flow was shallower when it came to this river last time, this large underwater creature has already migrated, or it was lucky that it did not encounter it.

But today’s experience reminded Li Shizhen, that the brachiosaurus is not 100% safe on the back. Be especially careful at the waterside. They might have to cheer up during the rest of the journey.

The broken wooden barrel that day seemed to be a bad sign. In the next few days, Li Shizhao’s daily observations discovered that the grassland was dotted with small black dots far away, so far away he couldn’t see clearly. What kind of animal is that, but he knows that the dry season is really here, and animals have already started to join in, and I'm afraid this team will grow bigger and bigger in the future.

When the grassland gradually changed from green to yellow-green, and the moss and vines on the trunks of the big trees in the jungle began to turn yellow, the brachiosaurus community no longer spent a lot of time lingering on the edge of the small forest, but began to slowly and firmly The land has been moving northward.

Brachiosaurus eats the most food of all herbivores. When other animals can barely eat enough food from the grassland, they have to trek for a long time to wrap their stomachs. Once they perceive the sharp changes in the surrounding environment, the grassland can no longer When sufficient food was provided, these seemingly dull creatures gave the fastest response among all creatures. They had reduced their stay on the way and resolutely began to migrate.

So they are also the first batch to go. The long stays before are all making the last reserve for the entire arduous journey.

The animals that followed were probably some herbivores that were relatively large but not as good as the brachiosaurus. They probably also noticed the crisis from the surrounding food supply and joined the team far behind.

Li Zhizheng and Baihu can no longer do what they used to be. They frequently go down during the day to let the wind or even cook a meal. Their pace of life has begun to become tight, and try to solve the problems that need to be solved at night. , And now it’s getting less and less safe at night, probably because of the movements of herbivores, predators appear more and more frequently.

Therefore, during night activities, Li Shizhao had to carry backpacks on both him and Baihu, with the necessities in them, and he also carried various weapons on him to prevent accidents.

The water sources that they and the brachiosaurus team can encounter are becoming more and more limited, which makes Li Shizhen have to seize every opportunity to collect and save as much water as possible.

All kinds of urgent signals made Li Shizhao finally realize that he and Bai Hu have embarked on the dry season migration path, the migration path of countless lives.

And I don't know what challenges are waiting for them.