Rebirth of the Legend of the Red Age

Chapter 124: Prehistoric Giant Crocodile

I saw that the animal had a very long and big mouth, its head and body were very tightly connected, it had basically no neck, and there were two thick short legs on each side of its body.

Behind it is a huge tail, and the entire back of its body is covered with black protrusions, as if it were wearing a suit of armor.

Wang Li saw that it was a crocodile, but its size was a bit exaggerated, 15 meters long from head to tail.

Wang Li knew that it was impossible for a normal crocodile to grow so big. He analyzed that this crocodile should be an ancient creature or a rare species.

In fact, Wang Li was right. The Tianchi water monster he hunted was a prehistoric crocodile.

These prehistoric creatures have become extinct.

Because crocodiles are oviparous animals, Tianchi was formed in a volcanic crater and there are some hot springs nearby.

The eggs of these giant crocodiles remain alive through the nourishment of those hot springs.

During the Ming or Qing dynasties, the hot spring where the crocodile eggs were buried was struck by lightning. The crocodile eggs were stimulated by the electric current, regained their vitality, and the crocodiles broke out of their shells.

Although due to the long time, not all of these crocodile eggs hatched, only a small number of crocodiles hatched.

But because they have no natural enemies in Tianchi Lake, this small population of ancient giant crocodiles survived in Tianchi Lake.

If nothing unexpected happens, these ancient giant crocodiles can continue to survive.

However, due to two unexpected events, the number of crocodiles gradually decreased and they were almost extinct.

The first is that human beings have entered industrialization, which has caused great changes in the air composition of the blue planet. The environment of the blue planet is becoming less and less suitable for the survival of these ancient giant crocodiles.

As a result, their numbers have decreased dramatically in modern times. Until the 50s, only one male and one female of the strongest ancient crocodiles remained.

Two years ago, the male giant crocodile could not stand the changes in the environment and died in Tianchi Lake. Only the female crocodile survived to this day.

The reason why the second white tiger was so huge was because it stole the last litter of crocodile eggs laid by the crocodile.

This has resulted in the last batch of ancient crocodiles in the world facing the risk of extinction.

Because now there is only one female crocodile, there is no male crocodile to produce offspring with her. The white tiger also ate the eggs of the ancient giant crocodile, which caused its genes to mutate. The white tiger was not originally white, but a mutation after eating the crocodile eggs. Its fur color is getting lighter and its body size is getting bigger.

After getting this benefit, it comes to Tianchi Lake every year to look for crocodile eggs.

Obviously it left here disappointed this year.

This giant crocodile was very unlucky. It jumped out of the water while hunting a big fish in the lake and was seen by Wang Li.

Wang Li used wild boar meat to lure it to the lakeside and hunted it.

From then on, no one would see the Tianchi water monster again, and the ancient giant crocodile had become extinct.

Of course, Wang Li didn't know that he had exterminated an ancient species, but he would have done the same even if he had known.

Because he had never heard of anyone actually seeing the Tianchi monster in modern times. Perhaps by then, this last giant crocodile would have died because it could not adapt to the environment. Therefore, he would not have any burden in his heart.

At this time, Wang Li was thinking about how to get this monster out.

Through his qi and blood sensing ability, he knew that this giant crocodile was full of treasures, and he would feel sad for a long time if he gave up any of it.

Finally, Wang Li thought of a good idea.

He first used the giant trees on the mountain to make some one-cubic-meter wooden basins, and put the blood and internal organs of the ancient giant crocodile into these five wooden basins, so that his space was full.

Then he used the hunting knife he carried with him to peel off the giant crocodile's skin bit by bit at the wound.

Use wood ash and other things that can be found now, knead it simply, place it on the edge of Tianchi to dry naturally, roll it into a crocodile skin roll less than one cubic meter, and place it in a cave encountered when going up the mountain.

Then he cut all the meat from the giant crocodile, smoked it all using the trees on the mountain, put it in a large wooden tub, and stored it in the cave.

Then classify the remaining crocodile bones, crocodile claws, crocodile teeth and other items and put them into the cave.

Finally, they carried a huge rock to seal the cave entrance and quickly rushed back to Baicheng Military Region to deal with the blood and internal organs of the giant crocodiles.

(End of this chapter)