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Chapter 219 Appearance
They followed Qin Ziwen to the settlement.

Tao Fu could just see the Tarbosaurus skeleton at the edge of the settlement, which had been cleaned up and stripped of all flesh and blood.

In the sky, pterosaurs circled, and a few of the bolder ones landed on the dragon heads, pecking at the empty eye sockets.

When the pottery cauldron approached, the pterosaur was startled and flew away.

Tao Fu squatted on the ground, his rough hands gently stroking the skeletons of the two Tyrannosaurus Rex.

As he ran his fingertips across the massive skeleton, Tao Fu stood on tiptoe, tried to bend it with his hands, and then tapped it repeatedly to confirm its hardness.

Finally, a smile appeared on his face. He quickly turned around and found Qin Ziwen. "Sir, do you know if these two skeletons have any other use?"

Qin Ziwen looked at the empty skeletons placed on the open ground not far away. The muscles and skin on them had been scraped off, leaving only some empty bones. Some people might be planning to take them back to make bone soup.

He shook his head.

Tao Fu said, “Sir, since it is useless, may I have it? I want to try to make a boat frame from its ribs to its spine, and then add rivets and planks to fix it.”

Qin Ziwen agreed, "Sure, take it back and try making it."

Tao Fu was delighted upon hearing this. After asking his lord for some men, he led them to dismantle the bones.

On an open space not far away, the group set up a large pot on the ground.

Bright red Tyrannosaurus Rex meat was simmering in the pot.

Tyrannosaurus meat tastes a bit like chicken, but it's chewier and firmer than beef.

Hei Zai, who was being held in someone's arms, smelled the aroma of meat and couldn't wait to peek out.

Qin Ziwen hugged it tightly. "You can't eat this. Xiao Wu, get some dragon meat."

Qin Ziwu ran over carrying a basin of raptor meat. Looking at the pet in his brother's arms, Qin Ziwu couldn't help but take a few more glances. "Hmm, it looks familiar. Is that a Tyrannosaurus Rex?!"

"Yes, these are the eggs that were brought back from the nest and hatched."

Qin Ziwu's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed with delight, "It can actually hatch!"

He squatted down and handed over the fresh meat in his hand, saying, "Good baby, let your brother take a look."

After Blackie held the meat in its two little paws, it focused intently on eating, automatically ignoring all external sounds.

Qin Ziwen then called Tao Fu over to enjoy the food together.

He, Qin Ziwu, and a group of core hunting team members sat in a circle, eating meat together.

Everyone noticed the new member who had appeared at Qin Ziwen's feet—Hei Zai.

Qin Ziwen then briefly explained the task he needed to break through to the extraordinary level: he needed to conduct a hunt, and the stronger the target within his capabilities, the better.

Cao Biansheng said, "Guild Master, do you need to hunt alone? I think the Raptors in the Oasis are pretty good."

“I’m not hunting alone; Du Yu and the harpy eagle can help.” Qin Ziwen shook his head.

Cao Biansheng then changed the subject: "Then there are many more options available."

Qin Ziwen glanced at him sideways upon hearing this.

Seeing this, Cao Biansheng chuckled and quickly begged for mercy, "President, I was just joking. Since Instructor Du and the harpy eagle can take action, what are we waiting for? Let's just go after whoever is the strongest in this oasis!"

"I want to kill the Giant Rock Dragon." The atmosphere froze. Cao Biansheng hesitated, "But guild leader, we don't seem to have found any trace of the Giant Rock Dragon yet."

Yuan Ming nodded: "That's right, we've already killed two Tyrannosaurus Rex, but there's really no trace of this Giant Rock Dragon. It's like the hidden map bosses in the old games, it's hidden too well."

"It's alright. If you really can't find it, you can hunt other animals instead. But for now, everyone should be careful not to complete the tasks on the Hunting Ladder."

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it."

After lunch, everyone went about their assigned tasks and began working.

The three hundred people were divided into large and small teams to gather, hunt, explore, and transport water.

Each team was working in an orderly manner.

Two days passed, and the oasis was basically turned upside down, including the bottom of the lake in the center, whose condition was also basically cleared up.

There are no particularly large aquatic creatures in the lake, at most only a group of giant catfish that are more than two meters long.

Apart from that, the oasis has no underground caves or secret passages.

The largest existing herds today, besides hadrosaurs, Junggar giant rhinoceroses, and Gobi ankylosaurus, are desert raptors scattered throughout the oases.

Du Yu said, "This area has been basically searched, but we haven't found any trace of the Giant Rock Dragon in the oasis yet. My lord, I suspect that the Giant Rock Dragon may not live in this area."

"Not in the oasis?" Qin Ziwen frowned. Judging from the pictures of the Hunting Ladder, the Giant Rock Dragon should not be too small.

If someone of this size had ever survived, they would have left traces.

Du Yu shook his head. "Given its size, if it were in an oasis, it would definitely leave some clues. But there are absolutely no clues right now, so I suspect that either there is a second oasis in this Gobi Desert, or it is not in an oasis, but in a more distant place."

Do you have any guesses?

Du Yu turned his head to look at the small river to the north that continuously supplied life to the oasis and expressed his guess, "Sir, there shouldn't be any other oases around us, otherwise these animals wouldn't keep migrating here. So, I guess it might be upstream of the river."

Qin Ziwu said, "Brother, I actually have an idea too. Judging from its name, Giant Rock Dragon, this thing probably lives underground or in caves. Is it possible that it doesn't rely on oases, but sleeps in some cave or sand dune?"

"No, it's most likely in the oasis. No matter how much it's sleeping, it still needs to eat! It can't eat stones, can it?" Qin Ziwen shook his head.

He paused for a moment, then added, "Then let's search upstream!"

Next, Du Yu rode the horned eagle and explored upstream along the river to the north of the oasis.

Meanwhile, Qin Ziwu also led some members to explore upstream along the river.

On the third day, we finally learned about the Giant Rock Dragon!
It wasn't in the oasis, nor in the upstream river channel.

This message was brought back by the team that was transporting water back and forth in the community.

At the bottom of the great rift valley south of the community, someone discovered an underground cave. Inside the cave, someone claimed to have seen a giant monster living underground!

Qin Ziwen dared not delay and immediately rode the eagle, taking Du Yu with him, back to the community ahead of time.

"The cave was discovered by one of our student council members. While searching for prey in the Southern Rift Valley, he accidentally found a patch of damp soil that had been soaked. Suspecting that there might be a spring underneath, he dug the soil open and found that it was a natural fissure. After he crawled inside, he found that the underground space was very large and that he could hear animal sounds inside."

Luo Gang introduced the student to Qin Ziwen.

(End of this chapter)