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Although Yang Sheng had no knowledge of paleontology, he knew the difference between mammals and dinosaurs, and knew that in the history of biological evolution on Earth, the difference between the two might be millions of years.

But in this flaming forest, mammals such as deer, wolves and lions live together with dinosaurs covered in bast or feathers. In addition to various wild animals with special abilities and magical talents, there are also various dinosaurs, and some of these dinosaurs also have the ability to cast spells or have magical talents.

Like a Triceratops that can control and move soil, and can turn soil into rock or walls like Alchemy's [Turn Mud into Stone].

"Amy..."

"Ok?"

After flying over the forest for a long time and seeing all kinds of strange and colorful ordinary beasts and magical creatures, Yang Sheng asked his wife.

"Do you think it's possible that there was no legendary wizard or Saint Chio wizard who failed to cast a spell, but just two highly evolved or magical beasts who accidentally caused such a large-scale wildfire during the fight?"

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In the cockpit, Yang Sheng was chatting with a few girls. The "submarine airship" was flying at a slower speed according to the terrain of the ground, making it easier for them to observe the ground conditions.

When passing a valley filled with thick smoke, a monster suddenly flew out from it. Because of the illusion imaging system, it seemed that it almost hit the bow of the submarine airship, scaring everyone.

After taking a closer look at its appearance, Emily couldn't help but complain:

"No way, how can such a weird thing fly?"

"Ah, this is too weird..." Nina echoed.

"It seems like some kind of supernatural power..." Lina finally said in a low voice.

It was a thick and short flying snake, without wings or limbs, just a cylindrical shape, flying in the sky at a very fast speed.

This thing is so weird that even Yang Sheng couldn't help but mutter in his heart:

You said that you are short and thick like a small whale, but you twist your body as vigorously as a snake. After all, whales have a dorsal fin and side fins on the left and right for paddling, and their tails have also evolved into the shape of fish.

But look at this strange snake, the way it flies in the sky is like a missile flying upside down... This thing should be a snake... Its body is covered with black and green scales, and its head looks very much like a snake, except that the proportion of the head and the snout is a bit large.

If a python had such a big head, according to the proportion of its head to body, its body length might be more than 30 meters. However, this strange snake is only a dozen meters long and its head is abnormally thick, so it appears particularly short and thick.

Its flying movements... If it was a python of normal proportions, it might look graceful if it slowed down a bit, but it flew like a ghost video played at double the speed.

"Is this its normal flying posture? Or is it the fire that has accelerated its twisting movements? I really want to shoot it down with an RPG..."

Emily couldn't help but complain again.

This time Yang Sheng also echoed: "How weird..."

He first locked the camera on the flying snake, then controlled the "airship" to follow it silently.

The "floating airship" is faster than it and flies silently, so this strange flying snake can be captured from all angles.

More details were presented on the illusion presentation system, which made Yang Sheng and others complain repeatedly.

The appearance of this snake is really hard to describe. The details of its body are completely based on conventional aesthetics, but in reverse.

"Ah, it really doesn't have paddling fins, even its tail is a blunt cone shape."

"It has a bald head, no horns, and a pig nose. Hey, is it really not going to be beaten to death? Is this a mocking face?"

"It doesn't seem to stick out its tongue, and it can blink its eyes. Does it have good eyesight?"

After observing for a while, Yang Sheng finally thought of the appropriate words to describe its flying posture: the appearance of mosquito larvae swimming in the water.

No wonder everyone is so disgusted with it, because the aversion to mosquitoes may be something engraved in human DNA. Because they look too much like mosquito larvae, Emily and Nina hate them as well. Only Lina is better.

The "submarine airship" had been flying for a long time and was at the edge of the fire scene. At this time, it followed the "flying snake" and quickly left the fire scene.

Outside the fire scene, there was still an endless natural scene of forest-covered mountains and hills. When the "Flying Snake" arrived here, it slowed down its flying speed and finally looked like a snake wandering. Moreover, it seemed that in order to avoid enemies, it deliberately lowered its altitude, just like Yang Sheng controlling the "submarine airship" before, passing in the air slightly above the treetops.

I am worried that in this jungle environment, the snake may be lost at any time.

After shutting down several corresponding magic shields, Yang Sheng cast a [Magic Mark] at it, which did not arouse its vigilance at all.

However, it did reach the edge of the land. During its flight, its body suddenly dived into the treetops below, and its trace instantly disappeared from the screen.

"Ah, it's gone," Emily said with a sense of unsatisfied satisfaction after watching the animal world.

Yang Sheng adjusted the illusion picture and soon displayed the image of the "flying snake" like a night vision goggles.

Because of the [Magic Mark], the entire snake body was bright, and the surrounding scenery was blurred. Under the heavy cover of the tree canopy, the figure of the flying monster snake was clearly displayed on the spherical illusion screen in the cockpit.

At the back, Nina and Lina simply sat on the floor, took out snacks and ate while watching.

Emily looked back and moved over to sit with them.

Looking down from a high vantage point, it is displayed in this way, but you can still see that the "flying snake" uses its advantage of being able to fly to flexibly drill in the gaps in the tree canopy.

Emily and the other two looked at and talked about everything with great interest, as if they were visiting a zoo.

"Ah, what is it doing, looking for prey?"

"No, it looks like it's eating... branches?"

"Eating branches? Are there vegetarian snakes? Or is there something unusual about this tree?"

"Who knows? If we catch it, some zoologists will probably go crazy. Many biological laws are completely broken by it. This is a magical world. I mean, there may really be vegetarian snakes here, and those trees are not ordinary trees."

“I don’t know if its meat is delicious. Sometimes the uglier something looks, the better its taste or meat quality is.”

"Hey, why did you think of eating it? I don't want to eat the meat of such an ugly thing."

"It may have something to do with my race. In human form, our standards for food are the same as those of humans and elves. However, in dragon form, the texture and taste of the prey depends on the content of magical elements in the prey and the preferences of different dragons."

"Huh? Is that so? I thought you dragons were all like wild beasts, with only a taste for and desire for flesh and blood."

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Amid the discussions of several people, the "flying snake" took some time to eat all kinds of sharp branches with leaves or needles, swam among the treetops, and floated into the air again.

Accelerating towards the top of the distant mountain.

After leaving the range of the wildfire, various kinds of creatures in the mountains and forests became more abundant.

There are butterflies with wingspans the size of tires, various birds that look and are similar in size to modern birds, wasps or hornets larger than large dogs, mammals that eat grass or leaves, and of course predators, there are even giant wasps holding a deer-like prey flying across the screen.

Like mammals, dinosaurs also vary greatly in size. The duck-billed Deinocheirus, which specialized in eating leaves in the forest, was about 6 meters tall and about 8 meters from head to tail. It was an absolute behemoth. Its two large claws, which were mainly used to push away branches, were even more terrifying than those of a predator.

There are also miniature dinosaurs that move on branches or on the ground. They are only slightly larger than sparrows. They look very beautiful. I don’t know what they feed on, maybe nectar or small insects.

Here is a little piece of knowledge: dinosaurs ≠ lizards.

Lizards are generally cold-blooded reptiles that cannot maintain their body temperature. They have four legs and their bodies are covered with bast and scales. Although dinosaurs are also four legs and their bodies are usually covered with bast and scales, they are warm-blooded creatures that can generate their own body temperature.

For example, chickens were dinosaurs in ancient times. Similar large walking chickens such as Cretaceous Dragon and Pterosauria were also creatures that could maintain a constant temperature.

Strictly speaking, Western dragons like Lina should be called dinosaurs, or at least similar to dinosaurs. Although there may be very few special variants of any dragon or sub-dragon, the vast majority are mythical or sub-mythical creatures that can maintain a stable body temperature. It is okay to say that Western dragons are reptiles or reptiles, but to say that they are giant lizards is purely an insult to dragons.

Yang Sheng remembered that he had read many online articles introducing the habits of dragons, which said that dragons needed light to maintain their activity. If dragons were like this, they would have been wiped out by dragon slayers long ago. In addition, some special planes such as the underworld and the world of the dead had no sunlight at all, but still had various dragons existing there, excluding bone dragons and undead dragons.

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The "floating airship" followed the "flying snake" all the way to the top of the mountain. There were cliffs on all sides, which was a perfect place for flying creatures to build nests.

However, there was already a huge nest on the top of the mountain. There were no eggs or baby birds in the nest, but a huge pterosaur squatting inside.

Compared to the weird-looking "flying snake", this pterosaur, which stands more than 9 meters tall on the ground and has a wingspan of more than 18 meters with its two fleshy wings spread out, is considered handsome... Well, they are both equally ugly and weird, Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick.

This giant pterodactyl is basically the same as the one in the CG movies of later generations. It has a huge upright scissor mouth, two yellow bean eyes and a sparsely haired head. It is not good-looking or cute at all. In contrast to the Tyrannosaurus Rex, it has a wide upper body and a narrow lower body. Its two overly long wings need to be folded in the opposite direction after the flesh membrane is folded to help it move on the ground. It also has overly short lower limbs and a head that is almost in proportion to the body...

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There is really no similar creature in the natural world, and Yang Sheng really can't find a suitable adjective.

Although the "Flying Snake" came all the way here, it did not seize the giant pterodactyl's nest, nor was its goal the nest on the cliff. When it approached the top of the mountain, it landed on the ground and moved forward on the ground with agility and speed that was extremely inconsistent with its short and fat body.

This mode of movement should be based on its floating ability, because after crawling on the slope for a distance on the ground, it went straight up along the cliff at 90 degrees. The black-green scales on its back are very similar in color and texture to the rocks. If you don't look closely, it is difficult to distinguish it from the rocks.

In the middle of the cliff, the "Flying Snake" swam into a depression that appeared to be naturally formed.

Its next action surprised the humans who had been following and observing it.

Its body was too short and thick, and seemed a little stiff, so it couldn't coil itself around in the depression in the middle of the cliff like an ordinary python. One-third of its body hung outside, and the front half stood upright like a cobra, opening its mouth to bite the extremely hard mountain rocks.

As a result, it bit off the rock wall bite by bite as if it were butter. No sound was made and no rocks fell. I don't know whether it was swallowed by it or hidden somewhere else.

With bites to the left and right, the strange snake soon bit a big hole in the dense and intact rock. It might be to guard against the giant pterosaur above its head. Not far into the hole, it turned to the side, making the hole into an "L" shape, turning into a "bow" shape, and digging deep into the rock wall little by little.

Its short and thick body drilled into the hole it had dug with its mouth piece by piece, just like a loach drilling into tofu.

"Huh? Lucas, this snake's ability is similar to your [Fossil to Mud], but where does it put the rocks it bit off?"

Emily lay on the floor and got close to the enlarged image of the illusion to observe it carefully, then turned her head and spoke to Yang Sheng.

In addition to protection and detection magic, the "Submarine Airship" also has several special vision magics, which, when linked with the "Illusion Imaging System", can simulate the observed images with illusions.

Yang Sheng performed some operations and displayed this observation result on the illusion screen.

He controlled the airship to look at different positions and altitudes for a while before he said:

"It seems to have a natural biological storage space inside its body, just like the [Luggage] space opened up by the [Attribute Panel] user. It uses its mouth to activate an ability similar to [Convert Fossils to Mud], and when it bites off soft rocks, it stores the objects directly in the biological storage space inside its body."

"Oh, I see"

The three girls suddenly realized.

"Wow, then this snake must be a very rare magical creature. If we kill it, there should be a high chance that we can obtain materials related to space magic."

Lina was originally very good at making magic equipment and potions, and she spoke in the tone of a professional manufacturer.

"Well... if there are a large number of these strange snakes, it's fine. But if there are few, forget it. We don't lack space storage equipment and raw materials..."

Yang Sheng thought for a while and said.

"Oh..." Lina looked at the strange snake on the screen and responded with a look of regret.

It seems that since the earliest martial arts novels, the protagonists have relied on these extremely rare and precious creatures to gain power. The more harmonious way is to keep them as pets, and the more direct way is to kill them for materials. This practice of obtaining precious resources from nature seems to be derived from ancient biological instincts and living habits inherited from ancient times.

However, in the modern technological society with relatively abundant material resources, this ancient practice and concept is in subtle conflict with the value orientation of the new era.

However, from another opposite perspective, if the claim that large meteorites falling from the sky caused species extinction is true, then even if this strange snake with special value is allowed to live in nature, its ultimate fate will be just one of the countless dead souls under the giant meteorite.

Rather than wasting it, it is better to turn it into useful material and be utilized.

After all, the core concept of environmental protection or animal protection is still "people-oriented". It is better not to protect an environment that has no use value and benefit to people. Yang Sheng pondered for a while and decided that just for the value of this strange snake, he would stay in this strange world for a while to investigate the ecological environment here before making any plans.

If the natural stock of strange snakes is abundant, they will of course be utilized;

If the natural stock of the monster snake is endangered, why not be a monster snake saint and protect it.

In addition to the strange snake, there are many valuable biological resources we see along the way.

"Perhaps the adventurers in our faction will have a new place to hunt..."

"Or [Apostle Space] also has a new map that can be used as a mission scene."

Yang Sheng finally thought silently in his heart.

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Yang Sheng and his group also found a suitable place to camp near the flying snake's lair.

However, he did not live here, but used it as an observation base.

Although the giant pterosaur on the cliff is huge in size, it is just an ordinary beast. However, its big triangular head and long mouth are as lethal as a sword or an axe.

Moreover, the pterodactyls were fierce and extremely

Aggression: It is said that it has the habit of trying to eat anything, which means that it will try to attack any moving target it sees.

The "flying snake" seems to have a good intelligence. Building a nest under the butt of this huge monster is somewhat like using the giant pterodactyl as a free watchdog.

When it enters and exits the snake cave, it meanders on the ground, going up and down along the rock wall, moving swiftly and silently. Its dark green skin has an additional visual hiding effect. If Yang Sheng had not placed a [Magic Mark] on it, it would have been difficult to capture its presence with normal vision.

Yang Sheng set up the airship and observation post, and the "flying snake" also cleaned up its nest. It poked its head out of the snake hole to look around, then slid down the cliff to the bottom, climbed a long way along the mountain, entered the forest, and then floated into the air, and no one knew what it was doing in the distance.

Seeing it leave the nest and confirming with Yang Sheng again, the three girls, who had been curious about the snake cave for a long time, couldn't wait to slip out from the observation point, climbed flexibly on the cliff, and came to the concave platform outside the snake cave.

As mentioned before, this strange snake has an extremely large head, as thick as a water tank, and the caves it can crawl into are quite spacious for humans.

"Don't rush in. Snakes... well, although we don't know if it is a snake, we should just treat it as one. Snakes are very sensitive to smells, so we need to get rid of the smell on our bodies."

Yang Sheng followed them here. He was also curious about the snake's nest. He couldn't see it clearly through the rock layer before, so he came here to confirm it.

He could sense the [magic mark] on the strange snake, so there was no need to leave anyone outside to watch it.