monster battlefield

Chapter 218 Skull Island Lives Up to Its Name

Three candidates for recruits were dismembered and eaten by monsters in the water right in front of people's eyes.

Even if it was blood sprinkled on the water, it was swallowed by countless small fish, and some monsters that hadn't eaten the meat were also constantly devouring the small fish.

The surface of the water is messy, like boiling water, while a few pieces of broken wood are speaking silently.

To be honest, this scene really shocked everyone. The three of them died less than 30 meters away from the shore, but they had to walk at least 300 meters from the shore to the island in the middle of the lake!
But no matter how difficult it is, everyone has to go. If you don't go...hehe, you can't even get to the final exam venue, so you're still a mediocre warrior!
So with the passage of time, everyone started to go into the water, even Zhou Shu stopped hiding, kicked down a tree, and took the most suitable section in the middle to make a "canoe".

When he threw the canoe into the water, everyone was already on the water, which made the water more lively.

This is actually the same as the "target theory". The more targets there are, the less chance you will be attacked, so you follow everyone into the water and mix yourself into it.

And in order to survive as much as possible, the candidates in the team dispersed again, the most became two people, one rowed the boat, and the other threw stones to distract the predators.

The least one is like Zhou Shu, who takes a small canoe by himself and rushes in, taking out stones from his pocket and throwing them around while paddling.

In this way, Zhou Shu blended in very smoothly.

When these many people entered the water, and all the boats were throwing stones, the 50 people suddenly became like hundreds of people, and the predators in the water really began to disperse.

Still, small boats keep winning, ready to be overturned by giant predators.

It’s just a lesson learned from the past. Although the multi-person team is separated, they will still gather in one area. When a small boat is overturned, those who respond in time can quickly take off with the impact and jump onto other people’s small boats as much as possible.

And everyone will tie one or two small animals to their boats, and some even bleed halfway, use themselves as bait, gather monsters in a pile, jump on the teammate's boat by themselves, let a few monsters snatch the bait boat, or even kill each other massacre.

With these ingenuity, the survival rate of candidates has been greatly increased.

But this water area is the territory of monsters, so after passing through the first 100 meters, casualties still began to appear.

Not only the various "dragons" mentioned earlier rushed out of the water to attack the candidates, but as they approached the island in the lake, they found that the salinity of the lake water decreased and gradually became fresh water, and various fresh water monsters also became active.

Even in addition to various physical attacks, chemical attacks have also started to increase.

At the junction of fresh water and salt water, several leading small boats were attacked as soon as they rushed in, and they were attacked at the same time.

Zhou Shu thought it was some kind of "dragon" that formed a team to prey, but it turned out that it was not, but tentacles!

Yes, a dozen tentacles, and finally a huge octopus-like monster floated up.

The candidates who were rolled up struggled hard, and the huge force left a lot of scars on the octopus tentacles, but those scars were nothing to the thick tentacles at all.

The candidate who fell into the water struggled to swim to escape, but was immediately swallowed by predators surrounding the giant octopus.

There was even a huge dragon beast trying to fight the giant octopus during the process, but was soon spit out a mouthful of black ink by the giant octopus. Some candidates were stained by the splashed ink, and were directly burned while being blackened.

The examinee's physical fitness is not low, but he was scalded as soon as it was contaminated, so the dragon beast that had endured a lot of hot ink was also scalded and screamed. When it wanted to escape, it was directly entangled by its tentacles, and then the huge octopus The mouthparts are about to knock off the dragon beast's head.

Yes, bite off the whole head in one bite.

Although the several-meter-long dragon beast is very large for humans, it is really like a small toy when it comes to this huge octopus.

According to Zhou Shu's observation, this monster octopus is at least 20 meters long, or even 30 meters long!

With the appearance of such a huge and ferocious monster, those candidates who had not been attacked quickly rowed to leave this place.

It's so brutal here!
In the end, I was too busy looking at this huge octopus monster, but was accidentally rushed up and eaten by an underwater monster.

Zhou Shu was very glad that the huge octopus did not appear near him, otherwise he would have died too.

He wasn't sure if the "weak" self could kill the opponent. After all, the size gap was too big, and the opponent could breathe "flame".

The appearance of this thing made Zhou Shu think deeply about the extent of the assessment system's magical changes to Skull Island, but the octopus monster is also a frequent visitor in sea monster movies.

And the monster here reminded him of the 17th version of Skull Island, where there is a very similar octopus monster called the Swamp Giant Squid.

Swamp giant squid are giant cephalopod creatures that live in the waters of Kong Skull Island.

The giant squid in the swamp is as tall as the 70-meter-tall King Kong in the 30s. It has the biological functions of both a squid and an octopus.

When threatened, it will emit thick black ink blobs, and it is also an active attack weapon. This ink has a high temperature like a furnace, which can directly scald some prey to death or scald them.

The swamp giant squid usually hides in the swamp, elusive and unpredictable, making it difficult for prey to guard against.

The olecranon-like row of teeth is usually hidden under the soft cortex of the giant spherical head, embedded in the complex self-rotating muscle group of the giant squid, like an electric fan with blades full of knives.

Its attacks are all carried out below the surface, and these tooth-row centrifuges generally rotate rapidly, setting off batches of devouring vortices.

However, in the movie, there was a fight between the swamp giant squid and the 30-meter King Kong. It once tied the 30-meter King Kong with its tentacles until it could not move, but the 30-meter King Kong was obviously stronger.

The 30-meter King Kong's brute force made it difficult for the swamp giant squid to deal with. At the same time, the hot ink of the octopus was only used as a hair dye, allowing King Kong to defeat it without too much effort, and instantly changed from an enemy to a food.

While in that movie the Swamp Giant Squid looked bad, its enemies were too strong, and here, this similar monster is a super monster!

If they were simply arranged according to body size, they might not be at the same level as the giant-toothed two-gnathed beasts in the spirit cage world.

Of course, considering the actual attack power and defense power, it may be similar to the Calyx Beast, but that is also a monster with more than 6 attributes, and Zhou Shu, who currently only has 3 attributes, can't provoke it.

Even with the addition of a strong vitality field, Zhou Shu couldn't guarantee that he would win.

Moreover, in this chaotic and dangerous Great Lake, it is better to be careful, and not to fight if you can.

A huge octopus monster 30 meters long appeared here, and there might be something waiting for him on the island.

Because he possesses a strong life force field, he was actually quite safe when he rowed all the way. Although he was attacked by monsters, he even escaped with people and boats, but he didn't rush to board the island in the middle of the lake, but mixed among the crowd , and wait for others to go ashore first.

More than 300 meters is not long, and it is not short, but for a group of "supermen", this distance is really not long. After paying a dozen lives and only 40 people are left on the ranking list, almost everyone has reached the shore side.

In fact, when they approached the island in the middle of the lake, they found that the island was bigger than everyone imagined. When they reached the shore, they were even more shocked by the size of the island.

Originally, they estimated that the island was only a few hundred meters long, but after analyzing it now, it was at least a few kilometers long!
Not only is it huge, but its shore does not lead directly to the interior of the island. You need to climb a cliff before you can really enter the island.

Although there is a river, the river is connected to the great lake, which is very dangerous.

In this way, the island in the middle of the lake becomes even larger.

But this is not in line with "reality" at all!

Oh, this is not reality, this is a virtual examination room.

That's fine!

This is equivalent to entering a copy.

Obviously there is only a small cave entrance and a small dirt mountain, but after entering, it is simply another world.

Probably the same here.

When people left the boat in shock and set foot on the island in the middle of the lake to breathe a sigh of relief, their mission was updated, but before they had any reaction, someone was dragged into the water again by the giant fish in the water.

The teammates who had just tossed ashore did not rescue their teammates immediately, but immediately moved away from the shore nervously.

Even Zhou Shu is the same.

At the same time, he also saw what kind of fish it was. It was a giant pomfret, a large predatory fish on Skull Island, and it was a monster that appeared in the 05 version of Skull Island.

According to the information he has searched before, they are the same as the strange-looking Pan's fish, and their ancestors were originally a branch of the "orphan" bifinfish genus of the Permian lungfish.

Some scholars infer that the ancestors of the giant pompanotooth had dominated the fresh waters of Skull Island tens of thousands of years ago. Of course, this was also because the genus Amphora was the dominant biota of Skull Island at that time.

However, about 8000 years ago, the new species of fry introduced by the early Skeleton Islanders to develop the economy or simply obtain food, gradually developed into a new generation of dominant creatures-the red blood carp.

After that, the Skull Island bifin gradually declined.

Most of its species became extinct in the brutal struggle for survival, but the ancestors of the giant pomfret still survived.

Moreover, compared with the strange-looking Pan's fish that is still in a slump, the ancestors of the giant pomfret tenaciously adapted to the freshwater world of Skull Island after being "reshuffled" by the red blood carp, and finally cast today's huge pomfret The toothfish itself.

Due to the significant size disadvantage of male pomfret compared to females, within the pomfret family, the dominance of the group and the acquisition of exclusive mating rights are measured by the pros and cons of fighting strength.

After all, females can grow up to more than 15 meters long, while males rarely exceed 6 meters long.

They are slender, like a hairtail with a big head and a big mouth. There are two large fins in the front abdomen. They are muscular and have a certain ability to crawl on the river beach. From the top of the head, back to the top of the tail, they are mostly dark green, and the abdomen is snow-white.

Different male fish have to engage in deadly fights one after another, and the winner will be determined bloody. The winner can prove to the female patriarch that "he will be a good husband".

Of course, for the prey of the pomfret fish, various aquatic birds, various other fish, amphibians, small and medium-sized dinosaurs or anything else the pomfret fish can catch, even if it is only a pomfret tooth Fish sub-adults are also quite deadly.

Just like the one just now, it's actually only more than five meters long, so I'm not sure if it's an adult male or an underage female.

"Huge XXX", human beings can feel their aura from the words, think of their appearance, the physique is even stronger than some existing whales on the earth, they are unparalleled fish, and they look hideous, and they can eat people when they come up No wonder people who have just escaped from a dangerous situation and are nervous will jump away quickly.

The giant pomfret is a unique aquatic hunter on Skull Island. It specializes in dealing with prey that come to the water to quench their thirst and those that just stand on the shore.

They will first quietly lurk on the river bed near the shore, using their sensitive tentacles to detect the position of any potential prey.

Due to poor eyesight, the giant pomfret can only barely distinguish things according to the changes in light and dark.

When attacking, they will suddenly drill out of the water with a huge wave brought by their bodies, bite the prey in front with their huge and powerful upper and lower jaws, and kill them with one bite.

Or fly directly to the shore, smash the group of beasts, grab one at random or knock over a specific target, and then drag it directly into the water to enjoy.

Just like what these candidates encountered, I don't know if it was a coincidence, around the entire island, there were twelve such raids at the same time, and five candidates were dragged into the water, leaving only the last 35 candidates.

This level of battle damage made the candidates just want to leave the river bank quickly, so many people climbed up the cliff on vines.

Zhou Shu was not in a hurry, his early warning system had completely failed here, and all sudden dangers were testing his nerve response and physical coordination ability, but seeing the familiar yet unfamiliar black cliffs and overgrown weeds and vines, He doesn't feel right.

Sure enough, a candidate had just jumped from one vine to another, and the vine suddenly moved, bringing the candidate directly to a pile of weeds next to him.

Then a huge pincers suddenly protruded from there, clamping the candidate in an instant.

"what!"

Accompanied by the painful cry of the examinee, it was dragged into the weeds by the pincers.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Shu's legs stopped instantly. It was a cave-dwelling corpse crab!

The burrowing corpse crab is a huge ground crab family creature, which is unique to Skull Island. They are distributed in large numbers in the long and wide abyss of Skull Island, and in the caves with gaps on the canyon cliffs.

The difference in sex constitutes a significant difference between the individuals of the burrowing crab. The female individual of the crab is about 2.5 meters long, excluding the tentacles.

However, males may not necessarily be half the size of females, and are generally only slightly larger than newly hatched female crabs.

As long as they don't sleep every day, the female cave-dwelling carcasses will secrete their own sticky excrement, and then use the "safety rope" they weave to fasten their thick tails to the ground of the cave. The pincers stopped at the hole.

They will use their luck to catch birds, bats, and flying creatures such as vulturesaurus and even pterodactyls like playing "Russian roulette".

Also protruding from the cracks are huge tentacles with a length of more than 3 meters. They are the front-line "living motion sensors" that detect the location of prey.

But for those prey who have no experience in the world, unfortunately, these tentacles look like "very ordinary vines" from the outside.

Once the prey accidentally touches any tentacles, or just brushes them at close range, the originally lazy female crab will quickly rush to the opening of the cave, and suddenly stretch out the huge pincers about 1.8 meters long from the crack, Grab those hapless "tentacles".

At the same time, it relies on the glue "rope" and "throne" glued to the tail and the ground to form a safe anti-fall buffer.

And that passer-by examinee who didn't know the truth was just such an unlucky guy.

Zhou Shu also knew that the misfortune of that examinee was not over yet, because the cave-dwelling corpse crab is a society where "the female dominates the outside and the male dominates the inside".

Such a huge gap in body size and strength will definitely form.

The male crabs will gather in groups in the "cave room" where the female crabs sit, and are responsible for taking care of the eggs laid by the "lady" or "queen", and then do the work of raising babies, such as adjusting the egg burial depth, adjusting the temperature of the nest, Add nutrients for hatching, etc., to relieve the female crabs from worries when they are "working hard" outside.

The female crab only needs to carry out hunting and production activities. After hunting, she eats first, and then the male crab eats the leftovers left by the female.

The fate of the unlucky examinee is probably the same, and he will not die immediately after being pinched, he will see "hell".

Although the other candidates didn't know what was going on with the big pliers, they also knew that the cliff was not safe and there were dangers hidden everywhere, so they would be more careful when climbing.

Some candidates who were only a little behind were still driving boats. When they saw this situation, they did not dock at all and rushed directly into the river mouth with their boats.

There are monsters on the cliff, and there are monsters in the water, anyway, it is not safe, it is faster to go directly from the river.

(End of this chapter)