Evolution from the crocodile

Night is when fish are most active in foraging. Without much effort, Lu Chen caught a pond carp weighing half a kilogram. The pond catfish is also called the bearded catfish and the pond angler fish.

This thing is very similar to catfish, but the meat is coarser and tastes far less good than catfish.

However, Tangyu has a tenacious vitality and can survive even in the harshest environment.

It was often reported in the news in the past life that many people had found these things alive in city sewers, and they could even be seen alive and well in some toilet cesspools.

For this reason, few people in the south like to eat this stuff.

However, this pond carp lives in a river and should be relatively clean.

In addition, when he was hungry, Lu Chen didn't pay so much attention.

Then, another bream.

After eating more than two kilograms of food at one time, Lu Chen's physical strength gradually recovered.

Just as he was about to turn around and return to the direction of the cave, he suddenly heard a chirping sound coming from a hundred meters away, as if some animal was playing.

The dense and dark reed swamps separated the area, making it impossible to see clearly.

What the hell? Out of curiosity, Lu Chen twisted his tail and swam away quietly.

Under the moonlight, several brown-black little guys appeared in his eyes.

They are about half a meter long, with flat heads, protruding eyes and small ears. There are a few long beards hanging around the mouth, which looks a bit funny and cute.

Otter, or sea otter?

It seems that these two things not only have similar names, but also the appearance and recipes. The only difference is that one lives in fresh water and the other lives in sea water.

But after seeing the long thin tails on their backs, Lu Chen finally determined that they were otters.

In previous lives, rural adults were afraid of their children going into the river to bathe, and often threatened them that there were scary water monkeys in the water that specialized in eating people.

In fact, the so-called water monkey is an otter.

When Lu Chen was a child, he once witnessed his neighbor's grandfather catch one and sell it for 10 yuan. Although I haven’t seen it since then, I was very impressed.

He had never thought that there were otters outside the Tiannan Mountain Nature Reserve, which gave Lu Chen a big surprise.

This would be a family of five, an otter parent and three cubs.

Their fur looks shiny, obviously they are living a good life and there is no shortage of food.

But to Lu Chen, these guys were also good food. I'm full tonight, so I can keep it for later.

Suddenly, a big otter on the shore seemed to have discovered something and made a rapid squeaking sound.

Several guys who were playing quickly jumped into the water and disappeared in an instant.

Chirp, chirp...

Ouch...

Immediately, Lu Chen also heard movement deep in the forest. Along with the mountain breeze, there is also a faint smell of blood drifting.

Wild wolves hunting prey? Lu Chen recognized a familiar voice.

Southern coyotes are generally gray wolves, slightly smaller than their northern counterparts. The body length is about 1.2 meters and the weight is about 60 pounds.

With Lu Chen's current fighting prowess, he certainly couldn't defeat such a beast.

But he was not afraid and had no intention of running away. He even climbed a big tree on the shore to see more clearly. Although the gray wolf is ferocious, it does not climb trees, so it is safe.

What's more, if it's really dangerous, you can just jump into the water and swim away.

Tap tap tap...

Huchi, wheeze...

The sound is getting closer!

Lu Chen was lying on a tree branch, and through the gaps in the dense leaves, he could clearly see several black figures appearing thirty meters away, running in the direction of him.

This is... a herd of wild boars running crazy for their lives.

Not far behind them, there was a group of short figures chasing them quickly. There is a light green light in the eyes of these guys. From a distance, they look like balls of will-o'-the-wisps swaying in the dark night.

Gosh, it’s really a pack of gray wolves!

Lu Chen couldn't help but take a long breath, and a little shock appeared in his eyes: How could it be possible that such a large group of wolves would appear in the southern subtropical region?

As far as he knows, although gray wolves are group hunters, the group size is generally not large.

Most of them are about ten, with a male wolf as the leader.

This is the wisdom rule that the gray wolf family has summarized in their survival career for thousands of years: maintain a relative balance between hunting effect and food income to optimize profits.

Because once the number of wolves is too large, it often means that the strength of each member cannot be fully utilized during hunting, which is a waste of resources.

In addition, in order for members to fill their stomachs, the number and frequency of hunting they need will also be greatly increased.

Of course, if there is sufficient food, the number of wolf pack members will increase to a certain extent.

In previous lives, humans have observed that the largest wolf pack consisted of more than thirty wolves (in the cold winter, in order to hunt huge prey, different wolf packs would also cooperate with each other, temporarily forming large groups of dozens or even more than a hundred. Hunting They will be separated again after it is over).

However, large wolf groups live in the vast desert areas of the northern temperate and cold zones. In the dense jungles of the South, gray wolf packs are generally small.

Lu Chen roughly counted more than twenty gray wolves under the tree. The leader was obviously larger than the other wolves, nearly one meter tall, so he should be the alpha wolf.

Being able to maintain such a large group shows that there is abundant food in the reserve; on the other hand, it may be that other natural enemies living here are very ferocious, forcing them to maintain a larger scale.

Lu Chen was extremely glad that he chose to stay outside and did not take a few kids upstream of the river rashly. At present, I have no idea what kind of beasts exist deep in the mountains... This is the Tiannan Mountain Nature Reserve of the Blue Star Xia Kingdom, not the country of my previous life. So everything is possible, and we cannot completely apply the distribution areas of animals and plants in previous lives to measure.

The appearance of the gray wolves quickly added a bloody and murderous atmosphere to the surrounding night.

The chirping of night insects in the grass has become inaudible.

Under the command of the alpha wolf leader, more than twenty gray wolves quickly surrounded several wild boars in the center.

Ouch...

Ouch...

These guys kept making low roars while circling around the wild boars.

I believe many people have heard of one pig, two bears and three tigers. In fact, the true meaning of this sentence is not to talk about the attack power of wild animals, but to calculate based on their threat to humans.

The combat effectiveness of adult wild boars cannot be underestimated. With a weight of hundreds of kilograms, an explosive speed of seventy or eighty kilometers per hour, and two sharp fangs, the huge impact is about the same as that of a speeding small car. It can directly hit a human being and seriously injure him, or even cause his intestines to rupture.

In addition, their bite force cannot be underestimated, reaching more than 200 kilograms, and can easily break human bones.

But as herbivores, wild boars are naturally suppressed by the bloodline of carnivores.

No matter how ferocious and huge an adult male wild boar is, the first reaction when seeing the beast is to run away instead of staying in place to fight. Only when they are cornered and have nowhere to escape will they turn around and fight to the death.

In particular, the group of wild boars in front of me is not that big. There is a female wild boar leading several half-grown cubs.

Facing the approaching wolf pack, the female wild boar was obviously terrified. It completely ignored the child and rushed madly in one direction, trying to break through the obstacles and escape.

But before the female wild boar could escape from the encirclement, the wild wolf king who was waiting for an opportunity suddenly rushed over. The sharp teeth bit down on the wild boar's hind legs, dragging it tightly.