You can evolve by surviving in the Ark

Gu Malu twisted his body and crawled quickly in the dark cave. Its curved insect body tensed and gathered strength, and then a mouthful of acid spurted out from its ferocious mouthparts and shot toward Li Hongying!

Li Hongying looked stern and steered Jue Niang to avoid it. The acid liquid fell on the rock behind her, and a faint white air grew, making a corrosive sound.

A velociraptor rushed towards Gumalu. It tore open Gumalu's shiny carapace in one swoop, but immediately let out a scream.

The blood of this ancient millipede itself is acid. With one mouthful of the raptor, the insect blood poured into its mouth and flowed into its esophagus, causing violent corrosion wherever it passed!

Qiao Liang quickly whistled to let the injured raptor evacuate. Li Hongying on the side had already raised her crossbow and pointed it at Gu Malu's insect face, which was more than one meter long.

She remembered that before entering the cave, Qiao Liang had told him to try to deal with Gu Malu remotely and avoid close combat.

The sharp crossbow pierced Gu Malu's head with one blow, and the huge monster let out a sharp scream that echoed in the corridor. It twisted its body wildly and bit Li Hongying.

But it couldn't catch up with Jue Ni's speed. Jue Niang swam flexibly, carrying Li Hongying to distance herself. Li Hongying fired crossbow arrows one after another, piercing its head, eyes and mouthparts. Until the ancient millipede died, its body was still convulsing and trembling.

Dead but not stiff!

Li Hongying added another arrow to the body that was still shaking like a hill in front of her, and took a deep breath to calm her heartbeat.

It really takes a lot of courage for humans to fight against such monsters.

The battle ended quickly, and these bugs didn't cause any more trouble.

Neither she nor Qiao Liang was injured, but the raptors involved in the battle had more or less blood marks on their bodies, which were just superficial injuries.

The most seriously injured raptor was the one corroded by the acid blood of the ancient Malulu. The cry was a little hoarse, but he seemed to be full of energy and nothing serious.

In the caves where these creatures hid, they found a lot of clothing, leather armor, bows and arrows, and other sundries, as well as a large number of clean bones. Obviously, they are not the first visitors here.

Qiao Liang gave instructions to the velociraptor group, and these loyal dinosaurs began to tear and bite at the insect corpses all over the ground, searching their intestines and stomachs.

Pieces of complete, incomplete, broken carapace with fresh insect blood were taken out by the raptors and put into the animal skin backpack designated by Qiao Liang.

Li Hongying watched silently and did not speak. She knew that the carapace grown on the bodies of giant insects was an important material that could be used to make many things, such as saddles and armor, instead of horn.

But the thought that these materials were made from disgusting insects and then turned into armor to wear on her body gave her goosebumps.

She took out the animal skin water bag and wanted to take a sip of water to recuperate, but she noticed that the weight in her hand was wrong.

No matter how fine the craftsmanship is, water bags made with this primitive craft will inevitably leak. She had obviously filled a whole water bag before going out, but found that some of it was missing.

Li Hongying looked at Qiao Liang and found that his face was also a little pale.

"Will this kind of battle happen often in the future?" she couldn't help but ask.

Qiao Liang nodded.

As he estimated, the Velociraptor's combat power was indeed strong enough to deal with the burrowing creatures in the hunter's cave. But the bloody scene in front of him was beyond his expectation.

After all, he was just a social animal in peaceful times. Even though he had watched many R-rated special effects blockbusters, the dozens of broken insect corpses in front of him still more or less challenged his endurance.

"Yes, this is the only way home." Qiao Liang's voice was low.

He was about to vomit, but it was better to keep his mouth closed.

……

The team moved on. Ahead, the road forked.

On the left, a huge stone embedded with green luminous lines exudes circles of strange energy fluctuations; on the right, there is a faint light, which seems to lead to a huge space.

The vague memory of the game became clearer, and Qiao Liang remembered this place. To the left, just jump off a stone platform and you will directly reach the location of the hunter's artifact.

But he chose to go to the right. He had some doubts in his heart, and on the right, there was something that could be verified.

Having made their choice, they moved on. Whether it was giant spiders, ancient millipedes, giant scorpions, or Titanoboa on the road, they were all devastated by the velociraptors and became the nourishment for their evolution.

Finally, he saw a cluster of shimmering mushrooms growing in front of him, surrounding a dilapidated stone brick building. In front of the ruins, there was a metal box.

"Really?"

Qiao Liang walked to the metal box and opened it. Inside was a biological illustration about pig crocodiles, which introduced all aspects of pig crocodiles in detail, including wild and tamed methods.

This is not enough. Qiao Liang turned his attention to the left side of the corner, where the ramp went all the way down, passing through layers of stalactites, and suddenly opened up, leading to a wide space with an underground river gurgling.

There was a crack in the rock at the top, and in the sunlight that leaked in, clearly visible dust particles floated like smoke, and a bamboo forest grew there. In the bamboo forest, there was also a metal box.

……

Lying in the box in front of you is a page of notes.

"Helena Note #12..."

Qiao Liang murmured.

When he came into contact with the note, he heard someone reciting the content of the note in English. The voice sounded directly in his mind, and the implant automatically translated it.

"Aside from the weird things I discovered about megalodons, the weirdest thing is how easily we can tame them. With a little training, they can be more obedient than domestic dogs.

I have heard of giving sharks preliminary training for about a year, but nothing to this extent. It won't be that easy. Sharks are not mammals or birds, they are fish. They rely more on instinct, or to put it simply, they are not smart enough. You can't ride them like a jet ski.

I tried to follow Rockwell's advice and keep an open mind, but nothing about this was normal. "

……

Qiao Liang was silent. He recognized the voice, he had heard it countless times in the game - it was Helena's voice.

In the background story of the Ark game, 6500 million years ago, elements descended from the vast universe and were discovered by humans. This element can be converted into huge amounts of energy through the current level of technology.

Humans have studied the elements and promoted them. The scientific theories accumulated over countless centuries have been broken through due to the development of elemental technology, and human science and technology has ushered in the greatest innovation in history.

At first, people only observed that when this element was transformed, it would produce a hidden substance that was soluble in soil and water, could emit weak radiation, and had minimal impact on the environment, so no one cared about it.

It wasn't until the elements began to show their life characteristics that everything became increasingly uncontrollable.

This kind of radiation that has spread all over the world due to humans' extensive use of elemental technology is called corruption. It can assimilate matter without distinction between organic and inorganic matter, and infinitely instill primitive desires such as hatred, hunger, reproduction, etc. into the beings with minds.

Corrupted creatures are linked to the collective consciousness of the elements through telepathy. His name is King.

This is a cross-dimensional, species-wide extinction event.

At this critical moment, one of mankind's self-rescue plans is to launch countless space stations called Ark into the universe. The Ark is used to preserve the fire of civilization, monitor the corruption of the earth, simulate data experiments, and at the same time test out powerful survivors to carry out the task of clearing the corruption.

Eventually, as the corruption deepened, the Elemental King successfully manifested his true form on Aquamarine. The power comparable to that of gods easily destroyed all human resistance.

Billions of human beings fight to the death until all of them are extinct. Planet Aquamarine stopped spinning, and most of the planet's area was depleted and became a dead place.

Helena was originally one of the survivors in the Arkworld. She broke through many obstacles, experienced the baptism of the three worlds of the isolated island, the scorched earth, and the distortion, ascended back to the Aquamarine Star, and fought an arduous battle against the entire corrupt cluster.

The partners who fought alongside her in several worlds were betrayed, died, and disappeared. She was the only one left to climb the divine steps and watch the world for thousands of years.

Since the notes left by Helena really exist, it means that the current time is after her ascension.

When Qiao Liang thought of this, the hope in his heart dimmed.

So what is waiting for him on Planet Aquamarine, are it his relatives and friends, or is it the supreme corrupt king?

Why him? Why does he know about the game Ark Survival Evolved?

"Megalodon? Can that be tamed too?"

Li Hongying's voice came.

She heard Helena's voice too. Those deep-sea monsters on the sea of ​​blood, which were indestructible to swords, left an indelible memory for her.

At that time, the megalodon group followed the Hope without attacking, waiting for the Leeds fish to overturn the ship before starting to hunt prey that had no ability to resist... If they were said to be weak in intelligence, how could they learn this kind of hunting logic.

"Well, this is a note left by a former survivor." Qiao Liang answered, a little absent-mindedly.

Sensing that he was depressed, Li Hongying thoughtfully stopped asking any more questions.

Although the female voice that sounded directly in my mind was gentle, it was really scary to think about it. It was almost like... a whisper from a god to a believer.

Li Hongying recalled that when she was a child, her father took her to have her fortune told. The fortune teller closed his eyes and said he was listening to God.

Is this what it feels like?

There are too many strange things in this world. Born in ancient times, her ability to accept them was limited, and understanding them required a process. But she believed that Qiao Liang would definitely tell her if necessary.

All the surrounding cave creatures have been wiped out by the raptors. There was a vast underground river with clear water, and she planned to go there for a simple cleaning.

Those sticky white turbid spider threads were still spread all over her body, making her feel uncomfortable all over.

"Don't go near that water!"

When Qiao Liang came back to his senses, he saw Li Hongying's actions and shouted hurriedly. Li Hongying had already reached out and touched the underground river water. When she heard Qiao Liang's voice, she stepped back without hesitation.

At that moment, a fish the size of a washbasin rushed out of the water and bit at the spot where she had just been. And there were more than one, and behind it there were still similar ones rushing out of the water one after another like a chain of pearls.

Because Li Hongying retreated in time, their attack failed, and their attack was too fierce. They fell to the shore one after another, bouncing around, and soon lost their sound.

Li Hongying was still frightened. This strange fish had sharp teeth. If it was bitten, it might not be able to bite off her entire face.

Under the water, a large number of strange fish are still gathering, like koi carps waiting for food in a lotus pond.

"This is a piranha. They are widely found in all rivers in this world." Qiao Liang came over and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Li Hongying was okay. "There may be emperor crocodiles in this water, so it's best not to get close."

Li Hongying recalled how confident Qiao Liang was before entering the cave, saying that with their configuration, it was more than enough to push the place flat, and there would be absolutely no danger.

Along the way, we have encountered attacks from various creatures and constant battles... although so far there have been no near misses.

But if these are not dangers, then what is.

"Let's go, we're almost there." Qiao Liang pointed to the other side of the underground river, where there was a huge stone pillar embedded with green light, which was a signpost pointing to the artifact.

The hunter's artifact is right there.