Ye An

Ye An climbed down the rock wall along the rope and passed the nest of the mutated bird on the way. He found that most of the chicks had grown flight feathers and were about the same size as their parents. They would be able to leave the nest in a short time.

When the female birds in the nest found Ye An, they spread their wings and uttered threatening calls.If he doesn't leave, an attack could be launched at any time.

Ye An had no intention of conflicting with the birds, quickly moved away from the nest, slid down the rope, and soon came to the bottom of the rock wall.

Directly below is a pool full of mutated fish. Ye An clenched the rope with both hands and kicked his legs hard on the rock wall. The rope flew him a few meters away from the river bank and landed on a muddy wetland.

Ye An didn't stand firmly when he landed, and his foot slipped a little. It wasn't because the rope was still wrapped around his waist, he almost fell to the ground.Although I didn't fall down, there were still a lot of mud splashed on my body and wrapped around my calf, which made me feel very uncomfortable.

Behind him, silvery waterfalls tore from the top of the cliff and poured into the pool below.

The water in the pool overflowed the shore, following the sliding traces of the mutated fish, winding out several clear streams.The stream flows down from a high place and converges near the rift to form a second, lower waterfall.The waterfall rushes and flows, and finally pours into the rift valley on the island.

In the last battle with Qi Luo, the bottom of the rift valley was pierced by a mutant python, forming an extremely deep river channel.The river flowed through here and became very turbulent. There were eddies hidden under the water. Even a mutant fish with a body length of nearly two meters would immediately lose its bones once it was sucked in by the vortex.

Ye An tugged at the rope, making sure that the top was tied very firmly, so he didn't put the rope away, but wrapped it around a mutated tree protruding obliquely from the rock wall, ready to use it when he came back.

"Knife, shovel, flint and steel, rope."

Ye An checked the equipment against the drizzle, and made sure nothing was lost. He held the shovel in his hand, the short knife in his waist, the rope wrapped around his shoulder, and the flint and a few pieces of fruit in a bag. Fasten securely to your belt.

Such weather is not suitable for bringing matches, if you are not careful, you will be soaked in water.On the other hand, there is no such concern with flint and steel. Although it is more troublesome to use, it is better than finding no sparks when lighting a fire.

Getting ready for everything, Ye An trekked forward along the river.

The current in the river is turbulent, and mutated fish jump out of the water from time to time.Under the water surface, different schools of fish fight each other, and the minced meat is shared by mutant snails and a kind of transparent river shrimp.

The road under our feet was very muddy, and the tall grass was soaked by rain, making it extremely slippery to step on.

Ye An had to be very careful not to fall.

There are many poisonous insects in the forest, and most of them will not come out to move in heavy rain, except for leeches.Ye An once assimilated with poisonous insects, but it could only enhance the other party's desire to kill and devour, and could not effectively communicate with these species.If you don't want to be sucked by leeches, you need to be extra cautious, and avoid in advance when you encounter a mutant tree with a large number of leeches hanging on it.

After passing through the rift valley and the dense forest, Ye An soon came to the stone platform where the waterfowl nested.

After the mutated crocodile raged, the bird's nest near the stone platform was in a mess.Compared with their neighbors living on the rock wall, the losses suffered by these waterfowls are immeasurable, and more than [-]% of the chicks did not survive.

To make matters worse, after the crocodiles, snapping turtles came to the island to occupy the merchant ships moored on the shore, and did not plan to leave in the short term.

The rainy season is the breeding season for many species, and snapping turtles are no exception.

During the rainy season in previous years, mutated frogs lay a large number of eggs near the isolated island, and there will be a large number of tadpoles and young frogs around the island.These tadpoles and young frogs will not only attract schools of fish and birds, but also behemoths such as snapping turtles.

Most of the female snapping turtles arrive at the isolated island in the middle of the rainy season, just in time for the tadpoles to hatch, and a large number of young frogs will be born, and the small snapping turtles will have enough food when they hatch.

There is also competition among snapping turtles, with the strongest females having the best spawning grounds.

Unfortunately, the snapping turtles who came to the island won the battle with their own kind, but encountered changes in the island's landscape, and a large number of mutated frogs died. This year is destined to not have enough tadpoles and young frogs.

Fortunately, there are a large number of fish schools near the isolated island, and there are countless mutated snails, shrimps and crabs underwater. The snapping turtle decided to lay eggs on the island and stay until the end of the rainy season to ensure that the hatched snapping turtles can survive.

When Ye An arrived at the river bank, the rain was gradually decreasing, and the water birds were flapping their wings one after another, and a large group was circling in the air.

This year's brooding is doomed to fail, and there are such dangers around, the birds don't intend to continue to waste energy, and leave the island ahead of time with the chicks that can fly.

There are still a few chicks in the remaining nests. They are covered with fluff and have no flight feathers. They cannot fly with their parents. They can only stay on the island and huddle each other for warmth.Surrounded by predators, they have little chance of surviving without adult protection.

Ye An walked carefully through the bird's nest, occasionally seeing chicks that died of hunger.They are smaller and discarded earlier.Despite the reluctance of the adults, this is the rule for perpetuating a population in a harsh environment.

On the merchant ship, the snapping turtle laid [-] eggs and piled mud mixed with hay near the nest, then slowly climbed out of the hull, ready to enter the water to find food.

Hearing the movement from the merchant ship, Ye An quickly lowered his body, using the abandoned bird's nest to cover his figure, and looked carefully into the distance.

First there was the hook-like mouth, the huge head, the thick neck, and then the carapace bristling with bony spurs like a hill.The thick and powerful limbs stepped through the mud, and each footprint was half a meter deep.

Ye An held his breath, his nerves tensed up.Until the snapping turtle entered the river and disappeared under the water, his whole body was still stiff, his head ached, and he dared not move.

He was [-]% sure that the culprit that gave him a headache last night was this mutant snapping turtle.

Compared with the killing and brutality last night, today's snapping turtle didn't show much emotion, Ye An could only feel the desire to prey.With the experience of assimilating with the mutant python, he can't completely cut off his thoughts and emotions, at least he can make himself less uncomfortable when he is on guard.

The figure of the snapping turtle appears on the water from time to time, like a moving island.Wherever it passes, huge whirlpools will be rolled up one after another, and the schools of fish will scatter for their lives, but they still cannot escape the terrifying giant mouth.

A large group of silver carp broke through the water, their powerful tails swung from side to side, jumping and sliding on the water surface, causing large waves.The waves are intertwined, forming one wall after another.Relying on the barrier of the water wall, the school of fish tried to get rid of the pursuit of the snapping turtle.

This effort was in vain.

The snapping turtle ignored the several-meter-high water wall, easily bit a silver carp, tore it in two in mid-air, and swallowed it on the spot.

The school of fish swam fast and tried their best, and the snapping turtle was not hindered at all. On the contrary, the resistance of the school of fish aroused its ferocity. In the next time, nearly a hundred silver carp were killed and crushed. They are devoured whole, and later only the fattest part of the fish is eaten, and the rest is discarded.

Witnessing the whole hunting process, Ye An couldn't help feeling frightened.

The snapping turtle's appetite was astonishingly large. Following the silver carp, it devoured three schools of mutated fish one after another, and even killed several mutated crocodiles that were too injured to escape in time.

When the snapping turtle was chasing the mutant crocodile, Ye An gripped the shovel tightly and ran towards the merchant ship as fast as he could.When I got close, I didn't dare to go in. I just looked inward from the bow of the boat and saw the eggs of snapping turtles surrounded by mud and hay. I immediately turned around and turned back.

He left very timely. If he stayed for a few minutes longer, he would be spotted by snapping turtles returning from hunting.

A terrifying vortex was created on the surface of the water, and the snapping turtle emerged from the vortex, slowly climbed ashore, still biting half of the crocodile's corpse, and disappeared behind the hull.

Leaning behind the abandoned bird's nest, Ye An covered his mouth with one hand and pressed the other on his chest. He could feel the rapid heartbeat under his palm, as well as his breathing that accelerated and became thicker due to nervousness.

"calm down."

Ye An muttered silently, let go of his hand slowly, turned his head to look at the merchant ship again, made sure that the snapping turtle would not come out for the time being, bent down and left the stone platform, tried not to make a sound, and returned to the dense forest as quickly as possible.

"How could such a guy come here?"

Walking in the dense forest, Ye An flicked his finger to fly the leeches that landed on his shoulders. Thinking of the huge monster he saw on the shore, he felt another headache.

The snapping turtle was laying eggs on the island and apparently won't be leaving anytime soon.Let's just stay on the edge of the island, if one day goes to the center of the island to look for food, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"We have to think of a way."

Ye An was walking forward while talking to himself, he accidentally fell and rolled half of his body in mud.When crossing the rift valley, I met more than 20 amphibious mutant fishes. I killed five of them, cut off three of them and threw them into the river, attracting another group of mutant fish. When the two sides were in a fierce battle and the fishes were distracted, they left this place. A danger zone.

Back under the rock wall, Ye An tied the mutated fish back to his back, untied the rope from the mutated tree, wrapped the end around his waist, grabbed the rope with both hands, and climbed up quickly with his feet.

The rock wall was covered by rainwater and waterfalls, and the surface was very slippery. Ye An had something to worry about, so he stepped halfway up and stepped on the ground, not because he was tied with a rope around his waist, and almost fell.

Seeing the rubble rolling down from a high place, getting caught in the waterfall and disappearing, Ye An didn't want to end up like this himself, so Ye An quickly calmed down, focused on climbing up the rock wall, and returned to the cave where he lived.

Stepping into the cave, the wind and rain go away in an instant.

Ye An put away the rope, wrapped it up and piled it in the hole, walked to the hearth with a few steps, broke off a few branches and lit it, and put an iron pot on the stove, while tidying up the mutated fish brought back, he thought about what to do next .

He has witnessed the ferocity of snapping turtles with his own eyes, and he has little chance of winning head-on.Hiding all the time is not an option, pinning the expectation of survival on the fact that predators will not find out, in this cruel environment, it is pitiful and ridiculous.

"I have to think of a way..."

Ye An cut open the belly of the fish, took out the viscera and gills, peeled off the thick skin, then chopped the fish into sections and threw them into the iron pot.

The pink fish is white in the pot, and the fragrance is faintly wafting.

Ye An sprinkled some salt and covered the pot.

While waiting for the fish soup to roll over, Ye An got up and walked to the cave, leaned against the cave entrance with arms folded, let the cold water hit his face, looked at the cloudy sky, thoughts churned in his mind, like a thousand The ten thousand threads are entangled and cannot be untied no matter what.

On the high ground separated from the isolated island by the fast-flowing river, the wolves that had been chased by snapping turtles successfully captured a solitary bison and were feasting on it.

The pack lost another member and injured two pregnant female wolves trying to capture the prey.One of the horses was seriously injured, a horrible bloody gash was cut on the hind leg by the horn, and the bone was deep enough to see the bone.

It is impossible for a wolf pack to abandon its own members, and it is bound to be unable to migrate quickly.Because of the emergence of snapping turtles, this delta is extremely dangerous, and the ethnic group may be wiped out at any time.

Like Ye An, the wolf king is also caught in a dilemma at this moment. There are both front and back dilemmas, and he cannot easily make a decision.