owlsbooks Chapter 23 The Struggle for Food
Chapter 23 The Struggle for Food
The battle lasted for more than twenty minutes. The anaconda swarm realized that it was difficult to achieve any results in open areas, and that they would only get injured instead.
The lead anaconda let out a hiss, and the remaining anacondas began to fight and retreat, shrinking back towards the forest.
The Deinonychus leader did not order the tribe to pursue them further; being able to defeat a anaconda in open terrain does not mean one can defeat one in the forest.
In the end, the anaconda left behind three corpses, and the deinonychus also paid the price of two casualties and one serious injury.
[Awesome! The Deinonychus's counterattack was brilliant!]
[The long, sharp claw on the hind leg of the Deinonychus was so sharp, like a razor-sharp knife, it sliced through the skin of the anaconda in one go.]
Although the anaconda was driven away, the Deinonychus still couldn't enter the forest.
[It's okay if you can't get in. I believe that in a few million years, Deinonychus will be even stronger than it is now.]
More anacondas died this time than five million years ago, so Mickey certainly won't let this go.
[Australia: These chicken-like creatures are surprisingly strong.]
[Australia: I thought the anaconda could swallow these creatures whole.]
......
Seeing that his anaconda attack had failed, Mickey found it hard to accept.
Mickey originally thought that with the anaconda's renewed strength, he could cause some casualties to the Deinonychus clan, but he never expected that in five million years, these chickens would have evolved to this extent.
In an instant, Mickey regretted not having acted sooner.
If I had been more ruthless five million years ago, I might have been able to drive out these incongruous chickens at a much lower cost.
But even if they can be driven out now, their own people will have to pay a heavy price.
Even if there's a price to pay, Mickey has to do it. If he doesn't, his own anaconda clan will be driven out.
Li Zhengtai shares the same idea as Mickey.
In just five million years, Deinonychus has already reached this level; if another five million, or even ten million years...
Li Zhengtai dared not think any further. He felt that his cheetah pack was becoming increasingly confined between these two monster packs.
"We can't let them continue down this ancient path." Mickey suddenly looked up, turned to Li Zhengtai, and said firmly:
"Have your cheetahs coordinate their actions. Although the Deinonychus is strong, there are only about four hundred of them, and they need to hunt zebras and buffalo frequently to maintain the population."
"We can start with their prey, scattering the zebra and buffalo herds and cutting off their food source!"
Li Zhengtai frowned: "The zebra herd is quite large, and it's an observation group from the Pharaoh's Kingdom. Taking rash action could trigger a three-way conflict."
"So what? It's just a herd of zebras. Even if a conflict breaks out, they can't kill an anaconda or a cheetah, can they?"
Mickey's decision was quickly put into action.
Instead of directly attacking Deinonychus, the anaconda swarms began systematically harassing zebra and buffalo herds.
At the same time, Li Zhengtai's cheetah pack also launched an attack from the edge of the jungle, using their enhanced size and tree-climbing ability to drive away herbivores from the flanks.
At dawn the next day, the seven anacondas quietly slipped out of the forest and split into two groups: one group darted downstream into the river, while the other group used the morning mist to approach the riverbank where the zebras often drank.
Almost simultaneously, more than twenty cheetahs leaped out from the sparse bushes on the east side, growling and poised to pounce, startling the zebras that were grazing.
The zebra herd was thrown into chaos.
An adult zebra was trying to move closer to the center of the herd when it was caught by a anaconda that suddenly emerged from the mud and wrapped around its hind legs.
The zebra neighed and struggled, but the anaconda tightened its grip.
The zebra's painful neighing startled nearby zebras, causing them to scatter and flee.
Just when the zebra thought it was safe, more than a dozen cheetahs suddenly appeared from the side and continued to chase it.
Instead of rushing up and pouncing on the zebra, the cheetahs formed a circle with an opening.
The frightened zebra could only flee southwest, following the escape route left by the cheetah.
The neighing of the zebra herd startled the dinosaur herd.
The Deinonychus leader let out a rapid roar and led his tribe to stand at a distance.
The buffalo herds were also affected, and the buffalo leader led the herd northward.
Looking at the dust-filled grassland and the tribes fleeing in two directions, Bai Zhou roughly understood Mickey's thoughts.
Bai Zhou immediately ordered the Deinonychus clan to focus on protecting one of the "food" clans.
Upon hearing Bai Zhou's command, the Deinonychus looked around and ultimately decided to protect the buffalo herd.
Because the Deinonychus thought beef tasted good.
"roar!!"
As the leader of the Deinonychus roared, all the Deinonychus rushed northwards.
On the northern grasslands, water buffalo run in the lead, followed closely by cheetahs, and then dromaeosaurids.
The participants from Annam who witnessed this scene turned somewhat grim.
He couldn't understand what was going on.
Why do cheetahs and dromaeosaurids keep chasing their own herds of buffalo?
Didn't cheetahs and deinonychus have a feud? When did they start hunting together?
After undergoing the Ancient Transformation, the cheetah's explosive power is greatly enhanced, but its speed and durability are somewhat reduced.
The distance between the cheetah pack and the buffalo pack gradually increased, but the distance between the dromaeosaurid pack and the cheetah pack gradually decreased.
As the buffalo herd continued its hasty northward escape, disturbed by the cheetahs, a herd of Deinonychus swarmed in from behind like a whirlwind.
The Deinonychus leader let out a low growl, and more than eighty strong male Deinonychus suddenly accelerated, swooping forward from both sides and forcefully cutting off the cheetah's driving route.
The cheetahs at the front didn't have time to turn around and ended up fighting the Deinonychus head-on.
The cheetah, now larger, pounced on a Deinonychus in front of it, but before it could make a move, another Deinonychus jumped onto it from its side and back, slashing its side open with its sharp claws.
The cheetah howled and rolled to the ground.
Seeing the opportunity, the Deinonychus did not hesitate and used the sharp claws on its forelimbs and hindlimbs to disembowel the cheetah.
The other cheetahs, seeing this, got goosebumps and let out low growls, trying to scare away the Deinonychus.
The Deinonychus leader tossed its head, and the remaining Deinonychus swarmed forward.
Seeing that its numbers were outnumbered, the cheetah didn't linger and turned to run away.
The dromaeosaurids did not pursue them further; their objective was not to hunt cheetahs, but to keep the buffalo herd at bay.
Under the leader's command, they ran north again, advancing slowly in a loose arc, gradually calming the frightened buffalo herd and guiding them back to the relatively safe meadow area downstream.
Although the buffalo herd was still pacing the ground and snorting restlessly, they gradually regained order under the "gentle" embrace of the Deinonychus.
However, the anaconda harassment continued. Under the cover of the river's vegetation, three anacondas suddenly sprang from the shallows and entangled the hind legs of two lone water buffalo.