Chapter 13: Away game, mantis claw!

It's another day of continuous spring rain.

Raindrops fell from the gray sky, and the lingering mist enveloped the entire larch forest in a hazy ambiguity, making the scene look like a mirage.

Not only was the weather bad these days, but Dragon Mother's luck was also bad. She failed to successfully capture prey, and the three little Tyrannosaurus Rex also went hungry.

Hunting failure is actually a very normal thing. Even for top predators like adult Tyrannosaurus Rex, hunting failures are more common than successes, with a success rate of probably less than 30%.

Chu Xu would naturally not sit idly by and wait for death. Now that he has learned a lot of hunting skills from the Dragon Mother, it is time to put them into practice and share the hunting pressure with the Dragon Mother.

In order to save energy for the next hunt, the Dragon Mother fell into a deep sleep. Longyue and Liuxing were no exception. They were too hungry to make a fuss.

Chu Xu braved the rain alone and went to the river bank not far from his home.

Chu Xu was well aware of the extremely dangerous environment of the Hell Creek Group, so the hunting area he chose was not too far from home. He also used telepathy to stay alert to any movement within a hundred meters around him at all times, so that he could prepare countermeasures in advance if he encountered danger.

Telepathic perception spread out, and countless signals were captured by Chu Xu's sensory organs like young swallows returning to their nests, eventually forming a three-dimensional topographic map in front of his eyes that only he could see.

All the hidden creatures are counted without exception, with clear levels and no details left out.

Due to several consecutive days of rain, the river water level has risen significantly and the temperature has dropped. The fish living in the river have also come to the shallow waters near the shore to find food.

Chu Xu’s purpose is to catch fish!
“There are so many fish.”

Through telepathic perception, Chu Xu could clearly capture one strange-shaped ancient fish after another swimming in the river.

There are small and exquisite round-tailed fish less than 5cm in length, ancient white sturgeon with sword-like snouts, flat freshwater shovelhead rays, and Chu Xu even found a small shark less than half a meter long, called the bee-toothed shark, whose name is related to a game called "Little Bee".

Chu Xu cautiously came to the river bank, crouched down, and kept a sharp eye on the activities of the fish in the river. At the same time, he stretched out one of his front paws and gently skimmed the water surface to create tiny waves, imitating the sound of insects falling into the water.

This method of luring fish was what Chu Xu learned from a creature called a fishing cat in his previous life. It can make fish mistakenly think that there is food, so they come to investigate, but end up falling into the trap of the fishing cat.

After waiting quietly for a while, Chu Xu soon discovered a plowshare ray more than half a meter long approaching the river bank.

As Chu Xu's mind moved, the invisible deterrent force formed by the domineering talent burst out, causing the plowshare ray to fall into a brief dizziness.

"Shh!"

The next second, Chu Xu made a lightning-fast move, and his strong front claws stabbed towards the location of the plowshare ray with lightning speed, at a speed of milliseconds.

There was a pop.

As a splash of water exploded on the surface of the river, the entire plowshare was directly pierced by Chu Xu's sharp claws and thrown onto the river bank.

Not bad!

First try at fishing, and it was a success!

Chu Xu was overjoyed as he watched the plowshare ray struggling desperately after being pulled ashore.
With the help of the sharp perception of telepathy and the powerful deterrent power of domineering talents, coupled with the claw swing speed that is as fast as milliseconds, fishing is a piece of cake for him.

"Clap clap clap!"

The shovel ray, which was briefly dizzy, finally woke up, but it was too late and could only struggle violently on the shore.

Chu Xu was already extremely hungry. He opened his mouth and bit the entire shovelhead ray from the tail. He bit it in half with his upper and lower jaws and swallowed it whole into his empty stomach.

[Ding! You hunted a shovel ray, evolution points +3. ]

[Ding! You have consumed the meat of the plowshare ray, evolution point +0.1.] The familiar taste of sashimi, fresh and refreshing.

Not feeling full after eating one ploughman, Chu Xu changed his waiting position and continued fishing in the same way.

"Puff! Puff!"

Continuous explosions sounded from the river surface. Chu Xu used telepathy to detect and lock onto the target, then used his dominance to stun and stun the target for a short time. Finally, he made a swift move, using his front paws as harpoons to kill the enemy with one strike.
The entire fishing process is as smooth as flowing water, done in one go, with a very high success rate.

In a short period of time, Chu Xu caught seven or eight big fish. After filling his stomach, he kept the rest and prepared to take them back to Long Ma and Longyue Liuxing.

"This is not only a good place to hunt, but also a treasure land for earning evolution points."

Chu Xu sighed. By catching so many big fish, he also earned more than twenty evolution points.

Delicious.

However, it is also a problem how to transport so many fish back at once.

This did not pose a problem for Chu Xu. There were water lilies growing on the river not far away, and their broad lotus leaves were perfect for packaging.

Soon, Chu Xu jumped into the river. The special hollow bone structure in his body allowed him to float easily on the water. With his powerful hind limbs and tail serving as oars, he swam effortlessly.

"That is……"

When Chu Xu swam to the river where water lilies grew and was about to pick lotus leaves, he suddenly sensed something strange and turned his head to lock onto a direction.

He saw the water not far away surging violently, and two black shadows rushed towards him as fast as arrows.

Those were two eels with a body length of more than 1 meter!
The gar is generally long and cylindrical in shape, with a protruding mouth that resembles a crocodile's mouth, revealing two rows of sharp teeth. Its body is covered with hard diamond-shaped bony scales. It is very ferocious and will attack all fish it encounters. It is a giant freshwater carnivorous fish unique to North America. Like crocodiles, it can be called a living fossil and still exists today.

The two eels obviously regarded Chu Xu as prey and opened their mouths to bite him.

Even in the water, Chu Xu did not panic, but quickly faced the enemy head-on, with a pair of sharp front claws ready to strike.

"Shh!"

As soon as an eel approached Chu Xu, Chu Xu's front paws moved fiercely. Even though there was a lot of resistance from the river water, the attack speed was still so fast that it could not be seen by the naked eye. The high temperature generated by the friction instantly caused electric sparks to appear in the surrounding river water.

This move is called the Mantis Claw!

Under Chu Xu's sharp and swift dragon claws, the hard bone scales on the surface of the eel's body were useless and were easily pierced and torn like paper. The whole body was almost torn in half alive.

Chu Xu casually shook off the eel that was already in great pain and locked onto the second attacking eel with his other front paw. He once again broke through the water flow at an astonishing speed and chopped off the eel's head!

"Chi!!"

Before the second eel could react, Chu Xu's claw had torn its entire head off roughly. The flowing blood dyed the surrounding river water red. It lost its strength and fell to the riverbed on the spot.

You little brat, you still want to fight with Lord Long?

Even when playing away from home, Chu Xu was not afraid at all and easily defeated these two overconfident gars.

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(End of this chapter)