Chapter 27: The peak of a short dragon’s life, the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event!
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Liu Xing was stunned by the sudden scene. Faced with the burning sensation of the flames, he was so frightened that he ran away in panic.

While running, Liu Xing suddenly bumped into something and stumbled to the ground.

When Liu Xing got up again, he found that the person he had just bumped into was his eldest brother!
Although his elder brother always bullies him, Liu Xing feels more secure with him around.

"Ouch~~"

Liu Xing hurriedly gestured to Chu Xu with his claws and teeth bared, trying to explain what a frightening scene he had just seen.

Chu Xu secretly found it funny. He guessed that Liu Xing would never have thought that the ball of fire that just fell from the sky was his masterpiece.

By the time Chu Xu and Liu Xing returned to the scene, the male hook-handed dragon had been burned to death. The horrific charred corpse fell to the ground, emitting wisps of white smoke.

Liu Xing didn't dare to get close to the charred corpse of the male hook-handed dragon, for fear that he would suffer the same fate as him, so he just carefully picked up the corpse of the female hook-handed dragon.

When he came to the body of the female hook-handed dragon, Liu Xing used his hands and feet to gesture to Chu Xu, telling him that this was the prey he had hunted alone.

"I know, I know. You are awesome. I give you a thumbs up."

Chu Xu raised one of his front paws and gave Liu Xing a thumbs up.

Although Liu Xing did not understand the meaning of this gesture, he could feel his elder brother's admiration for him, and he immediately raised his tail in pride.

Next, he would bring his spoils home to show Dragon Mother and Second Sister. They would surely be impressed by his strength.

Chu Xu extinguished the fire on the male hook-handed dragon, picked up his body and returned with Liu Xing.

On the other hand, the Dragon Queen realized belatedly that Liuxing was missing, so she had to give up hunting and took Longyue to look for this little son who was causing the Dragon Queen a lot of trouble.

Suddenly, the Mother of Dragons smelled blood, so she hurried over. Not long after, she saw her two sons walking towards her, each holding prey in their mouths.

The Mother of Dragons was not surprised at all that her eldest son was able to hunt prey.

But the Mother of Dragons was really surprised that her little son, whose fur had not even grown fully, could hunt prey.

Moreover, the Mother of Dragons also discovered that Liuxing was covered with wounds, and the blood that had flowed out had already dried up. One can imagine what kind of fierce battle he had experienced.

"Ouch~~"

However, Liu Xing didn't care about it at all. After seeing Long Ma, he immediately ran over quickly, showing off to Long Ma and Long Yue the corpse of the female hook-hand dragon he mentioned, and hinted wildly -

Look! This is the prey I caught!
The Dragon Mother gently extended her tongue and licked Liu Xing's wound;
Longyue, who had yet to capture any prey on her own, happily circled around Liuxing's spoils, drooling with greed.

"Roar!!"

Liu Xing once again looked up to the sky and let out a middle school-like roar that echoed through the forest for a long time. He felt that at this moment he had reached the peak of his short dragon life, even eclipsing his elder brother beside him!
……

"Boom--!!"

The sudden eruption of a deafening roar and the sudden sweep of a dazzling white light enveloped the entire world!
Chu Xu didn't have time to feel any pain, let alone react, before he was swallowed up by the white light, and the entire world he was in evaporated!

"I'm having this dream again!"

Before dawn, Chu Xu woke up from his sleep, his chest heaving violently, his heart beating rapidly, and he was still a little frightened!
I don’t know when it started, but Chu Xu would often dream about the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event when he slept at night!
Everything was like a movie playing out in front of his eyes. Although he was still conscious, he couldn't wake up. The first thing that caught Chu Xu's eyes was the endless space.

This is the solar system, the orbit between Mars and Jupiter.

The two asteroids met each other in a narrow path and collided violently, causing a shocking explosion.

After the big explosion, both asteroids were shattered into hundreds of huge asteroid fragments that continued to float in space.

For the vast solar system, this asteroid collision is just a small episode in the long history since its birth, and is completely insignificant.

But one hundred million years later, the butterfly effect caused by this event acted on the tiny earth and brought about a massive species extinction unprecedented in history!
After space, Chu Xu's perspective gradually shifted to the earth that he was all too familiar with.

One hundred million years have passed since the collision of the two asteroids. This is the Maastrichtian period of the Late Cretaceous period, and this is the Laramidia subcontinent of ancient North America.

Chu Xu could even see himself, as well as Long Ma, Long Yue and Liu Xing. At that time, he was already living independently, while Long Yue and Liu Xing were still living with Long Ma. They had all grown up.

All living things, including Chu Xu's family, are still living as usual.

Carnivorous animals lurk in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to hunt; herbivorous animals forage for food everywhere, alert to their enemies.

Pterosaurs and birds soared in the sky, while mosasaurs and fish swam in the seabed.

"Boom boom boom——!!"

But it all came to an abrupt end.

With a roar that resounded through the heavens and earth, the sky turned red like blood, the mountains and rivers lost their color, and the sun and moon lost their light.
A fragment of an asteroid about 10 kilometers in diameter fell from the sky, turned into a meteorite and rushed into the atmosphere at an alarming speed.

At the same time, almost all the animals raised their heads at the same time and watched the meteorite representing destruction falling, and finally landed on the southern coast of the Laramidiya subcontinent.

"Rumble!!"

Such a huge meteorite hit the surface of the earth, instantly releasing 4.2×10^23 joules of energy.

The explosion is equivalent to 100 trillion tons of TNT, which is comparable to the simultaneous explosion of 200 million Big Ivan hydrogen bombs.
Eventually, a meteorite crater with a diameter of 300 kilometers and a depth of 40 kilometers was left on the Yucatan Peninsula in later generations, which is the famous Chicxulub crater.

Near the meteorite impact point, countless creatures were wiped out in an instant, and the shock wave of the explosion radiated throughout North America.

The subsequent magnitude 12 earthquake, super tsunami, volcanic eruptions and severe storms further dragged a wider range of creatures into hell.

What followed was a true "nuclear winter", with large amounts of sulfide entering the atmosphere, blocking the sunlight, causing a sharp drop in temperature and the formation of acid rain, which lasted for decades.

The surviving plants were unable to photosynthesize and died out;

As a result, herbivorous animals that feed on plants starved to death, and carnivorous animals gradually died out.

Not only dinosaurs, but also pterosaurs, enantiornithines, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, ammonites and other species accounting for 70% of the total number of species in the Late Cretaceous became extinct and disappeared forever in the long river of history.

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(End of this chapter)