"Be careful!" Zi Yang shouted and threw Su Rui down.
Almost at the same time, a huge black figure suddenly appeared in the darkness, flying towards where they stood just now. Everyone only felt a gust of wind blowing by their side, and instantly smelled a strange smell in their noses.
The huge monster rushed into the air and slammed directly into the wooden door. With a loud noise, the heavy wooden door of the palace was knocked open by a big hole. Under the huge impact of the monster, the entire palace seemed to be trembling.
Lao Wang fell to the ground sideways and dared to turn his head after crawling and running for a few meters. The whole head of the monster that attacked them got into the broken wooden door. There were four bodies exposed outside. It is five meters long, with a huge tail, sturdy limbs, and a thick layer of mucus on its gray-white body. The rancid smell is emitted from its body.
The giant beast that rushed back took a few steps, pulled its head out of the wooden door, shook its thick neck, and slowly turned to face the crowd.
Under the light of the diving lamp, everyone finally saw the true face of the monster that attacked them. I saw this guy's ugly big head was flat, and a mouth alone occupies half of the head. Two small round eyes are on the sides of the head. Compared with the huge body, these two bean-like eyes are very uncoordinated.
The giant beast shook his head and shook the sawdust on his head. It opened its mouth like a demonstration, and saw that its mouth was covered with tiny teeth. It was absolutely no problem that such a huge mouth swallowed a person alive.
"Don't move! This guy is blind, he can't see where we are!" Old Wang shouted to remind Su Rui and Zi Yang.
The monster's eyeballs had turned grayish white, motionless, looking forward blankly.
Su Rui and Zi Yang were separated by the monster on the other side. While pulling Zi Yang back slowly, Su Rui said softly: "This is the Overlord Salamander. It uses thermal imaging to catch its prey."
Before Su Rui's words, the king salamander swung his limbs and rushed towards the old king. The old king was horrified, raised his pistol and pulled the trigger. The guns banged twice, and the bullets hit the salamander's head accurately with two puffs. Get into its body.
The Beretta M92 pistol in Pharaoh's hand uses a 9mm bullet. This type of bullet can penetrate the human body if it is shot at close range, but it hits the Overlord Salamander as if it was nothing. The overlord salamander's thick skin absorbs most of the kinetic energy of the bullet, and the damage caused by the 9mm bullet to this huge monster is too limited.
However, these two shots succeeded in angering it, and the Overlord Newt opened its mouth and rushed to the old king fiercely.
"Wow!" Lao Wang shouted, turned his head and ran away. The king's salamander swung its limbs and chased after it, and its movements were very agile.
Lao Wang listened to the heavy footsteps behind him getting closer and closer, and when he looked back, he found that its straight line speed was much faster than his own, and he could bite his head in two seconds. In desperation, Lao Wang saw a huge boulder protruding from the ground. He suddenly stopped and rushed towards the huge boulder.
The Overlord Salamander followed closely behind the old king, its huge body turned very inconvenient, and it couldn't catch up with the old king for a while.
"Lao Li! Think of a way!" Lao Wang wailed as he spread his legs and ran wildly. It seemed that Lao Wang's physical strength was definitely not better than that of the Overlord Salamander. If this situation continues, it will be sooner or later that it will catch up. As long as Pharaoh's footsteps are a little slower, or if he leaves the range of the boulder, the Overlord Salamander can easily swallow him in one bite.
Zi Yang could only be anxious watching it from the side. The pistol bullets didn't work for it. Seeing its huge body, even if the scimitar was extremely sharp, it was estimated that it would not be able to cut through its rough and thick old skin for a while. What's more, this monster wouldn't stand there honestly and chop him, he could swallow him with a knife with a shake of his head.
"The key to this guy should be under his belly." Su Rui observed for a while and reminded Zi Yang.
"My eldest lady, even if I know its weakness, I can't do it-Pharaoh, can you make it turn upside down?" Zi Yang stretched his neck and shouted with the running Pharaoh.
"I, I'm going, I'm going to your mother!" Old Wang answered him.
"Overlord salamanders use thermal induction to track their prey. Our nano-clothes are insulated and can cut off the heat from the body!" Su Rui said while looking at Zi Yang.
To Overlord Salamanders, wearing nano-clothes is just like wearing invisibility cloaks.
"I understand, no wonder this monster has been chasing Lao Wang!" Zi Yang suddenly realized.
He and Su Rui's nano-clothes are covered all over, only their faces are exposed. But Lao Wang wore an ordinary diving suit with exposed hands, feet, and neck, and the heat dissipation area was much larger than them.
"I have a way!" Zi Yang took a deep breath, put on the mask of Nanyi clothing, and ran towards the boulder with dogleg scimitars in both hands. When the old king was taking the Overlord Salamander around in a circle, Zi Yang fell down. The ground rolled, and he lay on his back on the edge of the boulder.
Lao Wang leaped over him in strides, looked down at Zi Yang, and did not forget to curse: "What are you doing!?"
As soon as Old Wang ran over, the Overlord Salamander rushed over. Zi Yang flipped his wrists and held the scimitar with both hands tightly on his chest, with the blade facing upwards.
Overlord's newt was very fast. It crawled over Zi Yang with a "huh", and after dashing for more than ten meters, it stopped on the sand on the shore, crawling there motionless, and slowly moved from under it. Slowly ooze a pool of dark green mucus.
The sharp dogleg scimitar made a deep cut from under the king's salamander's neck, until it reached its tail, and directly slit its soft abdomen. The dark-brown internal organs were scattered all over it. On the road more than ten meters behind.
The terrified old Wang ran for another circle before stopping, gasping and asking: "Did it, kill it?"
Zi Yang lay on the ground, his body covered with the mucus and dark green body fluid of the Overlord Salamander. Although he could still smell the strong sour smell through the mask, Zi Yang felt a twitch in his stomach and almost vomited.
Lao Wang and Su Rui slowly approached the Overlord Salamander, only to see its huge, hill-like body lying motionless on the ground, dark green body fluids constantly seeping out from under it, flowing into the pool in front of it.
"Fuck, where did such a big guy come out?" Old Wang poked the Overlord Salamander's body with a scimitar. After making sure that it was dead, he squatted down and watched carefully.
"Su Rui, do you think we will ship this thing out to make a specimen, will it be very valuable?"
This fellow Lao Wang really didn't repent. He was almost swallowed by this monster just now, and now he even thought of his corpse.
Su Rui carefully observed the monster's corpse and muttered: "The Overlord Salamander is an ancient species that lived 200 million years ago. It has long been extinct. How can it appear in such a place?"
Su Rui took a close look at the eyes of the Overlord Salamander, probably because of the long-term survival in the dark environment. The two small eyeballs of the Overlord Salamander were grayish white. It seems that the visual system has completely degraded and replaced it with a more sensitive and advanced one. Thermal induction system.
Zi Yang got up from the ground and walked into the water to cleanse the filth on his body silently. Only then did Lao Wang remember the hero who had rescued himself, and walked to Zi Yang's side and patted him on the shoulder: "I said Lao Li, I have to prepare later. A more powerful weapon, you made this pistol useless for us, hitting it is like tickling it."
Zi Yang buried his head in the water and washed the dark green mucus on the mask, then raised his head, took off the mask, and squeezed a word between his teeth: "Go!"
"Su Rui, is it normal for this thing to grow so big?" Zi Yang looked back at the Overlord Salamander lying on the shore, with an unbelievable expression on his face. Was this thing really killed by himself
Su Rui shook his head: "It is absolutely abnormal. The existing salamander species have not grown so large. It is possible that the independent ecosystem that has been closed for thousands of years has caused the species inside to mutate."
"This thing has grown so big in it? There are not enough fish and shrimp in a pond with this tonnage?" Pharaoh touched his head. Just now, it almost became a king's salamander's plate. For Chinese food, my body is already heavyweight, and it seems that I can only stuff it between my teeth.
Su Rui gently touched the skin of Overlord Salamander with his hand and said: “A closed environment will slow down their metabolism. Even if they don’t eat for a long time, they won’t starve to death. The longest record of no food for salamanders is now 14 years-even in this case, their lifespan will be very long, and it’s okay to live for hundreds of years."
Lao Wang stunned: "Damn, I can grow this big without eating for so many years? It's unreasonable! I can lose a few catties without eating in a day."
"Do you know the limit of Hayflick?" Su Rui asked the old king.
Lao Wang blinked and looked at her with an innocent look on his face. It was obvious that he didn't even know how to spell this word.
Su Rui continued: "The Hayflick limit is a theory put forward by Leonardo of American Microbiology. He found in experiments that human cells will be completely necrotic after 56 divisions. He believes that '56' is human cell division. , Maintain the limit of the body's metabolism. Clinical medicine believes that this is the cause of the aging and death of the human body.
Obviously, the number of cell divisions in some organisms in nature exceeds 56 times. There is even a theory that the cells of certain organisms will never die... This means that they can grow indefinitely. "
Su Rui looked at the huge corpse of the Overlord Salamander in front of him with a solemn expression.
Obviously, this monster may have lived for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Zi Yang struck a spirit: "So what we killed was a living fossil? Fortunately, the country did not list this thing as a protected animal, otherwise I would be very guilty."
Lao Wang nodded and said, "Well, it's enough for you to eat more than ten years of prison food."
Zi Yang glanced at Lao Wang: "I wouldn't kill him if I knew it, it's better to let him eat you."
"You, you, you! Lao Tzu's life is not as valuable as this monster?" Lao Wang squatted on the bank, flushed anxiously.
Zi Yang finally cleaned the dirt left by the Overlord Salamander and walked ashore from the water. Standing in front of the Overlord Salamander's corpse, the three of them stared at its huge body together, silent for a while.
At this time, no one noticed that in the deep water behind them, a faintly tens of meters long shadow was swimming quickly.