After more than ten days of hard work, the yard has returned to the calm and peaceful appearance it had before the heat storm.
What made Li Xiao even more impressed was the tenacity of the plant life on Ark Island - after more than ten days of growth, the vegetation on Ark Island has completely returned to the lush appearance before the heat storm!
Li Xiao's travel plan was once again put on the agenda.
Last time, the exploration was abandoned due to the heat storm. We must make up for it this time.
Li Xiao has no hope of finding anyone else, and he has accepted the reality.
And this trip is entirely for the sake of exploration...
Driving the raft along the last route, Li Xiao set off early in the morning and arrived at the last stone forest in the afternoon.
Without stopping too much in the stone forest, he continued to move towards the west...
In the distance, as far as the eye can see, the figure of a peninsula is revealed.
Behind that peninsula is the red ark hanging high in the sky!
The raft rode the wind and waves towards the peninsula. When the raft arrived not far from the peninsula, Li Xiao looked to the right and saw a mountain peak sitting on the island.
Compared with the five major peaks in the north, this mountain peak is like a child and an adult. The difference in height and volume is more than a tiny bit.
It has a name that fits its appearance - Pingdingshan.
Even though this mountain is not high, it still has rare resources such as metals and crystals.
Although the reserves of rare resources here are pitifully small compared to the five peaks, they are enough to supply players with early consumption.
The raft turned and headed towards the mesa.
This time when exploring the southwest of Ark Island, Pingding Mountain is the first stop. The metal ore collected in the southern cave last time has been almost consumed, so we just need to go to Pingding Mountain to collect some more.
Although it is a mountain peak, to Li Xiao, who has climbed the steep cliffs of Yuanfeng Mountain, this flat-topped mountain is just like a large mound...
With a strong pace, he climbed to the top of the mountain without much effort.
Looking around, except for scattered ores and stones, the entire topography of the mountain top is just a huge flat platform.
It really deserves to be called Pingdingshan...
There are many creatures on the top of the mountain, but they are all common herbivorous creatures.
Under a stone, Li Xiao also saw a dinosaur nest. Looking towards the nest, he saw several bright dinosaur eggs placed inside.
Li Xiao's eyes suddenly lit up! He swallowed unconsciously, remembering the last time he tried to eat dodo eggs...
Judging from the size of the eggs in the nest, they should have been laid by a creature the size of Parasaurolophus or Triceratops.
Seeing that there were no creatures around the nest, Li Xiao decided to steal the eggs...
But stealing eggs is a dangerous job. You have to know that all dinosaurs will fight tooth and nail to protect their offspring——
Even creatures such as Parasaurolophus and Hydrosaurus, which are usually cowardly and just want to run away when encountering trouble, will be aggressive when it comes to protecting eggs, and they will risk their lives and attack relentlessly!
Li Xiao was a little worried that the owner of the eggs would come back at any time, but after taking a look at the large eggs, Li Xiao still obeyed the call of his appetite...
"It must not be a Triceratops egg!" Li Xiao cautiously touched the nest.
However, as soon as he took a few steps, he saw an uninvited guest emerging from the grass not far from him, and his target was also directed at the nest.
If you take a closer look at this uninvited guest, you will see that it is a dinosaur about the same size as Dilophosaurus.
The body is emaciated and he also walks on his hind legs...
Unlike Dilophosaurus, this creature has no fangs. It has a beak-like mouth, and its forelimbs are long and its two claws look very sensitive.
Li Xiao recognized this creature as an oviraptor that specialized in feeding on other dinosaur eggs.
It was so fast that it rushed to the nest in the blink of an eye!
With helpless eyes, Li Xiao watched it use its sharp beak to peck open the shell of an egg, then stick its head into the egg liquid, and devour it...
"Ouch?! This oviraptorosaurus actually got there first!"
Li Xiao showed no sign of weakness and ran towards the lair at the same fast pace.
However, as soon as they arrived at the entrance of the nest, an angry scream sounded from behind the nest!
Looking in the direction where the sound came from, it was a Parasaurolophus. Its eyes were full of burning flames at this moment, and it was staring at Li Xiao!
The oviraptor in the nest also heard the cry, and quickly picked up an intact Parasaurolophus egg with its forelimbs, and ran out like flying.
Its speed was so fast that it ran past Li Xiao in the blink of an eye and disappeared into the jungle...
Li Xiao watched the Oviraptor disappear, then turned to look at the Parasaurolophus rushing towards him, with a look of helplessness on his face.
"I'm taking the blame for it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Parasaurolophus' head hit Li Xiao's stomach, knocking his body and flying backwards...
Li Xiao's butt fell heavily to the ground, but before he could stand up, he saw Parasaurolophus rushing towards him again!
"Don't target me. Your balls were eaten by the one who ran away just now. I didn't do anything!"
Li Xiao shouted, hoping to make the Parasaurolophus give up its attack.
Unfortunately, this Parasaurolophus only believed that Li Xiao was the egg thief, so it stepped forward and pressed its head against Li Xiao's body!
It bit Li Xiao's clothes on his chest with its mouth, lifted him up, and then began to shake its head wildly, trying to hurt Li Xiao.
"Stop! Put me down! If you do this again, I will fight back!"
This herbivorous Parasaurolophus had pitifully low attack power, and even though it had exhausted all its strength, it wasn't just a painless attack for Li Xiao.
But the problem is that this ctenophorus seems to really want to fight to the death with Li Xiao. It throws Li Xiao to the ground and hits him with its head again!
"Oh, trouble!" Li Xiao took out the wooden stick and hit the parasaurolophus on the head...
Looking at the fallen figure of Parasaurolophus and seeing the few intact eggs left in the nest, Li Xiao sighed again.
"If you protect your child like this, how can I bear to eat your eggs again? That's it, that's it!"
As he said this, he looked at the metal mine on the side...
The sound of ding-ding-dong-dong was endless, and Li Xiao spent more than two hours filling his inventory with metal ores again.
During this period, Parasaurolophus woke up once, but was knocked unconscious again by Li Xiao.
The sky was getting dark, and Li Xiao's stomach kept growling. He sat down and lit a bonfire, preparing to spend the night on the top of the mountain.
Li Xiao took out some raw meat from the inventory and prepared to roast some meat to satisfy his hunger.
The aroma of barbecue filled the air, but Li Xiao had no appetite at all. He had long been tired of eating this barbecue.
Subconsciously, he looked towards the Parasaurolophus lair...
"There are still three intact eggs in the nest. I'll eat one, but that's not too much!" Li Xiao muttered, drooling all over the floor.
"I wonder what grilled dinosaur eggs taste like. Are they delicious?"
While he was talking, he had already involuntarily picked up a Parasaurolophus egg from the nest.
Baking eggs is a technical job, especially when you don’t have any tools!
But this didn't bother Li Xiao. He opened the upper part of Parasaurolophus' eggshell and used the lower part of the eggshell as a container.
Put the egg shells filled with egg liquid into the campfire, sprinkle with some salt, and then wait for the egg liquid in the egg shell to be cooked...
The bonfire was crackling constantly, and Li Xiao put out the open flame and used lower-temperature charcoal ash to bake the egg liquid.
Gradually, the scent of eggs spreads...
The Parasaurolophus egg was not small, but Li Xiao, who was very hungry, wiped it out in just a few mouthfuls.
Although there is only simple salt for seasoning, the eggs still have a unique flavor...
Putting the last bite of baked egg into his mouth, Li Xiao threw away the eggshell and smacked his mouth.
"I feel like I still have some unfinished ideas!" Li Xiao looked at the nest again, "Would you like to get another one?"
"No, no! There are only two eggs left in the nest." He immediately threw this thought out of his mind.
But when he was sitting there preparing to rest, the saliva from the corner of his mouth couldn't help but flow out.
"Bake another one?"
"No, no!"
…
Just when Li Xiao was hesitating, he heard movement from Parasaurolophus on the side!
Parasaurolophus is waking up!
Li Xiao, who had a guilty conscience, rushed to it and hit the Parasaurolophus head with another blow!
Parasaurolophus fainted again...
"That's me, I wouldn't have killed you earlier! You should really thank me for not killing me." Li Xiao put away the stick and continued, "Speaking of the kindness of not killing, you can't use an egg to express it.
Thank me?"
Such a legitimate reason for eating eggs urged Li Xiao, and Li Xiao quickly took out another egg from the nest.
With ease, he baked the eggs again...
"Oh my god, it smells so good!"
…
After the egg entered his stomach, Li Xiao still felt a little dissatisfied, and his evil eyes looked at the nest again——
"Anyway, there is only one egg left, and the probability of Parasaurolophus hatching a baby dragon is not high, so we might as well..."
He got up and ran towards the lair like a fly!
"Oh, Parasaurolophus, when you lay a nest of eggs, you must protect them well!" Li Xiao said earnestly to the unconscious Parasaurolophus not far away.
Then, his mouth was once again filled with delicious baked eggs.
"Oh, it smells so good!"
…
Early the next morning, Parasaurolophus woke up leisurely. It turned its eyes, but did not find the egg thief yesterday.
He staggered back to the lair.
A few seconds later, the furious roar of Parasaurolophus came from the lair!
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As for our protagonist Li Xiao, he has now arrived at the southwesternmost tip of Ark Island - the Southwest Peninsula.
On this southwestern peninsula, he discovered a dinosaur that was very similar to Triceratops - Pachyrhinosaurus.
This is a docile herbivorous dinosaur. Compared with Triceratops, it is smaller and does not have the long horns of Triceratops on the bony plates on its head.
In addition to Pachyrhinosaurus, Li Xiao also discovered that there were many monkey-like creatures living on this peninsula.
This kind of monkey is called a medium monkey. It is one of the few small animals on Ark Island. They are docile and extremely shy. As soon as Li Xiao approaches, these medium monkeys will run away.
This creature has no practical use in the Arkworld and can only be kept as a pet.
Li Xiao had no intention of taming one. After all, having an alarm clock at home was enough for him to take care of...
Without staying too long on the southwest peninsula, he went directly to the red obelisk.
The scene under the red obelisk is similar to the scene under the green obelisk, with huge stones neatly surrounding the interior.
But unlike the green obelisk on land, the platform under the red obelisk is on the sea.
You don't need to walk on any stone bridge to get inside, you just need to drive the raft to the metal platform in the center.
The appearance on the metal platform is almost identical to the green obelisk, except that the light beam projected by the sky obelisk turns red, and the entire sacrificial platform is also shrouded in the red light beam.
Having seen the green obelisk before, there was nothing interesting to see under the red obelisk. Li Xiao drove the raft out of Stonehenge and headed towards the next stop.
This red obelisk is already the westernmost point of Ark Island. If you continue to explore, you can only go north. If you go north, you will reach the jungle in the west of Ark Island.
Li Xiao left the raft on the shore and walked ashore...
The vegetation in this western jungle is similar to that in the eastern jungle, but there are many more creatures.
Walking through the jungle, Li Xiao saw many small flying creatures, Dimorphodon pterosaurs, in groups of twos and threes.
Although this creature is also called a pterosaur, it is much smaller than Pteranodon, and is about the same size as an ordinary eagle.
In appearance, this creature is covered with feathers, almost like a bird, but its head is like a dinosaur, and it also has a slender tail.
They fly extremely flexibly, and although they are carnivorous, they will not actively attack the player. Li Xiao just came closer, and these creatures flapped their wings and left.
As he continued to move forward in the jungle, a huge flying creature flew over Li Xiao's head!
The air flow stirred up by its wings blew the surrounding plants around.
Li Xiao looked up and saw the creature gradually disappearing into the distance...
Judging from its appearance, it is somewhat similar to Pteranodon, but the difference is that its body is much larger than Pteranodon, with its two wings extending almost seven or eight meters!
Its head is slender, and what's even more peculiar is that it also has wings-like fleshy fans standing on its head.
Judging from the appearance of this meat fan, it should be used to adjust the direction of its flight. Its function is similar to that of a ship's rudder.
"Ancient God Winged Dragon!" Li Xiao muttered its name.
This Ancient God Pterosaur is also an excellent mount. Although it does not fly as fast as Pteranodon, its load-bearing capacity is quite high, making it an excellent transportation functional dinosaur mount.
And it has another very special ability - it can climb on 90° cliffs or tree trunks!
It has four sharp long claws that can easily cling to stone walls and tree bark. Players only need to fasten their body tightly to the saddle on it, and they can ride it on the cliff like Spider-Man!
However, it is not easy to tame this kind of creature. They usually live alone and are rare in number. Li Xiao was lucky to see them today.
What's more, this creature is quite large and very strong. If the meteor rope is not tied firmly, it will easily break free.
But that's not the most difficult part. The most difficult thing is that if you want to tame this creature, ordinary raw meat is not enough. It only eats the most delicious parts of large and medium-sized animals, which is high-quality raw meat.
Of course, if Li Xiao could make feed that was more suitable for it, then it would be much easier to tame it.
However, Li Xiao does not have the conditions to make the feed yet, so he can only give up.
He could only postpone the intention of taming an ancient god pterosaur as a mount...
Continuing forward, the density of plants in front gradually became sparse, and gradually, Li Xiao walked out of the dense forest.
He arrived at the center of the west coast of Ark Island - the Western Corridor.
