Chapter 709 - How Did The Dinosaurs Disappear? (1/2)

Chapter 709

How Did The Dinosaurs Disappear?

This pterosaur was cautious and studied its surroundings with watchful eyes. Even though it had developed a closer connection with Shao Xuan during the past few days he fed it, it was still very afraid of Shao Xuan.

The pterosaur was already fully recovered and it was pretty much no different from the state it was in before it was frozen. It had a much faster reaction speed now and much sharper senses too. When the door of the secret room opened, it could sense the other strangers who had come with Shao Xuan. That was why it hid away so fast.

It didn’t learn this hiding method from bats though. Back then when it lived in the forest, whenever it sensed danger, it would hide behind thick bushes or giant leaves. Since it was so small, it couldn’t fly fearlessly in the sky like the other giant pterosaurs.

During this time, Shao Xuan noticed that this pterosaur belonged to a smaller species of the pterosaur family. He probably wouldn’t get to see any pterosaurs that he imagined in his mind, the ones as large as Chacha.

The others surrounded the table and waited as Shao Xuan carried the pterosaur out from underneath the table. All of them watched the ancient creature with eager eyes.

“This is the …pterosaur you told us about?” Zheng Luo examined the pterosaur that was hanging from the table. “It looks weird indeed. It’s neither a bird nor a bat.”

“Did it really come from that long ago?” Ao wanted to touch its wings, but the creature shrank away.

It could sense the fire seed’s energy within these strangers’ bodies. Even though they looked different, their energies were similar.

Friends?

This was the creature’s first thought.

Even though the pterosaur couldn’t understand why these people looked so different from itself, it still knew what it should be doing. Shao Xuan had trained it not to attack anyone with similar energies. He punished it whenever it attacked people with the fire seed’s energy, so it no longer dared to attack. The creature only watched them cautiously and dodged whenever they tried to touch it.

“It’s unbelievable! It survived for so long inside the ice? It’s such a small creature,” Duo Kang held his hand up to measure its size. It was even smaller than the two gomphos he gave Shao Xuan, but it had a surprisingly strong life force.

“Shao Xuan, since you found one, what do you think happened to the other beasts of that time?” the retired shaman stroked his beard thoughtfully. “Judging by the looks of the dead insects and beasts and this pterosaur now, it seems like the beasts from that time were very different from the beasts now.”

“Yes, the beasts at that time were indeed different from the beasts now, but I don’t know what made them disappear. I was thinking about this too, and I came up with a few theories these few days,” Shao Xuan said.

The other Flaming Horns didn’t ask Shao Xuan how he knew all of these.

They didn’t think it was important. Even if they asked and Shao Xuan told them that the ancestors told him about these, they would’ve believed him. What mattered most to them was what Shao Xuan said, not where he got all this information from.

The two retired shamans’ eyes suddenly lit up with interest when they heard Shao Xuan’s words. The others also looked at Shao Xuan and waited for him to continue. When they heard Shao Xuan say that these creatures existed even before their ancestors, they were all shocked. They couldn’t imagine what that era was like. What was the status of humans back in those days?

“Why do you think they disappeared?”

“It might’ve been the fire seed,” Shao Xuan said.

“The fire seed?” The others were all doubtful. What did the fire seed have to do with this?

“I noticed that this pterosaur is afraid of the fire seed’s flames. While it’s also wary of regular fire, it had a much stronger reaction towards the flames of the fire seed.” Shao Xuan noticed this phenomenon when he was trying out the special enslavement method, so he tested it again the next few days. The creature reacted the same every time.

“It’s scared of the fire seed’s energy? It wouldn’t matter if this happened to any other beasts, but didn’t you say that it relied on the power of the fire seed’s energy to recover? How can it be scared of the fire seed?” Everyone was confused about this. Other tribes would feel repulsive energy from their fire seed but creatures that had energy from the same fire seed shouldn’t react like this. The other beasts that had been marked by the tribe’s fire seed also weren’t repulsed by their fire seed.

“I think it does know that the flames I make can’t harm it. It looks more like it was acting out of a natural instinct to hide from fire seed flames. Could it be that it saw something similar to the fire seed before it was frozen?” It probably developed an innate fear of anything similar to a fire seed. That’s why it was so avoidant.

“Wait! Wait!” Both shamans took out their pens and beast hide scrolls and started writing it down. After they scribbled, they looked up at Shao Xuan, “You were saying?”

It was their duty after all. Even though both of them had retired, these elders were still highly interested in anything related to history. Even if what Shao Xuan said was just a guess, they would write it down. So what if they couldn’t prove it? Their descendants might be able to find an answer.