Chapter 711 - Replenishing Birds (1/2)

After they found out how brutal and fierce this pterosaur was, everyone made sure to keep a close watch over this beast.

For the next few days, Shao Xuan would let it roam around freely in the area and hunt for food. The pterosaur ate all sorts of animals, including flying beetles, stone flying squirrels, and even bugs underground. Whenever it couldn’t finish its food, it would hide it. That explained why they found so many dead insects and small beasts within the ice. The pterosaur probably hid them all after it hunted them. Some accident probably happened back then and froze all of them up.

Of course, the pterosaur’s training process didn’t exactly go too smoothly. Sometimes the pterosaur would revert back to its wild nature, and it would be quite challenging to tame. It even tried to fly away when Shao Xuan wasn’t paying attention. This creature could only be tamed by punishment and not by reward. It wouldn’t remember if Shao Xuan treated it nicely, so every time it rebelled, Shao Xuan just forcefully suppressed its power.

After a few times, it behaved a lot better.

However, one of the reasons it didn’t dare fly around recklessly was because it knew that the world was different now. This was not the same world it used to live in, and it was very dangerous.

The pterosaurs no longer ruled the sky.

Compared to flying around alone and exploring a new environment, wasn’t it much better to stay with its own? At least whenever it encountered any dangers or birds that attacked it, it could fly back, and the Flaming Horns on patrol would protect it from them. The pterosaur wasn’t afraid of one or two birds, but if there was an entire flock, it had no choice but to depend on the Flaming Horns.

Shao Xuan was only curious why the pterosaur would fight Gui He’s snow falcon whenever they met. It couldn’t fly as fast as the falcon, but it snapped quickly, so it would bite the falcon whenever it caught up. The pterosaur even bit off some of the falcon’s feathers, but this wasn’t a one-sided match. The pterosaur also suffered some blows from the falcon, and since it didn’t have as many feathers like other birds, it was apparent whenever it got hurt, but it recovered very fast too.

After noticing how they frequently fought with each other, Gui He had to let the snow falcon live on the mountain in the residential area. As for this pterosaur, Shao Xuan didn’t bring it up to the residential area because it was still untamed. Who could be sure what would happen if it went up? What if it hurt some of the children in the tribe?

However, the pterosaur got along quite well with Cha Cha and never tried to provoke him. Shao Xuan wasn’t sure if it was because the pterosaur knew it was no match for Cha Cha, but it just never did anything to offend him. Often it would even fly over and land beside Cha Cha, especially when it encountered dangers, but every time, Cha Cha would kick the pterosaur to the side. If Shao Xuan had not warned Cha Cha not to attack it, he would have stepped on and killed the pterosaur. By this time, Cha Cha was already quite annoyed by the pterosaur.

Shao Xuan thought Cha Cha and the pterosaur wouldn’t get along well but they suddenly agreed to live together peacefully. Afterwards, Shao Xuan discovered the reason behind their truce. The pterosaur had been helping Cha Cha get rid of the parasites on his body.

Parasites didn’t just grow on furry beasts in the forest. It also grew on many birds, although most birds would solve this problem on their own. Some would use ants to clear off the parasites on their bodies.

Others would rub themselves against some anti-parasitic plants.

Sometimes Cha Cha would rub himself against trees or bushes, and Shao Xuan couldn’t help him with this problem. Shao Xuan didn’t know how to concoct anti-parasitic medicinals for Cha Cha. He couldn’t get rid of these parasites, and the feathers on Cha Cha’s body had already become infected. Shao Xuan knew that birds had their ways to deal with these matters, so he didn’t intervene.

But now, the pterosaur had helped Cha Cha solve this problem, and it seemed to be quite skilled at this.

Could it be that their species had been doing this since a long time ago?

Shao Xuan couldn’t figure out the answer to this question, but he was happy to see that the two creatures could now live in peace together.

Later, Cha Cha even shared the prey he hunted with the pterosaur. It was as if they established a brotherly connection. Both of them were willingly helping each other out.

Shao Xuan went to help out in the canal project whenever he had time. In their plan, this canal had to curve around all the places the King Stoneworm had passed, so it was quite a huge project.

Even though everyone was still paying attention to what was happening in the desert, they just couldn’t care too much about it at the moment. They figured the reason the people from Rock Hill City hadn’t come was probably that there was a restricted control radius in which they could control the monsters. The puppet-like monsters couldn’t leave the desert unless the people who controlled them left the desert.