Monster Dismantling Company

The river pigs seem hungry. This doesn't seem like a good thing, especially when they're staring at the bridge with expectant and hungry eyes.

Li Lin could see that the finless porpoises under the bridge were starting to leap out of the water, literally eager to try.

"Feed them," Li Lin asked Chen Feiran beside him. "These river pigs, they won't eat people, will they?"

"That shouldn't be the case?" He also saw what the river pigs looked like. "While it's hard to say that river pigs are friends of humans, humans are definitely not on their menu."

"What do they usually eat?"

"Of course, they eat fish from the Yangtze River. However, some river hogs also venture into the branch channels to hunt... and..."

He suddenly remembered something: "I heard that in some places, river hogs prey on wild hog drakes."

Does the Yangtze finless porpoise eat crocodiles?

These river hogs are, in essence, just larger versions of the Yangtze finless porpoise. Just as wild boars afflicted by miasma haven't changed their diet, these miasma-afflicted Yangtze finless porpoises haven't either.

Logically speaking, crocodiles shouldn't be on their menu either.

However, it's not entirely impossible.

Cetaceans, especially killer whales, often have a fairly singular diet. This is because killer whales are very intelligent; they learn their diet from their elders and won't eat anything they haven't learned. Killer whales are also at a perfectly balanced stage of intelligence—so intelligent that they've become somewhat rigid, treating what they've learned as instinct.

Because if you're even slightly less intelligent, you won't remember what you learn so well. If you're even slightly smarter, you can summarize, update, and modify your knowledge.

So, is it possible that the river pig crossed this boundary?

In theory, it is entirely possible.

Whether it's mirage or miasma, they are essentially related to dragons. Dragons represent change.

The river hog, which underwent rapid evolution in the miasma, may have also changed its diet through evolution and started to hunt wild pig dragons.

Humans find piglets delicious, and so do river pigs. Their rich collagen content certainly aligns with their food preferences.

"Wait a minute," Chen Feiran finally spoke up, "I don't think they're likely to directly hunt the 'Pig Dragon'—it's huge! The Yangtze River Pig is much bigger. The Pig Dragon is at least a crocodile, with a big mouth and thick skin. The Yangtze River Pig, at best, is just a finless porpoise. Its mouth is for eating small fish and sucking squid, not for biting a crocodile. Unless, of course, they have some unavoidable need to eat it."

"for example?"

"Transformation into a dragon..." Chen Feiran lowered his voice, "There are so many people here, if I say something carelessly, it might disrupt the morale of the army, but I have indeed heard of this saying."

The monster is a dragon; many people have heard this claim, but the United Government has not yet acknowledged it.

However, dragons are creatures that only exist in legends. The standards for judging dragons are only those with two horns, one horn, or four legs.

The crocodile can indeed be considered a sub-dragon, as it resembles a dragon in many ways. Furthermore, many ancient descriptions of dragons are actually of crocodile origin. For example, in the story of Zhou Chu eliminating the three scourges, if he truly physically eliminated a "jiaolong" (a type of dragon), then that dragon could only have been a crocodile.

Compared to the pig-headed dragon, the river pig is much further removed from the dragon category.

"Is there a possibility..." Lin Zhiqing, who had been silent until now, guessed, "that these river pigs want to transform into real dragons by preying on the pig-dragons?"

"Wait a minute..." Li Lin asked, "How did the car on the bridge overturn earlier?"

Li Lin asked.

In his memory, this was a sudden incident. The malfunction occurred only the morning before yesterday, and the bridge was being cleared of the problem all day yesterday. It wasn't until early this morning that a passage was barely cleared on the bridge, allowing the trains that had been stuck in Runzhou all day to pass through.

As the long-blocked road gradually opened, the first vehicle to cross the bridge was fully loaded with hog lobster. This is a common practice in Runzhou, as frozen hog lobster cannot be stored for long periods, requiring a cold chain transportation process. Therefore, Runzhou authorities prioritized the frozen hog lobster for entry into the fast lane over other vehicles.

In other words, as long as the delivery channels are blocked, Runzhou will definitely change the departure order so that the train carrying the pig dragon departs first, thus locking in the location of the pig dragon.

"I don't know. But wait..." Chen Feiran asked in surprise, "So you all mean... these river pigs actually intercepted our shipping orders and started blocking these vehicles' transportation? Where did they get such intelligence?"

"If they can even develop recipes to eat crocodiles, it's not surprising they're a bit more intelligent. If they actually did that..."

Suddenly, the window got wet.

It looks like raindrops falling.

The falling rainwater formed a chain, accumulated on the window, and was then dispersed by the gradually increasing wind.

This is the normal situation at present.

After all, the Yangtze River is shrouded in miasma year-round. However, this miasma is harmless to humans because it only becomes harmful when it accumulates in one place without moving. The Yangtze River, being a flowing river, allows the miasma to constantly move, and the only harm it can cause is the dense fog that hangs over the river.

Once the train enters this fog, it's like a spacecraft re-entering the atmosphere and breaking through the blackout; any signals from the outside world will be blocked.

In such pitch-black conditions, even if a car accident occurs...

With a loud crash, Li Lin felt a sense of weightlessness. The train in front seemed to have collided, but the train behind didn't stop. The latter pushed against the train in front, causing the middle carriages to fly off the tracks, twist ninety degrees in the air, and tumble away. The huge train crashed through the bridge railing, and the entire carriage fell off the bridge.

In mid-air, Li Lin looked out the window. He saw a large pile of crates carrying draconis that had fallen into the Yangtze River, and a whirlpool in the middle of the river that seemed to be waiting for them.

Then, all that followed was darkness. He and the 927 passengers in the carriage plunged into a dark abyss in the middle of the Yangtze River—dimly, Li Lin could still see what appeared to be teeth along the edge of the abyss before the light disappeared. It seemed they had fallen into the gaping mouth of something.

With a dizzying spin, the people in the entire carriage were thoroughly mixed as they fell, as if they had been put into a blender.