All Heavens: Starting with the Predator, I'm No Longer Human

After leaving the floating mountains, a towering mountain peak appeared before Chu Cige, and the aircraft passed through the clouds to reach the summit.

The surrounding scenery became breathtaking. The special magnetic field disturbance caused the clouds to move faster. Looking down from the mountaintop, the thick sea of ​​clouds around us kept churning, like waves crashing on the beach, one wave after another.

The sunlight on the mountaintop cast a golden glow upon it, making it appear exceptionally sacred and inviolable.

On the side of the mountaintop lies a hidden cave, concealed by a massive waterfall, vines, and glowing vegetation. Its entrance is concealed, overlooking a bottomless abyss and a churning sea of ​​clouds.

After parking the spaceship on the platform in front of the Leon-Style Cave, Chu Cige got off and had "Alice" control the spaceship to leave the platform.

After all, this platform is only fifty or sixty meters wide, while Leon-Style's wingspan is thirty meters. If he parks his spaceship on the platform and waits for it to return, it will crash into him.

Equipped with gear and activating armored stealth, they headed into the cave.

Avoiding the vegetation at the cave entrance, a huge, rough cave, naturally formed by the combined effects of a strong magnetic field and erosion, appeared before him. The interior space was extremely vast, enough for a behemoth with a wingspan of nearly thirty meters to perch and turn around.

The cave walls are covered with sharp rock ridges and crystal clusters (rich in superconducting minerals), which emit a faint blue-green fluorescence in the dim light.

The air is filled with ozone (generated by strong electromagnetic fields), rock dust, and the distinctive stench of apex predators.

The light source mainly comes from the bioluminescent moss on the cave walls, the glow of the minerals, and the ever-changing skylight filtering through the clouds from the entrance cracks, as well as the huge halo emitted by its mother planet Polyphemus.

The light was dim, and shadows were looming.

The ground and rock walls are littered with huge claw marks, detached sharp scales, and the skeletal remains of large prey, silently testifying to the power and diet of their master.

The cave echoed with the howling of the wind and the roar of the waterfall, like the breathing of a sleeping monster.

Just as Chu Cige was wandering around the cave, Alice's cool voice rang in his ears: "Master, the prey has returned to its nest. Please prepare."

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"Roar—!"

With a tremendous roar and the sound of wind, a colossal beast, blood-red with black stripes, slowly descended onto the platform.

It stands nearly eight meters tall, and its body length plus tail is about twenty meters. The most striking feature of its head is its enormous double-crowned structure.

These are not soft feathers, but hard, brightly colored horny crown plates with brilliant red, yellow and black stripes, like burning flames.

The crown can open and close according to emotions, and can be fully erected to form an intimidating fan-shaped head shield when intimidating or attacking.

The skull is angular like armor, and the skin is covered with tough, scaly leather.

His eyes were a fiery amber gold, with vertical pupils like a reptile, and his gaze was filled with ancient wisdom and pure wildness.

The beak is not a bird's horny beak, but rather a fusion of pterosaur and deep-sea fish: extremely hard, with serrated edges, and when opened, it reveals several rows of dagger-like teeth, enough to easily bite through the shell of a heavy mech.

Its body is streamlined and muscular, with a broad chest to accommodate a powerful heart and flight muscles. The spine is prominent on its back and covered with armor-like back plates.

Its first pair of wings evolved from its forelimbs, with wing membranes as tough as tanned leather and supported by slender and strong finger bones.

The wing membrane is covered with a complex network of blood vessels, which emit a fiery red glow when angry or excited, like veins of lava.

There is a pair of smaller wings above the hind limbs.

This unique four-wing structure gives it devilish maneuverability in the air, enabling it to perform highly difficult maneuvers such as rapid turns, hovering, and even inverted flight.

Its claws at the ends of its limbs are deadly weapons. Each claw has four toes and is equipped with scythe-like black curved claws, enough to tear an Ikalan apart from the air or grab prey weighing several tons.

Its tail is extremely long, almost as long as its body, and ends in a sharp spear or blade shape.

It serves as a crucial rudder and stabilizer during flight; when attacking, it is a devastating weapon capable of shattering rocks and sweeping away armies.

Its entire body is a deep blood red base color, symbolizing its status as a top predator.

Covered in gorgeous stripes and spots of bright yellow, orange and black, the pattern resembles burning flames or boiling lava, shimmering with an oil-paint-like luster in the sunlight.

These colors are crucial in competition and courtship displays.

As it enters the cave, in the dim light, the stripes on its skin (especially the veins on its wing membranes) emit a dark red bioluminescence, like burning embers gliding across the night sky—a warning signal from the mythical age.

When it breathes, the two huge pores on its chest sound like thunder throughout the cave.

"So beautiful..."

"If only we could make it into a specimen."

Chu Cige, hiding in the shadows, exclaimed softly.

Leon the Stingray is like a masterpiece of the Creator; it is a flowing volcano in the sky, a personified storm.

When it spreads its wings and soars over the floating mountains, it casts not a shadow, but a "final shadow" as if the end of the world has arrived—which is the meaning of its Na'vi name "Toruk".

Just then, the giant beast seemed to have discovered something. It looked towards where Chu Cige was hiding, raised its head, and roared forward.

"Roar...!"

The voice was full of warning and confusion.

It seemed as if it had never smelled or felt the presence of this creature before, and for a moment it did not launch an attack, but instead let out a series of warning roars.

"They could even detect that... No wonder they're top predators; their sense of unfamiliar presence and danger is terrifyingly strong..."

Upon seeing this, Chu Cige slowly emerged from his concealment. He had intended to launch a sneak attack, but he had been discovered. Since that was the case, he would confront him head-on.

Leon-Styrax's pupils constricted sharply, and it assumed an attack stance. It never expected that a creature could sneak into its lair.

If it weren't for its innate sense of danger, it wouldn't have been able to detect the intruder.

But what followed was an unnamed fire, which was none other than the King of the Sky and Lord of the Storms of Pandora, the top predator.

But now, a tiny ant has overestimated itself and ventured into its nest, attempting to hunt it down. This is an insult to it.

"Roar—!"

Leon-Styx let out a roar, its wings flapping violently, creating a huge gust of wind in the cave, which swept up the bones and dust on the ground and made them fly wildly in the air.

Its power and might are astonishing...

"That's a really loud voice..."

Chu Cige did not rush forward. It was no exaggeration to say that Leon-Striker was the strongest creature he had ever dealt with, and its enormous size alone was awe-inspiring.

In addition to its flight capabilities, it is exceptionally troublesome.

Before relying on the shoulder cannon for a direct kill, Chu Cige couldn't be sure which was stronger, the Alien Queen or the other.

The elder's spear was already firmly in his hand, his muscles tense, and he was intently watching its movements. The terrain here was advantageous to Chu Cige, as it sealed off Leon-Style's most powerful flying ability.

As long as it remains in the cave, dealing with it will be at least half as troublesome. If it escapes, he will have no choice but to use technology to kill it.

After all, his armor can't fly, so it's useless against these airborne creatures. If that happens, he'll lose at least 30% of his fun...

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