Monster life starting from picking up materials

The sense of accomplishment from hunting the dragon-thief bird with the dragon thief is far less intense than the sense of accomplishment from saving the dragon egg from the black wolf bird.

Chapter 11 I'm Not a Human Anymore

There were no beautiful patterns on the dragon egg, but it attracted all of Ji Jie's attention.

He was admiring the dragon egg that had made him so embarrassed, and was also praising his own courage and bravery. He always believed that self-confidence was a very important thing.

The sun was beginning to set, and it was time for him to enjoy his work.

Ji Jie pushed the egg out of the narrow gap. The thief dragon's body could not do anything to the dragon egg that belonged to a large monster, so it had to transform into a scratching bird.

After transforming into a scratching bird, Ji Jie's first reaction was to raise his claws and probe the top of his head. Sure enough, the large ornamental feathers were burned to ashes. Then he twisted his long neck to observe the situation on his back. The wounds that were burned and melted had formed blisters and scabs of various sizes, which made the smooth skin of the scratching bird look hideous. He can still feel the burning pain to this day.

He turned his attention back to the dragon egg, picked it up and pecked it hard.

Fine cracks appeared on the eggshell. Ji Jie gently applied force along these cracks to prevent the egg from cracking and losing nutrients. Finally, he chiseled a small hole and inserted his beak into it. The barbs on his tongue rolled up the sticky egg liquid and sent it into his throat.

It was delicious, and when he thought that this was most likely the egg of a black wolf bird, he felt that the egg was even more delicious. After drinking up all the egg liquid, he broke the egg open and licked the inner wall, not leaving a single drop.

After doing all this, Ji Jie felt that his whole body relaxed. Today he hunted the cricket and escaped from the beak of the black wolf bird. Isn't this too exciting?

Could this be retribution for being a bird dragon? It's really unbearable to live like this every day.

The body of the scratching bird was shrinking, and it transformed into a limping thief dragon with half of its body burned. It squeezed into the narrow gap and closed its eyes.

Although it was very crowded, I felt safe and the wound was squeezed by the gap, so it didn't seem to hurt so much.

The pain nerves of the thief dragon are far less sensitive than those of humans, which allows Ji Jie to sink into his sleep and see what he wants to see when he opens his eyes.

The black wolf bird totem was indeed lit up, but only one third of it. One egg seemed not enough to light it up completely.

Ji Jie smacked his lips, was so tired that he gave up thinking and fell into a deeper sleep.

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After waking up, Ji Jie wanted to stretch but was blocked by the narrow gap. He had no choice but to roll out of the gap with his legs wide open. However, he had a lot of injuries on his body, and this roll made him wake up immediately with a start.

The temperature was still that of night. I looked up and could barely see through the layers of trees to determine whether it was still night.

Monsters' cerebral cortices were far less active than humans', allowing them to get a full night's sleep in just four or five hours. Ji Jie was quite satisfied with this, but at the same time, he was curious: given the level of brain development of monsters, could he truly maintain the complex thinking skills of a human? This was a question he had pondered while reading about exotic beasts.

However, since he was able to travel through time, it didn't matter what had preserved his intelligence, but what he could be sure of was that he could smoothly inherit the habits of monsters after transforming.

This should be a good thing, at least for now.

Ji Jie doesn't like to be in a daze, but he likes to take another nap. It is the best way to pass the time. He can recover to full condition and travel to a few hours later by closing his eyes.

This is the ancient tree forest. He has the wisdom of the terrifying upright ape and a multi-species diet. Will he starve to death if he sleeps a little longer?

Praise sleep.

Of course, before falling asleep, he took another look at his "dream space" and was somewhat surprised to find that the totem of the black wolf bird seemed to be filled in.

It seems that nothing has changed, but it is indeed filled in perceptually, just like the progress bar in a game is difficult to judge the progress, but if it is marked with a percentage, it can be judged intuitively.

Ji Jie felt that the totem of the black wolf bird was reading a bar, and it could transform when the bar was full. This should be the related mechanism of the dragon egg.

Compared to the feeling that the third was a long way off before the last sleep, this is undoubtedly another surprise. As long as you keep your expectations low, there are surprises everywhere in life.

Holding this surprise, Ji Jie fell asleep again.

This time the sleep was much lighter, and I could vaguely observe the movements outside with my other eye. I was more alert and my sleep lasted longer.

It is also more relaxed when waking up, and the brain can smoothly get rid of the confused state.

Ji Jie woke up. He was not sure how long he had slept. Anyway, when he woke up, the sun was very bright and he was a little hungry.

He wandered around in the dense forest but didn't catch any food. The small animals living here were much more familiar with this place than he was. Instead, he became a "big thief dragon" blocked by the woods. The outer forest was the thief dragon's range of activities.

But the outside was burned very badly, and you could even feel a little residual heat from the burning.

The fireballs of the black wolf bird mostly splashed on the treetops, but the trees in the ancient forest were mostly broad-leaved and had plenty of water, making them non-flammable. Only the dead leaves on the surface were ignited and raged.

The burning area was large, but it did not burn for several days and nights as imagined.

Perhaps this land has become accustomed to the rampage of monsters, or perhaps it is because there is a damp wind at night near the sea.

Life will always find its own way, and so will this world.

Ji Jie stepped on the warm ashes and after turning them over a few times, he pulled out a colorless crystal, which he had not had time to take away for research.

After turning into a hairy spider, it used spider silk to weave a net bag and put a few crystals in it, intending to hide them in the crevices where it was hiding later.

There were still some charred corpses of thief dragons here, but he didn't want to torture himself, so he picked up some charred corpses of other animals that had died to eat. They were dry and not tasty, so when he became thirsty, he went to a pond to drink some water.

There is a giant phoenix in the pond. How many hunters have been paralyzed and knocked to the ground by a sting from its tail while stripping materials?

Ji Jie was no exception. He transformed from a thief dragon into a gas frog, squatted comfortably by the pond, and at the right time, he rolled it into his stomach.

If he had not inherited the habits of the monster, it would be hard for him to imagine that he could eat insects, corpses and raw meat so smoothly. These habits were subtly influencing him.

Used to it.

After filling his stomach, Jijie transformed into a scratching bird. The fracture of the thief dragon was just a broken finger for the scratching bird, which did not affect its movement too much.

Since I thought of the hunter before, why not try to find him?

Can you become human by eating humans? Ji Jie didn't know, but he compared his life as a human with his life now.

I am no longer a human being!

As for whether to go find a hunter? Based on his previous experiences, Ji Jie knew that this world was not as balanced as in the game. If you can't beat it, you can't beat it. If you are going to be abused, you will be abused. The gap between monsters is so huge, so what about hunters?

A hunter who can beat the Black Wolf Bird probably won't waste half a day fighting with the Scratching Bird. He can probably kill the Scratching Bird instantly with one finishing move, right?

As for the hunter, you will always meet him in the future. He is still in the development stage now.

Chapter 12 It's Time to Fly

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On a warm afternoon, a snow-white creature chasing its own tail stopped, its black pearl-like eyes narrowed alertly, and the snow-white mist around it rose little by little under the sunlight.

The creature named Smoke Weasel raised its head, its soft snow-white fur shrank and turned black and hard, and its skin hardened into a dark purple shell.

The deep purple carapace's cracked wing bones pointed towards the sky behind it, and the tender wing membrane gradually hardened the moment it came into contact with the air.

His head was also raised, the skull was covered with keratin and pierced the skin, the sharp teeth were raised from the lower beak, becoming part of the keratin, and the two purple hard earlobes were erected, and were exposed together with the lower beak that covered the upper beak.

Behind it, a long tail covered with a shell extends in sections, with spines standing up from the black bristles and spreading out from the spindle-shaped tail.

"hold head high!"

After finally finishing reading the article and transforming into a black wolf bird, Ji Jie opened his overbite beak and let out a sharp roar. The small animals around him fled even more panicked, and some animals even fell to the ground with bleeding eardrums.

After roaring, the black wolf bird fell directly backwards.

Ji Jie was having some difficulty adapting to his new body. The reason was that the black wolf bird had wings, but the wingtips did not have claws, so it could not grasp anything.

This made Ji Jie, who was gradually getting used to the four-clawed land monster, very uncomfortable. The wings that could not grasp and the claws that could grasp flexibly felt like a human with feet inserted into wrists and hands inserted into ankles. It was really weird.

Propping up his body with his tail straight and gripping a handful of soft soil with his paws, Ji Jie began to flap his wings. Who wouldn't want to fly the first thing after getting wings?

He had preyed on birds when he was a hairy spider, and later he transformed into a bird, but he was not used to it.

The feeling of lightness made him feel insecure, and the freedom of being responsible only for himself made him a little bit upset.

Now that he has turned into a black wolf bird, this will not happen, because the large monster itself has a considerable weight, and the ground will vibrate when he walks, which makes him feel very solid.

After flapping its wings for a long time, Ji Jie finally got used to it. He realized that in order to fly, he needed to be in a high place or jump.

The first thing he did was of course to lift it up. The black wolf bird's thighs, which were stronger than the cricket's, jumped heavily. He jumped very high and flapped his wings very hard, but the time he stayed in the air was not too long. He quickly fell back to the ground with his wings flapping.

With his claws constantly gripping the soil, Ji Jie tried to find the flying instinct of the black wolf bird, but he always lacked that flash of inspiration.

There were no similar relatives here to show him the secrets of flight. Even the most common birds were no novice flyers. All the birds he remembered could fly with just a flap of their wings, so he had nothing to learn.

If you can't learn by imitating, you can only explore on your own.

In Ji Jie's previous life, it was an information explosion. Except for some information that affected social order, all precious knowledge passed through his mind in the most worthless way.

But there will always be some traces left, for example, the airplane seems to rely on "aerodynamics", "fluid", and "pressure difference" to fly.

These words sound very reasonable when combined together, but if they are broken down and explained in detail individually, Ji Jie has heard them but has forgotten them because of the practical application of the words.

Now he needed that knowledge. After thinking about it, he could only realize how precious that knowledge was. The people who compiled that knowledge were also so precious. And what a miracle it was that this era was one where precious knowledge could be spread freely.

I hope that those who are still living in that world and era can take knowledge seriously and not be muddleheaded and ignorant...

Ji Jie thought for a long time but couldn't think of any useful knowledge. He could only silently wish the people who were still living in that era a blessing in his heart. He regretted not having learned enough when he needed it!

He just stood there in a daze, occasionally picking up a handful of soil and flapping his wings, his heart as calm as water.

wind.

The wind created by the flapping wings brushed past the black wolf bird's erected hard ears, and Shisui was blown by the wind, rippling with circles of inspiration.

Birds and large monsters cannot be as light as insects. The instinct of flapping wings cannot carry the weight of their bodies, so they need wind.

Ji Jie walked out of the sparse woods and onto the relatively empty road, then started running.

His body, which swayed up and down while running, gradually became steady, and the wind also gradually became steady.

Smoothly parted by the tip of his beak, it slid across the sides of his beak, across the sockets of his eyes, and across his ears, of which his ears were the most sensitive.

Ji Jie was adjusting the angle of his body little by little, and the wind was becoming more and more obedient from a chaotic airflow, wrapping him tightly.

He slowly spread his wings as he ran, moving cautiously so as not to ruin his honeymoon with the wind.

The wings gently adjusted their angles, and the flying monster's instinct for airflow allowed him to understand which angle was most comfortable.

After stabilizing his entire body, Ji Jie stepped onto the gravel slope and jumped from the edge of the slope.

The tamed wind lifted him up and carried him into the sky under the whip of its wings.

He can fly. He can fly!

Ji Jie felt the wind and flew freely in the sky, sometimes folding his wings and diving down like a shuttle, and sometimes flapping his wings and flying higher into the sky.

Almost everyone has dreamed of flying, right? Ji Jie made it come true.

A sharp dragon roar erupted from Ji Jie's mouth, piercing the sky.

The feeling of flying is useful once you learn it, just like riding a bicycle, you will never forget the skills no matter how long you don’t ride it.

Looking down at the earth from the sky, the emerald color covering the mountains and plains completely filled Jijie's vision. This huge ecological environment centered on a giant tree was many times more magnificent than the map in the game.

After all, the New World is a continent, not an island.

The map in the game is actually only a part of the ancient tree forest. When you are here, you have to look far away to see the grand canyon where the mountains stand.

Unable to control himself, he opened his beak and let out another sharp roar.

But this time, another similar but unfriendly sharp dragon roar responded to him. It was a black wolf bird like him, the one that made him flee in embarrassment.

While waiting for the Black Wolf Bird to read the bar, Ji Jie had explored almost all the large monsters on the edge of the Great Thief Dragon's territory, but no other large monsters were found along the coastal area.

But if you go deeper into the forest, you will find that the poisonous bird is still alive, but it is fleeing in panic as the territory of the battle-hardened Great Thief Dragon expands. The territory of the black wolf bird is further north, closer to the ancient tree.

As Ji Jie jumped up from the gravel slope, he flew towards the giant tree in the center of his vision.

Now he has indeed entered the territory of the black wolf bird, and his roar over the other's territory is tantamount to a provocation.

A monster that was almost the same size as him tore through the emerald green curtain and charged towards him aggressively.

Chapter 13 The Mother Dragon is Fierce

Can you defeat another black wolf bird?

Ji Jie felt that he couldn't win. He had only transformed into a black wolf bird for a few hours?

He is a fledgling who has just mastered flying. How can he defeat an old bird that has become the overlord of a region?

But he wouldn't run away directly, because this was the best learning opportunity.

Ji Jie moved his throat and felt a stream of boiling heat rising from his chest and bursting out of his mouth. The scorching fire wave spewed towards the oncoming black woman.

His throat and mouth were aching, so much so that he could hardly breathe. It always hurts the first time, but it will be fine once you get used to it.

Facing the oncoming wave of fire, a look of disdain flashed in the eyes of the black wolf bird. It couldn't even spit out a fireball, so how could such a chick dare to provoke and shout over its head?

Ji Jie only saw the black woman break through the thin fire waves unharmed, and raised her claws to grab him with the rising air flow.