Chapter 157. Jurassic (11) 9.3m Length, 3.8t Weight

   【Congratulations to survivor Ye Mo for completing side quest 63 in the ‘Jurassic’ instance, growing 3cm, and receiving a reward of +1 strength attribute, +1 agility attribute, and +1 constitution attribute.】

   【Congratulations to survivor Ye Mo for completing side quest 64 in the ‘Jurassic’ instance, growing 3cm, and receiving a reward of +1 strength attribute, +1 agility attribute, and +1 constitution attribute.】

     …

     “Burp.”

     All the organs and blood from the two storage spaces, along with a small amount of meat and bones, allowed Ye Mo to grow 12cm successfully.

     While she was consuming her prey, various burrowing creatures in the underground were attracted by the smell of blood.

     Because this land is inhabited not only by carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs but also by some small reptiles, such as Morganucodon, Hallucigenia, Beelzebufo, and Sinoconodon.

     Their sizes range from 0.3 meters to 5 meters. In the Jurassic period, they were considered small animals, mostly scavengers, surviving by getting a bite or two from the mouths of carnivorous dinosaurs.

     They are also quite hostile to outsiders and possess a certain level of combat ability. No wonder the two multituberculata fears this land, it turns out they have enemies underground. They are too weak.

     Besides hunting each other, these underground animals also have some natural enemies, such as Titanoboa.

     Yes, giant snakes are occasionally underground creatures. Before adulthood, they enjoy roaming underground, and even after adulthood, they often hunt underground creatures for extra meals. They are also excellent at burrowing.

     “Hiss—”

     “Awooo!”

     In the underground 100 meters away, Ye Mo fought with a dozen Titanoboas that emerged. The prehistoric giant snakes’ constricting ability and petrifying skin ability gave them an advantage in the confined space.

     She had to use system props.

     She threw explosive scrolls into their mouths, stabbed their eyes with arrows and flying knives, blood splattered everywhere. Ye Mo tied the blinded giant snakes into knots, letting them entangle each other.

 

   【Detected survivor Ye Mo breaking through the mental threshold, mental attribute +1.】×2

   【Detected survivor Ye Mo breaking through the agility threshold, agility attribute +1.】

   【Detected survivor Ye Mo breaking through the strength threshold, strength attribute +1.】

 

     Ye Mo killed these giant snakes but also suffered many injuries, which were even more severe than her battles with dinosaurs on the surface. During the process, she even used large doses of Golden Wound Powder and Hemostasis Magic Potions.

     She glanced at the pile of giant snakes.

     As everyone knows, snakes have few internal organs, and their energy is mostly concentrated in their gallbladders. Eating them is quite convenient, but the taste of the gallbladder is often not good.

     More than 10 gallbladders…

 

   【Congratulations to survivor Ye Mo for completing a side quest in the ‘Jurassic’ instance, growing 3cm, and receiving a reward of +1 strength attribute, +1 agility attribute, and +1 constitution attribute.】×6

     “Burp.”

     Snake gallbladders are really bitter, even more bitter than dinosaur gallbladders.

     After eating the gallbladders, Ye Mo rinsed her mouth with plain water and ate some strong-flavored ordinary seasonings to recover.

     ……

     Before the sun rose, Ye Mo returned to the surface and began a new round of hunting. Her target was a massive earth-elemental brute dinosaur which happened to be passing by.

     She was confident she could defeat it, and she had more than one method.

     However, the problem was that the dinosaurs in this area were too densely packed. The scent of her prey’s blood and the sounds of battle might attract other dinosaurs, so what she needed was a swift and decisive victory.

     In this land, swift and decisive action was crucial for hunting, whether it was combat or feeding.

     The brute dinosaur thought the same way.

     When the two-meter-tall Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared in the brute dinosaur’s field of vision, it charged straight at her, flying out like an arrow. Bang, its heavy body landed on the ground, its half-meter-long claws deeply embedded in the earth.

     This jumping height, even a 30-meter-deep pit trap couldn’t contain it, it probably needs 50 meters or more.

    Ye Mo, who dodged the attack, aimed at the brute dinosaur’s two eyes and released a box of Spinosaurus spines.

     “Aww!”

    A miserable cry rang out, revealing long teeth with half-exposed blood and broken bones, its mouth opened to an arc of over 5 meters.

     I really want to stuff its mouth shut.

     Ye Mo grabbed onto the giant lizard’s back with both hands and began to tear and scratch frantically, while searching for its weak points all over its body. A pack of about a hundred Deinonychus quickly arrived nearby.

     She had to temporarily give up and return to the cave.

     Even if Deinonychus did not have wind power, it seemed to have speed power. Their speed was unusually fast, especially the burst speed, which even exceeded many wind dinosaurs, and their attacks were fast.

     They are one of the few pack-living dinosaurs capable of tearing apart and taking down many Jurassic overlords.

     The injured brute dinosaur was no match for a pack of Deinonychus. At this moment, Ye Mo realized that the brute dinosaur’s biggest weakness was its unique, long, thick teeth that both drained blood and crushed bones.

     Attacking here would kill it faster.

     If Ye Mo had known its weakness, she could have solved the problem by throwing magic scrolls into its mouth when it was injured and screaming.

     It’s a pity.

     The second pity is that the Deinonychus was biting the Brute Dinosaur too fast, and there were too many of them. Ye Mo couldn’t peel them off the Brute Dinosaur, so naturally, she couldn’t put it into her storage ring, which could only hold non-living objects. She could only watch them take away her prey.

     “Hawk Eye, we’ll remember them.”

     Hawk Eye : “…”

     After the Deinonychus finished devouring the Brute Dinosaur and left, Ye Mo collected the claws, teeth, and other parts from the ground. These were useless to the dinosaurs, but for her, they could all become deadly weapons.

     After all, she had learned to carve rune spells with claws, so she couldn’t waste resources.

     …

     Ye Mo became more skilled in her subsequent hunts.

     First, she had to dig escape tunnels near her hunting grounds to allow for a strategic retreat in case of unexpected situations.

     Second, she began hunting dinosaurs she had already killed or those killed by other predators, because this allowed her to remember their weaknesses and achieve swift victories.

     Third, deep cold traps were useful, but different dinosaurs required different depths of pits.

     She left behind a lot of pits in the Jurassic era, big pits, small pits, deep pits, and shallow pits.

     Dinosaurs are not intelligent creatures. They may pass on hunting and survival experiences within their groups, but not between groups. Therefore, Ye Mo’s pits always managed to trap some dinosaurs.

     They could even be reused.

     It’s worth mentioning that when Ye Mo learned that the Deinonychus’s weakness was on its tail, where there was a series of long bone protrusions and ossified tendons, she immediately added the hundred Deinonychus to her meal plan.

     Pit kill!

     Collect!

     Eat!

     Repeat the above.

     After consuming 60% of the Deinonychus and sharing the meat with some dinosaurs that tried to snatch the Deinonychus, Ye Mo’s height had grown from just over 2 meters to 5.98 meters.

     Continue hunting.

     The more you hunt, the more you understand dinosaurs, and occasionally you will fail.

     Because dinosaurs of the same species have the same weaknesses, but individual abilities may vary. Ye Mo has encountered a Tyrannosaurus that could not be trapped in a pit of 50 to 80 meters. This is an exception.

     When encountering exceptions, the only options were to fight and then flee, or to flee directly.

     When she wasn’t injured, she often chose the former. In these moments, regardless of the outcome of the fight, she only had about a 50% chance of getting her prey. The rest would go to the “oriole behind.”

     When Ye Mo’s height exceeded 6 meters, she was no longer a small fry. She was very tall when standing upright and weighed 2 tons. With this physique, digging tunnels to hide became increasingly difficult.

     This was also her most dangerous phase.

     Because the strategy of “running away is the best strategy” is becoming more and more difficult.

     This period was the most difficult time Ye Mo experienced in the Jurassic instance. Her speed and strength soared, and her mental strength continued to break through, with her overall power growing faster than ever before.

     She was basically injured every day.

     She was even severely injured once, by a Tyrannosaurus Rex of a different attribute, and only managed to escape underground using the space key.

     This happened quite a few times, and only in the deep underground caves could she rest and adjust her body.

     Yes, only her body.

     Ye Mo felt that she didn’t need to be too emotionally troubled during this period. Excessive emotional turmoil could lead to retreat and fear. Only when she achieved success would these struggles be meaningful, otherwise, she might as well retreat to the rocky area.

     The high-level space-type crystal cores in her space had cost her at least tens of thousands of points, and only two-thirds remained.

     Of course, Ye Mo successfully took revenge. After her first head-on confrontation with a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a fully grown adult, and after harvesting the spoils of war, she found herself once again being chased by three waves of dinosaurs, covered in blood.

     “…”

     When will this end?

     Ye Mo used her space key to return to the deep underground caves and found that these caves were a bit too small. After resting for a while, eating her fill to heal her injuries, she expanded several of her bases before returning to the surface.

     “Awooo!”

     Hawk Eye translates: …Continue!

     …

   【Detected survivor Ye Mo breaking through the mental threshold, mental attribute +1.】

   【Detected survivor Ye Mo’s mental attribute value reaching 510 in the “Jurassic” instance, unlocking 5th-tier mental ability, completing a special hidden quest, rewarding all attributes +3, free attribute points +3.】

 

     How long has it been since I unlocked a mental ability? This is a pleasant surprise!

     The unlocking of the mental ability has improved some of her mental skills. The manipulation of non-living objects, with the right timing and location, can now injure dinosaurs, equivalent to having an extra hand. And the manipulation of living objects can now control dinosaur cubs.

     The mental domain consumes too much mental energy. Dinosaur bodies have a high demand for mental recovery agents, making it unsuitable for training at this time.

     Mental illusions have also significantly improved. Illusory dinosaur meat can deceive small underground animals beyond 3 meters. To deceive dinosaurs, she needs to be at least 10 meters away.

     However, Ye Mo tried the “invisible technique” she obtained from the death-seeking survivor in the white space, and it was effective on dinosaurs, provided she concealed her scent, maintained distance, and didn’t use spiritual power.

     This added a layer of protection for her.

     Not to mention anything else, Ye Mo is now 9.3 meters long and weighs 3.8 tons. The deep underground caves can only serve as a last resort, entered using the space key. Illusions can just compensate for this.

     At this point, 25 days have passed in the instance, and 75 days remain.