Chapter 214

Chapter 214: Just a Fisherman, Can Do It! 5/6

“Hmm… this fellow.”

Trilobite quietly lay on the "lake bottom," watching the big animal in front of him.

As a former paleo creature Researcher, Trilobite knew right away what kind of animal this was.

“Dromaeosaur.”

“It wasn’t the lizard-like, dinosaur order, Theropod dinosaurs, or Oviraptor-like creatures Dromaeosaur.”

“But the archosaurs, true sauropterygians, wedge-toothed Dromaeosaur!”

The name Dromaeosaur meant two different animals.

One was a dinosaur, and the other was an early archosaur.

Even though they had the same name, they were very different.

It wasn’t just about lizard-like and archosaur; it also had to do with how they lived. The Oviraptor-like creatures Dromaeosaur was a small dinosaur with long legs that liked to run around freely.

On the other hand, the archosaur Dromaeosaur could be called a “Permian period small spinosaurus.”

Of course, thinking about the time, it was better to say the spinosaurus was the “Cretaceous period large Dromaeosaur.”

This animal, like most early archosaurs from the wedge-toothed family, had a tall sail on its back; and like its close relatives, it used quadrupedal movement, had a long tail, and looked like a lizard.

But its head wasn’t like other wedge-toothed Dromaeosaurs with short, thick heads. It had a long, thin snout!

At first glance, it seemed a bit like a crocodile.

Looking closer, it really resembled a spinosaurus.

Animals with heads like that usually lived near water and caught fish for food.

Its teeth fossils showed this too—they were very thin and close together, good for holding slippery fish.

This kind of small, packed teeth was a common trait for fish-eaters.

But as for this animal’s size…

“Hmm…”

“It wasn’t much different from the fossil.”

“It was a bit tough to handle.”

Before, when Trilobite met the Erelasaurus, it was way smaller than a real Erelasaurus.

Usually, adults were over four meters long and weighed about 200 kg, being the biggest carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic period; but when it showed up to Trilobite, it was only 3 meters long and weighed around 80 kg.

It was definitely a weak, young Erelasaurus.

Trilobite thought it might be a smaller dinosaur from the Erelasaurus group, like a Cruxis or a basic Theropod dinosaurs such as Chindoyu.

But the Dromaeosaur in front of him was a full-grown one, 3 meters in Length and 100 kg!

Almost exactly the same weight and length as Trilobite!

This prey wasn’t easy to handle.

“However…”

After slumbering for a year, Trilobite’s status bar changed back to “Hungry.”

Slumber didn’t mean no energy was used.

Metabolism still continued.

After a long slumber, the body inevitably felt ravenous hunger.

Since he was “hungry,” he needed to eat!

The Dromaeosaur, while also a carnivorous beast, was, after all…

“You’re just a fisherman!”

“You can do it!”

Don’t be fooled by the spinosaurus’s feats in “Jurassic Park,” where it could defeat a Tyrannosaurus Rex; or how it seemed tougher in the BBC documentary, able to fight a megalodon for food; or how in Discovery Channel’s “Ancient Monsters Revival,” it could destroy a megalodon and rip apart a Deinosuchus.

But in reality…

In an actual ecosystem, the spinosaurus was merely prey for the megalodon.

The Ecological Niche was like black bears to tigers—when caught on land by a megalodon, they had little ability to resist.

Moreover, Trilobite now held an edge.

“Ah, those little flying elephant octopuses are reliable and smart.”

“They’re my good partners.”

Earlier, Trilobite had followed the little flying elephant octopuses around and spotted the Dromaeosaur hiding in a lake bottom cave, eyeing a piece of “driftwood.”

Trilobite was amazed then.

“Whoa!?”

“You learned tricks so early!?”

“You’re not dumb!”

In Trilobite’s view, this Dromaeosaur had smeared its “scent” and “secretions” on a big branch to lure fish or other animals.

Then it would strike with a killing blow!

As for why it skipped those “Madageria fish”…

“Either like me, this guy has a strange symbiotic relationship with the Madageria fish.”

“Or this fisherman is picky and thinks those fish are too small.”

But despite the odd link between “Madageria fish” and “Dromaeosaur,” the fact it used bait to fish truly surprised Trilobite.

“Ah, actually, it’s not that shocking.”

After thinking, Trilobite calmed down.

After all, using bait to fish wasn’t just a human thing.

Among birds, egrets and some wading birds would steal bread from humans and scatter it in the water as bait. When fish couldn’t resist rising to eat the bread, those wading birds would strike, snapping up the hooked fish to devour!

"This fellow probably used a similar trick."

"His secretions might mimic the smell of corpses or diseased fish?"

"But now that the trick’s exposed, it’s pointless."

"I can counter it!"

"Hey! You lot!"

Trilobite roared at the little flying elephant octopuses. He wriggled free from his clinging shed skin and offered it to them.

"Help me out."

He swam slowly toward a calm little flying elephant octopus that hadn’t fled and gently draped his shed skin over it.

Then he pointed at the driftwood.

"Understand!?"

—-

Moments later…

"Little flying elephant octopuses are indeed clever."

"Even without shared language, they grasped my plan and cooperated."

Trilobite watched the octopus wrapped in his relatively intact shed skin dart toward the driftwood.

"Hey."

"You fish? Well, so can I!"

"And my bait’s alive!"

Under Trilobite’s expectant gaze, the Dromaeosaur took the bait!

His three-meter-long body slowly emerged from the safe cave. Unable to resist the lure of prey, he attacked the little flying elephant octopus disguised in Trilobite’s skin.

Now fixated solely on food, the creature remained oblivious to the danger behind him!

"Exposing your unguarded belly and throat? Don’t blame me for striking, fisherman!"

"Now…"

"Three… two… one…"

"Go!"

Trilobite pressed his limbs against his sides and thrust his powerful tail.

His streamlined form sliced through the lake water, accelerating with tremendous speed!

The tail surged violently, propelling him toward his target!

"Boom—!"

The massive impact sent violent ripples through the water.

Only then did the "fisherman"—the Dromaeosaur—notice Trilobite.

He turned his head in startled confusion before steadying himself to fight back.

But…

Too late!

"Roar—!"

Amidst the Dromaeosaur’s terrified howl, Trilobite’s jaws gaped wide. His instant-kill saber teeth gleamed with deadly light!