Chapter 475
by fanqienovelChapter 475: For a More Beautiful World, the Carpet Must Die!
“Not bad, not bad.”
Trilobite stood on the reef by the sea, vainly admiring his reflection.
His long, graceful body and large skull reflected the nobility and power of the “true dragon among dragons,” the “ruler of the Mesozoic Era,” the dinosaur order.
“And I have saber teeth that no other dinosaur has.”
“I’m just too beautiful.”
Trilobite loved his body more and more as he looked at it.
After sending his “branching worm” spawn to the sandbank and giving them hope and blessings, he had been idly wandering along the beach.
He walked around aimlessly, checking how well the “red tree fern” barrier was growing to resist the waves.
Everything looked good.
Feeling reassured, Trilobite decided to relax a bit.
“I remember that the Beautiful Nodosaurus lived on the broken islands of Europe during the Jurassic period.”
“Like a polar bear, it was very good at swimming.”
“How wonderful!”
As a playful dinosaur who loved identifying ancient creatures, the Saber-toothed Beautiful Nodosaurus especially enjoyed exploring the Tidal Flats, particularly in the ancient mixed sea!
Now that he had finally become a swimming Beautiful Nodosaurus, he was eager to have fun.
“Since I’m good at swimming, I won’t just wander the beach this time.”
“I’ll go into the sea and swim freely!”
“I want to feel what the ancient ocean was like!”
Trilobite stopped admiring himself at the sea surface and looked up.
Not too far away, a huge back rose slowly above the water.
Occasionally, its massive paddle fins and disproportionately large skull lifted high above the surface.
“Isn’t that my customer, the Flat-nosed Strong Dragon?”
“He shouldn’t harm me, right?”
“Well, if he’s swimming near the shore, that meant this was his territory!”
“With a top predator like him around, I didn’t need to fear being caught by other fierce ichthyosaurs.”
“At least, that famous scene from the BBC documentary was unlikely to happen again.”
Although Trilobite wasn’t the largest Beautiful Nodosaurus at 7 meters, he was still a large animal.
As long as he didn’t meet a Great White Shark, a Leviathan, or a Crocodilian, he would be fine.
For most predators, hunting prey similar in size was hard, especially since this prey had sharp teeth that could cause serious harm.
Moreover, this “Flat-nosed Strong Dragon” was Trilobite’s customer.
“Still, there were some interesting things around my customer.”
Trilobite stared at some creatures that kept leaping out of the water near his customer.
They seemed to be elongated fish, their silver scales sparkling in the sunlight.
“Hmm…”
“This distance was still a bit far; he couldn’t see clearly.”
“It looked like these ‘long fish’ were tangled with his customer?”
“No, it should have been his customer hunting those fish.”
“Well, he wished him good luck with his catch.”
“As for him…”
Trilobite crouched down, his long legs bending like springs ready to unleash power!
“Three, two, one…”
“Jump!”
With a powerful push from his long hind legs, the energy stored in his toe joints burst out all at once!
“Boom—!”
His six-meter-long body arched gracefully through the air!
“Wow!”
“Takeoff!”
Trilobite shouted with joy.
The water surface grew larger in his eyes.
If it had been an average person or animal, they would have had to blink to avoid facial impact with the sea, which could have caused harm and discomfort to their eyes.
But the calcite eyes had no such issues.
Hard enough to handle it!
“Boom—!”
Trilobite clearly saw the waves crash against his eyes, observing everything beneath the sea distinctly.
“Whoa!?”
“The range of the Carpet’s growth was much closer to the coast than he had imagined.”
“He had thought it grew in deeper waters.”
“However, thinking about it carefully, it made sense for the Carpet to grow in the shallow sea.”
Shallow seas were where nutrients were abundant, and sunlight, as an energy source, was essential for Paleozoic Carpets or later corals.
“So, the Carpet actually replaced the Ecological Niche of corals?”
“However, it seemed that the ecosystem nurtured by the Carpet was far less diverse than that of corals, rather dull.”
Trilobite looked at the vast, endless Carpet spreading into the distance, feeling a bit unhappy.
Corals built reefs that provided a three-dimensional shelter and slowly altered the terrain, fostering a more diverse and complex ecosystem that attracted and shaped more species.
Similarly, the underwater forest made of kelp didn’t change the terrain much, but it formed a vertical, three-dimensional ecosystem.
Any three-dimensional ecosystem offered more ecological niches; forests often had far greater species diversity and complexity than grasslands.
In contrast, the Carpet, spread flat like a rug on the ocean floor, was too two-dimensional.
No colorful lobe-finned fish were visible, and soft-bodied animals seemed scarce too.
Only creatures similar to his "branching worm spawn" were sneaking around and digging above.
When he opened the system, his system vision turned green; it was indeed his spawn.
“They must be from that ‘branching worm spawn sister’s’ clan.”
“Leave it to you to destroy the eternal Carpet with those bug holes!”
“Overthrow the Carpet’s tyranny; the shallow sea belongs to corals!”
“But…”
Trilobite carefully observed that there were indeed some fish on the Carpet.
A few slender fish darted rapidly across the Carpet.
From their silver scales, they seemed to be the same species as those hovering around the Flat-nosed Strong Dragon.
“I recognize these fish.”
“They must be dragon fish!”
Dragon fish were a type of ray-finned fish that lived during the Triassic period.
They weren’t large, typically half a meter to a meter long.
Their most notable feature was their slender body paired with a long snout.
They resembled a slimmed-down version of lobe-finned fish.
This fish specialized in speed as an ocean hunter, with a very broad diet.
They ate everything from small fish to soft-bodied animals, and sometimes even pterosaurs were hunted by dragon fish shooting up from the water’s surface.
“A speed-type fighter.”
“With my strength, I could never catch them.”
“But…”
“Miss Branching Worm did a great job!”
“These meat worms not only dig into the Carpet but also make excellent bait!”
Trilobite saw his “No. 5 spawn sister” attract the dragon fish’s attention with her plump, fleshy figure.
“After all, they’re just ray-finned fish; all speed and no brains.”
“Quite dull.”
“Whoosh…”
The Beautiful Nodosaurus gently waved its tail, drifting slowly forward.
Soon, Trilobite quietly reached attack range.
“Now’s the time!”
“Boom—!”
His massive skull lunged forward!
“Ah—Ooh—!”
Trilobite bit down, snatching the dragon fish into his mouth.