ATPnovel Chapter 11 Returning to Antiquity
Chapter 11 Returning to Antiquity
The red junglefowl struggled fiercely, using its other leg to kick the mirrored chicken's chest to break free, but several bloody marks had already been bitten on its leg.
This red junglefowl is pretty strong.
The Red Junglefowl took a few steps back, adjusted its breathing, and then spread its wings to glide at low altitude, circling around to the side and rear of the Mirror Chicken. Taking advantage of the moment when the Mirror Chicken was unable to turn around, it used its enhanced beak to fiercely peck at the back of the Mirror Chicken's neck!
"Pfft!"
The sharp beak with a few teeth pierced the neck of the mirror chicken.
The mirror chicken, in pain, turned around and swung its claws to retaliate. The red junglefowl quickly released its grip and retreated, but a bloody gash was still slashed across its chest.
The two sides became locked in a fierce battle, with the Red Junglefowl and the Mirror Chicken exchanging blows, neither willing to back down.
As the number of clashes increases.
The Red Junglefowl has been suffering new injuries, and the Mirror Chicken is not faring much better.
After more than ten exchanges, the red junglefowl seized an opportunity and, taking advantage of the moment when the mirror pheasant missed its attack, jumped onto the mirror pheasant's back, gripped the mirror pheasant's back tightly with its claws, and pecked down hard at the cervical vertebrae with its beak!
"Snap!"
The mirror image let out a short, mournful cry, its body stiffened, and then it slowly fell to the ground, turning into specks of light and dissipating.
[Xia Kingdom Wu Yu, Kill Count: 8]
The red junglefowl landed, its chest heaving violently, blood seeping from multiple wounds on its body, but it still held its head high, its eyes showing no sign of retreat.
The ninth mirror chicken is then generated.
This is a creature that is nearly 1.8 meters tall, with almost no feathers on its body, covered with a scale-like membrane, with thicker hind limbs, sharp claws on its forelimbs, and dense, sharp teeth in its mouth.
In Bai Zhou's view, this was already a predator that had entered the form of a dinosaur.
Without hesitation, the red junglefowl launched a charge, attempting to seize the initiative.
The red junglefowl glides to the side of the mirror-image chicken and attempts to injure it with its powerful claws.
The mirror chicken turned slightly, and just as the red junglefowl's claws reached out, it actually bit the red junglefowl's sharp claws with its beak.
"Click!"
A crisp sound of bone cracking rang out.
Immediately following was a dull thud.
After biting off one of the red junglefowl's legs, the mirror chicken slammed the red junglefowl to the ground.
The mirror pheasant looked down at the red junglefowl, which was lying on the ground unable to get up, and stretched out a foot to stomp the red junglefowl to death.
The red junglefowl tried its best to dodge, but its tail feathers were still stepped on.
The long tail feathers were forcibly torn off.
The injured red junglefowl ignored the pain and tried to leap up to peck at the mirror pheasant's eyes.
But the mirror chicken anticipated its movements and headbutted the red junglefowl, sending it flying.
The red junglefowl's breastbone was visibly dented from the impact. The mirror-image chicken walked up to the red junglefowl, opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, and bit down on the red junglefowl's head.
[Xia Kingdom's Wu Yu, his natal species has died, his kill count is now 8.]
The results announcement rang out in the arena, and Wu Yu's final score was eight.
The red junglefowl was enveloped in white light and teleported back to Wu Yu's side, where its injuries began to slowly heal under the game's rules.
The game sounded again the instant Wu Yu's match ended.
"The Mirror Match of Favorite Species has concluded, and the rankings are now announced!"
Xia Guo Wu Yu: Killed 9 (First in overall score)
Russian bear Guoandongla: 6 killed
Archer from the Beautiful Country: 5 killed.
[Great! Another first place!]
[This time it's 800 points!]
[South Korea: Damn it! The Chinese have gained points again.]
[South Korea: Why do people from Xia always get points?]
[Japan: You're right, how can a chicken always come in first place...]
Jealous? Jealousy won't change anything. Go home with your hyenas and cobras for the New Year!
"The mirror match of the natal species has ended. The fourth round of the competition, the 'Environmental Adaptability Challenge,' will be held in 24 hours."
"During this period, participants can use their points to upgrade their chosen species."
Wu Yu took the red jungle chicken back to his room to check the rules for the next match.
Competition Format: Earth Online generates several extreme natural environments (such as ice fields, deserts, etc.). All participants' native species must enter different areas in turn. The longer the survival time, the higher the ranking.
After reading the rules, Wu Yu muttered to himself, "This competition is quite challenging."
This environmental adaptability challenge tests the ability of various species to adapt to their environment.
In other words, the species that can evolve a body that adapts to the current environment the fastest will survive the longest.
For example, the Red Junglefowl is suitable for living in an environment with spring-like weather all year round, but it will definitely face challenges such as temperature when it is moved to an ice field environment.
At this point, if the red junglefowl wanted to live longer, it would need to evolve thicker feathers.
If the rate of evolution cannot keep up with the rate of environmental degradation, the final result will be death.
The difficulty of this competition lies in the fact that "environmental adaptability" cannot be improved; it can only be determined by the species itself.
Wu Yu shook his head, not wanting to think about it any further, and instead opened the shop to upgrade the Red Wild Chicken.
Since the next competition will focus on the species' environmental adaptability, Wu Yu directly exchanged for four bottles of Rejuvenation Potion!
Including the previous bottle, the Red Junglefowl now dates back five million years.
[Native Species: Red Junglefowl (5 million years ago) (Enhanced beak and leg features)]
Physical condition: 3.5-5
Speed: 8
Endurance: 4.5-6
After taking four bottles of the Rejuvenation Elixir, the Red Junglefowl did not continue to shrink, but instead grew larger, and its red comb and wattles began to slowly disappear.
The feathers on its body have decreased slightly, its two wings have begun to slowly expand forward, and the muscles in its legs have become more muscular.
The ancestors of the red junglefowl, such as Oviraptorosaurus (during the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 7500-7000 million years ago), weighed between 20 and 40 kilograms, far exceeding the weight of the current red junglefowl. In other words, the process of the red junglefowl reverting to ancient forms was actually a process of increasing its size.
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Looking at the 500 points she had received, Antora chose to exchange them for a bottle of Rejuvenation Potion and a Hand Feature Enhancement Potion.
With the addition of the anti-aging potion he had previously exchanged, the brown bear was also reverted to two million years ago.
Two million years of antiquity caused brown bears to increase their weight from 600 kilograms to 800 kilograms!
He also grew 0.5 meters taller.
Seeing the brown bear grow even bigger again, Antora couldn't hide the smile on her face.
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On the other side, Archer also used the 300 points he had acquired to exchange for a bottle of Rejuvenation Potion and a Constitution Enhancement Potion.
As the potion was applied, a soft white light enveloped the bald eagle standing to the side.
As the light faded, unlike the brown bear and the red junglefowl, the bald eagle's body shape did not change much despite two million years of antiquity.
It was just a little bigger, with a more curved and thicker beak and longer claws and toes.
However, there were no major changes in the skeletal structure.
This proves that bald eagles have amazing morphological stability and high evolutionary stability.