Chapter 43: The "Behemoth" Alamosaurus, the "Hard-Headed" Pachycephalosaurus!

Regarding Dragon Mom's injuries, Chu Xu was also powerless to help, as the healing points redeemable through the system could currently only be used on himself.

Disregarding her all-over injuries, Dragon Mom first went to find the hiding place of Longyue and Liuxing, brought them back, and then, without taking a moment to rest, immediately began marking nearby trees, rocks, and other spots with her claw marks and scent, demarcating the area as her core territory.

After finishing these tasks, she finally came to the carcass of the juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, lay down, and contentedly began to enjoy the fresh meat.

Chu Xu also tasted the so-called T-rex meat; it still had the typical sour and astringent taste of carnivorous dinosaur meat. Moreover, because a T-rex's muscle fibers were extremely dense, the texture was dry, tough, and hard, requiring a fair amount of effort just to tear off a piece.

In a word: unpalatable!

Furthermore, as the apex predators of the terrestrial food chain, one could easily imagine how many toxins had accumulated within their bodies.

Therefore, after trying just a few bites, Chu Xu stopped eating, turned away, and opened the system. He converted the newly acquired evolution points into attribute points to enhance his four-dimensional stats.

Soon, the data underwent a significant change once again:
[Four-Dimensional Stats]: Strength 440, Agility 440, Constitution 460, Spirit 450

The warm currents of attribute enhancement washed through all of Chu Xu's bones and limbs, making him feel as refreshed as if he were bathed in a spring breeze.

Once the enhancement was complete, Chu Xu walked over to a nearby river and used the water's reflection to examine the changes in his body.

A body length of 4 meters, a head height of 2 meters, and an estimated weight of around 1.3 tons—equivalent to the size of a normal 10-year-old juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex.

Yet Chu Xu's true age was only 1 year old; by comparison, this was simply unheard of in the dinosaur world.

It was fortunate that this world lacked deranged human beings, or else he would have long since been captured and sliced up for research.

However, Chu Xu was still not satisfied with this. Last month's long-distance migration had greatly reduced his efficiency in acquiring evolution points, but now that he finally had a fairly stable life and a greater abundance of prey, it was time to increase that efficiency.

"Roar~~~"

Dragon Mom, Longyue, and Liuxing were still eating. After calling out a greeting to them, Chu Xu intended to thoroughly explore this new territory and familiarize himself with the new environment along the way.

Since the injured Dragon Mom had impaired mobility and would likely find it difficult to successfully hunt in the near future, and because Longyue and Liuxing were still young, the burden of providing food for the family fell entirely on Chu Xu's shoulders. The pressure was by no means small.

Yet life was simply like that: every gain came with a loss, every sweetness with bitterness, and every opportunity with a challenge. Chu Xu gladly accepted this challenge.

Brave little dad fears no difficulties!

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The coastal forest at the intersection of land and sea remained lush and green all year round. Tree after tree grew closely packed and towering straight into the sky, with green waves spreading all the way to the horizon, while wisps of white mist steamed from the forest canopy of the distant mountains.

"What is this?"

Quickly shuttling through the coastal forest, Chu Xu suddenly discovered that the ground ahead was inexplicably depressed.

The surrounding land was flat; why would there suddenly be such a large depression here?

Continuing forward, Chu Xu discovered that at regular intervals, similar depressions appeared.

"No... these aren't depressions at all; these are clearly footprints!"

Chu Xu suddenly realized this and quickly put the pieces together.

These were typical sauropod dinosaur footprints, very similar to elephant tracks—generally circular, with a circumference of around 1.7 meters, comparable to the height of an adult human.

What kind of colossal creature could possibly leave behind such massive footprints!

Moreover, each footprint formed a completely independent micro-ecosystem in its own right, visibly inhabited by numerous microorganisms, and even housing insects and small amphibians.

"Honk——!!"

Just as the footprints vanished from sight, Chu Xu suddenly heard a distant, lingering sound ring out, and what appeared before his eyes was a true behemoth—

Alamosaurus!

Alamosaurus, a giant herbivorous dinosaur of the titanosaurian family Saltasauridae, could reach lengths of over 25 meters from head to tail, with weights ranging from 30 to 50 tons.

It was undoubtedly the supreme titan of North America during the Late Cretaceous, and one of the last sauropod dinosaurs of the dinosaur era!

As a sauropod, Alamosaurus possessed the characteristic appearance of a small head, long neck, massive body, and long tail. In addition, its skin was covered in fist-sized bony osteoderms and coarse, thick bristles, making it formidable enough to strike awe into the hearts of any dinosaur just by looking at it.

"So big!"

Chu Xu was struck with wonder. In front of the Alamosaurus, he was only just tall enough to reach its knees, and his body wasn't even as long as its tail.

Even an adult Tyrannosaurus rex would pale into insignificance before an Alamosaurus.

He saw this adult Alamosaurus rear its massive body upright, using its pillar-like hind limbs and whip-like slender tail to form a tripod for support. Its neck, easily ten meters long, stretched up to the treetops at the canopy, browsing on tender leaves and twigs.

In this posture, the Alamosaurus's head nearly reached an altitude of 15 meters, equivalent to the height of a five-story building.

With its peerless size, an adult Alamosaurus had virtually no natural predators. Even an adult Tyrannosaurus rex wouldn't dare harbor any ambitions toward such a behemoth, at most only daring to bully juvenile Alamosaurs.

"I wonder to what extent I'd have to evolve to be able to hunt a titan like this?"

Chu Xu thought to himself.

If one were to hunt an adult Alamosaurus like this, how many evolution points would it yield?

However, thinking about this now was useless. Since he couldn't afford to provoke it, Chu Xu decided not to disturb the Alamosaurus and detoured in another direction.

Not long after setting off, Chu Xu discovered the activity traces of a group of "iron-headed" Pachycephalosaurs and followed the tracks to find their location.

Pachycephalosaurus, also known as the thick-headed lizard, was a medium-sized herbivorous dinosaur of the ornithischian family Pachycephalosauridae, making them relatives of the Stygimoloch ChuXu had encountered previously.

However, the Pachycephalosaurus was much larger than the Stygimoloch, with a body length of around 4.5 meters and a weight of 1.5 tons.

Compared to the Stygimoloch, although the Pachycephalosaurus lacked the high-poking bony spikes on its skull, the bony dome formed by the skull roof was much larger and heavier—fully 25 centimeters thick, comparable to an oversized bowling ball.

A small herd consisting of more than a dozen Pachycephalosaurs of various sizes was active in the forest, foraging everywhere for tender leaves, plant seeds, and even insects to eat.

Several young Pachycephalosaurs, having already eaten their fill, were frolicking behind their parents. Their favorite game was head-butting, practicing the iron-head technique passed down from generation to generation since they were little.

"Come on, let uncle play with you, shall we?"

At that moment, the young Pachycephalosaurs blinked, only to see a subadult T-rex with a wide-open, grinning mouth appear out of nowhere.

Chu Xu tried his best to put on a "kind and friendly" expression, but it still frightened the young Pachycephalosaurs into crying out and scrambling away in a panic.

It seemed their parents had taught them well, knowing they shouldn't casually interact with strange dinosaurs outside.

"Hand it over!"

Since they preferred the hard way to the easy way, Chu Xu's expression changed abruptly, reverting to his usual ferocious demeanor. He lunged forward, clamped his jaws around the neck of a nearby juvenile Pachycephalosaurus, and easily snapped it.

Without pausing, Chu Xu took a bounding stride to catch up with a second juvenile Pachycephalosaurus, delivering a lightning-fast claw strike that promptly sent it off to dinosaur heaven.

[Ding! You have hunted a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus, evolution points +15.]
[Ding! You have hunted a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus, evolution points +15.]

Casually killing two juvenile Pachycephalosaurs was enough; Chu Xu still understood the principle of not draining the pond to catch all the fish. He would let the remaining young Pachycephalosaurs off the hook for now, leaving them to repay his kindness when they grew up later.

Chu Xu's true target remained those adult Pachycephalosaurs!

"Moo——!!"

Hearing the commotion behind them, the adult Pachycephalosaurs turned around, and what met their eyes was the scene of Chu Xu brutally slaughtering two of their young.

Rage filled their chests. One by one, the adult Pachycephalosaurs immediately assumed the classic iron-head posture, lowering their foreparts and tensing their entire bodies into a straight line as they simultaneously charged fiercely toward Chu Xu!