Chapter 569 - 220: Level Too Low to Devour, Encountering a Beast Tide, Certain Death

In fact, if they dared to force a fight, they would probably be torn to shreds by the enraged adults.

"Let’s go!"

"We’ll find some young ones!"

"I refuse to believe we can’t find one that’s alone!"

That was the situation. No matter how great the danger, Shen Fei’s group, who could only Devour young creatures, had no other choice. He understood now. If I want to Devour my way into becoming the strongest dinosaur, this initial growth phase as a juvenile is the hardest. But once I Devour enough to raise my level into the double digits, my speed and opportunities for Devouring will increase infinitely. The most difficult part is right now, when we’re newborn and at our weakest.

RUSTLE.

Following Shen Fei’s plan, the team set off once more. From then on, their targets were focused on young dinosaurs—specifically, any juvenile creature that might be alone, level LV1 or LV0.

RUSTLE. RUSTLE. RUSTLE.

Time continued to pass, but Shen Fei’s group still hadn’t found any lone young dinosaurs they could Devour without risk.

"RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE!"

Worse, after wandering for so long without eating, the stomachs of Shen Fei’s group, now young dinosaurs, started to rumble again. Clearly, even though they had become semi-digitized young dinosaurs, their need to eat had not stopped. Moreover, because they were now leveled young dinosaurs, their only method of eating was [Devouring]. They no longer had the ability to eat strips of meat like before. Of course, at this moment, even if they could eat meat strips, Shen Fei’s team, having been digitized into LV1 bodies, lacked the ability to acquire them anyway.

"Damn it! Having this Devouring ability isn’t necessarily a good thing! Why do I feel even weaker now?!"

His stomach began to rumble, and a wave of weakness washed over him. At the same time, the long, fruitless search for low-level young dinosaurs had lowered the team’s morale. With several negative emotions piling up, Shen Fei suddenly had a realization. Even though I now have a mission, a skill, and a goal, this situation isn’t necessarily a good thing. If we can’t quickly Devour a creature our team is capable of handling, what awaits us will likely be big trouble.

"Brother Fei!" Li Xiaohong called out from behind him, seeing his worried expression. "Should we rest for a bit? We could wait until night, after the dinosaurs are asleep, and then sneak off to steal eggs and Devour the little ones?"

After searching for so long, everyone had realized that the only things they could Devour were unhatched dinosaur eggs, which showed up as LV0, or small dinosaurs that had just recently hatched. But these eggs and hatchlings were always guarded by massive, high-level dinosaurs. Currently, at least during the day, they had no chance.

"That might not work!" Just as Xiaohong, who had transformed into a small pink flying dragon, finished speaking, Number 0, who had become a Triceratops, offered their opinion. "At night, more nocturnal creatures will come out! And those nocturnal creatures have much keener senses of smell and touch. The danger might be even greater! I think we should keep searching for some kind of herbivore that produces thousands or tens of thousands of offspring in a single brood to Devour..."

In any case, there was only one goal: to find creatures they could Devour in the safest and most effective way possible.

"Hmm... let me think!" Shen Fei nodded, considering what Xiaohong and Number 0 had said while his mind raced.

If we find a dinosaur nest with a dozen or so eggs, wait outside until dark when all the dinosaurs are asleep, and sneakily Devour all of them, our team could indeed get through this period of weakness smoothly. But what if we wait outside a nest until night, only to find that some dinosaurs don’t sleep and are specifically guarding the eggs? Then we’d be in real trouble.

Shen Fei didn’t know if the team, with their rumbling stomachs, could hold out until the next day to find a second nest.

And if we go looking for those non-carnivorous creatures that have countless young in a single brood, that’s also risky. The risk is, what if we can’t find any? Our team of four has already been searching for several hours with nothing to show for it. If we keep searching, will we actually find something?

Both methods seemed viable, but both also came with huge risks. Faced with this situation, Shen Fei couldn’t help but fall deep into thought.

Seeing Shen Fei with his head lowered in thought, Li Xiaohong, who had a pair of wings, quietly flapped them. Under the cover of a large tree, she secretly flew up to the treetop, intending to get a higher vantage point and scout the terrain.

"Ah!"

An ocean? Or a massive lake?

Hiding quietly under a large leaf in the treetop and observing her surroundings, Li Xiaohong discovered an expanse of azure water at the edge of her vision. Previously, due to the distance, she hadn’t seen that there was a large body of water near them. She had only seen a great river and high mountains. Now, after walking for several more hours, Li Xiaohong, flying high into the sky again, had made a new discovery.

I wonder if there are things like fish eggs or frog eggs in the water? But... did the Dinosaur Era even have fish and frogs?

"Ah!"

Seeing the water and sensing a new opportunity, an excited Li Xiaohong was about to take a closer look.