Chapter 491 New Thoughts

After eating the food and reading the report sent by Li Ce, he briefly asked about the situation in the camp. As time passed, Zhou Xu, who was already in poor condition, looked sleepy again.

He had no intention of fighting against the sleepiness. He would just go to sleep when he felt sleepy. His top priority now was to have a good rest so that the mantra power he had consumed before could be better recovered.

When I opened my eyes again, it was already seven o'clock the next morning.

Not to mention the consumed mantra power, the full rest for a day and a night at least restored Zhou Xu's mental state a lot.

After breakfast, Zhou Xu came to the outside of the camp.

At this moment, the corpses of the four armored dragons were piled there like four small hills, and each corpse was pierced with giant crossbow arrows.

From not knowing where to start when facing the huge Ankylosaurus to completely hunting it down now, Zhou Xu played a great role.

If he hadn't used the method of 'beast soldier control' to directly cause the enemy's internal collapse, considering the environment at the time, the crossbow troops' success rate in annihilating them would only be 50-50.

Of course, earlier, the war of attrition led by Li Ce allowed the crossbow troops to disintegrate the external shells of the four armored dragons in advance, which also played a crucial role.

At this moment, the logistics troops were recovering their giant crossbow arrows from the armored dragon.

This is a deadly job. The size of the giant crossbow arrows and the design of the arrowheads mean that it is not easy to pull out the giant crossbow arrows that have penetrated into the body of the armored dragon.

Judging from the current situation, they need to first take a machete and cut the flesh of the armored dragon like sawing wood, to reduce the amount of flesh and blood that wraps around the arrowhead as much as possible, and then tie a strong enough hemp rope to the end of the giant crossbow arrow, and arrange a team of people below to pull out the giant crossbow arrow in a tug-of-war posture.

This job sounds simple, but it is really strenuous. Whether it is cutting the flesh of the armored dragon or pulling out the giant crossbow arrows, they are so tired that their backs ache and hands cramp, but they have to do this job.

After all, each of these giant crossbow arrows is an important resource for them, needless to say, the intact giant crossbow arrows can continue to be put into use.

Even those arrowheads that have been squeezed and deformed should be recycled as much as possible, because the iron as raw material is valuable in itself and can be melted down and recast.

It is not known how much iron ore the Tieshan mine that has been discovered can produce, and limited resources must always be used sparingly.

"Has this big guy's heart been confirmed?"

Walking aside, Zhou Xu asked the person in charge of the logistics team.

Obviously, Zhou Xu wanted to confirm whether this armored dragon was a supernatural creature. If it was, its heart should contain "heart blood".

When questioned, the person in charge shook his head.

"As you can see, we are still in the stage of recovering the giant crossbow arrow and have not yet started the autopsy of this giant. But judging from the current situation, it may not be that easy to dissect this giant."

As he spoke, the person in charge couldn't hide a bitter smile on his face.

You know, just cutting open the skin and muscle tissue of this big guy took them a lot of effort. If they were asked to dissect this big guy, the person in charge couldn't even imagine how huge the workload would be.

After understanding the situation, Zhou Xu didn't say anything more.

In fact, he didn't have high expectations for these four armored dragons.

One of the solid evidences is that Qiansui is still sleeping in the tent. He is so calm.

Qiansui has always been very eager for the "hard work" of extraordinary creatures. Although he will not rob them directly, if these four armored dragons really have "hard work", Qiansui is likely to be waiting here for the "meal".

In this case, the fact that the boy is not here now and is still sleeping is enough to explain a lot of problems.

However, this also proves that just because you are big and have great destructive power, it doesn't mean you are a supernatural creature.

According to this logic, before he traveled through time, those giant whales in his original world that were capable of crashing into ships were also extraordinary creatures?

Or were all the large dinosaurs of the Jurassic period also extraordinary creatures? So this idea is inherently flawed.

Looking at destructive power is indeed a simple and crude criterion, but it is too one-sided.

This incident made Zhou Xu think in a new way about the special category of "supernatural creatures".

[Intelligence, it is intelligence! The key characteristic of extraordinary creatures should be intelligence far beyond that of ordinary creatures! ]

Before, Zhou Xu had once fallen into a misunderstanding about combat power, and simply and crudely equated powerful special beasts with extraordinary creatures.

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But after seeing the Ankylosaurus and thinking about it just now, he came up with a new standard. Compared with the simple and crude judgment of combat power, Zhou Xu felt that the more important quality of extraordinary creatures should be intelligence, or a smart mind.

To give an extreme example, it is like a small insect with a highly developed brain, autonomous consciousness and independent thinking ability, which is smarter than humans.

It has no fighting power and is only the size of a fingernail. Not to mention humans, a random chicken, duck, or even a small creature like a bird or toad can easily take its life.

But can it still be classified as an ordinary insect? Undoubtedly, it is an extraordinary creature.

Even after it grows up, the impact it can cause will most likely exceed those extraordinary creatures that can only fight.

Following this line of thought, Zhou Xu could clearly discover that no matter whether it was the big bone and the second bone when they were alive, or when they were a thousand years old, they all showed a very high level of intelligence.

Da Gu had done something similar to diverting trouble when he was alive, and Er Gu had limited contact with him during his lifetime. Zhou Xu didn't make any assumptions, but Qiansui was raised by him.

Therefore, Zhou Xu was almost 100% sure that Qiansui could understand what he said without any obstacles, understand what he meant, and even effectively execute some of the complex commands he issued.

On the other hand, the Ankylosaurus on the opposite side can only understand some simple signals and perform some simple tasks according to the signals.

No matter from which perspective you look at it, its intelligence is not high. It is estimated to be at the same level as animals like cats and dogs.

Since Zhou Xu used "intelligence" as the core basis for judging whether the target was a supernatural creature, the intelligence of the armored dragon was undoubtedly unqualified.

As his thoughts raced, the new ideas that emerged in his mind had already been completely sorted out by him.

(End of this chapter)