anovelconsole Chapter 12 Fear of Chickens
Chapter 12 Fear of Chickens
Inside the observation room, Bai Zhou didn't hesitate. He tapped the intervention interface with his fingertip and made the long-awaited decision:
[Dragon Kingdom participant Bai Zhou used 1 intervention point to guide the population growth of the Red Plains Chicken Clan!]
The moment the intervention took effect, the Red Junglefowl flocks on the ancient continent underwent visible changes:
The adult red junglefowl grows rapidly from one meter in height, its shoulder height increases dramatically, its overall skeletal framework expands, and its muscles swell accordingly. When standing, it is nearly 1.5 meters tall and weighs 10 kilograms. The proportion of its neck to its torso is closer to that of a theropod dinosaur.
Those newly hatched cubs, with their bluish-black metallic sheen, grow at an accelerated rate under the intervention.
Their limbs are more robust, their teeth are more hardened, and scaly skin texture is faintly visible under their short hairs.
Sensing the changes in its body, the red junglefowl leader raised its head and let out a deep, resonant call, no longer a sharp "cock-a-doodle-doo," but a growl close to that of a ferocious beast.
Judging from its physical characteristics, the red junglefowl can no longer be called a red junglefowl; it should be called a "fearful chicken."
The name means that the modern red junglefowl has some characteristics of both chickens and dinosaurs.
Features such as long tails, teeth, and missing feathers are characteristic of dinosaurs.
The gradually shrinking winglets are characteristic features of chickens.
From a distance, it looks like a large, running bird with teeth, a long tail, wings, and primitive feathers, almost indistinguishable from a small theropod dinosaur.
Bai Zhou believes that in a few million years, the Dinosaur will become a real theropod dinosaur.
As for the exact number of years required, we'll consider that later.
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Time flies, and ten years have passed since we used intervention points.
The Red Junglefowl on the ancient continent completely disappeared, leaving only more than seventy Dreadfowl.
A large group of over thirty wild dogs and cheetahs clashed with a group of pheasants in a fierce battle.
The three groups stood facing each other on the grass.
[Japan: Go, stray dogs!]
[Japan: Take this opportunity to wipe out these chickens in one fell swoop.]
[South Korea: So what if they intervene? They still can't beat us.]
[Keep going, we believe in you!]
Three wild dogs were the first to pounce on the leader of the chickens.
Faced with three wild dogs that pounced on them, the leader of the dire chickens led two other dire chickens and charged straight at the dogs.
In the past, the fear chicken would never have confronted the wild dog head-on.
The heaviest red junglefowl used to weigh only ten kilograms, and they would get injured if touched by wild dogs or cheetahs.
However, the weight of red junglefowl is now generally over 20 pounds. Although they are still not as heavy as wild dogs and cheetahs, they have gained some ability to compete.
The enhanced physique gave the fear chicken a great deal of confidence.
The two collided violently.
The leader of the pheasants was knocked off balance and rolled away, as were the other two.
Although it was knocked off its feet and suffered minor injuries, the rooster leader was not discouraged; on the contrary, it was in high spirits.
When the three wild dogs saw that their charge had failed, they charged again.
The wild dogs, enhanced with endurance, employed attrition tactics in an attempt to wear down the dire chickens.
But this time, the chickens' counterattack was completely different.
The pheasant leader used its powerful hind legs to stomp on the ground, and the speed it released in an instant was too much for a wild dog to avoid. The dog was bitten hard on the shoulder blade, and blood gushed out immediately.
The stray dog that was bitten could not escape and opened its mouth to bite back.
The chicken leader and the wild dogs engaged in a pure close-quarters battle.
The previous fighting method involved using jumping and gliding abilities to continuously peck at the wild dogs to wear them down.
The current fighting style is direct head-on collision, which is a contest of who has the stronger bite force, who has the greater strength, and who has the stronger fighting instinct. The whole battle is full of bestiality.
Meanwhile, the cheetah pack, enhanced by their speed, launched another lightning attack.
A cheetah lunged at a mother pheasant who was protecting her cubs, but the pheasant reacted quickly and turned to run into the cheetah.
The pheasant was knocked back several steps, while the cheetah only paused for a moment.
With the arrival of the cheetah pack, the battle immediately became a stalemate.
Although the size of the pheasant has increased, the wild dogs and cheetahs have gained the upper hand in numbers. The pheasant flock fought and retreated, gradually moving towards the rocky area, using the rugged terrain to limit the cheetahs' charge and the wild dogs' encirclement.
The leader of the pheasants seized the opportunity and let out a series of short roars. Suddenly, the pheasants charged towards a narrow crevice in the rocks.
The wild dogs and cheetahs gave chase, but the cramped space prevented them from forming a battle formation.
The leader of the pheasants led several of the strongest pheasants to block the entrance and launched a counterattack using the terrain advantage.
A wild dog tried to squeeze in, but was bitten on the neck by the leader of the dire chickens. Another cheetah leaped down from the side rock wall to ambush, but was also stopped by the other dire chickens.
Ultimately, the wild dogs and cheetahs retreated temporarily after leaving behind three corpses.
Although the chickens successfully defended themselves, they paid the price of four dead and three wounded.
This battle can only be described as a lose-lose situation, but at least the pheasant gained a space to survive.
They will no longer need to run around to survive as before.
It's really not easy.
Indeed, facing a double attack from wild dogs and cheetahs, even if lions came here, their survival environment wouldn't be much better.
[Don't forget, upstairs, Yamamoto Ken and Lee Jung-tae together have a total of four intervention points, while Shirasu only has two.]
Yes, achieving this result with only two intervention points is already quite an achievement.
I think I understand why Shirasu didn't interfere with the points system before.
This is an attempt to use a high-pressure living environment as a "replacement" for intervention points.
[That makes sense. Chickens are inherently weaker than wild dogs and cheetahs, and they also have two fewer intervention points. If no measures were taken, they would probably have been wiped out by now.]
[South Korea: Damn it! These chickens survived again.]
[Japan: These chickens were just lucky. Next time we get intervention points, we'll wipe them out.]
After this battle, the Japanese and Koreans realized that they were on the side of two countries united.
Although the intervention points are distributed in installments, in actual application, the effect of 1+1>2 can be achieved.
Just like this time, Ken Yamamoto and Jung-tae Lee each enhanced their respective archaeological species.
Before intervention points are allocated, there is no absolute hegemon in this area.
The red junglefowl, cheetah, and wild dogs maintain a balance of power.
However, after the intervention points were used, the ecological niche of cheetahs and wild dogs hunting together rose sharply, which eventually led to a drastic deterioration of the red junglefowl's living environment.
So when they saw that the encirclement and suppression had failed, their subconscious thought was to wait until the two hundredth day, when they had more intervention points, to strengthen their native species again, in order to eliminate the Fear Chicken population.