Dai Xiaomei looked at Zhou Niannian, utterly speechless.
Who was this person, this glutton, still thinking about food at a time like this?
If it weren't for the panda, we would have almost been eaten by dinosaurs just now.
Now that we're finally safe, you're thinking about eating dinosaurs?
"Dragon meat from the heavens, donkey meat from the earth. Dinosaurs are also dragons, and their meat must be even tastier than donkey meat."
Zhou Niannian's mouth watered as he thought of dragon meat.
Jiang Fan chuckled. This guy really forgot his pain once his wound healed. If a dinosaur appeared again later, he'd have it coming.
"There's no dinosaur meat, but we should be able to find food nearby."
"Huh? How can you be so sure there's food here?"
Zhou Niannian asked curiously.
"Because there are dinosaurs here. How could a dinosaur grow so large without food?"
"You saw it just now, the dinosaur was lying in a pile of bones."
"Those bones must be the remains of animals the dinosaur caught."
Jiang Fan explained, and Zhou Niannian suddenly understood.
She also felt Jiang Fan's reasoning made sense. To feed a dinosaur so large, the food resources must be abundant.
"Hehehe, maybe there's a spatial portal hidden in some corner."
Zhou Niannian began to fantasize again.
"Let's go. We'll go back to where the dinosaur came out earlier and take a look."
Jiang Fan beckoned everyone, and they walked towards the spot where the dinosaur had emerged.
Soon, they returned to the place where the dinosaur had first appeared.
The entrance to the pit in the distance was still there, dark and frightening. Everyone quickly used the packed dinosaur bones to block the opening.
The exposed gaps were then sealed with碎石头 (broken stones) and mud mixed with water.
Soon, a wall stood at the pit's entrance.
Jiang Fan mused that even if death flies appeared, they wouldn't be able to get through anytime soon.
The urgent matter now was to find food.
"Let's split up and search. Shout if you find food."
Jiang Fan instructed the team members to disperse and search for food.
Jiang Fan had imagined there would be plenty of food nearby.
Because earlier, Jiang Fan had carefully examined the white bones in the dinosaur's nest. There were remains of pigs, cattle, sheep, and horses.
If these animals all lived nearby, there should be a forest in the vicinity.
Driven by the lure of food, everyone searched meticulously, looking in every corner.
They almost peeled off a piece of the rock wall in their search.
Strangely, they found no food at all. Not to mention pigs, sheep, cattle, or horses, they didn't even find a single rat.
Jiang Fan was baffled. What did that dinosaur eat to grow so large? Did it live on air and dew?
No, the dinosaur was clearly lying in a pile of bone fragments.
Thinking of this, Jiang Fan suddenly noticed something strange.
Where was that pile of white bones? Why had it suddenly disappeared?
When they encountered the dinosaur earlier, they clearly saw it sleeping amidst a pile of bones.
But now that they had returned, the bone pile had vanished.
Jiang Fan remembered something and quickly looked at the ground.
How peculiar, there weren't even any dinosaur footprints left.
Mind you, the inside of the cave was very damp and slippery.
Let alone dinosaurs, even Jiang Fan and the others' footprints had left clear tracks.
Yet, a giant dinosaur had left no footprints.
If it weren't for the pile of bone fragments over there, Jiang Fan would have doubted if the dinosaur he saw was a hallucination.
Zhou Niannian, Dai Xiaomei, and the others also noticed the anomaly.
"That's strange. All traces of the dinosaur's activity are gone. This is too weird!"
Dai Xiaomei mumbled.
"What's going on? Was the dinosaur we encountered a hallucination?"
Zhou Niannian scratched his head and asked.
"It wasn't a hallucination!"
Jiang Fan pointed to the bone fragments sealing the pit entrance. It was true that a dinosaur had just died in front of them.
"But for there to be absolutely no trace is too exaggerated."
Zhou Niannian gave a wry smile, racking his brain but unable to figure out what was happening.
"Let's search again."
Jiang Fan suggested, and the team scattered again, hoping to find something.
This time, they truly conducted a carpet search. Everyone crawled on the ground, slowly looking, almost as if they were using a magnifying glass.
Jiang Fan even pressed his face to the ground, almost licking the dust.
He even returned to the cave and searched the steep rock faces.
Jiang Fan had expected to find animals like mountain monkeys and mountain spiders on the rock faces.
To his great disappointment, there was nothing.
Upon his return, he found his teammates looking at him with dejected expressions.
His teammates had also searched diligently but found nothing, completely clueless as to what the dinosaur survived on.
The netizens in the live stream were equally bewildered.
"Seriously, can dinosaurs know Qinggong (a martial arts movement technique)? They don't even leave footprints."
"Was it an inflatable dinosaur? That's why there were no footprints."
"Bah, where would an inflatable dinosaur get a skeleton?"
"My guess is that all the nearby animals were eaten by the dinosaur, so they couldn't find food."
"What are the odds of that happening?"
After a period of discussion, the netizens couldn't come up with a satisfactory explanation and continued watching the live stream.
Meanwhile, Jiang Fan's team had also made no new discoveries, lying around dejectedly.
"Wait!"
Jiang Fan suddenly remembered something.
The ground in the area was very moist, indicating there should be a water source in the cave.
However, they hadn't found any water source during their search.
With this in mind, Jiang Fan quickly used his [Humidity Detection] talent.
He quickly discovered that the area with the highest humidity was right under their feet, where the dinosaur had been lying.
Strange, there was nothing here. Could there be a spring underground?
Jiang Fan put his ear to the ground and pounded the surface with his hand.
If there was an underground river or a spring below, it wouldn't escape Jiang Fan's ears.
After listening for a long time, Jiang Fan stood up, looking disappointed.
The ground was completely solid underneath, no underground river or spring to be found.
What was happening here was too incredible.
Zhou Niannian squatted where the dinosaur had originally been lying. She was out of energy and had sprawled out like a starfish, resting.
Suddenly, Zhou Niannian made a new discovery.
"Look, what is this!"
On the ground, there was a tiny black dot.
This black dot was the exact same color as the ground.
If Zhou Niannian hadn't been lying directly on the ground, with the black dot so close, it would have been impossible to see.
Just as Zhou Niannian was about to reach out and touch it, Jiang Fan stopped her. It was best not to touch unknown objects carelessly.
Jiang Fan tentatively poked the black dot with his walking stick. There was no reaction.
Moreover, the black dot didn't look solid; it seemed more like a phantom.
When the walking stick touched the black dot, it passed directly through the center of it.