The heaps of white bones made Lin Li's heart pound. He murmured to himself, momentarily dazed.
"So many bones piled up here. There's no way they formed naturally. Something dangerous and huge must be hiding nearby.
"This sea of flowers probably isn't as simple as it looks. Maybe these orchids are bait, meant to lure in prey."
As soon as he finished speaking, a sharp whistling sound suddenly cut through the air.
"Whoosh!"
Danger rushed straight at his back, moving so fast he barely had time to react. A faint, fishy stench accompanied it.
Lin Li reacted with astonishing speed. His many dangerous battles had honed his keen sense of danger.
Almost instinctively, he twisted aside and darted sharply to the side, nimbly evading the sneak attack.
The thing skimmed past the hem of his clothes and landed in the flower bed not far away, smashing a yellow orchid to pieces.
Once he had steadied himself, he swiftly turned around to see what had attacked him. It was a brightly colored chameleon.
The chameleon stood two meters tall at the shoulder and was a full seven meters long, its body as huge as a small car.
Its colors kept shifting. It went from green to purple and yellow, matching the orchids around it and blending perfectly into the sea of flowers.
Its eyes could move independently. One stared at Lin Li while the other warily scanned the surroundings. Its tongue was slick with viscous fluid; that long tongue was what had just attacked him.
The tongue was more than ten meters long, like a flexible whip.
Seeing its attack fail, a trace of unwillingness flashed in the chameleon's eyes. It then backed away a few steps and quickly slipped into the flower bed.
Its color instantly blended with the pink