"Let's head back to base first."
Given how bizarre the situation was, Jack also sensed that something was wrong, so he ordered the others to move without hesitation.
At his command, the group quickly formed a neat defensive formation, surrounding Dilos and Jack in the middle as they started back the way they had come.
Ten minutes later...
"Hm?"
As Dilos walked with the group, he suddenly felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. A shiver ran through him as the strange sensation of his Spider-Sense instantly reached his brain.
His Spider-Sense was warning him!
Almost at once, Dilos released his telepathic awareness. His mental power surged out from his mind, covering everything within a radius of three hundred meters.
As his mental power spread across the surrounding area, Dilos instantly sensed the psychic auras of every living thing within three hundred meters. The result made him frown unconsciously.
They were everywhere. The area about a hundred meters behind the group was covered in countless psychic auras.
"Dinosaurs? But these psychic auras are so small... Is that because they're so tiny?"
To confirm his suspicions, Dilos adjusted the focus of his eyes without hesitation and looked around. Though dense vegetation covered the area, so that an ordinary person would see nothing but green, Dilos's incredible eyesight could pick out details among the greenery.
In a small patch of short grass in the distance, he spotted a little green figure darting through. His keen eyesight let him memorize its features, and the name of the dinosaur immediately surfaced in his mind.
"Compsognathus..." Once he recognized the species, Dilos understood why the psychic auras he had detected were so small, despite being so numerous.
Compsognathus were small, standing about twenty-five centimeters tall and usually measuring sixty to