Reborn as a Lizard: Evolve! Cultivate! Become a Dragon!

The weather in the jungle changed all of a suddenly.

Dark clouds covered the sky, and they were as dark as a huge mountain, appearing as if someone could touch them with their hands. Their lightning was like a silver dragon rolling up and down in the clouds. A heavy rain was coming.

By the time he ran to the cave, Skyler was already in the lair, trembling all over and obviously frightened. Brandon placed two weird gourds. Without caring about anything else, he began to carefully inspect the cave to see which side was prone to water leakage.

The cave at this time is no longer the same cave as it was at the beginning. The cave had expanded a lot. The cave was already too big.

After experiencing the last landslide, he realised that the structure of his cave was actually very unsafe. There were no supports for reinforcement on the walls and ceiling.

This was like when building tunnels, in order to ensure structural safety, steel structures are usually used for reinforcement, and in some loose soil sections, cement grouting is used.

Drake obviously did not have those methods , and he was not familiar with such technical issues, so he had to explore by himself. But before he could implement it, a heavy rain was coming.

I hope I can hold on, Brandon thought.

He dug a lot of soil from outside and piled it at the entrance of the cave to prevent rainwater from coming inside. This was his only option. It seemed that after this time, he should change to another cave, and so Brandon secretly made up his mind.

After a burst of lightning and thunder, a strong wind came. Raindrops the size of copper coins poured down from the sky, and the whole jungle echoed the pleasant rustling sound.

However, Brandon did not have the temperament of a poet. He was spinning around in a hole like a headless fly.

Soon enough after the rain started, water began to leak inside the cave. Mud water leaked drop by drop along the cracks in the roof of the cave. Brandon held a huge leaf on his head and was busy repairing it with clay, making it solid.

But within a few minutes, Brandon Drake discovered that there were already four or five leaks. Often after one leaking place had been repaired, more leaking would start in a new place. It made him very annoyed.

It had been raining for less than half an hour, and water was already leaking from more than a dozen places at the entrance of the cave. Brandon had already picked off the leaves above his head, and his body was covered in mud, as if he had just rolled out of the mud.

Brandon was desperate at this point. He stared blankly at the entrance of the cave. The rain outside continued to fall with no sign of stopping.

The roof of the cave was completely soaked, water was leaking everywhere, and the previously compacted soil had begun to become loose. The rain and the soft soil had begun to fall piece by piece.

Brandon grabbed Skyler and stared at the ceiling of the cave tightly, his body already moving to the entrance of the cave. Skyler shivered in his arms.

Wow… The pieces of wood and rocks were flying when he peeked outside. Brandon grabbed Skyler and climbed out of the hole. The heavy rain outside splashed on his smooth scales. After being washed by the rain, the scales looked even brighter.

Brandon chose a direction and headed towards the open space. He knew that the rainforest during a thunderstorm is very dangerous, because no matter where you run, you are always under a tree, and you never know when lightning will hit you.

Brandon casually took a bigger leaf and put it on his head. He held Skyler in his arms and started running towards the lake. The vast area around the lake was a good lightning protection place.

Except for the rusting of heavy rain, the forest seemed very quiet in the rain. No animals dared to come out. Even the busiest insects had gone into hiding early. Brandon saw almost no animals along the way. He only saw a small black snake swimming hurriedly in the rain.

A few minutes later, Brandon Drake came to the small lake.

The rain fell on the lake, creating a shimmering white patch on the surface, which was strikingly beautiful. Several crocodiles joyfully rolled around in the water. Nearby, an enormous hippopotamus swam, occasionally snorting with excitement. Various fish also leapt from the lake from time to time, twirling in the air. This heavy rainfall was a godsend for the creatures in the lake. It hadn't rained for many days, and the lake had almost dried up.

Brandon was lying on the shore of the lake, with a huge leaf on his head. Skyler was lying on Brandon's shoulder, pecking him from time to time.

It looks very pitiful! A rainy day was very sad weather for him, and Brandon Drake lied there quietly. He thought about the old monk who raised him before and whether he already knew his sacrifice. He also reminisced about his former comrades. Are they doing well now?

Is the nurse who took care of Zeng Jin when he was injured now married? Does she ever think about me?

A booming sound interrupted Brandon Drake's random thoughts. He saw a white light flash before his eyes, his pupils shrank unconsciously, and a huge lightning struck somewhere in the jungle, making a huge noise. There was a look of fear in Brandon's eyes.

After a while, a thick smoke rose in the distance, and the pillar of smoke became bigger and bigger. Ten minutes later, Brandon Drake could perceive a choking smell. The smoke in the distance was getting thicker and thicker, so much so that the naked eye could already see a faint red light in the thick smoke. The rain gradually stopped, but the fire became more and more intense and began to spread.

Brandon could no longer care about anything else. He threw the leaves above his head and ran towards the leeward direction.

Brandon had seen the tragedy of forest fires on TV. Every fire is a massacre. Even the fastest antelopes and elk were often burned to death.

Not long after running, the entire forest began to commotion, and those animals with keen senses also began to run for their lives. As he ran, the heard following him grew a lot, and many of them were animals he had never seen before. There were both herbivores and carnivores, but now they were like brothers in distress, running for their lives together.

The density of vegetation in that tropical rainforest was too great, and the fire spread very quickly. The surrounding smoke was getting thicker and thicker, and the choking smoke was constantly inhaled into his body while running. As a result, Brandon was feeling a little dizzy.

Skyler was already flying in the air, constantly hovering in the sky, and bursts of her screaming could be heard from time to time.

The surrounding animals were knocked down by the smoke one by one, only to never get up again. The group of animals running together had slowly dwindled. Brandon saw a barrel-sized python rolling in the smoke. Brandon's luck was a little better.

The biggest danger from forest fire was not the heat, but the suffocating smoke.

After running for half an hour, the thick smoke behind him had been left behind. The fire began to spread in the opposite direction.

Brandon climbed to the top of a tree dozens of meters high and looked at it. The horizon was already red. It was as if the whole sky was on fire. Even in his previous life, Brandon Drake had never seen such a terrifying scene, and he was shocked in his heart. The power of nature is indeed beyond the power of human beings.

He slowly climbed down the tree, and Skyler flew down from the air and landed on his shoulder. Skyler seemed very quiet, clinging tightly to Brandon. This scene had obviously scared her.

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