Chapter 235: Dew Condensation Land

Just as Xiao Jian had speculated, when he saw the [skin] covering Hopper's belly, he immediately determined that the reason why the gorillas were chasing them was definitely not those who could turn on the [thermal vision]. ] A certain sand.

Obviously, the Calamity Stone tribe probably discovered the secret of Hopper's village, and then suddenly started to hunt them down.

It's a pity that the leading gorilla was eaten alive, otherwise maybe he would have been able to find out something.

As for those gorillas that were not killed and fled in all directions, they were completely hidden in the darkness. Xiao Jian didn't want to bother chasing him. After all, even Hopper, the hunted person, didn't know about it. So as a low-level person, Gorillas also have a hard time knowing cause and effect.

However, Xiao Jian has temporarily remembered this matter. If you have a chance to go to the Calamity Stone Tribe in the future, you can arrest a high-level person and interrogate him.

After this war is over, it's time to search for the loot.

The male orangutans began to happily cut up the enemy's corpse.

The picture was too primitive and too bloody. Although Xiao Jian was not afraid, he was still a little unaccustomed to the physical stimulation caused by pure blood.

Xiao Jian simply stopped looking and returned to the high crevices to observe the female orangutans collecting plants.

Xiao Jian's arrival naturally brought light.

Because [Breaking] was always activated, Xiao Jian's eyes always had a faint, extremely weak light.

Although such light is inconspicuous during the day or even night in the normal world, in this completely lightless world, it is only such a weak light. For the aborigines who have never seen light, this is Still as bright as the sun.

"The Great Eye of Flame..."

When the female orangutans felt Xiao Jian's gaze, they immediately knelt down and shouted Xiao Jian's "god name".

Perhaps due to the poor language, they did not come up with a bunch of flattering prayers, but only respectfully addressed them as "great".

"You go on, I'll just take a look."

Xiao Jian said.

"yes."

After hearing Xiao Jian's words, the other female orangutans continued to collect plants, but Nie Li, who had a nice voice, came to Xiao Jian's side and explained to him:

"What we are collecting now is the moss that grew after the disaster... This is one of the most nutritious foods. In normal times, only leaders are qualified to eat this kind of food. Only when it grows on a large scale like now, can collectors have the right to eat it?" Qualify to eat the bad parts.”

Nie Li explained softly.

Xiao Jian nodded while listening, but tried not to look at her face... After all, her voice and face were too inconsistent.

"Is the collected moss used to make that kind of moss cake?" Xiao Jian thought of the food they had put out before.

"Yes." Nie Li replied.

"Then... what about those plasters? What... are they?" Xiao Jian was a little curious.

After all, in their eyes, moss is delicious, but plaster is not tasty... They have such a strong tolerance that they think plaster is not tasty, so what is it made of? Could it really be cockroach protein?

"It's mortar, a kind of soil dug out from the ground... Fresh mortar can be eaten after being mixed with sour water and fermented for 12 days. It has high energy, but it tastes sour and smelly, which is not good. It’s just food, but it will definitely fill your stomach.”

Nie Li seems to be quite protective of the stucco paste.

Maybe it's because of need, maybe it's because of some good memories... But in short, if food that sounds so unpalatable can make her feel precious, then the food supply situation in the entire Blackstone Mountains should be very bad.

"What about the prey? Is the prey delicious?" Xiao Jian asked.

"Prey?" Nie Li was stunned by Xiao Jian's question, "What is prey?"

"...It's the wild beast that I hunted..." At this point, Xiao Jian paused for a moment, "...or is it an enemy?"

"That's something only men can eat... The enemy's corpse is more precious than anything else! Only by eating can men become stronger and protect us from being eaten."

Nie Li said calmly, not feeling any unwillingness or resentment towards this obvious unfairness.

"Where are those monsters? Didn't you cut off a part before? Have you tasted it secretly?" Xiao Jian thought of the monsters he had killed before - unlike the monsters in the fog, the monsters here all left corpses of.

"I only licked some blood, some of it was delicious, and some of it was poisonous..." Nie Li licked her lips unconsciously, as if she was savoring the delicious taste.

"..."

Through these questions and answers, Xiao Jian got a little understanding of the location of Hopper's village in the entire Blackstone Mountains.

Obviously, they are at the bottom of the biological chain, and there is not even the concept of "prey", there are only "enemies".

But yes, compared to monsters, the combat efficiency of chimpanzees is too low... The biggest advantages of humanoid creatures are wisdom and hands, while the biggest disadvantages are claws, teeth and absolute strength.

If they only rely on their claws and claws like chimpanzees, they can't compete with monsters that frequently attack with five or six points and have hundreds of health points, let alone hunt them.

So Xiao Jian even suspected that the monsters he killed gave Hopper and the others a taste of "prey" for the first time.

After understanding some basic information, Xiao Jian said nothing and carefully observed other female orangutans collecting moss.

Nie Li stood beside Xiao Jianjian for a while and found that Lord "God" had no new questions, so she also collected some moss in a small area.

Xiao Jian thought their collecting movements were a bit strange before, but now he realized through Nie Li's movements that it was better to say "picking" than "picking".

Because...these plants, at least things that look like plants, have no root system!

But it makes sense if you think about it carefully. After all, the ground is full of obsidian made of glass. Not to mention that the roots cannot penetrate, even if it penetrates, the stone will still crack!

"Almost over……"

Suddenly, Nie Li straightened up, saluted Xiao Jian and quickly joined in the collection work.

Because in just such a short period of time, the surrounding plants have begun to wither!

The first things to die were the tall, hard-looking plants.

In fact, looking back now, the start button was pressed at the beginning of this death process.

At the beginning, these plants did not change much, but after a certain point in time, they suddenly began to die in large tracts like a collapse.

The taller plants collapsed and fell to the ground, and the shorter plants gradually became dry, yellow... and then completely shattered into mud.

This process was very fast, and within a few minutes, the sea of ​​plants that once covered the entire area completely disappeared.

Xiao Jian bent down and picked up a handful of dust formed by dry and broken plants...

They passed through Xiao Jian's fingertips and then disappeared in mid-air.

Then this disappearance was quickly transmitted to Xiao Jian's hands, causing the sand and soil in his hands to disappear!

Not only that, all the dust within sight began to disappear, gradually turning invisible and hiding in the air.

"..."

Xiao Jian's mouth tightened slightly... because this scene reminded him of the way zombies look when they die and disappear.

Although the zombies first turned into mist and then disappeared, the process and feeling were very similar to the way these plants disappeared now!

They all disappeared out of thin air!

If it were fog, it wouldn't seem too abrupt. After all, normal fog dissipates in this way.

But when it comes to these "dusts", it's a bit too weird.

It was this sense of incongruity in common sense that immediately reminded Xiao Jian of what it would be like when the fog disappeared.

"Great Eye of Flame, you...what's wrong with you?" Nie Li asked cautiously when she saw Xiao Jian was silent for a long time.

"Do these plants disappear like this every time?" Xiao Jian asked.

"Yes." Nie Li seemed a little confused as to why Xiao Jian asked this. After all, in her opinion, this was a normal and natural phenomenon.

"That's okay." Xiao Jian waved his hand, "Show me the moss you collected."

"yes."

Nie Li touched her fat belly, then grabbed a large handful of moss, held it in both hands and brought it to Xiao Jian.

Xiao Jian picked up a small piece of moss, looked at it, and smelled it.

Yes, that's it, the smell of fresh grass is exactly the same as those moss cakes.

Interestingly, all the "ownerless" mosses and plants have disappeared, but the ones that were collected still exist.

"How long can this thing be stored?" Xiao Jian asked.

"Ah?" Nie Li was stunned by the question, and then said, "As long as I haven't eaten it, it will always be there... I don't understand what you mean."

"Won't your food spoil?" Xiao Jian continued to ask from a different angle.

"What is spoilage? Changing the texture? We'll hammer them into moss cakes..."

Nie Li replied seriously.

"Forget it, just pretend I didn't ask."

Apparently, this lack of common sense is also part of the Blackstone Mountains.

Or maybe it’s the function of the [skin] on their belly.

Xiao Jian thought for a while, exchanged the bread resource card for a bag of soft cream cakes, and handed it to Nie Li:

"Cut it up, put half of it away for storage, and take half with you... You can eat part of it secretly, but you'd better keep part of it when I check it tomorrow."

Xiao Jian said.

"Yes...but I won't steal it. Great Eye of Flame, I will help you protect your treasure!"

Nie Li said righteously.

"It's not a treasure..."

Xiao Jian waved his hand.

Nie Li blinked, but did not argue - how could something that smelled so good not be a treasure?

When cutting the cake, part of the cream got on Nie Li's obsidian knife...

"I'm not eating it secretly, I just don't waste it...it's stuck on the knife and I can't take it off, so I can only lick it clean..."

"I just took a little lick, it definitely can't be considered stealing..."

Nie Li murmured for a long time, and finally couldn't help but lick the obsidian knife, and then...

"x-on:x-on:#x-on:!￥"

After sobbing for a long time, Nie Li's eyes suddenly became firm - this is indeed the treasure of the great Eye of Flame! !

I must protect this treasure!

Nie Li secretly made up her mind.

However, Xiao Jian just wanted to test whether real food would spoil in this world, nothing more.

Just when Nie Li vowed to protect the cake, Hopper's group of male orangutans had returned, and all the orangutans had extremely satisfied smiles on their faces.

"Hmm? Have you grown a little taller?" Xiao Jian looked at Hopper for a long time and suddenly asked.

"Yes." Hopper nodded, "The people of the Disaster Stone Tribe are very nutritious. Their bodies and blood contain powerful energy... I only ate one and I became stronger!"

Hearing this, Xiao Jian took a special look at Hopper's attributes, and the result was still 0, 0, 5, without any change.

It seems that devouring an enemy cannot bring it any attribute improvement.

But the problem is that the improvement in height is very obvious!

"...Give me a piece of the enemy's corpse, and a piece of the monster's corpse... Just a piece the size of your fist! Don't take too many!"

Hearing what Xiao Jian said, Hopper almost piled all the corpses in front of Xiao Jian... Fortunately, Xiao Jian replenished quickly, so Hopper took out his beloved small axe and cut two pieces for Xiao Jian respectively.

Xiao Jian didn't touch it either, and directly used his invisible hand to teleport back to the Nanmu space.

He was going to cut some flesh and then feed it to the dog at Nanwu Fortress to see if its attributes or size would change.

Of course, this experiment could not be done at Nanwu Fortress, but the dog had to be borrowed temporarily...

After making another note in the workbook, Xiao Jian could finally consider the core issue.

That is...

"Where is the Holy Maiden Peak?" Xiao Jian asked.

Hopper said before that it was cheated at the Holy Maiden Peak, so it got the Holy Beast Card...

"Are you going to find that old liar?" Hopper asked tentatively.

"Yes." Xiao Jian nodded, "I want to know the origin of the Holy Beast Card."

"..."

Hearing this, Hopper was silent for a while, and then said apologetically: "Please forgive the great one, the old liar is no longer at the Holy Maiden Peak..."

"Then where is he?" Xiao Jian asked.

"I don't know either..." Hopper said ashamedly, "I reported that it was a liar, and then it was expelled... As for where it is now, I don't know."

"But we may be able to find out where it went..." Hopper hurriedly said, "The Holy Maiden Peak is so big, maybe someone knows where it went."

"..."

Xiao Jian couldn't help but feel a headache after hearing this.

Sure enough, things are not that simple.

"I'm really sorry..." Hopper whispered again.

"Let's go, find a shelter to accommodate your villagers first, and then take me to the Holy Maiden Peak."

Xiao Jian thought about it and decided to settle its people first.

"Thank you, praise you, great Eye of Fire!"

Hopper knelt on the ground, and was so excited that he even jumped out several words of praise.

The fleeing team started moving again.

But this time, they no longer had to worry about the pursuers behind and the dangers ahead, and even had enough supplies.

Now, they just need to find a dew condensation place to settle down.

By the way, what is the dew condensation place?

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