Chapter 236 The Difference Between Humans and Beasts

The so-called land of condensation is actually a general term, because most of the water sources in the Black Rock Mountains are formed by condensed dew, so the land of condensation has become a synonym for the water source.

Hopper's village was originally a little far away from the Land of Condensation, but because they possess [Dimensional Folding Skin], even if they are far away, getting water is actually not a problem.

But that was before.

Now, they have been driven out of their original villages, which not only caused them to lose their homes, but also turned them into real wanderers, and they had to start everything over again.

Where is the food, where is the water source, where is the danger, where is the restricted area...

These seemingly simple but extremely important knowledge must be re-explored, discovered, and ultimately passed on.

Therefore, if you want to find a new settlement, you don't just need to find a place with good terrain.

If the terrain is just good, then there is no better place than the fissure transformed by Xiao Jian!

It's strong, safe, and insulated from the dangers of disaster.

But unfortunately, this fissure is located at a higher altitude in the Blackstone Mountains.

According to the knowledge Hopper inherited, the higher the place, the more dangerous it is.

There are problems with monster distribution, and there are also environmental problems.

In short, high latitudes are by no means a livable place.

Previously, they were chased and had no choice but to run to dangerous places in order to get rid of the people of the Calamity Stone Tribe.

Of course they failed to do so, but fortunately Xiao Jian saw Hopper's message in the stone "Holy Book", which allowed Hopper's village to survive.

Now, since the danger has passed, it is time to leave this dangerous place.

Xiao Jian did not interfere with their decision-making. After all, he was leaving and could not guarantee the safety of other villagers.

For the indigenous people of the Blackstone Mountains who can only move forward by groping, they have to make great sacrifices whether they are looking for shelter or a place to condense.

Imagine climbing a high mountain in absolute darkness where you can't see your fingers... During this period, whether it is terrain, monsters or even some insignificant small gravels, it may become a fatal factor!

The most dangerous among them are the traps set by other villages, towns and tribes...

Although most of these traps are defensive in nature, once caught, there is no chance of survival.

It can be said that every large-scale migration and every clearing of the perception of the environment requires a lot of life to re-establish the understanding of the surrounding terrain.

If they really have to find a dew condensation place or shelter on their own, then they may not be able to find a suitable place even if more than 50 chimpanzees go there.

However, for Xiao Jian, who can see through the darkness, finding shelter is very simple. The only trouble is the so-called dew place.

"...So, what kind of terrain is the Land of Condensation?"

Xiao Jian's eyes looked into the distance, and the faint flame burning in his eyes penetrated the curtain of darkness and saw a place far, far away.

However, from his perspective, this is just a bare, dark mountain range. There are no streams, lakes or even places suitable for digging wells to draw water in the traditional sense.

In this black stone mountain range composed entirely of obsidian, all the common sense Xiao Jian had had lost its effect.

"The land of condensation is very humid, the air is full of water vapor, the rocks under your feet will be a little slippery, and they will smell like water..."

Hopper described it this way.

When Xiao Jian listened to its description, he knew that he couldn't get any practical information from Hopper - although this guy had a deeper understanding of the land of condensation than Xiao Jian, he could distinguish water vapor entirely through touch and smell. of.

Xiao Jian is not a camel, so he has no ability to follow the water vapor in the air to find the source of water.

but……

"...can you smell the water vapor?" Xiao Jian asked directly.

"I can only sense the general direction." Hopper replied, "The water source closest to us should still be the dew place we used to have... But in this direction, I smell a very faint smell of water again, but It should be very, very far away.”

Hearing this, Xiao Jian perked up and suddenly raised his hand to signal the other chimpanzees to stop.

Because of the dim fire in Xiao Jian's eyes, the chimpanzees all saw Xiao Jian's gesture. Although they didn't know what the gesture meant, since Xiao Jian stopped, they also stopped.

"I'll dig a fully enclosed shelter for you here first, and then I'll take Hopper to find the water source... When we find the so-called dew place, we'll come back to pick you up."

While Xiao Jian was talking, he had already dug out two huge holes in the hard obsidian mountain wall, big enough to stuff all the chimpanzees in.

"Everyone, go in..." Upon hearing this, Hopper also began to urge the other chimpanzees to go in quickly.

But after the other chimpanzees entered, Hopper suddenly leaned into Xiao Jian's ear and whispered something.

"Oh? Why?" Xiao Jian asked strangely.

Hopper asked Xiao Jian to lock Nie Li, the female orangutan with a particularly beautiful voice, in isolation.

"...I, I want a child, my own child." Hopper said timidly.

"She's not you...forget it, I understand."

Xiao Jian originally thought that Hopper and Nie Li were husband and wife, or at least a couple... But now it seems that things are not that simple.

From some of their habits, it is clear that they have not evolved traditions and ethics.

Or, it is this cruel environment that prevents them from evolving such extravagant and redundant emotions.

Reproduction is such a sacred thing that it cannot be bound by ethics. Reproduction itself is more important than anything else - at least for their tribe.

"Nie Li... come on." Xiao Jian suddenly turned around and shouted.

"Yes." The pleasant voice of the female gorilla sounded in the darkness.

In other words, if Xiao Jian could not see or touch, this voice alone would make people imagine countless beautiful women.

It's a pity that Xiao Jian could see it, which is a bit embarrassing...

After Xiao Jian told her what Hopper meant, Nie Li was silent for a while, and Hopper looked at Xiao Jian in great confusion.

"What? Are you dissatisfied?" Xiao Jian asked Hopper.

"Don't dare, don't dare..." Hopper waved his hands repeatedly, "But... why ask her?"

"Shouldn't you respect Nie Li's own opinion? Is it your business to have a child?" Xiao Jian was also very strange.

"Isn't it!?" Hopper was shocked.

"...Huh?"

Xiao Jian was also shocked...

"What's your process?"

Hopper was puzzled, but still explained: "Beat the others, beat them hard, beat them into submission, and then fuck her... Then watch her for 10 days, and if there is no reaction, continue to fuck her."

There is a reaction in 10 days?

The counterattack speed is really fast...

...But this process is so primitive that it is powerless to complain.

"I...I don't want to have children." Nie Li suddenly whispered, "Can I not have children?"

"Of course, it's your freedom." Xiao Jian nodded.

But Xiao Jian nodded, but Hopper didn't understand and asked loudly: "Why!?"

"Because... I want to settle down first."

Nie Li's tone was soft and weak, but Xiao Jian could hear that she was gradually becoming firm:

"Before, Betty started to flee as soon as she gave birth to a child, and the child died... Betty has been secretly wiping tears these days..."

"I want to wait until I settle down before raising a fat baby. I don't want the child to die not long after it was born."

Nie Li said so.

But Hopper didn't understand: "If the child is gone, can't you just have another one?"

"But that child is Hei Rui's, and Hei Rui is dead..." Nie Li retorted.

"It's the same to have a baby of mine..."

"She likes Hei Rui."

Hopper opened his mouth, then muttered a few words in a low voice, but didn't refute it again.

"So, do you also require a separate room?" Xiao Jian asked at the right time.

"Yes, the great eye of fire." Nie Li replied.

"What about the others? Do you want to put all the girls together?" Xiao Jian asked.

"!?"

But as soon as this question came out, Hopper's eyes widened, as if he had heard something shocking.

"Is it okay?" Nie Li was also a little unbelievable.

"What's wrong with this? This is your right." Xiao Jian shrugged.

"Praise you, great Eye of Fire." Nie Li quickly knelt on the ground, kowtowed respectfully several times, and then ran to inform others happily.

Soon, bursts of exclamations came from the cave, but because this was the order of the great "Eye of Fire", Xiao Jian's order did not encounter any resistance.

After the men and women sealed the cave, Xiao Jian grabbed Hopper, spread his wings and flew up.

"Hu..."

The strong wind poured into Hopper's eyes, ears and even throat, making him vomit uncomfortably.

"Shut your mouth, otherwise you will only eat more wind..." Xiao Jian instructed: "Feel the direction of the water vapor with your heart, and then show me the way."

"Woo!" Hopper whimpered in a low voice, then stretched out his long arm with a "beard" and pointed to the horizon.

The next thing went smoothly.

Under Hopper's guidance, Xiao Jian found a huge basin filled with black sand not long after flying.

Xiao Jian landed on a high ground, and Hopper, who was full of wind, finally lay on the ground and vomited after his feet stepped on the ground again.

Of course, most of what he vomited was gas, but occasionally there was some mushy vomit.

But this guy seemed to think it was a pity to vomit it out, and he actually ate it back.

Ugh... too disgusting!

No, he is not qualified now, so he should use it.

Hopper didn't know that his race had just been upgraded in Xiao Jian's mind, but it was beaten back to the category of animals by its disgusting behavior.

Although Xiao Jian knew rationally that this behavior was caused by the lack of supplies, but... it was too disgusting!

When Xiao Jian finally forced himself to forget the scene he had just seen, Hopper greedily inhaled the air around him.

"Water! It must be water!"

"With such thick water vapor, there must be a lot of water here!"

Hopper danced with joy, and it was hard to tell that he was just in a state of "airsickness".

"Go find it... Let me see how you get water." Xiao Jian said.

Then, Hopper immediately groped to the edge of the sand basin and reached his hand into the black glass sand.

"Water! Lots of water!"

When Hopper pulled his hand out of the sand, the fluffy hair on his hands and arms was already wet!

Then he gently held his long hair in his mouth and licked it carefully like a cat, and then continued to put his hand into the sand.

After repeating it several times, Hopper quenched his thirst, and then jumped directly into the black sand basin, squirming his body into the sand, and soon disappeared in the sand, leaving only a slightly squirming small sand dune.

When Hopper disappeared, Xiao Jian's eyes moved away from the sand and began to carefully observe this huge glass sand basin.

The more he looked, the more he felt that the terrain here was not natural.

Of course, it was not artificially formed.

The surrounding obsidian peaks were full of traces of fighting.

It seemed that two behemoths had once fought a life-and-death battle here.

Although it was unknown who would win or lose, the huge sand pit in front of him was obviously one of the masterpieces of the two beasts.

Between these glass sands, the water vapor in the air condensed into dewdrops, and finally dripped to the bottom of the sand pit, which became the so-called condensation place.

So, this is how the water source of the Black Stone Mountains comes from...

After Hopper got out of the sand again, Xiao Jian found that its whole "person" became moist, and even the hair on its body became much more elegant.

"Where did you store the water?" Xiao Jian asked.

"Here." Hopper patted his belly.

"What should I do when I release it?" Xiao Jian was a little curious... because Hopper and his friends didn't have a cup! And even if they did, how could they collect water on the [Dimensional Folding Skin]?

"Just like that..." Hopper stretched out his hand and patted his belly, and then the hair on his hand became wet... Then he repeated the process of sucking the hair on his hand.

"..."

Xiao Jian was speechless for a long time, and then interrupted Hopper's repeated actions.

"Is the shelter going to be built near here?" Xiao Jian asked.

"No, it's too dangerous near the dew condensation land. Almost all monsters will come here to get water." Hopper shook his head, "Stay away from here, but not too far..."

"What about the terrain? How about the terrain similar to the previous rift?" Xiao Jian asked.

"There is no more perfect place than there." Hopper replied.

"That's right, it's not far away." Xiao Jian spread his wings and dragged Hopper to a nearby mountain.

There was a rift that was neither big nor small, just enough to meet the needs of Hopper and his friends.

...

For Xiao Jian, site selection is the most time-consuming. As for building a shelter, repairing the surrounding terrain, and clearing possible dangers around, it's not too easy.

After hunting 5 monsters and obtaining a total of 3 attribute cards, Xiao Jian took Hopper back to pick up all his tribesmen.

For this new home, some gorillas are happy and some are worried.

The happy ones are Nie Li and more than a dozen female gorillas, while the disappointed ones are of course the rest of the male gorillas.

Because, the dormitory opened by Xiao Jian is not only divided into male and female, but also divided into compartments.

From Xiao Jian's perspective, each gorilla has its own room.

But from the male gorillas' point of view, such a large room structure cannot be used for a party.

However...

With the emergence of such a relatively private personal space, Xiao Jian saw several male gorillas trying to bribe the female gorilla with meat... Then the two of them entered the room, and soon there were bursts of fierce poker playing sounds.

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