The old monster was stunned.
"Can I smell it?" After a while, he looked in A Jin's direction, A Jin handed him the specimen, and the old monster took over the green leaf specimen.
Holding this specimen carefully, the old monster closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then opened his eyes again to take a closer look at the veins on this leaf.
After a while he shook his head.
"Although it is very similar, this is not a green leafy tree in my hometown."
There was a bit of regret on his face, but it was more of nostalgia. The old monster took a deep breath of the leaf in his hand, and then raised his head again to look at the black-haired monster beside him.
"However, you actually know the green leaf tree, and the monsters now basically don't know it." The old monster said slowly.
"The scientific name of this tree is Yulia tree. It is a tree species unique to cold regions. Because of its obvious leaf characteristics, many local people call this tree a green-leaf tree. It is written in the book." There was no loss in his eyes. Just keep talking along the topic of the old monster.
"Yulia tree? Such a nice name... I don't even know, there are many such trees in my hometown. They are not tall, and the leaves are plump and fleshy. They are the staple food of the tribe. I ate a lot of green leaves every day when I was young. Son..." The old monster looked at the leaf in his hand carefully again:
"The leafy trees in different regions are different. We were taught from a very young age how to find the place of origin based on the characteristics of the plants. Unfortunately, I was too young when I left, and I didn't finish the course..."
"Your leaf has obvious veins, the fiber should be thicker, and it should be a green-leaf tree that grows in a colder area than my hometown."
With a move in his heart, Ji Huan asked the old monster on the opposite side: "So, the adult monster of your family can identify its growing place based on the leaves?"
The old monster nodded.
"The monsters of our race are pure vegetarian monsters. Unlike carnivorous monsters, we must eat a lot of leaves every day. In order to find enough food, our tribe must learn how to distinguish the types of plants and the distribution of various plants from a very young age. In addition to these, we will learn how to judge the approximate distribution of the plant by the parts of the plant."
"After all, sometimes what we can find is not a complete plant. Many times we can only find a branch, a root or a leaf. The plants we can find may be brought by the wind or other monsters. They may be far away from where we live, but they are not too far away, and they are likely to be our future food source, and after thousands of years of induction, we have our own special methods."
"Unfortunately, I left my hometown before I took this course..."
So, this is an aged out-of-school monster.
"However, this specimen is really well preserved. Is this a specimen left hundreds of years ago?" After a long sigh, the old monster praised the specimen in his hand.
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Ji Huan looked at him strangely: "Why do you think so?"
"After all, I haven't seen this kind of tree for hundreds of years. It's probably extinct, right? After all, the climate is much hotter than before..." The old demon said as it should.
"Actually, this leaf was picked up by us less than two weeks ago and then made into a specimen." A Jin said, the old monster was stunned as soon as his voice fell.
Then, he suddenly became excited and suppressed his excitement. He took a bottle of medicine from his arms and sipped a pill before continuing to ask: "This is what you found recently? Where did you find it? Are there still green-leaf trees in this world now? Could it be... could it be... my clan... "
Ajin just smiled, and looking at his smile, the old monster's inner surging gradually subsided, and regained a little calmness. He looked at the black-haired monster beside him expectantly.
"Obviously, there is still Yulia... green-leaf tree in this world. I picked it up in Yuma City. As for where it grows, this is what I want to know at the moment." Ajin said calmly.
He was not surprised by the reaction of the old monster on the opposite side.
Jihuan is not surprised.
In fact, this world is really too big, much bigger than the place where Jihuan once lived. In this place without political power, various high-level monsters are the invisible lords of each region. Although they have no titles, they essentially rule the territory in which they live.
Although there are means of transportation, the transportation is still relatively underdeveloped, and there are too many dangerous monsters and beasts on the road. Many monsters live in a small area from birth to death, and they never go out in their entire lives. They say the world is as big as they know it is.
Because of his hobby, this old monster has been to many places, but because of his knowledge, he knows that the northernmost place is the Winter City, and regards it as the possible whereabouts of his hometown. He goes back and forth once a year, looking forward to One day you can meet your own clan, or the descendants of your own clan.
It sounds a bit funny, but this is the reality of this "world" now.
There is no map in this "world", at least there is no general map. The monsters have their own set of methods to identify the direction. The trains are only opened in big cities. More no-man's land, such as Yefar, want to be there Going forward can only rely on personal ability. Many monsters in Ye Fal only know that they will work "outside" when they are strong in the future, but 99% of them don't know where the "outside" is and how to get there. Even Jihuan, if he hadn't learned about the many locations from A Jin, he would have thought that the West Kowloon District was the whole of the world.
"Winter City is the closest to the northeast in the west, so there are four distinct seasons there. If you go further northeast, it will be colder. Then you will go to the east. If you continue, it will be the north..."
A Jin's words made the old monster yearn for it.
For so many years, he has been looking for a hometown where he can go back. When the earthquake happened, the ground he was on was separated from the original land plate. In the heart of the old monster, his hometown is a cold place, so the destination of his travel has always been It can be a cold place, but because of his knowledge, he has been going to the wrong place for many years...
The old monster was silent for a while, and after a while he raised his head to look at A Jin: "You... are you going to the places called the east and north to find the origin of this leaf?"
"Yes." Ah Jin's dark eyes looked at him flatly.
"Then..." The old monster was stunned for a while, and after a while he finally gathered up his courage and said, "Can I ask you, if you meet my people on the road, tell them that you have met me?"
"I know this request is a bit presumptuous, but..."
"Okay." Just when the old monster didn't know what to say, Ajin had already agreed to him.
Then the old monster took out the scale of Karas from his arms again, and carefully cut off a small piece from it as if determined. He ran to the bathroom at the end of the carriage and stayed for a while, holding a tuft of gray-white hair for a while. came back.
The roots of those hairs also had a little blood.
"This is a token."
"I wasn't old enough to have a name at that time, but now my name is Nila, the name of the Kalas who saved me. You can tell my people this name."
"Of course, if you will meet them, it doesn't matter if you don't." The old monster added, and then his wrinkled face suddenly became full of vitality again: "Because, sooner or later, I will also Going to the North East."
"I have about ten years left to live. I thought my hometown was gone, but now that I know it is still there, it's just in a place I haven't been to, and suddenly I feel that the next ten years are full of hope again."
The old monster laughed.
Winter City has arrived.
The old monster said goodbye to Jihuan and his group. After he left, the bodyguards who pretended to be ordinary travelers were ready to surround Jihuan's family. They rested for a short night in Winter City and bought enough supplies. After that, they took the secret train to the east again the next evening.
It is said to be a secret train because most monsters do not know the existence of this route to the eastern region.
But in high-level monsters, this route is not a secret.
The end of this line is a small town called "Guar", which is a very barren town. There is no production in the town, and it depends on the passengers who come and go.
After leaving the station, there is an endless desert. This desert is like a yellow ocean, which completely separates the west from the east. There is no modern means of transportation in this desert, and the monsters can only rely on their own feet.
"Don't you mean there is no means of transport? This kind of monster... should be considered a means of transport, right?"
Under the escort of the bodyguards, Jihuan walked in the crowd, pointing to a camel-like monster that the hawkers were selling along the way, and Jihuan looked at A Jin.
"There really was no means of transportation before..." He turned his head and looked at the beast Jihuan was referring to. He waved his hand to call the leader of the escort group this time—that is, the boss of the bandit group that Abu is currently in, and whispered. After giving a few words, the monster who didn't look strong or tall smiled and arranged it.
It didn't take long for the guards to come over with dozens of demon beasts.
"These beasts were originally species that lived in the desert. After they were tamed, they were very obedient. If they can reach the edge of the desert, there are still our people there. Just return them to those people." The merchant said with a smile.
Then-
"No, our boss never buys or rents." The leader of the guard group smiled more sincerely than him, and suddenly, the smile of this unremarkable monster suddenly had a bloody smell: "Isn't the road very long? Our After the food is finished, I will kill five heads every day, I have calculated it, and it is almost enough to eat out of the desert~”
The smile on the small merchant's face suddenly seemed a little reluctant.
The magical beast he was holding also seemed to sense some kind of danger, and shivered one after another, but the business had already been discussed here, and the remuneration paid by A Jin was really generous, and the deal was finally made.
Ajin bought a total of 60 batches of "pack animals", and each monster was allocated one. Jihuan and Ajin sat in a car pulled by two pack animals, and a group of people went out.
Other caravans around also rented or bought a group of pack animals like them, but some insisted on using human power to advance on their own.
In the direction of the sun, the passengers were on their way.