Bai Duan didn't know anything about someone sitting on his bed and staring at him for most of the night last night. He slept until he woke up naturally the next day, then stretched and opened his eyes.
The floor beside the bed had been tidied up and put on the chair, but the sound of wood cutting came from outside the window, which surprised Bai Duan.
After getting out of bed and hastily washed his face, Bai Duan pushed open the door, and at a glance, he saw Nie Lanlei sitting cross-legged in the yard with his upper body bare, cutting wood with a knife. His expression was very serious, and his movements were extremely meticulous and cautious, but his speed was not slow at all. There were several flat wooden boards beside him, and he didn't know what they were for.
The military dogs in the courtyard were lying not far from him, looking at him with vigilance, but they seemed to know that he had been "accepted" by Bai Duan, so they didn't make any attack gestures.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Nie Lanlei turned her head to look over, showing a happy smile: "Good morning~"
"Good morning." Bai Duan replied reflexively, then frowned, "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to make a bed." Nie Lanlei's tone was extraordinarily calm, "Although in this world, it is enough to have a shelter from the wind and rain, but if there are conditions, why should you wrong yourself?"
Bai Duan was dumbfounded, he was extremely shocked by the thick skin of this uninvited guy, and he didn't even know what to answer for a moment.
And Nie Lanlei didn't seem to see Bai Duan's disbelief, and explained his plan to himself: "Also, last night I saw that your little bed was quite worn out, it was unstable, and it creaked when you turned over. It's almost time to throw it away. I'm going to make a big bed, and the two of us will sleep together, so you can be more comfortable." After a pause, he proudly added, "My carpentry skills are pretty good. Make a bed No problem, don't worry!"
"Don't worry!" Bai Duan finally found her voice, her face flushed red, she didn't know if she was angry or because of the phrase "sleeping together", "When did I say you can stay here?" ?! Sleeping in the same bed... What are you daydreaming about?!"
The roots of Bai Duan's teeth were itchy, and he wished he could lift Nie Lanlei upside down and shake the water out of his head - but as soon as he finished speaking, he heard the monkey's angry and sharp cry, followed by the sound of piercing through the air.
Nie Lanlei reacted extremely quickly. He leaned back, raised his hand and grabbed it in the air, then put the thing that attacked him into the palm of his hand. When he opened it, it turned out to be a green wood attribute crystal nucleus.
After confirming the target, Nie Lanlei looked in the direction of the crystal nucleus and found a golden-haired monkey squatting on the big tree at the gate of the courtyard, staring fiercely at him with its teeth and claws open.
Patting the sawdust on his body, Nie Lanlei stood up and raised his eyebrows at the monkey with a provocative look—it seemed that he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with being as knowledgeable as a monkey.
The golden monkey was also obviously irritated by Nie Lanlei's expression. It screamed, raised its paw and scratched in the void, and several more crystal nuclei appeared in the empty paw.
The angry golden monkey clawed left and right, and a dozen crystal nuclei smashed towards Nie Lanlei, and Nie Lanlei was not easy to bully. He lifted the jacket that he took off and put it on his shoulders, and relaxed He held all the crystal nuclei that were thrown at him until the golden monkey had nothing to smash, and then he showed a victorious smile to it: "It's really kind of you to give me so many greetings as soon as we meet, so I will happily accept it." Already~"
It was the first time that the golden monkey felt that humans were so hateful: "... ... ... ..."
Without even looking at the monkey jumping in anger, Nie Lanlei walked up to Bai Duan with clothes full of more than a dozen crystal nuclei, and offered flowers to Buddha without any guilt: "I don't even need these crystal nuclei. ?"
Bai Duan twitched the corner of his mouth, the shock in his heart hadn't subsided yet, adding another layer of embarrassment and speechlessness, he silently took the crystal nucleus.
Seeing that the crystal nuclei had all returned to Bai Duan's hands, the golden monkey whimpered and jumped into the yard two or three times, skillfully climbed onto Bai Duan's shoulders, and wrapped his arms around his neck, whimpering, as if complaining and acting coquettishly From time to time, he still didn't forget to stare at Nie Lanlei, and made a full-fledged gesture of complaining.
Bai Duan couldn't understand what it said, but she could probably guess that she had to free up a hand to smooth its fur and comfort its emotions, and at the same time her brows frowned: "These crystals Nucleus... where did you take it out? Could it be...you have evolved space powers?"
The golden monkey met Bai Duan's eyes with pure blankness, obviously not understanding the content of Bai Duan's question.
Fortunately, Bai Duan didn't expect to be able to communicate with the golden monkey successfully. He picked up a crystal nucleus and shook it in front of the golden monkey: "Why do you collect these things? Do they look beautiful?"
The golden monkey's eyes were involuntarily attracted by the shaking crystal nucleus, thinking that Bai Duan was playing with him. It screamed twice, raised its two paws to grasp Bai Duan's wrist, then poked its head, and sucked the crystal nucleus pinched by Bai Duan's fingertips into its mouth.
Bai Duan was taken aback by the golden monkey's movement, and watched in shock as the golden monkey chewed and swallowed the crystal nucleus, as if eating jelly beans skillfully and crisply.
Bai Duan, who was almost stunned: "..."
Probably because the emotion in Bai Duan's eyes was too obvious, the golden snub-nosed monkey sensed something was wrong, and the whole monkey seemed a little flustered. It didn't know what it did wrong, but it understood Bai Duan's incomprehension and extreme shock at its behavior, and its instinctive reaction was to prove to him that it was not strange.
In order to achieve this goal, the golden monkey stretched out its claws to grab another crystal nucleus from its pocket, turned its head and barked at the dog, and threw the crystal nucleus over.
The head dog who was lying on the ground heard the call of the golden monkey, raised his head to look in its direction, propped up his body quite naturally, raised his head, accurately grasped the crystal nucleus, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it.
Bai Duan silently watched this scene: "..."
Watching the head dog finish chewing the crystal nucleus, and continue to lie back lazily, Bai Duan turned his eyes back to the golden monkey with a complicated expression, and said in a fluttering tone: "So...you have already started eating crystal nucleus...?"
The golden monkey tilted its head, looking innocent.
Raising his hand, stroking his forehead, Bai Duan silently handed all the pocket crystal cores to the golden monkey, watching it stretch out its claws to grab them back to its own space: "No wonder even the space ability has been cultivated, How many crystal nuclei do you have to swallow... Speaking of which, how good are your teeth to chew this thing? And is there no attribute limit?"
Bai Duan has long been used to entertaining herself by muttering to the animals, and she doesn't care if the extra humans in the yard think she is weird. He watched as the golden monkey emptied the bag of clothes until there was only one green crystal nucleus left - the one that was used to hit Nie Lanlei in the first place.
The golden monkey pinched the green crystal nucleus, stuffed it back into Bai Duan's hand, and called out to him.
Bai Duan immediately understood: "Give it to me?"
The golden monkey grabbed Bai Duan's hand holding the crystal nucleus, trying to get him to stuff the crystal nucleus into his mouth. Bai Duan quickly stopped the golden monkey's movement with a black line on his forehead, and instead held the crystal nucleus tightly, sucking the energy contained in it into his body . And with the disappearance of the energy, the hard crystal nucleus also turned into powder, which slipped from between the fingers after Bai Duan opened his hand, and disappeared without a trace.
Seeing that the crystal nucleus in Bai Duan's hand was gone, the golden monkey was finally satisfied, and wrapped his arms around his neck and rubbed his cheek.
"Thank you." Bai Duan's voice was gentle, and he rubbed the little head of the golden monkey, but before he could warm up with his most important friend, he found that it suddenly blew up and looked in Nie Lanlei's direction with a tense body .
Following the golden monkey's gaze, and also looking at Nie Lanlei, Bai Duan was puzzled to find that he was still smiling, but the dangerous aura around him seemed to have deepened a little.
"... What's wrong?" Bai Duan subconsciously protected the golden monkey with fried fur, and asked.
"It's okay~" Nie Lanlei blinked her eyes, and said with emotion, "I just think your relationship is really good, it's really... enviable~ enviable~"
The golden monkey who suddenly felt a threat of death: "... ... ... ..."
Although he still hated the sudden appearance of the human being, the animal's instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages drove the golden monkey to make a choice to protect itself.
Glaring at Nie Lanlei sternly, the golden monkey, which was shivering under the pressure of the other party's mental power, turned its head and jumped off Bai Duan's shoulder, and ran out of the yard in desperation. And Bai Duan, who knew nothing about this invisible battle, was surprised by the sudden departure of the golden monkey, but he didn't put it on his body—after all, his monkeys have always been so willful. Later, his temper became more and more wild. Compared with staying in the yard, it obviously prefers to play in the mountains and forests.
Watching the golden monkey leave, Bai Duan exhaled lightly, with a slightly self-blaming tone: "I don't even know when they started eating crystal nuclei... These little guys don't come back until they're full every day. Knowing what they ate... ”
"It's probably the monkey's instinct to imitate." Nie Lanlei shrugged his shoulders, "It probably watched you collect crystal nuclei after killing zombies, clean them, and then absorb the crystal nuclei, so it followed suit. It's just that It will not simply absorb the energy in the crystal nucleus like humans do, coupled with the monkey's habit of stuffing everything into its mouth first, it accidentally found another way to use the crystal nucleus, and then introduced it to the other animals."
Bai Duan nodded, and temporarily accepted this statement: "Since they can eat supernatural powers, and they seem to like it very much, so swallowing crystal nuclei alive... probably won't do any harm to them, right?"
"It's not harmful. On the contrary... it's the way they evolve." Nie Lanlei's expression was quite subtle—it seemed that there would be another category of species that he needed to observe in this world.
The mutation factors in this world mainly affect humans and zombies, and generally do not have any impact on animals and plants. However, swallowing so many mutating factors directly into the stomach and merging into the blood is by no means a "normal situation".
Even if each crystal nucleus has a small effect on animals, it will become a qualitative leap after accumulating a small amount. From another perspective, just because the crystal nucleus has little influence on animals, the attribute distinction is also difficult. It's not obvious, which means that they don't have to absorb crystal nuclei that match their own attributes like supernatural beings and zombies.
—When the base number that can absorb crystal nuclei is several times or even ten times larger than that of supernatural beings and zombies, no matter how small the effect of each crystal nucleus is, it is enough to make up for it in quantity.
Maybe, the final winner of this evolutionary battle may not be humans or zombies, but these animals that are not noticed by the two and make a fortune silently...
Looking at the lover who knew nothing about the influence he caused, Nie Lanlei sighed in his heart, and then decided to erase the existence of Bai Duan from his observation records, and treat it as...a wonderful accident~
Maybe even if there is no white satin, there will be other intelligent animals discovering the magical effect of crystal nuclei, so as to join this evolutionary battle