When the gunfire rang out, Ning Tao thought it was a human survivor shooting at him and Bi Mingzhu, but what he saw was a furry guy holding a weapon that seemed to be a rifle.
That's an ape-man.
Those who shot at him and Bi Mingzhu were all ape-men, wearing simple and rough clothes, and their armed belts were full of magazines and grenades.
Why is it an ape
"Have you been beaten to death?" an ape-man roared.
Ning Tao was stunned.
The ape-man spoke Chinese.
"I saw someone fell, a man and a woman. They were wearing ancient battle armor. They should still be alive." An ape-man replied.
"Catch them!" the leading ape-man roared again.
A large group of apes surrounded them from all directions, shrinking the encirclement while roaring to create a sense of oppression.
Ning Tao's mind was still in a mess.
The fact that the apes had guns and shot at him and Bi Mingzhu was enough to scare him, but these apes also spoke in Chinese, which was not only scary but also weird.
Bi Mingzhu reached for the big gun on her shoulder.
Ning Tao suppressed her hand: "There's no hurry."
"Not in a hurry?" Bi Mingzhu couldn't understand Ning Tao's operation at all. The ape-men were getting closer and closer, but he didn't let her draw her gun and said she was not in a hurry.
Ning Tao suddenly reached out, put one hand around Bi Mingzhu's waist, and the other around her legs, and hugged her up.
"Laosong, you?" Bi Mingzhu couldn't understand Ning Tao's operation even more.
Ning Tao bent his legs, then gathered strength and jumped into the air.
Click!
The thigh-thick branch broke under the force. Ning Tao rushed through the dense canopy with Bi Mingzhu in his arms, jumped up to a height of a hundred meters, and then fell into the forest.
The wind roared in her ears, and Bi Mingzhu was not nervous at all during the rise and fall. For her, Ning Tao's arms were the safest place in the universe.
Bang bang bang!
There was a lot of gunfire, but not a single bullet flew this way.
The forest was extremely dense. Ning Tao jumped from the tree crown, and the tree crown below became a natural shelter. Those apes couldn't even see him and Bi Mingzhu, let alone hit them.
Wow!
Ning Tao's legs knocked open the crown of a tree and fell directly from the crown to the ground. But he didn't even sway while holding Bi Mingzhu, but his calves were completely submerged in the soil. Only then did he let go and put Bi Mingzhu down, and then pulled his legs out of the soil.
"I think your legs are much more useful than your clouds." Bi Mingzhu looked at Ning Tao's pair of frog legs and said with a smile. Although it was a bit eye-catching, she liked to see it.
"Although I have recovered my mana, it is still far from my peak state. Maybe it is because I don't have enough mana." Ning Tao said while patting the soil and fallen leaves on the soft armor stuck to his calf.
This is the second set of flexible armor he took from the secret vault. The first set was disassembled in the coffin of the God's Tomb. He didn't want to wear it at first. He thought Bi Mingzhu wouldn't mind and it was convenient. But thinking about looking for surviving humans, it didn't look right, so he picked up another set and put it on.
"Then what spells can you use now?" Bi Mingzhu asked.
Ning Tao thought for a moment and said, "None of my seals are gone, but if I want to recite spells, I think most spells can be used."
"Try it." Bi Mingzhu's eyes were full of expectation.
Ning Tao made a magic formula, recited the mantra, and then moved his mind. His body instantly split into three clones, plus his original body
, four of them appeared at once.
Bi Mingzhu could tell who was the original figure and who was the clone at a glance, because the original figure was wearing soft armor, while the other three clones were not. But this surprised her. Ning Tao's body was very familiar to her. The three clones were exactly the same as the Ning Tao's body she was familiar with, without any difference.
"Your clone technique is pretty good." Bi Mingzhu praised, reaching out to poke the chest of a clone. The muscles were strong and elastic, and the feel was familiar to her.
At this moment, gunshots suddenly came from behind. The bullets flew towards this side, hitting the tree trunk and making a shattering sound. Leaves and trunk fragments flew everywhere.
Ning Tao only jumped more than two hundred meters while holding Bi Mingzhu. Those ape-men were good at running and climbing in the forest, and they could catch up here quickly.
"The source of the smell is over there!"
"Kill them!"
"Oh ho ho!"
"Bang bang bang..."
The sound of gunshots and strange screams seemed to be one, getting closer and closer to here.
Bi Mingzhu said: "Lao Shou, why don't you let me shoot? Although there are many of them, it should be easy for us to kill them."
Ning Tao said: "They are just some ape-men. Killing them will not solve the problem. And you should have heard that they speak Chinese, which is my mother tongue. I have to investigate clearly."
"Okay, I listen to you, but what should we do now?"
With a thought, Ning Tao raised his hand and pointed in one direction: "Go!"
Three clones, one hour later, the other two started running in the direction he pointed.
"They're running over there, chase them!" an ape-man yelled.
"Stop them!"
"Catch them alive!"
"Oh ho ho!"
"Bang bang bang..."
A large group of apes chased in the direction of the two clones.
Ning Tao smiled: "Can't we solve the problem? Don't forget that we are gods. We don't necessarily have to use killing to solve problems. We have many ways to solve problems."
"Then what should we do now?" Bi Mingzhu asked.
Ning Tao said: "Let's go, let's search this forest. The base of that group of ape-men should be in this forest."
He chose a direction at random and walked in that direction.
No matter how slow the Blue God Cloud was, it could still fly at the speed of a helicopter, and it was from a high position, which was obviously more convenient. However, it was also an eye-catching target and could easily be discovered by the apes in the forest, so he gave up.
Bi Mingzhu followed Ning Tao and suddenly remembered something and said: "Laosong, you said there might be humans surviving, but why did we encounter apes instead of humans? In the universe I control , The ape-man is a very low-level creature, he can’t even farm, let alone use firearms.”
Ning Tao shook his head: "I don't know either. In the universe I dominate, apes were once considered to be the ancestors of humans. They evolved into humans after millions of years of evolution. But the apes we met not only knew how to He uses firearms and speaks Chinese, so this is very strange.”
"Do you think the surviving humans have degenerated and evolved from humans into ape-men?" Bi Mingzhu said.
Ning Tao was stunned for a moment, but then smiled: "How is that possible? Evolution usually moves forward, there is no such thing as backward evolution."
He had never even thought about the hypothesis that those apes were degenerated from humans. He thought it was simply a fantasy.
Bi Mingzhu said: “Evolution is to adapt to the environment. If the environment changes, you need to adapt.
In order to survive in response to the environment, it is possible for people to degenerate from a high evolutionary level to a low evolutionary level. "
Ning Tao said in surprise: "So... is it really possible that those ape-men evolved from the surviving humans?"
"I'm not sure, but we can't rule out this hypothesis." Bi Mingzhu said.
Ning Tao nodded and continued walking forward, thinking about this problem in his mind, but the more he thought about it, the more confused he became.
About a thousand meters later, Ning Tao used his spiritual thoughts to cancel the two births.
"Laosong, look there!" Bi Mingzhu raised her hand and pointed in one direction, looking very excited.
Ning Tao followed her finger and saw a fruit tree, and was shocked.
It was an apple tree, about ten meters high, with lush branches and branches covered with red apples. Each of those apples was as big as a child's head. Looking at the trunk, branches and leaves, they are much larger than a normal apple tree.
This is the first time Ning Tao has seen an apple as big as a human head.
"I'm a little hungry. I'm going to pick one to eat." Bi Mingzhu said and walked towards the apple tree.
Ning Tao said: "No need to go over, I will pick it for you."
He reached out with his hand, grabbed and closed it in the air, and an apple as big as a man's head flew over and fell into his hand.
Retrieving objects from the air is just a low-level spell that can be easily picked up.
Bi Mingzhu couldn't wait to take the big apple from Ning Tao's hand and took a bite.
Ning Tao was a little speechless: "Are you so hungry? You didn't even test to see if it's poisonous. What if this apple is poisonous?"
Bi Mingzhu wiped the corner of her mouth and said with a smile: "I am also the Lord of the Three Realms after all. Even if this apple is poisonous, it will not poison me."
Ning Tao: "..."
"Don't worry, this apple is not poisonous and tastes good. You should try it too." Bi Mingzhu held the apple in both hands and handed it to Ning Tao. The place where she took a bite was overflowing with apple juice and exuding a sweet smell. .
Ning Tao then stretched out his mouth and took a bite. It tasted really good. This was the best thing he had ever eaten since he came to this world.
But this is not normal.
How do apples grow so big on Earth
Bi Mingzhu hugged the apple and started chewing it. She was indeed hungry.
Ning Tao suddenly remembered something. He sat cross-legged on the ground and made a seal with both hands.
Bi Mingzhu chewed an apple in her mouth and said vaguely: "Lao Song, what are you doing?"
Ning Tao said: "I suddenly thought of a possibility."
"What's the possibility?"
"I'll tell you later, you can eat the apple first." Ning Tao closed his eyes, and his brain immediately entered a state of emptiness.
He wants to practice.
Since becoming the Lord of the Three Realms, he has not practiced again. This is the first time he has practiced since becoming the Lord of the Three Realms.
His cultivation does not require any cultivation techniques. After all, he is the Lord of the Three Realms. With a single movement of his mind, he can capture the aura of heaven and earth, which is the spiritual energy in heaven and earth.
There was no wind in this forest, but after Ning Tao started practicing, a breeze began to blow in this forest. The wind was strange. Instead of blowing in one direction, it blew towards Ning Tao's body from all directions.
After Bi Mingzhu finished chewing the apple, she burped and then looked at Ning Tao. Only then did she feel the breeze blowing from all directions. She was slightly stunned and blurted out: "This is... spiritual energy!"