Originally, everyone was relieved when they found the cave to camp, but no one expected that there would be a change in the blink of an eye.
"Shall we hide in another place?" Someone asked in a low voice, "What if something chases out of the forest?"
"No need to change," Ren Xiaosu shook his head: "They obviously wanted to hide here, but we took their place first. This at least shows that the cave we are in should be safe enough."
"What are they hiding?" Liu Bu asked suspiciously.
At this time Xu Xianchu looked towards the forest outside the cave: "They may be avoiding this forest, or the forest at night."
Ren Xiaosu also nodded: "I think so too. Animals are far more alert to danger than humans, because that is their instinct. Do you remember that when we passed through the canyon, we saw human skeletons lying there, but It's not normal for us to go into the forest and not see any animal bones."
"As long as it is a living thing, there must be birth, old age, sickness and death. How can it be possible that you can't even see a single animal skeleton?" Ren Xiaosu continued: "I used to discard fish bones and fish meat in the woods south of the canyon, but the next day When I went to check in the morning, I found that they had disappeared, and there were no traces around, which was exactly the same as the way Xu Xia's body was lost, and these missing bones or people all had one thing in common, that is, they were in the woods."
"Yes," Xu Xianchu nodded: "And these creatures are so afraid of the forest, there is obviously something wrong with the forest."
man-eating woods...
The others looked at the woods outside with some doubts. Could it be that after animals evolved, did plants also evolve
Xu Xianchu comforted: "But it's actually a good thing. Now that we have discovered the pattern, we can take precautions in advance."
The fear of the unknown becomes the fear of the known, and even you understand how it works, so the feeling of fear can be slightly reduced.
Yes, as long as everyone doesn't go into the woods at night, isn't it all right
Thinking of this, the previous psychological shadow even dissipated a little, Wang Lei said with a smile: "Then we must find a place far away from the woods to camp before nightfall."
Ren Xiaosu shook his head: "Not only at night, but also during the day. We don't know whether these animals and plants have evolved to the end. What if they also eat people during the day?"
"Then let's go along the ridges and valleys where there are relatively few trees!" Xu Xianchu made the final decision.
Everyone started chewing the pine roots again, when someone asked: "Ren Xiaosu, how did you find out that the roots of pine trees are edible?"
"I didn't find out, someone in the market town mentioned it," Ren Xiaosu calmly added some firewood to the campfire.
Liu Bu wanted to ease the relationship with Ren Xiaosu, so he hurriedly said: "The people in your market town know this wilderness too well, this is the wisdom of human beings!"
Liu Bu didn't know how to brag, so in the end he could only brag embarrassingly.
However, Ren Xiaosu didn't quite agree with his statement. Ren Xiaosu glanced at him and said, "This is not wisdom. Who would eat pine roots if they can eat well? People in the market town said that eating pine roots was a few years ago. When I When I heard about this, I could imagine how many people starved to death in those years."
In this era where there is no tomorrow for refugees, everything is about survival.
It was originally an embarrassment, but now Liu Bu was even more embarrassed.
At this time, Luo Xinyu calmed down the atmosphere and said, "Why are the beasts getting bigger, but we humans don't? Instead, we have evolved a transcendent like Team Xu."
"It may be because of the different evolutionary methods of human beings," Xu Xianchu said. "From ancient times to the present, human evolution has always been about brain power."
Ren Xiaosu said: "I've heard another saying. I escaped from the mouth of wolves last year, so I asked Mr. Zhang with doubts. He asked me a question: Some creatures in nature don't need a lot of exercise to grow. He said that there is a kind of animal called chimpanzee, humans once kept them in cages, even if they just eat and sleep every day, they can still grow muscles far beyond that of humans, and humans eat them every day Sleep, sleep and eat, but the muscles will atrophy."
Yang Xiaojin said, "Mr. Zhang from your school is not an ordinary person."
Ren Xiaosu didn't know where Yang Xiaojin judged from. He didn't know whether Zhang Jinglin was an ordinary person, but he knew that Zhang Jinglin was a good person.
He continued: "Mr. Zhang said that there is a gene in the human body that limits the development of muscles, and as humans become smarter, this gene has been evolving. He said this is the price of wisdom."
Everyone fell into deep thought. It seems that this is really the case. There are upper-class people in the barrier who work out to lose weight. Fitness and weight loss is even a trend among upper-class people. It was very popular the year before last.
Including Liu Bu has also been arty, but after he worked out, he realized how difficult it is to build muscles.
But at this moment, Yang Xiaojin suddenly poured cold water on Ren Xiaosu: "I have seen a transcendent with an evolved physique, what do you say about this?"
Ren Xiaosu was stunned for a moment, then he pondered: "Did something happen to his ancestors with wild beasts?!"
Yang Xiaojin: "..."
Xu Xianchu: "..."
Liu Bu: "..."
Everyone looked at Ren Xiaosu speechlessly, this is already a curse!
Luo Xinyu suddenly became interested: "Mr. Zhang from your market town school is very special. He must be very knowledgeable, right?"
Ren Xiaosu thought for a while and answered: "He is very knowledgeable, but he will make up things he doesn't understand in class..."
"Does he usually read books when he is free? There are people like this in the barrier," Luo Xinyu asked, "Those people are very powerful."
"No." Ren Xiaosu shook his head: "In his spare time, he grows vegetables in the yard..."
Luo Xinyu was speechless for a while, why most of the things in the market town were different from what she thought.
However, Ren Xiaosu felt that Zhang Jinglin was good at this. He read books but didn't read dead books. Even if he was very knowledgeable, he could bend down and hoe the ground.
But at this moment, everyone suddenly heard the sound of iron chains dragging on the ground from the woods.
Crash, clatter, clatter.
After the iron chain collided with the ground, it made a crisp sound. The owner of the sound seemed to be crawling in the woods and inspecting his territory.
Ren Xiaosu and the others felt terrified, how could there be creatures that could walk through the woods at night? Could it be that their previous judgments were all wrong
Don't those animals hide from the woods? !
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Thanks to gsky and Xi for becoming the new leader of this book at the age of three~