Chapter 76, The Iron Chain

Originally, everyone was relieved when they found the cavern to camp in, but as a result, no one expected the change to come in the blink of an eye.

“Should we change places to hide?” Someone asked in a low voice, “What if something in the forest comes out after us?”

“There’s no need to change,” Ren Xiaosu shook her head, “They obviously wanted to hide in our place, and as a result, we took our place first, which at least shows that the cavern we’re in should already be safe enough.”

“What exactly are they hiding from?” Liu Bu queried.

At this time, Xu Xianchu looked towards the patch of forest outside the cavern, “They might be hiding from this forest, or the forest at night.”

Ren Xiaosu nodded as well, “That’s what I think too, animals are far more alert to danger than humans because that’s their instinct. Do you guys remember, when we passed through the canyon we saw human skeletons lying inside, but when we entered the forest we couldn’t see any animal skeletons, that’s not normal.”

“As long as they are living creatures, then there must be birth, old age, sickness, and death, how can we not even see a single animal skeleton?” Ren Xiaosu continued, “Previously I had discarded fish bones and fish meat in the woods south of the canyon, as a result, when I went to check the next morning I realized that they were gone, there was not a single trace of them around, in exactly the same way as Xu Xia’s body had been lost, and all of these missing skeletons or people had one thing in common, and that was that they were in the middle of the woods. ”

“Right,” Xu Xian Chu nodded, “And with these creatures being so afraid of the woods, there’s obviously something wrong with these woods.”

The Man Eating Woods ……

The others all looked at the woods outside in some disbelief, could it be that after the animals evolved, even the plants evolved?

Xu Xian Chu comforted, “But this is actually a good thing, since we have discovered the pattern, we can take precautions in advance.”

Unknown fear becomes known fear, even if you understand what principle it is, and so the feeling of fear can go down a little.

Yeah, wouldn’t it be nice if everyone just didn’t go into the woods at night?

Thinking of this, the previous psychological shadow even dispersed a bit, Wang Lei smiled, “Then we must find a place to camp away from the woods before nightfall.”

Ren Xiaosu shook his head, “Not only at night, we need to be careful during the day as well, we don’t know whether these animals and plants, have evolved to the end or not, what if it eats people during the day as well?”

“Then let’s follow the ridge and col where those trees are relatively sparse!” Xu Xianchu made the final decision.

Everyone resumed chewing on the roots of the pine tree, when someone asked, “Ren Xiaosu, how did you discover that the roots of the pine tree are edible?”

“I didn’t discover it, someone in the market town mentioned it,” Ren Xiaosu calmly added some firewood to the campfire.

Liu Bu had the intention to ease his relationship with Ren Xiaosu, so at this moment he hurriedly cried out, “You people in the market town know too much about this wilderness, it’s all human wisdom!”

Liu Bu didn’t know how to brag, and in the end, he could only brag awkwardly.

However, Ren Xiaosu didn’t quite agree with him, Ren Xiaosu gave him a look and said, “This isn’t wisdom, who would want to eat the roots of a pine tree when you can eat a good one? The people in the market town said that eating pine tree roots was still something that happened earlier, when I heard about it I could imagine just how many people starved to death in those years.”

Everything was about survival in this era of today and no tomorrow for the stragglers.

It was supposed to be an awkward brag, but as a result, this made Liu Bu even more embarrassed.

At this time, Luo Xinyu eased the atmosphere and said, “Why did all the beasts get bigger in size, but we humans didn’t? Instead, they evolved transcendents like Team Xu.”

“It’s probably because humans evolved differently,” Xu Xianchu said, “What humans have evolved since ancient times has always been brain power.”

Ren Xiaosu said, “I’ve heard of another theory, last year I escaped from the mouth of a wolf, so I asked Mr. Zhang of the academy with my doubts, he asked me a question: some creatures in nature don’t actually need a lot of exercise to grow strong muscles, he said that there is a kind of animal called chimpanzees, humans once kept them in cages, even if they just ate and slept every day, they could grow much stronger than humans. the same could grow muscles that far exceeded those of humans, while humans ate and slept and ate every day, their muscles would atrophy.”

Yang Xiaoguan spoke, “That Mr. Zhang from your academy is not an ordinary person.”

Ren Xiaosu didn’t know where Yang Xiaoguan judged from, he didn’t know if Zhang Jinglin was an ordinary person or not, but he knew that Zhang Jinglin was a good person.

He continued, “Mr. Zhang said that it was a gene in the human body that limited the development of muscles, and as humans got smarter and smarter, the gene kept evolving. He said it’s called the price of intelligence.”

The crowd fell into contemplation, it seems like this is really the case ah, there are upper class people working out and losing weight in the barriers, working out and losing weight is even a trend among the upper class people, and it was especially popular in the year before last.

Including Liu Bu also attached to the wind, but he fitness only after he realized how difficult it is to want to develop muscles.

It was only at this time that Yang Xiaoguan suddenly threw a pot of cold water on Ren Xiaosu: “I’ve seen Transcendents with evolved physiques, what about this?”

Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment as he mused, “Did his ancestor have something with a wild beast?!”

Yang Xiaoguan: “……”

Xu Xianchu: “……”

Liu Bu: “……”

Everyone looked at Ren Xiaosu speechlessly, this damn thing already belongs to cursing, right?

Luo Xinyu suddenly became interested: “That Mr. Zhang from your market town school is very special, he must be very knowledgeable, right?”

Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and replied, “Yes, he is quite knowledgeable, but when he encounters something he doesn’t understand in class, he will also make things up ……”

“Does he usually read books or something when he’s idle, there are people like that in the barriers too,” Luo Xinyu pressed, “Those people are all very good.”

“Not really,” Ren Xiaosu shook his head, “In his spare time he grows vegetables in the yard ……”

Luo Xinyu was speechless for a while, how come most things in the market town were not quite the same as what she thought.

However, Ren Xiaosu felt that Zhang Jinglin’s point was quite good, reading but not reading to death, even if he was very learned he was still just as capable of bending over and hoeing.

But right at this moment, everyone suddenly heard the sound of chains dragging on the ground coming from the woods.

Clatter, clatter.

That chain made a crisp sound when it collided with the ground, and it was as if the owner of the sound was crawling through the woods patrolling his territory.

Ren Xiaosu and the others got creeped out, how could there be creatures that could walk through the woods at night? Could it be that their previous judgment was all wrong?

Were those animals not hiding from the woods?