webnovelfull Chapter 229 Blackstone Mountains
Chapter 229 Blackstone Mountains
Xiao Jian originally thought that this group of "chimpanzees" would dispose of the corpse quickly.
After all, we are all savages who "eat their hair and drink their blood". Aren't they able to break down prey and capture it easily?
However, what was unexpected was that the clumsy way these "chimpanzees" decomposed their prey made Xiao Jian wonder if they were city kids returning to the village for the first time...
It doesn’t matter if they don’t know how to peel off skin, they don’t even know which parts of these monsters are useful and which parts are useless!
Xiao Jian saw with his own eyes that one of the "chimpanzees" actually chose to lick the scorpion tail needle with his tongue...
After licking it, he actually made a fuss and shouted something like "shusu numbness", which made other companions come over to lick it freshly.
If it was just like this, Xiao Jian would have endured it until he discovered that these "chimpanzees" couldn't even peel their skins. Each one of them took a sharp obsidian ax and chopped the monsters' fur into a mess.
Although Xiao Jian wanted to teach them, he hesitated several times and still couldn't speak.
Forget it, let them be.
This kind of corpse is not worth anything anyway.
Xiao Jian transformed his clone into a dark raven, found a high place and squatted down.
Then Xiao Jian's attention returned to the small courtyard, and he first used all the attribute cards he had just obtained.
35 strength → 40
43 agility → 50
21 Stamina→24
Since Xiao Jian's main attribute is agility, as his agility increases, his attack, movement speed, and defense will all increase simultaneously.
Therefore, the newly added 7 points of agility, coupled with the extra strength and endurance, have raised Xiao Jian's attributes to a higher level:
——Character Card——
Xiao Jian
63 Attack | 15 Defense | 29 HP
Mobility 28
Features: (omitted)
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If he wears the [Wolf Fang Necklace] again, Xiao Jian's attack attribute will reach 65 points!
In this way, even Xiao Jian's clone can inherit 21 points of damage.
At least in terms of attack attributes, Xiao Jian is already stronger than many mythical beast-level monsters.
After adding points to himself, Xiao Jian's attention returned to the clone again.
The clumsy cutting work of the "chimpanzees" continued at a slow pace.
Xiao Jian paid no attention to them, but looked at the surrounding scenery curiously.
There was darkness all around.
Not even a trace of light can be seen, nor can there be any fog.
The surrounding ground is entirely composed of pure obsidian.
The mountain walls are made of obsidian, the stones are made of obsidian, and even the sand on the ground is made of obsidian debris.
Dark, smooth and barren of vegetation.
In a place that's far more barren than a desert, it's hard to imagine any plants surviving here.
No plants means no relatively accessible food sources.
Moreover, looking at the surrounding environment, getting water here should be a problem - there is no way that if the glassy obsidian floor is penetrated, water will come up from below, right?
"What do you usually eat?" Raven suddenly tilted his head and asked.
"..."
Hearing this, all the "chimpanzees" paused slightly, and Hopper, the leader, quickly ordered: "Nie Li! Quick, take out our food...all of it! Take out all of it!"
"……yes."
A pleasant female voice sounded in the darkness.
Xiao Jian looked in the direction of the sound and saw a strong female orangutan with a belly two times bigger than other "chimpanzees" gently stroking her belly, and then made two moss pancakes and two pieces out of thin air. 15 pieces of gray jelly-like stuff.
After these two kinds of food were offered to Xiao Jian, the female orangutan named "Nie Li" knelt down respectfully, waiting for Xiao Jian's instructions.
The raven jumped down from the height and tilted his head to look at the two "foods" on the ground.
"Is this... moss?" Raven suddenly asked.
"Reporting to the Eye of Fire, this is indeed a moss cake..." Hopper replied respectfully.
"What about this thing? Cockroach blocks?" Raven looked at the gray gel in confusion.
"What is that? Well, I shouldn't ask... If the cockroach block refers to the product of fermented plaster mixed with ground slurry and solidified, then it is the cockroach block... By the way, we don't care about this thing It’s called stucco.”
Hopper introduced.
"Is it delicious?" Raven suddenly raised his head and asked.
"Stucco paste is not good, moss cake is good," Hopper answered honestly.
"Is the meat delicious?" Raven continued to ask.
Unexpectedly, as soon as this question came up, all the "chimpanzees" fell into an eerie silence.
"..."
"What's wrong? Did I ask something I shouldn't have asked?" Raven tilted her head, the flames in her eyes flickering.
Hopper quickly knelt down and explained: "No, no, no, of course not... Actually, it's because none of us have ever eaten meat, so we don't know how to answer."
No wonder...
No wonder they even took a few bites of the scorpion tail needle, their mouths were numb and they seemed quite happy.
They usually just eat this kind of mud, no matter whether it tastes good or not, they are already very happy if there is a slightly different taste in their mouths.
After realizing that these "chimpanzees" lived in such misery, Xiao Jian suddenly felt some subtle and complex emotions in his heart.
If you were born in hell, then all hardships would become normal, right?
Happiness and misfortune are originally relative concepts. Maybe for them, being able to eat moss pancakes is already a great happiness, right?
"It's very slow for you to divide like this. I'll give you a few tools."
Xiao Jian was silent for a while, then suddenly took out the resource card containing steel, and produced a dozen bone-cutting knives out of thin air, and also engraved the +3 attack rune on them.
Of course, considering the surrounding environment, Xiao Jian did not charge these bone-cutting knives.
After all, the golden rune special effects are too conspicuous in the dark, so it's best not to use them unless absolutely necessary.
"Danglanglang..."
The weapon made a series of metallic clangs as it hit the ground.
Hopper fumbled and picked up a machete. After touching it for a while, he found that this thing was far stronger than their obsidian weapons!
Not only is it sharper, it's also stronger.
"Such a good weapon...Thank you! Praise you! I, I just don't know how to say it!"
Hopper danced with joy, then turned around and ordered:
"Quickly, you also hurry up and praise the Eyes of Flame!"
"praise……"
"..."
After some kneeling and worshiping, Xiao Jian discovered that the beliefs of these "chimpanzees" generally reached the level of ordinary believers.
Among them, the one with the highest degree of belief was not Hopper, but "Miss" Nie Li, who had a beautiful voice, a strong body and a fat belly.
Its level of faith has reached the third level of devout believers.
"Okay, you guys hurry up and get busy, don't worry about me..."
After saying that, the raven spread its wings and flew up, finding a relatively high place to land.
In the crack behind the raven, the sound of praise continued for a long time, and then they all picked up the bone-cutting knives and began to cut up the corpses of the monsters.
Far away, more than ten kilometers away.
The group of strong "gorillas" seemed to have noticed something strange here, and they all speeded up and moved towards the crack.
However, this "acceleration" is only relative.
After observing how this group of "gorillas" rushed on their way, Xiao Jian finally understood why Hopper said the distance between them was "two days."
This group of "gorillas" actually reached out and groped forward like blind people even though they had determined their approximate location...
Now Xiao Jian finally knew what the one-meter-long long hairs on Hopper's head and hands, similar to cat whiskers, were for - in addition to infrared vision, they could also function in this lightless environment. "Tentacles" evolved.
Rely on the feedback brought by those long hairs touching the surroundings to determine the way forward.
As for how to determine the direction?
It's the taste...
In the distance, the group of "gorillas" would stop from time to time, open their nostrils and breathe hard into the surrounding air.
Occasionally, he would lick the ground with his tongue...
Yes, walking on smooth or sharp obsidian can easily leave foot sweat or skin flakes, and even occasionally the soles of the feet may be cut, leaving a few drops of blood.
The smell of these leftovers has become the basis for tracking by the chimpanzees.
Raven watched the "gorillas" working hard to catch up... Even at the current speed, it would take at least ten hours to catch up with Hopper and the others.
Taking into account the rest in between, Hopper's previous estimate of two days was still correct.
"Huh?"
Xiao Jian suddenly thought of a question - it was so dark around him, so how did Hopper and the others determine the time?
"Boom...boom..."
"Wow..."
Just when Xiao Jian was thinking about this problem, the ground suddenly trembled.
It seemed that the entire Blackstone Mountains were shaking violently.
During such vibrations, the obsidian continued to produce large and small cracks, and occasionally large pieces of obsidian rolled down from high places...
It continued to break into smaller pieces as it rolled down, until it ran out of kinetic energy and stopped.
"Rumble, rumble..."
The seismic waves swept across and spread farther away, and the various sounds caused by the earthquake gradually disappeared as the seismic waves went away.
"how so!?"
"It's over, it's over, it's over..."
"We can't hide!"
"Woo..."
After the earthquake wave passed, bursts of crying suddenly came from the cracks.
The raven jumped down from a high place and saw Hopper's tribe suddenly in chaos.
"What happened!?"
Raven asked, but all the "chimpanzees" were in extreme emotions, and there was no response to his question.
"Quiet!"
Xiao Jian unconsciously adopted a commanding tone, and the effect was immediate.
Under the influence of [Faith], all the "chimpanzees" stopped involuntarily. Although they knelt on the ground, their uneasy body movements made Xiao Jian feel their fear.
"What happened?" Raven asked again.
"It's a disaster day... It's the earthquake just now, and the 13 ringing sounds mean that the disaster day is coming."
Hopper explained in a trembling voice: "The disaster is coming, and everyone who wanders in the mountains will die!"
"???"
What does an earthquake sound like rolling 13 times...
After Xiao Jian asked, he learned that the original concept of "day" was based on the earthquake between two days as the dividing line.
Based on the various wavelengths of seismic waves, they can begin to determine whether the rest of the day will be safe or dangerous.
Among them, the "disaster day" is the most dangerous moment, and you can only have a chance of avoiding it by hiding deep in a building.
As for what would have happened if he hadn't escaped, even Hopper didn't know.
Because those who didn't escape...all disappeared without leaving any traces!
"Hmm... a closed building is enough?" Xiao Jian asked.
"Yes." The hair all over Hopper's body was trembling, especially the long cat-whisker-like hairs on his head and hands, which were shaking in an awkward manner.
"well."
Xiao Jian sighed, took out a blank resource card, pointed it at the obsidian on the ground and chose to collect it.
I thought it was worth a visit anyway. Although the light transmittance of this obsidian is a little poor, it can still be regarded as "glass", so I simply made more.
After consuming 100,000 sunlight points, the mountains behind the fissure were flattened!
However, Hopper and his tribe did not see such a spectacular scene at all...
They could only hear a rumble, like an earthquake, but had no idea what was happening just a few feet away.
Obviously, their [thermal vision] cannot capture the changes in the terrain.
No wonder those "gorillas" have to feel their way around...
It seems that in addition to [thermal vision], these aborigines can only rely on touch to assist walking.
After changing the terrain, Xiao Jian held the resource card filled with obsidian in his hand, then built a thick obsidian shed directly on the crack, and finally sealed the front and rear ends.
"Ugh - what happened?!"
"The wind has stopped!"
"The lack of wind means..."
"Are we indoors?"
"We are indeed indoors! The surrounding walls are sealed!"
"Praise to the Eyes of Fire!!"
"..."
Although the raven clone did not feel any of the so-called "wind" in the air, although these aborigines have poor eyesight, their senses are very sensitive.
Surprisingly, even such a subtle air movement can be detected!
"Okay, I've sealed this place temporarily. You can slowly carve up the prey first. If you encounter danger, pray to me..."
After saying that, Xiao Jian took back the clone.
Although Xiao Jian was curious about the "disaster day" on the Black Rock Mountains, he was not prepared to test the power of the disaster day himself.
After all, the days are long.
Now that the situation is unclear, it is unreasonable to rashly put his clone in danger.
Now that the disaster in the Blackstone Mountains is about to begin, Xiao Jian simply leaves that world.
"Meow meow meow?"
Seeing Xiao Jian stand up from the sofa, Dahuang, who was squatting beside him on guard, immediately came over and licked Xiao Jian's hand as if to please.
"You, you just want to play." Xiao Jian grabbed the back of Dahuang's neck, then walked to the door of the old house with the cat in his arms and took a look outside.
In the mist outside the small courtyard, the "Windmill World" has disappeared unknowingly.
They had barely bumped into each other originally, so it's not surprising that the link is now broken.
Xiao Jian sat back on the sofa and chose to use [Forgery] on the black-haired burly man.
Immediately, the raven clone appeared in the windmill world without the windmill.
As soon as Xiao Jian came in, he discovered that this place was in a state of war...
A large number of zombies are pouring out of the fog and slowly advancing towards the tall building in the center.
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