Although Yuanbao also wanted to go in, its master's words made a lot of sense. It looked at Yuanxiao behind it and had no choice but to transmit its voice, "Alright, master, Yuanxiao and I will wait for you to come out at the cave entrance."
The group then carefully carried their lighting equipment and ventured deeper into the area.
"Hurry up and go! Why are you getting so timid? If you're scared, I'll stay in front of you," Wan'er urged incessantly.
Yuan Chuyi shook her head. "I'm scared? I'm scared of stepping on a landmine. Since you like being in front, then come on over."
After speaking, Yuan Chuyi moved Wan'er, who was behind him, to the front.
The instant Yuan Chuyi dodged, Wan'er's large, focused eyes immediately saw the dense mass of excrement in front of her.
"Who said this might be the rat people's excretion place? They were right."
She then covered her nose and backed away, saying, "It's fucking disgusting. You go ahead, take it slow."
Yuan Chuyi glanced at Wan'er sideways, "The person who said it was the toilet just now was you, wasn't it?"
Wan'er stuck out her tongue and gestured for her to proceed.
Yuan Chu realized that Wan'er was unlikely to walk ahead, so he had no choice but to proceed cautiously with wide eyes. Fortunately, after walking for a few minutes, the dense "minefield" was finally over.
"Come and take a look, starting from here, the stone wall seems to be covered with the claw marks of ratmen," Liu Xin said, waving her hand.
"It really is!"
Liu Xin's reminder prompted Yuan Chu to begin observing the surrounding stone walls.
"I understand now! I know how they survived!"
The girls looked at Yuan Chuyi with suspicion.
"Let's go, let's keep going, and we'll talk to you later."
As the group ventured deeper, they discovered more and more scratch marks on the cave walls, along with numerous stones of varying sizes.
Tang Yan forcefully pried off a piece of stone, smelled it, and asked, "Is this the crystal used to make energy blocks?"
Yuan Chu nodded. "You may not have been inside a mine, but I have been there many times. This stuff is indeed mineral crystal. Now I finally understand why so many ratmen can survive without any food."
"You mean those ratmen survive by eating this?"
"While it's not 100% certain, there's a 99% chance."
"To be 100% certain, we can only capture a few live rat-men for experiments," Chen Wei suggested.
Yuan Chuyi picked up a mineral crystal, put it in his mouth, and bit down hard. With a crisp snap, a small piece of the mineral crystal was bitten off.
"Honey, what are you doing? Aren't you afraid this mineral crystal was bitten by a rat-man?" Zheng Shuang said angrily.
Originally, Yuan Chu just wanted to test whether his bite force could crush the mineral crystal, but after Zheng Shuang said that, he really thought it was possible, and suddenly a feeling of nausea rose in his throat.
Wan'er quickly grabbed a bottle of water and handed it over, saying, "Drink some water, don't choke."
Yuan Chuyi spat out a mouthful of water, "You brat, are you really planning to make me eat you?"
"Alright, stop fooling around. Shall we go out or continue walking down and see?" Tang Yan said irritably.
“Since we’ve come this far, let’s go down to the very end and take a look,” Yuan Chuyi shrugged.
The group continued forward through the cave for several tens of minutes, and just as they turned a corner, countless small points of light suddenly appeared ahead.
At the same time, a beam of light shone in that direction.
There were countless baby rats, who looked like they had just been born, gathered in an oval shape and lay at the end of the cave.
The group looked at each other.
"I should have realized that if these ratmen couldn't reproduce, the earliest ratmen of Sirius would have been wiped out by the passage of time," Yuan Chuyi lamented.
"These mouse-men don't seem so annoying after all."
Yuan Chuyi glared at Wan'er, who had spoken, "The appearance of the rat people means they are destined to be the natural enemies of mankind. Only one of them can exist. Don't you understand this simple principle?"
"I just said they don't seem that bad. Of course I know we're natural enemies, do you need to tell me that?" Wan'er muttered.
“I remember you told us that the rat people on Sirius were originally evolved from people who had contracted some kind of virus.”
"If we let them evolve like this, won't they become a completely new species in thousands or tens of thousands of years?" Zheng Shuang asked curiously.
“Ratmen are ratmen, no matter how they evolve, they can never be human,” Yuan Chu said.
“I didn’t say it was a person, maybe it’s a new species?” Zheng Shuang asked rhetorically.
"How is that possible! Could it possibly evolve into other forms?"
Liu Xin touched her nose and said, "Do you think we humans came from somewhere? Is it possible that tens of thousands of years ago, we were a derivative of some kind of intelligent life, just like them?"
After Liu Xin finished speaking, the group simultaneously recalled Darwin's famous theory of evolution, which describes humans as having evolved from primates.
Before they knew it, the group of people had fallen into deep thought.
"Could we humans have evolved from some kind of life form that split due to some mysterious virus? Fortunately, the split humans defeated the original species." Yuan Chuyi shuddered at the thought.
Clap clap clap!
He clapped his hands several times and said, "Everyone, stop thinking nonsense. No matter where these ratmen came from, our goal now is to eliminate them."
After saying that, a burst of fire flew towards the young rat-men.
The group quietly headed back the way they had come.
"System, I'm asking you, do you know how humans came to be?" Yuan Chuyi asked in a low voice in his mind.
Ding-dong!
Of course I know.
Just as Yuan Chuyi was about to continue asking questions, the system's voice rang out again.
"However, I cannot say."
Upon hearing this, Yuan Chu was so angry that she wanted to curse, "If you can't say you know, you might as well just say you don't know."
Ding-dong!
Once you reach level 100, you'll probably understand something, more or less. Keep it up, young man!
Yuan Chuyi ignored the system's mocking voice.
"Hey, you damned rogue cat, how could you do something like this in public?" Wan'er's voice came from ahead.
Yuan Chuyi thought something had happened outside, and he flashed into the cave entrance.
To his utter astonishment, a huge tiger was lying on the ground, with a lewd fat cat on top of it, desperately jerking its body.
"Yuanbao, can't you be more mindful of the occasion?"
"Meddlesome! We animals are normal in any situation." Yuan Chu received Yuan Bao's telepathic message in his mind.
Yuan Chuyi leaped onto Yuanbao's back, grabbed it by the scruff of its neck, and pulled it off the tigress.
"Are you trying to annoy me, kid? I bet you don't want those two Doraemon toys anymore."
"Master, master, I was wrong, I was wrong!"
Seeing Yuanbao begging for mercy, Yuan Chuyi finally let go of his hand. "It's good that you know you were wrong. Don't do anything bad in front of the ladies. If I find out again, you'd better watch out for your Dingdang!"
"I was just bored because you guys had been inside for so long and hadn't come out yet," Yuan Chu's aggrieved voice came again.
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