Chapter 26 Ancient Cat Beast

The mountain breeze blew gently at night, blowing the torches with a whirring sound.

The torches were invented by the Herb Witch. When he was trying a kind of leaf, he discovered a kind of glue. He combined the glue with sticks and vines to develop this torch that can burn for a long time.

With torches, the night is much safer, and many beasts will be driven away. It can be regarded as replacing some of the functions of the totem fire, making the team without the totem fire safer.

The Fifth Xuan was bored and tried to communicate with the second-generation leader mentally. This was a new discovery of his: mental power.

He possessed an excellent and perceptible mental power, which could be used to try to contact the spiritual world of the second-generation leader. This process has been going on for five days, but without any results.

But it was not important to Diwu Xuan. He was just looking for something to do in his boring days, even if it was just to kill time.

At this time, he was placed under a tall ancient tree. The second-generation chief was lying beside him. Further away was the third-generation witch, and farther away was where the Herb Witch was sleeping.

In addition to the mountain breeze at night, there were occasional roars of wild beasts, and it was unknown whether they were fighting or looking for death.

Suddenly, Diwu Xuan felt a pair of eyes staring at him. This feeling was very strange and scared him.

His intuition has always been sharp, so he did not think he had an illusion, and he immediately looked around.

With the light of the torch, his sight swept the sleeping tribesmen, and he did not find anyone looking at him at all.

"Is it a beast? Or a ghost?"

Diwu Xuan was a little terrified. He was a little afraid of ghosts in his previous life. He didn't dare to stick his feet out of the bed in the middle of the night.

"Wait, I don't have feet, I'm not a human, I'm a totem, a stone, what am I afraid of?"

Diwu Xuan suddenly reacted, shook off his fear and began to observe carefully.

This time he didn't scan, but searched the area, just like playing the game of finding the difference in his previous life, searching carefully in the entire camp.

The feeling of being watched disappeared, but he didn't give up and continued to look. However, after searching for an hour, he found nothing, and the feeling of being watched also disappeared.

"Strange, is it really an illusion?"

Diwu Xuan guessed in his heart, but he couldn't get the answer he wanted.

"Could it be that I've been cooped up for too long and have hallucinations... Can totems get mentally ill?"

His brain circuits are unique, and he began to have wild thoughts again.

After thinking for a while without any results, he began to try to communicate with the second-generation leader, wanting to enter his spiritual world and wake him up.

"Huh?"

Diwu Xuan felt the feeling of being watched again, this time it was clearer, and he felt that the presence watching him was closer.

However, in the feeling, the presence watching him was also very cautious, only watching with the corner of his eye, and maybe avoiding occasionally. What a cautious guy.

Diwu Xuan gave up communicating with the second-generation leader's spiritual world and continued to search, but the feeling of being watched disappeared after a while, which made him confused.

After several experiments, he roughly understood that the guy who was paying attention to him would only pay attention to him when he tried to communicate with the spiritual world of the second-generation leader.

"What a strange existence. Why did it do this? Out of curiosity? Or did it want to get something?"

Such empty guesses had no answer at all. Diwu Xuan thought for a while and had to give up. He began to try to communicate with the spiritual world of the second-generation leader again.

The feeling of being watched continued, and Diwu Xuan stopped looking for it. This guy must be very good at hiding, and he couldn't find him at all.

It was not until sunrise that the feeling disappeared, but as the team moved forward, he still had the feeling of being watched from time to time.

"Amazing! With so many people walking together, you can still hide without being discovered. You are not really a ghost."

Diwu Xuan was surprised. He looked around from time to time, but he couldn't find the target at all.

He walked forward for a day. That night, a leaf falling from the sky attracted his attention.

He looked up, and the feeling of being watched became stronger.

"It's on the tree."

Diwu Xuan roared excitedly in the totem.

After a day of observation, he finally found its trace. How could he not be happy.

Diwu Xuan began to observe carefully, and finally saw a pair of dark pupils among the leaves.

"Huh..."

A terrified sound came from the throat. It was very subtle, but it still woke up the vigilant tribesmen.

"Swoosh..."

Two leaves fell from the tree, and the dark eyes disappeared among the trembling branches.

"It feels... not very offensive."

Diwu Xuan was slightly surprised. Although he heard the threatening voice, the threatening voice was too... cute.

The voice reminded him of the two pets he had raised in his previous life: Gangjian'er and Mozi.

They were both cats, and both were cute little female cats, one was active and the other was lazy.

"Isn't this the ancestor of cats?"

Because he liked cats, he did look up some information. Before the Han Dynasty, cats were not pets and had not yet been domesticated.

In ancient times, there was a kind of ancient cat that was longer than today's cats, with a longer tail, shorter legs, and a different head, with a low skull, which may be for easier biting.

The most important thing is that the brain of the ancient cat is said to be larger and more developed than that of carnivores of the same period, which means that it may be smarter.

Scientists even speculate that the ancestors of many animals such as bears, weasels, raccoons, foxes, American wolves, etc. may also be this animal.

"Wait, if the bear is his descendant, then I have seen a bear, is it... endangered?"

In primitive society, there is no habit of protecting endangered animals. Perhaps primitive people wish that all animals were endangered so that they could survive better.

But Diwu Xuan was still very happy to meet this animal that might be on the verge of extinction, especially since it might be a cat.

"It's a pity that it was scared away. I don't know if it will come back tomorrow."

In his understanding, the ancient cat beast is not a ferocious beast. It feeds on small animals and doesn't even roar. Its claws can be retracted like pet cats and dogs in later generations.

Such an animal is born to be a pet, but compared to a dog, keeping a cat in primitive society... is a money-loser.

"But why is it attracted by my spiritual power? Why does it make a warning sound when I look at it?"

This is what Diwu Xuan can't figure out.

The next day, the feeling of being watched reappeared, which meant that the ancient cat-beast did not give up observing him because of the frightened departure yesterday.

This time, Fifth Xuan began to pay close attention to the movements in the tree, and indeed saw the ancient cat-beast.

It was an ancient cat-beast covered with black hair and had dark eyes. If it were a little bigger, it would look like a black panther.

It jumped and shuttled through the woods without making any sound. Its walking was very similar to the cats of later generations, but its head was a little flat, which made it look even more ferocious.

"It seems that even cats are very ferocious in this era." Fifth Xuan sighed in his heart.