Chapter 76 Food
Han Yueshan interrupted his thoughts and asked, "Senior Sister, will the smell of blood attract other beasts?"
"We'll only stay one night and then move on."
They still looked somewhat worried. Tao Zi sat aside to rest and said slowly, "In this place, the smell of blood is far less influential than fire, light, and noise. It won't attract too many monsters, unless..."
Xi Jing pressed on: "Unless what?"
"Unless it's human blood."
They looked at her in surprise, but a distant voice appeared in her mind:
"Xiao Qiran, don't look down on them. They just want to survive and pass on their heritage. Their anger towards human blood is the little dignity these monsters have left, and it is also their pride that has not yet been destroyed."
Zhao Xue thought about it and said seriously, "Is it because the monsters here are used to the smell of monster blood?"
Tao Zi gave a vague answer: "Maybe."
Several people looked at her in confusion, and she said, "Hurry up and get some rest. You never know when a monster will come."
Xi Jing blinked and was about to nod when she was suddenly shocked and asked, "Senior Sister, you just said they were monsters? Were those the ones before that also?"
She nodded: "They are monsters."
"How is it possible..."
Monsters are the darlings of heaven that even humans have to admit. They are born with the ability to inherit the heritage of their ancestors, gain wisdom, understand human language, and transform into human bodies. The only drawback is that the higher the level of the monster, the more difficult it is to reproduce.
How could these extremely weak beasts be monsters?
Zhao Xue gave an answer: "Perhaps it's because their bloodline is very weak."
No one noticed Tao Zi's complicated expression.
After Xi Jing and the others finally closed their eyes to rest, Tao Zi turned to look at the demon snake and suddenly became absent-minded.
The bloodlines of these monsters are not weak. On the contrary, their ancestors are all famous monsters.
It’s a pity that tens of thousands of years of disguised imprisonment did not destroy these arrogant monsters, but destroyed their heritage.
In extreme environments, the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker, yet the strong's reproductive capacity is far lower than the weak's. Over the course of ten thousand years, countless top-tier inheritances have been lost, and countless monsters have been created, capable only of reproduction but pitifully low combat power.
Like those monsters on the periphery, they don't know how to practice, and they reproduce continuously as soon as they have energy. They can only win by numbers, but the inheritance they left behind is already incomplete. I don't know if they can still be considered monsters, and I don't know which is a better choice, practice or reproduction.
When they woke up, they were faced with the dinner that their senior sister had "enthusiastically" prepared.
Tao Zi smiled and said, "We haven't eaten for more than a day. Let's eat quickly."
Han Yueshan and the others retreated in silence. Zhao Xue was the first to speak: "Is this the meat for our dinner?"
"Don't you like snake meat?"
Han Yueshan said in despair: "No, it's just... it's raw!"
Raw, bloody, and unwashed.
The eldest sister still smiled, but her words were not polite at all: "We can't light a fire. Even if we could, the fragrance would attract more monsters."
As she spoke, she picked up the snake meat and stuffed it into her mouth: "Don't worry, the meat of monsters is much better than that of ordinary beasts. Generally, as long as it is fresh, it will not be infested with insects, and it is also beneficial to the human body."
Han Yueshan clenched his fists, looking ready to die and said, "Since the eldest sister ate first, then I, the second brother, have no choice but to take over!"
With trembling hands, he put the snake meat into his mouth and chewed it. After a few chews, he swallowed it. His expression gradually changed from nervous to calm.
Zhao Xue and Xi Jing looked at it and thought it tasted good, so they closed their eyes and ate it.
"vomit!"
The junior brothers and sisters rolled and crawled to the corner and vomited.
After recovering from the shock, Zhao Xue could feel the nausea in his mouth and spoke weakly, "Brother, why are you so calm?"
Han Yueshan looked at him in despair: "Am I calm? I am clearly at peace, at peace in the grave!"
Tao Zi tore off another piece of meat and put it in her mouth: "Yueshan is good, and I can swallow it."
"There's nothing I can do. If I don't eat, there's nothing left to eat."
He glanced at his fellow apprentices and said with a hint of pride, "Besides, I've eaten worse food before, so this is nothing!"
Xi Jing said with lifeless eyes, "I don't believe there is any meat more disgusting than this."
"That was a piece of moldy meat that my senior brother snatched from a vicious dog. You were still very young at the time, so it's normal that you don't remember it."
Han Yueshan said this lightly, and then said: "It's good to have food. Don't be picky. Eat quickly. Hunger is not pleasant."
The two of them trembled as they looked at the pieces of snake meat. He sighed and gently coaxed them, "If you don't eat, you won't have the strength to run. Then, do you think you and my senior sister will carry you?"
They were silent for a moment, recalling the previous scene, then they closed their eyes, picked up the meat, and swallowed it without even chewing it.
The next second—"Ugh"!
After repeating this several times, they finally swallowed it, their faces extremely pale. Tao Zi watched quietly from the side.
After finishing all the edible meat, she said, "You guys ate too little meat, almost nothing. We need to move to another place."
An hour later, they came to a cave that was even more humid than before, and in front of Xi Jing and the others was a kind of black meat.
There was another round of vomiting, and even Han Yueshan was weakly digging at the dirt on the ground, saying, "I guarantee with my life that this meat is even worse than that rotten meat."
But even as he said this, he didn't spit out a single word.
Tao Zi said, "This monster is weaker than the snake just now, so the quality of its meat is naturally inferior. This is one of their means of self-preservation in this forest."
Zhao Xue looked at the meat with horror in his eyes: "This is definitely not a small difference..."
Xi Jing grasped the key point and asked, "Senior Sister, if we become stronger, will the meat we can eat be better?"
"certainly."
The three of them clenched their fists, their determination to practice stronger than ever before.
"Yueshan, pay attention to the cave entrance, Senior Sister is going to practice."
"good!"
She took out the storybook given by her master and decided to see what moves were in it.
The martial arts of the Punishment Hall can only be used when framing others or confusing the public. Normally, one still has to rely on other methods.
While enduring the bizarre plot and looking for moves, she was inexplicably reminded of her inner demon - it was surprising that it didn't come out to read the book it had been thinking about.
Wait, what is this? This book has illustrations?
Tao Zi looked at the picture in shock, and was even more shocked at the acupuncture points that were artificially drawn on the picture, with red markings next to them: Although the picture is very ambiguous and the atmosphere is consistent with the content, the length of this person's arms does not conform to the human body structure, which is too careless!
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