Everyone originally thought that players without the help of the bright and intelligent must be having a very painful time.
Even if it wasn't painful, it must have been very agonizing. After all, one couldn't speak clearly, and the tools they made couldn't be too complicated. They were exposed to the wind and sun, fought with wild animals, and were chased by dinosaurs. How could life be easy?
But when Mingmei and her friends changed their address and encountered the Zhen brothers again in the nearby woods, they probably felt that they had been somewhat narrow-minded.
They might be living a pretty comfortable life.
Just because these two brothers can get along well with the monkeys in this forest, swinging across the entire forest on a single vine without ever touching the ground, Mingmei felt that she might have worried for nothing.
Coupled with those loud, signal-like howls, Mingmei even wondered if they had opened up a new world and were developing towards a different species.
In the end, however, the two brothers reluctantly bid farewell to the monkey troop that had sheltered them for several days and left with Mingmei.
The first thing the two brothers did upon returning was to take a bath with Lu Gui, followed by their first hot meal.
Even though it didn't taste good, it was still made by Mingmei!
After eating, with the guidance of Lu Gui and his group, the two brothers were finally able to speak human language again after about half a day.
"Ah—I was thinking I wouldn't be able to speak at all this round?"
Even after Zhen Po finished speaking, she couldn't help but sigh repeatedly.
"You bet! I was just yesterday thanking myself for still being able to shout."
As Zhen Hu continued speaking, he took the bone knife handed to him by Lu Gui and shaved off all the beard on his chin that had been growing on him for the past few days.
While scraping, he talked about the lives of the two brothers over the past few days.
The game begins with the two brothers being chased by wild beasts. They encounter the player, but the beasts are too fierce, and they scatter and fail to reunite. In the end, thanks to their "amazing talent," the two brothers are taken in by a troop of primitive monkeys...
Mingmei listened to their conversation, glancing down at the brothers' bracelets (12/1788). This score… were these people penalized earlier? cascoo.net
"After you joined the monkey group, didn't you try to find other players?"
It was already late, and everyone sat in the newly found cave. Lu Xiaoyao closed the cave entrance with a wooden spur gate and covered it with dry grass and leaves to shield it from the sudden gust of wind that had just started outside as darkness fell, thus protecting their newly lit campfire.
"I did look for it. The one I found was later carried away by that ancient behemoth. It was probably eliminated."
Dinosaurs are referred to as dinosaurs by StarCraft players. I only discovered this a few days ago when Mingmei overheard Lu Xiaoyao talking about it.
When Zhen Hu mentioned dinosaurs, he felt a pang of sympathy. This game is really daring. A two-meter-tall caveman fighting against a giant that is ten or twenty meters tall, is that really okay?
Think about that post-apocalyptic dungeon game where even with superpowers and that giant wolf, it was still a tough fight. This time, we don't even have superpowers, and the game doesn't even give us any brains at the start. We have to rely on Brightness to unlock our powers. This is fucking doomed!
"This place is very dangerous. The guy who separated from us at the beginning, I think he was from the Fourth Military Academy of the Empire. Wow, his skills were amazing!"
That's the guy who inspired my brother and me. You didn't see it, but he was being chased by a wild beast, and he was incredibly agile! He leaped up and down, and a vine flew far away in a flash, causing the beast to miss its target.
He ran fast and took a strange route, and my brother and I couldn't keep up. Of course, the wild beast didn't catch up either, which is why we separated.
As for the others… we did see quite a few corpses, most of them incomplete, clearly eaten by wild animals.”
"No wonder the total score is increasing so slowly."
It's said that quite a few players have died, and everyone has realized that although their scores have increased quite quickly in the past few days, overall, the increase in scores has been very limited.
At the time, they were wondering why even if every player who came in and shouted a few times would get extra points, it shouldn't be that the average score was less than two points.
However, while talking to Mingmei, Zhen Hu and Zhen Po suddenly realized that their scores were increasing.
"Oh my god!"
Having already learned of Mingmei's special identity, the twins looked at her with even more fervent eyes when they saw their score increase by 6 points overnight, after only two points in four or five days. They repeatedly expressed their gratitude to Mingmei.
"You gained six points tonight, but were there any points deducted from your score before?"
When Mingmei asked them this, Zhen Hu and Zhen Po awkwardly scratched their heads, finding it difficult to explain why they had lost points. However, Mu Chen and the others persisted, hoping that they would at least know better and avoid making the same mistakes in the future.
"Actually, when there are many people, you really don't make many mistakes. It's just that when there are few people and you're out alone, it's a bit inconvenient and that's why you get points deducted."
Zhen Hu carefully considered his words, trying to prepare everyone for the worst.
“That’s right! We were forced by circumstances!” Zhen Po nodded repeatedly in agreement with her elder brother’s words. “There were either big bugs or ferocious wild beasts on the ground, so how could we have time to dig a hole to relieve ourselves?”
Everyone: What?!
"Later, the monkeys all lived in the trees, and everyone relieved themselves up there, so we just followed their custom..."
Everyone: 0.0!
"Wait, is the phrase 'when in Rome, do as the Romans do' appropriate here?!" Lu Xiaoyao was quite shocked by the reason they deducted points, and the others were also in a daze.
"Anything else?" Mu Chen remembered that when he first met the Zhen brothers, although their language leaned towards the monkey's side, they should still have scored points for that. Moreover, their agility and the fact that they must have fought with wild beasts also earned them points.
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