Lu Danggui pulled a small iron rod from his hair, ready for battle.
The snow ape-man seemed lost in thought and did not immediately make a move.
The commotion attracted the attention of other people and the snow apes.
Several snow apes gathered around. They didn't look at Lu Dangui, but instead stared at the angry snow ape.
The little dwarf had said that the snow apes were very strong. If they fought in the snow apes' territory, they would surely die.
If the snow apes simply wanted to kill them, they wouldn't have needed to go through all this trouble.
In other words, they are useful to the snow apes, and the snow apes will not kill them easily.
Having figured this out, Xia Chuhe said, "We built the snow house very well and it's very sturdy. The fact that the snow house collapsed under your weight only means that you're too heavy."
The snow ape roared, still looking furious, much like a boss in a lousy company with nowhere to vent his anger.
Xia Chuhe gently grasped Lu Dangui's hand holding the iron rod, adopting the attitude of a working man who would admit his mistake if he was scolded.
"You have no experience building a snow house for the first time, please give us another chance. Don't bother us, we promise to build you a super sturdy snow house that will never collapse under the weight of the snow."
The snow ape seemed to understand; it withdrew its paw and angrily smashed a snow brick that hadn't collapsed, shattering it with a single punch...
That action was exactly the same as the boss throwing documents at employees in workplace dramas.
The snow ape-man smashed around, but only the snow bricks that Lu Danggui had made at the beginning were not broken.
It slapped the unbroken snow brick hard, then pointed to the mold and the snow, indicating that the snow bricks should be made this hard.
Xia Chuhe replied obediently, "Okay, I understand."
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The snow ape howled a few more times before reluctantly leaving.
With the crisis averted, Xia Chuhe breathed a sigh of relief.
Lu Dangui didn't say anything, nor did he blame Xia Chuhe for making these shoddy snow bricks.
She silently took over the mold and worked diligently to press the snow bricks, making them firm and square.
Xia Chuhe muttered under his breath, "Slow down, it's almost dawn."
Lu Dangui looked up, and sure enough, a sliver of dawn appeared on the horizon.
The snow ape-man came hopping and skipping to inspect the project.
Xia Chuhe's group only built one ring of foundation and obtained 4 pieces of dried meat.
Du Zhenyi built a structure half a person's height and received 20 pieces of dried meat.
Wang Yan's group had many people, worked quickly and well, and reached chest height, earning 36 pieces of jerky.
But Pan Sheng from Wang Yan's group was injured; the back of his hand was covered in blood.
Du Zhen: "How did you get injured?"
Pan Sheng: "When the snow ape came to ram the snow house, there was a brick that had just been placed on it and hadn't frozen solid yet. It was knocked down and hit my hand."
Pan Sheng grinned and said, "It's okay, Xiao Ye has already taken care of it for me. If Sister Zhen feels sorry for me, just give me some more jerky."
Du Zhen scoffed, "Fine, greedy devil. Tonight, some snow apes also came to ram our snow hut, but nothing bad happened."
Xia Chuhe overheard their conversation and realized that the snow ape-man wasn't targeting her.
Looking back, the Yeti's behavior of ramming the igloo was more like an inspection of the construction quality. They just wanted a sturdy igloo, not a shoddy construction.
The snow house built by the little dwarfs was very large and was almost finished; it took them many days to build.
They didn't say how much jerky the snow ape people gave them, even though the snow house was so big.
Xia Chuhe, Du Zhen, and others inspected the dried meat and found it to be normal. However, Wang Yan's group's dried meat contained frozen fish.
Lu Danggui and Xia Chuhe split the four pieces of dried meat equally, two pieces each, which was pitifully little.
Lu Dangui clenched his fist: "I'll definitely work hard tonight!"
Xia Chuhe: ...
Using a little bit of dried meat to make many people work overtime all night, the Snow Ape Man is more capitalist than capitalists.
On the way back, the snow apes did not escort them.
Xia Chuhe yawned and asked Lu Danggui in a low voice, "Aren't there any native humans in the dungeon?"
Lu Danggui: "Some dungeons have it, some don't. The original inhabitants of this dungeon might be the Snow Apes."
Stone shovels and stone molds are both production tools that reflect the productivity level of early humans.
Giant beavers, megalodons, and ape-men were all creatures from ancient times.
By analogy, the Yeti are primitive humans who survived the harsh conditions of an ancient icy world through natural selection.
At first glance, it makes a lot of sense.
But Xia Chuhe felt there were three things that didn't make sense.
The first step is to build snow houses.
The snow ape's claws are not suitable for engineering, so they even have to hire someone to build snow houses.
But... who built the first igloo?
Could it be a wastelander entering a dungeon?
Perhaps the wastelanders built snow houses to keep warm, and the snow apes saw them and thought they were great, so they learned how to do it and began to enslave the wastelanders.
This explanation is a bit far-fetched.
Secondly, there was pine firewood in the snow house.
The firewood was chopped very neatly, unlike what a stone axe could do.
However, it cannot be ruled out that the snow apes are strong.
Thirdly, the fingers in the jerky the little dwarf mentioned.
The hands of the snow apes are different from human hands. If there are human fingers in the jerky, where did the humans come from?
Unless, of course, the finger belongs to the dwarf's missing teammate.
It's also possible that they are wastelanders who have been in the dungeon before.
Xia Chuhe couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't reach an agreement with Lu Danggui either.
She then loudly asked the others, "Do you think there are any humans in this instance?"
Wang Yan scratched his head: "Aren't snow apes just humans?"
Xia Chuhe pointed to the snow apes' lair behind him, then to himself: "Do you think we're the same species as them?"
Wang Yan: ...
The little dwarf yawned: "What if someone's there? What if no one's there? Don't think so much, you might as well go back and get some sleep."
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