"Didn't you say before that this mountain is mostly nuts?"
Mandrills are omnivorous, just like humans.
Meat makes up 40 percent of their diet; eating insects alone is not enough.
Despite the size of this mountain, with hundreds of mandrills feeding on it, I dare say that many of the lower-ranking mandrills would struggle to get enough meat.
Besides, my meat is much tastier than insects. How could they not eat it…?
Tang Weiwei counted the number of mandrills, her brows furrowed.
"You two might as well have gone over there while the mandrill was chasing us."
Look at this, even if you poisoned all the mandrills to death, you still wouldn't be able to get past them.
There are at least 140 mandrills active in this area.
Ye Feng nodded in agreement; how could he not have thought of that?
"Run? Are you kidding me? This mountain is so big, my route is to go through the foot of the mountain."
How could a few minutes possibly be enough? Even if I manage to get through, what will I do when I come back?
Don't worry, the sound of feeding will soon attract other mandrills.
Just wait, soon this place will be piled high with corpses; this will be their last meal.
"Hey! Here it comes."
Fu Changxiong excitedly pointed to the hillside.
Everyone looked over, their eyes immediately going blank.
At this moment, a large group of mandrills is rushing down the hillside from all directions.
The scene was extremely impressive, like the bell ringing to signal the end of the last class of the morning at school.
The students rushed out of the classroom and scrambled towards the cafeteria.
If Ye Feng and his companions hadn't stayed far away, they would have really thought the other party was after them.
"Wow... there must be over a hundred of them, right?"
"Not only that, look at the mountainside, there are many more rushing here."
Tang Weiwei suppressed her excited laughter and patted Ye Feng on the shoulder.
"Your 100 pounds of meat seems a bit too little, why didn't you prepare more this morning?"
Ye Feng rolled his eyes at him. He wanted to get some meat, but the group almost couldn't escape with just this little bit of meat.
"It's alright, that should be enough. To make sure they can all eat the poisoned meat, Da Xiong and I scattered the meat everywhere."
In this way, there won't be any large mandrills dominating the pile of meat.
As they talked, a minute passed, and the male mandrill that had eaten the meat first began to show symptoms of poisoning.
Ye Feng kept observing its reaction, calculating the time in his mind.
At about 45 seconds, the mandrill started baring its teeth and scratching its throat and mouth incessantly.
It was clear that the tree sap toxins had corroded its mouth and esophagus.
The book once said that the sap of Euphorbiaceae trees is highly poisonous, and the feeling after accidentally ingesting it is like swallowing a torch.
The flames will continue to burn any organ that has come into contact with the sap, causing excruciating pain and making life worse than death.
And right now, that mandrill is in that state.
A few more minutes passed...
Ye Feng picked up his binoculars and saw that it had started rolling around on the ground, foaming at the mouth and spitting out blood.
His body was twitching, like he was constantly hiccuping.
Because there were so many mandrills feeding, the noise was so loud that Ye Feng couldn't make out what their screams sounded like.
"It seems that the toxins in this tree sap kill people much faster than bacteria and parasites."
"Hey, it's fallen over, that one's fallen over too..."
Zhan Pengwu pointed to the group of mandrills in the distance and began to count them.
At this moment, many mandrills were attracted by their fallen companions and did not know what had happened.
Although they possess a certain level of intelligence, they clearly cannot comprehend the concept of poisoning.
He looked at it, but he didn't throw away any of the meat in his hands; he kept stuffing it into his mouth.
Some mandrills of similar size even got into a fight over a piece of meat, creating a very chaotic scene.
"Ye Feng, do you think... what if these animals discover that the meat is poisoned?"
Ye Feng shook his head decisively…
"No, at least... not for now, they don't possess such advanced civilization and intelligence."
These monkeys are very docile; unless they suffer a loss themselves, they will always be driven by their instincts.
They sleep when they're tired and eat when they're hungry; as long as the food is something they like, they don't care about anything else.
5 minutes later…
The joyful shouts and sounds of eating that had been heard at the scene had turned into painful wails.
There were at least 150 mandrills, and at least 100 of them were rolling on the ground.
Of the remaining fifty or sixty, more than half are still eating.
Judging from their appearance, they seem to have not eaten such delicious meat in a long time.
However, seeing so many of their kind fall to the ground, even if they were stupid, they seemed to have vaguely sensed something.
Eating has slowed down considerably; I no longer wolf down my food.
As for the remaining mandrills that didn't eat at all, it's simply because they are too small; they are all juveniles or sub-adults.
They couldn't compete with the other mandrills at all, so they could only watch helplessly.
Facing a small mandrill of this size, Ye Feng felt much less pressure.
It will basically not cause him any harm.
After waiting for another ten minutes or so, the wailing gradually stopped, and the place was just as Ye Feng had expected.
The mandrills, which had been ferocious in the morning, were now lying motionless and fast asleep, their bodies piled up.
Seeing this, Tang Weiwei gave Ye Feng a sincere look of approval.
He and Zhan Pengwu had tried to come here to pick nuts several times before, but they were chased and forced to flee in a sorry state by the mandrill horde.
I was bitten on the leg once and almost died there.
Their best record was killing only fifteen mandrills.
Ye Feng, without shedding a drop of blood, poisoned more than a hundred animals in one go.
Almost all the mandrills in this area are gone.
At this moment, Tang Weiwei truly understood why Ye Feng was able to become number one.
Knowledge... is power...
He also knew that if he wanted to survive to the end, force alone was absolutely not enough.
Because compared to other challengers, the greatest threat to life still comes from this land.
Knowledge of survival is far more valuable than physical strength.
From that moment on, he fully acknowledged Ye Feng's abilities.
However, his proud and arrogant personality prevented him from saying a single word to Ye Feng.
There wasn't even a compliment...
But Ye Feng had no time to care what he was thinking and quickly tightened his backpack.
He wasted too much time today; he needs to hurry.
"You two go back and take good care of the wounded. There's plenty of dried meat in their bags, enough for you to eat."
We probably won't be able to come back tonight; we'll be back first thing tomorrow morning.
Tang Weiwei was a little uneasy. He had already decided that the young man in front of him was the big boss who could lead him to the end.
He still lived a carefree, vacation-like life until the very end.
If I were to die on the road, wouldn't all the life I wanted be ruined?
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