Chapter 7: Companionship: The path of evolving species in pursuit of strength.
In the evolutionary era, the birth rate of newborns was particularly low.
Therefore, there is no one like Xiaohong who can be called a partner around Xinxue.
But after her mother disappeared.
Her pain was even worse than Ah Shu's at the moment.
So Xinxue could fully understand the snake girl's grief and anger at this moment.
She held the suddenly withered Snake Woman in her arms and looked at her worriedly: "Will you avenge Xiaohong?"
"Of course!" The anger in Ah Shu's heart was ignited, and the snake's tail slapped the ground violently, shaking out layers of dust.
It was as if the people in the Hope Base were lying under her snake tail at this moment.
"Just think it over carefully. If you kill the people at the base, they won't let you go. Our lives will be difficult from now on..."
Xinxue has no good feelings towards the people in the base. She has lived a solitary life with her mother in the tunnel of the villa since she was born.
But her mother had told her many stories, so she knew that revenge was an endless journey.
The first shot has been fired and someone has died.
If Ah Shu fired a second shot, they might end up fighting to the death.
She would not interfere with Ah Shu's thoughts, but would tell her that she would be afraid.
Xinxue's words calmed the snake girl down a little.
In addition to Xiaohong's death, she also saw powerful human beings with special abilities.
Humans have tactics and can act in groups.
She has a strong physique and has no problem fighting alone or against dozens of people.
But if a real fight breaks out, she will be helpless against wave after wave of fearless human mutants rushing forward.
The path of evolution is the survival of the fittest.
On Ashu's evolutionary journey, she has never had a real companion.
Even when she was a child and her brain was still in a chaotic state, she relied on her instinct to hatch early and eat her brothers and sisters in the same nest.
She said Xiaohong was one of her few friends, but that was actually just her unilateral opinion.
After all, in their previous interactions, Xiaohong had not evolved the wisdom to communicate with her smoothly.
And she is not alone now.
Around her are the little human Xinxue who needs her protection, and their cubs who were born at an unknown time.
Ah Shu was very upset: "I... I don't want to disrupt the peace now... But Xiaohong can't die in vain..."
"Yeah." Xinxue accompanied her, neither agreeing nor denying.
Ah Shu lowered his eyes and thought for a long time, then finally raised his head, "I want to go back again... to see where her third eye is..."
This time she gave advance notice.
So when Xinxue saw her enter that state of restrained aura, where the whole snake seemed to have entered another world, she was no longer afraid.
She walked over to where the car was and began to check its condition.
There are three new cars in total.
The first one looked like it had been blown up by something, half of it was shattered and had no use at all.
The second car looked okay on the outside, but the inside was covered in brown, coagulated blood and had a strong fishy smell. Xinxue didn't dare to get close to it at all.
Only the third car looked okay. Apart from a broken sunroof, the windshield and doors were intact.
Xinxue sat in the driver's seat and was surprised to find that the key was still hanging there.
She tried to start the car and found that the engine was damaged and would not start, which might be why it was abandoned.
It is not easy to repair a car like this in such a remote place.
But fortunately, they don't need the car's own horsepower.
and……
Even if it was intact, it would be useless because Xinxue couldn't drive at all.
She just turned the steering wheel, stepped on the brakes, and pressed every button she could.
When a loud "beep" sound was heard, not only Xinxue jumped up in fright, but Ah Shu, who was almost frozen into a statue, also swung his tail in fear.
The strange sound stopped only when she unconsciously strangled an innocent tree nearby in panic, causing the bark to break into pieces and almost breaking it in half.
"Sorry, sorry, I pressed the wrong button!" Xinxue hurriedly turned off the horn.
I tried hard to remember the cone-shaped logo button with one side big and the other side small, and decided to pretend it doesn't exist and never press it again.
After being interrupted by her, Ah Shu's fury was defeated and he calmed down completely.
Seeing that she seemed to have finished her work, Xinxue put on a smile and asked: "How's the tracing going? Did you find the eye in the sky?"
"We seem to have missed it." The snake woman frowned.
"Xiaohong blew herself up before she died... I hope the base didn't get her intact body this time...
That eye was taken away by the group of people we drove away...when they came to clean up the scene."
"Should we go after them now? I don't know if we'll be in time."
Ever since meeting the snake girl, Xinxue has left the area where she usually lives.
Everything around her was unfamiliar to her, so she had no idea how far away Hope Base was.
"I don't know." The expression on Ah Shu's face turned into confusion and thought, and his tail unconsciously bent into the shape of a question mark.
"I just backtracked a bit... and realized that Hope Base was dispatched this time... because Xiaohong disrupted the harmony first...
She lurked around the base many times... ate people... so they had to get rid of her..."
And this time, Ah Shu saw clearly what Xiaohong looked like when she was alive.
She is completely different from the cute and docile little red lizard from more than ten years ago.
It's unknown when a second head evolved.
The entire lizard remained in a state of madness.
Cruel and bloodthirsty, with bloody saliva drooling from his mouth and ugly pustules on his body...
It indiscriminately attacked evolved species, devoured their energy sources, and later killed people.
Unlike humans who rely entirely on luck to evolve special abilities, animals and plants have about 60 to 70 percent control over the direction of their own evolution.
When they try hard to evolve in a certain direction and accumulate enough evolutionary energy, their dreams may come true.
For example, Ah Shu evolved into his current half-human, half-python appearance because he liked the slender body and pretty face of humans.
Many evolved species may make wrong choices in their pursuit of strength, leading to the loss of self-awareness and becoming zombies.
Ah Shu once had a bottleneck, and it was Xiaohong who saved her.
But later they all became stronger.
The same territory cannot accommodate two kings.
A time when we had to go our separate ways and each go our separate ways.
Xiaohong chose the wrong direction of evolution, but she didn't make it past that hurdle...
To defeat the other evolved species in the base and the surrounding areas, one must pay the price of life.
So they also maintained a delicate balance, and for a long time, it was a state of you don't offend me and I don't offend others.
Now it seems that Xiaohong was the one who did something wrong first.
And he paid the price for his mistake with his life...
Ah Shu, who originally wanted to avenge her, didn't know what to do after learning the truth.
The whole snake was in a daze, as if it was continuing to recall the past, or as if it was regretting why it was not by Xiaohong's side when she needed help.
It is normal to know that under the impact of such great sorrow, one's mind goes blank.
Xinxue didn't urge him.
As she examined the contents of the car, she looked up at Snake, waiting for her to make a decision.
After a while, Ah Shu raised his eyes and said, "Forget it, the Sky Eye may have been taken back to the base. Let's go home."
She seemed to have figured it out.
She will still be sad about Xiaohong's death.
But she will not seek blind revenge anymore.
A Shu will continue to live with Xiao Hong's share.
Learn from it, control yourself, and strive to choose what she believes to be the right evolutionary path.
Protect the new snow and this home.
She looked back at the open-air parking lot again and remembered Xiaohong in her mind.
On the way to the campsite, Ah Shu and Xin Xue looked nervous and focused.
The wheels had to move on a flat road, so they had to abandon the dark grass where they came from, which was relatively safe, and walk carelessly on the road.
You have to worry about people passing by while also practicing your steering and pushing skills with the accordion.
Fortunately, there are usually not many people on this road.
After conquering the red lizard, the base was worried that new evolved species that were not easy to deal with would come and expand their territory.
This place is still some distance away from the base, and it is out of reach and cannot be recovered for the time being.
So he ordered the supply search team not to come here without prior knowledge, and to take a detour if possible.
He only secretly gave the search team the task of finding the energy source of the red lizard.
From time to time, the screams of two people could be heard on this road.
"Oops, I shouldn't have braked now, sorry, sorry..."
"Ah... I pushed too hard, Xue, don't move... I'll push the car back on track right away..."
"Slow down, there's a rock ahead! Slow down! Ah, never mind. I ran over it, luckily the tire is fine."
Xinxue sat in the driver's seat, wearing a seat belt.
I struggled with the steering wheel and brakes, trying to control the direction, while holding on to the handrails, being pushed around by the giant snake as if I were in a bumper car.
Fortunately, the two of them had lived together for several days and had a good understanding of each other.
By the time we stumbled back to the campsite, we were able to cooperate very well.
This car is a five-seater with a large trunk space.
Xinxue first asked Ashu to move half the pig to the trunk.
Then they began to pack up the food, tools, spare clothes, moisture-proof mats, thin blankets, and wooden boxes and barrels used as stools that they had not had time to take away.
She even poked the extinguished bonfires with a stick to make sure nothing was left inside.
We came with nothing, but returned with a great harvest.
Ah Shu pushed the cart very vigorously, and all the depression in his heart turned into sweat.
She even deprived Xinxue of control of the steering wheel.
If you want the car to go a certain direction, you have to rely on brute force to change the situation.
Xinxue was sitting obediently in the driver's seat with her things in her arms. Suddenly, she remembered something and stuck her head out of the window.
He shouted to the snake girl outside, “Ashu, let’s not rob the people in the base recently.
I'm worried they'll see you as a threat and come after us."
"Okay." Ah Shu agreed readily.
Although she didn't say it, she still couldn't completely get over Xiaohong's death.
I was also afraid that the people at the base would get excited and wouldn't care about Xinxue when they started fighting, so it was better to avoid seeing them as much as possible.
When they returned to the gymnasium, they found that the front of the car could not pass.
A Shu took some effort to expand the only entrance and exit to a size that allowed the vehicle to pass through, and then pushed the car to the front of the podium in one go.
He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "My mission is completed. Now it's your turn."
After leaving Xiaohong's territory, Ah Shu's mood visibly improved a little.
Looking at the two clear tire tracks on the lawn, she thought for a moment and slid over there with her tail.
With its tail stretched out long, it lay in the middle of the ruts, basking in the sun.
She lazily watched Xinxue running around and sorting out the harvest. She felt that she could never get tired of watching this scene and gradually relaxed.
Xinxue was now accustomed to her aggressive gaze.
She put the things back in place, emptied the trunk of the car, and folded the back seat flat.
Then he got in with a bunch of clothes that were too big for him and didn't come out for a long time. He even closed the trunk of the car in an attempt to cover up his mistake.
A Shu didn't know what she was doing, but she felt inexplicably irritated because she hadn't seen any new snow for a long time.
After waiting patiently for a while, he finally couldn't help it and poked the car with his tail.
Xinxue felt a violent shaking, looked down, and felt that he was almost ready.
"Stop shaking, stop shaking!" She leaned out and beckoned to Ah Shu: "Ah Shu, come and sleep here. We'll sleep in the car from now on."
"Is there enough room to sleep?" Although Ah Shu said this, his actions were decisive. He opened the trunk door in a few seconds and got in.
Xinxue felt the entire vehicle sink and thought something was wrong.
She screamed, "The tail is too heavy, don't get on it, it's going to burst the tire!"
Ah Shu curled his lips in disappointment, and slid the thick and long lower half of his body out of the car, leaving only his body in the car.
In the narrow space, each other's breathing seemed to be amplified.
A Shu looked at Xinxue and suddenly smiled.
"What are you laughing at?" Xinxue compulsively smoothed her wrinkled sheets.
Snake opened her arms and pulled her into a hug. "Luckily, you're here, or I'd be fighting Hope Base right now."
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