Chapter 176: At the foot of the mountain

Evolution is a wonderful thing, it guides everything in the world forward, every organ, every cell, has a reason for existence and function. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Every species that survives until now must be completely different from its ancestors hundreds of millions of years ago, and even if it seems to be not much different on the surface, the organs and genes in the body must have changed.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the mechanism of evolution is not complicated, there are mutations in genes, and there will be subtle differences between each generation of organisms and the same species, and after that, subtle mutations continue to accumulate, and the beneficial parts of the organisms themselves will be preserved, and the bad mutations will disappear in the long river of history and become the data recorded in the fossil bank.

Albert was painting Cecilia's portrait, and in the way of sketching, she showed off her racial symbols, those structures that had a few more parts than a human were useful, and the ears and tail were not pretty, they gave the race a great survival advantage.

The ears on the top of the head and on both sides of the head allow them to have four channels, and as a result, they have [stereo hearing], that is, they can accurately determine the direction of the sound source and their own distance according to the sound, and some excellent individuals can even construct the surrounding environment in the brain by making sounds and listening to echoes, and can also hear infrasound waves to avoid disasters, for this race, the whole world is noisy and changeable.

The tail also has its own meaning of existence, the whole one point and two meters long, similar to the tanuki cat's coat color tail is covered with dense nerves, which further strengthens the perception: through it, the cat people can perceive the subtle changes in the air flow, air humidity, temperature and temperature, and there is also the role of a balancer, so that their balance ability has increased several times, most cat people have not fallen even once in their lives.

Both organs are covered with nerves, making their perception extremely acute, but at the same time, the dense nerves also cause the two parts to be very sensitive, which also leads to some special meanings, and in the last few hundred years, there have been some strange uses, as for what is the usage here... In order to avoid the book being harmonized [although few people read it], we skip this topic for now.

"Okay, the painting is finished, you can see if you are satisfied. ”

With a light exhale, Albert completed his masterpiece, with mountains and forest meadows as a backdrop, the woman in the painting is vivid, his hands are steady, not even the slightest shaking, and his attention is very concentrated.

As a professional with strong control over himself, no matter how much he paints, he will not be ugly to draw, not to mention that he has practiced, although it has not been for a long time, but wizards learn things quickly, and they can learn everything that the master can teach, and then they have to practice slowly if they want to improve their level.

"Well, it looks like that. "I've learned it before. "So, this painting is for me?" "The painting was specially painted for you, of course, it's yours." ”

Now, they are at the foot of a mountain, in front of them is a lofty mountain, the next road will be a lot more difficult, so, the two decided to take advantage of the time before entering the mountain to eat a good rest, and then use the best state to cross the mountain road as soon as possible, the lesson of the ghost traveler who died in the landslide is still vivid, even if they reach their current level, it will be very dangerous to not be able to react in time to be buried by the landslide, although the probability is very small, it will still happen.

"Seriously, how long have you been taken from the north to the south? "I remember that it was only a few months, more than ten years ago, I forgot a lot, but I still remember the general process. ”

He felt as if he had calculated the travel time too shortly, and at the current rate, it would take at least half a year to add another month to the back grassland, the orc autonomous region, or the orc principality.

Nominally an Avaranga subject country, in fact it is really an autonomous region, some of the historical problems that existed in the early days of the founding of the country, at the beginning of the founding of the country, many foreign races asked to have a territory of their own, in order to protect the unity of the country, and the domestic situation is still unstable, the government at that time agreed, this is the origin of those large and small principalities.

However, in modern times, the so-called kings of the principalities have less and less control, and every time the king of a principality dies and his children come to power, the Avaranga government will slightly reduce their authority, and it is estimated that in another one or two hundred years, the principality will disappear.

In contrast, the elves were much wiser, and they understood from the beginning that no ruler would tolerate his authority in the hands of others, and even if he compromised temporarily, he would be empty in the future, and he did not ask for a state in the first place.

Albert began to pull her for a jog.

Jogging at a speed of fifteen kilometers per hour is not much different from walking for them, and they can't even consume a little extra cream fat, which is almost the same as going out and walking around twice after a full meal.

When they reached an inscription, they finally slowed down, and from trotting to walking, a milestone engraved with the name of the mountain ahead of them, and the height of the mountain, and the total length of the road on it.

Everything they do is so natural, except for one thing that is very unnatural: everything they are doing at the moment is happening at night.

The moon was slightly obscured by heavy clouds, the moonlight was not strong, and two hours ago, the sky was clear and open, and two hours later, Mother Nature had a big surprise for her children.

It could rain at any time, but it didn't bother the two of them, they sang and danced, joked and joked with each other, sat down next to the milestone, and took out the food for supper.

Relying on the remnants of the moonlight, they could still see the appearance of the mountain road, an extremely smooth stone road forward, on both sides of the road, there were dense trees, and they could vaguely see a tree dozens of meters away hanging on the fruit that had just grown and had not yet grown, and a few vines were still trying to cross the line and take root on the side of the road, but they extended on the road.

There are still a lot of nocturnal animals shuttling around, and you can hear very subtle animal calls, bird calls, and insect chirping somewhere from time to time, showing people the vitality of nature.

Albert fired a non-exploding fireball forward, its light and heat were always constant, and it flew forward for thirty meters, making the entire thirty-meter radius clear to their eyes, and then dissipated and returned to nature.

He smiled at her, looked at each other, nodded, and got up and walked towards the mountain path.