【210】Monsters
"What's that sound?" Shen Nong couldn't help frowning: "Chi, you climb up and take a look, but don't have anything wrong." ”
"Yes. Chi then grabbed the green vine very neatly and climbed up, this green vine is very strong, it looks like it has been used for a long time, and the surface of the green vine is pinched very rough.
When Chi climbed to the top of the cliff, he also disappeared from his sight one after another, Shen Nong was in a hurry, and hurriedly dragged the green vine and began to climb, while Shaking Tiannu followed behind.
After a while, Shen Nong climbed to the edge of the cliff, and when he looked up, he saw that not far from the edge of the cliff, Chi and Miao were fighting with two humanoid creatures covered in gray hair.
You must know that Chi and Miao Ke are both second-level warriors, but those two monsters are only a slight downside when they fight with them, which shows that their strength is not simple.
"With long hair on his body, standing on two legs, and claws on his hands, this can't be the kind of monster that the Shi tribe encounters, right?" Shen Nong was shocked in his heart, he came with Miao this time to see the appearance of this monster, but he didn't expect to see the deity this time.
Climbing to the top of the cliff with all his might, Shen Nong walked towards the two monsters, but he planned to take a closer look.
Holding a stone knife in his bare hand to fight monsters, although the material of the iron pickaxe is much harder than the stone knife, but Akashi is not used to this strangely shaped tool, so he prefers to use the stone knife as the next best thing.
As for the shape of the iron pickaxe, when Shen Nong found it in the Mud Eel Tribe before, he already felt very puzzled in his heart, you must know that the Huangqiu tribe can only make a stone pickaxe because of the design drawings he proposed, and somewhere outside the Huangqiu tribe, there is a place where the iron pickaxe can be forged independently, I have to say that this really makes Shen Nong feel vigilant in his heart.
Perhaps somewhere on this land, there are many tribes with a far higher level of civilization than the Huangqiu tribe, they have iron ore veins, and they have found that they have learned the technology of forging iron tools, and even a large number of warriors of the third, fourth, and fifth levels, who can easily hunt pure-blooded beasts, just like the Youtian tribe where Luo Man once was.
This unknown enemy and the accompanying sense of urgency were like a boulder pressing on Shen Nong's heart, making his sense of crisis very serious, and he didn't dare to let his guard down at all, because Shen Nong didn't know what other powerful tribes existed in this world.
Because the Huangqiu tribe has always been just a small tribe, there is no information about this world in the memory of the predecessor, so in Shen Nong's current opinion, this world is unknown to him.
And the only way that Shen Nong could understand the outside world was the animal skin map drawn by the third team after constantly going out, but that's all, still no one knew how big this world was, what was at the end of the north, what was in the sky in the south, what was in the west, and what the land in the east was like.
No one knew that the Huangqiu tribe could only shrink into the big forest where their ancestors had lived for generations.
Looking at the long-haired monster fighting with Chi, Shen Nong's eyes couldn't help but widen, carefully observing the other party's body, hoping to see what it was.
I saw that the monster was covered in fluffy hair, long and thick, their heads were hidden in thick hair, only a face the size of two palms was exposed, their facial features did not look like humans, but more like some kind of mammal, with large noses and small mouths, and the fluff around their eyes was black, and these black fluffs grew from the corners of their eyes to the bottom of their ears like tear stains.
There are three white claws growing on the hands of this monster, and these three claws are not low in hardness, and they are directly used by it as a weapon to resist the stone knife in the bare hand.
Although it was delayed for a long time, Chi and Miao were second-level warriors after all, and those two monsters could support them for a moment under their hands, but they couldn't hold on for too long, and they were soon knocked to the ground by both of them, losing the ability to move.
Poof!
Chi knew that he would kill the enemy, so he directly raised his iron pickaxe and knocked it on the monster's head, instantly digging a bloody hole in its face, and the dead could not die again.
"These monsters have all run here. Miao looked around with a tense expression, you must know that this place is a long way away from the ancestral land of the Shi tribe, Miao has to walk for half a day every time he passes, but now he has just walked out of the forest and has encountered this kind of monster, which can be seen that they are spreading in the direction of the forest for some reason.
If this situation continues, the place where the stone tribe now lives will no longer be a safe place, and then in order to avoid the discovery of monsters, the clan will have to move again.
"These two are the monsters that attacked your tribe?"
"Yes, that's it. ”
Shen Nong used his iron pickaxe to flip the hair on the monster's body, and after some close observation by him, Shen Nong found that this monster actually looked very similar to a sloth, more precisely, these monsters were upright versions of large sloths.
But in Shen Nong's cognition, the hind legs of the sloth do not have any ability to move, and if this animal wants to move its body, it must rely on the crawling power of its forelimbs.
"Could it be that because of the different times, your hind legs not only did not degenerate, but also evolved?" Shen Nong said strangely.
He has the impression that there are many kinds of animals that can temporarily move upright on their legs, such as dogs, bears, and marmots, while mammals with hands such as kangaroos, orangutans, and monkeys can stand and walk for long periods of time, which also means that their hands are free, and they no longer need to waste the function of their hands on assisting their body movements.
A creature with two palms and both palms is free undoubtedly has a certain chance of palm generation, and in a long time of trying, they will find that it will be much more convenient for them to use their palms to hold things, if they can find this, and then insist on it for several generations, this species is likely to let their free palms become palms that are more suitable for holding things after several generations.
Of course, this is all probable, and if the species never thought that the palm could be used to hold things, then over time the palm part will begin to degenerate and become an ornament.
Having a palm means that you can pick up things, pick things, and even make things out of a flash of inspiration, which is very helpful for the improvement of wisdom, and the shape of the hands of the two sloths next to Shen Nong already has the shape of a palm, but they only have four fingers when they count the thumbs that grow at a slightly lower position.