Chapter 14: The Saint and the Hunter
"Hahahaha!"
"Aren't you rampant? If you dare to throw me all the unpalatable fish, today I want you to know what the wrath of the Black Dragon Queen Elena is. ”
Under the tall trees, Ace Tragically tied up and his tail hung from the trunk, his face hung upside down, and Elena unleashed the "Whip of Pain Thorns" that Ace had performed on her, and smiled wildly.
Eliza didn't laugh at him, just smiled.
But what she did made Ace shudder, dozens of poisonous poisonous weeds were floating in the air controlled by Eliza, slowly mixing.
The pungent smell came, and Ace's little liver was so frightened that he fluttered.
At night, Ace, who was severely repaired by two little black dragons, squatted on the throne with a very bad expression.
Two little black dragons lay on either side like door gods, kobold scholar Ronnie Stam. At this time, they are reporting their income in the past few days.
"Your Majesty, the tribe led by your servant now has two hundred and seventy-two adult kobolds and one hundred and eighty-five minor kobolds."
"Among the adult kobolds, there are one hundred and thirty-four evolved ordinary swamp kobolds, fifty-one first-order swamp kobold warriors, and one kobold sacrifice and kobold hero of the second order, plus me."
"In the past few days, under your guidance, we have stored a large amount of grain, with thirty-two tons of carnivorous fish, three tons of ordinary herbivorous fish, and twenty-one tons of edible plants picked by our kobolds."
"There are thirty-five tons of meat food in total and twenty-one tons of edible plants."
Kobold scholar Ronnie Stam held a stone tablet and respectfully recounted the data.
With such a big result in a few days, kobold scholar Ronnie Stam is very proud.
Thirty-five tons of meat is quite a large number, equivalent to 35,000 kilograms or 70,000 catties of meat.
Coupled with the vegetarian diet, the entire kobold tribe of more than 400 kobold people can't eat so much food in a year.
With so much food stored in a few days, their kobold tribe is really quite hard.
As for why Kobold Scholar Kobold Scholar Ronnie Stam calculates and understands units of weight, this is, of course, Ace used soul transmission to transmit to the other party.
Listening to so much food, especially thirty-five tons of meat, Ace nodded with satisfaction.
Now he has to eat two tons of food every three days, thirty-five tons, which is enough for him to eat for more than a month.
In a few days, the other party was able to get so much food composed of mostly carnivorous fish, which was really quite capable.
As for the little bit of vegetarian fish in the meat, Ace also expressed considerable understanding, after all, kobolds are not very good brains, and fishing in the water is not an easy thing.
Manslaughter is normal, and as long as the trend of carnivorous fish in nature is maintained at a rapid rate, it is not a big problem.
"Bring me all the thirty-five tons of meat."
Ace, who felt that his stomach had become a little empty again, said with a wave of his hand.
Kobold scholar Ronnie Stam bowed his head and said, "Your orders are above all else!" ”
In a short time, with the efforts of many kobolds, thirty-five tons of meat were piled up throughout the hall.
Elena's eyes lit up as she looked at the mountains of meat in front of her.
Without waiting for Ace, he pounced directly and began to eat.
The food they ate during the day only filled their stomachs on the surface, and the other layer of stomach, which was like a storage ring, was not yet full.
Most dragons are crisis-conscious, and generally do not allow their stomachs to be empty when they are awake.
After all, I don't know when humans will be killed, and they have to store enough food to replenish their physical strength and use it to run.
Sanlong ate a lot, and it took one night to fill his stomach with more than 35 tons of meat in front of him.
Ace ate the most, eating seventeen tons, and nearly half of the meat went into his stomach.
After eating and drinking, Ace was content to lie on the throne, and the whole dragon looked a little lazy.
Elena and Eliza were also eating, lying on either side of Ace and not wanting to move.
During the break, in Ace's mind, an endless storm of thoughts was flowing.
Why did he go to great lengths to wipe out the predatory fish in the rainforest?
It's actually related to a story.
A long, long time ago, there was a saint who was in the third level of thought, and while traveling, he met a hunter at the foot of the mountain.
Orion sat on a stake and sighed, his face full of sorrow and helplessness, and he looked extremely decadent.
Faced with a sad face, the sage asked him, "Why do you have such sorrow?" What's going on? Still worried about your future. ”
Hunter: "Four years ago, my third son was eaten by a tiger when he went up the mountain to hunt, three years ago my fourth son was starved to death in the winter because I couldn't catch prey, and a year ago my eldest son who was the most important to train also fell off the cliff because of avoiding the pursuit of tigers, just in the winter not far away, my youngest son was only four or five years old, and when I went out, he was sneaked into the house by a tiger and was also bitten to death. ”
"I didn't mess with that tiger, why did he always get along with me?"
"I don't understand, why is the other party so targeting me? I didn't hurt him. ”
"Also, I worked so hard, going out early and returning late every day, desperately hunting and getting food for my family, but several of my sons were starved to death."
"I feel that my life is full of sadness and helplessness, so I sit here and sigh."
After listening to Orion's words, the sage pondered for a while, and then picked up a stick from the bushes.
"Do you know how much meat a tiger eats in a day?" ”
Orion nodded and said: "I know this, the tiger eats twenty catties of meat every day, and this does not include bones and what he wastes, if you add up the bones and what he wasted, there may be thirty or forty catties." ”
The saint smiled.
Said again: "Then count it according to thirty catties!" ”
"A tiger eats 30 catties of meat a day, 300 catties of meat for 10 days, 3,000 catties of meat for 100 days, and nearly 10,000 catties of meat a year."
"Ten thousand catties?"
Orion was a little confused, he didn't have a brain that had received knowledge and education, and it was difficult to accept such a huge number of 10,000 catties.
Seeing that the hunter was confused, the sage changed his way and said: "A sheep is a hundred catties, and ten thousand catties are equivalent to a hundred sheep." ”
This time, Orion said happily: "I know that the money for selling a hundred sheep is expensive, and my family will not be able to eat it all my life." ”
"A tiger will eat a hundred sheep a year, and there is more than one tiger on the mountain, I see that the mountain behind you is deep in the clouds and mist, and there is no edge in sight, but it can raise 100,000 tigers."
"The meat eaten by a tiger can feed more than 50 of your offspring, and the food occupied by a tiger of 100,000 can feed your offspring 5 million!"
"If you and your descendants can kill all the tigers in this mountain and live where the tigers belong, you and your descendants will become a country and be passed on in the mountains and forests forever."
The hunter fell to his knees and watched the saint walk away in the morning light.
For the next twenty years, the hunters, with their four remaining sons and dozens of grandchildren born afterward, no longer avoided the tigers, but purchased bows and arrows, scimitars, swords, and spears from the bottom of the mountain, and joined forces to snipe the tigers and all kinds of predatory beasts in the mountains and forests.
The disappearance of the tiger and all kinds of carnivorous beasts made the hunter and his descendants occupy the position of carnivorous beasts in the forest to a certain extent.
In the following centuries, hunters and their descendants persevered and expanded into the mountains.
Their mission is to hunt tigers and leopards and all kinds of fierce beasts, abundant meat resources, so that the hunter's descendants are incomparably strong, dare to fight with tigers and leopards face to face with the courage, but also exercise their incomparable strong will, each of them can live to adulthood, is able to make ordinary people frightened of strong warriors, as for the weak, as for the weak, as early as in the fight with tigers and leopards gradually disappeared.
Hundreds of years later, all the tigers in the mountains of 100,000 tigers disappeared, and a powerful nation that prided itself on hunting tigers and leopards rose in the mountains.
The sage actually only answered the hunter's question, but the question he answered solved all the problems that the hunter encountered.
Tigers want to eat meat, people also want to eat meat, there are so many resources in the forest, if you eat more, I will eat less.
From the moment the hunter stepped into the forest, there was an irreconcilable contradiction between the two.
The hunters hunted desperately, so that the food in the forest was reduced, and the tigers could not find food, so they had to eat people.
The prey was eaten by the tiger, and the hunter could not catch food, and there was no food, so his son had to starve to death.
The two have been mortal enemies from the beginning.
The hunter's concession is actually to force himself to his death, and if he really wants to live a better life, he can only rise to the challenge, kill the tiger, and kill all the beasts that can compete with him for resources, so that the share of food in the forest will go to the hunter.
The share of food allows the hunter to have enough food, and enough food allows him to raise more children, and his family can grow stronger and stronger, so that over time it snowballs bigger and bigger, and eventually becomes a nation.
On the throne, Ace slowly pondered, reminiscing about the hidden meaning and knowledge hidden in the story, which only second-level thoughts could see.
In his previous life, a great man once proposed the realm of thought, which is to see the mountain as a mountain, to see the water as water, to see the mountain as a mountain, to see the mountain as not water, to see the mountain as a mountain, and to see the water as a water.