In the Blade

In the past three months, Du Chengfeng has been living an unusually happy life.

Without evil spirits, mental strength, and even less incense and vows, this should have been a great weakening for him, but Du Chengfeng suddenly discovered that this was the state he was most used to.

In particular, he still had a monkey's body.

In the first month after birth, he was as strong as an adult monkey and could kill a tiger with a simple wooden spear. By the second month, he was wearing tiger skin armor and nourished by a large amount of meat, and his body shape was far beyond that of ordinary apes.

Now, three months have passed, and Du Chengfeng has entered the Stone Age at a run. No beast can stop the obsidian-inlaid broadsword in his hand. With his exquisite knife skills, sharp stone knife, and elusive spear, he is now qualified to kill anyone he wants.

And now, even the defense has been updated again.

"After processing the crocodile skin, it can be made into hard leather armor. This thing is much more useful than tiger skin."

According to the way of processing food, Du Chengfeng skinned and deboned the nailed crocodile with ease. Crocodiles are full of treasures. The skin can be made into armor, the bones can be made into tools, and the meat is even better. It is said to have the effect of relieving cough.

Du Chengfeng did not waste the internal organs and offal. There was a river next to him, so he simply took them all over and washed them.

Raw internal organs are of course inedible, but cooked ones are completely different.

Yes, as early as when he killed the tiger, Du Chengfeng had already started to make fire and eat cooked food. Even though he was indeed a monkey at the moment, eating cooked food was his last insistence as a civilized person.

And in addition to using them for his own use, these internal organs have other uses.

For example...

"Suck suck suck suck suck."

Du Chengfeng cut out some liver and large intestine, and then tried to feed them to the wild wolf on the side like feeding a dog.

The wolf seemed to want to run away just now, but the fact proved that the speed of four legs could not be faster than the spear. Fortunately, Du Chengfeng was still careful when throwing the bamboo spears. He did not let the three bamboo spears directly nail the wolf to death, but put it in place, turning it into a simple bamboo cage.

The bamboo cage was not very strong, and the wolf could still run away, but Du Chengfeng, who had thrown away all the spears, only had the obsidian sword in his hand.

The wolf stood calmly in place, and the sword in Du Chengfeng's hand did not need to fly out.

It was precisely because the wolf showed its intelligence that Du Chengfeng had a heart of love for talent - he had no shortage of weapons, armor, meat, and drinking water, but he only lacked a good dog.

"Come with me, I won't treat you badly."

Holding half of the large intestine in his left hand and the obsidian sword in his right hand, Du Chengfeng walked in front of the wolf.

"I hope you can choose the left side, but if you don't choose it, then I can only make you into stew."

"..."

After a moment of silence, the wolf actually spoke.

"Who are you? Are you here for his inheritance?"

"I am...wait a minute?"

Du Chengfeng, who was about to answer, suddenly widened his eyes.

"...You are?"

"...You are?"

The wolf was also stunned.

So, after a moment of communication, Du Chengfeng and the coyote, who had come in together, finally reached a meeting again.

"No wonder you didn't kill me."

The relaxed coyote sighed while gnawing on the crocodile heart.

"I didn't recognize you just now, and I thought you were one of those who sneaked in to rob the inheritance. I was still thinking, what are you going to do by detaining me and not killing me. But now it seems..."

"Wait a minute?"

Du Chengfeng, who was making a fire, turned his head.

"You mean more than just the two of us came in? Are there other competitors coming in? Where are they?"

"I've only seen one, and he's on the tree now."

The coyote raised his paw and pointed at the crocodile meat that Du Chengfeng had hung on the treetop to dry.

"That's what we're eating now."

"..."

Du Chengfeng suddenly felt a little regretful. If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have killed him so badly. If he could catch a live person, at least he could collect more information.

After all, he still had no idea what this so-called cave was all about.

"But you, how come you're doing so badly?"

Speaking of this, the coyote made his own judgment.

"This may be a test. The old thing turned us into beasts, and then tested whether we can play to our own advantages and practice the principle of 'survival of the fittest'... In other words, we must survive, and survive to the end, and survive to the end under the siege of all competitors."

"Surround?"

Du Chengfeng frowned.

"Why are they being surrounded? Aren't they all turned into..."

Halfway through his words, Du Chengfeng, who was looking at the coyote, slapped his head.

It seems to be true. After all, their situation is different from that of other competitors. Even if other competitors turn into animals, they don't know who they are. But even if the coyote turns into an animal, it is still a wolf. This is easy to guess.

This also means that the enemy is hidden and we are in the light.

The coyote whose identity is exposed will become the priority target of those potential competitors. They may not know which animal around them is a peer, but they at least know that there must be something wrong with the wolf.

"But... this is not that difficult."

Du Chengfeng scratched his head.

"Can't we just kill them all?"

"Kill them all? Just the two of us?"

Coyote looked at Du Chengfeng in surprise.

"What are you thinking? Those seniors are better than us, and we are still the focus of attention... Wait, you don't want me to be a bait? Then you, who has not revealed your identity, will be responsible for support in the dark? This is also a way, but in actual operation..."

"Don't be so troublesome."

Du Chengfeng shook his head, and then threw more dead branches into the newly lit fire.

"We just need to run fast enough."

"What do you mean by running fast enough?"

Coyote didn't understand what this was talking about for a while.

"If it's just about speed... what are you doing!"

Before he finished speaking, the coyote suddenly howled.

Just because a raging fire had already ignited next to Du Chengfeng!

It doesn't take such a fierce fire to just grill meat! This flame that is as high as a person is more than enough to roast both of them!

"What are you standing there for! Run!"

Feeling the force of the wind blowing through his hair, Du Chengfeng ran away!

"As long as we run faster than the fire, they will die!"

"You!"

The coyote was stunned by this crazy idea. He never thought that there was such a way to fight.

However, no matter how shocked he was, he still had to run, because under the wind, the fire had become more and more fierce. If he didn't run, he might be swept in and roasted!

"What on earth did I bring here?"

While running wildly with the big monkey in front of him, the coyote was panting.

He suddenly felt that he seemed to have made a wrong decision, or that he had never really understood the companion he chose - although the other party was indeed just an ordinary person with three turbidities before, at most he could only help him do some chores, just like his relationship with the old man fishing before.

But now it seems...

He seems to have found an extremely dangerous thing.

"Why are you looking at me? Follow me and work!"

Just before the coyote came to his senses, a torch was stuffed into his mouth.

"Burn! Find a place where you can start a fire and get there! The fire just now is not enough!"

Still, not enough?

The coyote's brain is already running out of ideas.

The grass and trees behind them have all been ignited by the flames. The fire has swept all over the forest. The billowing smoke is mixed with the wailing of those beasts. God knows how many people have been killed by this fire.

It has already come to this point, and you actually say it is not enough?

"Of course it is not enough. You will know if you try the wind direction."

Du Chengfeng explained patiently.

"We are now in the upwind, and the fire will be blown to our backs, but the fire in front of us may not be able to be led to...so the rest of the part needs to be done by ourselves, and all the fronts should be lit, and as many as there are, so that the fire can cover the entire forest."

As he said this, Du Chengfeng also picked up two branches as torches.

"I don't know how big this cave is, but we can burn it all down and clean up other people's living environment first, so that they know that life is not so easy."

"You..."

The coyote was dumbfounded and couldn't even speak for a while.

On the one hand, it was because he still had a torch in his mouth, and on the other hand, it was because the fire was too fierce. Wolves are sensitive to smells, and the smoke made him burst into tears - but this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that he can't figure it out. Can you really do something like setting fire to the mountain?

You know, he has already understood the original intention of the old man who was fishing. This is clearly a test of whether they can understand the principle of "survival of the fittest" and then fight their way out among the competitors to become the strongest predator. But now it's like this... Is there really no problem?

"We broke the rules, and we will be punished."

The coyote biting the torch finally stammered a little.

"What's more, the fire is so big, can we just..."

"What do you mean by breaking the rules? Whose rules?"

Du Chengfeng was immediately unhappy.

"Who has set the rule that fires cannot be set? Has anyone told you this in person? Even if this is really a rule, the worst that can happen is that he can come out and put out the fire himself... Since the fire can be lit, it is natural to do so. Where does the retribution come from?"

While saying this, Du Chengfeng threw a torch in his hand to a pine tree not far away.

"Didn't you just say it? Here, the emphasis is on the survival of the fittest. What I am doing now just fits this... I helped them change the environment of this forest. Those who can adapt to the fire are naturally qualified to survive. Those who can't adapt to it deserve to die. Isn't this the best survival of the fittest?"

Throwing the second torch into a bunch of grass and trees, Du Chengfeng climbed up the tree again and broke two wooden sticks.

"As for ourselves... After all, this is the environment we created ourselves, and we are definitely the ones who can adapt to it the most."

...You call this creating an environment?

Looking at the hell-like scene around him, looking at the charred black and billowing smoke in front of him, Coyote's brain is becoming less and less sufficient.

He could clearly understand every word, even every character, but why couldn't he understand them at all after putting them together?

"Burn! Burn!"

Du Chengfeng was still throwing flames everywhere. At this moment, he looked like a god of war. Even the biggest beasts dared not stand in front of him - just because there was a raging fire behind him. Thick smoke billowed everywhere he passed. The blazing flames made them unable to open their eyes, and the monkey shadow in the flames was like an ancient demon spreading death!

These beasts might be able to easily destroy the monkeys in front of them, but they could not face the wildfire that burned everything. That was not something they could resist with their little strength. It was a real natural disaster!

"They all have to die!"

Seeing that the blind leopard dared to rush towards him, Du Chengfeng raised his hand and threw two torches. The blazing flames immediately ignited the leopard's hair, but the leopard seemed to be risking its life and still flew over bravely.

But this flight, which should have been a sure kill, seemed meaningless at this moment.

Just because the leopard was greeted by a stone knife.

"Puchi——"

The sharp stone flakes easily chopped into the leopard's neck, and the huge force tore the leopard's cervical vertebrae. With just a slight deviation, the leopard's head flew up.

The bloody red water sprinkled on Du Chengfeng's monkey hair, just to cool him down.

"Wait a minute?"

Du Chengfeng suddenly felt that something was wrong.

It was normal for blood to be sprinkled on the body, but where did this water come from?

Thinking of this, Du Chengfeng subconsciously raised his head.

It was at this time that he realized that heavy rain was falling from the sky.

The heavy rain was so fierce that even the half of the sky that was burned red just now was completely filled with rain. The heavy rain poured on the ground, extinguishing the burning torches, extinguishing the flames on the ground, and extinguishing the blazing flames.

It also extinguished Du Chengfeng's dream of a group annihilation.

"I said I would be punished..."

Seeing that the torch in his mouth was already wet, the coyote simply spit out this useless waste.

"You'd better find a place to hide quickly. Do you know how troublesome it will be if you do this? They will definitely unite to deal with us..."

"Maybe you can't run away."

Looking at the huge rhino with scarlet eyes that rushed out of the forest because of being disturbed, Du Chengfeng swallowed his saliva.