Chapter 377: Chapter 377: The Fox Borrows the Tiger’s Fierceness
Huh? Why is it considered a god?"
"God blesses us, gives us gifts."
"Gifts?"
Yang Xiao thought to himself, could it be another mysterious black bottle? Do alien spaceships all come equipped with a necessary black bottle?
"The spring changed, it became the Holy Spring, and drinking from it, King Kong became taller and stronger."
The chimpanzee said this while stretching out its palm and clenching its enormous fist.
Listening to this, Yang Xiao roughly understood. He guessed that some substance from the spaceship must have merged with the spring water, causing its transformation. After all the animals and plants drank the spring water, the speed of their genetic evolution increased.
This type of situation was possible, as many people from Magic City and Wentian City had taken the Genetic Evolution Pills, altering their bodily functions, allowing them to utilize the flesh and blood of mutant monsters to enhance their genetic evolutions. If that spaceship had brought along lots of Genetic Plan Pills, or Genetic Potions, when dissolved in the spring water, they indeed could help monsters increase their evolutionary speed.
Yang Xiao could infer what followed without the chimpanzee continuing.
The chimpanzee and lions had the fastest evolutionary speed and successively broke through the King Level phase.
Numerous animals fought over the spring water, which later underwent further changes. At first, the water flow of the spring decreased, and then the water level began to drop and was no longer overflowing.
In the past, the overflowing spring water would flow into a creek within the Desert Canyon, benefiting all plants and animals there, hastening their genetic plans.
Gradually, as the spring water diminished, it no longer flowed into the creek.
As the apex predators in the Desert Canyon food chain, the chimpanzees and lions fought a great battle to vie for control over the spring water.
This battle lasted for three days and three nights. In the end, due to a fox that had evolved to an Advanced Peak Enhanced Gene joining the lions’ side, they worked together to defeat the chimpanzee, driving it away from the vicinity of the Holy Spring.
Naturally, the chimpanzee was not convinced, launching multiple challenges unsuccessfully. Since the lion secured control over the Holy Spring and slowly evolved to be slightly stronger than the chimpanzee, coupled with the fox’s assistance, the chimpanzee failed each time and eventually fell to living in this cave.
The lion was also temporarily incapable of killing the chimpanzee and worried that if both were badly injured, the cunning fox would take advantage of the situation. Therefore, the lion never pursued the chimpanzee, and an uneasy peace existed between them.
Upon hearing this, Yang Xiao sighed, thinking to himself that this was essentially an apocalyptic version of "The Fox Borrowing the Tiger’s Might."
"So, you want me to help you deal with the fox?"
Yang Xiao looked at the chimpanzee.
The chimpanzee chuckled and said:
"I was going to kill you,"
For some reason, Yang Xiao now found this statement from the chimpanzee particularly funny. The chimpanzee was both simple-hearted and smart, brave too. He really wanted to take it as a pet!
Moreover, the chimpanzee could speak, which was far more interesting than the Flame Horse and Giant Eagle.
Of course, the idea of taking it as a pet could only be buried in his heart, never to be uttered. Otherwise, if the big fool of a chimp got angry, he might just slap Yang Xiao dead.
"But then I thought you were not bad, so I wanted you to help me. Human, if you help me, I’ll share half of the Holy Spring with you, and you’ll be my brother!"
"Pfft!"
Upon hearing the chimpanzee’s "you’ll be my brother," Yang Xiao couldn’t help it and burst into laughter.
The chimpanzee was taken aback and looked at Yang Xiao.
As Yang Xiao laughed, he waved his hand and said:
"I can help you, but let’s forget about the brother thing."
Thinking to himself, being brothers with a chimp, wouldn’t that be like screwing up royally?
"Heh heh, no way, if you help me, you will be my brother!"
The chimpanzee’s enormous hand patted Yang Xiao’s shoulder, and Yang Xiao felt a tremendous force pressing down on himself and quickly said:
"Don’t pat, you’ll flatten me, and then you won’t have anyone to help you tomorrow."
"Heh heh....."
The chimpanzee laughed heartily.
Yang Xiao pondered before asking:
"Can you and I deal with that lion and fox?"
Upon hearing this, the chimpanzee gestured a circle with its hands and said:
"Use the big hole, use the big hole."
Yang Xiao nodded his head; he understood what the chimpanzee meant. It was to use the Black Hole Swallowing soul skill to trap the lion and fox. Even if the lion could break free from the black hole’s gravitational pull, its movements would surely slow down.
Even with the chimpanzee’s strength, it wasn’t easy to escape the immense attraction of the Black Hole Swallowing. Naturally, the lion wouldn’t be able to escape either. If at that moment the chimpanzee charged over, a single punch could send the lion flying.
Yang Xiao couldn’t help but admire the chimpanzee. It wasn’t foolish at all. Only after feeling the formidable power of Black Hole Swallowing did it change its mind and not kill Yang Xiao.
Yang Xiao then moved some more branches into the cave from outside, making the campfire burn even brighter, as he prepared to sleep.
This was Yang Xiao’s first night spent in the wilderness of the desert, and it was with a King Level chimpanzee, giving him a peculiar sense of oddity.
The chimpanzee directly lay on the ground and fell into a deep sleep. Yang Xiao couldn’t find a place to sleep, so he casually made a tripod with several branches to lie upon, thinking to himself that next time he returned to Nanmu City, he would have Xu Nanqiang from logistics secure a tent for outdoor camping.
With the chimpanzee keeping watch, Yang Xiao didn’t need to worry about safety and slept very soundly.
...
Near the Genetic Store, within the orange halo, both Lan Xin and Zhi Ruo couldn’t fall asleep.
Yang Xiao had not returned until now, and everyone felt it was more bad luck than good. After all, it was very easy to suffer monster attacks at night in the desert.
Moreover, there was the unpredictable Sand Demon.
Zhi Ruo felt deeply guilty all the time. If she hadn’t been greedy, if she hadn’t taken Yang Xiao to the canyon, none of this would have happened.
If they had just decided to give up earlier in the canyon and returned, they wouldn’t have encountered the chimpanzee.
In any case, the more she thought about it, the more she blamed herself. If Yang Xiao had really lost his life, it would be her fault, especially since Yang Xiao had stayed behind to entangle the chimpanzee to save everyone, which made her feel even more remorseful.
Lan Xin and Zhi Ruo sat by the campfire, staring blankly at the flames.
"You think, at this moment... Young Master Yang..."
Zhi Ruo whispered; she had asked this question in her heart over a hundred times already, but still couldn’t hold back asking it aloud, hoping someone would tell her that Yang Xiao was fine, not to worry.
But everyone knew that Yang Xiao must have encountered danger, whether it was the chimpanzee, the wild monsters, or the Sand Demon; any of them were too much for Yang Xiao.
Lan Xin felt a sharp pain in her heart, then she said with conviction:
"Tomorrow morning, I’ll go to the Desert Canyon to look for him."
Zhi Ruo nodded, "I’m coming too!"
Xie Lei was the happiest one of all.
This evening, Xie Lei’s diarrhea had stopped. After eating the Detoxification Pills and Small Blood Pill, his body had recovered.
However, he never expected that Yang Xiao’s retribution would come so swiftly, and he couldn’t help feeling ecstatic.
Of course, seeing Ben Yin and Lan Xin, Zhi Ruo, and the others with such somber expressions, he naturally didn’t dare to show too much schadenfreude. Wouldn’t that make him seem too uncultured? Too inhumane?
"Cough, Brother Ben Yin, Brother Zhang Hai, shall we go look for Young Master Yang in the Desert Canyon tomorrow? Although an accident befell Young Master Yang today, who’s to say he won’t be lucky?
Besides, even if he did encounter misfortune, as friends, we should lend a hand in time, right? Even if just to bring his body back would be good."
Before Xie Lei finished speaking, two indignant shouts came from behind:
"You’re the one who’s dead, your whole family is dead!"
Lan Xin and Zhi Ruo stood up, angrily staring at Xie Lei.
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