Thousand Hands is bigger than the octopus monster they encountered in Cloud City before. But the octopus has no bones, so it can easily shrink its body and pass through any small gap in an instant.
Lu Wenli held up a high-power miner's lamp to illuminate the ground below, "I remember there were two rows of old-fashioned townhouses at the intersection into the mountain. Where are the houses here?"
"Mr. Lu, it's been so long since the end of the world. There have been continuous heavy rains, and this is at the foot of a mountain. It's normal for houses to be washed away."
"Hey, in the past, when we came to collect herbs, the mountain people here would take us into the mountains. But now there is no one to guide us. I'm afraid it's difficult to find the growing locations of some herbs."
The purpose of Su Mi bringing Lu Wenli here was to collect herbs, but the most important thing was to collect life-restoring space.
Once the space is repaired, Tiantian can be saved.
"Mr. Lu, don't worry, I'll ask Qian Shou to let you go down, and you can look for it slowly."
"good."
Su Mi handed the folded sack in her backpack to Lu Wenli.
"Mr. Lu, when you collect herbs, try to keep their roots. We can take back some herbs that can be cut and plant them in the base."
"I'll try my best, but the roots of most herbs in the mountains penetrate deep into the ground. It's not easy to dig them out. It would be a waste of time to dig them all out."
"You don't need to dig it all out, just keep a small section of the main root system."
"Okay. Hey, in this weather, no matter how strong the soldiers are, they will have some problems soon. If herbs can be planted in the base, it will be much easier to use them in the future."
"Then let's try."
After Qian Hand took them up the mountain, he slowly placed Lu Wenli on the muddy ground. As soon as he got off the ground, Lu Wenli wrapped the strap of the miner's lamp around his forehead, then lowered his head and started to look for herbs.
Xiaobai lay next to Tiantian and circled him, licking his little face with his tongue from time to time.
Jiu looked at Tiantian thoughtfully, and then heard Su Mi ask him.
"If the black scales enter Tiantian's body, will it be the same as mine? If one of you is injured, the other will suffer the same injury?"
Nine shook his head.
"The trace of blood in the black scales has been exhausted."
"Bloodline?"
Su Mi had guessed before that this black scale was a dragon scale. Could the blood in a piece of dragon scale be the blood of a dragon?
"This involves the secrets of our clan"
"But you have to explain Tiantian's situation, right? Will this black scale be the same as before, and it will be impossible to remove it after merging with Tiantian's body?"
Su Mi stretched out her arm, and with her thoughts together, a layer of black scales appeared, and then disappeared under her control. "I've dug out the black scales. Why is this still happening in my body?"
Jiu Ye looked at Su Mi blankly, his face suddenly full of surprise, "If you were born in our clan, you must be a female warrior who is good at fighting."
"So, the blood of this black scale you mentioned was absorbed by me?"
Jiu nodded, "Yeah."
"My tribe is in a place full of predators. Every one of us who is born must be prepared for future battles. Three-year-old children must fight against wild beast cubs under the leadership and guidance of their parents.
The winner gets to take the cub home as a reward and food for the day. "
"You are short of food there?"
Jiu shook his head.
"Yes, but no. There are wild beasts everywhere in our place, and they have their own territories and groups just like us. We feed on them, but they are also our biggest enemies.
Every time they hunt, the warriors in the clan will suffer major or minor injuries. Even at the cost of death.
If you want to survive and get food, you have to fight every flesh and blood beast at the cost of your life. "
Su Mi looked at Jiu in shock. What he said was a bit horrifying, and it didn't sound like someone living in this era.
"What does what you are talking about have to do with Hei Scales and Tiantian?"
"Of course there is a big connection. In order for the next generation to survive better and be stronger, my tribe has tried many times and found that the more brave and skilled the warriors are, the stronger their physiques will be.
There are even some soldiers who are bitten or scratched by super beasts. As long as they don't die, the bodies of those who survive will undergo some changes. "
Jiu paused, looked at Su Mi seriously, and continued seriously.
"Just like Tiantian. He must have been injured by a snake before."
Su Mi shook her head, "No, he just ate snake eggs. If he was injured, his feet were scratched when he was in S City."
"Then there must be a place where snakes lived or crawled. That's why snake scales appeared on his body when he went crazy just now."
"It's possible." Su Mi digested what Jiu said and found out that what Jiu said was the result of her and Zeng Yangping's research and analysis.
The evolution of all people is related to the creatures they come into contact with.
Although Yu Xiaoxing had mutated, her changes were caused by the black scorpion poison and the golden cicada poison.
Wang Ling's recovery ability is related to the pearl clams that the giant python gave him to eat.
The golden cicada poison that Ma Dexiang can produce in his body is related to the golden cicada they came into contact with in J City at that time.
But Qin Hao, Chen Jin and Ge Shanshan only became stronger, which should be caused by taking spiritual water, and it does not count as evolution.
After Jiu's explanation, Su Mi suddenly felt that evolution was not that easy.
Just like Tiantian, who was too young and was affected by snake genes, it seemed that his strength became stronger, his speed became faster, and his body skin was hard and unbreakable. But it is extremely unstable.
So how dangerous it would be for the soldiers in the base if their bodies were also affected by some creatures without knowing it, and if this happens every day without knowing it.
"Nine, has anyone in your clan ever been in a situation like this every day?"
"It's happened a lot." After saying this, Jiu's face showed a kind of deep pain that Su Mi could understand.
"When each child in the clan reaches adulthood, the clan leader will let them inherit a bloodline to enhance their strength.
However, not everyone will succeed in merging with blood.
Many of my people went crazy because of failed integration, and eventually turned into beasts that killed their own relatives and people.
They have lost all human emotions and only know how to kill. "
He opened his hands and looked at his palms in a daze: these hands of his had killed countless members of his own tribe.
Seeing Jiu's eyes full of loneliness, Su Mi asked again: "Then what happened next? How did you get frozen at the bottom of the deep pool?"
"It's frozen. Just like here now, the whole world has been plunged into darkness, and heavy rain has been falling for a long time.
The tribesmen lived in darkness, lacking sunlight and medicine, so they began to fall ill, and were tortured and taken away by diseases one after another.
The rotten bones of my people and beasts are everywhere inside and outside the clan.
We struggled to survive for who knows how long, and the sun finally came out. We thought dawn had finally arrived, but what we didn’t expect was ice. "
