Spore Story

Chapter 198 Should I Leave or Stay?
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"Dark Blood, they are back."

At this moment, the leader who had just entered the cave was looking at the dark blood with tears in his eyes sitting on the cave wall in surprise, with a puzzled expression on his face: "Why did you get up so early? What's going on, could it be...you Already know? Uh."

The leader who had just finished speaking yelled inwardly that it was not good. After hearing his question, Anxue, who was still wiping away tears, paused, and then looked up at himself in doubt.

Under the cold moonlight, Dark Blood noticed that the leader's face seemed to be full of...sadness?
"What's going on? They." Feeling bad, Dark Blood immediately got up and stumbled to the side of the leader.

"The attack on the black bone ape this time, they said it was a success." For some reason, the leader hesitated for a moment, and then said timidly. oppression.

"Yes?" Obviously, this kind of statement made everyone who heard it feel dissatisfied, but seeing the leader didn't want to say anything, Dark Blood could only turn his head angrily and walk towards the passage leading to the ground.For the flying quack apes, this hole is too small, but for the quack apes, it is just right.

Some of these passages were formed naturally, and some were dug out by the armored beasts, but the armored beasts disappeared on the ground a few years ago. They seemed to like the underground world, so they didn't see them again for a long time. The dark blood has not yet realized the importance of the armored beasts. Now that I think about it, if the armored beasts are left behind and let them go out to the passages leading to various places, the effect is almost immeasurable.

She shook her head violently to shake off the distracting thoughts and anxiety in her heart. Although the previous dream made Anxue very uncomfortable, "It was just a dream" was what Anxue said to herself, but in this way, she did feel a little better A little bit.

Stretching out his hand to grab the hole above his head, slightly surpassing the strength of an adult quack ape, he lifted the seven-year-old Dark Blood to the ground in an instant.

Immediately, a strong smell of blood rushed into Dark Blood's respiratory system.

I don't know if it was the influence of the dream, but she found the smell of blood very annoying, but soon, she no longer bothered with it.

"..."

Flat ground, wide field of view, and fresh air, this is Dark Blood's impression of the ground world, but this night, the scenery in front of him has become a little different.

The ground is no longer flat, and it is scattered like bacon, with hundreds of corpses, and from time to time, quack apes with tired faces put down more corpses, including pupae and quack apes; here The field of vision is still wide, but that's because there are only a few dozen people sporadically, and the dark blood expects it to be crowded; the air is full of nasty smells, making people suffocate.

Searching through the crowd, Dark Blood, who hadn't found the target, rushed to a pupation, startling him with a hoarse voice.

"What's going on, what about becoming a spirit? What about the other quack apes and pupae?"

He didn't mind being pulled by a child and yelled at him. He didn't intend to pay attention to the pupation body of the other party, but he stopped when he saw that it was Dark Blood who was pulling him.

After sighing, he shook his head at the dark blood and said what seemed to be repeated many times: "This time, we have won, right? After hitting the back, those black bone apes ran away, and ran farther away. Their food, their children, everything they can throw away, haha, we won, you know! We won."

This should have been a good thing, but Dark Blood didn't hear a hint of happiness from the tone of the chrysalis.

"Have we counted the casualties? What about Cheng Ling? He is leading the team." Shen Sheng said, even Dark Blood himself didn't know why he suddenly calmed down at this time, even so calm that it was a little scary.

Maybe it was because of a little uneasiness in my heart, or maybe it was because of the influence of the dream.

"Chengling? He said that the black bone ape cannot be allowed to escape, not even one, so he did not come back."

"Statistics?" Seemingly hearing something funny, the pupation body shook off Dark Blood's hand, suddenly pointed to the surroundings and started roaring: "Does this still need statistics? There are more than forty pupae bodies, and only those like me came back." A few, Quack Ape came back... that's all."

This chrysalis had one of its ailerons broken (that is, the smaller pair of flying wings below), God knows how he came back alive, the surrounding quack apes, dark blood had seen it before, there were less than thirty at most, How they drove away the black bone ape, and how they came back with so many corpses on the ground, Dark Blood doesn't know.

The gangster returned home stiffly, and the children had already fallen asleep under the comfort of the leader. There were more than 20 adult apes who went to the battle at the crack of the cliff, and five of them returned miraculously this time, which made the dark blood feel a little bit nervous. comfort.But looking at them all with gloomy expressions and injuries, she could only light a fire to provide everyone with a little warmth to dispel the cold.

When the sun shines on the earth again, Dark Blood reopens his eyes and looks at the tired members of the same cliff, and climbs up the world on the ground again along the passage alone.

The smell of blood dissipated after most of the night, and this was not a battlefield, so it had become very faint. The hundreds of quack ape corpses and more than 20 pupae corpses brought back made Dark Blood feel a little dizzy.

There was a flash in front of my eyes, and a few pictures seemed to flash in my mind, temples, squares, corpses...

"Is that so? The world in the dream was also full of corpses after that battle." Dark Blood murmured to herself, feeling that the dream last night seemed not over yet. In order to soothe her dizzy head, she sat down She started to meditate on the ground, and then she fell into a dream again.

The burial of the dead body, the strength of the ghost body, the fusion of mind power and energy core, the appearance of the god of life...

Finally, when she saw the Gashan tribe drifting away, she came to her senses again.

This time, Dark Blood's expression was very calm, without the envy and yearning in the first dream, nor the grief and killing intent in the second dream.

Gently opening her eyes, she straightened up and started exercising once a day. Most of the exercise methods were summed up and perfected by her in the past few years by using her vague feelings. There's something called "Rational Exercises of Physical Strength."

Heaving a sigh of relief, the sweaty Darkblood took a few breaths, then hesitantly looked at the twenty or so pupae, and in the end, he clenched his fist and walked over.

After a while, her hands were stained with dark blue blood. In her clothes made of dinosaur skin, there were more than [-] energy cores of different sizes.

At noon, after the remaining few pupae and the three pupae left in the canyon communicated with each other, they notified the members of each cliff crevice, so that everyone gathered on the ground.

This is the first time that everyone has gathered on the ground unscrupulously, and there was a threat from the black bone ape before.Due to frequent sneak attacks, the quack apes, who were hard to defend against, retreated to the crevices of the canyon with the help of the armored beasts. From then on, only members with a certain level of strength were allowed to go out.

But today, gathered on the ground are members of every crevice in the canyon, big and small... dead and alive.

First of all, the first thing is to throw the dead companion's body into the canyon.

This has been a habit formed by the quack apes for a long time. I can't say why, but after watching their companions finally return to the calcium carbide mine that the quack apes cannot leave, they will feel a little better in their hearts.

More than [-] pupae have holes in their chests, which is nothing to the quack apes. If they really pay attention to the corpses, they will not have no guards after putting the corpses away last night. Their purpose is just to throw the corpses away. It was only a step into the canyon, so Dark Blood didn't hesitate much before.

Seeing the corpses of their members being thrown into the gray-white valley bottoms one after another in each cliff crevice, Dark Blood nodded towards the valley bottom, and sat back at his position in the cliff crevice.

Now, let's get down to business.

"The black-skeleton ape has run far away." This seemingly uninjured pupate sat cross-legged on the ground, as if talking about a very ordinary thing. The enemy who has been oppressing the quack apes in the canyon for a long time has finally been driven away. Yes, but at the cost of hundreds of adult apes and dozens of pupae, accounting for 80.00% of the canyon's overall combat power: "After waking up in the morning, I flew around the surroundings with two other pupae, and it was completely There is no movement of the black bone ape."

This is just a routine notice, and it can be called an opening statement (that is, that kind of useless nonsense). Seeing this pupation body finished speaking, another pupation body leader immediately picked up, he seemed a little annoyed: "I have already Enough of this kind of life! The canyon is short of everything except calcium carbide. There are too few animals to hunt and too few plants to eat. What we drink every day is the water dripping from the top of the cliff. followed our way, but now the black bone ape has run away, you know? They have run away, we can go out..."

Not paying much attention to the pupae, Dark Blood was sitting obediently behind the leader, looking around.

Twenty days ago, she didn't fully understand the composition of the various cliff crevices in the canyon, but now, there are a total of 35 cliff crevices. Among the large and small groups, the most powerful cliff crevice has only one pupae and seven adult quacks. Ape and more than 20 children; the weakest one has only one old ape who stayed behind and a dozen children, that is to say, none of the members of this weakest cliff crevice came back alive this time.

"Huh?" Dark Blood unexpectedly discovered that the crack in the cliff with the highest strength happened to be the pupa who was speaking.The seven quack apes sitting behind him surrounded more than 20 children, some of whom seemed to be still waving at Darkblood.

(Did he think it would be okay to go out because he saw the strongest crack in the cliff? Did he really participate in the previous battle with hundreds of individuals?) This should be beyond doubt. Look at that pupate body full of freshness You know the scars.

"...So, the day after tomorrow at the latest, I will leave with my crevice. Everyone knows that there are no adult individuals coming back from many crevices this time. If you are willing to join my crevice, we will be a crevice after we go out. , Hunt together, share food together. Even, we can form a new canyon, as long as every cliff leader listens to me, everyone is a companion in the canyon, still hunting together, sharing food together."

Speaking of this, the pupa seemed to be meaningfully looking in the direction of the dark blood, but she didn't notice this when she was paying attention to the reactions of other cliff cracks.

Hearing the chrysalis' speech at this time, the corners of Dark Blood's mouth twitched, (this...he actually learned to take advantage of people's dangers and win over people's hearts, and even proposed such alliance-like organizations as canyons and cliff fissures, this guy is also considered a talent. )
However, at this time, the quack ape didn't have any guts. Hearing the speech of this pupa, many leaders of the cracks fell silent.

Everyone has seen the current situation. Although the black bone ape has been driven away, more than 70.00% of the members in the remaining cliffs are children, and the other 30.00% are either old apes or disabled. In this case, I still want to play It is obviously impossible to act independently.

Even if they did not leave with this pupae, the remaining cliff crevices would eventually gather together to form a canyon. Therefore, there are only two ways for the leaders of more than 30 cliff crevices to face, that is to leave, or Leave.

What happens if you stay?
Everyone has been like this for so long. There are calcium carbide mines and a habitual way of life. Although the food is a little less and the environment is a little worse, it can be regarded as a homeland.

However, the remaining cracks in the cliff have to face a big problem: Will the black bone ape come back?
You know, this time it's just to drive away, not wipe out. God knows if those black-boned apes who like to sneak up on Yin Yin will be unwilling and come back to sneak up on the canyon again.With the current weak strength of the canyon, it seems very dangerous to stay.

Last night, those members who came back did not sleep very well, because as soon as they fell asleep, they seemed to remember that when the black bone apes fled, they watched the people who were destroying their nests and killing their abandoned cubs. The quack apes, the bloodshot and hateful eyes made the quack apes restless.

Cheng Ling, who chased after with a dozen pupae bodies, was gone forever, making the quack apes hesitate even more.

And this, I am afraid, is also one of the main reasons why this pupae body asked to leave as soon as the opening remarks were over.

But what if you leave?
The outside world is full of unknowns, and a black bone ape nest has blocked so many quack apes in the cracks of the cliff for ten years, decades or even longer.Without the arithmetic provided by the dark blood, they have never calculated these things. As for the calendar, no one in the entire species of Quack Ape has tried it. They only determine the "year" through the change of seasons.

So, what if there are more black bone apes in the outside world?What if there were enemies more terrifying than the black bone ape in the outside world?
(However, the outside world may also have a better future and a wider space.) I believe some chrysalis have also thought about this idea, but they all hesitated, not knowing how to react.

The first conference after the war broke up unhappy like this, but the aftertaste brought by it began to affect the members of the entire canyon.

"Dark Blood, do you think we should leave?" The leader who returned to the crack of the cliff stopped Dark Blood, who wanted to teach children a lesson, and discussed this issue with several adult apes.

This made Dark Blood a little surprised. Although she knew a lot, this was also the consensus of this canyon.But after all, she is just a seven-year-old girl, and her strength is only at the level of ordinary adult quack apes. Therefore, generally speaking, the discussions that adult quack apes participate in, although Dark Blood listens in from time to time because of lack of discipline, she will not be affected by the leaders. invitation.

The so-called worries of other cliff leaders are only worried that Darkblood's prestige among children will make her threaten them when she becomes an adult or pupates. From this point of view, the pupates here are very far-sighted .

Therefore, this is the first time that Dark Blood has formally participated in the discussion of the cliff gap, although she has been listening to it for several years before that.

Seeing the leader asking for his opinion, the dark blood waved off the children and sat by the fire.

"this problem……"

Whether to leave or not, Dark Blood is actually not sure. If there were no two dreams, or only the first dream, she would be more inclined to leave, because the outside attracts her, there may be that beautiful place outside, she wants to go Find, or even find a similar place to build a tribe like that yourself.

But the second dream made her hesitate. It seemed that such a powerful tribe was also attacked by a wave of beasts, and so many died. Is it really okay outside?

Looking at the leader's expectant eyes, Dark Blood shook his head and said: "I don't have a clue about this issue yet, but one thing is for sure, whether we go or stay, we must keep our cliffs safe."

Seeing that the leader and several adult apes nodded, she pointed outside and said: "This time there will definitely be cracks in the cliff that will leave, but we don't know how many. There are very few cliff crevices that come down, and once attacked, the few remaining cliff crevices will definitely suffer heavy losses."

These words seemed to bring back the memories of several adult apes. They trembled and approached the fire, and one of them said, "Then let's leave too."

"It's not certain," Dark Blood shook his head: "What if there are too few cliff crevices left? Then the canyon formed after those departures is obviously not as safe as the cliff crevices we left behind. Large-scale animal swarms, large ant colonies or black bone ape attacks, there is not even a defensive underground passage..."

"Then let's stay."

(Can't you just listen to me?)
Dark Blood glared at the quack ape angrily, but the leader seemed a little uncomfortable with Dark Blood's statement, patted Dark Blood, and said, "Let's keep it simple, Dark Blood girl (well, at least there are less A 'small' character), in the end is to go? Or to stay?"

(If only it could be that simple.) Depressedly leaning against the cliff behind him, Dark Blood shook his head and said, "There's no hurry now... listen to me! Our purpose is to ensure safety, at least relatively safe. Then, Anyway, there are still two days before everyone leaves, we will wait, if there are not many cliff crevices to leave, we will leave the cliff crevices to integrate here; if there are many cliff crevices to leave, we will follow them to leave."

"Anyway, we have uncle you as the leader in the crevice of the cliff, and you five quack apes, plus me and these sixteen children, are now considered to be powerful. No matter which side you join, you will not have any difficulties. Isn't it?"

"So cunning," Dark Moon muttered, and in exchange for Dark Blood's creepy smile, she immediately sat upright.

"Well, let's see the reactions of other cliff cracks in the past few days," the leader seemed to think of something, and suddenly pointed to the haystack where the dark blood slept, and asked suspiciously: "By the way, dark blood girl, those What's that shiny thing?"

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