Grandma sighed and said: "During the fasting process, the more they hunt, the tighter the muscles on their bodies will be, and the weight will increase without increasing their body size. In this way, they will be able to fight fierce beasts and even vicious beasts."

When the time comes, body shape will be more advantageous.”

Jin Mang immediately understood after hearing this. She had a lot of fighting experience, so she knew very well that strength, speed and skills were important when fighting the enemy, but body size could not be ignored.

For example, judo and taekwondo fighters are often unable to defeat sumo wrestlers, because the latter's size cannot be shaken by the former, and the fat layer of sumo wrestlers is very thick. You can hurt them, but it is difficult to hurt them.

Wound them.

However, being big doesn't mean that you have an advantage, and being small means that you have a disadvantage. It depends on the specific situation.

But no matter what, without affecting the speed, the heavier the weight, the better.

Even after receiving such an explanation, Jin Mang still felt uncomfortable.

Not being hungry is one thing, but it is instinct for living things to crave food when they are hungry. Jin Mang will feel such looks from time to time when eating, some from Qing Feng Qing Sui, and some from other adult elders.

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The children, including Jin Mang, were very worried, but grandma was used to it, and she ate with peace of mind.

In her words: "When they live to my age, they won't have to go hungry."

The terrain after passing through the swamp is better. You can often see mountains on the road, but those mountains are not particularly high. Jin Mang guessed that this should be a hilly area.

At this time, it looked bare to the eye, and the ground was so dry that cracks spread out. No matter how much they saved, the water they saved was still decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Jin Mang had not been idle these past few days. While on the road, she had been observing her surroundings. Finally, her hard work paid off. In the evening, she discovered a small cluster of slightly yellowish green trees behind a rock.

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It happened that everyone was planning to camp here. After getting off the grain truck, she ran over happily and moved away the rocks.

Sure enough, as she expected, the ground under the rocks was slightly moist, and a large number of insects were escaping.

If my guess is correct, there must be underground water veins below.

With this thought in mind, after all the bugs were gone, Jin Mang started digging with his bare hands. The deeper he dug, the wetter the soil became.

Seeing this, others could not understand her purpose, so they all stepped forward to help.

Then that night, the people of the Youying tribe were digging soil to fill the water, until they couldn't dig out a drop of water anymore. It was almost dawn, and they were about to set off again.

It's just that they were too tired the night before. Halfway through the journey, everyone began to doze off uncontrollably.

Finally, seeing that this was not going to work, Lan Ya simply found a shady place for everyone to rest for a while.

At this moment, everyone couldn't bear it anymore. You must know that even grandma helped last night, and Jin Mang and the other children didn't sleep either. Instead, they slept for a while in the grain truck.

Therefore, others were lying on the ground just in case, but Jin Mang and the others did not sleep.

In fact, everyone is hungry now. They haven't hunted yet, so they have to starve first.

——There are fewer and fewer prey along the way, and sometimes not a single rabbit can be seen for a whole day. Even if the adults stop eating, children like Jin Mang will inevitably go hungry.

It's no big deal to be hungry for half a day like today.

Jin Mang got off the grain cart, looked at the mountains next to him, raised his head and said to grandma: "Grandma, I'll go to the mountains to have a look."

Grandma turned around and looked around. Seeing that the mountain was too small, she nodded and said, "Don't go to the other side."

Several other children were also a little bit impatient, but as soon as grandma glanced over, they all fell silent.

They don't have Jin Mang's strength and cleverness, and their grandma would definitely not agree.

Jin Mang went up the mountain to find something to eat, even if it wasn't meat, but he might be able to dig some sweet potatoes or something like that.

The mountain was bare, and the trees were almost dead. There were only some dry vine leaves on the ground. Jin Mang dug around where there were vine leaves, but mostly found nothing. Occasionally, he could dig up some rotten roots, but he couldn't see them at all.

Find out what it is.

She touched her belly and licked her dry lips. She felt so uncomfortable.

Just when he was about to give up, Jin Mang dug out a pigeon egg-sized... chestnut?

She bit open it hard, peeled off the meat inside and put it into her mouth. The unique sweetness of chestnut exploded in her taste buds. The taste was extremely charming.

It’s really chestnut!

Jin Mang's eyes lit up.

She searched around for a while, and soon found a dead tree that looked like a chestnut tree - this was just her guess. After all, although Jin Mang had seen chestnut trees, she had only seen them before, let alone

The tree in front of me has also changed beyond recognition.

When Jin Mang was a child, he went to the mountains to play with Jin Meili and Zhong Xiuxiu. At that time, a family in the village contracted the mountain land and planted half of the mountain's chestnut trees. However, they were young and did not dare to touch chestnuts that looked like hedgehog balls.

Yes, and when they went there, the chestnuts had not yet produced any fruit.

So at that time, they were rushing towards the bamboo shoots.

The chestnut forest was originally planted with bamboo. Although it was later dug up after being contracted, some small bamboo shoots still grew out.

Jin Mang and the others all loved eating young bamboo shoots, so they went to the chestnut forest to dig bamboo shoots.

As a result, they dug up several sweet chestnuts at that time.

——The chestnut fruit fell off from the previous year and was buried in the soil for a year.

It took them a long time to dig out only a few. That was because the chestnut forest was owned by an owner, and the chestnuts would be picked when they matured. Those few chestnuts fell naturally after the outer shells cracked.

Sometimes they are picked up before they are buried, and the quantity is very limited.

But...as far as Jin Mang knows, no one here in Anze eats chestnuts. Does that mean...that there are a lot of chestnuts buried underground?

Jin Mang swallowed, and then began to dig around the tree.

Sure enough, after a while, she dug up chestnuts. In about ten minutes, she had a large handful of chestnuts in her hand.

Jin Mang was so hungry that she simply sat down and started peeling chestnuts.

After eating a handful, she dug again, and continued to eat. After eating five or six handfuls, she touched her belly and got up, and then... continued to dig chestnuts.

Finally, after digging a small pile, Jin Mang looked at the sky and then stopped with some unfinished thoughts.

Just as she was about to go down the mountain, she was suddenly startled.

There is a sound coming from... the back side of the mountain?

It doesn't sound like animals, but it sounds like there is a quarrel?

Want to take a look?

Jin Mang hesitated for a moment and planned to take a sneak peek. Her original intention was to see how many people there were in this human tribe who were walking on the same migration path as them, but...

After seeing the scene at the foot of the mountain clearly, Jin Mang turned around and ran away without saying a word.


Chapter completed!