Tina took a sip of clear water, made two "Gurgling" sounds, and then spit it out.
She gargled several times in a row and finally cleaned her mouth.
Chris had no idea that this forest would be so dangerous.
The fifth-level monsters are the second most dangerous. The dangers that are not easy to detect, like the Black Crystal Scorpion, are the most terrifying.
When there is time in the future, I must set fire to this place.
If one or two poisonous insects appear at every turn and endanger the lives of the people in the territory, then what development is there?
This thorny jungle stretched for more than ten kilometers in front and back. Chris and Tina walked carefully for more than two hours before reaching the edge.
During this period, I saw hundreds of poisonous insects, but I never encountered one as powerful as the Black Crystal Scorpion. It was considered a near miss.
Chris released the drag root, the two of them rode on, and continued moving forward.
An hour later, they saw a large field, about 40 to 50 acres in size, with gray-green vegetables of unknown varieties.
The level of cultivation is very poor. In some places, there are three or five vegetable plants clustered together, and in other places, only one plant can be seen several meters apart.
Unlike farmers, who plant vegetables and crops in neat order.
If there weren't obvious traces of plowing, I would have thought that wild vegetables were growing here.
"Hey, there are actually outsiders in my territory?" Chris was also a little surprised. He got off his horse and walked to the field, picked a vegetable leaf and put it in front of his nose and smelled it.
The choking smell poured into the nasal cavity, with a faint bitter taste.
Chris quickly threw away the vegetable leaves. He didn't know who actually used this vegetable as food.
"Damn humans, don't destroy our crops, stop it!" A rough and angry shout came from the distance.
Chris looked up and saw an upright walking rhinoceros running towards him.
The guy was about two and a half meters tall, and his skin was brown-gray, almost the same color as the nearby land.
It was wearing a dress made of animal skin, and the outline of a human face could be vaguely seen on its face. There was a horn more than twenty centimeters long on its nose, and it also had a pair of human-like hands, and its feet were
Rhino's hooves.
The rhinoceros man rushed over with a stone ax and struck Chris on the head.
It's said to be an ax, but it's actually just a piece of stone sharpened and tied to a piece of wood with vines.
"Click!"
The dragon roared out and struck the ax blade, splitting it in half from the middle.
The rhinoceros man looked at the half ax handle in his hand, slightly dazed.
But Chris moved very quickly, pressing the dragon roar against the opponent's neck.
The cold chill hit through the long sword, making the Rhinoceros shiver unconsciously. He quickly threw away the ax handle and raised his hands high.
Chris didn't intend to kill the other party. After finally encountering a creature that could communicate, he naturally wanted to understand the situation here first.
"I ask a question and you answer a question. Do you understand?"
The rhinoceros man nodded repeatedly, and the simple fight let him know that the human in front of him could easily kill him.
"Why do you know I'm human?"
Logically speaking, the other party should not be able to recognize the identity of a human being in a place that is almost isolated from the world, with few people coming here.
But not only did the rhinoceros man know him, he could also speak the common language on the continent.
"Because half of our ancestors are of human origin, and in recent years, human magicians have come to trade with us in exchange for things."
Chris and Tina looked at each other, their minds filled with questions.
"Half of us are humans, so the other half is a rhinoceros?" Chris felt like his perspective had collapsed. "Can humans and rhinos have offspring?"
Is there no reproductive isolation in this world?
The rhinoceros man slapped his chest and said proudly: "It's a ninth-level monster - the Wild Hunting Rhinoceros."
"After our ancestor transformed into a human, he kidnapped hundreds of human women to mate with him, and that's how we came into being."
"Clan? How many people are there?" Chris became interested. These guys were tall and powerful. It was also a good choice to return to the territory to work.
The rhinoceros man smacked his lips: "Three hundred or so."
"Take me to the clan leader, I also want to trade with you."
The rhinoceros man looked at Chris's empty hands and said hesitantly: "We only want food. Don't try to fool us with those golden coins. Those things are just garbage to us."
Chris touched the space ring and took out a bag of flour.
These were the grains that were snatched from Henry when he was in the Iron Rhinoceros Kingdom. There was still a lot left. The cellar in the castle could not accommodate it, so it was temporarily stored in the ring.
Seeing the flour, the rhino man's eyes widened and he reached out to grab it.
Chris immediately put it away and said, "We agreed on the deal, why do you still want to come and grab it?"
"That's not the case. Please come with me." The rhinoceros man smiled honestly and led the way.
Chris followed the other person and asked curiously: "Do you usually eat vegetables that smell so bad?"
"Yes, we can't sustain those crops that you humans have." The rhinoceros man smiled helplessly, "Although amaranth is not delicious, it is very easy to sow. Just scatter some seeds and it will grow out in a short time.
Normally you don’t need to worry about it at all.”
Chris understood that it was not that they wanted to eat, but that they did not know how to grow other crops.
Moreover, the jungle here is either thorns or poisonous insects, and there are no wild beasts to hunt.
Therefore, the life of these sturdy guys must be quite difficult.
Chris had a brief understanding of the rhino people. They were strong, but very clumsy. They didn't have any good production methods, so they were short of food.
Tina leaned into Chris's ear and asked in a low voice: "Look at the farm tools he uses or axes ground from stones. The productivity is quite backward. What do you want to exchange with them?"
Chris pointed at the rhino man's burly body and said, "Don't you think they are a very good workforce? With their brute strength, they can work as fast as several ordinary people."
"Okay." Tina shrugged. She originally thought that Chris was going to change things, but she didn't expect that he had thoughts about the Rhinoceros.
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The three people walked for more than half an hour and came to a tribe.
The reason why it is called a tribe rather than a village is that the place where the rhino people live is very simple, basically a simple shack built with a few trees and some hay.
And without exception, they all have no doors, so the situation inside can be clearly seen from the outside.
I guess all the shameful things are done in the open air.
There is no privacy at all, it just serves as a shelter from the wind and rain.
A few small rhino men, probably only two or three years old, were playing around the outside of the tribe.