Chapter Thirty-Two New Discoveries

  Under the brutal coercion of Chen Xu and other apemen, two lonely apemen wisely followed the law of survival of the fittest, leading them through the grassland and walking through the dense forest.

  About half an hour later, they completely walked out of the dense forest and came to a mountain valley.

  "Is it here?"

  A strange light flashed in his eyes as he gazed at the magnificent scenery, and Chen Xu couldn't help but frown slightly before ordering his subordinates to bring up the two captives.

  "It's here!"

  The two apes heard this and hastily agreed, but no matter how they looked, Chen Xu seemed to see a hint of excitement in their expressions, as if they didn't care about their own tribe at all.

  Although I knew that the apes at this time had just left the category of beasts and did not have many loyal ideas, but the performance of these two apes in front of me was too much.

  No matter what, the people living inside are after all their compatriots with whom they have been struggling, and are connected by blood ties. Even those famous Han traitors in history would shed a few tears when faced with such a situation, let alone these primitive people who barely possess spiritual intelligence!

  Moreover, with the previous incident of the ape-man captain surrendering, Chen Xu understood that if he wasn't at a dead end, he wouldn't have surrendered and would have rather starved to death. It also wouldn't be easy for him to subdue the previous tribe.

  These signs combined, the faintly excited expressions of these two apes in front of him were quite unusual. Just because other apes couldn't see it didn't mean Chen Xu couldn't.

  "Could it be that there's still some danger lurking here? Or perhaps this tribe isn't as weak as I imagined, but rather a very powerful one, and these two apes are just stragglers from a certain hunting party?"

  Chen Xu's heart skipped a beat as he carefully observed the footprints in the valley, and he couldn't help but have a bad premonition.

  The entrance to the valley is exceptionally steep, with cliffs on both sides that are 30-40 meters high. The tops of the cliffs are covered in dense thickets, and except for a narrow strip of empty land between the forest and the valley, this place hardly sees any daylight.

  The mountain valley is exceptionally narrow, with a narrow passage of over ten meters from the outside exit to the open area inside, only allowing one person to pass through. It seems as if it was chopped open by an axe wielded by some great god, and the cliff walls seem to be like giant pincers that converge at a 45-degree angle upwards.

  But just a dozen meters away from the valley, it suddenly opens up, with plenty of sunlight shining in, as if it had changed to another world. Even tens of meters away in the dense forest, Chen Xiang could see that place clearly.

  "Damn it, what a place where one man can hold off an entire army! This tribe doesn't seem simple at all!"

  His eyes narrowed, Chen Xu's mind turned and he directly placed the hastily made dagger on the necks of the two captives, asking in a cold voice "Are there more people from your hunting team than us? Tell the truth, otherwise I'll kill you!"

  Chen Xu finished speaking, and the crowd of apes shouted in unison, baring their fangs at the two captives on the ground. The two apes who had initially shown joyful expressions trembled with fear and couldn't help but crouch back down to the ground.

  However, this intimidation was useful, although the apeman had no concept of numbers in his mind, he also knew more or less.

  At the critical moment of life and death, two captives who had not been indoctrinated with any loyalty at all did not hesitate to betray their tribe. However, due to the simplicity of language, they didn't reveal much information either.

  However, from this, Chen Xu still got the intelligence he wanted, that is, the number of hunting team warriors in this tribe was much more than he imagined, so that these twenty or so people simply couldn't be compared with the number of warriors in this tribe. This point can be judged from the gestures of the two captives who were constantly comparing each other.

  "Good fellow, I've caught a big one! I was just short of hands, and here comes the pillow when someone is drowsy. You've come at just the right time!"

  He chuckled and Chen Xu asked the two captives again, confirming that there were several hunting teams, but the team to which the two captives belonged had returned early to the tribe with a fragmented gold.

  Two captives were carrying the head of a rhinoceros, which made it inconvenient to walk and they also wanted to trample some wild fruit in the bushes, so they separated from that team.

  As a result, unfortunately, they were caught red-handed by Chen Xu's men. It has to be said that their luck was not very good!

  According to their account, this hunting direction of going west was not in their plan. According to the wise men in their tribe, the forest to the west is full of forest overlords and it's not a place where they can hunt.

  They usually come out from the valley, go through the jungle and head directly north, where their main hunting grounds are.

  A rare gale swept through the jungle today, carrying the bloody smell to the mouth of the valley. It was because they smelled the bloody smell in the wind that the leader of their hunting party decided to go and investigate, only to discover a pitfall trap, as well as the mangled remains of Kong inside it.

  And then there is this scene now!

  "The place I came from is still a relatively dangerous place, no wonder there are all sorts of deadly things around, it turns out this isn't a place normal people should be!"

  Somehow, Chen Xu finally found a reason for the existence of those terrifying jungle overlords. Perhaps it wasn't that the Stone Age was too terrifying, but rather he had entered a forbidden zone.

  Of course, this idea is just a guess and may not be accurate at all. After all, even the saber-toothed tiger has appeared, what can some forest overlords represent?

  Shake off these thoughts, think about it, Chen Xu quickly judged that for a long time, people in this tribe would not come to this dense forest. Because the valley is south-facing, from here, go straight south, and you will reach the dense forest where they are now.

  Through this dense forest, bypassing several areas, is the grassland between the forests. From the grassland area, turning eastward, you can see their trap pits. And from the trap pits, passing through several dense forests, all the way westward, is their base, Little Mountain.

  According to two captives, they would never normally go to that meadow because terrifying beings often descended upon it.

  This solved a doubt in Chen Xu's mind, and also made him see an opportunity. Of course, that doubt was how two tribes could not discover each other's existence for such a long time. Now it seems like they had just missed each other.

  But fortunately for Chen Xue, the two tribes did not meet, otherwise the tribe he is currently in would be swallowed up without any resistance. At that time, what awaits this crosser may not be an ape's body, but a smelly and hard stone!

  A faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and with a beckon, Chen Xu called the leader of the ape-man tribe to his side, ordering him to lead half of the hunting party's warriors to the small mountain where their base was located, and bring all the apemen back.

  And ordered the leader of the ape men to pay attention, be sure to bring all the bamboo spears and stone tools on the mountain over, and bring some roasted takin, there will be a big battle later.

  Yuan Ren One led the remaining hunting team warriors, escorting two captives, waiting for the arrival of the tribe's people on the edge of the grassland, and resting to recharge their energy for future battles.

  As for himself, he has more important tasks to accomplish.

  The Ape-man language was really too simple, although he had obtained some news about this tribe from the mouths of two captives, but they were all very vague. Without personally investigating, he would not be at ease. Various signs indicated that this tribe could not be said to be very powerful, nor was it weak!

  To be honest, this is the first formed tribe he has encountered since crossing over. The others, whether it was the tribe he crossed over to or the ape-man leader's almost completely starved tribe, can't even be considered an ape-man tribe in the true sense of the word. At most, they were just a few escaped survivors.

  Nature, Chen Xu did not dare to be the slightest slow, this time, he was more cautious than when he confronted that Jinguang, he understood that if he made good use of it, it was a great opportunity to expand his power, and with enough manpower, he didn't need to be so careful and constrained. If he didn't make good use of it, he might even have to sacrifice himself.

  He tidied up his figure, handed over the cumbersome and inconvenient things such as bamboo spears and stone tools to Ape No. 1 to carry, while Chen Xu carried a long bow on his back, with a long arrow at his waist, holding two curved knives made of golden dog teeth in his hand, crouching out of the thicket, soon, like a gust of wind, he darted through the narrow crevice.

  In just a few breaths, Chen Xu had traversed the dozen or so meters of crevices and arrived at an open area. From here on out, the cliffs on both sides began to stretch outward in both directions.

  The vast sky also appeared in front of him, and the dense forest on both sides of the mountain cliff was revealed. However, Chen Xu did not dare to look more at this time, fearing that he would be discovered by the Ape-man tribe.

  He swiftly crouched down, his internal energy circulating within his body, and in an instant, he flashed into the midst of a long stretch of wormwood bushes in the valley, like a mountain cat on the hunt.

  Perhaps due to the long drought, or perhaps due to the scorching sun that this place had been experiencing, as soon as Chen Xu entered the dense patch of wormwood, his feet made a slight crunching sound.

  He paused for a moment, and to his surprise, he found that the ground under these weeds was covered with dry branches, and most parts of them were withered, leaving only a hint of tenderness at the top, as if still urging life to stretch towards the sky, to touch the glory of sunlight.

  Standing among the tall grasses, he had a place to hide. Chen Xuan no longer hurried forward, but instead poked his head out and carefully observed the surrounding situation.

  However, there is no sign of the ape tribe here, only a vast expanse of mugwort grass, probably because there are no herbivores that have reached this place. The mugwort grass here is so dense that it's almost excessive.

  From the opening of the valley to a very distant place, even at the end of Chen Xu's line of sight, it was still a gray and hazy area, all within the territory of the Artemisia grasslands.