Chapter 40: Borrowing a Knife to Kill

  The apes began to work, and Chen Xu naturally didn't idle around. The first thing he did was to rush into the cave, take out his map, and mark out this expedition completely.

  This way, his map included a range of almost twice as much, and he had a great help in understanding the situation around him.

  "What place is this land after all? Is it China?"

  After studying the map back and forth for half a day, Chen Xu had to admit that with such a small area of terrain, it was impossible to determine his current location.

  "Never mind, don't bother with him. The firewood piled up at the foot of the mountain is thick enough now. Tonight there's a moon halo and it's also a west wind, just right to settle accounts with this group of monks!"

  Standing at the edge of the cave, looking at the hazy moon shadow, Chen Xu couldn't help but curl up his mouth and chuckle, saying that he quickly grasped the rope hanging down and climbed up to the top of the cliff.

  There, the old ape is leading several intelligent apes to make bows and arrows. At this time, they have enough animal tendons, and bamboo strips are readily available, so all the innate conditions for making bows and arrows are met.

  Under Chen Xu's demonstration, the old ape quickly mastered the method of making bows and arrows. After his teaching, there are not a few apes in the tribe who can make bows and arrows now.

  After everyone's efforts, there are now more than thirty strong bows in the tribe, and more than three hundred long arrows have been made, but most of them do not meet the standard.

  But it must be admitted that with these bows and arrows, the combat effectiveness of the Fire God tribe can be increased by at least 30%, and as the number of bows and arrows increases, this proportion will inevitably expand.

  The bow and arrow is indeed the first step in human conquest of nature.

  When Chen Xu came up, the crowd of apes immediately stopped what they were doing and stood up to welcome him.

  Chen Xu waved his hand, indicating that they should continue, while he himself turned around on the mountain ridge, checking with interest the results of the apes' labor for the day.

  At this time, the number of bamboo spears in the tribe had exceeded one thousand, and one hundred elite warriors in the hunting team were fully equipped with ten bamboo spears per person, plus those bows and arrows. Now, their tribe's combat effectiveness was thoroughly formed.

  At this point, Chen Xu finally made a decision in his heart.

  Before long, the west wind suddenly rose, and in an instant, the entire thicket seemed to have lowered its head. Chen Xuan glanced at the extremely low flames that had been suppressed, and a smile played on his lips as he knew that the moment he had been waiting for had finally arrived.

  Ordered the monkey people to continue making bows and arrows, Chen Xu led Monkey No. 1 and the leader of the monkey team down into the cave, just like last time, with two people pulling on two thick ropes, Chen Xu climbed down from the cave.

  This time was different from the last time. He wasn't empty-handed, but held a fiery torch in his hand, and climbed up with only one hand grasping the rope.

  Under the support of his much-improved inner energy, this time he landed on the flat ground at the foot of the cliff with equal ease. In the dark night, that flame trembled constantly, revealing an aura so mysterious and obscure!

  Having fallen to the ground, Chen Xu did not dare to relax. He knew that this was King Kong's territory and at night they would be even more vigilant. Before he could complete his goal, he didn't want to be discovered by them.

  Fortunately, perhaps the time of the golden rooster's loud crowing was too long, they were already tired. At this moment, in the woods below the mountain, there was a silence, except for the increasingly loud whistling wind sound above, there was no other sound in the woods.

  Crouching low to the ground, Chen Xu relied on his keen memory to arrive at the place where dry firewood was piled up the most. Then, he gathered the nearby dry firewood together, trying his best to avoid making any noise.

  After gathering enough dry firewood, Chen Xu finally let out a gentle sigh, his heart moved, and he secretly said, "Good guy, it seems that tonight is destined to be my success, the timing and location are all on my side. Jingang, this place is mine, you'd better go back to your grandma's house early!"

  Taking a deep breath, Chen Xu looked around and saw that there was still no movement, so he put the shaking torch in his hand under the pile of firewood.

  With a bit of effort, the long-unused woodpile suddenly crackled to life, and a faint flame poked its curious head out from among the logs!

  "Done! Since you haven't reacted yet, I'll just click on the next one!"

  As soon as he saw the pile of firewood being ignited, Chen Xu quickly moved the torch away, looked at it a few times, and after confirming that the pile of firewood was indeed ignited, he quickly ran to another place where several piles of firewood were concentrated in his memory.

  Before long, five or six heaps of flames were lit in the thicket at the foot of the hill, and around them were dense, spider-web-like piles of dry firewood.

  Under the wood, there were thick dry leaves. I believe that before long, under the temptation of these dry and fierce fires, this piece of forest will be completely engulfed in a sea of flames.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, in no time, amidst the howling of the strong winds, these five piles of flames quickly sprang up and rapidly connected with each other, forming a fire net that resembled a fan, which then rushed towards the east.

  Soon, the flames burned more and more fiercely. Even Chen Xu, who was standing at the foot of the cliff leaning against the mountain, felt a wave of scorching air rushing towards him. In an instant, he curled up the corner of his mouth, knowing that things had succeeded.

  All he had to do next was wait, and heaven would take care of the rest.

  He slightly shifted his footing, exerted force underfoot, and with a flow of internal energy, he sprang up to a height of five meters, directly grabbing onto two low-hanging ropes, and quickly climbed into the mountain cave.

  When he arrived at the cave and turned around to look, the forest at the foot of the mountain on the east side had been completely engulfed by flames. The forest, which had not seen rain for a long time, showed its ferocity under his guidance with dry firewood.

  Fierce flames rose to the sky, swallowing any living thing in the forest, thick smoke danced in the dark night air, forcing any creature that wanted to approach the sea of fire to retreat.

  Before long, Chen Xu heard the long-awaited roar. In the face of this terrible sea of fire, even the strong would not dare to confront it, and could only express their anger with constant roars.

  However, in the face of the mighty power of nature, and faced with this light and heat that made them feel extreme fear to their bones, these golden ones roared for a while, but had no choice but to flee in panic like other creatures in the forest, scattering in all directions.

  Don't forget what this place is. The surroundings of this small hill are not as peaceful as the other side of the valley. This is where the overlords of the jungle gather.

  Although the diamond is formidable, it's just a jungle overlord. In the dark night of the jungle, especially in this area where the overlord reigns supreme, they are far from qualified to rush around recklessly.

  With this move, the entire forest was alarmed. At night, it was a time for the overlords of the forest to hunt for food. They didn't care what kind of creature entered their territory, as long as they were sure that the other party wasn't someone with terrifying suppressive power, they wouldn't let go. This was the nature of predation, and also the nature of defending one's territory.

  Suddenly, countless wails rose and fell, the flames in the forest on this side of the hill became a foil, and it seemed that the area next to the forest on this side was truly a thrilling place.

  The corner of his mouth twitched upwards, Chen Xu knew that his plan had been realized. This move to borrow a knife and kill someone was now thoroughly completed. What remained was just reaping the harvest in the settlement tomorrow!

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