Chapter 4735: Stone Nest
The small stone tribes that emerged from the cave are also about one foot high, with clear edges and bright luster on the surface of their bodies, which is obviously different from the tribesmen who were responsible for carrying stones just now.
It seems that everyone has the same number. There are more than a thousand Xiaoshi tribes that invade, and the same is true for the Xiaoshi tribes that have emerged from the cave.
Both sides lined up at the entrance of the cave, with each other being about a hundred feet apart.
The small stone tribes are arranged neatly, one by one.
In the camps of both sides, there were some tribes holding stone hammers or stone sticks, who looked particularly tall and mighty. As they grinned, the cold light flashing on their teeth became even colder.
On the side of the Xiaoshi Clan that came out of the cave, the tallest Xiaoshi Clan came to the front of the camp, holding a stone hammer about the size of him in each hand, walking back and forth in the queue, making rhythmic sounds.
And as he moved, all the tribe members shouted in unison.
"Drink! Drink!" sounded endlessly.
Yang Kai looked at him with a strange expression and said softly to Yue He: "Is this boosting morale before the war?"
Yue He nodded and said, "It's almost the case."
Not only the Xiaoshi tribe that came out of the cave, but also the Xiaoshi tribe that invaded there. The actions of both sides were exactly the same, just like a template engraved.
In less than a moment, the morale was boosted and the two sides began to advance towards each other in an orderly manner.
It was about a hundred feet away, but it was smoothed out in just a moment.
The two Xiaoshi tribes, which belong to different ethnic groups, rushed together and soon disappeared from the distinction between them.
Under the attention of Yang Kai and Yue He, although these small stone tribes were small, they were simply fearless when fighting. Those with weapons rushed to the enemy and raised their weapons to smash them high. Often, a stone hammered them down can smash the enemy to pieces. Those without weapons culled onto the enemy, wrestled into a ball, opened their mouths of fangs, and bit them hard.
Their teeth are undoubtedly extremely sharp, and each bite can bite big stones from the enemy.
During the battle, they made a sound of drinking and drinking, one after another!
For a moment, the scene was extremely tragic, and the Xiaoshi tribe members were dismembered and turned into gravel and scattered on the ground.
There were about two thousand people on both sides, but in just one cup of tea, almost two or three hundred were killed. After another stick of incense, only half of them were left.
Suddenly, the battle suddenly stopped, and the two sides who were fighting desperately stopped without warning.
Immediately afterwards, the surviving Xiaoshi tribes carried the dead Xiaoshi tribes' bodies on the ground and returned along the same route.
There are many small stone tribes who are missing their arms and legs in the battle, moving their bodies with difficulty, and they also come from wherever they come from.
Yang Kai was puzzled by the sight: "What are they doing?"
Yue He said: "Young Master will know after watching it. This race is very strange. Such battles seem to be a way of survival for them and often appear."
"How intelligent are they? Have you ever tried to communicate with them?"
Yue He said: "I have tried it naturally, but their intelligence is not high, so I can't communicate."
Yang Kai nodded and said no more.
The battlefield over there was soon cleared. Both sides of the war were defeated and the generals were defeated. The invading tribes slowly retreated. The tribes on the cave that were facing also carried the corpses of tribesmen or enemies back into the cave in an orderly manner.
Yue He greeted him, followed the little stone tribe with Yang Kai and entered the cave.
The cave is about one person tall, and some places are shorter, and the two of them need to bend down from time to time when they move.
As Yuehe said before, the nest of this small stone tribe is very similar to the ant nest. It has nine twists and eighteen twists and turns inside, and the passages are crisscrossing and erected, forming a huge net of caves throughout the ground.
Along the way, many small stone tribes dug out small caves and were resting in it. They were disturbed by Yang Kai and Yuehe, and they all poked their heads out of their caves and stared at them with pairs of black eyes.
As he went deeper downwards, Yang Kai felt it carefully and was secretly shocked. The underground had almost been hollowed out by the Xiaoshi Clan.
After going deeper down for more than ten miles, the two of them suddenly came to a huge nest.
In the nest, there were several bridge-like passages connecting a huge platform in the center. On the platform, a figure that was far larger than other small stone tribesmen appeared in Yang Kai's vision.
"That's the stone king of this small stone tribe!" Yue He whispered.
Yang Kai nodded slightly and looked up. He saw that the stone king was extremely bloated, lying across the platform, with a body of about three feet, like a huge fat man, all over like white jade.
Next to this Stone King, there are also a group of small stone tribes, which are about the same height as others, patrolling back and forth. The number of these small stone tribes is not large, with about dozens of them in total. However, each of them is extremely tall compared to other tribes. The stone on the surface of the body looks more like wearing a helmet and armor, and is majestic.
"Is this the Stone King's escort?" Yang Kai raised his eyebrows.
Yuehe nodded: "It should be!"
At this moment, the small stone tribes who had previously withdrawn from the battlefield carried the spoils and went from the passage to the central platform. The spoils were undoubtedly stones left by the tribe members or enemies after their deaths.
When he arrived in front of the Stone King, a leading small stone clan raised the stone in his hand high. The Stone King's extremely fat body squirmed a little, lowered his head and sniffed it, then opened a mouth larger than a washbasin, bit off the stone in one bite, and entered the whole mouth.
Crack crunch...
A crisp sound echoed in the cave, and the stone king's teeth were extremely sharp. Eating this stone was like biting a crisp bone.
With just a few mouthfuls, the stone was swallowed by the Stone King.
The next small stone clan holding a stone was approaching and sent the stone in his hand to the mouth of the stone king, and the stone king continued to open his mouth.
The small stone tribes presented the spoils, and the stone kings came without rejecting them.
After a while, the fat body of the Shiwang suddenly shook violently, and Yang Kai obviously felt that this guy seemed to be holding on to a lot of strength.
Then, with a thunderous sound, something fell from the tail of the stone king.
The Stone King lies across the platform in the center, with its tail hanging in the air, so after it falls, it falls straight downward.
Yang Kai could see clearly that what fell from the tail of the stone king was an oval stone egg! It was like a pebble.
After rolling a few times on the soft ground, the stone egg stopped. The little stone clan who had been waiting on the side rushed up, hugged the stone egg, and took small steps to break into a passage on the side.
Yang Kai was surprised: "Does the Xiaoshi tribe have eggs?"
Yue He nodded: "So this little stone tribe is very similar to ant, both in its own structure and way of survival."
Yang Kai produced a wisp of divine thought, followed the small stone clan holding the stone eggs and soon came to a cave. In the cave, there were no less than a hundred stone eggs neatly placed together, and each stone egg was bred with a breath of life.
In the nest, there is also a special small stone tribe who is responsible for taking care of these stone eggs, patrolling back and forth like a nanny, looking at this and touching that from time to time.
And there are several nests nearby where stone eggs are stored like this.
Yang Kai even saw the scene where the Xiaoshi tribe members hatched from some stone eggs.
In this battle, the Xiaoshi tribe brought a lot of spoils, but not much. In just over an hour, the stone king had eaten it completely. As a result, the stone king gave birth to dozens of stone eggs.
After those spoils, the little stone tribe, who were missing due to participating in the battle, also lined up toward the Stone King.
They didn't have any spoils in their hands. Just when Yang Kai was wondering what they were going to do, he saw the Stone King bit a little stone clan who had no arms.
The tribe members were eaten into their stomachs in a few bites. The tribe members behind did not react much when they saw it. They still lined up and sent their broken body to the mouth of the Shiwang, each without regrets or fear.
"Even my own tribe members!" Yang Kai looked surprised, "It seems that these little stone tribes do not have much intelligence."
Yue He sighed slightly, "It's also for the reproduction of the tribe. The Stone King will lay stone eggs only after eating. Usually, she will not lay eggs."
Yang Kai frowned and said, "If it was for the reproduction of the clan, what was the reason for the previous battle? This clan lost hundreds of clan members in this battle, but in the end, all the spoils were fed to the Stone King, and only a hundred stone eggs could be laid."
"We guess that they are controlling the number of ethnic groups, and reproduction is their duty, but for them, the small stone world is now in short supply. If they do not control the number, they may be destroyed. In terms of their intelligence, they may not be able to recognize the demise of ethnic groups, but they are creatures after all, and they instinctively have some measures to detect and respond to them, and it makes sense!"
"Control the quantity..." Yang Kai touched his chin and pondered. What he had seen before meant that Yue He was right. After all, they had been observing and practicing here for more than 40 years, so they naturally had a better understanding of it.
"In fact, in this entire Xiaoshi Realm, except for the extremely special practice environment, we did not find any valuable materials here. We were also a little strange about why this happened before. However, after discovering that the entire Xiaoshi Realm is full of these Xiaoshi Realm, I understood." Yue He said softly: "The Xiaoshi Realm may have supplies before, but they must have been eaten up by the Xiaoshi Realm. Now they can only eat some ordinary ore, but their reproduction ability is too strong, so they still have to control the quantity. The battles of different ethnic groups are the best way to control the quantity."
Chapter completed!