Food gives me an entry, I will be invincible if I stay alive

Chapter 17 So what?

Chen Xu leaned on his crutch and bent over, listening to the ugly monkey's noisy voice along the way in the bamboo forest.

As expected, he never found any suitable stone pieces. Not to mention stone pieces, even the unusable gravel on the ground became very scarce.

The Ugly Monkey clapped his hands and laughed again: "Stop, stop! Young man, now you know that life is difficult and it cannot be solved by your own anger, right?"

It made strange noises, and the harsh sound made people feel upset.

When Chen Xu heard this, he felt his chest pounding and a surge of blood rushing to his head. He felt so rushed that he almost wanted to throw all the bamboo sticks down on the spot and then turn around to punch the ugly monkey hard.

He clenched his fists, but the blisters on his left hand hurt.

Chen Xu instantly regained consciousness, pain spreading from his palm. He took a deep breath and ignored the monkey's chatter. Instead, he turned and walked to a tall bamboo nearby. Suddenly, he stretched out his right hand and fiercely chopped a joint of the bamboo.

Click!

Although he used his palm as a knife for this chop, Chen Xu's strength was extremely concentrated. The blood and energy in his body surged, and when it landed on his palm, the power was exerted in a small space.

Chopping bamboo is like chopping wood, attack its weak points and cut its vital points.

In an instant, the green bamboo broke with a loud bang and fell to the side.

Chen Xu exerted force with his right hand and quickly cleared away all the twigs on the bamboo pole.

He moved quickly, chose a suitable node, and formed the bamboo poles into a triangle, then split the bamboo poles again at the node.

Finally he got a bamboo tube about half a foot long.

Chen Xu had a small, round, blunt stone left from polishing the stone flakes. He held the stone in his palm, held up the bamboo tube, and struck it along the grain.

With a crackling sound, the bamboo tube instantly broke into four pieces along the grain.

Chen Xu picked out one of the pieces, and holding the round and blunt little stone in his hand, he trimmed the edge and polished the bevel of the bamboo piece. The bamboo piece was sharpened in his palm.

Looking more closely, it's no longer a piece of bamboo. It's clearly a bamboo sword!

The ugly monkey was stunned. Its noisy voice stopped at some point, and it just followed Chen Xu closely, watching him carefully carve the words on the bamboo slips with a bamboo knife with all his strength.

Chen Xu was full of energy, his mind was sharp, and he had superb skills in using his strength. The bamboo sword was actually much more useful in his hands than the previous stone piece.

But in a short while, he had carved the answers to the questions into the twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fifth pieces of bamboo slips.

At this moment, Ugly Monkey suddenly said, "Scholar, the fastest one among those people has already finished answering thirty questions. He walked out of the bamboo forest and entered the second level of the Starry Sky Formation."

click!
The tip of the bamboo sword in Chen Xu's hand flicked and broke in his hand.

Chen Xu didn't care. He picked up the round stone on the ground and rubbed the broken tip of the sword again, and the bamboo sword was repaired.

"Monkey." Chen Xu continued carving with his bamboo knife, saying, "Do you know what the biggest difference between humans and animals is?"

The ugly monkey's fat ears flared, his bulging eyes bulged, and he asked in a muffled voice, "What is it?"

"It's because humans can make tools." Chen Xu smiled, "Humans will make tools and change the environment under any circumstances.

The ancients had nothing. In a primitive environment full of dangers, their physical strength was not the strongest, and their claws were not the sharpest, but they were able to use everything around them to make stone knives, stone axes, bone spears, bone swords...

Use tools instead of claws to hunt wild animals and protect yourself.

They ate raw meat and drank blood, so they learned to drill wood to make fire and cook food.

Their skin was fragile, so they learned to tan fur and make clothing.

Unable to withstand the bitter cold, scorching heat, wind, and frost with their bodies alone, they learned to build houses. No, they didn't just learn. Instead, they created one miracle after another in the process of natural evolution.

From weapons to flames, from language to writing, from barbarism to civilization!"

Chen Xu spoke slowly and leisurely, as if he was just chatting casually about the past and future.

But the ugly monkey squatting beside him somehow felt his hair stand on end at the sound of the words. Beneath the sparse hair, his skin was covered with dense, tiny bumps.

The ugly monkey opened its mouth, its eyes widened, and the blood vessels on its neck were throbbing and trembling.

Chen Xu continued to carve words to answer questions. He answered the 29th bamboo piece, the 30th bamboo piece... Then, he picked up the 31st blank bamboo piece.

“The biggest difference between humans and animals is that humans can create civilization and history, and hone wisdom and sparks in the face of adversity.

So what if I have nothing?

The world is difficult and people's hearts are no longer as pure as before?
A single doorway determines life and death? A hierarchy of classes, high and low?

No, that's because you don't know that humans are not only good at creating, but also good at destroying."

Chen Xu laughed. When he turned his head, the ugly monkey suddenly let out a strange cry and kicked its thin legs backwards.

boom!
Just like that, the ugly monkey fell on his butt in front of Chen Xu.

The ugly monkey screamed "Aoao" and suddenly jumped up. In a few seconds, it rushed into the mist of the bamboo forest and disappeared without a trace.

At the same time, in Chen Xu's sea of ​​consciousness, a new message suddenly appeared in the Food Tripod Heavenly Book:

[You have captured the Heart Monkey Dust Flame Three Liang. This item is very spiritual and has been placed in the Fireworks Kitchen. It can unlock the God of Cookery recipe, Red Dust Three Liang Pastry.]

Is there such a surprise?

Chen Xu was stunned for a moment, then started laughing again.

He sat in the misty bamboo forest, limping on one leg, carving bamboo strips with a bamboo knife, but at this moment he leisurely chanted: "The world is cruel, people are evil, rain brings dusk, and flowers fall easily..."

"so what?"

Chen Xu laughed heartily. After he had carved the 40th bamboo slip, he began to carve the 41st one.

He couldn't see that the ugly monkey that had originally gone away in the fog had turned back at some point.

However, the ugly monkey no longer showed up. Instead, it hid in the fog by climbing a bamboo pole, and quietly peeked out to observe Chen Xu.

From time to time, its belly would bulge and swell, making sounds that were difficult for others to hear: "I am so angry! This young man has no martial ethics. He looks gentle and kind, without any hostility, but who knows he is actually a madman!

"Brother, you must not accept this boy as your disciple. Otherwise, how can we maintain our good reputation in the outside world? It will be ruined by such a madman."

The ugly monkey spoke furiously for a while, and then a gentle voice said, "Ah Mao, you're not angry because he's crazy, but you're angry that you can't be more crazy than him, right?"

The ugly monkey let out an "Ao" and became even angrier.

The bamboo leaves rustled in the mist, and the ugly monkey ran away in an instant.

It swore that this time he would never come to see this bad scholar again.

A quarter of an hour later, a monkey figure with big ears and bulging eyes came quietly to Chen Xu again through the fog.

At this moment, Chen Xu had already carved fifty bamboo strips.

(End of this chapter)