Chapter 129 The Third Road
When everyone arrived inside the mountain stream, the giant beast had already climbed up from the ground.
Its forelimbs are slender and stand mainly on its strong hind legs and feet. The huge body behind it is depressing. Many soldiers who were joking about it a few days ago began to tremble their calves.
Only Chen Fan can smile easily.
The wound of the giant beast has healed, but the injury should not be completely healed. Although it looks very oppressive, Chen Fan can actually feel its guilt.
Amid the nervousness of everyone, the giant beast let out a low roar. They had heard this sound countless times, and it was a signal of expulsion.
"Master Chen, do you want to withdraw?" Huang Ping stood beside Chen Fan.
This time they mainly rescued and studied, and they did not carry too many weapons. If this giant beast started to madly, only Chen Fan would be safe and sound at the scene.
Chen Fan shook his head and said, "Let's take a look first."
Although he didn't understand Chen Fan's meaning, Huang Ping still issued an order.
The soldiers stood there without any reckless movement.
The behemoth's warning was ignored, and it seemed a little annoyed, wandering uneasyly.
Chen Fan walked forward and once again stirred its nerves.
Seeing the giant beast retreating subconsciously, the soldiers looked at each other.
"It seems to be cowardly..."
"Master is so awesome!" Ran Manjun's eyes were filled with little stars and cheered behind him: "Master, knock it down!"
Why did I finally help it up, but I beat it down again?
Huang Ping and others had dark lines on their faces, and Chen Fan also burst into laughter.
Although he is not a master of beast taming, Chen Fan could probably see the emotions of the giant beast at this moment. It was not that he was really afraid of him, but that he was confused and tempted.
It does have a certain intelligence, but obviously cannot think about things that are too complicated. In its eyes, humans are probably similar to food.
But the group of food saved it and did not show any obvious offensive intention, which made the giant beast very puzzled.
Of course, from this point of view, it can also be seen that this ferocious beast is not the kind of warlike type. Otherwise, it would be impossible to gain its trust by relying solely on these.
On this side, Chen Fan kept moving forward, causing the giant beast to retreat.
It could sense that Chen Fan was not hostile.
Just as the giant beast was unable to retreat and began to feel a little irritable, Chen Fan bent down and picked up a fork on the ground that soldiers used to feed.
Then he turned around and said, "Okay, let's go."
Immediately afterwards, he took people directly out of the mountain stream and said nothing along the way.
It was not until he completely left the territory of the giant beast that Huang Ping asked in confusion: "Master Chen, what are you doing? You saved that beast, don't you want to tame it?"
Chen Fan shook his head and sighed: "This ferocious beast is different from the orangutan in the Yuxu small world, and there is basically no possibility of domestication."
"Then we can't leave. We can take advantage of the fact that it has not yet recovered and kill it while it is sick!" Huang Ping was anxious. The threat a congenital beast could pose was unimaginable.
Chen Fan waved his hand and said, "Everything is neither black nor white. We cannot be friends with it, but we do not need to become enemies. Of course, I do not deny its level of danger. It is just that in addition to it, there are other threats we don't know about this small world."
"Did the master say the wound on that ferocious beast?" Ran Manjun came over and was glared at by Chen Fan.
Although he agreed to let Ran Manjun go with her, Chen Fan had warned her before. When Chen Fan talks to others about serious matters, it is best not to talk to her without authorization.
This will give others a feeling of being presumptuous and unruly. Of course, this is not Chen Fan’s old-fashionedness, but his identities and Ran Manjun are too special.
A martial arts benchmark, a richest man, and a star in the martial arts world.
Every word and action of the two people will have some unexpected impact on the public. However, Ran Manjun always speaks out loud, so Chen Fan told her to try not to speak.
After Ran Manjun was wronged and shut up, Chen Fan continued: "There are some reasons for this, but... I have another idea. In addition to taming or hunting all the ferocious beasts, do we have a third way."
"Master Chen, what you are talking about coexisting with ferocious beasts?" An old professor next to him spoke.
He was a biologist sent to this trip and was also the first scientific researchers to settle in the Kunlun world.
Chen Fan nodded. It is conceivable how difficult it is to tame ferocious beasts. It took humans countless years to tame wild wolves as domestic dogs and wild birds as poultry.
Special examples like Erwuzai are hard to come by and are completely unsuitable for the entire group of ferocious beasts.
Therefore, the taming of ferocious beasts can only be used as a means of reservation, and occasionally experiments, researches, and comprehensive promotion can be carried out purely to waste manpower and material resources.
As for hunting, to be honest, Chen Fan also found it unrealistic.
Just talking about this small Kunlun world, if you want to hunt all the ferocious beasts, the casualties and losses caused are difficult to estimate. Moreover, as material, ferocious beasts are actually only a small part.
For humans, the most valuable thing is the renewable resources of Kunlun’s small world. Once all the ferocious beasts are killed, no one can tell the impact on the ecology.
Furthermore, now they have not encountered a ferocious beast that truly transcends cognition. But not meeting it now does not mean that they will not encounter it in the future.
If there really exists that way, I don’t know who hunts whom.
So Chen Fan recently began to think about the feasibility of the third path - coexisting with ferocious beasts.
When Huang Ping heard the old professor's words, he was a little disdainful: "How can we coexist with ferocious beasts? The strength of ferocious beasts is a huge threat to humans! They can eat people!"
The old professor retorted: "Don't that man also eats ferocious beasts? Besides, ferocious beasts are just now strong. At the beginning of human origin, there were countless creatures that could hunt humans in nature. But why are the ferocious carnivores now killed by us as endangered animals?"
"A million years ago, their threat to us was much greater than that of ferocious beasts now?"
"This..." Huang Ping didn't know how to argue for a moment.
It sounds reasonable, but it always feels something is wrong.
After thinking about it, he seemed to have found a loophole: "Old sir, ferocious beasts cannot be compared with wild beasts on the earth. The evolution of wild beasts is measured by tens of millions of years, but ferocious beasts may grow to an unimaginable level in ten or twenty years in an environment full of spiritual energy."
The old professor said disdainfully: "Why, is the speed of human evolution not even comparable to that of ferocious beasts? Look at Master Chen, I heard that he was an ordinary person before. In terms of strength, it is not much different from the big guy in the mountain stream. But according to our analysis, the monster inside has lived for at least four or five hundred years. How long has Master Chen lived? How long has he only practiced?"
Huang Ping had nothing to say.
Indeed, what is most terrifying about human beings is not the level of the starting point, but the almost infinite growth potential.
Against the backdrop of the revival of spiritual energy, humans are given ten years to ensure that the ferocious beasts in the Kunlun small world will be eaten into protected species.
Thinking of this, it seems that the ferocious beast is not scary at all. It is even a little pitiful!
After working hard for hundreds of years, a genius emerged from human beings, and perhaps it would be beaten up in less than a year.
"It seems to be true." Now, even Huang Ping had no objection.
Chen Fan won’t say much, it’s always okay to try it.
Of course, his expectations for this matter are not too high. Even if humans and ferocious beasts can live together temporarily, a complete balance is absolutely impossible.
When humans grow to a certain level, ferocious beasts will definitely be hunted. However, this time, humans may be merciful and leave their bloodlines to continue to reproduce. Then, after countless years of iteration, they will eventually become a new species in human feedlots.
This is a historical necessity, and no individual or organization can stop it. Unless humans are kept in zodiac signs and reproduction is optimized countless times to erase the greed that humans have in their genes at that moment.
But if there really is that kind of creature, I will definitely rise up and resist...
Chen Fan shook his head, feeling that he was thinking more and more nonsense.
...
The day after leaving the mountain stream, Chen Fan found Huang Ping and asked him to send a reconnaissance team composed of warriors to the mountain stream.
On the one hand, we continue to test the bottom line of the ferocious beast, and on the other hand, we continue to track it.
Chen Fan wanted to find something that hurt the ferocious beast.
In order to arrive at the scene at any time, Chen Fan continued to stay in Kunlun Small World these days.
Reports from the mountain stream kept coming and delivered to the room arranged by Huang Ping for Chen Fan.
"Master, today's report is here!" Ran Manjun called out in the living room.
In the bedroom, Chen Fan sighed slightly.
I don’t know if that boy Huang Ping did it on purpose, but he actually arranged a two-bedroom apartment for him.
Although it is not the same bed, they live under the same roof as Ran Manjun after all.
On the day of check-in, when Lin Qingya called herself to ask about traditional Chinese medicine, Ran Manjun deliberately showed off her presence and revealed to Lin Qingya that the two of them were "living together".
Lin Qingya's face was full of green light, but Chen Fan was too lazy to explain to her. What is there to explain the relationship that was completely inseparable?
Besides, she is my apprentice and not my wife. I'll explain to her a hammer?
Thinking of this, his good disciple hasn't asked him for homework for five days.
Opening the door, Ran Manjun stood at the door.
Chen Fan couldn't bear to look at him.
"Master, is it good-looking?" The girl in a thin nightgown turned around and the hem of the skirt was thrown up a little.
"I didn't expect that there were large shopping malls in 101. I bought seven units at a time! It didn't work every day for a week. What do you think, Master?"
Chen Fan ignored her inquiry, snatched the report directly, and then slammed the door in the anxious mood.
Outside the door, Ran Manjun stayed for a long time. Then he looked at his outfit and was speechless.
It doesn't make sense. The salesperson said that as long as he wears this nightgown, no man can control it.
Did you choose the wrong color? Master Chen doesn’t like black?
Inside the house, Chen Fan opened the report.
The previous records are not much different from the previous ones.
As the scout approaches, the giant beast still warns, but does not launch an attack.
Of course, this may also be related to the fact that the scouts dare not really be close to their faces.
After the giant beast was able to move, it began to forage around it and consciously ate some herbs.
It took a week like this, until today.
The behemoth left its previous range of movement, and this time it was moving very fast.
Chen Fan put down the report and quickly called Huang Ping.
Chapter completed!