hunt and eat

Chapter 703 Xiao Hei and Ah Chou

The so-called similarity, what standard is used to define it?
Bloodline...emotion...or intelligence level?

In the torrential rain, a thin black beast with a black carapace was lying alone in a pool of water. Looking at the thunder that streaked across the sky from time to time, illuminating the hazy night sky, my heart felt unprecedentedly peaceful. .

Because of his poor health, even his younger siblings, who were one year younger than him, were much stronger than him, so before the rainstorm started, it was simply abandoned by his mother who couldn't bear it anymore.

Although the little black monster in front of him didn't understand the truth at this time, the fact that he was alone was still roughly understandable.

I'm probably going to die, right?
very hungry……

The little monster touched its deflated stomach with its primate-structured arms, and shrank unconsciously.

Since three days ago, the mother has stopped allowing herself to eat with other siblings.

The sense of alienation that even it can understand is in a sense far colder than the hunger itself.

The chill gradually spread to the limbs, strangely, the little monster's vision gradually became blurred, and the darkness gradually encroached on its last consciousness like a tide.

An unprecedented and unique feeling appeared in that little heart for the first time.

That is the fear of something called [Death].

"Dad, look, there's a little thing here."

Faintly, the little monster, who could no longer open his eyes, heard a language that he couldn't understand at the time in the darkness.

"It's so ugly... just like me, hehe."

"Hey, can I raise it? I promise to eat obediently!"

At the end of consciousness, the little monster felt as if he had returned to his mother's embrace when he was just born.

It's been a long time since that warm feeling.

No, maybe never.

In the dimness, its consciousness was completely interrupted.

……

"From today on, you will be called Xiao Hei...By the way, my name is A Chou, and everyone in the village calls me that."

Under the sun, a little boy said to himself while tying a small cloth bag around his waist for the little monster in front of him.

On the boy's face was a lotus-like black birthmark covering most of his face, making him look extraordinarily ugly.

But if you look closely, it's not hard to see that the facial features are actually not bad.

It looks like an orangutan, but it has no hair on its body. Instead, it is a small monster with a rock carapace. Somewhat uncomfortable, it tried to grab the rope around its waist with its hands, but the boy patted its head angrily.

"Don't move... This thing can prove that you are not a monster in the wild, so even if you meet adults from other places, you will not be attacked."

Regardless of whether Xiao Hei could understand or not, Ah Chou just insisted on instructing him for a while, and then took him to find other children in the village to play with.

"Chou, go away...we don't play with ugly monsters."

"Yes, go away!"

Although he wanted to blend into the circle of his peers, the ugly A Chou was obviously not very popular with others, and was thrown several pieces of mud from a distance.

"Hmph, it makes me want to play with you."

Ah Chou spat at his feet, pulled the ignorant Xiao Hei around and left.

It's just that from time to time, he would stop and look back at the group of children gathered together, as if waiting for them to stop him.

But unfortunately, no one spoke a word to him until he left the village.

Covering his reddened eyes, the boy bit his lips tightly and sat in a daze on the big rock at the entrance of the village. Beside him was a little monster with the same ugly appearance, blowing the wind with him.

"Xiao Hei, don't be discouraged... Although you are alone, it's not our fault."

"Good people are always like this, they are just jealous of us."

"What do you mean you're jealous? Uh, talent?"

Even though the language was completely unintelligible, and Xiao Hei would only growl intermittently, Ah Chou was inexplicably able to chat with it.

Of course, it might just be what he thought was just a chat.

Anyway, from the perspective of a bystander, Xiao Hei's cry from the beginning to the end has not changed in any way, and he just silently watched Ah Chou talking non-stop.

That kind of desperation to speak is really extraordinary...Of course, it may just be that the boy is afraid that once he stops, the tears will fall completely like a kite with a broken string.

……

"Xiao Hei, I'm here to see you."

In a valley full of vines and strange-looking trees, the voice of a male duck who was in the period of changing his voice suddenly sounded.

Accompanied by a rustling sound, a huge figure nearly four meters slid down the slippery tree trunk covered in moss.

"You've had a good meal recently, and you feel a lot bigger than the last time we met."

Wearing a simple leather armor, a half-grown young man with a cropped cut greeted the orangutan-like black monster that fell in front of him.

"roar~"

"I got it~ I got it, I know you are worried about my safety, but the stronger monsters around here were all beaten away by you, Xiao Hei, there is nothing to worry about."

Although he was no longer the little thing that couldn't even reach his knees back then, the young man still habitually called the only friend in front of him "Xiao Hei".

About a few years ago, because Xiao Hei was getting bigger and more scary, many people in the village began to worry that it would hurt people, or even eat people.

There were more and more rumors, but in the end, even A Chou's parents couldn't bear the pressure gradually, and they had no choice but to release Xiao Hei into a nearby valley.

No way, no matter what race it is, judging people by their appearance is the inferiority of biological instinct after all.

Fortunately, although the people in the village don't like Xiao Hei very much, the latter is a monster that has lived in the village for many years and has never had any record of hurting anyone, so people generally don't bother it Life, and even occasionally nod to it when you meet it in the wild, which is regarded as a greeting.

In a sense, they are not too familiar acquaintances.

In addition, I don't know if it's Ah Chou's own talent. He obviously doesn't have a good brain and doesn't like to be alone, but he somehow mastered the animal language, and he was even able to communicate with Xiao Hei one-on-one.

According to Uncle Ugly, this is probably the blessing of stupid people.

Slowly bending down, he took out several thick animal skin books from the backpack behind him, and Ah Chou reluctantly handed them to Xiao Hei in front of him.

"I really don't understand, why do you like reading more than I do?"

"Is this thing that attractive?"

For Ah Chou, books are only used when he can't sleep. At other times, they are used as table legs. This is already its greatest contribution.

"Ho~ho!" Xiao Hei roared in a low voice, his tone full of joy.

"Interesting ghost!"

"By the way, apart from being unable to speak, you are almost human, right?"

"That clever head, give me a little too... Hundan!"

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(End of this chapter)