Ancient Eden - Chapter 123
~End of chapter 122
Mu Qing was a bit irritated these days. The reason for her irritation was the monkeys in her neighborhood.
This group of monkeys did not seem to have the habit of storing food, before when the fruits were plentiful they would eat one bite and then drop it, without any concern, but now that they saw that there were not so many sources of food compared to before, they started to get the idea of snatching the dried meat and fish that Mu Qing was putting outside to dry.
Mu Qing at first did not know, but later she noticed that some of the food she left drying outside would always inexplicably be missing, but she thought that it was Xiao Hei making trouble. But after reprimanding Xiao Hei and keeping an eye on it, she found that food would still be missing, and after a careful investigation, she realized that it was actually the monkeys that were stealing the food.
Chapter 123
(38.4)
The monkeys were eating meat, this was Mu Qing’s first time learning about this. Originally, stealing something to eat would not be a problem, the most annoying thing was that gradually these monkeys became even bolder, and they not only took away food, but they threw on the ground the things they could not take away, making a huge mess.
And strangely enough, the leader of the monkeys was not a male as she had thought before, but a very large female, which was sharp-witted and very ferocious. Sometimes when she came to drive them away, the female would go as far as to bare her teeth at her in a threatening manner as she led away the adult monkeys and the little monkeys. When Mu Qing was busy with other things, they immediately gathered and came over again. So for several days she could do nothing else but play hide-and-seek with the monkeys.
Xiao Hei had been growing very fast and no longer needed to be fed by Mu Qing anymore. In just two months’ time, its height had already reached her knees, and its fur was much shinier than when she first picked it up. A few days ago, Xiao Hei sneaked out, and when it came back in the evening, it had a rabbit in its mouth, whose throat was snapped, and it was only then that Mu Qing realized that Xiao Hei now had a mouth full of sharp teeth.
What kind of animal Xiao Hei was, Mu Qing tried to guess before. At first, she thought it was an ancient breed of dog, but it didn’t look like one. If it was a leopard, the fur of a leopard didn’t seem to be as long as Xiao Hei’s was. Recently, she identified Xiao Hei as a lion-like cub, but with a black fur.
But a few days ago, she noticed that Xiao Hei seemed to have an itchy back, he kept rubbing hard against her legs, and then lying on the ground to rub himself against the rocks. She was afraid that it might have parasites or lice, so she held it and took a closer look, and was shocked to find several white spots sprouting from the back of its neck and the front of its backbone, like the tips of baby teeth. When she pressed against it with her hand, they were very hard. She suspected that Xiao Hei was itching, because something like sharp spines were growing, which was why he was rubbing his back so vigorously.
Xiao Hei’s back was actually going to grow spines. This was very shocking to Mu Qing.
(39.1)
To her knowledge, the only animals with sharp spines on their backs were dinosaurs. But that kind of thing had gone extinct in the late Cretaceous Period, 60 to 70 million years ago. Xiao Hei could not possibly be a dinosaur. Besides, how could there be a dinosaur with a lion-like body?
This question didn’t puzzle Mu Qing for long because her attention was drawn away by the monkeys once again.
In the past two days, in order to prevent the monkeys from making trouble, she only dried the newly caught fish at the entrance of the cave she lived in, so that she could keep an eye on it at all times. In the empty space where she had originally been drying the fish, she stored the firewood she had gathered. Now that the weather was getting colder, the valley floor was filled with withered and yellowed branches and leaves, so it was easy to collect a large pile of it.
She thought the monkeys could not possibly want to steal firewood, so she went back with confidence. How could she have thought that those rogue monkeys would actually vent their anger on the firewood, and when Mu Qing went to turn the firewood over to dry the other side, she saw that the firewood that she had originally spread out neatly was thrown in a mess all over the ground, and a few monkeys had even drenched the top of it in urine.
Seeing her come over, not only did they not run, but they picked up the firewood and threw it at her, their mouths making ho-ho threatening noises.
Translator : Laura
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