Chapter 991 - 952: Occupying Another’s Nest

As Zhao Rong and his group followed the Hunter tribe to their living base,

they were stunned by the scene before them,

The entire Hunter tribe lived on the steep cliffs,

and their homes were actually caves carved into the cliff rocks,

The method to reach the dwelling was to climb down a vine from the top of the mountain,

Only halfway down could they enter the caves,

When Zhao Rong and his group finally reached the Hunter tribe’s cave with great effort,

they felt living here was incredibly difficult,

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Zhao Rong looked at the Hunter tribe Chieftain and said,

"I really can’t understand why you Hunters, with perfectly good thatched houses and treehouses,

choose to live on this cliffside, halfway up the mountain?

Going home is so time-consuming, labor-intensive, and exhausting..."

Miss Lili felt tired and thirsty, and said,

"You Hunters must be bored, finding trouble for yourselves, choosing to live in these cliffside caves?"

Listening to Zhao Rong and Miss Lili, the Hunter tribe Chieftain explained,

"You don’t know, when we first arrived in this pit, we too lived in thatched cottages,

But after that monster appeared,

everyone living in thatched cottages was eaten by the monster,

We are living on the cliffs for our own safety..."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Rong understood why the Hunter tribe went through so much trouble to live on the cliffs,

It was to avoid being hunted by the monster,

Even though Yu Lan understood why the Hunters lived on the cliffs,

he was very curious about how this primitive Hunter tribe carved so many caves into the cliffs,

He asked,

"Hunters, I now want to know, how did you manage to carve these caves into the cliff rocks?"

The Hunter tribe smiled and told Yu Lan,

"With our production capabilities, we couldn’t possibly carve caves into these cliffs...

We live in these cliffside caves because there used to be a type of pangolin living on the cliffs...

After these pangolins dug caves into the cliffs, they lived in them,

We arrived, killed the pangolins, took over their caves, and settled here..."

When Yu Lan heard that the Hunter tribe’s cave dwellings were once pangolin dens,

he remarked,

"So these caves weren’t dug out by you Hunters, but you’re living in borrowed homes..."

At that moment, Miss Xuelian had another question,

In her curiosity, she asked the Hunters,

"Since you live in these cliffside caves,

what do you usually eat?

Even if you hunt animals, how do you bring them into these cliffside caves for storage?"

The Hunter tribe told Miss Xuelian,

"Since our caves are on the cliffs,

returning home is particularly difficult...

Therefore, we eat what we hunt on the spot and never bring it home,

because we simply can’t bring it back..."

Hearing the Hunters, Miss Xuelian deduced,

"Hunters, I understand now why you came to this pit,

because the food here is so plentiful,

so you don’t need to store food or worry about not catching prey in winter..."

The Hunter tribe gave Miss Xuelian a thumbs up, saying,

"Your analysis is absolutely correct,

We Hunters migrated from the cold Siberian taiga to this pit,

because this pit is very warm,

and there are many animals for us to hunt anytime,

we won’t go hungry due to cold or bad weather...

Since we came to this pit,

our Hunter tribe population has grown significantly...

Before this, we were the smallest tribe among all indigenous Siberians,

Now, we are the largest tribe in all of Siberia..."

At this moment, the Hunter Chieftain brought an elder into the cave,

The Chieftain introduced the elder to Zhao Rong’s group, saying,

"Prophets, this elder was captured by that monster years ago and survived,

and managed to escape, the only survivor..."

Seeing the elder was the sole survivor, Zhao Rong hurriedly went up, examining the elder and said,

"Elder, can you tell me what happened to you that day?"

Recalling the day he was captured by the monster,

the elder shivered in terror, even convulsing, then told Zhao Rong,

"That was 70 years ago...I was only 5 years old,

but I remember it vividly...

In the middle of the night, my stomach hurt badly,

So my mother took me outside...

Just as I was about to relieve myself,

suddenly, a terrifying monster flew from the sky,

I couldn’t see what it exactly looked like,

I just remember the monster reaching out with two claws, one grabbing me,

one grabbing my mother,

then, in the darkness, the monster took my mother and me to a very tall tree...

And that tree was the monster’s nest...

On that tree, there was an enormous bird nest,

inside the nest were piles of human skeletons...

When the monster grabbed my mother and me into the nest,

my mother was eaten by the monster on the spot..."

Hearing this, Zhao Rong curiously asked the elder,

"Elder, since your mother was eaten by the monster,

how did you survive?"

The elder told Zhao Rong,

"When the monster had finished with my mother and was about to eat me,

suddenly a hole appeared in the nest,

I fell through it from the very tall tree..."

Yu Lan was amazed and asked the elder,

"Elder, you fell from such a high tree and didn’t die on impact..."

The elder told Yu Lan,

"The soil inside the pit is very soft,

and there’s a thick layer of leaves on top,

so when I fell on it, I broke 7 ribs,

but I didn’t die..."

Beside him, Miss Lili asked curiously,

"Elder, since you fell from the monster’s nest to the ground,

didn’t the monster fly down and keep hunting you?"

The elder nodded and told Miss Lili,

"When I fell to the ground and had just gotten up,

the monster swooped down from the sky and caught me again..."

Miss Xuelian, upon hearing that the elder was caught by the monster a second time,

a drop of cold sweat fell from her forehead as she said nervously,

"Elder, since the monster caught you a second time,

how did you manage to escape?"