A New Species? - 27

The rest of the week passed by in a flash. Before Zhou Fan knew it, it was already friday. As he was putting the last book back on the shelf, he looked at the clock and noticed that it was time to leave. Zhou Fan said goodbye to Lu Chen before he headed home.

When he arrived, Zhou Fan didn't waste any time. He immediately went down the hole and made it back to his beasts.

When they saw him, they all ran to him in excitement. If they were dogs, their tongue would be out, and their tails would be wagging. Zhou Fan had recently come to the conclusion that the beasts were young. Although they were huge, he had a feeling they were almost as young as him.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so easy to tame them. He also wondered where their parents were. Maybe they all died after giving birth? Did the beasts come out of an egg?

Either way, Zhou Fan wasn't too concerned. Since he had the weekend off, Zhou Fan decided to further explore the cave with the beasts.

Although it seemed like he had explored it all last time, Zhou Fan realized that there were a bunch of tunnels that led to unknown places. Perhaps there were hundreds of caves like this.

For a while, Zhou Fan had wondered why no one else had discovered these places. After a short time of thinking, however, he realized that the snakes in the tunnel were enough to kill any trespasser. Even an army.

Also, they were even present in the other tunnels. Now that he was on the topic, Zhou Fan was worried that the snakes would attack the beasts. It would be bothersome to protect them all while traveling. However, Zhou Fan was confident that he could do it.

After resting with the beasts for a while, Zhou Fan decided to waste no more time. He set off to one of the random tunnels. Specifically, the tunnel most opposite to the one he came in through. When he reached the tunnel, Zhou Fan prepared to test out the snake's reaction to the beasts. He sent Zhuque in since he had the best healing ability.

Contrary to his expectations, Zhou Fan was astonished to see that the snakes had no interest in Zhuque. Even when he stepped on them, they wouldn't react. Maybe it's because they were born down here.

Although one could come to the conclusion that the snakes simply didn't attack, Zhou Fan had already tested that.

On Thursday, he threw a deer into the pit. The moment it hit the ground, it was covered, killed, and eaten by the snakes. Hence why Zhou Fan was surprised to see that they didn't attack Zhuque.

When Zhou Fan sent in the rest of the beasts, they still didn't attack. In fact, when Xiaolong stepped in, they started to make a path. Even then, it didn't seem like they were scared of him. It was more like an instinctual reaction.

Since the path was cleared, Zhou Fan lit a fire ball on his palm and walked on the ground with the rest of the beasts. One thing to be amazed at was the fact that there was no poop on the ground. They might just have a poop hole or something.

They continued walking on for an hour before they could see some light at the end of the tunnel. They slightly sped up their pace in anticipation.

When they finally broke through, they were amazed to see a cave the size of the last one. The most obvious difference was the giant crystal hanging from the center of the ceiling. Instead of blue, it shone a green light. The green was similar to the light of healing Zhou Fan created earlier. However, just like the last crystal, it contained no Qi whatsoever.

Another easy to spot difference was that, unlike the previous cave, this one had a single terrain. Forest. It was lush, green, and in the center stood a giant tree. Although the other trees had varying sizes, this one was more than 5 times bigger than the second biggest.

It almost touched the giant green crystal hanging from the ceiling.

All of a sudden, Zhou Fan noticed a wooden arrow shooting at him from afar. Although it seemed slow to him, it was going quite fast. When it reached him, he grabbed it with his hand and started to look at it. As he was doing so, he shot out a massive ball of water in the direction the arrow came from. It wasn't enough to kill the attacker, but it will put them out of commission.

GLULP!

The water hit the area and destroyed a fair amount of trees around it. Zhou Fan was quickly done examining the arrow. It was roughly made, but it could've killed a normal human if it hit them in a vital area.

Zhou Fan signaled to the beasts to go over to the area of impact as he quickly flew there. When he arrived, he noticed three people knocked out on the ground. 2 men and a woman. In fact, he couldn't call them people. Or at least in a human sense.

They looked like most humans he had met and the only difference was their long pointy ears. Examining them, Zhou Fan saw that once again, they contained no Qi in their bodies.

After looking at them for a while, Zhou Fan quickly made up a name, which he was used to by now.

"Elves." He proclaimed.

Although they seemed similar to humans on the outside, Zhou Fan wondered if their insides were the same. Before anything else, Zhou Fan almost wanted to experiment on them. He wondered if like the beasts, they would need their own special kind of Qi.

Or maybe they were similar to humans. At least, what he assumed humans could do. He resisted the faint urge to cut them open and once again splashed water on their faces in order to wake them up. This time, he made it icy cold.