usatvline Chapter 724 The Mischievous Monkey of Mount Emei
Chapter 724 The Mischievous Monkey of Mount Emei
After a somewhat difficult conversation, Cangnian gained a general understanding of the situation in the mountain city.
As for why it is somewhat difficult, it can only be said that most people in the Sichuan and Chongqing areas are really only used to the southwestern dialect. The older generation rarely speaks Mandarin, and only young people are used to speaking Mandarin.
In short, the situation in the mountain city is a bit complicated.
On the one hand, the mountain city did a pretty good job in gathering and protecting survivors.
The Yuzhou area originally had a population of over 30 million, but the urban structure of the mountain city was too complex, and before the spiritual energy was restored, it was jokingly called an "8D three-dimensional city".
Therefore, one can imagine how devastating the earthquake was during the first spiritual energy revival tide.
Fortunately, due to the city's topography, the buildings in the mountain city are extremely resistant to interference. Although they couldn't withstand the earthquake, at least a significant number of people were saved—more than 10 million out of a total of 30 million were saved.
In addition to the survivors from the mountain city, survivors from several surrounding major states were gradually absorbed, bringing the population close to forty million!
What surprised Cang Nian was that the survivors of Rongcheng in Shuzhou, which he planned to spend a lot of time searching for, had all moved to the mountain city survivor base.
But thinking about it, it makes sense. Shuzhou is the most populous of the four southwestern provinces of the Dragon Kingdom. Without the large-scale migration of survivors from Shuzhou, the mountain city survivor base could not have reached such a scale.
As for why Chengdu was incorporated into the mountain city survivor base, it was because of the monkey troop on Mount Emei.
It is said that the concentration of spiritual energy in Mount Emei is much higher than that in the surrounding areas for some unknown reason, and as a result, powerful evolved creatures emerge one after another.
After a period of internal strife, the other evolved creatures were defeated, and the mischievous monkeys of Mount Emei became the mountain's masters.
By the time the survivors of the mountain city discovered it, there were already more than a dozen fifth-level experts among that group of mischievous monkeys.
Keep in mind, that was before the second spiritual energy revival tide.
In the entire Shu Prefecture, only a few senior experts, through decades of rigorous training, have been able to progress by leaps and bounds, evolving to the fifth rank earlier than other evolved creatures.
However, that's not all. The official survivors of Shuzhou, led by Rongcheng, are quite tolerant of evolved creatures.
If communication is possible, then friendly negotiations are possible.
However, the monkeys turned out to be unruly and unruly. Anyone who went up Mount Emei would be surrounded and played with by a group of monkeys. Once they got tired of playing with them, they would be thrown off the mountain, showing an attitude that was completely impossible to communicate with.
If that's all there is to it, then the Chengdu authorities can accept it.
However, seemingly finding humans amusing, the monkeys actually ran down the mountain, caused a ruckus in Chengdu for a while, and then left triumphantly.
The survivors of Shu Prefecture were powerless to fight back, and they all suffered terribly.
The only advantage is that those mischievous monkeys only play around and don't kill anyone; at most, they might accidentally injure someone if they don't control their strength properly.
The biggest problem is that those monkeys are all bandits. They steal everything they can get their hands on, and because of their large numbers, they ruin all of Chengdu's supplies every time they come down the mountain.
That's right, they might not be able to finish all that food, but it's just for fun.
After that, unable to tolerate the unruly nature of the monkeys any longer, the Chengdu authorities unanimously agreed to relocate them to the mountain city.
Originally, the distance between Chongqing and Chengdu, two new first-tier megacities, was not far.
Therefore, less than two months after the first spiritual energy revival tide, the two cities established contact.
However, due to some historical issues, although they were originally one family, the survivors of the two large states did not submit to each other and never thought about merging the cities.
The incident involving the mischievous monkeys on Mount Emei forced Chengdu officials to swallow their pride and seek protection from the mountain city.
As for why the Chengdu authorities felt that Chongqing had the power to protect them, we have to go back to Zhu Niangzi.
The bamboo maiden originally grew in a small park in the mountain city. On the night of the first spiritual energy revival tide, a bolt of lightning struck down, turning the entire bamboo forest on the ground into charcoal, leaving only a bamboo shoot that had not yet sprouted.
Then, the bamboo shoot broke through and grew rapidly under the tide of spiritual energy revival, its vigorous vitality causing it to continuously spread its range.
It started as a small park, then covered a block, and by the time the survivors of the mountain city noticed it, it had already covered nearly half of the district.
At first, the survivors of the mountain city were afraid of it because there had been many cases of evolved plants eating people or being injured or even killed because of their special abilities.
Many people suggested burning it before it grew large enough to threaten anyone.
However, Luo Yun, the strongest young evolver in the mountain city, felt that bamboo was a plant of noble character and should not be bloodthirsty, so he hoped to give this bamboo forest a chance.
At that time, the Bamboo Maiden had already evolved to the third stage. Even though the intelligence of evolved plants was obviously inferior to that of evolved animals, many things were already understandable.
When Luo Yun pleaded for her life, Zhu Niangzi shook her bamboo leaves to indicate that she would not hurt anyone.
If it weren't for being bamboo, with its incredibly strong trunk, it would have even wanted to kneel down and beg for mercy.
Fortunately, even with such an abstract expression, Luo Yun's words gained the trust of more people, allowing Zhu Niangzi to be preserved.
Then, the bamboo maiden grew taller and taller, and more and more bamboo plants sprouted from it. When it reached the fifth level, it completely covered the main urban area of the mountain city.
Because of its vast coverage area, Bamboo Maiden simply inhales and exhales spiritual energy from the air, naturally resulting in an incredibly fast cultivation speed.
This makes it much faster than all evolved plants, and also significantly faster than evolved beings and evolved animals.
Considering the amount of evolutionary resources required for its evolution as an evolved plant, its ability to naturally grow to the late stage of the fifth rank is nothing short of miraculous.
In order to repay Luo Yun and the survivors of the mountain city for sparing her life, Zhu Niangzi naturally became the guardian deity of the mountain city.
Furthermore, because the bamboo maiden, a large evolved plant, is extremely effective at absorbing spiritual energy, and it can only absorb a small amount of spiritual energy per unit area, it is essentially comparable to a large spirit-gathering array, making the spiritual energy concentration in the mountain city much higher than that in the surrounding area.
Within the Bamboo Maiden's coverage area, no creature that it forbids from entering can get in.
In addition, it is quite domineering, and the surrounding evolved plants will retreat as much as it expands outward.
In fact, the Bamboo Maiden didn't mind at all that the survivors of the mountain city were cutting down the bamboo in the bamboo forest, nor did she mind that they were digging up bamboo shoots to eat.
Because, for the bamboo maiden, its entire body consists of thousands upon thousands of bamboo stalks, cutting down a few bamboo stalks or digging up a few bamboo shoots is as insignificant as a person losing a few hairs.
It was precisely because of this that the mountain city became a very safe base for survivors, and Rongcheng sought refuge there.
Many survivors in Rongcheng complained that no powerful evolved plant expert had emerged in their city, but instead they were surrounded by a bunch of mischievous monkeys!
unfair!