This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1556 - 670 Jie Lin Survival Manual

After exchanging some information with the Cammings family, Mu You’s injuries had recovered significantly, allowing him to move around, but he didn’t rush to leave. Instead, he followed this family of four, wandering around the fourth layer, continuing to collect antidote materials, and learning the survival techniques of Jie Lin along the way.

"Don’t resist the ecosystem here; instead, try to integrate into it."

This was the survival secret Cammings told him before they set off.

Every creature in Jie Lin has its own position and role. The entire ecosystem is essentially a large symbiotic system, where organisms perform their duties, forming a stable closed loop.

As an external species, humans wanting to join this symbiotic system should not destroy it, but carefully feel the rules of this ecosystem, find a place where they can participate without affecting the overall ecology, comply with the ecological needs, help with what they can do first, and then think about harvesting what they need. This way, they will not be excluded by this closed-loop ecosystem.

["The Moon Butterfly does not actually reject foreign species and even welcomes their addition. Within seven steps, there is bound to be an antidote. This principle of balance between mutual generation and restraint is vividly reflected in these jungles. As long as you observe carefully, you will not encounter a real dead end in this jungle," said Cammings.]

In the following three days, Mu You silently followed this family, learning the survival skills of the fourth layer and gradually understanding their survival strategy.

Cammings was right. To survive here, one must first admit their weakness, lower their stance, align with those lower-grade creatures, observe, imitate, and learn their ways of survival.

Finding the pattern and then utilizing the rules is always the most efficient survival path for humans.

[Moonlight shone through the jagged treetops, falling on the soft moss, draping this mysterious land in a silken silver veil. In the jungle ahead, a giant creature with spines on its back and deer antlers on its head quietly hid behind a bush, leisurely grazing.]

The deer-antlered hippo, a creature unique to the fourth layer of Jie Lin, is a docile herbivore similar to cattle and sheep, generally not initiating attacks on other creatures. Due to its large size and delicious meat, it was the hunting target of the Cammings family today.

Mu You did not intervene, hiding in the distant forest silently observing the actions of the four.

Among the four, Cammings, as the head of the family, naturally took on the most important task, crawling through the grass in the dark, quietly approaching the hippo.

Cammings stopped several meters in front of the hippo, reached into the nearby grass nest to search, and pulled out a long, strange fish, then forcibly squeezed its belly.

The strange fish immediately let out a scream similar to a tortured chicken, echoing mournfully for a long time in the jungle.

The hippo, which was grazing ahead, immediately looked up, constantly emitting threatening grunts from its mouth, stomping its feet violently.

Cammings remained unmoved, continuing to squeeze the strange fish. After three repetitions, the hippo was finally enraged, its spines stood up one by one, its eyes blood-red, charging towards Cammings’ position.

Cammings quickly threw away the strange fish and retreated to the distance. At the same time, from deeper within the forest, two more cries of strange fish were heard consecutively.

The charging hippo naturally changed direction, continuing towards the source of the sound.

In this manner, the hippo was lured by the three people in turns, quickly leading it into the trap area they had preset.

The older brother, Mile, stood in front of a forbidden wood, wearing a mechanical illumination lamp on his head and holding a mechanical claw in his right hand.

When the furious hippo charged over, Mile immediately activated the device on his head, a beam of intense light shot out, shining into the hippo’s eyes. The hippo howled, its eyes stung, its vision a blur, yet instinctively launched itself towards Mile, as fast as lightning.

Mile hurriedly activated the device in his hand, the mechanical claw shot out, grabbing onto the trunk of the nearby forbidden wood, carrying Mile away.

In the next moment, the hippo, carrying immense kinetic energy, collided head-on with the sturdy forbidden wood. The result was that the forbidden wood remained unmoved, while the hippo’s antlers were broken and fell off.

The hippo, having lost its antlers, let out a wail, its vitality quickly dissipating, soon dying out.

[After the hunt, the four gathered around the prey but did not immediately touch the deer-antlered hippo. Instead, they bowed their heads silently, waiting until worm cocoons formed on the hippo’s corpse, blue Spirit Butterflies flew out and away, and the chrysalises disappeared. Only then did they begin to collect the prey...]

Mu You observed the entire hunting process. The two illumination and claw grasping devices used by the boy were tools detached from the armor left by a Mechanic.

In fact, his usage was incorrect. This mechanical claw itself is a lethal weapon. If Mu You used the Mechanical Heart to control this claw, it could activate many more functions, rendering the complicated process unnecessary, and allowing the hippo to be killed directly with the claw.

However, Mu You did not voice a reminder. The hunting method of this family of four relied not on the tools but on their division of labor and cooperation. Even without the aid of these two mechanical devices, they could find other means of replacement.

After observing the family’s hunting for a few days, Mu You fully understood that here, the human body is indeed at the bottom layer, perhaps never becoming the apex of the food chain like the wild men, but with wisdom a notch above other creatures, and the ability to use tools, they can still survive better than most of the creatures in Jie Lin.