The sight of the roaring blaze Wenren Sheng had built drew another round of admiration from the group.
"Big Brother, you're still the best."
"No matter what we did, we couldn't get a fire going. You got one started in no time."
"Yeah, having fire makes things much easier."
"We can go down from the trees to look for food without fearing those ferocious beasts."
"With this fire, we should make a big bonfire. At least five of them, arranged in a circle."
"Easy for you to say. It's so hot during the day—who could stand five bonfires? Aren't you afraid of heatstroke?"
"Exactly. We're still apes. We don't have modern humans' heat-dissipation systems. We'd be done for."
Other than in water, large animals were generally afraid of heat.
It was not that their endurance was insufficient, but after running long distances for too long, their heat-dissipation systems would fail.
Primitive humans, however, could chase their prey in bursts, stopping and starting again, for days on end until the prey was literally exhausted to death.
Of course, once bows, arrows, and throwing spears were invented, the efficiency became much higher.
No one could stand that many bonfires. More importantly, what were they supposed to do about the devils? "We still need to keep bonfires going, but not that many. Two at most, to keep them from going out."
Everyone chimed in at once.
"Alright, we need to choose an Ape King. A snake cannot go without a head, and people cannot stand without a king."
"Do we even need to choose? The ready-made Suiren King is right in front of us."
Very quickly, the six of them had their Ape King.
Naturally, Wenren Sheng was not particularly pleased with himself.
To him, this was an utterly ordinary matter.
"Our next