The few people on the city wall felt their skin crawl under the gazes of those black Golden Crows.
One of them could hold back no longer. He drew his sword, and a streak of sword light shot out!
"Poof!"
A black Golden Crow was cleaved in two. The other Golden Crows took flight, circled once high in the sky, then settled again not far away.
"These birds make people uncomfortable," the swordsman said coldly.
"Their intelligence is low. Naturally, they're like this," another person said.
"Since the Golden Crow Race is a great race capable of contending with humanity, their intelligence doesn't seem very high," Luo Zheng asked curiously.
Though these people were more highly cultivated than Luo Zheng, they were not as hostile toward him as Lin Hui had been. The swordsman chuckled and said, "If every Golden Crow had intelligence on par with our human race, our human race would have been wiped out long ago."
Humanity lacked the innate gifts of those alien races, and its ability to reproduce was not especially strong either. Its only advantage was that every individual possessed intelligence.
Even ordinary mortals who could not tie up a chicken possessed far greater intelligence than many powerful alien races.
By comparison, whether Golden Crows, Ear Rats, or the countless strange races in the Mother World, only a minority possessed intelligence. The vast majority lived by instinct.
"That makes sense," Luo Zheng said with a nod.
Including Luo Zheng and Su Kuan, there were ten people on the city wall in all.
After Lin Hui left, the atmosphere relaxed. As they chatted with one another, they gradually became familiar.
The young man who had drawn his sword earlier was named Lu Ren. He was also from a prestigious family and had reportedly already been