Quchi Nest was the largest nest of the hillfolk.
The hillfolk had no concept of buildings. To them, expanding their living space required nothing more than eating. Living space naturally kept expanding along with the growth of the population. Never had anyone heard of hillfolk being troubled by the matter of "houses."
In truth, from this perspective, this group of living beings had never really needed to form any so-called "society." Whether humans or wolves, all animals with social traits lived in groups in order to raise the efficiency of obtaining food through division of labor and cooperation—whether fishing, hunting, or gathering, cooperation was more efficient than fighting alone.
But for the ancestors of the hillfolk, division of labor and cooperation had been utterly unnecessary. To them, the entire world of hills had been edible. Their foraging efficiency had been full from the very beginning.
By common sense, if the ancestors of the hillfolk had truly needed a direction for evolution, it would most likely have been larger mouths and more efficient digestive organs.
But evolution, more often than not, truly came down to "randomness." There was never any shortage of "black swans" in the animal kingdom.
The ancestors of the hillfolk had been such a "black swan." During their evolution, a strange tendency had emerged—avoiding internal conflict.
For the ancestors of the hillfolk, the only thing here that could threaten them had turned out to be their own kind. It truly was so. Within the hills, every living thing could survive by devouring the earth, so there had initially been no pure predators. Yet there would always be members of the same race who fought over inexplicable things such as "territory."
In that process, individuals with enough intelligence to restrain their subjective emotions and avoid meaningless battles possessed a