"This place really is strange." Uchiha Madara said to Xing En, "It's my first time seeing such bizarre houses. Are these really places for people to live?"
Uchiha Madara looked at the towering buildings and asked, "How do these people get up there? Are their bodies built differently from humans?"
"Completely differently," Xing En said. "It's a pity you won't get to see it, Uncle Madara. The race I discovered is so fascinating—I really wanted you to see it."
Before the two of them even reached the village entrance, Uchiha Madara had already sensed two monkeys underground ahead. The monkeys were lying in ambush beneath the earth, seemingly waiting for their prey to appear.
"Come out. Stop hiding," Xing En said with a smile, having sensed the two monkeys as well. "There's no point hiding from the two of us. Do you really think we can't see you?"
"Why are you shouting at monkeys?" Uchiha Madara asked Xing En speechlessly. "Do you really think monkeys can understand what you're saying?"
Just as Uchiha Madara and Xing En were talking, two monkeys really did burrow out of the ground.
They were two monkeys capable of walking upright, their bodies pitch-black.
Whenever Uchiha Madara saw animals of this color, he usually assumed they had been demonized. Yet although the two monkeys before him were indeed black, he could not sense any demonic aura from them.
"These seem to be just two ordinary monkeys," Uchiha Madara said to Xing En. "At the very least, I can be certain now that they haven't been demonized." Uchiha Madara smiled at Xing En.
"Was that a coincidence?" Xing En asked Uchiha Madara. "The moment I told those two monkeys to come out, they burrowed up. That's completely different from what I imagined."
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