"Hm?" Fang Hong frowned at An Xi's words, but when she recalled everything she had seen during their migration, she immediately understood.
She had not paid attention to those things before. She had only felt that there were fewer and fewer animals along the way.
Then they had entered the region engulfed by extreme torrential rain and stayed there for several months, putting those matters completely out of her mind.
Now that it had been brought up, she realized it at once.
"So there aren't any animals left now?" Rather than communicating directly with Fate to ask, she looked at An Xi, who had spoken.
"Not quite." An Xi shook her head. Beside her, Xingzi did not want to let her hold forth in front of Chu Sheng, so she cut in. "There are still animals."
"Otherwise, you would've starved to death in that extreme torrential rain long ago."
"There are plenty of creatures like fish and shrimp, so even with the Anomalies around, their enormous numbers have allowed them to survive."
"The same goes for insects."
"The smaller their bodies, the less life energy they have, and the less attractive they are to Anomalies."
At this point, she paused and glanced at Fang Hong before continuing. "Take ants, for example. Even if they're right under an Anomaly's feet, they won't make it attack them."
"Their bodies are tiny, and they have very little life energy. Even gathered together, their combined life energy can't match that of an ordinary house cat."
"The larger the body, the more life energy it has, and the more attractive it is to Anomalies."
"This rule doesn't just apply to us humans. It applies to animals too."
"You might still see ants, insects, fish, and shrimp in the future, or even small creatures like cockroaches,