Traveling back to ancient times to determine the zodiac

Things turned out just as everyone expected. The Nian beast was still determined to take revenge and started another round of conquest.

Since the Tiger King went to conquer humans, the Nian Emperor had no source of animal meat. He could only eat the grass offered by the Sheep King, the fish offered by the Dragon King, and the fruit offered by the Monkey King. This made the Nian Emperor very depressed. Finally, he could no longer bear the ascetic life and went out to find small animals to eat. On this day, the Nian Emperor rode the Horse King, with a dog-headed military advisor on the left, a pig-headed guard on the right, and a rabbit following him, and went out to look for food. The Nian Emperor complained on the horse: "The damn Tiger King has been gone for more than ten days, why hasn't he come back? Are they going to eat all the humans before coming back? No matter how delicious they are, they should bring a few back to offer to me to taste."

After saying that, it couldn't help but lick its saliva.

"According to my analysis," the dog-headed military advisor said, "no matter how delicious human flesh is, the tiger king will not eat it all. After all, its mission is to subdue humans and make them its vassal. How dare it go against the will of Emperor Nian and eat them all?"

"According to what I guess, no matter how delicious the Tiger King is, he should bring a few people back to honor Emperor Nian! Otherwise, he will be charged with disobeying orders." The pig guard said, shaking his head.

"Well, what you said makes sense. It seems that if I want to eat human flesh, I still have a chance once the Tiger King comes back." Emperor Nian said, swallowing his saliva.

The beasts came to a plain with abundant grass and trees. There were all kinds of beasts, some were eating grass, some were resting, and some cubs were playing with each other and running around. At this time, Emperor Nian saw an elk and said, "Eel, come to me. I am hungry and want to eat you."

Although Emperor Nian was the king of the animal kingdom, the wild beasts were not so impressed. The elk wanted to eat him, so it naturally ran away. Emperor Nian urged the Horse King to chase him, and the Dog-Headed Military Advisor and the Pig Guards also followed. The elk darted around and suddenly ran towards the Rabbit King.

"You bastard, stop the elk quickly." Emperor Nian gave the order hurriedly.

The rabbit king then raised his long and thick tail, stopped it in front of the elk, and suddenly sprayed poison gas at it. The elk was caught off guard and immediately fell to the ground. Emperor Nian was overjoyed when he saw it: "You little rabbit, you are really good. You poisoned the elk to death with just one fart!"

The Rabbit King was praised and started to brag: "Emperor Nian, what's so great about this? Even if it's an elephant or a lion, I can make it lie down with just one fart."

"I never thought that the Rabbit King has such ability. This makes us look at him with new eyes!" The Dog-Headed Military Advisor was very surprised.

Emperor Nian used his tail to wrap the unconscious elk in his mouth and started to chew it. He finished eating in two or three bites and was about to look for the next prey when a rooster suddenly shouted in the air: "Report! Report to Emperor Nian, it's bad! The tiger king was captured alive by humans, and just like the bull king, he also surrendered to humans!"

"Ah?" Upon hearing this, Emperor Nian was so shocked that he almost fell off his horse. He asked in disbelief, "Tiger King and Cat King were also captured and surrendered. How is this possible?"

"Tiger King and Elvis King are so ferocious and powerful, how could they be defeated by humans?" Dog Head and Pig Head were also extremely surprised.

Before the rooster flew off the horse, he shook his head and sighed, "Nian Di, Dog-headed Pig-headed, at the beginning, I was also optimistic about Tiger King and the others, but the result was unexpected. Ugh——"

"You stupid chicken, keep talking too much. Tell me in detail how the Tiger King conquered humans." Emperor Nian said anxiously.

"I know, Emperor Nian." The rooster saw that Emperor Nian was angry, and hurriedly reported: "The Tiger King had just arrived at the Tianju Cave of humans. Before the attack, he scared a person to death. Then everyone hid in the cave and did not come out. The Tiger King led the crowd to attack the cave, but the humans were waving sticks and clubs and defending desperately. Some cat soldiers and tiger generals who broke into the cave were all beaten to death and thrown out of the cave. The Tiger King had no choice but to retreat outside the cave, hoping that humans would come out of the cave and fight again. After being trapped for two days, humans took fire and set a trap to trap the Tiger King. As a result, the cat king stepped on the trap and collapsed it. The tigers almost caught more than a hundred people, but they finally escaped into the cave. Later, humans set up a fire plan to lure the tigers into the cave and set a fire at the entrance of the cave. The Tiger King and all the tiger generals and cat soldiers were trapped by the fire. In the end, they were forced to surrender."

After hearing this, Emperor Nian took a deep breath and asked in disbelief, "Didn't King Cat and King Tiger boast that they could swallow humans in one bite? How did they get captured?"

“Although the tiger king is fierce and powerful, human fire is more powerful. Once it touches the fire, it will be burned to a crisp and even turned into delicious barbecue.” The rooster explained the reason for his failure.

"The Tiger King has failed, what should we do now?" Emperor Nian lost two capable generals and felt both regretful and frightened.

"Since humans are so difficult to conquer, why not just give up!" The rooster suggested when he saw that Emperor Nian was a little scared.

"Give up?" The dog-headed military advisor said with wide eyes, "Our great Emperor Nian just acknowledges his non-human opponent and is willing to be inferior to humans? Isn't this too much of a letdown for humans?"

"That's right!" The pig-headed guard also found it incredible: "Although we lost Mouse, Bull, Cat King and Tiger King, we still have many capable generals. How can we just give up?"

"Yes. What the Dog-Headed Military Advisor and the Pig-Headed Guard said makes sense. The Nian Emperor is the king of the world, how can he allow humans to be so rampant and disobedient. I swear to trample them under my feet and eat human flesh to taste the freshness." After hearing what the Dog-Headed and Pig-Headed Emperor said, he couldn't help but become ambitious and heroic again.

"Who does the Emperor plan to send now?" asked the rooster.

"Report to Emperor Nian, I think the rabbit king's poison gas is very powerful. As long as the rabbits enter the Tianju Cave when people are sleeping at night, they can poison all the humans to death. This plan will surely succeed." The dog-headed military advisor gave advice.

“Report to Emperor Nian, the Tiger King is no match for humans, let alone me. Please send another beast king.” The Rabbit King had always disliked Emperor Nian's attack on humans, and when he heard that he was recommended to go, he quickly refused.

But the helpless Emperor Nian didn't care much, because at first he wanted to subdue humans and make them his slaves, but now humans are so smart that he feels threatened, so he just wants to eliminate humans from the world. So he nodded and said, "The dog-headed military advisor is right, Rabbit King, didn't you just say that the poison gas is very powerful? Even elephants and lions are no match for you, let alone monkey-like humans? Now you lead your rabbit army to conquer them. If you can poison all humans to death, I will relieve you of all your duties."

"Although my poison gas is powerful, human bows and arrows and fire are more powerful. I am afraid that if I am not shot into a hedgehog, I will be burned into roasted rabbit meat." The Rabbit King couldn't help but regret his previous big talk.

“Hmph! You are afraid of human bows and arrows and fire, but aren’t you afraid of my power?” Seeing that the Rabbit King was still making excuses, Emperor Nian became angry. He twisted his body, rolled up his tail, and lifted the Rabbit King into the air.

"Emperor Nian, please spare my life. I will go. Is it not okay for me to go?" The Rabbit King was so frightened that his limbs were flailing around, and he reluctantly agreed to send troops.

Emperor Nian then abandoned the Rabbit King and rode his horse back to the cave with Doghead and Pighead. The Rabbit King wiped the cold sweat from his head and cursed himself: "I am such a stupid rabbit. I am still boasting about my ability at this time. I am really asking for trouble."

The rooster looked at the rabbit king with his ears drooping and a bitter face, and said, "What are you still standing there for, little rabbit? Get going!"

"Brother Rooster, Emperor Nian sent me, the Rabbit King, to conquer humans, but in fact, he was sending me to my death!"

"Alas! It's Emperor Nian. What else can we do except obey it. Resistance is not an option. You'd better go back to the vast grassland and lead your rabbit soldiers." Although the rooster also hated Emperor Nian's endless conquests, he was also helpless.

The Rabbit King reluctantly returned to the vast grassland and gathered tens of thousands of rabbit spirits and ordinary rabbits. Under the leadership of the rooster, they marched towards Hongmeng in a mighty force.

The Rabbit King and his party walked slowly for more than ten days and finally arrived at the Hongmeng territory. The rooster pointed at the Tianju Cave and said to the Rabbit King: "Brother Rabbit, that is the Tianju Cave of the human beings in front, you can attack it yourself, I will leave first."

"Brother Rooster, why don't you get out of the way first? We are friends, you should lend me a helping hand." said the Rabbit King.

"Brother Rabbit, it's not that I don't have loyalty. When I was fighting against humans with Emperor Nian, I was almost shot through the heart by them. I was so scared that I almost fell from the sky. From then on, I never dared to fight against humans again." The rooster said this, spread his wings, looked helpless, and continued: "In fact, even if I help you, I am powerless to fight against humans!"

"I don't want your help, I just want you to give me courage. After all, more friends mean more strength!" The Rabbit King tried his best to keep him.

"Brother Rabbit, to tell you the truth, if you can beat humans, then fight. If you can't, can't you run away? You rabbits are running champions! Okay, I have to run away." After the rooster said this, he flapped his wings and flew towards the hill again.

The Rabbit King looked at the Tianju Cave, but he still felt timid. He turned to his rabbit spirits and complained, "Damn Emperor Nian, you sent us to conquer humans. Our poison gas is only used for self-defense and has never been used to attack other animals. How can we fight this war?"

"Rabbit King, things have come to this point. If we don't fight, Emperor Nian will definitely not let us go. We'd better just go ahead!" a gray rabbit spirit advised.

"Alas! I'm afraid our scalps are not as tough as human bows and arrows!" The Rabbit King was worried, but he could only muster up his courage and lead his troops to attack.

After humans subdued the Tiger King and the Cat Queen, Qiu strictly ordered people not to go out without permission. At the same time, he still sent out two groups of team members to patrol every day to prevent the Nian Beast from sending its beast army to attack again.

That afternoon, two groups were sent out for inspection: one group was led by Dong and consisted of 50 people including Xi, Bei, Zhong, Shugen, Ye, Heizi, etc.; the other group was led by Xiaoxing and consisted of 50 people including Xia, Chen, Yue, Ri, Feng, Yun, Lei, Dian, etc. The two groups were heading towards the rat-catching hill when they suddenly found dust flying ahead and a large group of animals rolling quickly towards the Tianju Cave.

"Oh no! Another army of beasts is attacking! Everyone, run!" Xi looked up, saw it first and shouted.

"Woo-woo--" Dong hurriedly blew the horn to notify everyone to return to the cave.

"Oh my God! Such a large group, I wonder what kind of beast king it may be?" The person screamed.

"Everyone, quickly pick up your weapons and prepare for battle." Xiaoxing quickly picked up the bow and arrow and prepared for battle, while shouting, "Just in case, everyone slowly retreat back to the cave."

Just as everyone was about to retreat, Dong suddenly said, "Wait, don't retreat in a hurry. The beast army coming this time seems to be rabbits."

"Yes, that's right. It's a large group of rabbits." Tree roots, leaves and others saw clearly that what were moving quickly were no longer ferocious large beasts, but a group of small animals.

"Rabbits are herbivores. They don't have horns or fangs. Why should we be afraid of them?" Dong put the bow and arrow on his back, waved the stone axe, and continued, "We will wait for the rabbits to come here. We haven't gone out hunting recently, so it's a good time to hunt some rabbits to eat."

"Brother Dong is right. Other animals may be scary, but there is nothing to be afraid of with rabbits. Besides, what I am best at is beating rabbits. I can kill one with one stick, so I am not afraid of more than them." Xi followed disapprovingly.

"Haha, brothers, so many rabbits are here to die. We can roast them or stew them. We can eat them however we want." The tree roots were so happy that they forgot themselves.

"It would be great if the Nian beast would send an army of beasts like mice and rabbits in the future. We can have meat to eat without having to go hunting." Shu Ye smiled as he thought about the delicious roasted rabbit meat.

"Damn it, I guess the Nian beast is at its wits' end and has no generals to send out. So it sent the rabbits with no attack power to fight us. Ha ha ha..." Dong also laughed.

"Hahaha..." All the members of Dong's group laughed, not taking the rabbits seriously at all.

"Brother Dong, although rabbits are not scary, we should still go back to the cave to report to the cave master, and then lead more brothers to hunt and kill them." Xiaoxing from the group here felt that doing so was a bit risky.

"Xing, if you are scared, go back first. We will defeat the rabbits first and then go back." Dong looked at Xiaoxing and said sarcastically.

"Well, let's go back and report to the cave master first." Xiaoxing said, and led his team back to the cave.