Outside, the spring chill was biting, but inside the cave, it was crowded and a bit stuffy.
Every time this donkey brayed, it exhaled a thick mist.
Not just this donkey, all the other draft animals shared the same characteristic; with each breath, they spewed a large amount of white mist.
Clearly, it wasn't the animals breathing; this was the steam engine venting.
"These must be animals from the Inner State, right? They look like animals, but they're actually machines."
Tan Jinxiao shook his head and said, "They can't really be considered from the Inner State; they're like Old Chen's wife — it's hard to say where they're really from.
Some people say they're grown from the ground, some say they come from the water, others say they're transformed from insects. There's chatter that ever since there were people at Three-Head Fork, there have been these creatures too.
