Chapter 42: Finding the Tunnel
"Of course it's true? I'll let you go when you're done. Yang Fan said confidently.
"Hurry up, hurry up and sue me. Pangolin asked happily.
"I heard there's a tunnel here that leads to the outside of the prison, as long as you find me the entrance. Yang Fan thought it was very simple.
"Huh, find an entrance to a hole, why don't you let me dig a hole for you. The pangolin said angrily.
"Well, you can dig a hole in the ground, that's what you're doing anyway. Yang Fan thought it was easy for pangolins to dig holes.
The pangolin fell directly backwards, fell to the ground and fainted.
"What's the matter, little pangolin?" Yang Fan was taken aback, and hurriedly picked up the pangolin, swayed left and right, and after a long time, the pangolin woke up leisurely.
"I'm just a pangolin, not a pangolin, I can only dig a small hole in the ground, I can't make it like you said, you might as well stew me and eat it." "The pangolins are also out of the way.
After listening to the words of the pangolin, Yang Fan felt that he was thinking too naΓ―ve, and it seemed that digging a hole was not so easy. So Yang Fan gave a good word to appease the pangolin's affection.
"Since you can't dig a hole, you can find it. Yang Fan asked.
"You can find it, but it's so big, I don't think I'll have to have a year if not two years on my own. "Pangolins aren't stupid at all.
"What can I do then?" Yang Fan scratched his head, "It's better to forget it, it seems that you don't want to go back, so it's better to stay with me all the time." β
"Don't worry, let me think, let me think. "Pangolins use their brains. "Why don't I go catch an ant and ask them to help find it?"
Yang Fan heard it and said, "Good idea! Hurry up." β
As soon as the words came out, Yang Fan thought again, "You don't want to slip away, if you are not honest, I will catch you again in the future, and you will definitely peel your skin and cramp." β
"Don't dare, don't dare, I'll come back honestly, I won't leave until I find the cave. The pangolin swore to the sky.
"What's the use of swearing, it's not counted when it's done. Yang Fan didn't believe it at all.
"Ah, don't you know that animal oaths can't be made out of order? The pangolin's face was full of surprise.
"What's the origin, let's hear about it?" Yang Fan asked curiously.
"There is a legend among us animals that if we make an oath that we will be punished by God, this is true, so animals dare not swear unscrupulously. Pangolin explained.
"What else do you say?" Yang Fan had never heard of this, but it didn't seem like the pangolin was lying, so he let the pangolin go in disbelief.
The pangolin kept its word, and after about half an hour, it came back, and then opened its mouth, and a long red tongue stuck out, and it was crawling with ants.
As soon as the ants saw the light, they immediately crawled down the pangolin's tongue, for fear that one of them would be swallowed by the pangolin without noticing.
"Tell them yourself, they don't believe me no matter what I say, so they have to bring them here. Pangolin said.
Yang Fan climbed to the ground, and then whispered: "Little ants, don't be afraid, I came to ask for your help." β
But the ants were frightened by the pangolins, and they sprang around on the ground and fled in all directions.
Yang Fan crawled on the ground and communicated with the ants for a long time, but he couldn't calm the ants.
When the pangolin saw this, he thought, "That's not going to work." So it yelled, "Silence me." β
Then he stretched out his long tongue to intimidate the ants, and this trick worked, and the ants were so frightened that they gathered together and hugged into a big ball.
"Don't be afraid, I'm a good man, and I promise the pangolins won't eat you, but who among you can come out and talk to me. Yang Fan calmed down and asked the ants.
The ants finally calmed down in the chaos, and now they saw Yang Fan speak, and after a while, a circle of ants larger than usual came out, "Respected humans, we are good neighbors living together, I don't know where we offended you and asked you to bring us here." β
"No, no, I just have something for you to help with, and as you just said, we are good neighbors. Yang Fan was afraid of scaring these tiny creatures.
"Is there something for us to help?" the ant froze for a moment, in its eyes, humans were simply omnipotent and god-like beings, but now there was something for them to help, it was really unexpected.
"What's the matter?" asked the ant cautiously.
"That's right, I'm looking for a tunnel right now, but I can't find it myself, so I need your help now. Yang Fan stated his purpose.
"Dear human beings, this task you mentioned is too big for us, although we have a large number of races, but in this weather, we have to prepare food for winter, if we delay it now, we will starve to death in winter. Besides, finding a tunnel requires the consent of our mother, I can't decide. The ants spoke out about their difficulties.
"The food problem is easy to solve, I can help you find some food, and then put it at the entrance of your cave, so that you can save your time looking for food, and you can find me a tunnel with peace of mind." Yang Fan came up with a good solution.
"Dear human being, if it is really as you say, I can go and ask our Mother Emperor to see if it agrees. When the ants heard that there was such a good thing, of course they were happy.
"Okay, I'll let the pangolin send you back again, and you can ask for advice. Then come back and sue me. Yang Fan said.
"No, no," the ant immediately rejected the mention as soon as it was about to return to the pangolin's tongue, joking, in case it accidentally swallowed and foamed, and a swarm of ants would enter its stomach.
So the ants resolutely did not sit on the tongue of the pangolin, and Yang Fan saw that the ants insisted on walking by themselves, so he was not reluctant.
So Yang Fan and the pangolin crawled on the ground and watched the ants walk with big eyes, and after a long time, a group of ants had not yet walked out of the sight of the two of them, and the pangolin couldn't wait, and roared loudly: "I'm hungry, I want to eat ants." As soon as the sentence was finished, the ants' buttocks were like riding rockets, and a group of ants changed their slow and leisurely appearance in the past, and they all ran away.
Yang Fan opened his mouth wide in surprise, "It turns out that ants can run so fast." β