Chapter Seventy-Five: Bartering
"Hey, the dignified agents of the organization have actually fallen into the field where they are bullied by a group of monkeys on this deserted island, they are really speechless." Louis held his head to avoid the debris flying towards his face, and retreated behind him with a smile and a smile.
"Haha, don't you think you're all asking for this?" Olivia laughed.
"Rather than attack, it is better to outwit, first, you see this group of monkeys, if they want to drink the water in the coconut, they can't catch it with their own claws, they must use some kind of tool to chisel it. Second, the place where they eat the coconut must be on the ground, and it is impossible to carry such a bulky coconut up the tree. We might as well follow them and see what is going on, and it's never too late to find an opportunity to do so. Katyusha analyzed.
"Observe the nuance, let's go." Hugh slung the last pack full of cans on his back, not wanting the only food to fall into the hands of the monkeys.
After the monkeys had succeeded in "driving Louis out" of their fruits, the six sturdy male monkeys approached the coconut, and one by one they picked him up, and because the weight of the coconut limited their speed, they watched vigilantly the movements of the agent team, while the monkeys gradually surrounded them, blocking them in front of them, covering the porters to slowly move in the direction of the bushes.
"I really know how to divide labor and work as a team." Hugh couldn't help but sigh.
"Monkeys are almost the smartest animals on the planet, apart from dolphins and parrots, and in some ways surpass the former." Katyusha saw the monkey's actions and felt amused and praised.
The members of the special agent team followed the back of the monkeys, pushed aside the thick bushes like the wall, chopped the thorns, and walked forward for a long time, an oval-shaped clearing appeared in front of them, and the ground was a potholed rock, with different edges and corners, only to see a male monkey holding a coconut towards a protruding edge and smashing it hard, the surface of the coconut soon appeared a depression, under its continuous efforts to knock, a wisp of clear coconut water gushed out from the crack, the monkey quickly stopped tapping, and turned the coconut upside down, Holding it on top of his head and leaning his neck, he continued the endless stream of good drinks, and after drinking it for a hearty drip, he handed it to his companion next to him and shared it.
"It's such a bunch of smart monkeys, they're all fumbling around how to use their tools." Louis lamented. "In a few million years, they should evolve into species as intelligent as we are."
"I'm more concerned with quenching my thirst than with the future direction of this race." Olivia looked at the monkey enjoying his drink, wondering how to get his hands on the coconut.
"Why don't you try this?" Hugh said as he lowered his backpack to the ground and took out a can of green beans from it and uncovered it: "You retreat back, I want to use this as bait to invite them to come and taste it, you need to keep a certain distance from them, in case you are afraid to frighten them and dare not come closer." ”
Hugh said and grabbed a handful of green beans into his hand, sprinkled them on the monkeys in front of them, the monkeys saw this little green thing on the ground, and couldn't help but pick it up curiously and put it in their mouths, chewing slowly, they had never seen this kind of food in most of their lives on this island, not to mention the delicious food that had been processed, the taste of green beans quickly conquered their sense of taste, and the monkeys began to look at Hugh in front of them after eating the beans on the ground, with an unfinished expression.
This time, Hugh strategically did not scatter the beans at the monkeys, but distributed them in the open space in front of him, hoping to distance himself from the monkeys so that he could carry out the plan smoothly.
After a moment of hesitation, a few bold monkeys tried to get closer and began to pick up green beans on the ground, while most of the monkeys remained vigilant and waited and watched, watching the situation unfold.
True to the old saying: the early bird gets worms, and the same applies to the monkeys, after finding that there is no danger in running up to eat the beans, the monkeys gradually surround them, but there are not many green beans left on the ground, and they have become the food of the first monkeys who tried it.
The monkeys looked at Hugh and the half of the canned green beans in his hand with expectant eyes again, and it was so easy that the monkeys' vigilance against Hugh was completely eliminated, and at the same time they were conquered by the green beans in his hand. From the beginning when Louis begged for the coconut in the hands of the monkeys, to the monkeys begging for the beans in Hugh's hands, Hugh has firmly taken the initiative into his own hands.
This time, Hugh no longer gave green beans to the monkeys for free, but pointed to the coconuts behind the monkeys, stretched out his right palm forward and made a asking gesture, and then pointed to his canned green beans with his finger, moved his right palm to the top of the can, and made a grabbing and scattering action, indicating exchange.
Most of the monkeys tilted their heads and scratched their cheeks to look at Hugh, staying indifferent and incomprehensible to Hugh's sign language, and the two lean monkeys in the monkey group, with aura flashing in their eyes, seemed to realize something, ran towards the coconut behind them, held a large round coconut and sent it forward, and pushed it in front of Hugh, looking forward to exchanging green beans with Hugh.
"Monkey spirits, monkey spirits, let's say these guys, even the concept of bartering in primitive society has mastered, they are really not simple." Katyusha exclaimed.
Hugh first took the coconut, and then fulfilled the principle of good dealing, and threw the canned green beans in his hand on the heads of the monkeys, and the whole group of monkeys immediately boiled, running around searching for the green beans on the ground and putting them in their mouths, enjoying them to their contentment.
"This one coconut seems to be a little less, it's not enough for the four of us to drink, let's have another one!" Louis suggested later.
"I'm also drunk, why didn't I say it earlier? Wasting a box of green beans in vain, if only I had lost half of it. Hugh took out another box of canned green beans and opened it, and waited for the monkeys to finish eating the beans and then exchanged them for a coconut.
At this time, a female wild boar with four little piglets, appeared in the jungle behind the monkey group, generally speaking, wild boars with cubs, due to the heart of the child, their temperament is generally more irritable and irritable, the monkeys do not dare to provoke easily.