Chapter 80: Luring the Snake Out of the Hole (1)
Zhang Le struggled to sit up, he could still feel a burst of weakness, and touched his body up and down, fortunately, all parts were still there, especially what made Zhang Le happy was that the energy fluctuations in his body were back.
When the three monkeys saw that Zhang Le could already sit up, they jumped and jumped happily, and their mouths let out excited shouts. Although he couldn't understand what they were saying, from this moment on, Zhang Le decided to regard these monkeys as his true friends.
The language is still incomprehensible, but this does not prevent Zhang Le from communicating with the three mandrills, because he has already had the experience of an exchange, and this communication has become smoother. After various sign language and movement imitations, Zhang Le and Shan Xiao both got a rough understanding of each other's situation.
The tribe led by the three mandrills is the actual controller of the forest section of the Northern Trade Road, and their group has become very powerful at present, due to the relationship between often eating high-level dominant mutant creatures, the mandrill tribe has more and more big people, and the strength of the tribe is getting stronger and stronger.
The IQ of the three leader mandrills is no worse than that of ordinary humans, and they actually know how to unite. After they became stronger, they accepted other populations of monkeys to join the mandrill tribe, and now the monkey tribe with the mandrill population as the core has become one of the largest forces in the rainforest of the entire Zaire River basin.
When the three mandrills learned about Zhang Le's experience of escaping from the giant python, they all showed expressions of disbelief. Of course, with Zhang Le's body language, he can't explain the process of fighting with the Super Python King, so he can only say a rough idea.
In the next few days, Zhang Le recuperated in the residence of the three leaders, the mandrills.
The information hormone network connection at the level of the insect king has an extremely long "communication" distance, and two days later, when Zhang Le, who had recovered most of his body, climbed to the top of the canopy of the forest giant tree, he actually contacted the caterpillar. I don't know how the caterpillar communicates with Jesse, anyway, according to the information from the caterpillar, Ms. Jesse already knows the news that Zhang Le is still alive.
After another two days, Zhang Le's body completely recovered. Zhang Le didn't dare to go on that bridge anymore, but it didn't make any sense to detour directly from the upper reaches of the river to Huiximu Town, after all, the problem of the interruption of the trade route was still not solved.
In the eyes of the leader Shanman, the forest is their territory, and Zhang Le naturally can't explain to them the meaning of commodity circulation and human existence, so he can only find a way to impress them in another way.
Limited by the expressive power of body language, Zhang Le even had to start teaching these monkeys simple human language. Unexpectedly, this random idea was so popular, especially the combination of words, language and pictures with the professor's method made the group of monkeys enthusiastic.
According to Zhang Le's idea, the biggest difference between these intelligent human primate relatives and humans is the use of words, and there is no essential difference between human beings in the processing of simple things in daily life.
Teaching a new language is naturally as vivid as possible, as simple as possible, as the only hieroglyphic script still in use in the world, Chinese, as a popular language of an intelligent race is the most suitable. Every night after the monkeys returned from hunting, Zhang Le held a night school literacy class for the monkeys under the light of torches.
The literacy classes were effective, and although the vocal cords of monkeys were different from those of humans, the sounds produced were still recognizable. The monkeys' enthusiasm for learning is high and the results are remarkable.
A few days later, when Zhang Le went out, he could already hear the enthusiastic monkeys greeting him: "Have you eaten?" Zhang Le nodded and responded: "Eat!" Eaten! ”
A week later, Professor Zhang Le's class began to enter the intermediate level, and the content was no longer just about daily communication, but also involved weapons and combat, goods and commerce. At present, the most used weapons of the Mandrill tribe are still hardwood sharpened spears, or log long sticks, which are very rudimentary.
When Zhang Le used black charcoal to draw a long sword on a giant tree that had been stripped of its skin, the three leaders of the mandrills were immediately moved. Of course, they had seen this kind of human weapon, and it was carried by caravans, and at first, the monkeys had suffered from this weapon, but later, the addition of giant mandrills made this sharp short weapon useless. But the benefits of such weapons can be seen by all.
In the new class, Zhang Le also talked about the simple way of trading, bartering.
After class, Mandrill Chief Da Hei deliberately approached Zhang Le to find out how to get these weapons. In order to facilitate communication, Zhang Le deliberately named the three leaders mandrills Dahei, Erhei and Sanhei. Hearing Da Hei's question, Zhang Le secretly breathed a sigh of relief, after tossing for so many days, it finally came to fruition. Although it is also beneficial for the monkeys to let the monkeys trade things with humans, Zhang Le can only let the monkeys choose this matter on their own initiative, but cannot specifically guide them to do so. Because Zhang Le can't predict whether this matter will be good or bad in the future, whether it is for humans or monkeys.
As the representative of the Mandrill tribe and the core member of the Super Human Alliance, Zhang Le got in touch with the caravan from the north stranded at the edge of the forest.
Trading with the monkey tribe that hindered the caravan was naturally good news for humans. One reason is that there are so many resources that humans need in the forest, but another important reason is that monkeys no longer interfere with the operation of trade routes. It's a win-win plan. A few days later, the first trade fair was held on the side of the trade road, on the northern edge of the forest. Weapons, salt, spices, and daily necessities are most popular with the Mandrill Monkey Tribe, while a variety of dominant mutant foods are warmly welcomed by caravans and hunters.
At the end of the fair, both parties were satisfied, and Zhang Le, as the only translator, also made an intermediary fee.
Without the threat of the monkey tribe, half of the business road is opened, but how to get through the remaining half is as difficult as the sky.
In the past few days, in addition to occasionally contacting the caterpillar and reporting to Jesse that he is safe, the rest is to kill the giant python everywhere.
The average length of the python in the swamp area is about thirty meters, larger than the juvenile, smaller than the adult, and the strength is very strong, and there is no one in the hunters in the northern detention point of the entire trade route that can be opposed.
After losing energy fluctuations last time and suffering a big loss in the Black Forest, Zhang Le learned from the pain and decided to stop relying on external forces as much as possible, and rely more on the physical strength of his body to fight with mutated creatures. The strength of the giant python is already extremely large, not to mention that this giant python is still a different species. But Zhang Le's strength has already broken through the level of normal super humans, and compared with the giant python, he is not inferior at all, and he completely crushes the giant python in terms of speed.
Shanxiao Sanhei originally came to help Zhang Le attack the python, but Zhang Le didn't give them any chance at all. "Bang bang bang", the fist hit the flesh, blood splashed everywhere, and one giant python after another was killed by Zhang Le. The three leaders, the mandrills, acted as Zhang Le's porters and dragged the headshot python into the forest. Half a day later, all the pythons living nearby fled to the distant river.
Zhang Le looked solemnly at the big river in the distance, thinking hard about the plan. Zhang Le's original intention of killing the giant python in this way was to lure out the super pythons in the river, at least hoping to lure out those pythons that were more than 100 meters long, but it was a pity that the big river in the distance was not rippling, and there was no movement.