Chapter 49: Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Prelude
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"According to the memories of my great-grandfather, the Sage of Prometheus, the glorious history of our people's rise can be traced back to a barbecue on the shores of Lake Dawn on the Holy Island......"
- Helena. King Kong "King Kong Chronicles"
Today, the sun is shining, the sky is clear, the breeze gently blows through the clear lake, the waves are clear, a few water birds are playing in the lake, chirping a few times, and flapping their wings and flying away, from time to time there are fish jumping out of the water, jumping in the sun, even the fish scales are dyed with a layer of gold.
The mountain peaks on both sides reflect the lake, the green mountains are lined with green water, the green water reflects the green peaks, and there is the golden sun shining again, it is a rare landscape beauty.
But on the shore of this quiet and beautiful lake, there is a picture that is shocking.
In an open space by the lake, a huge King Kong squatted on the ground, busy with the work in hand.
What is this guy doing? This guy's squatting posture is very curious!
As the camera zooms in, you can clearly see that King Kong's feet are stepping on a large wooden block, and he is holding a wooden drill (actually a dead wood) in his hand to drill on the wooden block.
King Kong's expression was meticulous and extremely serious, and the wooden drill in his hand was rubbed quickly, and its huge eyes were fixed on the place where the wooden drill met the wooden block, waiting for a spark to emerge there and ignite the ignition that had been laid around it.
Next to King Kong, there is also a black monster.
This monster is much smaller than King Kong, holding its arms, its toes are high, and the old god is standing on the ground, judging King Kong's movements from time to time, or nodding with satisfaction, and sometimes roaring at King Kong, stretching out his claws and pointing at him!
But King Kong, not only is he not angry, but he seems to be able to understand, and he adjusts and improves his movements with the roar of the monster!
What are these two guys doing? Could it be that this monster is teaching King Kong something?
This kind of picture is very imaginative, as if this black monster is a teacher, and the big guy King Kong is a student!
That's right! This monster is teaching this gorilla, and it is teaching it the most crucial step from barbarism to civilization - drilling wood for fire!
Since a group of King Kong came to mind to drill wood in the mountains to make fire, barbecue meat around the fire, socialize over time, establish tribes, further develop civilization, and finally fight with humans for the sovereignty of the planet, and stage a strange picture of the rise of the real version of the Planet of the Apes, Cheng Fan began the road of training this gorilla!
He first used a simple logical way to make King Kong understand that you can't barbecue meat without fire, and you can't enjoy the beauty of cooked food without barbecue.
Fire is the key to everything, as long as you master how to make a fire, the barbecue is ready to go.
This King Kong is not stupid, and successfully understood what Cheng Fan meant, and it was very eager to learn from Cheng Fan how to make a fire.
At first, it was afraid of fire, not because it was really afraid of fire, but because it knew that it was not a power that they could grasp.
But in Cheng Fan's demonstration operations again and again, the fear slowly receded, and after the unfamiliar awe became familiar, it felt that this power might really be in its own hands.
Perhaps, the same was true of humans back then?!
Primitive people worshipped fire, and once feared flames like wild beasts, believing that this was a power that only the gods could grasp, but later, after human beings themselves learned to make fire, they found that fire was not terrible, and they could master it as well, and then gradually got rid of ignorance and primitive, and moved towards civilization!
King Kong studied very seriously and worked hard, this time he drilled wood to make fire, I don't know how many times in the past few days, although it has not succeeded once, but it is still persistent.
Fail, fail, fail again!
It still hasn't given up!
Cheng Fan saw it in his eyes and felt that this was a good student and a good comrade, so after every time it failed, Cheng Fan would personally re-demonstrate it, focusing on letting it figure out where its mistakes were? Gradually understand why it is wrong?
But it is not a human being after all, and it does not have the wisdom and cognition of normal human beings, so Cheng Fan can only be guided by the water mill from scratch, and the way to teach it to make fire is the most difficult classical way to drill wood to make fire.
From how to choose the right wood to make drill bits and drill plates, to making drill bits and drill bits, looking for good ignition materials, to how to drill out of Mars efficiently and let Mars ignite ignition materials, Cheng Fan is almost teaching by hand!
King Kong has never been able to learn, Cheng Fan himself wants to give up, even a modern person is not easy to use this way to make fire, let alone an orangutan?
But every time he saw King Kong squatting there seriously and diligently, Cheng Fan felt that this guy hadn't given up yet, maybe this thing could really succeed?
King Kong was still drilling earnestly by the lake, and after several days of continuous friction, the thick skin of its palms and hands had been worn away.
It was still drilling, and finally, sparks splashed out of the wood beneath its feet and fell on the dry grass around it.
Cheng Fan saw that when the sparks flew up, King Kong's ugly face showed a hint of joy, and it seemed to be smiling.
But it did not relax, and several times, it reached this point, but failed to ignite the flames.
It carefully picked up the hay with Mars and blew it cautiously, this looked like a very funny picture, but Cheng Fan couldn't laugh, this King Kong's efforts were far beyond his imagination.
Mars became more fiery as it blew in Vajra, and this time, the heat emitted by Mars succeeded in igniting the hay.
"Crackle, crackle"
The small flame grew little by little, and King Kong looked at the fire in his hand a little stunned, as if he couldn't believe that it had really succeeded, and this fire was born from its hands.
"Ang"
A roar woke King Kong up, and he hurriedly sent the burning hay in his hand to the dry firewood that had been prepared for a long time, and meticulously added firewood to the fire, fearing that the fire that had been finally made would be extinguished again.
"Boom"
The fire was fierce, the fire was successfully burned, and under the firelight, King Kong was dancing by the lake, jumping and jumping happily, and when it saw Cheng Fan, it almost pulled him crazy with it.
For some reason, King Kong has a kind of awe for Cheng Fan, not because he is afraid, but because Cheng Fan's serious appearance when he teaches is deeply left in his heart!
Cheng Fan looked at King Kong who was happy in the firelight, and the beast with black scales couldn't help but show a smile on his face.
In order to celebrate the success of the diamond wood fire, Cheng Fan deliberately caught dozens of big fish in the lake, and King Kong also hunted two giant cows on the island.
For a while, the lakeside fire is long, and the barbecue is fragrant!
After teaching King Kong how to make fire and barbecue meat, Cheng Fan stayed with this King Kong for a few more days to consolidate his learning results before continuing his trip to the island.
It's not that Cheng Fan doesn't want to take this good student and guide along the way, but for some reason, as long as he reaches a certain range, King Kong will behave abnormally and dare not take a step forward, so Cheng Fan has no choice but to go on the road alone.
The island is very large, if you only look at it from the sea, you can only see the mountain peaks on the island, but it is difficult to see what the topography and environment are inside, only when you enter the island, you will find that this island is a mountain forest, a lake, a grassland, a river, a valley, a swamp, all kinds of scenery.
Cheng Fan walked in a mountain forest at this time, in fact, it is not accurate to say that it is a mountain forest, this is actually a sea of bamboo, growing dense bamboo, endlessly, and then into a sea!
The bamboo in the sea of bamboo grew too luxuriantly, and Cheng Fan walked in it, and he had to use brute force to arch the bamboo on both sides, and then squeeze out a way, and then move forward.
How many years ago did the bamboo here take root?
Maybe in the distant years, they may have only been a clump, or a plant took root here, but after a long time, it has become a mountain and a forest, like the sea!
With a gust of mountain wind, the bamboo branches shake "brushing", and the bamboo leaves rub against each other, making a "rustling" sound.
Countless bamboo leaves fall from the branches, flutter in the forest, flutter in the wind, and finally fall in the forest.
Born in splendor, return to quiet beauty!
The mountain wind, bamboo shaking, and falling leaves are obviously moving things, but they give people a sense of remoteness and tranquility, which inexplicably makes people feel peaceful!
The sun is bright and cold, and the bamboo leaves are quiet!
It is no wonder that so many literati and artists like bamboo, plant a piece of bamboo in their own courtyard, drink alone with a pot of sake under the moonlit night, enjoy the moon with bamboo, leave aside the entanglement of earthly interests, and appreciate the rare tranquility of the world!