Chapter 9: The Island of the Great Ape
Whether it was out of kindness or to entrap the medicine farmers, Chen Meimei's move really surprised Li Fan and completely changed his opinion of her.
A few days later, the four returned to Coal City.
Seeing that it was the seven-day long holiday of May Day, Li Fan used the excuse that there was something at home, and put together the accumulated rest and long vacation, planning to rest for half a month, although Chen Meili was very unhappy, but he still had to rely on him in business, and finally reluctantly agreed.
Li Fan went to the company for a day before the holiday, arranged everything properly, got off work in the evening and had dinner with Xue Ling'er, and learned that she was going to be on duty in the hospital during the May Day holiday.
Back at home, Father Li and Mother Li went out for a walk, Li Fan and Xiao Ash were watching TV in the living room, while watching, Li Fan pondered how to arrange the half-month long vacation.
Xu Yingjie said that she was going to travel with her family, and her parents said that she was going to Southeast Asia with a group, and Ling'er was on duty......
When Li Fan was sighing, Xiao Ash suddenly pointed to the TV and jumped excitedly. Li Fan was stunned for a moment, raised his eyes and looked at the TV screen, where a piece of news was playing:
A fishing boat got lost in the sea east of Coal City, and after two days of drifting in the sea fog, it accidentally discovered a huge island, and used its mobile phone to take pictures of the island's appearance from afar.
According to the old man who knew about it, the island was called Giant Ape Island, and the army had sent people to investigate it, but almost all of them were wiped out, and the officers who fled back said that there were many huge apes on the island, which were extremely ferocious, and that the nearby fishing villages had set the rules that no one was allowed to approach the island.
Ash was very excited when he saw this island, it is also called Giant Ape Island, it is not Ash's hometown......
This little guy is quite pitiful, why don't you send it back...... Although the giant apes on the island are ferocious, they will not go into the water to catch me! I will put the little ash on the shore and leave, it should be fine......
Thinking of sailing alone at sea, Li Fan excitedly brought pen and paper and considered the materials and equipment that needed to be prepared.
The next morning, he said that he was going to take Xiao Ash to climb the mountain with his traveler for a few days, and after saying goodbye to his parents, Li Fan packed up his things and took Xiao Ash out, first went to purchase a batch of materials and equipment, and then went straight to the coal city wharf.
rented a small fishing boat with a motor, and Li Fan took Xiao Ash to sea.
According to the route shown on the map, Li Fan and Xiao Ash drove a small fishing boat in the direction of Giant Ape Island.
In the previous paragraph, I had been in a bad mood for Chen Fugui and Su Qiaomei, but now I was driving alone on the vast sea, and behind me was the coal city that was gradually moving away, and all Li Fan's boredom was swept away.
Under the clear sky, the blue water is endless, and because it is near the mouth of the Heijiang River, the salinity is slightly lower, and there are not many fish in the sea here.
Little Ash jumped back and forth on the fishing boat, Li Fan was so happy to see it, and he couldn't stop laughing happily, but the good times didn't last long, after a day and a night, the boat entered the sea fog area, and the wind and waves gradually became bigger.
The waves of three or four meters high kept coming, and the whole sea became irritable, and the boats sometimes flew on the top of the high mountains, sometimes wandering in the depths of the canyon.
Li Fan tied Xiao Ash to his body, and struggled to hold the rudder on the undulating sea.
Gradually, the sky darkened, and the wind and waves became bigger and bigger, Li Fan began to regret that the boat he rented was too small, but now he can only continue to walk hard, because the way back is farther.
After a thrilling night, when the sky was bright, the fog on the sea gradually faded, but the wind and waves did not decrease.
Li Fan turned on his mobile phone to locate it, checked the map again, then turned off his mobile phone, picked up the monocular night vision binoculars and looked ahead, only to see a small black shadow between the sea and the sky, as the fishing boat approached and got bigger and bigger, the Giant Ape Island arrived.
The island was surrounded by strange rocks, most of which were cliffs, and it was impossible to stop the boat, so Li Fan had to continue along the edge of the island in the big waves to find a landing site.
Unexpectedly, the actual area of Giant Ape Island was much larger than the map depicted, and it took more than half a day for Li Fan to find a very hidden small canyon with a width of about ten meters on the other side of the Heijiang estuary, so he drove the fishing boat into it.
After walking in the canyon for half an hour, some trees gradually appeared on the shore on both sides, but the shore was still very steep, and Li Fan continued to drive the boat forward.
After another hour of travel, the boat came to the end of the canyon and there was no road.
There was still no suitable place to land on the shore, and Li Fan was frustrated to turn the bow of the ship and drive out, but suddenly found a black cave behind a protruding rock in front of him.
The part above the water surface of the cave is about five meters in diameter, Li Fan thought about it, anyway, he was already in front of him, so it was better to go in and have a look.
The boat slowly sailed into the cave, Li Fan turned on the strong headlamp on his helmet and looked around, and found that this was a karst cave, with a total area of about 3,000 square meters, half of which was covered in sea water, and the other half stretched upward.
There is a large platform of three or four hundred square meters at the height, and there is a black hole with a diameter of about three meters on the edge of the platform, and a small flow of water flows out of the ground of the black hole.
Li Fan docked the boat in the hole, tied it to a stone, took his backpack, took Xiao Ash ashore, and walked towards the big platform on the high place.
When he arrived at the platform, Li Fan took out a sapper shovel and cautiously walked into the black hole first.
There is a long and rugged natural passage inside, extending all the way upward, passing through more than 30 small karst caves on the way, the small ones are about 50 square meters, the large ones are more than 100 square meters, and there is a small stream of spring water flowing out of a small hole in the top of the cave in the small karst cave that is the first to see, and flows into the passage along the cave wall.
Continuing to walk up the passage for seventy or eighty meters, Li Fan came to a large karst cave of more than 500 square meters.
The ground of the cave is relatively flat, and there is a hole of more than two meters in front of it, which seems to be a little bright.
Li Fan walked into the hole with Xiao Ash, and after walking a few meters, there was no road in front of him, only a small hole about half a meter in diameter half a height above the ground, and the light shone in from this small hole.
The small hole was about a meter deep, there was a bright light outside, and nothing could be seen, as soon as Xiao Ash saw the bright light, he jumped out from behind Li Fan, and crawled out of the small hole in a few clicks.
Li Fan hurriedly shouted a few times towards Xiaodong, wanting to recall Xiao Ash, but after shouting for a long time, there was no sound from Xiao Ash at all.
I don't know what the situation is outside, and Ash doesn't know where to run? I can climb out of this small hole, but what if I encounter a giant ape or other beast?
After thinking about it for a while, Li Fan came up with a solution, turned on the mobile phone, stretched it out of the small hole with the selfie stick, recorded the image up and down, left and right for a while, and then took it back.
Clicking on the video recorded by his mobile phone, Li Fan found that the exit of the small cave was on a rock wall more than two meters above the ground, and there was barely some strength below, surrounded by large stones, and he couldn't see too far away.
After watching the video, Li Fan decided to go out to have a look, he would not be so bad, and he would be in danger as soon as he went out.
So Li Fan put down his backpack, turned off his mobile phone and headlamp, held a sapper shovel in his hand, and crawled out of the small hole.
After coming out of the small hole, Li Fan tiptoed around a few large stones.
As soon as I turned the corner, my eyes suddenly opened up.
I am halfway up a mountain, there are towering giant trees above and below the mountain, and there are also high and low mountains next to it, and on the flat ground in the distance is a large mist-shrouded primeval forest, and there is no edge in sight.
Li Fan looked at it for a while, and was sighing for the beauty of nature when a loud roar of a beast sounded nearby.
Hearing the roar so close, Li Fan immediately retreated behind the stone, and walked back to the rock wall where the small hole was located in a panic, and was about to climb back from the small hole when a loud noise came from behind him.
His heart was pounding wildly, Li Fan didn't dare to move, he cautiously turned his head to look behind him, and if he didn't look, he was paralyzed on the rock wall and couldn't move.
I saw a huge ape more than five meters tall standing in front of me, staring at him with lantern-sized eyes, and a few drops of saliva flowed from the corners of his mouth from time to time.
It's over, it's over! It's dead today! Li Fan, Li Fan, what are you doing here when you have nothing to do? What about your parents? Who will take care of Ling'er?
Xu Yingjie...... She doesn't have to worry! Chen Meili is also quite pitiful...... I haven't figured out why the beautiful policeman named Nie Qingqing is crying!
Hmm, when you are dying, you are thinking about four women at the same time, this is ...... What's the situation? Could it be that I, Li Fan, am also a big carrot? Probably not......
Just when Li Fan's mind was full of cranky thoughts, Xiao Ash peeked out of the mane on the top of the giant ape's head, squeaked at Li Fan a few times, and then jumped down from the giant ape, walked to Li Fan's side, took Li Fan's hand, and asked Li Fan to follow it.
No, is this Donkey Kong Xiao Ash's father? Is there such a big gap between father and son?
Li Fan's mind was blank and he walked in front of Xiao Ash, and from time to time secretly looked back at the big guy behind him, but the giant ape did not continue to look at Li Fan, his eyes looked at the forest in front of him.
After an hour's walk down the hillside, a man and two apes walked along a small river in the forest to a clearing.
The giant ape behind Li Fan jumped onto a big rock, slammed his chest a few times with his fists, and yelled a few times around.
Li Fan found a small stone and sat down, carefully looked at the giant ape on the big stone, and found that it was really similar to Xiao Gray, the overall hair was gray, and there was a white area behind it.
Ash seemed to recall his old memories, jumping up and down the trees around the clearing, picking a fruit to eat, and finding a vine to swing around.
After about half an hour, all kinds of large and small apes began to surround one after another, there were hundreds of them, the big ones were about three or four meters, and the small ones were less than one meter.
At first glance, the apes seemed a little strange when they saw Little Ash, and sniffed around him.
Some apes found Li Fan sitting on the stone, grinning and ready to pounce, but they were driven away by the silver-backed giant ape, and they all scattered honestly.
Xiao Ash found that the apes were a little hostile to Li Fan, so he hurriedly climbed onto Li Fan's shoulders and "squeaked" at the surrounding apes.
The surrounding apes also responded from time to time as if they barked at it a few times, and after a while, the silver-backed giant ape roared a few times, and the ape group gradually quieted down and dispersed.
In the evening, the apes returned to the forest clearing by the river, some with some wild fruits, some with small animals, and some even a few fish.
The apes took out some of the food in their hands and placed it in front of the silver-backed ape and Ash, and then scattered around and began to enjoy their dinner.
Little Gray jumped over and picked up a raw fish, took it and handed it to Li Fan, Li Fan shook his head with a smile, handed the raw fish back to Little Ash, walked over and took a few bananas, and the silver-backed giant ape grabbed a dead rabbit and bit it and chewed it.
After dinner, the apes began to play with each other, Xiao Ash took Li Fan to play with the apes, and the apes began to be a little repulsed, and slowly accepted them.
A bright moon rose in the sky, and the collective activities of the apes gradually came to an end. Li Fan found a large smooth stone and was about to lie down when a brown ape, more than two meters tall, jumped up and bared its teeth at him.
Knowing that he had occupied someone else's bed, Li Fan got up helplessly, and even found a few stones and was driven away, and finally simply stopped looking for stones, made a simple hammock with rattan between two small trees, and slept on it with Xiao Ash in his arms.
After a few days of getting along, the apes had become completely familiar with Li Fan, and even allowed Li Fan to sit on their backs.
The giant apes took Li Fan to the island to wander around and hunt, Li Fan carefully paid attention to the situation of the places he passed, and found and collected a lot of rare medicinal materials and rare ores.
One morning a few days later, Xiao Ash dragged Li Fan to the mountains, climbed all the way to the top of a big mountain, and pointed to a little golden "squeak" on the opposite peak.
Li Fan also noticed that there was a little gold, took out a telescope and looked over, only to see a small pale yellow grass at the top of the opposite peak, with a golden fruit hanging on it, shining in the sunlight.
Having carefully observed the glittering golden fruit at the tip of the mountain peak with a telescope, Li Fan racked his brains and thought for a while, but there was not the slightest clue about the fruit in his memory.
I also used a telescope to check the surroundings of Jinguo, all the cliffs and cliffs, and the nearest place was more than 100 meters above the ground.
This can be a very rare plant, and if it can be used as medicine, it will definitely be sky-high......
Thinking of this, Li Fan went back to the boat to get climbing equipment and ropes, and after putting them on, he began to climb the mountain.
One by one, the pitons were driven into the stone wall, and the rings were carefully buckled, and Li Fan climbed from morning to afternoon. Approaching dusk, Li Fan finally reached the golden fruit at the top of the mountain.
After laying down the three pitons and fastening the three rings, Li Fan put away the utensils, took off his gloves, pinched the stems and leaves of the grass with his left hand, and carefully picked the golden fruit with his right hand.
As soon as Jin Guo left the stems and leaves, the entire grass and Jin Guo immediately turned into a golden mist, and the mist "crackled" and flashed a few golden rays, quickly following the skin of Li Fan's hands and integrating into Li Fan's body.