Chapter 154: The Scourge of Berries
The afternoon sun caressed Andy's swollen face like a mother's wrinkled hands, and although he had only been scratched to the cheekbone by the hooves of a bighorn deer, the whole face had left clear marks. The fiery sensation www.biquge.info only lasted for a moment, and Andy slowly opened his eyes as the pain of cracking his chest hit. He sat in the grass looking for the "subject" of the Whisper of Everything, the guy who had kicked and hurt people had already left the place, and the hunger in his stomach and the swelling pain in his chest made him look very sad.
He didn't know which step he had gone wrong with, so much so that he was suddenly attacked by a bighorn deer. At Ralph, he clearly said that he was going to collect wild fruits, but he secretly practiced in a hurry. Now that I think about it, I might as well stay there and chant mantras to the bushes.
Now Andy was surrounded by half-man-tall weeds and only the droppings left on the ground after the bighorn deer had eaten his fill, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, he shook his hair sadly, and looked up at the green canopy above and shouted, "It hurts me, starve me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several berries fell from the tree, and Andy, who was facing the sky on his back, was smashed by the berries that suddenly fell. Having been on fire because the bighorn deer had hurt someone for no reason, and now he had been hit in the head by berries falling from the sky, Andy stood up with his right hand on his sore lower back, and he wanted to see who was still joking at this time.
Andy barely walked out of the grass, and when he looked up, there seemed to be a lot of black shadows jumping rapidly in the trees, judging by the sturdy figure, it should be some monkeys. After the experiment just now, he had completely lost confidence in the language of all things that he had just mastered, and he pointed to the jumping monkeys and complained, "If you have the ability, let me take a good look." ”
The monkeys on the branches of the trees stared at the fruits that had fallen to the ground, and for these primates, whether it was berries that had fallen on the ground or fruits hanging from the trees, they were bound to be collected and eaten as rations. The stranger under the tree, covered in mud and shouting loudly with his back to the sky, had apparently stepped into their territory, and for such an act, at least expelled him, and as for the most serious consequences, the monkeys had not yet considered it.
Andy walked around the tree a few times, and he looked at the berries on the ground, and his saliva flowed, and he simply bent down to pick up the berries on the ground. He flipped the berry up and down, and it looked strange and hard. Judging by the appearance of this berry, the taste cannot be too good, after all, there is not even a hint of red ripeness. His stomach was screaming desperately, and the sensation made his eyes lose his judgment, and he took the berry to his mouth and simply blew off the dust hanging on it, and took another tentative bite. The smell of sour teeth made Andy smack his tongue, and his whole body trembled involuntarily.
The group of monkeys in the trees was not afraid of the stranger at first, and the position occupied by both sides determined that the monkeys did not take the taller, fair-skinned human in their eyes at all. But the wild fruits that fell to the ground, which were the result of the hard work of the whole monkey herd for half a day, equivalent to a day's rations, were now taken away and eaten. This behavior was unbearable for the monkeys, and they all set their eyes on a stout adult male monkey with large soles.
The male monkey sat on a branch and observed the movement with a serious expression, but his eyes revealed the temperament of a leader. It was panting, gesturing at Andy with its hand and sending a signal from its throat. As the adult male monkey gave the command, all the monkeys crouching in the tree immediately shouted, and several monkeys that were closer to Andy took the lead in attacking.
Andy was savoring the unpalatable berries, but he didn't expect the monkeys in the trees to suddenly attack. In desperation, he threw away the berries in his hand and lifted his robe to protect his face, presenting his entire body to the sight of the monkeys. The monkeys didn't give the young man any face, and they kept scratching around Andy.
A baby monkey jumped up and pounced on Andy, and it tried to rip the robe off with its paws. This time, Andy was frightened, and he immediately begged for mercy in the "language of all things" that Ralph had taught him. The monkeys were completely immersed in anger, and they would not listen to the shouts of the teenager. A dozen monkeys also descended to the ground, and they all joined the siege of Andy. The adult male monkey also came to the ground from the tree, and he waved his hands in satisfaction as he watched the bloodied boy, and then flew up and kicked the boy who was only covering his head and ignoring his body.
In half a day, he was kicked twice, and the hungry Andy fainted instantly. The moment he rolled his eyes and fell, his mind began to repent of some of his actions, which were not a review of his recklessness, but a complaint about believing the words of the ghost wolf. Andy never wanted to learn it again.
The kick of the adult male monkey left Andy unconscious for a long time, and when he woke up, he found himself in a cave, and he did not know how he had come here without letting the monkeys scratch him to death. He began to look around, and by looking he saw that the cave was very quiet, the top of the cave was high above the ground, and the light in the cave was a little dim, but the sound of water dripping on the stones could be clearly heard.
He had not been wet since last night, and he had long been thirsty, but now when he heard the sound of water, he naturally had to find a water source and drink it. He groped his way to the depths of the cave, where the stone walls were smoother and colder. Water was dripping from the crack in the rock at the top of the cave, and Andy leaned forward to tilt his head and open his mouth, a stream of water reaching his heart and lungs. Andy drank water while spilling water from other parts of the cave on top of his head, and took the opportunity to wash his face. The pain left on his face by the bighorn deer was now more vividly reflected, and he felt that the whole person was suddenly much more decadent when he touched the uneven face pocket.
At this time, several little gray monkeys appeared at the entrance of the cave, and several of them came to Andy noisily. They began to use wooden sticks to drive away the soaking wet young men.
Andy looked around in the darkness and couldn't figure out the situation, so he obediently went to the outside of the cave to find out. He found several stone pillars standing at the entrance of the cave as guards, and it was not clear in the woods at evening whether the strange shapes of the stones were natural or artificially carved. On each stone pillar stood three or four gray monkeys, all with serious expressions. Andy touched his stuffed chest with his hand and muttered, "You shouldn't come out to scream."