Walking to the table, Lin Lin noticed that there was still a thin book on the table, and the dust on it had been shaken off, probably because Qiushui had turned it over when he first came to this room. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Take a look, maybe you'll find something new. At Qiushui's suggestion, Lin Lin carefully picked up the book, for fear that she would accidentally break it up. Turning over the worn-out pages, lines of black handwriting appeared on the yellowed paper, which looked like a diary.

Qiushui helped Lin Lin brush the dust off the chair, and in this way, Lin Lin sat at the table and carefully read the content by the faint candlelight. As she thought, the owner of the diary was indeed the monkey trickster. And his record also began after coming to this underground forest. His diary writes that when he first came here and saw the beautiful scenery, he decided to settle here and end his wandering journey. In this forest, there are no large, ferocious beasts, but mostly vegetarian animals, plus the resources here are abundant, and there are sweet wild fruits everywhere, so even the few emaciated monkeys next to him can survive here without worry. The only flaw is the lack of light here, but after a long time, it will naturally get used to it. Here, he built his own house, did nothing every day, and just sat at the door and watched the monkeys come and go, enjoying himself. According to his thoughts, if he can spend his old age quietly like this, it should be the best ending.

However, things often turn out unexpectedly, and on such turbulent days, those monkeys multiply rapidly due to the lack of natural predators, and their numbers have increased several times within a few years. It's not a big deal, after all, this forest is very large, and there is no problem in feeding these monkeys. What is really terrifying is that in this excessively free environment, the wildness deep in their genes is gradually released. You must know that at that time, the monkey puppeteers in Saudi Arabia, in order to perform more excitingly, often tamed a species called eagle-faced monkey. This monkey is named after its eagle-like protruding nose and sunken eyes. They tend to be ferocious by nature, growing in one of the few oases in the sandy country, often attacking passers-by, and are notoriously known locally. And taming this ferocious monkey can highlight the skill of the monkey trickster.

In short, the monkeys completed the process of changing from domestic monkeys to wild monkeys in this forest, and gradually, they were no longer satisfied with the wild fruits to fill their stomachs, especially the newborn monkeys, who did not listen to the old man's persuasion at all, and often attacked other animals in the forest. Seeing that the development of things was getting farther and farther away from his expectations, the old man was very distressed, but at this moment he was already old, faltering, and it was very difficult to even pick some fruits and vegetables by himself every day, not to mention to domesticate those monkeys who did not take him seriously at all. In desperation, he had to lock himself in the house all day long, reminiscing about his life of exile, and sighing alone. In the beginning, the old monkeys who came here with him would bring fresh fruits and vegetables to visit the old man every once in a while, but with their departure one after another, the old man finally became a loner, and this place of natural creation still did not become a paradise for him to enjoy his old age.

Originally, Lin Lin thought that the matter would end here, but after turning a few pages back, there was still content, so she continued to read.

Although the old man became single, fortunately there were no outsiders to disturb him here, and although his life was a little harder, he was still able to get by. However, the wild monkeys became more and more presumptuous, attacking the herbivores in groups, killing them brutally for fun, which led to the corpses of the originally beautiful forest and the number of animals decreased dramatically. However, their targets were not limited to these poor natives, who one day surrounded the old man's house and bared their teeth to kill him. But the old man had already expected that one day, during the years when he had been locked in the house, he would connect the bedroom to the ground by a tree leaning against the side of the house, hollow inside, and then digging from the root of the tree, digging horizontally for tens of meters, and then simply arranging tables and chairs at the end, and putting some dried fruits and grains in advance, just in case. In this way, the old man escaped through this secret passage, but he was disheartened and rarely returned to the surface of the earth, but lived in this isolated place for a long time until the end of his life.

Lin Lin put down the diary in her hand, not knowing what to say for a while. She remembered the white skeleton she saw in the bedroom of the wooden house, perhaps the old man recalled everything he had experienced when his lamp ran out, and finally decided to return to the house she had built with her own hands, sit on the wooden bed that had been with her for more than ten years, and leave the world silently.

"The monsters we saw should be the result of the continuous evolution and mutation of the monkeys, and it was because of their unrestrained hunting behavior that the forest resources were eventually depleted, so they had no choice but to leave the ground and attack the passing crowd to fill their stomachs. And this monkey tricker, he definitely didn't expect that the ideal paradise he had worked so hard to find would be destroyed in the hands of the monkeys he brought, it seems that the things in this world are really unpredictable. Qiushui sighed on the side. Lin Lin felt the same way, she stood up, and then asked Qiushui: "Then how can we get out?"

I saw Qiushui take out a piece of paper like a trick and unfold it in front of Lin Lin's eyes. Seeing the criss-crossed colorful patterns on the paper, Lin Lin exclaimed, "This is ...... Maps?"

Qiushui nodded proudly: "This map book is sandwiched in this diary, presumably written by the old man." But for now, it's the key to getting us out. ”

"Is there any other exit besides the giant tree in the center?" Lin Lin asked.

"At first, I wondered how these monkeys got to the outside world, and even with their climbing ability, it is impossible to climb two or three hundred meters from almost vertical tree trunks. So, there must be other exits here. As he spoke, Qiushui spread the map on the table, and by the light of the candles, it was clear that the giant tree was marked on the map as the World Tree, standing in the middle of the forest. At this moment, Qiushui stretched out his hand and slowly pointed to a place on the edge of the map. There, a mountain rock rises from the ground and joins the dome above, which looks more like an incomparably huge stalactite hanging upside down in shape!