Chapter 2 Hello, friend
A light in front of him tells Jack that his destination has arrived.
The ones who dragged him over were clearly visible to Jack in the light of the fire—although they were a little different from the "two" standing in the doorway, they also looked like people and apes in the book, still with long limbs, small noses, and sparse hair on their bodies than described in the book.
"Wouldn't this continent be ruled by apes!" thought to Jack.
Jack is taken to a house that resembles a medieval royal palace of ancient humans, surrounded by standing tabletop oil lamps. At this time, he was staying in the wide circular room in the center, flanked by a row of monkey-like creatures, dressed in armor, each more than two meters long, holding a sharp long sword. And in front of him were steps, and on each side of the steps stood golden pillars, which supported the round roof. Jack looked up and saw on the steps an ape, the same creature on either side, dressed more noblely, dressed in gold, with a golden crown carved with an eagle on his head, and a golden square seat beneath him, with two servant-like creatures standing on either side of him. Jack understood, visually identifying it as the "Monkey Emperor". It really fell into a monkey's den.
The "Monkey Emperor" muttered something to Jack, but Jack didn't understand it anyway, and with a mortal heart, he casually responded: "Grass, Lao Tzu wants to kill or chop you up!" At this time, the Monkey Emperor's eyes suddenly widened, and the two black hole eyes emitted a cold light because of excitement, which was extremely scary. Jack said to himself: If you don't say a dirty word, you're going to kill me!
The "Monkey Emperor" said a few words to the servant-like monkey beside him, and then the servant stepped back, and after a while brought with him a man who looked like Jack! Yes, his limbs were reasonable, his face was like his own, and he had human hair!
Jack was stunned, why are there still human beings in the Old World! The catastrophe a thousand years ago, aren't all human beings extinct, except for the Gugalans, the rest of the human beings have disappeared, and they are definitely gone, how can there be human beings here!?
"***Name?*Where?"
Jack understood the "name" and "where" the man said, he was speaking in the ancient Merro language, yes, that is, the language of ancient humans! Jack felt as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, and his heart rekindled hope, feeling that he did not know much ancient Merro at the same time, he got up very excitedly and replied: "My name is Jack! Jack! Galland!
After speaking, Jack raised his hands in front of him and waited for the man's reply, and the man seemed to understand something, and got up on the steps to Jack's side, his eyes lit up: "Garland, Garland!" Jack clearly heard that he did understand that he was from Garland!
Oh my God, there is salvation!
The man took Jack's hand and brought him to the Monkey Emperor, saying something to the Monkey Emperor in a muttering language, pointing at Jack as he spoke, very excited. After hearing this, the Monkey Emperor calmly gave some orders to his subordinates, and then the monkeys under his command came and violently grabbed Jack's arm and dragged him out, along with the man who spoke the ancient Mero language. "I'm human too!
As if hope was gone, Jack thought the man was a straw, but it wasn't, he also looked like a dead grass that had been caught.
The cell door closed again, and Jack looked frustratedly at the Gumeroe-speaking man next to him, and sighed. He now wanted to know all the things about the old continent and the correct explanation of everything that had happened before, but it seemed that no one could talk to him except the "ancients" around him, but he didn't know Meroe. Jack's heart seemed to fall from heaven to earth, and the flame of hope was ignited and extinguished.
A month later, Jack stayed in prison with this "ancient" and learned the ancient Mero language, it turned out that his name was Tex, and he said that he was a Prote, and he had been imprisoned for a year by these monkey-like people, and he still did not know what kind of human race or animal the monkeys were.
After listening to Jack's account of everything and the situation on the island, Turks said that he also came from the sea. During the catastrophe a thousand years ago, a group of their ancestors also drifted in a boat and landed on an island far from the mainland, and their ancestors have lived on the sea ever since, calling themselves the Puro, and the Pulo people have lived on the island ever since.
"Puro" means homeless in the ancient Mero language, and no one among them has set foot in the Old World, although there are intermittent human beings who have returned to the Old World, but they have never returned alive, and the people on the island no longer mention the affairs of the Old World, so they are stable.
Until one day, the Puluo people who were fishing in the ocean accidentally stopped on a small island near the old continent because of a storm at sea, and found a human corpse on the island, which was killed by a blunt object, but this blunt weapon did not belong to the Puro. The fishermen told the chieftain of the Pulo about this, and two years earlier, the Pulo began to land on the Old Continent one after another, but unfortunately, no one was able to return. Turks was the last team of hope a year ago, and he was the only one alive.
Jack asks why they're all dead. "Because of those monsters in the sea," Tex said. Hearing this, Jack's sadness came back to his heart, and the images of him and the Garland warriors on the seashore of the Old World a month ago came back to his mind......
A month ago, more than a hundred Garland warriors sailed to the Old World with the expectations of the people of Chau Island, unaware of the impending catastrophe.
Johnson is Jack's good friend since he was a child, like brothers, the two work together no matter what they do, Johnson was reluctant to come over this expedition, because he was newly married and his wife was pregnant. But Jake said, Johnson, I'm going to do something big, I'm going to change the lives of the Garlands, and I'm going to be a hero when I come back from the Old World. But it is also possible that they will not come back, then my parents, you have to take good care of them!
Johnson couldn't listen to Jack's useless words, slapped Jack, and said, don't say anything frustrating, you raise your own parents, because I want to go with you, you can't live without me. In this way, the two brothers, Johnson and Jack, ran to the Old World together.
I saw the shadow of the continent in the distance.
At this time, the sky was raining heavily, the wind was rolling the waves and crashing against the hull, and the "Hope" was shaking in the rain. "Jack, there's a reef ahead!, let the captain command the sail to turn!" Johnson nervously called out to Jack behind him from the deck. Jack hurriedly ran to the captain's side and told him that the captain Huffer immediately ordered the sail to turn, but at this moment, the ship almost turned over as if it had been hit! Jack ran to the deck, looked at the panicked Johnson, and asked what happened.
Stunned, Johnson wordlessly stretched out his hand to the front of the ship, Jack looked in the direction he pointed, the previous reef was gone, and in front of the ship stood a monster about 100 meters high out of the water, with a big mouth and a head like a snake, and a huge mouth big enough to swallow three or four "Hopes"! You know, the "Hope" is the largest ship on the island, the length of the ship is only 200 meters, and this monster is estimated to be three or four hundred meters long underwater, and it seems that only his neck and head are out of the water!
There were already a lot of people gathered on the deck at this time, and everyone was panicking at the sea monster that appeared in front of them, it was too big! But the impact began again! And the sea monster did not move at all, could it be that there were other sea monsters of the same kind under the ship?!
"Quick, go get your life jackets, abandon ship!" Captain Hover's voice woke up the panicked warriors, but as the impact intensified, the cabin had already been flooded by the sea, and the warriors had nowhere to go, and it seemed that only death was waiting for them.
"Jack, someone looks like they're coming. Turks whispered to Jack. The cell door was opened, and the guard muttered something to Tex, whose eyes lit up and turned to tell Jack that they were going to be let out!
"Turks, how long have you been caught?"
"A year. I'm finally going to be released today, haha!"
"Turks, do you think it's true that I've been locked up for a year and suddenly want to let you out?"
"I don't think there's anything wrong with it, it's good to be able to get out. ”
The sun hung high in the sky, and the light shone in Jack's eyes, he hadn't breathed fresh air in a month, and the food in the prison was so bad that he felt like he was eating shi, and at the moment, although the sun was shining, Jack was not in a good mood - because there was still a row of "monkeys" with "harpoons" standing behind him, as if they had not really been released.
Tex seemed to be very happy, excited all the way, look here and there. "Tex, don't be too happy, maybe they're sending us to the shark's mouth," Jack said worriedly to the half-jumping man beside him, but Tex's was still elated.
They were escorted all the way, and when they turned a small hill, Jack was stunned: "Isn't this where I met the orangutan when I came!"
Jack is sent back to where he first came, where he almost died. "The monkeys say, let us go here, don't cross the border half a step again, and if we step in again, we'll be caught and killed." Let's go!haha, we're free!" Jack panicked: "Are you sure, it was free in the past?"
Jack stood in front of the stone slab, and Tex wiped the dust from it, reading:
"The land of the Holy Ape Country, any species that is not native to the country will be killed, please respect the declaration of the country, do not provoke war, do not cross the border - King of the Holy Ape Country Erli"
"Sacred ape country, they are really not human, but why do apes still speak!? and establish a country!?"
Jack's stomach was full of puzzlement. Turks replied calmly, "There is nothing strange about it, let me tell you, when I first came to this land a year ago, I saw a bird that could talk, this world is crazy and anything can happen." Possible...... Well, it may ...... I don't know, I don't want to know, I just want to build a ship and get back to Puro now. ”
Turks seems to have always been optimistic, but Jack's heart is puzzled and he is not willing to go back like this, can he go back and tell the people that he has met a five-meter-tall orangutan, a two-meter-tall, talking monkey? The old continent has been occupied by new species, and humans can't go back? I can't explain it, and the people will definitely think that they are crazy.
"Turks, I want to find out what happened in the Old World before I go back, do you want to stay?" asked Jack patting Turks as he walked out of the boundary stone.