Chapter 7 Simple Language Communication
David asked, "Didn't you find any other creatures of the same kind?" ”
"I asked the soldiers a few times, but no," Lulu said. ”
Joseph said: "No matter how wise they are, since the first two were easily captured by us, the others should not be very powerful, and we will do the same as we did with the Indians, and we will have a big sweep and cut down the grass and eradicate the roots." ”
David said: "You'd better send more patrols, this planet may not be the same as we imagined." ”
"Humph!" Joseph sneered and said, "We are the gods of the universe, and we are still afraid of a few monkeys with three-petal mouths?" Oh sorry, dear David, I forgot that you are a monkey now too, ahahahahaha! ”
David shook his head and said, "I'm doing this for everyone's good, and besides, can you put this female monkey next to my cage and let me observe it for a while?" ”
Joseph showed an exaggerated smile: "Hahaha, what, have you been in the monkey for too long, to the mother monkey..."
Lulu took a deep breath at this time, raised her hand and gently stroked her short and curly black hair, and said, "Teacher David is very insightful in the study of biology, it is better to let him observe, maybe it will be of great help to our scientific research work." ”
Joseph raised his right hand and waved it up and down a few times, and said, "Okay, okay, I'm tired too, then I'll have mercy on poor David one more time, and let him observe his beauty well, hahaha!" With that, he picked up the flask on the table and walked up the stairs.
Martin and Lulu worked together to lift the cage on the ground and place it next to David, then bowed deeply to David at the same time, and left silently together.
Inside David's cage was a small yellow wooden box containing some jerky and fruit that Joseph had given him as a snack.
He took out a piece of jerky, reached through the two cage bars, and handed it to the female monkey who was crushing on her knees, while emitting the marmoset itself to cry: "Squeak! ”。
The female monkey looked up at the jerky, made a vicious expression at David's bared teeth, and exclaimed, "Brake! Brake! ”
David lowered his head and thought for a while, then pointed to the direction where the male monkey was dissected just now, and said, "Kakakuma? ”
The female monkey's tears continued to pour out: "Kuma... Kakakuma... Woooooo ”
Sure enough, they have their own names, and they love to call Kaka so much, as if they are a bit similar to "Smecta", which is a mood particle in Korean, and has no real meaning.
Then let's name the creature Kaka.
Thinking of this, David also made an angry look, slapped the fence of his cage, and shouted, "Kaka! Kaka! "Said that he was also a prisoner.
The female monkey, who should be called the female "Kaka", eased her expression at this time, stretched out her hand and pointed to the jerky in David's hand, patted her stomach at the same time, and pointed to her mouth again, indicating that she was hungry.
David smiled as friendly as he could, and handed the jerky over again.
It was a mature body about a meter long, platypus-like and black fur, but the duck-like beak was the dried meat of a herbivore that opened horizontally, and it was delicious to David himself, and it tasted a bit like Earth turkey meat and catfish meat cooked in a mixture of milk and salad.
The female "Kaka" quickly took the jerky and devoured it.
When it had finished its jerky, David pulled out two long strips of fruit from the box with purple-black skins, the thickness of human fingers, and the inner pulp resembling bananas, but tasting like kiwi fruit cooked with earth's cream.
The mother "Kaka" skillfully peeled the skin, opened the three-petal lips, stuffed the fruit pulp into it, and ate the two fruit pulps in three or five bites.
In the process, David observed that its fingers were very flexible, and it was also ten, and its appearance alone was similar to that of a golden monkey.
Seeing that it looked like it was full, David continued: "Hey! ”
The mother "Kaka" looked at each other suspiciously.
David stretched out his right hand, patted his chest, and said, "I, my name, David, David." What about you? Then he pointed at the other person.
The mother "Kaka" nodded and said, "Wei, Wei, Weiwei?" Then it pointed to itself: "Kakamma, Muma!" ”
David smiled and said, "Muma? ”
The female "Kaka" nodded.
David said again, "Muma? ”
The mother "Kaka" nodded again, pointed at the other party and said, "Weiwei! Then he pointed to himself: "Muma! ”
David clapped his hands and said, "Okay, Muma, it seems that you are even smarter than I thought!" This new world is really amazing, there are such intelligent animals, maybe in a few tens of thousands of years, you Kaka can evolve to the ability to completely rule this planet. But alas, we earthlings are here..."
After speaking, David showed a look of unease. With Joseph's style and the original plan of the New World Project, the humans from Earth will definitely exterminate the species "Kaka".
As a child, David was fond of small animals, while Joseph was fond of firearms, two different hobbies that led the two men to later embark on different research paths in their main disciplines.
Muma was confused by David's words just now, but she still touched the back of her head and smiled shyly.
At this time, Lulu went to the basement with a small basket of dried meat and fruit.
She put the basket on the table and said to David, "Teacher, I'll bring some food to this monkey." Martin and I both found it very valuable to be researched. Joseph, he... I had already gone upstairs to sleep, so I dared to come down. ”
Muma looked at Lulu vigilantly, baring her mouth to reveal two or six canine teeth, and let out a "Brake!" Temple!! The sound of intimidation.
"If there were no earthlings, they would probably be the future rulers of this planet," David said. ”
Lulu said, "How so? ”
David said: "I had some simple language communication with it just now, and they actually have their own names and can speak simple languages. ”
"It doesn't seem like a good thing for them," Lulu said. Give the species a name, and I'll suggest that you name them by your name. ”
David said: "Indeed, the plan of the United Nations contains elements that should be eliminated immediately if intelligent beings are discovered. No way, many people say, the law of the jungle is like that. Well, I've already given them a name, it's called Kaka. By the way, it calls itself Muma. ”
When discussing the details of the New World Project, David had reservations about the details of the plan to wipe out the local intelligent creatures, but the vast majority of scientists and United Nations officials supported the approach.
Lulu gave Muma a friendly smile, "Muma? Hi! Muma, how are you? ”
Muma remained deeply hostile to Lulu and looked at him coldly.
Lulu shrugged, "I was involved in dissecting its companion just now, and it looks like it will never forgive me." ”
David said lightly: "To be honest, I won't either." ”
Lulu looked down at her toes and said, "... In fact, I was also forced to be helpless. ”
David said: "When you gave a wonderful speech to the advance team members in the small square, you didn't say that you were forced. ”
Lulu shrugged and said, "Well, you heard that too?" But who wouldn't want to be king? And if I had rejected Joseph at the time, I might have been like Vanessa... Not everyone gets the same privileges as you do. ”
David sneered: "Preferential, hehe, being locked in a cage like a dog for so many years, is it actually preferential treatment in your eyes?" ”
Lulu stuffed the food into David's cage one by one and said, "Well, Joseph forbade us to come in without permission, I have already taken a big risk today, in fact, you know, I didn't come down to bring food to Muma at all." Since you're still so stubborn, I can't help it. Please keep this food in your own locker so that it is not seen by Joseph. I'm leaving. ”
David scolded indignantly: "You are all cowards, you are all scum, you are all traitors to the earthlings, and you are the public enemies of the whole universe!" ”
"Say whatever you want." Lulu said without looking back.
After being imprisoned for nearly seven years, according to the 20-year lifespan of the genetically optimized marmosets, now David has entered the period of "young adulthood", is Joseph going to lock him up until death?
David analyzed that the United Nations should not have noticed that the advance force had defected, and it would take nearly nine years for the information transmission between the earth and the new world to go back and forth, and the information was too asymmetrical.
In fact, Joseph's report to the United Nations about David's "disappearance" was that he was "missing", and according to the laws of David's country, David's family had to apply to the local court of their country for a declaration of David's disappearance after receiving this information, and only after five years of the court's declaration of David's disappearance could they apply for a declaration of his death.
After the death is pronounced, David's family can apply to their own government or the United Nations with a death certificate to recreate a new David with David's backed-up DNA and his soul frozen in the database.
Unless the principal officials of the United Nations can't wait to resurrect David as soon as possible, it will also need to be passed by the National Assembly resolution to speed up the process.
Even so, all that David experienced on Proxima Centauri B is certainly impossible for the "new David" on Earth to know. Its memory stops in 2136, a few months before the 5,000 "cannonballs" were fired by the giant electromagnetic cannon set on the moon.
If the newborn David dared to go to Proxima B again, Joseph would have caused the "cannonball" containing his DNA sample and soul to "disappear" as soon as Proxima B landed.
And then there's the lengthy statutory freshman process... Or maybe the United Nations will organize another vote specifically for him.
It seems that David has fallen into a dead end.