Chapter 44: The Beast in the Cell
I have faced brutal beasts in the wasteland countless times, not to mention those creatures that were taken by bullets, and there are no less than hundreds of beasts killed with my bare hands, and I have already trained a strong heart.
It would have been easy for me to know if it was a pig, a dog, or a coyote, but the darkness in the cell was terrible, and I could only vaguely see a shadow, and human fear often comes from the unknown.
I grabbed the door, straightened up, glared at the beast across from me, and responded with the same low growl, telling it that I was too strong and not afraid of it at all. This is my experience with beasts.
The fierce beasts in the wasteland will judge whether the other party is strong or not from their momentum, eyes, and movements, and if there is the slightest cowardice, they will pounce and bite, and at that time, it will be too late to run.
No one in the world has outrun the predators of the wasteland, and even the stupid-looking wild boar can be faster than the athletes in the moment of predation. Competing with these beasts for endurance is more of a big joke.
The beast on the other side waved its paw at me, and I wanted to respond in the same way, but I roared twice, and suddenly burst out laughing.
Isn't it ridiculous that it's in a cell now, and I'm in a cell across from it, and that no one can get out, and that one man and one beast are here screaming at each other and no one can do anything about it?
I said to the beast, "Haha, buddy is sleepy, I won't play with you, if you're happy, play by yourself!" With that, he went back to bed and fell asleep.
The beast was silent, and it came to know that no matter how much it tossed in the cage, it would not help.
In a daze, I heard the cuckoo calls, two short and one long, echoing leisurely in the hill against which the Governor's Palace leaned.
After about a few minutes, two more short and one long cries came.
I crawled up on my bones, and the cuckoo's call was a code, could it be that the five falcons were coming again. It can't be, aren't these five for Wood to hand over to the police department?
If not them, who could it be?
I had a flash of inspiration, wasn't it Carl? Carl had also been involved in the Big Wolf Mountain operation and learned about the code words of the Five Falcons.
I also told him that there is also a set of code words between myself and Nemo, and it is also communicated with the calls of birds and beasts, we know what kind of birds and beasts are on which mountain, not the same mountain, I will communicate with Nemo with the common sounds of birds and beasts in this area, this kind of call is mixed with the sounds of nature, it is difficult to distinguish, but Nemo and I can, but our code words are just to not be discovered by those beasts when hunting, the real power is the aborigines of Australia, their language is not very complicated, However, in the process of long-term hunting, a very complete set of sign language was invented, and when the hunters were no longer able to make any sound when they were close to the herd, the natives could communicate with each other through gestures.
In the Big Wolf Mountain, I judged that the cuckoo's call was the code language of the five falcons, in fact, it was very simple, they had just arrived in Australia, and they were not familiar with the local situation, so how did they know that there were no cuckoos in the Big Wolf Mountain area at all. It was a laughing thing to learn to call the cuckoo there, like the king in his new clothes, running naked in the streets in the clothes that he thought he existed. The five animals naively thought that they could hide from the world, but they could only deceive themselves, but they could not deceive the hunters and aborigines who lived in Australia all year round.
Carl is a naΓ―ve big boy, hot-blooded and impulsive, and he must have found it amusing the cuckoo's call when he saw the five falcons using the cuckoo's call, and I don't know if he tried to contact him with the cuckoo's call.
But Karl made the same mistake, the mountain behind the Doge's Palace was only a very small hill in the center of Bryden, and even if it was so wooded, the cuckoo would not have come to feed at this time, let alone build a nest.
So, I ran to the window and responded to Carl with the usual lark calls, which were also two short and three long, and it was too easy for me to learn the calls of these birds.
After a pause, I responded to the lark's call, and then quietly listened to the sounds outside.
After waiting for a long time and getting no response, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed, so I had to lie back on the bed.
It was quiet outside, and there was no sound, except for a few dog barks.
I was deflated, and simply curled up to get ready to sleep, the sleepless dog barked again, first two times, and then a long one, I suddenly patted my head and understood, Carl learned the cuckoo's call is already rare, how could he be the lark's call, but this guy obviously received my secret words, it is estimated that he can't learn the lark's call after scratching his ears and cheeks for a long time, and when he is angry, he can only respond to me with a few dog barks.
Thinking about this, I thought it was funny, Carl is such a funny guy. I quickly ran to the window and again responded with two short and one long lark calls, and sure enough, three more dog calls answered me, and the last long call almost broke.
I laughed, it sounded like a mad dog.
I waited a long time, but there was no sign of Carl, and I thought, yes, Carl has also been imprisoned by the Governor. He didn't want me to save him, did he? Otherwise, why didn't you come to save me after so long?
I couldn't help but smile bitterly, at this moment, the two of us were locked in a cell and the other in a room, neither of us could save the other, and no matter how many dogs and birds chirped, it would be useless. It is estimated that Carl also understood this, so he stopped barking.
This Carl called the Governor uncle, and the Governor's wife was his mother, so the relationship between the Governor and his wife was not an uncle-sister-in-law, and he didn't know where Carl's biological father was? And the mayor's wife was very good to Carl, but she was extremely cold to the governor's wife, and the governor and the mayor didn't say a few words, and the relationship between the two brothers was not very good.
There is also that Prince Hamid, who is domineering, as a prince, there is naturally no shortage of women around him, especially beautiful women, but he came all the way to find Piyou, does he really love Piyou very much? He slapped Piyu in a fit of rage, but I fell to the ground like a punching bag, which was supposed to make people rush up, and the self-proclaimed butler's superlight but understated a sentence that calmed Hamid's mind, what the hell is going on. Yes, Chaoguang must have the Ottoman king's Shang Fang sword, ostensibly to accompany Hamid on his travels, but in fact he has the right to supervise on behalf of the king, otherwise if Chaoguang fails to stop it in time, this conflict will be inevitable.
Wood can also come to the Governor's Palace to attend the banquet, it seems that this peaceful and honest man is not simple, at least not low status, the Governor has transferred the work of other people to his own brother, and he should also treat him to show it, about this. It's just that Wood's father and daughter have not been very harmonious, and Luna can accompany him to the banquet, which really gives his father a lot of face.
The Tanaka siblings are even more confusing to me, if he is only the director of the Hokkaido Martial Arts Museum, he will definitely not be invited, unless Mr. Tanaka has other identities.
Today is the first time I have seen the situation of the upper class, and I have seen this kind of complex relationship, and I can't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time, so I can only sigh, your circle is really messy.
In the midst of my thoughts, drowsiness hit me, and I fell asleep unconsciously.
The next day, I was woken up by the chirping of birds, and when I opened my eyes, it was already sunrise outside.
I stretched, got up, and looked at the sun outside, and it was estimated that it was about ten o'clock in the morning.
The beast in the opposite cell was curled up on a plank bed, its hair was long, covering its face, and its skin was purple-black. He was naked, and he wore a waist skirt with only rags and leaves, and wrapped it around his waist to cover his private parts.
He looked more like a vagabond than a beast, except that he hadn't been able to say a word since last night, except for the occasional low roar.
At this time, four guards walked into the cell and walked to the cell door opposite me, and one of the guards said, "Xiaoman, get up." Today you have another chicken to eat. β
The beast, known as the little brute, got up on the bed, and a soldier impatiently banged on the cell door with a whip in his hand, "You brute, you have to eat and you are so fucking grinding, hurry up." β
The beast jumped out of bed, and crawled to the door of the cell with both hands and feet, and from its movements I guessed that it must be a great ape, no wonder it had not said a word since last night. I can't help but be annoyed when I think of this, the Governor actually locked me up with the monkey, it's really not a thing.
The guard laughed and pulled out an iron chain from his waist, "Come here, I'll tie you up first, so that you don't have to run away." β
Only then did I realize that there was a metal collar in the middle of the neck of the giant ape, and the collar was golden. If so, the Doge's pet is a luxury.
The guard fastened the buckle on the chain to the collar, and then used the key to open the cell door, and then pulled Xiaoman out. I found that Xiaoman, a giant ape, could actually walk upright, and I remembered Darwin's theory of evolution, but unfortunately, if these giant apes were a little more diligent, they might have really evolved into humans.
When Xiao Man walked out of the prison door, he stopped and looked at me curiously.
The guards around him brushed a whip, "Beast, look at what, don't go quickly." Xiao Man let out a miserable scream in his throat, his body was tense and he was about to squat down, obviously scared to the extreme, but the guard holding the chain pulled Xiao Man's head violently, and the iron chain made Xiao Man's face even more bruised, and it climbed a few steps with its hands and feet, and finally avoided its neck from continuing to be strangled, but coughed in its mouth from time to time.
In this way, the four guards were dragged by chains in front and with leather whips in the back, and took the giant ape away.
Calm returned to the cell. My stomach was growling with hunger, and I tapped the cell door, "Hey, anyone?" I'm hungry, and I'll have to eat in jail!"
I filmed for more than ten minutes, but I didn't get the slightest response, and no one came to bring me food or water.
In order to save my energy, I had to lie back on the plank bed.
There was a faint commotion from the direction of the Governor's Palace, some shouting "bite him", others shouting "it ate and caught", and some women screamed. Thinking that these upper-class people were partying again, I didn't expect that this governor's palace was more lively than the brothels and bars on the streets of Brydon.
Towards noon, there was finally footsteps outside, and I ran to the bars to find Dolly approaching lightly.
She was holding a box in her hand, and as she approached the cell door, Dolly shouted in a voice that she could barely hear, "Worm, are you here?" β
I was overjoyed, "Hey, Dolly, where am I?" β
Dolly was startled at first, but when she found out that it was me, she settled down and ran in with the box in her hand.
"Dolly, why are you here?"
Dolly lowered the box to the ground and glanced at me through the cell door, "If I don't come, you'll have to eat live food like a little man." As he spoke, he opened the box, and inside were two chicken legs.
My mouth watered, "Thank you so much, Dolly, you know what, I've been dizzy from hunger for a long time, and I'm close to my heart." As he spoke, he wiped his hand on his body.
Dolly picked up the box and tried to pass it through the iron railing, but found that the gap in the railing was so small that the box could not enter at all. I said, "Don't move, I'll do it myself." As he spoke, he reached out and picked up a chicken leg and put it in his mouth to eat.
"Oh, you eat slowly, it's all for you." Dolly snorted.
"You are a full man and I don't know that a hungry man is hungry, I didn't eat the meat at all after the barbecue yesterday, and I stayed here for a night, the water and rice are not exhausted, not to mention such a fragrant chicken thigh, it is raw, and I have to eat a few bites."
"Haha, then you should be with that beast of Xiaoman, it also eats raw meat every day."
"I didn't expect that your governor's palace still has such a pet in captivity, I just came in last night, the house was pitch black, this guy didn't speak, roared there, I thought it was a lion or a tiger."
"You are also blessed by it, the governor has re-invited Prince Hamid today, I want the prince to see the rare birds and beasts in Australia, people are looking at Xiaoman, I have the opportunity to come over and bring you something to eat."
I looked at Dolly, the well-behaved maid, and said, "Thank you." β
"You don't have to thank me, this is also the order of Master Carl."
"Oh, how's Karl? The Governor didn't embarrass him, did he? β
"It was the Governor's wife who felt sorry for Carl and kept interceding for Carl, so the Governor agreed to release Carl, but he was not allowed to leave the Governor's Mansion for half a step."
"Well, it's good to be able to come out, it's finally free."
"Is that Piyu who came yesterday the fiancΓ©e of Prince Hamid?"
I shook my head, "I don't know, but what I'm sure is that Piyu doesn't want to marry Hamid at all." β
Dolly pursed her lips, "What's wrong with Prince Hamid, he's so handsome, and he can write poetry, I really don't know what Piyu thinks." β
"Piyu is a lark, and she doesn't want to be a canary in a cage. Hey, I see that you look similar to Piyou, why don't you marry Hamid instead of Piyou? β
Dolly took a sip at me, "Eat your meal," and then sighed, and said to herself, "He is a prince, and I am only a maid, how could he like a little maid." β
"Haha, the prince likes Cinderella too, maybe you're the Cinderella." I said with a smile.
Dolly couldn't speak, her head down and fiddling with the small buttons on her clothes.
After a long time, he said to me in a low voice: "Worm, you are Nemo's good friend, he ...... Does he have a girlfriend? β
I suddenly realized in my heart that this little girl secretly liked Nemo, and I said casually: "Nemo, this bastard boy, if there is really a little girl who likes him, then his ancestral grave will be smoking." Hey, Dolly, do you like Nemo. β
Dolly's face flushed, "I...... I don't like this black boy. Then he put away the empty box and ran away.
I looked at her in the background and said loudly, "Don't worry, I'll bring you that black boy again one day."