Chapter 48: More secrets

In order to explain to the aborigines, I must bring back some things of the human-faced monkey. After letting Zhang Yutong rest on the trunk, I walked out of the woods with an axe alone.

Not far away, I suddenly saw a monkey-like guy flashing out on the mountainside of the opposite waterfall. This scared me to lie prone on the grass.

Soon more monkeys appeared. They jumped down the steep hillside and walked flat on the ground. They were unusual agility. Because the two mountains are not far apart, they jumped directly and gathered around the human-faced monkey to see.

At this time, I also saw their appearance more clearly. They were a group of guys with long tails, naked bodies and human skin. Their faces were even more human than human-faced monkeys. They could be called human monkeys.

The man-faced monkey raised his hand and then lay on his back. The sound of falling to the ground brought echoes in the valley.

They all lay on the man-faced monkey, as if mourning it.

Although they all drag long tails, they are still very different. They are not a species at all. They cannot be descendants of human-faced monkeys. As to why the human-faced monkey ran back here to die, and the relationship between them made me feel very puzzled.

But soon the situation was beyond my expectation, and the monkeys began to jump onto the monkey and eat its body.

After eating its stomachs, they tore off the meat of the human-faced monkey, and one person jumped to the opposite mountain with a piece on its back. When they reached the position where they appeared, they turned around and disappeared.

The scene just now made me a little scared. After a long time, I lifted my step and ran ahead.

The human-faced monkey has become a bloody piece and looks unusually disgusting. Its head was too big for me to take away, so I cut off a paw. The claws are 20 centimeters long and thick and sharp.

After carrying it in my pocket, I quickly ran back for fear that those monkeys would appear again.

Running back to the woods, I saw Zhang Yutong leaning against the tree and falling asleep. After waking her up, she was so confused. I pulled her up and encouraged her, "We must walk back now. It's dangerous here."

She nodded and looked back.

"Ah... Brother Lu Fei, what do you think that is?"

I subconsciously hid behind the trunk and poked my head out to peek. I saw five dark, pointed-headed and two-legged human species appearing on the other side of the waterfall. They followed the hillside like the previous monkeys to go there to share the meat of the human-faced monkey.

I couldn't help thinking that if I had slowed down just now, they would have seen me.

Unless fear brings fear to people, sometimes it also brings strength. I put Zhang Yutong on my back and hurried back.

After chasing the human-faced monkey all night, compared with hunger and thirst, fatigue and hardship are more painful things. I was tired of walking, so I couldn't carry Zhang Yutong any more. I wanted Zhang Yutong to come down and walk for a while, but I couldn't wake up her.

I had to put her on a stone, cut down some trees by myself, spread the branches on the ground, put her on it, covered her, and drilled in myself, because the place was narrow and the two bodies were very close together.

When I woke up, it was already dark. And I was very hungry but can only coo. I waked her up, she blinked eyes, looked at me and laughed.

I said, "What's so funny? Your face are very dirty too now."

She still couldn't stop laughing. When she stopped laughing, I pushed away the branch on the stone and stood up. The moon in the sky was still bright. This was the second time that the moon has become round since we have come to the island.

"Brother Lu Fei, can you find something to eat?" Zhang Yutong bitterly asked.

I took her hand and said: "Hold on, when we go back we will bring back the two wild goats that the man-faced monkey lost, and we will have a good meal."

"But I want to eat food now." She twisted her body and said coquetry.

I moved my hands and feet, let her climb on my back, and carried her on. When I arrived near the previous fire, I found that there was still burning charcoal inside, so I quickly added some firewood. I let her pick up firewood, and I'll pick up the goat.

Hunger made me have no strength to skin the sheep slowly. So I drew a square directly on the belly of the sheep. After tearing off the skin, I cut off a whole piece of lamb ribs and began to roast them with two tree sticks.

Zhang Yutong came back with firewood in her arms, sat down beside me happily, swallowed twice in her throat and said, "Hurry up, I'm starving to death."

I nodded and said, "Yu Tong, if you are full, let's go directly to the aboriginal tribe."

"Don't worry so much, we are so embarrassed. They will laugh at you when you go." Zhang Yutong said: "Li Wanxue has been arrested by them for so long, is it no problem for her to stay one more night?"

I explained: "Not for Li Wanxue's sake, we only brought back a paw and if we went to the aboriginal tribe in bright and beautiful clothes, they probably thought we had cut off a paw of the human-faced monkey. If we go like this, they will surely believe that the human-faced monkey was killed by us."

"It was already killed." Zhang Yutong said: "By the way, should we tell them that we have seen more monkeys in the mountains?"

"This isn’t the right time to tell them about this. It will depend on the situation." I can't make up my mind for now. If they know the existence of those guys and ask us to kill them all, it will be miserable. For one another reason, I'm not sure, when the human-faced monkey is dead, will those human monkeys also come here to beg for food?

Zhang Yutong nodded, grabbed the board I held in my hand, and pulled a little meat on the edge of the lamb ribs.

After squatting down, she looked full of enjoyment and exaggeratedly said: "It’s so delicious, bake quickly, bake quickly."

Baking food with open flame is easy to burn, and her urging doesn't work. When I could eat, I separated the lamb ribs one by one with an axe, and we two ate them directly in our hands. When I was full, I made a simple trailer with several tree sticks and tied two goats to it. I draged together to the seaside. After canoeing the goats back to the cave, we went up the mountain to the aboriginal tribes.

After a long delay, the dawn came again when we reached the bottom of the highland. This time we shouted a long time before someone came and threw the rattan ladder down to us.

After going up, I proudly took out the claws of the human-faced monkey and showed it to the man. He took a look at it, and his eyes widened in horror. He took it and ran to the tribe, shouting loudly while running.

When we walked to the tribe, the whole tribe gathered again. As a translator, Li Wanxue was still with him.

When we came up to the cheif, the chief took the paw of the human-faced monkey and asked happily, "Did you only get one paw back?"

I nodded: "It's too big to take things, and the claw is used as proof."

"What about his body?" The chief was extremely cautious.

I pointed to the northwest and said, "It ran into the mountains and died there. We only hurt it. We have been chasing it all night. You have already seen that we are all dirty and unlike ourselves. It died after exhaustion. I couldn't bring anything else back, so I only took a paw."

The chief showed some regret. I added, "Don't abandon it. Fortunately, we run fast. There are big bears and wild animals in the mountains. If we hadn't run fast, they would have eaten us."

The chief nodded with approval: "There are big bears there. I didn't expect you to be so powerful and kill the human face monkey in such a short time."

I smiled and said: "It's just dure to good luck." After that, I pulled Li Wanxue to my side and said, "Can you release her now?"

Li Wanxue gave me a surprise look before helping to translate.

The chief nodded: "I am a man who keeps his promise. If you kill the man-faced monkey, I should let your woman go. But for a brave man like you, I hope you can stay in our tribe."

I waved my hand: "Forget it, our living habits are different. We'd better go out to live. But I hope that when we encounter trouble again in the future, we can cope with it together."