Liu Qi looked at the narrow ancient road that wound to the edge and asked Chen Wen: "I also feel a bit mysterious. This primeval forest is so weird. Second brother, are you sure this ancient road is marked on the map?"
Chen Wen replied affirmatively: "Third brother, it should be right. Judging from the corpses, scattered carriages, and broken helmets along the way, someone must have been here, but they just didn't cross out. Although the road ahead is difficult, there are some weeds, indicating that
It’s still a road, why no one is walking on it, there must be something weird here.”
E Huantian was not afraid of anything and shouted: "What's so weird? Is there a man-eating ape?"
The words woke up the man in his dream. Liu Qi looked at more and more apes. When E Huan shouted, a poem came into his mind: "The apes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait can't stop crying, and the rivers and mountains thousands of miles away can be returned in one day." I'm afraid this ancient poem said it.
There are many, many apes in Gangneung. Judging from the human bones seen along the road, I'm afraid there are quite a few cannibals.
Liu Qi suddenly had a premonition that there might be man-eating apes in this primeval forest, and said anxiously: "General E, please quickly tell the carriage behind to be careful. My second brother and I are going to explore the road. I'm afraid there is a swamp."
"Yes." E Huan got out of the carriage with his halberd and reminded the bronze guards to be careful from one carriage to another.
Liu Qi and Chen Wen also got off the carriage, dismantled the two horses, and carefully explored the ancient path of the weeds.
Less than a hundred meters before leading the way, Liu Qi found that there were some rocks blocking the road ahead. Suddenly, there were incessant screams from all directions. Countless apes jumped out and surrounded Liu Qi, Chen Wen and the four carriages, and then heard another
There was the sound of ping-pong-pong-pong-pong banging on the carriage's iron plate, and the clang of the iron armor of Liu Qi and Chen Wen being hit by stones. The sixteen war horses tightly wrapped in cowhide were also hit by the stones and neighed on the spot. Liu Qi was greatly shocked.
For surprise - great apes.
These apes look three-quarters like humans and seven-quarters like monkeys, with huge heads, well-developed limbs, furry bodies, and malicious eyes. They are not the divine horse-eating apes that E Huan said, but they are completely apes. Intelligent apes.
They actually moved rocks to block the road, threw rocks to hurt people, and of course used hard pine cones to hit the carriages. They only surrounded them from a distance and did not come close. They must have killed the humans who went deep into the forest and then ate them.
Human flesh.
Fortunately, there are not many large stones in the virgin forest. However, even if Liu Qi and others are indestructible, they cannot withstand the crazy rain of stones, and the iron-wrapped crown of the carriage is only used to prevent cold arrows.
He never thought that he would be attacked by the rain of stones from the apes, and the iron box was suddenly smashed into dents. However, the iron box was quite thick, and although it was not as good as the steel plate, it was not broken.
When E Huan saw this scene, he became angry. He was attacked by a group of crocodiles two days ago, and today he was besieged by a group of apes. It was really bad luck. E Huan picked up the square halberd, jumped out of the carriage, and went straight to the group of apes despite the rain of stones.
As soon as the whistle blew, the apes fled in all directions. Some hid behind tall trees, and some climbed up the tree trunks. They were so stunned that the extremely powerful E Huan was helpless. It seemed that these apes had become spirits.
Knowing how powerful human beings are, they dare not confront anyone, so they bared their teeth and cracked their mouths at E Huan, making Liu Qi and his party dumbfounded.
"Wow, that's so annoying..." Looking at the group of apes hiding to challenge E Huan, E Huan stomped his feet angrily.
E Huan stared at the apes and asked, "Sir, what should we do?"
Liu Qi saw that although there were many apes, they were all afraid of death. He sneered and waved his hand: "Ignore it, remove the rocks and move on."
A few bronze guards moved the stones blocking the way of the apes and continued to move forward. However, they heard another whistle and the apes surrounded them again. Another wave of stones and pine cones came, causing the horses to neigh.
forward.
Fortunately, Liu Qi and his party came prepared. Otherwise, without the armor to protect themselves, they would have been smashed by the apes and died on the ancient forest road with only three or two stones. No wonder there were no dead bodies in front of them, and they had never encountered them.
Bandits, the biggest enemies in the forest are actually apes.
The apes used the guerrilla tactics of later generations, Mao Taizu. If you go, it will chase it. If you chase it, it will go. "When the enemy advances, we retreat. When the enemy is stationed, we disturb. When the enemy retreats, we pursue. When the enemy is tired, we attack." The sixteen-character guerrilla tactics.
The apes used this strategy so brilliantly that it made it difficult for Liu Qi to move forward anyway. Hundreds of thousands of apes planned to trap Liu Qi and others, who were protected by iron helmets, to death in the primeval forest.
Being besieged by the apes and unable to move, Liu Qi ordered the carriage to stop. The ten bronze warriors holding strange military pills were waiting for Liu Qi's order to attack and fight. The apes seemed to feel the danger, and there was another whistle.
The apes retreated dozens of meters and were in a stalemate with Liu Qi and others.
E Huan took a few steps forward and waved his halberd in the air, hoping to provoke the apes to attack, but the apes sat there and watched. E Huan angrily cursed: "Some naughty monkeys, they fight and don't fight, they move and they don't move.
A monkey has become a spirit and is so angry that it kills me."
Chen Wen smiled and said: "General E, what are you doing with the beast? I have my own magic method to get rid of the ape."
E Huan shouted: "Brother Wen, tell me quickly, what's the magic trick?"
Chen Wen rolled his eyes, pointed at the giant ape hidden in the crown of a tall tree a hundred meters away, and said, "Have you seen that big monkey making poses?"
"I saw it, it's just a little bit bigger."
"That's the leader ape, the ape king, and the whistle comes from that ape king. Can't General E be able to pierce a poplar with five hundred steps? If you shoot the ape king with one arrow, the ape group will naturally disperse."
"Oh, I understand, haha, look at me." E Huan laughed, took out the old wooden bow from his back, bent the bow and shot the arrow.
"Wait a minute." Seeing this, Liu Qi quickly stopped E Huan and said, "This method is inappropriate."
"Sir, what's wrong?" E Huan put down his bow and arrow, then looked at Chen Wen, confused.
The method of shooting the leading ape was proposed by Chen Wen. Liu Qi had a premonition that this method was extremely dangerous. He was afraid that he would kill the leading ape and anger the group of apes. Even if the ape did not throw stones, thousands of great apes would fight to the death to catch and harass them.
It's too much to bear. You have to remember that they are apes. Although no one is good-looking, they are still humanoids with emotions, thoughts and emotions!
Liu Qi explained to Chen Wen: "My second brother, although this method can drive away apes, it is extremely risky. The battle with crocodiles in the Yangtze River the day before yesterday is a lesson for others. Today, the apes retreat sometimes because we have not killed or injured other species."
Provoke it. If we shoot the leading ape and provoke a group of apes all over the forest to fight to the death, I'm afraid we won't be able to get out."
Chen Wen sighed and said: "What the third brother said is true. I also know this truth. It's just that there is no way to stay in a stalemate like this. If we can't get out of this forest before dusk, we may never get out."
Liu Qi said: "Don't worry, there are always more solutions than difficulties."
E Huan said: "Master, do you have any idea?"
Liu Qi said: "Not yet, let's rest where we are."
"Yes." E Huan was discouraged, shook his head toward the apes, and put away the Square Heavenly Halberd.
Liu Qi paced, pondered for a while, and asked: "Second brother, I'm thinking, we didn't offend the apes, why did they attack us?"
Chen Wen twisted his beard and replied: "Judging from the human and animal bones along the way, I am afraid that many of them are ape bones. It should be caused by someone shooting the apes, which aroused the hatred of the apes."
"Oh, if that's the case, I'm afraid the apes won't disperse. I want to throw some crocodile meat and a few hens to the apes. I wonder if these beasts will let them go if they benefit from it?"
Chen Wen nodded and said, "I'm not sure, let's give it a try."
"Okay, I'll do it." Without any instructions, E Huan picked up a few pieces of pickled crocodile meat from the carriage, and caught a hen. He threw it towards the group of apes, but he saw that the hen had just opened its mouth in the air.
A great ape jumped up into the air and grabbed the wings. Instead of sending them to his feet, he quickly climbed to the giant ape's hiding place seemingly very excitedly and presented the hen to the leading ape.
"Flattering, dead monkey." Liu Qi cursed, looking at the great apes catching chickens to flatter themselves, he suddenly felt funny. Dare to flatter the superior to show loyalty is not a human patent, it turns out that it is also very popular in the animal world.
The leading giant ape took the hen and patted the head of the great ape who offered the chicken with his huge palm. After some affectionate gestures, he opened his mouth wide and without even plucking the hair, he actually gave birth to the big hen.
He swallowed it and burped, baring his fangs with a satisfied expression.
After the leading ape king swallowed the hen, several more apes grabbed the pieces of crocodile meat thrown by E Huan in their hands, climbed up and offered them to the giant ape. The ape king accepted them one by one, but was not in a hurry.
Instead, he stuck out his big tongue and ate it gently. After confirming that the fish pieces were non-toxic and that humans meant no harm, he swallowed the crocodile pieces in one gulp and then threw the fish pieces offered by the apes under the tree. The apes suddenly cheered.
, squealing and vying for the spoils rewarded by the leading ape king - pickled Yangtze River crocodile meat.
Seeing this, Liu Qi thought there was a way out, and quickly asked E Huan to throw in a few more pieces of crocodile meat. The same thing was picked up by other great apes and presented to the ape king. The giant ape only ate one piece, and then took the rest of the crocodile meat.
Throwing the block down still caused a crowd of apes below to rejoice.
The giant apes must have seen Liu Qi stop E Huan from shooting an arrow and offer him delicious hen and crocodile meat. When Liu Qi saw the apes rejoicing, he knew that the apes would no longer be as hostile as before.
After the group of apes rejoiced for a while, they screamed at Liu Qi again and looked at Liu Qi with longing eyes. A few pieces of crocodile meat was really not enough for hundreds of great apes to satisfy their craving. They hoped that Liu Qi would still be kind and charitable.
Liu Qi cursed secretly: "You should accept the dead monkey when you see it. The crocodile meat I caught with all my life is not used to feed you beasts. It has to be kept to replenish the health of the three hundred soldiers in Huaguo Mountain."
The monkey's eager eyes are very obvious, and its greedy and insufficient mentality is no different from that of humans. Since apes have similar psychological characteristics to humans, Liu Qi felt that it was possible to communicate with the leading ape king.
Liu Qi whispered to E Huan, ordering the Bronze Man guards to put away their weapons, first assume a peaceful posture, and then try to raise their hands to the ape king in the canopy without saying a word, just opening their mouths and moving.
, expressing that we are willing to make friends. We have no ill intentions, we are just passing by.
After cupping his hands, the ape king didn't respond. Liu Qi loosened his fist and spread his hands. He still moved his mouth but made no sound. Talking human language to the monkey was like playing the piano to a cow. Liu Qi didn't do such a stupid thing. There was no need to talk to the beast.
Speaking human words is not.
A strange thing happened. When Liu Qi spread his hands, the ape king seemed to understand Liu Qi's intention and covered his big mouth with his hands. Suddenly there was a long whistle and the apes ran around and dispersed.
An even stranger thing happened. As soon as the group of apes dispersed, the king of apes sat on a branch with his big red buttocks. He imitated Liu Qi’s movements and put his two huge furry palms together, arched them towards Liu Qi, and then jumped up.
He jumped three feet and disappeared into the dense virgin forest.
"Haha, the apes have retreated, but Young Master is still powerful." E Huan sincerely admired Liu Qi.
"My third brother is mighty and can fight without bloodshed. This is the best policy." Chen Wen saluted Liu Qi respectfully, his eyes showing great admiration. Liu Qi, his sworn brother-in-law, was extremely intelligent.
"Let's go." Liu Qi looked at the carriage that had been smashed into holes by the apes, and smiled helplessly. He did not go on a killing spree and retreated from the apes. He couldn't help but feel a little proud, thinking that the ape king was still alive.