Chapter 248: True Two-Spined Ape

 Faced with the giant net, the orangutans in the forest fled in all directions.

 Some were caught in a giant net and caught on the spot. Fortunately, Zhao Meng escaped with his life, but unfortunately he was separated from his mother.

 “Now you have to live on your own!”

 Looking at the captured orangutans,

Zhao Meng sighed in his heart and could only flee further away.

With his current situation, he is no match for these humans. These humans are well-equipped. Each of them carries a gun and a variety of catching tools. They seem to be here specifically to capture orangutans.

This made Zhao Meng think about the monkeys that were often used for experiments. He didn't want to end up like that.

They can only follow the other orangutans and continue to flee far away, to a place they think is safe.

  【In the seventh month, you lost your mother and you felt hungry. 】

Although Zhao Meng is young, he has already acquired the ability to move around in the forest. As long as he does not go down to the ground alone, his safety is still guaranteed.

 “Ho ho, hoo hoo!”

The alert orangutan in the tree suddenly screamed,

Zhao Meng didn't care what happened and rushed towards a safer place.

 “We have to find ways to increase our food intake.”

Zhao Meng, who was climbing on the tree, looked at the situation below and was thinking about something secretly.

Even though the orangutan has lost the protection of its mother, as a highly social animal, the orangutan will also accept and care for the orphaned orangutan.

In the past, in the group, female orangutans would take turns taking care of the cubs of other female orangutans, allowing other female orangutans to have time to look for food.

 It’s a pity that as a group of orangutans with extremely high intelligence and complex social structure,

Orangutans have a distinctly distant attitude toward their own children and the offspring of other orangutans in their care.

 Let the non-relative female orangutans be responsible for safety, and they can take care of it, but if they want to **** milk and get food from her, they will have to face her fangs.

“The fruit on the trees will be ripe soon, so there’s no need to go to the river to catch clams.”

Zhao Meng felt helpless as he looked at the big python swimming in the river. Orangutans had certain seasonal eating habits. In the current season, they went to the river more often to get food.

 But because of his young body shape, he often falls behind in the competition for food.

 Fortunately, he still possesses human wisdom and will not starve to death in such a season.

  【In the ninth month, you have obtained enough food and your body has returned to its normal state. 】

 The rainy season in the tropics has arrived as promised.

The rain forest was noisy in the past, but now there was only the sound of rain. Zhao Meng pulled a piece of plant leaf similar to a banana leaf, put it on his body, and yawned.

On rainy days, almost all predators will not move around freely.

Whether they are tigers, leopards, or snakes and insects, they will stay in one place and wait for the rain to end.

In this case, a rainy day will make every creature feel comfortable and relaxed, and the same is true for Zhao Meng as an orangutan. He is so comfortable that he keeps dozing off.

Zhao Meng, who was taking a nap, suddenly woke up as lightning flashed across his head and a muffled thunder exploded.

 He could vaguely see lights flashing in the forest.

"Humanity!"

Just when Zhao Meng was surprised, he heard a muffled sound, and an orangutan fell from the tree and fell into a net bag.

 Following this, another orangutan fell. Seeing this situation, Zhao Meng was shocked.

 He did not run around, but completely curled up into the banana leaves.

 He noticed that these humans were carrying guns. The guns had only a very weak firing sound and were most likely some kind of tranquilizer guns.

As a young man, he had no way of escaping from the gun in the slippery environment of the rain.

He didn’t know whether it was the banana leaves he used to shelter from the rain that allowed him to escape the disaster.

Or it may be that those humans disliked his small size, but in short, Zhao Meng survived in the end.

The rain gradually stopped, Zhao Meng looked at the empty treetops and the messy environment below,

Even though the warm sunshine formed a micro-rainbow through the treetops, Zhao Meng's heart was filled with coldness.

The familiar female orangutans have been captured, and their children have been killed by humans on the spot.

I don’t know how long it took, but the smell of blood attracted predators from the forest, tearing apart the bodies of the cubs below, while Zhao Meng was already hiding in a higher tree.

“These humans are definitely not here for experimental materials. If they were for experiments, the little monkeys would not be handled by them on the spot. What is their purpose?”

Zhao Meng is puzzled, but this problem is not his biggest concern at the moment. The real trouble is that he is now alone.

　　【In October, you were active in the forest, and without anyone to look after you, you fell into a food crisis again. 】

According to Zhao Meng’s observations during this period, orangutans will not be completely weaned until they are about three years old.

 But even a few years after weaning, he could still see that the mother orangutan would still provide certain care for her offspring.

He even saw an old female orangutan taking her offspring to find her own mother for help.

Orangutans have a long lifespan and take a long time to mature. Based on his experience of simulating so many animals,

The age at which orangutans can first start should be between 12 and 14 years old.

 This seems to be somewhat similar to humans, and according to his simulated experience, the life span of this animal is also extremely long.

He has even seen very old orangutans in the group. If orangutans live in a healthy and safe environment, Zhao Meng believes that the lifespan of this animal is no less than that of humans.

 In the face of animals with such long development cycles,

They are separated from the group when they are less than one year old, and there is basically no possibility of survival.

 Fortunately, there is a human soul in this body, and he is still living there with difficulty.

 …

  【In February of the first year, you obtained a stable source of food and your physical condition improved. 】

Orangutans have many differences from ordinary monkeys.

The weight of orangutans is closer to that of humans. The weight of adult female orangutans is between 40 kilograms and 60 kilograms.

  If you are carrying an adult female orangutan, the weight should be similar to that of an adult female.

 In addition to weight, the biggest difference between orangutans and monkeys lies in the flexibility and grasping ability of their hands.

 Because they spend a long time in the forest, the gripping strength of orangutans is even stronger than that of humans.

In this case, Zhao Meng, who was only one year old, could make many things with his own hands.

 Hands flexible enough to make tools, coupled with human intelligence.

 After this period of exploration, Zhao Meng made a large number of tools and finally got rid of hunger and gained food and clothing.

 …

A thin figure landed on an extending tree branch, and beneath the tree branch was a turbid river.

At this time, Zhao Meng was pulling a rope to salvage something in the river.

At this moment, there was a rumbling sound in the distance, and a tree fell to the ground.

Hearing such a sound, Zhao Meng quickly put away the rope he had picked up from the human and fled towards the distance.

“These people are destroying the forest more and more seriously, and we can’t stay in this place.”…

  【The next year, in March, you moved to a new area, but the environment here worried you. 】

 “It’s the second year!”

Zhao Meng looked at a large mountain in the distance through the gap in the forest. The top of the mountain was slightly flat, and a lot of fog was coming out of it.

Such a phenomenon all shows that this is a huge active volcano.

 But under the threat of humans, he had to flee to the vicinity of this volcano.

At this moment, the mountain made a muffled sound, as if something cracked in the mountain.

At the same time, a large amount of thick smoke erupted from the top of the mountain. Seeing such an active volcano, Zhao Meng muttered in his heart:

 “These humans!”

Looking back on what happened during this year, Zhao Meng felt helpless.

 Humans, who don’t know where they came from, have been eyeing orangutans and have been capturing them.

The number of orangutans is already small. Under the constant harassment of these humans, the population has become smaller and smaller. Coupled with the felling of trees in the forest, the survival pressure of orangutans has increased sharply.

“The last time I encountered another orangutan was two months ago.”

“I haven’t encountered orangutans for so long. Could it be that regional extinction has already occurred? I won’t experience a natural extinction of orangutans in the wild in this simulation!”

“Moreover, the behavior of these humans is also very strange. They only catch female orangutans, but ignore the male orangutans.”

Thinking of this weird phenomenon, his orangutan face looked a little ugly.

After all, he came with a mission for this simulation. If all the female orangutans disappear, how will he complete the mission when he grows up?

 …

 【In April of the fifth year, the volcano is becoming more and more active, and you need to find new territory】

 Looking at the rocks falling from the mountain top and smashing into the dense forest,

Zhao Meng sighed. Three years have passed since he fled his birthplace.

 At the foot of this active volcano, Zhao Meng also spent three years peacefully.

Stones fall from the volcano from time to time, which makes humans afraid to move in this area, which also makes this area a paradise for animals.

 But unfortunately, the volcano will eventually erupt one day, and the system also gave him a reminder that he can no longer live here.

 “Ooh, **** ho!”

Zhao Meng called twice, and several orangutans came from a distance.

 “Ho ho!”

 “Ho ho!”

Zhao Meng was communicating with the orangutans who were fleeing to the foot of the volcano.

He tried to take them away from here, but unfortunately, as a minor orangutan, Zhao Meng still did not have enough prestige and strength to take away any of the orangutans.

Even the orangutan, who had just grown up and was less than 16 years old, was unwilling to leave with him.

Seeing that the orangutans refused, Zhao Meng could not force him, so he had to leave alone.

“It’s a pity that I am only five years old now. In some ways, I am similar to a human five-year-old child. It would be great if I were thirteen!”

Zhao Meng looked back and saw that the youngest female orangutan was embarking on a new journey.

“I just hope that the direction I choose will not encounter a gathering point of humans!”

 Zhao Meng chose a direction and drilled into the dense forest.

　　【In September of the fifth year, during the migration, you discovered something unusual. 】

 Zhao Meng walked in one direction along the river,

 But at this moment, he suddenly stopped jumping in the forest. He looked at the bare open space in front of him and felt bad.

 “We have encountered a gathering place of humans, take a detour!”

Zhao Meng didn’t know what kind of area the simulated place was. What part of the earth was such an area in the previous life?

 But judging from his previous simulations, the simulated environment was sometimes filled with people and sometimes without people.

 When there are people, sometimes a city will appear, and sometimes there will be no city.

I can only say that the environment in the simulation is confusing.

As for the area of ​​the orangutan simulation, he speculated based on his limited geographical knowledge.

 A place with volcanoes and tropical rainforests is most likely to be in some areas of Java or Borneo.

 Zhao Meng didn’t know where exactly it was.

 Just when Zhao Meng changed his path,

There was a burst of chirping shouts from the forest in the distance.

It seemed that someone was working there. Zhao Meng found a taller tree and looked in the direction of the sound.

I saw some large machinery placed in the open space in front of me. The machinery was like a drilling platform, constantly extracting something from the ground.

The extracted turbid liquid turned into a small river and went downwards, while hundreds of male laborers in fine clothes were sifting through the water.

“These hundreds of men look like they are engaged in some kind of mining!”

Zhao Meng glanced at it from a distance and then walked in the other direction.

　　【In October of the fifth year, you found that you were migrating in the wrong direction, and you kept changing directions, trying to avoid humans. 】

"so many people!"

Zhao Meng encountered another human camp, which seemed to be a logging field.

Some people with shiny brown skin were working in the lumber camp. There were so many of them that at a glance, there were hundreds of them.

“The level of human activity in this area is so high.”

“It’s no wonder that the survival of orangutans is facing such a big crisis.”

 Zhao Meng continued in the direction of reform,

Next month he encountered a mining area where a large number of male workers were engaged in mining activities.

 The mine being mined is an open-pit coal mine that is extremely damaging to the environment.

The black coal water has made the water sources in a large area unclean, and even made the nearby rivers look gray.

 The forest here has become dead, and the trees are covered with soot.

"Humanity…"

 “By the way, where are the humans who capture orangutans!”

Unconsciously, the sky gradually darkened. Zhao Meng stayed away from the mine and planned to find a safe place to spend the night.

Just as he was about to take a rest, he suddenly noticed a red light curtain appearing on the horizon.

"City!"

Seeing this scene, Zhao Meng could no longer sleep.

 Go towards where the red light is.

When he got nearby, Zhao Meng realized that it was not a city, but a small town with all kinds of lights flashing.

At this time, a large engineering vehicle was driving in the distance and stopped at the gate of the town.

 Soon, a large number of brown-skinned workers got out of the car and headed towards the town.

These people were talking and laughing, and their high spirits reminded Zhao Meng of a place.

“In this barbaric place, are there any women willing to come and live here?”

 (End of this chapter)