Chapter 171 Telling Stories to the White Ape

Chapter 171 Telling Stories to the White Ape

Chapter 171 Telling Stories to the White Ape
Hey, isn’t this an axe?
Xiao Jie was a little surprised. He looked at the huge knife mark and the place where the axe was embedded. It looked like someone had used the axe to kill the willow demon with one stroke.

This willow monster is more than ten meters tall. Such a huge monster must be at least thirty or fifty levels, right?
This white ape is more powerful than I imagined.

But why is it a hatchet? Is there any connection between this hatchet and the woodcutter outside the valley?
Xiao Jie moved the mouse to the hatchet and found that there was an icon for drawing the knife.

Xiao Jie clicked the mouse and saw his character grip the handle of the knife and pull it out with force.

Then there was a click.

[System prompt: The hatchet is completely broken. You have obtained the item, the broken hatchet.]

Xiao Jie opened the package and took a look.

[Broken hatchet (garbage)
Item Description: A severely rusted hatchet, broken due to being too old, and now it can no longer be used. 】

Too long ago? Xiao Jie keenly noticed a detail bug.

The remains of the willow demon in front of me don’t look like it has been dead for a long time. Why is the hatchet so badly rusted?

"Old Monkey, when was this willow demon killed?"

"Just last month, the king killed him personally."

"So this hatchet is Senior Ape's weapon?"

"I guess so."

Xiao Jie thought to himself, that's not long, so what's the matter with this knife? It can't be that the white ape specially found a rusty hatchet to chop monsters.

There are too few clues to determine the truth, but Xiao Jie has a feeling that there must be a connection.

"Okay, that's enough for today. Old Monkey, take me to rest."

"Little brother, you are really amazing. You killed all these monsters so quickly. You are worthy of being the one chosen by the king. Come with me."

Xiao Jie jumped off the tree demon's body and followed the old monkey into the valley. As he walked, he couldn't help but ask, "Do you have a name? I can't keep calling you old monkey, can I?"

"Hahaha, why not? I am an old monkey. We monkeys don't have names. I am the old monkey, the king is the white monkey, and the one leading you is the little monkey. What's so strange about that?"

"Old monkey, can you help me find a place to sleep?"

It is actually possible to log off directly, but if you log off in bed, you will have more energy when you log on the next day.

"Yes, yes, little brother, follow me."

The old monkey led the way, and the man and the monkey came to a huge wooden house. This shabby wooden house was very simple and rough, but it was not small in scale. It was built with various round logs, broken wooden boards and branches. It was obviously built by these monkeys.

"Those young and strong monkeys can sleep in the trees, but we old monkeys can't. Fortunately, there are no wild beasts in this valley, so we live in this wooden cave. The king said this thing is called a 'house'."

Wow, this white ape is also an inventor.

When the man and the monkey walked into the wooden house, the old monkeys inside immediately screamed.

"Where did the monster come from?"

"Look! What a big bald monkey!"

"Old monkey, what did you bring?"

"Don't be rude, this is the king's guest." said the old monkey.

When they heard that it was the white ape's guest, the old monkeys fell silent.

Suddenly, a cold snort came from the corner, "Hmph, what king? He's just a monster."

Xiao Jie looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was spoken by a monkey in the darkness in the corner. The monkey was extremely burly, with muscles all over its body and black hair. It looked a bit like a gorilla. It was lying on a grass mat, catching lice with a ferocious look on its face.

Great Savage Ape (Defeats Monkey King): Level 16 Elite, 1200 HP.

The old monkey seemed to be somewhat afraid of the great savage ape, but he still argued, "How dare you speak ill of the king."

"That's right, if you dare to say bad things about the king again, I will kick you out."

"Big Savage Ape, don't think you can gossip just because you were once the king. Now the White Ape King is the real king!"

The old monkeys all started to make a fuss. The big wild ape snorted coldly but said nothing more.

Xiao Jie became interested. It seemed that this old monkey king knew something.

"Why do you say that Senior White Ape is a monster?"

"Humph, I don't talk to humans."

It actually knows humans. This big ape seems to have some knowledge. It may be the key to solving the mystery of the white ape's identity.

The old monkey said, "Don't worry about it. It looks big, but it's useless. When it was the monkey king, it couldn't protect the monkeys. It's even more useless after the White King comes. If it dares to cause trouble, just teach it a lesson."

After the old monkey left, Xiao Jie was not in a hurry to log off. He walked to the big ape and continued to ask questions.

The big ape just lay on the grass mat in a daze, completely ignoring Xiao Jie's questions.

Xiao Jie suddenly laughed.

"I know, you must be lying. You felt embarrassed after being beaten up, so you said that Senior Ape was a monster to make an excuse for your defeat. Tsk tsk tsk tsk, you are too shameless, you lost, so what's there to be embarrassed about.

Senior Ape is so powerful, it is normal for you to lose to him."

The big ape was not angry, and sneered: "You don't have to provoke me, a cunning human. I am very familiar with your tricks. I will not tell you unless--"

"Unless what?"

The big ape's eyes flashed with cunning, and he lowered his voice and said, "Unless you help me get a fruit, I will tell you."

"Fruit? That's easy. I have some in my bag."

As Xiao Jie said this, he opened his backpack and was about to give it away.

The big wild ape shook his head and said, "I'm not talking about ordinary fruit. There is a dangerous peak behind the white ape's throne. On the cliff grows a strange fruit tree with scarlet fruit. If you can help me pick one, I will tell you the origin of the white ape."

System prompt: Trigger the task [Commission of the Great Savage Ape]. You met a strange ape in the Monkey Valley. He commissioned you to help him find a strange red fruit and is willing to give you a secret as a reward.

Mission content: Help the big ape pick the 'mysterious red fruit' on the cliff.

Mission Reward: ????

Xiao Jie said: "Why don't you pick them yourself?"

"It's not that easy. We monkeys are good at climbing trees, not mountains. The place where the red fruit grows is very steep. If you are not careful, you will fall and die. I dare not try. Many monkeys have tried to pick the fruit before, but none of them succeeded. But I heard that you humans know martial arts, maybe you can do it."

Xiao Jie hesitated for a moment before accepting the task. Anyway, he accepted the task first and saw whether he could complete it or not. "Okay, I'll take care of this task. I'll help you check it out tomorrow."

After accepting the task, Xiao Jie went offline.

Silent all night.

The next day, Xiao Jie went online early and woke up in the big wooden house. The dawn light was outside the door. Xiao Jie walked out of the wooden house and came to the stone platform where the white ape was sleeping. The nameless white ape had not gotten up yet and was lying on the stone bed, snoring.

Xiao Jie had nothing to do, so he started exploring the Monkey Valley.

Monkey Valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only an exit on the north side. On both sides are continuous towering mountains, which are generally very steep, forming two peaks. The mountain behind the white ape is particularly steep, with steep cliffs, rugged rocks, and the peak goes straight into the clouds.

Xiao Jie looked up and on a cliff halfway up the mountain, between the clouds and mist, he could faintly see a tree growing diagonally halfway up the dangerous peak.

There were indeed some scarlet fruits on the tree, which must be the so-called mysterious scarlet fruits.

But do I really want to do this task? Will it make the white ape unhappy?

The main purpose of finding out the identity of the white ape is to make it easier to improve its favor and learn swordsmanship. If you anger the white ape, you won't be able to wait any longer to try.

After hesitating for a moment, an idea suddenly came to me.

After waiting patiently for a while, the white ape finally woke up with a yawn, tugged at his cotton robe, and walked over with his two big sleeves dragging.

"Boy, what are you doing standing here so early in the morning?"

"Senior Ape, there is something I should tell you. When I was resting yesterday, a big wild ape in the wooden house asked me to help him pick a scarlet fruit. I think there might be something wrong, so I'd better tell you."

"Hehe, that bastard is really not giving up. If it hadn't done anything bad, I would have killed it just for that reason.

But never mind, just let it go.

That fruit is of no use to me. If you want to pick it, go ahead. It's fine as long as you can reach it. Hehehe, let me warn you, if you fall from it, I won't save you."

Huh, you agreed so easily?

Xiao Jie was a little surprised and confirmed again, "Senior Ape, do you really not mind?" "Nonsense, I'm not as hypocritical as you humans."

Xiao Jie looked at the red fruits on it and felt quite excited.

Generally speaking, in highly exploratory games like this, the more dangerous the place, the more hidden rewards there will be. This fruit must be extraordinary.

Even if I don't give the big ape one to pick, it would be nice to get one for myself to try.

The distance is a bit high, and I can’t jump up there using my Qing Kung Fu skills. Fortunately, I know how to do mountain climbing steps, so I can give it a try.

Xiao Jie first ate a piece of barbecue, which increased his physical strength recovery effect by 20%.

Then start climbing and climb up the cliff.

This was his first time using this skill, and he saw his character lying on the rock wall, and his hands and feet would automatically fall on the protruding parts of the rock where he could rely on while climbing, which reminded him of the experience of climbing a mountain while playing Genshin Impact.

It’s a bit slow, but it’s steady. As long as you stay focused you won’t fall.

Seeing Xiao Jie slowly climbing up the rock cracks on the mountain wall, the white ape was surprised and said to himself, "He can actually climb up?" There was a trace of confusion on his face, as if hesitating about something.

After climbing for five or six minutes, Xiao Jie finally climbed to the top of the cliff. Looking down, it was probably two or three hundred meters high. Looking up, there was another dangerous peak and the top was invisible.

Xiao Jie didn't pay attention to anything else and went straight to the strange tree. The tree looked quite shabby and malnourished, with sparse leaves of yellow and green. However, it was surprisingly tenacious and stood still in the mountain breeze on the cliff.

There are a few scarlet fruits growing on the sparse branches. They are about the size of eggs, date red in color, crystal clear, and have a translucent texture.

Xiao Jie uses the collection function on the strange tree!

System prompt: Obtained Red Spirit Fruit (degraded) x 1.

Xiao Jie hurriedly checked the effect of the fruit.

[Red Spirit Fruit (Deteriorated Fairy Fruit)
Eat: Permanently increases your comprehension by 1 point (can only take effect once for each humanoid creature, and cannot take effect on targets with comprehension points above 20).

Item Description: A red exotic fruit, said to be from the fairy world. After taking it, one can increase wisdom and improve understanding. However, because this red fruit tree grows in the mortal world and lacks the nourishment of spiritual energy, the fruit's effectiveness is greatly weakened. 】

What a good thing! Xiao Jie was delighted when he saw it.

Just eat one directly.

Seeing that his comprehension had improved a little, he was very satisfied. Now his comprehension was as high as 17 points. With the old man's bamboo hat, his permanent comprehension was as high as 18 points. If he added two more points, he could maintain a permanent state of enlightenment.

Although the Elixir of the Soul can also bring enlightenment, time is limited after all. If you fail to gain enlightenment, it would be a waste of the pill. It is better to maintain your enlightenment forever.

It’s a pity that only the first pill is effective, otherwise I would have taken them all in one go and I would have been extremely unhappy.

After counting, there were still six fruits. Xiao Jie hesitated for a moment and didn't dare to pick them all, but he was reluctant to leave like this, so he picked two and put them in his bag, then flew down the mountain in a line.

It was difficult to go up the mountain but easy to go down, and soon we reached the bottom of the valley.

The white ape was a little surprised and said, "Not bad, kid. You actually succeeded. How many fruits did you pick?"

"I accidentally picked three of them. Do you mind, senior?"

"Humph, I've already picked them, why are you still wasting words?"

System prompt: The nameless white ape's favorability towards you has decreased by 2 points.

Well, it seems that there is still an impact. Even if you say you don’t mind, your favorability will still drop…

Fortunately, it only dropped two points, which is acceptable compared to the gains.

This thing can permanently increase your comprehension by +1, and can be easily sold for dozens or hundreds of taels of silver.

The old monkey king wanted the fruit, could it be that he wanted to improve his understanding? But improving this little understanding was useless.

After much hesitation, Xiao Jie decided not to complete the mission for the time being. It was not worth exchanging such a good thing just for some information.

Don't turn in the quest unless it's absolutely necessary. If you can max out the White Ape's favorability by yourself, you won't have to bother with this.

At this time, the sky was already bright and the sun was shining on the Monkey Valley, and the monkeys in the valley woke up one after another.

Xiao Jie saw a large group of monkeys running towards this side from the trees, each holding a fruit in their hands, and they piled up on the ground in front of the white ape's stone platform.

There were all kinds of fruits, most of them red and green, wild fruits, and soon they formed a small pile.

The white ape looked at this scene but didn't care at all, as if he had already gotten used to it.

Without even looking at the fruits, he took out a steamed bun from a wooden basket and started eating.

However, Xiao Jie was not in a hurry to improve favorability. He had already given away most of the things he could. If he wanted to continue to improve favorability, he could only rely on his own efforts to slowly explore and dig.

There's no rush for this kind of thing, so why not upgrade first.

When we arrived at that remote valley, we found that the tree knot monsters had indeed been killed, and within one night they were all over the ground again.

Xiao Jie summoned Big Bear and continued to kill the tree tumor monster.

This thing gives a lot of experience, has moderate difficulty, and is very satisfying to kill. The only drawback is that the drops are not very good. It doesn't drop money or equipment, but only a material that can be exchanged for scarlet resin.

Xiao Jie has saved a lot of money in his bag, but he doesn’t know whether it is valuable or not.

Kill this wave of tree tumor monsters in one go and your experience will increase by 5%.

Xiao Jie wasn't sure how long it would take for a refresh, so he decided to just check every half an hour.

When they returned to the valley, the white ape had finished breakfast and was sipping a pot of cold tea, ignoring the fruits on the ground.

At this time, that bored expression appeared on its face again, as if it was very impatient with everything around it.

After yesterday's familiarity, Xiao Jie already knew the white ape's biggest problem at the moment, which was boredom.

This guy seemed to look down on the monkeys in the valley and thought they were very stupid.

It seems to have some kind of hatred towards humans, yet it is very fascinated by all things human. These contradictory characteristics are presented one by one in it, giving people a very strange feeling.

If I can make it happy, I'm sure I can improve its favorability.

After chatting with Bai Yuan for a while, they started talking about the gifts Xiao Jie had bought before.

"Are you satisfied with the gifts, Senior? By the way, do you like the books, Senior?"

"Satisfied, satisfied. It's just that my eyesight isn't very good as I'm old, and it's very difficult for me to read. Boy, since you have nothing to do, please help me read these books." As he said this, he took out all the books that Xiao Jie had given him before and threw one to Xiao Jie to read.

Xiao Jie thought to himself that you couldn't be illiterate, but since you couldn't insult someone without exposing their shortcomings, he naturally couldn't say this out loud.

"Don't worry, senior. I will read it to you right away."

I picked it up and took a look, and it turned out to be a book on Materia Medica.

After reading for a while, the white ape became impatient.

"Stop, stop, stop. This is all crap. It's meaningless. Change it."

Xiao Jie picked up another copy of Jiuzhou Zhi. This time it was a little better, but he soon got bored again.

Then he picked up a book about the travels of a strange man, but he still didn't want to listen to it after a while.

"There's nothing surprising about what's written in these books. They're not as good as the stories I heard from that country old man. I'll keep changing them."

Xiao Jie closed the reading interface of the book and thought to himself that your requirements are really high. After looking at these books, I guess nothing can meet his requirements.

Wait a minute, this monkey wants to hear a story? Xiao Jie suddenly had an idea.

Haha, this time the favorability level can definitely be maxed out!

He immediately smiled and said, "There's nothing interesting about the stories in these books, but I do know an interesting story, a story about a monkey. Would you like to hear it, senior?"

The white ape became interested. The previous books were all about mountains and geography, or introductions to plants, or some travel notes of humans. As a monkey, it felt completely uninvolved.

Now that I heard the story about monkeys, I suddenly became interested.

"The story of the monkey? Okay, tell it to me quickly."

Xiao Jie took a deep breath and began to tell the story in an emotional voice.

"This story takes place in another world. It is said that in this world there is a continent called Dongsheng Shenzhou. In Dongsheng Shenzhou there is a country called Aolai, located on the coast of the East China Sea. There is a Flower-Fruit Mountain by the sea, and on that mountain there is a huge rock.

Every day, it absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the essence of the sun and moon, and gradually became spiritual. One day, suddenly, there was a loud noise like thunder, and the huge rock exploded, and a stone monkey jumped out from it..."

(End of this chapter)