ILSITM Chapter 62

This group of ape-men lived in a natural cave at the foot of this mountain.

From the outside, the cave entrance appeared small, but upon entering, the cave’s interior was surprisingly spacious, about the size of two indoor basketball courts.

This cave was home to over two hundred ape-men, mostly females, led by an elderly female ape-man.

In one corner of the cave, there were many stone axes and hammers.

On a large rock, animal hides and meat were laid out separately.

At night, they lit a bonfire and roasted meat outside the cave.

After roasting for over ten minutes, the aroma of the meat was enticing.

While it was still hot, they sprinkled some homemade salt on it.

The roasted meat was a tempting,Cure yellow color.

They gave each of us a piece of roasted meat.

I took a bite; the outside was crisp, and the inside was tender, the flavor was salty and savory, the lean meat didn’t get stuck in my teeth, and the fatty meat wasn’t greasy.

These ape-men could make simple stone tools and hunting tools, but they weren’t refined, let alone exquisite.

At night, we slept under several baobab trees.

In the latter half of the night, the island’s temperature dropped, and we shivered from the cold.

Seeing us in this state, the ape-men invited us to spend the night inside the cave.

The cave was indeed warm. We all lay down with our clothes on in a corner of the cave and slept until dawn.

After dawn, we ate some roasted plant seeds with them and then followed some of the ape-men to hunt on the other side of the island.

Those who went hunting were mostly male ape-men, about twenty or thirty of them, carrying bows and arrows, wooden spears, or harpoons crossed on their backs.

They split into five groups, each carrying a thick log, and headed towards the seaside.

When they reached the seaside, they threw the logs into the sea.

Then, they formed groups of several people, each sitting on a floating log, using a tree branch as a paddle, and paddled along the side of the mountain towards the other side.

The seven of us also carried bows and arrows, wooden spears, or harpoons crossed on our backs. After throwing a log into the sea, we sat on the log floating on the water, and paddled with tree branches.

We paddled hard, and the log sped forward like a speedboat. The speed was indeed much faster than swimming.

When they reached the other side of the mountain, the ape-men in the lead went ashore first. One ape-man stayed sitting on the log. After he used a rattan to tie one end of the log tightly, the ape-men on the shore took the other end of the rattan he handed over and tied it to a tree trunk as thick as a bowl.

The ape-men behind them also used a rattan to tie the logs to adjacent logs in turn.

We arrived last and followed suit.

After the logs were tied, we went ashore along a small gap on the island.

The location of this small gap should originally have been covered with thorny bushes, but the ape-men probably destroyed several clumps of bushes to make it easier to go ashore and hunt from here.

The island was covered with dense bushes and tall trees. The trees grew closely together, with lush branches and leaves, blocking out the sun. Standing on the island, one couldn’t see the sky overhead.

There were originally no roads in the world, but as more people walked, they became roads.

The roads on the island were the same, all walked out step by step by these ape-men.

With roads in the dense forest, it was easy to spot animals and birds, and it was easier to hunt and capture them.

There were no ferocious beasts such as lions, tigers, leopards, or bears on this island, nor were there any huge animals. All there were were some smaller animals.

Wild boars were the largest and most numerous animals on this island.

The arrows used by these ape-men were made of sharpened thin wooden sticks, and their lethality was not strong.

In addition, their strength was relatively weak, and the arrows they shot out didn’t have much power and couldn’t kill with a single shot.

Therefore, if they wanted to hunt a wild boar, they needed to attack it as a group, shooting twenty or thirty arrows before they could take it down.

Today, they only hunted two small wild boars.

But we were different. Bows and arrows were one of our weapons for eliminating enemies. We practiced every day, and everyone was a sharpshooter, especially me.

However, the bows and arrows made by the ape-men couldn’t compare with the bows and arrows we made ourselves. Using their bows and arrows to shoot prey naturally reduced our skill by half.

Although we couldn’t kill a wild boar with one shot, our archery was accurate, and every arrow hit the vital parts of the wild boar.

When the seven of us drew our bows and released arrows at the same time, even the strongest wild boar would either die or be seriously injured and unable to get up.

Today, we shot and killed six large wild boars with bows and arrows, and also captured two wild boar cubs alive.

As we were taking the prey and paddling the logs back to the other side of the island, we were attacked by sharks.

Perhaps we had hunted more wild boars today, and the blood seeping from the wounds of the wild boars dyed the return journey red.

Four or five sharks surrounded us, frantically tearing at the wild boars tied to the logs with rattan.

Sitting on the logs, we stabbed at the sharks with harpoons.

Although the sharks couldn’t succeed immediately, they remained persistent, following us and launching surprise attacks from time to time.

Several ape-men were injured in the legs, and two of our guerilla fighters were also injured in the legs.

For the sake of personnel safety, I untied the rattan and sank a wild boar into the sea.

Several sharks immediately swarmed over and tore it into pieces in an instant.

Seeing this, we immediately accelerated paddling the logs, but before we paddled far, the sharks chased after us again.

I was a little annoyed. I took down the bow and arrows from my back, took a wooden arrow from the quiver, drew the bow and aimed at a shark, but this kind of wooden arrow didn’t do much damage to the shark.

You can’t catch a wolf without letting go of the cub.

I asked everyone to stop paddling the logs. I decided to have a duel with the sharks.

I took a harpoon and stood on the log, focusing all my attention on the sharks circling around us.

These sharks were about three meters long and spindle-shaped.

When a shark approached our log, I held the harpoon and jumped onto the shark’s back, using the harpoon to stab hard at the shark’s back, once, twice, three times…

The shark’s skin wasn’t too thick, and its bones were made of cartilage. My harpoon easily pierced into the shark’s body.

Every time I stabbed hard, the shark’s blood spurted out.

Sharks don’t have vocal cords and can’t shout. If they could shout, I guess they would have been howling long ago.

The shark was hurting from the stabs and frantically spun around on the surface of the sea.

Sharks are fish, but they don’t have swim bladders, and their gills have degenerated, losing the passive water absorption and breathing function that fish should have. Once they stop swimming, they will suffocate.

In order to obtain oxygen and avoid sinking to the bottom of the sea, sharks must keep swimming, even when they are sleeping, they will still swim slowly.

Suddenly, an idea came to me. I clamped the shark’s body tightly with my legs, using the shark’s spinning inertia, suddenly exerted force, and fell rapidly to one side.

Under the sudden force, the shark’s body quickly flipped over, and its belly was exposed on the surface of the sea.

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