The little white monkey was full of energy, jumping up and down, baring its teeth and screaming.
Li Du thought it was funny. The little thing was not even as tall as a child's knee and had no fighting power at all, yet it dared to make such a fuss in front of them. He did not know whether to say it was brave or ignorant.
But then he felt a little touched. The little thing was actually very timid. When it saw Ali, it turned around and ran away. When they came in, it only dared to hide in the cave in the stone wall.
However, when it found that they were going to touch its parents' bodies, it jumped out without hesitation. From this point of view, the little monkey was a filial child.
There was no doubt that the bodies of the two big white apes on the ground were the parents of the little monkey. Otherwise, the little monkey could not have jumped out of a crack in the stone.
Steve wanted to grab the little monkey. He waved his hand and said, "Take them away and study them. I think we have found a new species of primate."
A bodyguard came forward, but the little monkey did not budge. It reached out and grabbed a stone from the ground, staring fiercely at the bodyguard.
"Be careful not to get bitten. You might get some disease," someone joked.
Li Du thought for a moment, went up and said, "Forget it, Steve, don't hurt this little guy. This is their nest. We invaded their territory and want to take them away. That's not good."
Steve looked at him in surprise and said, "Hey, Li, we're not going to take it away. We're not going to hurt it — well, you're right."
He was not an unreasonable person, nor was he a person without compassion. In fact, Steve's upbringing was top-notch among the second-generation rich kids that Li Du knew.
Steve shrugged and said, "Then I'll take a few pictures. Is that okay?"
"Up to you," Li Du laughed.
He took his men back carefully. Brother Wolf said, "Boss, this is the monkey's territory. What about the ivory here? Don't you want to dig? "
Li Du was stunned.
He had not thought of this question just now. It seemed that since entering Siberia, he had been a little stupid.
The ivory here was not only to be sold for money, but also to be used to carry out a plan to capture Jonas Malone. If he could not mine the ivory here, he would have to go to another ivory treasure trove to look for it.
But he didn't have that much time.
Steve took out his camera and kept taking pictures. The flash kept flashing, and the little monkey was dazzled. He hid behind the body of a white monkey and looked at them in horror.
Li Du said, "We'll dig the ivory, but we won't hurt the monkey. Is that okay?"
He thought for a moment and said guiltily, "I'll get it something to eat. Look at its skinny face, it must be very hungry."
Firecracker said carelessly, "Boss, aren't you being too soft-hearted?"
Li Du was helpless. He had already shown his soft-heartedness in front of Steve, so he had to continue. Otherwise, it would not be easy to smooth things over.
Mammoth tusks were usually stuck in the frozen soil. High-pressure water cannons were needed to wash the frozen soil and remove the tusks.
There were hundreds of mammoth carcasses in the mammoth graveyard. Just the ivory alone would be worth a few million. Adding the mammoth bones, it would be worth tens of millions.
And it was near the lake, so it was easy to get water. It was also easy to get the ivory with a high-pressure water cannon.
Li Du had prepared the digging tools. He was confident that he could find ivory, so he had prepared high-pressure water cannons, air compressors, wind cannons, and other digging tools.
He asked Brother Wolf, Godzilla, and others to prepare, and asked Hankway to go to the next village and ask the locals if they would like to work for extra money. He could pay them a high price, two thousand rubles for each tusk they dug up.
Two thousand rubles was a small amount compared to the value of ivory, but local labor was cheap.
If the people in the village were willing to make money, they would certainly be satisfied with the pay, because the ivory was dense here, and they could dig up more than ten tusks a day, which meant that they could earn tens of thousands of rubles a day.
The people here could not earn more than a hundred thousand rubles a year by fishing and raising sheep.
Li Du took some fruit to feed the little monkey, and Ah Meng and the others followed. When Ah Meow saw the little monkey, his eyes lit up, and like a sharp arrow, he darted out.
The little white monkey was scared and climbed up the wall with its hands and feet.
Li Du hurriedly shouted for Ah Meow to stop. Ah Meow had already rushed to the side of the little white monkey. Hearing Li Du's shout, it tried to stop, then used its paw to pat the frightened little white monkey, and ran back.
Ah Ow was also ready to go, full of interest in the little white monkey.
Li Du had to drive them out, then took out an apple for the little monkey and said, "Come on, Uncle will give you something delicious."
The little white monkey went into a cave warily, only showing one eye, and stared at him with vigilance and panic.
Li Du saw that the apple was not good, so he took out a banana, peeled it, and held it out to the little white monkey. This time the little white monkey did not even show its eyes.
"Damn it," Li Du was depressed.
He exchanged all the fruit he had brought this time and even took out a bottle of honey, but the little monkey did not care at all. It did not even look at them. Even if it did look, it was to see what Li Du was doing and whether it would threaten its life.
Li Du was at his wit's end. The monkey's nature was unusual, and it was not interested in fruit.
He did not believe that the monkey did not like fruit, so he fought a protracted battle with it to see how the little monkey would solve its problem.
After a long standoff, the little monkey was hungry and began to look for food.
To Li Du's surprise, the little monkey looked for insects on the ground to eat, and sometimes it would kill a big mosquito and put it in its mouth. Anyway, it ate whatever it came across. It turned out to be a carnivore.
But when Li Du took out dried meat, fresh meat, raw meat, and cooked meat for it, it still did not look at them, let alone be attracted to eat them.
Li Du was at his wit's end. He really could not deal with the monkey.
Brother Wolf and the others were ready, and Hankway told him that the people in the village were interested in making the money and were willing to work for him.
Li Du squatted on a stone and ate an apple helplessly, then threw the apple core on the ground and said, "Let's wait a little longer, don't start working."
Steve said, "Yes, this is their lair. It's not good for us to invade their territory and destroy their lair, is it?"
He used the original words against Li Du, and Li Du had nothing to say.
Brother Wolf shook his head. He and Hankway could not understand. In their opinion, it was kind enough to drive the little monkey away without hurting it. What was the point of equal compensation?
Li Du had no choice. Just as he was about to leave, the little monkey crawled over to the apple core he had thrown away and sniffed it.
Then, to Li Du's surprise, the little monkey picked up the apple core.
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