Chapter 414 News from Swahili
“Meow~”
Sleeping so comfortably ~
After a good night's sleep, Ron stretched his waist comfortably on the big tree as the sun rose from the east.
Although wild and wild, in terms of climate, the Serengeti Prairie completely defeated most of the worlds of the Dragon Kingdom and the Bald Eagle Kingdom.
The land here is fertile, the climate is pleasant, and the resources are abundant. As long as you start a little, whether it is collecting or hunting, you can fill your stomach. Even when the coldest night is completely within the range that naked skin can deal with.
This also made African blacks lazy or unprofitable.
This is also the disadvantage of native races in most tropical areas on Blue Star.
After all, in a place where you can fill your stomach with your hands and don’t catch a cold without wearing clothes all year round, whether you farm or store food, it is a thankless thing to do.
For Ron now, such a climate is really a gift to him. He doesn’t need to pay extra attention to keeping warm. There are mongoose sentries when sleeping, and the only thing that needs to be done with some thought is food.
However, just after just looking up, the food matter was solved.
Yesterday, he was confused and didn't pay attention. Now, after waking up, Ron, who started thinking about food, looked up and found that the big tree he lived in was a baobab tree.
This is a large tree with a thick trunk like a spindle, also known as a bobabu tree, a squid or a sour gourd tree. It is a large deciduous tree with short trunks and many branches, and is widely distributed throughout Africa.
The trunk of the baobab tree is very thick, but the wood is very loose, strong on the outside and dry on the inside, hard on the outside and soft on the inside, and can store a lot of water.
During the rainy season, the baobabs use their thick body and soft wood to replace the root system. Like a porous sponge, they absorb and store water decimeters in large quantities, then grow leaves and bloom large white flowers.
When the dry season comes, in order to reduce the evaporation of water, it will quickly strip away all the leaves on its body and rely on the water stored in the trunk to survive the dry season.
A baobab is a water storage tower in a wasteland. The villages of the primitive African tribes are either located by the river or near the baobabs. You can imagine the importance of baobabs to African residents.
The origin of the name of Baobab is because its fruits are huge like footballs, sweet and juicy, and are the favorite food for animals such as monkeys, orangutans, and elephants.
Whenever the fruits of the baobab tree are ripe, monkeys will come in groups and climb up the tree to pick fruits and eat them.
Although it is dry season now, Ron is lucky. This baobab grows by the river. Its metabolism and growth cycle are much more active than similar people growing on arid grasslands. Not only does the canopy have many green leaves, but there are even several ripe fruits.
“Meow~”
Carefully jumped onto the branches at the top that were as twisted as a tree root. Ron used his claws to cut off the stems connecting the trunk and the fruit. The huge fruit like a football fell from the sky and fell heavily to the ground, splashing a lot of dust.
Following the fruit, Ron jumped off the trunk and briskly cut the a little tough skin of the monkey bread with his paws - wild cats naturally would not do such a thing, and their paws could not cut the aphrodisiac skin of the monkey bread.
Large cats, such as lions and leopards, can do it, but they eat meat.
Oh, by the way, lions can't climb trees.
“Meow~”
Taste is OK ~ Come and eat together ~
For mongooses, monkey bread is an extremely rare food, which can only be eaten when monkeys come to eat it. Moreover, the monkeys are tired of eating it and throw it away half of the pull.
It was like Ron just picked it today, and they had never seen such fresh fruits before.
But this did not prevent them from enjoying the food. Ron used his paws to make monkey bread into slices, and each mongoose was divided into pieces.
“Meow~”
If there is fire ~
To be honest, the dried monkey bread is not very watery, has a lot of starch, and has a little sweet and sour taste, which is not particularly suitable for raw food.
But in such a place, what can Ron expect?
Holding the half-pulled monkey bread fruit, Ron squatted by the river, gnawing the monkey bread fruit while looking into the river.
Due to the dry season, the river water has dropped sharply, and the fish that originally had a vast space for movement can only be crowded in the trickle.
Ron only glanced a few times and saw a large fish half a meter long swaying its tail in the turbid water. Many small fish were slapped into the air by their tails and were picked up by the flying birds.
"Squeak squeak ~"
For the mongoose group, it was a big meal, a big meal that was so full that I could not finish rolling on the ground with my stomach in my arms—and then in this lazy scene, the chubby mongoose sentry suddenly screamed in surprise.
There are enemies!
rub!
A burst of dust rose under the baobab tree. In a blink of an eye, the group of mongooses that had just been lying lazily on the ground had already penetrated into the hole, leaving only Ron holding a piece of dusty baobab fruit, staring blankly at a warthog running from a distance.
On the back of the warthog, there is also a strong mongoose.
“…”
Calculate the ball! I won’t eat it anymore!
Throwing off the monkey bread fruit, Ron was waiting for the warthog carrying the mongoose - Dingman, who promised to ask for help from his friend last night, went out early this morning. Now, the four-legged beast under Dingman was obviously his friend, the warthog Peng Peng.
"throat!"
"Ding~man~"
But Ron was a little bit self-indulgent.
His mouth was already smiling, his beard was shaking, and he wanted to say hello when the warthog ran in front of him, but a rumbling rumbling, a four-hooves rolled, and his thick black and long haired body passed through Ron, and the smoke and dust brought about immediately enveloped Ron.
With the light of his eyes, Ron immediately saw the warthog Peng Peng and the mongoose tinmon. He stopped before the remaining half of the monkey bread fruit Ron and the mongoose group ate, groaned and feasted.
“…”
Turning around silently and shaking off the falling dust, Ron walked to the two beasts, squatted down, and waited until his tail was stiff and he was about to be angry. Peng Peng, the warthog with four fangs, raised his head and whined to Dingman holding his stomach.
"Ron, it's early."
"This is my friend, Warthog Peng Peng."
"Peng Peng said, thank you very much for the monkey bread you provided. He hasn't eaten this food for a long time, long time."
"You're welcome, I can't finish it anyway."
Although it was translated, Dingman's words still made Ron's stiff tail soften and his beard shook. Ron was sure that a mongoose and a pig were full of wine, so he spoke.
"Dingman, you should be full."
"Help me ask Peng Peng, do he know where Swahiri is?"
Turning his head and translating Ron's meaning to Peng Peng, Dingman quickly turned his head.
"Peng Peng said he knew..."
Chapter completed!