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After Diannot woke up, he found himself lying on a soft "bed" made of ferns and thatch, with an "A"-shaped shack made of branches above his head. At the foot is the entrance and exit of the shack, from which you can see a piece of grass, and further forward is the "bronze wall and iron wall" built by dense towering old trees. His body was weak and his whole body was in pain. When he fully woke up, he felt more and more pain in many wounds.Because of the severe beating, every bone and every muscle was aching. Even turning the head can cause severe pain.He had to close his eyes and lie still for a long time.

He tried his best to make sense of the danger he had experienced before he lost consciousness, hoping to deduce where he had appeared.She didn't know whether she was with her friends or if she fell into the hands of the enemy again. He finally remembered the terrible scene in Mubenjia's village, and then the strange white man.Remembering that he had lost consciousness in his arms. D'Arnot didn't know what fate awaited him.He couldn't see or hear the slightest sign of a human presence around him. The endless buzzing of the jungle—the rustling of thousands of leaves, the buzzing of insects, mixed with the chirping of birds and the screaming of monkeys. A strange, comforting low vibration.It was as if he lay far, far away from this mysterious world, hearing only its faint echoes.

Gradually, he fell asleep peacefully again and didn't wake up until the afternoon. He experienced again that strange, bewildered feeling of waking up in the morning.But this time, he quickly recalled what happened just now.He looked towards the entrance and exit of the shack, and saw someone squatting on the grass. His broad, muscular back was facing him.However, it can be seen that the skin is tan.Knowing that this is a white man, D'Arnot couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The Frenchman gave a little cry.The man turned his face away, stood up, and walked to the shack.His face is very handsome.D'Arnot thought to himself, this was probably the most handsome face he had ever seen in his life.

He stooped into the shack, crawled up to the mortally wounded officer, and laid a cool hand on his forehead. D'Arnot spoke French to him, but he just shook his head.It was too bad for the Frenchman. D'Arnot tried to speak English, but the man shook his head.He spoke Italian, Spanish, German, and the results were frustrating. D'Arnot knew a little Norwegian, Russian, Greek, and he could stutter a few words of the vernacular of the black tribes on the West African coast.But this man knew nothing of all these languages. After seeing Dianot's wound, he left the shack and disappeared again.After about half an hour, he picked some wild fruits and brought back some water with something like a gourd.

D'Arnot drank water and ate some wild fruit.He was surprised that he didn't have a fever.He tried to talk to this strange "caretaker" again, but the result was still unsatisfactory. Suddenly, the man came out of the shed in a hurry, and came in again after a while, holding a few pieces of bark in his hand.The most surprising thing is that there is a pen. He squatted beside General Diano, wrote on the smooth side of the bark, and handed it to the Frenchman. D'Arnot was surprised to see that it was a line written in clear English print: I am Tarzan of the Apes.who are you?Do you understand the language?

D'Arnot grabbed the pencil and was about to write when he stopped again.He thought that since this weirdo could write English, he was obviously an Englishman. "Yes," D'Arnot said, "I can read English. I can speak English. We can talk now.First let me thank you for everything you have done for me. " But the man just shook his head and pointed at the pencil and the bark. "My God!" D'Arnot exclaimed, "Since you are British, why can't you speak English?" A thought flashed through his mind: this man is probably dumb, maybe deaf and dumb.

So D'Arnot wrote the following words on the bark in English: I am Paul D'Arnot, Lieutenant of the French Navy.Thank you for everything you do for me.You saved my life and everything I have is yours.Excuse me, why can you write English but not speak English? Taishan's answer made D'Arnot even more confused: I only speak the language of our tribe—the great ape tribe ruled by Kochak.And a little bit of Elephant Tante.I can understand Numa the Lion and the other beasts of the jungle.I've never spoken to anyone, except once to "say" something to Jenny Porter by gesticulating.I was talking to one of my kind with a pen for the first time.

D'Arnault looked puzzled.It's unbelievable that a fully grown adult has never spoken to anyone else.And what is even more strange is that such a person can read and write. He read again the few lines that Tarzan had written: "Except once...with Jenny Potter..." Isn't this the same American girl who was kidnapped by a gorilla into the jungle? D'Arnot's heart suddenly brightened: So, he is the "gorilla"?He grabbed a pencil and wrote: "Where's Jenny Potter?" Taishan replied: "She's gone back to her relatives who live in that hut on Tarzan."

"So she's not dead? Where has she been? What happened to her?" "She was not dead. Turganz was going to take her for his wife. But Tarzan saved her from Turganz, and killed him before he could harm her. "No one in the jungle could have beaten Tarzan, nor escaped him alive. I am Tarzan - the Great Killer." D'Arnot wrote: "I'm so glad she's all right. I'm having trouble writing, so let me rest for a while." Taishan wrote again: "Yes, rest for a while. When you are well, I will send you back to your countrymen." D'Arnot lay on the soft "bed" made of ferns for many days.

He has had a fever since the second day.D'Arnot thought the wound must be infected.He knew that he must die. Then an idea came to him suddenly, and he wondered why he hadn't thought of it before. He called Taishan and gestured to write.Tarzan brought bark and pencils. D'Arnot wrote: "Can you go and lead my comrades here? I'll write a note, and you can take it to them. They'll come with you." Tai Shan shook his head, picked up a pencil and wrote: "I thought about that the first day. But I dared not leave here. The great apes often come here.If they find you here alone, badly wounded, they'll kill you. "

D'Arnot turned over and closed his eyes.Of course he didn't want to die.But he felt like he was dying because his body temperature was getting higher and higher.That night, he lost consciousness. For three full days he remained in a coma.Tai Shan stayed by his side, washing his wounds and wiping his head and hands with cold water. The high fever came and went suddenly.On the fourth day, D'Arnot's temperature returned to normal.But he was too skinny and very weak.You have to be supported by Mount Tai to drink some water from the gourd. D'Arnot's fever was not due to an infected wound, as he thought, but a disease common to white people in the African jungle.If you get this disease, you will either die, or just like D'Arnot, the fever will suddenly subside. Two days later, D'Arnot was able to hobble and walk on the "little stage". Taishan's strong arms supported him so that he would not fall. They sat in the shade of a large tree, and Tarzan found a piece of bare bark with which to "talk." D'Arnot first wrote: "How can I repay you?" Taishan replied: "Teach me to speak the language of men." D'Arnot immediately began teaching him how to speak.He pointed to something familiar, then repeated it several times in French, saying its name.He thought it would be easiest to teach Tarzan to speak French.For he himself learned French best, of course. Of course it doesn't matter to Taishan.He couldn't tell the difference between French and English. So D'Arnot taught him to say homme when he pointed to the word "man" written on the bark.In the same way he taught him to pronounce "ape" as a French singe and "tree" as arbre. Taishan studied eagerly, and he could read a lot of French words in just two days, and he could say simple things like "that's a tree", "this is a grass", "I'm hungry".But D'Arnot found it difficult to teach him the syntactic structure of French based on Taishan's existing English foundation. The Frenchman wrote some short texts in English, and then asked Tarzan to read them in French.But because the French literally translated word for word in this way does not make sense, it often makes Taishan confused. Only then did D'Arnot realize he had made a mistake.But it is not easy for Taishan to throw away all the things he has learned and learn again. Especially when they get to the point where they can talk to each other so quickly, it's so hard to correct.Therefore, we had no choice but to "make mistakes and make mistakes". On the third day after Diannot's fever subsided, Tarzan wrote a note asking him if he had recovered enough for him to carry him back to the hut.For Tarzan was as eager to go back as D'Arnot, and he longed to see Jenny again. In the past few days, because he missed Jenny, he really lived by the Frenchman's side.But he carried on the spirit of utter utter utter utter utter utter utter utter utter utter utter emptiness to this day.It can be said that the noble character he has shown in the past few days is more glorious than his heroic behavior in rescuing the French officer from Kimotoka's poisonous hand. D'Arnot was too willing to hurry home.He wrote: "But you can't carry me all the way through the dense jungle." Tarzan laughed. "Joke," he said.Hearing this "mantra" that Taishan often said; D'Arnot also laughed heartily. They set off.Like Clayton and Jenny, D'Arnot was astonished by the miraculous strength and agility of this "human ape". At about three o'clock in the afternoon, they arrived at the clearing.When Tarzan jumped from the last tree, his heart beat violently.Hope to see Jenny soon. But there was not even a soul outside the hut.What puzzled D'Arnot in particular was that neither the cruiser nor the "Arrow" were in the harbor anymore. The beach was deserted and lonely.When Tarzan and D'Arnot walked towards the hut, this atmosphere suddenly enveloped their hearts. Neither of them spoke, but before they opened the closed door, they both knew what was waiting for them. Tarzan unlatched the latch and pushed open the heavy door, and what they saw most dreaded was the hut that was empty. The two men turned their faces and stared at each other.Dianot understood that his comrades must have thought he was dead.But Tarzan thought only of the woman who had loved and kissed him, and thought that Jenny had slipped away from him while he was serving one of his countrymen. A great pain welled up in my heart.He really wanted to leave here, go far away, find his tribe deep in the jungle, and never see any of his kind again.He didn't want to go back to the hut either.He would bury it forever, along with the great hope he had germinated here to find his kind, and to make himself one of them. As for the Frenchman Diarnot, what is it!He can live like Qin Shan.Tarzan never wanted to see him again.He was going to get away from everything that reminded him of Jenny! While Tai Shan was thinking painfully by the threshold, D'Arnot walked into the hut.He saw that his comrades left here many things that could make life possible.He considered many things on board the cruiser: a military stove, some cooking utensils, a rifle, lots of ammunition, canned goods, blankets, two chairs, a canvas hammock, and some books and publications, mostly published in the United States . "They must come back." D'Arnot thought to himself. He went to the desk that John Clayton had made so many years ago, and saw on it two letters from Tarzan. An unsealed letter from a man's powerful handwriting.The other letter was beautifully written, as if it was made by a woman, and it was sealed. "Here are two letters from you, Tarzan of the Ape." D'Arnot shouted and turned to the door, but there was no sign of his companion. D'Arnot walked to the door and looked outside, but he still didn't see Mount Tai. He shouted loudly, but no one answered. "My God!" exclaimed D'Arnot, "he left me. He left me here alone, and went back into the jungle by himself." He remembered slowly the look on Tarzan's face when they found the cabin empty.That was the look the hunter saw in the eyes of the deer he had savagely brought down. D'Arnot realized that Tarzan had been hit hard.But where did this blow come from?He can't imagine. After experiencing the cruel torture of illness and sorrow, Diayut's body was already very weak, but now looking around, loneliness and fear began to eat away at his nerves. A man left alone on this dreadful beach, never heard, never seen, always in dread of wild beasts and still more terrible savages--in a word, devoured by solitude and despair prey, this is too terrible! To the east of the beach, Tarzan sprinted toward his tribe through the "middle ground" of the jungle.He never seemed to run as recklessly as he does today.He felt like he was literally flying out of his body.Like a frightened squirrel running frantically through the forest, hoping to escape from his own thoughts. But no matter how fast he ran, he still couldn't escape the network of thoughts. He skims past a lion whose movements are slow and relaxed.The lioness was going in the exact opposite direction to him.Tarzan thought, it must be going to the hut. If Shan Bao really went there, what would D'Arnot do?And Borgani the gorilla might attack him too.Numa, the male lion, or Zita, the ferocious lion, will also be his opponents. Mount Tai stopped "flying". "What are you? Tarzan!" he asked himself loudly, "Ape or man?" "If you are an ape, you should act according to the principle of the ape. If you have a whim, you can roam around and leave your compatriots in the jungle to die alone." "If you are a human being, you should protect your compatriots, and you should not abandon others just because you are abandoned by others." D'Arnot closed the door.He is very nervous.Even the brave - D'Arnot was very brave, no doubt - can sometimes be frightened by loneliness. He loaded a rifle and put it within easy reach, then went to the desk and picked up the unsealed letter to Tarzan. Perhaps the letter would mention that his comrades had only been away from the beach temporarily, so it might not be an offense to take a look.Thinking of this, D'Arnot took out the letter paper from the envelope and read it. Tarzan of the Apes: Thank you for allowing us to stay in your house for a while.It's a pity that you didn't show us your honor and thank you in person. We didn't damage anything of yours and left you with a lot of utensils.They can help you live more comfortably and safely in this lonely cabin. If you know the queer white man and were able to talk to him, please give him our deepest thanks.He has saved our lives many times and brought us food. We're about to set sail and never come back.But we want you and that other bush friend to know that we will always be grateful for what you do for the strangers who come to this beach.If the two of you give us the opportunity to repay, we will double the repayment. very respectful of you William Cecil Clayton "Never come back again!" Diarnot murmured, and fell face down on the hammock. An hour later, he stood up suddenly and listened nervously.It seems that something wants to enter the house! D'Arnot grabbed the loaded gun and held it up. It was getting darker, and it was dark inside the hut.But D'Arnot saw the latch being gently pushed aside. His hair stood on end with fright. The door opened gently, and looking out through the narrow crack, I saw something standing outside the door. D'Arnot aimed at the crack in the door and pulled the trigger.
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