Chapter 20 Chapter 20 Mao Mao in the Ruins
Holloway could see it from twenty kilometers away, the rising black smoke streaking the sky in thin lines.
"Oops," Holloway said to himself.The good news was that the black smoke was so detailed that the fire had abated, and it was only his hut and the equipment in the trees that had been burned, not the thornwood, and the whole forest.The fire extinguishing device he installed was quite effective.
The bad news is that his hut is presumably a smoky ruin.He was glad he had left Carl in the care of Isabel, who wasn't smart enough to know how to escape from a fire.
He was a little worried about the Fuzzies, but only a little.Whether they are intelligent creatures or not, he thinks they should know how to flee far away from the scene of the fire.
A few minutes later Holloway circled over his hut, inspecting the damage.As he expected, the hut, built of relatively cheap plastic and wood, burned down.The metal and alloy storage shed and landing area also showed signs of smoke and fire, but they were not falling apart and there was no general structural damage.Holloway decided to go down and take a look. Instead of landing directly, he set the spacecraft to hover one meter above the landing zone.Although it didn't look like it was deformed, he didn't want to take the risk of verifying this guess right now.He believed that his own weight would be fine on it, but not with larger ships.
He climbed out of the ship and jumped onto the landing pad.Nothing.He took a step forward and nearly landed on his butt - not because the fire had burned the floor, but because he stepped on the foam and slipped.Once the fire alarm system detects a fire, fire extinguishing foam is sprayed in all directions to cover the cabin.Holloway's hut is built in the bushes and there is a risk of being struck by lightning during a thunderstorm.Although Holloway had installed a weather vane and lightning rods, the cabin had caught fire before.So after the first fire, Holloway took precautions.
Instead of inspecting the burnt cabin first, Holloway headed straight for the storage shed.He touched the door cautiously, probably hot even though it had been hours since the fire started.
Not hot.Not only is it not hot, even the electronic lock is not broken.Holloway unlocked the lock with the key, retreated to the side to prevent the hot air from rushing towards him, and gently pushed the door open.
He had a wide opening where he would have stored the survey explosives.
Holloway smiled reassuringly.There should be a hole where he put the reconnaissance charge.If there is no crack, it is very likely that he can't even find the landing platform, and even the forest is gone.Although Holloway's stock of explosives was not much, the stock on hand was enough to blow up the entire nearby area.
He walked up to the opening, which was actually a trapdoor in the floor of the storage shed, on which Holloway's explosives were stored in sturdy cases.In the event of a fire or direct lightning strike, the trapdoor will open and the box will fall several meters onto the jungle floor.This kind of box is a special box for airdrop materials, which can withstand the impact of falling from a height of 300 meters, and the impact of falling on the jungle ground is much smaller in comparison.The dynamite in the box explodes when heated, but is safe from such an impact.
Looking down through the opening, Holloway saw boxes scattered on the floor, some directly below, and some hit the spiky wood below and went elsewhere.Holloway has to reset the trapdoor and retrieve the box.Not only was this annoying and a little dangerous—there was always the possibility of encountering a predator—but it was better than the explosives catching fire and leveling the entire forest.
Holloway saw a white figure lying on a branch below, like Scabbers resting. "Can't you help put out a fire?" Holloway called to Momo.It didn't answer, but Holloway didn't expect it to.
He stepped out of the storage shed and headed for the cabin.
The roof of the hut collapsed and the walls burned through, making it completely hopeless.The fire seemed to start from within.Holloway speculated that lightning might have struck a heat pipe in a refrigerator or air conditioner, causing a spark.There is also a fire suppression system in the cabin.But the irony is that Holloway has to be operated in or near the house to activate the main fire suppression function.Holloway spent a lot of money to install full fire suppression equipment everywhere outside, but skipped where he lived.He figured it was okay to take the risk, except for his law school hat, which contained nothing of sentimental or financial value.Brand new replacements are just a trip to Aubrey Town.
Holloway searched for his hat in the rubble and found it on a fallen table, charred and glued to his surveillance camera.
One more thing I brought out of law school that I didn't use.he thinks.Other insignificant things were also burnt black, tattered, and scattered all over the floor in a mess.He sighed and turned back to the ship.
First, he had to see if the landing zone could bear the weight of the ship.no problem.Holloway went up and down three times before confirming that the weight bearing was no problem.It seems that apart from the hut, there is no serious problem with the outside structure, which is a blessing in misfortune.There are ready-made cottages for sale in Aubrey, but other structures are not so easy to replace.
With that problem solved, Holloway went back to the storage shed to install the trapdoor. He had to drive the spaceship down to screw the bolts and beams from under the trapdoor before he could put the explosives on it.Holloway also used the information board to order some replacement canisters.Extinguisher cans weren't cheap, but Holloway figured he'd have money soon anyway.
The next step was the jungle floor, and Holloway wasn't at all happy about hauling the explosives boxes to the ship.Although each box is only the size of a large suitcase, they are very heavy because they are explosion-proof and shock-proof, and the weight of the explosive itself is not light.The only good thing is that Holloway can now use high-frequency noise. He can park the spaceship on the ground, load all the boxes, and transport them all in one trip, which is much better than before.Before, he'd have to land and put in a fence, load a box or two from inside the fence onto the ship, take down the fence, fly a few yards away, and do it all over again.However, remembering that Scabbers was still napping on the branch, Holloway turned on the high-frequency noise of the sound system only after landing on the ground.
Fifteen minutes passed, and Holloway had a splitting headache and was sweating profusely as he dragged the box in the heat.He probably hasn't exercised like this in years, and since the last time he lifted something so heavy, he has every reason to believe that his healthy heart has degenerated into a loose two-piece ham that can't even pump blood. strenuous.He lifted the last box onto the spaceship, collapsed and sat down on the side of the spaceship, panting for air.He looked up and saw Scabbers lying on a branch above his head, looking down at him almost directly above him.
"Thank you for not helping." Holloway shouted to Momo, "Thanks to you." Of course, Holloway didn't expect the little guy to really help, but shouted to be happy.Holloway hunched over, put his hands on his knees, and took slow, deep breaths, hoping to get over the dizziness quickly.
A few seconds later, a drop of something fell and splashed on his back, and then a larger drop hit his neck.He looked up, and Banban was still staring at him.
Holloway smiled grimly.The little bastard was spitting at him.Well, he thought, it was better than meeting monkeys, which were worse.He wiped the back of his neck with his hand, and was about to smear the drool on his pants, but the corner of his eye caught something wrong.Holloway raised his hand and put it in front of him for a closer look.
Scabbers didn't spit at him.
Holloway looked up again just in time for a drop of blood to hit him in the face.
"Oh no," he said, "oh my God!" He wiped the blood off his face, jumped aboard, turned off the noise, fired the rotors, and drove straight up.
Holloway landed abruptly, opened the hatch of the spaceship, lifted Scabbers out of the ship as gently as possible, and laid him flat on the landing zone.Maomao lay there limp and lifeless.Holloway rushed back to the ship to get his first aid kit, nearly slipping again as he hurried out of the ship. Spotted's stomach was stained red with blood.There was no bleeding on its back or extremities, only a streak running from its stomach to its left leg, where the branch above Holloway's head had scratched.Holloway remembered that Fluffy's posture hadn't changed from the time he first saw it until the blood was dripping on his neck.Momo may have been dead during this time, or it may have been alive when Holloway childishly yelled at it, and he could have saved it, if only he had found out sooner. pay attention.Holloway shook his head, dismissing irrelevant thoughts, and focused on Mao Mao in front of him.Holloway checked Scabbers' stomach first. There was so much blood that he couldn't see where the wound was.He ran back to the spaceship and pulled out a kettle, which still had half a bottle of water in it.He knelt beside Maomao, carefully pouring water on the little guy to wash away the blood. Now the wound could be seen. There was a finger-wide wound on Mao Mao's left lower abdomen. Holloway wondered if it was poked out by thorn wood, but he washed and washed the wound, and saw something gray inside.He flushed some water again to wash away the dirty blood, and this time he could see clearly. It's a bullet. We marked them for extinction.Sullivan said it.It's that simple. Holloway froze, but still managed to find a hemostatic cloth from the first aid kit. He tore open the package and pressed it on the wound caused by the bullet, pressing firmly as gently as he could, hoping to stop the bleeding from the little guy. blood. Scabbers had no more blood to shed.it died. Holloway put Scabbers' mouth on the side of his face, hoping to feel the breath, and he stroked the soft fur of Fufu, as if it would come to life in this way.There was no breath, and the little guy didn't come alive.If Ban Ban can still be saved, the time to save it has passed.Maybe it was a minute ago, or an hour ago, or hours ago, but now Holloway couldn't do anything but curl up on top of the little one.Holloway was speechless and could only pray that he was mistaken. He was not mistaken.It took him several minutes to accept this fact. When he finally regained his composure and raised his head, he realized that he was not alone.Mao Mao's father, mother, and grandpa stood in front of him, watching him silently mourning over Spotted's dead body. Holloway's mind was blank, and he stared blankly at the three Mao Mao, his mind suddenly turned rapidly, a thought flashed, and his back felt cold. "Where's the baby?" Holloway asked the three furries. Holloway wondered if they understood him.But after he asked this, they all turned to look at the ruins of the hut. "My God," Holloway cried out.He got up and ran to the hut, but was forced to stop outside, the hut was full of smoke and heat.He peered through the collapsed wall, searching for the baby, hoping the little one wasn't there. He finally found the baby's mutilated body by the door. Forget about anything else, Holloway couldn't figure it out at this moment.The baby was not in the hut when he left. To prevent lizards, he locked the doors and windows, and Mao Mao couldn't get in.There is no way the baby will die in the hut. Then he remembered the bullets on Scabbers.The baby didn't go to the cabin by itself, someone put it in. Holloway looked down and saw his burnt hat, glued to the surveillance camera. His brain started rattling again.Holloway stumbled away from the burnt-out hut and rushed straight to his spaceship, nearly pulling the information board out of the shelf and forcing himself to sit on the seat.His finger slid across the panel, opening the clip of the surveillance video.The footage from the last few hours should be uploaded to the message board.The last time Holloway fiddled with the camera, he tilted his hat on purpose to get a picture of what was going on outside. The video pops up, and the interior of the cabin is blocked by the hat, while the window is unobstructed.Holloway anxiously fast-forwarded an hour and saw no strange video, and stepped back a little to see a spaceship landing in the landing zone, and a man came out. Holloway pauses the frame to zoom in on the man's face, which is hard to tell who he is wearing a ski mask.Holloway wondered who would wear a ski mask on a planet full of tropical rainforests, but then he remembered that the Zara Group had several mines in the southernmost high-altitude area, and there were ski masks in the store. bought it from there.Holloway continues to play the tape. The man strides across the drop zone towards the hut, stopping at the door, the camera loses full frame, the hut wall blocks the frame.The man moved around, apparently trying to unlock the door.He then walks to the window in front of the desk, his body blocking the camera lens, but Holloway sees movement behind him, the baby appears on the far right of the lens, walking towards him. Holloway felt a pain in his chest.Babies trust humans more than any other Fluffy.Other Mao Mao seems to know that humans can be just as dangerous as other animals.But the baby does not know why there is no such vigilance instinct.Babies love humans.Holloway's heart sank, he already guessed what was going to happen next. The man turned suddenly and saw the baby walking towards him.He stopped his attempt to trespass into the hut, walked towards the baby, squatted down in front of the little guy, stretched out his hand to stroke and pat the little furry, and the baby rubbed against his hand.Holloway couldn't hear what he was saying, he'd been forgetting to turn the surveillance camera on - but he could guess.He was coaxing his prey into trusting him. Suddenly, he stood up and raised his booted foot. Holloway had to look away. When he turned his face and looked back to the video, he saw something swinging out of the woods just in time, pounced on the man's face, biting and scratching around his eyes that were exposed outside the mask.Although there was no sound in the video, it could be seen that the man was screaming in pain, and he was desperately trying to shake off the little thing that attacked him. That's Scabbers. Holloway couldn't help but cheered softly, cheering up the little guy.Banban, regardless of Ye Maomao, rushed out without hesitation to protect the baby—its sister?its friend?Or its mate? ——it makes the human seem to be in hell, in order to avenge this inhuman evil. The man waved his hands and wanted to tear the fur away, but Banban jumped and dodged quickly, constantly grabbing the man's head and face.The little Fluffy must make him pay for what he's done. The man finally grabbed Scabbers and pulled it off his face, and Scabbers was still scratching his hand and biting him.He raised his hand and threw Scabbers to the ground with all his strength, and Holloway felt a pain in his stomach, as if he had fallen hard too. Banban struggled to get up, and wanted to jump up and bite. The man pulled out a gun from his belt and aimed at Mao Mao. The little guy suffered from this, and was so shaken that he slid a long way on the floor.Sensing mortal danger, perhaps fueled by the furry adrenaline in his body, Scabbers ran wildly, round the hut and towards Thornwood, with the man shooting after it.One of the bullets pierced the window, and it was possible that the bullet hit something in the cabin and caused a spark.But Holloway doesn't care about the fire at all right now. The man dropped the gun, covered his face, and jumped in pain.Suddenly he saw the baby lying on the ground again, trampled by him, unable to move.He rushed up to the baby, raised his foot and stomped it hard twice, grabbed the pistol on the ground and shot at it, yelling at it angrily. Holloway realized he knew this man. At this time, the smoke caused by the hut's fire had blurred the image of the camera, but Holloway still saw the man bend down to pick up the baby's body, strode to the door of the hut, and the camera couldn't capture his whole body again.His body jerked and jerked, and Holloway wondered for a few seconds before realizing the man was kicking the dog door.In the end, it must have been kicked away. The man's movements were different from before. He stuffed the baby's body into the door and let the fire burn away the evidence. When he was done, the man backed away from the door, covered his face, and walked back to his ship.Halfway there, the fire extinguishing system was activated suddenly, and the foam instantly flooded the entire landing zone, including the man and his spaceship.He was startled by the foam, slipped and fell to the ground, covered in fire extinguishing foam all over his body.If he hadn't just taken two lives, this scene would still be kind of funny.The man finally climbed back on his spaceship, and the spaceship lifted off, spewing flames and disappearing from view. Almost at the same time, Holloway's hat caught fire and fell down to cover the camera, which was suddenly blurred. until the cap is completely burned.
Holloway put down the information board and rushed out of the spaceship to check on Scabbers' body.He knelt beside the small corpse, held Mao Mao's small hand, and carefully inspected the fingertips. Their nails were sharper than humans, probably for the convenience of catching small bugs and peeling fruits. There was blood inside the nail, and some skin flakes. "Found it!" Holloway clenched Scabbers' hand, "I've got you, you scum! I've got you, you didn't expect that!" Holloway looked up at Papa, Mama, and Grandpa Fluffy, and they had strange expressions on their faces, at least Holloway had never seen them like this. "I know you don't understand me," Holloway said to the furs, "but I know who did it. I know who it was and I'm going to make him pay. I promise. I'm going to catch this Scum. I promise." Then Jack Holloway let go of Scabbers' hand and collapsed on the floor, closing his eyes and crying. He wept because he knew very well that Scabbers and Baby, whatever they were, were innocent of his calculations and tricks.Whether they were intelligent or not, Holloway didn't care.Anyway, they didn't deserve such bad luck, being mutilated to death, killed by him.Jack lay on the ground, crying uncontrollably, letting the pain of guilt overwhelm him. He knew that the rest of Mao Mao was watching him.He didn't care, he lay there for a long time. Finally, someone touched Holloway lightly on the cheek.Holloway opened his eyes to see Papa Fluffy staring down at him.Holloway met its gaze in bewilderment. Papa Mao Mao pointed to the top. Holloway looked up. Above him, the thorny wood was covered with hairs, there were dozens of them. "My God!" Holloway sat up in surprise. The furries started to climb down from the tree and jumped onto the landing area, and after a while it was crowded with furries.Holloway stared at them, a little bit amused by the fact that there were so many furries together, and a little scared by that.A human has just killed two of their companions, and it's entirely possible that Mao Mao wants to take revenge on him, and he won't blame them. On the edge of the landing board, a smaller Momo caught his attention.Holloway stared at it for a few seconds, wondering why this furry was so weird, it didn't look like a furry at all. Holloway watched it carefully. It was a capuchin monkey. "You're kidding me!" said Holloway. Papa Fluffy looked at Holloway suspiciously, and Holloway pointed at the monkey. "I know the monkey," he cried. "The little bastard stole my purse. I can't believe he's still alive and hanging out with you." Papa Fluffy followed Holloway's finger to look at the monkey, then turned back to Holloway with a nonchalant shrug.Yes, it's a monkey.It seems to say.so what? "It's getting weirder today," Holloway said. Something moved out of the pile of furs towards Holloway, and one of the furs held it up in its hands, wobbling among its kind as the others made way for it.This little plush walked up to Papa Maomao, and Papa barked at it a few times.It held up the thing and handed it to Holloway, who took it over and took a look—— It's an information board. Holloway initially thought it might be his spare message board, which the Fuzzies had salvaged from the fire, but he later discovered it was a completely different model.The information board is lower-end than Holloway's, but has the same high-end device: It has solar cells on the back.An hour in the sun will last a week.This feature is very useful for those who often survey outside. Holloway turned on the display. Andy Apacka, the virtual character of the interactive e-reading enlightenment product "Super Literacy Adventure Series", stared at him with twinkling eyes and made eye contact with him - the camera on the information board can identify Harlow through facial recognition Prestige eye position. "Hello," Andy said, "My name is Andy Apacka! Come join me on a literacy adventure!" This is Sam Hamilton's information board.Poor semi-literate Sam, his spaceship crashed years ago.His monkey apparently survived, but Sam reckons it's unlikely he did. "Should have taken the emergency barrier, Sam," said Holloway. He looked down at the message board, and Andy Apacka waited for his response.Holloway looked again at the furries, who watched him patiently. For the third time since today, his mind was buzzing and spinning very fast.
Holloway landed abruptly, opened the hatch of the spaceship, lifted Scabbers out of the ship as gently as possible, and laid him flat on the landing zone.Maomao lay there limp and lifeless.Holloway rushed back to the ship to get his first aid kit, nearly slipping again as he hurried out of the ship. Spotted's stomach was stained red with blood.There was no bleeding on its back or extremities, only a streak running from its stomach to its left leg, where the branch above Holloway's head had scratched.Holloway remembered that Fluffy's posture hadn't changed from the time he first saw it until the blood was dripping on his neck.Momo may have been dead during this time, or it may have been alive when Holloway childishly yelled at it, and he could have saved it, if only he had found out sooner. pay attention.Holloway shook his head, dismissing irrelevant thoughts, and focused on Mao Mao in front of him.Holloway checked Scabbers' stomach first. There was so much blood that he couldn't see where the wound was.He ran back to the spaceship and pulled out a kettle, which still had half a bottle of water in it.He knelt beside Maomao, carefully pouring water on the little guy to wash away the blood. Now the wound could be seen. There was a finger-wide wound on Mao Mao's left lower abdomen. Holloway wondered if it was poked out by thorn wood, but he washed and washed the wound, and saw something gray inside.He flushed some water again to wash away the dirty blood, and this time he could see clearly. It's a bullet. We marked them for extinction.Sullivan said it.It's that simple. Holloway froze, but still managed to find a hemostatic cloth from the first aid kit. He tore open the package and pressed it on the wound caused by the bullet, pressing firmly as gently as he could, hoping to stop the bleeding from the little guy. blood. Scabbers had no more blood to shed.it died. Holloway put Scabbers' mouth on the side of his face, hoping to feel the breath, and he stroked the soft fur of Fufu, as if it would come to life in this way.There was no breath, and the little guy didn't come alive.If Ban Ban can still be saved, the time to save it has passed.Maybe it was a minute ago, or an hour ago, or hours ago, but now Holloway couldn't do anything but curl up on top of the little one.Holloway was speechless and could only pray that he was mistaken. He was not mistaken.It took him several minutes to accept this fact. When he finally regained his composure and raised his head, he realized that he was not alone.Mao Mao's father, mother, and grandpa stood in front of him, watching him silently mourning over Spotted's dead body. Holloway's mind was blank, and he stared blankly at the three Mao Mao, his mind suddenly turned rapidly, a thought flashed, and his back felt cold. "Where's the baby?" Holloway asked the three furries. Holloway wondered if they understood him.But after he asked this, they all turned to look at the ruins of the hut. "My God," Holloway cried out.He got up and ran to the hut, but was forced to stop outside, the hut was full of smoke and heat.He peered through the collapsed wall, searching for the baby, hoping the little one wasn't there. He finally found the baby's mutilated body by the door. Forget about anything else, Holloway couldn't figure it out at this moment.The baby was not in the hut when he left. To prevent lizards, he locked the doors and windows, and Mao Mao couldn't get in.There is no way the baby will die in the hut. Then he remembered the bullets on Scabbers.The baby didn't go to the cabin by itself, someone put it in. Holloway looked down and saw his burnt hat, glued to the surveillance camera. His brain started rattling again.Holloway stumbled away from the burnt-out hut and rushed straight to his spaceship, nearly pulling the information board out of the shelf and forcing himself to sit on the seat.His finger slid across the panel, opening the clip of the surveillance video.The footage from the last few hours should be uploaded to the message board.The last time Holloway fiddled with the camera, he tilted his hat on purpose to get a picture of what was going on outside. The video pops up, and the interior of the cabin is blocked by the hat, while the window is unobstructed.Holloway anxiously fast-forwarded an hour and saw no strange video, and stepped back a little to see a spaceship landing in the landing zone, and a man came out. Holloway pauses the frame to zoom in on the man's face, which is hard to tell who he is wearing a ski mask.Holloway wondered who would wear a ski mask on a planet full of tropical rainforests, but then he remembered that the Zara Group had several mines in the southernmost high-altitude area, and there were ski masks in the store. bought it from there.Holloway continues to play the tape. The man strides across the drop zone towards the hut, stopping at the door, the camera loses full frame, the hut wall blocks the frame.The man moved around, apparently trying to unlock the door.He then walks to the window in front of the desk, his body blocking the camera lens, but Holloway sees movement behind him, the baby appears on the far right of the lens, walking towards him. Holloway felt a pain in his chest.Babies trust humans more than any other Fluffy.Other Mao Mao seems to know that humans can be just as dangerous as other animals.But the baby does not know why there is no such vigilance instinct.Babies love humans.Holloway's heart sank, he already guessed what was going to happen next. The man turned suddenly and saw the baby walking towards him.He stopped his attempt to trespass into the hut, walked towards the baby, squatted down in front of the little guy, stretched out his hand to stroke and pat the little furry, and the baby rubbed against his hand.Holloway couldn't hear what he was saying, he'd been forgetting to turn the surveillance camera on - but he could guess.He was coaxing his prey into trusting him. Suddenly, he stood up and raised his booted foot. Holloway had to look away. When he turned his face and looked back to the video, he saw something swinging out of the woods just in time, pounced on the man's face, biting and scratching around his eyes that were exposed outside the mask.Although there was no sound in the video, it could be seen that the man was screaming in pain, and he was desperately trying to shake off the little thing that attacked him. That's Scabbers. Holloway couldn't help but cheered softly, cheering up the little guy.Banban, regardless of Ye Maomao, rushed out without hesitation to protect the baby—its sister?its friend?Or its mate? ——it makes the human seem to be in hell, in order to avenge this inhuman evil. The man waved his hands and wanted to tear the fur away, but Banban jumped and dodged quickly, constantly grabbing the man's head and face.The little Fluffy must make him pay for what he's done. The man finally grabbed Scabbers and pulled it off his face, and Scabbers was still scratching his hand and biting him.He raised his hand and threw Scabbers to the ground with all his strength, and Holloway felt a pain in his stomach, as if he had fallen hard too. Banban struggled to get up, and wanted to jump up and bite. The man pulled out a gun from his belt and aimed at Mao Mao. The little guy suffered from this, and was so shaken that he slid a long way on the floor.Sensing mortal danger, perhaps fueled by the furry adrenaline in his body, Scabbers ran wildly, round the hut and towards Thornwood, with the man shooting after it.One of the bullets pierced the window, and it was possible that the bullet hit something in the cabin and caused a spark.But Holloway doesn't care about the fire at all right now. The man dropped the gun, covered his face, and jumped in pain.Suddenly he saw the baby lying on the ground again, trampled by him, unable to move.He rushed up to the baby, raised his foot and stomped it hard twice, grabbed the pistol on the ground and shot at it, yelling at it angrily. Holloway realized he knew this man. At this time, the smoke caused by the hut's fire had blurred the image of the camera, but Holloway still saw the man bend down to pick up the baby's body, strode to the door of the hut, and the camera couldn't capture his whole body again.His body jerked and jerked, and Holloway wondered for a few seconds before realizing the man was kicking the dog door.In the end, it must have been kicked away. The man's movements were different from before. He stuffed the baby's body into the door and let the fire burn away the evidence. When he was done, the man backed away from the door, covered his face, and walked back to his ship.Halfway there, the fire extinguishing system was activated suddenly, and the foam instantly flooded the entire landing zone, including the man and his spaceship.He was startled by the foam, slipped and fell to the ground, covered in fire extinguishing foam all over his body.If he hadn't just taken two lives, this scene would still be kind of funny.The man finally climbed back on his spaceship, and the spaceship lifted off, spewing flames and disappearing from view. Almost at the same time, Holloway's hat caught fire and fell down to cover the camera, which was suddenly blurred. until the cap is completely burned.
Holloway put down the information board and rushed out of the spaceship to check on Scabbers' body.He knelt beside the small corpse, held Mao Mao's small hand, and carefully inspected the fingertips. Their nails were sharper than humans, probably for the convenience of catching small bugs and peeling fruits. There was blood inside the nail, and some skin flakes. "Found it!" Holloway clenched Scabbers' hand, "I've got you, you scum! I've got you, you didn't expect that!" Holloway looked up at Papa, Mama, and Grandpa Fluffy, and they had strange expressions on their faces, at least Holloway had never seen them like this. "I know you don't understand me," Holloway said to the furs, "but I know who did it. I know who it was and I'm going to make him pay. I promise. I'm going to catch this Scum. I promise." Then Jack Holloway let go of Scabbers' hand and collapsed on the floor, closing his eyes and crying. He wept because he knew very well that Scabbers and Baby, whatever they were, were innocent of his calculations and tricks.Whether they were intelligent or not, Holloway didn't care.Anyway, they didn't deserve such bad luck, being mutilated to death, killed by him.Jack lay on the ground, crying uncontrollably, letting the pain of guilt overwhelm him. He knew that the rest of Mao Mao was watching him.He didn't care, he lay there for a long time. Finally, someone touched Holloway lightly on the cheek.Holloway opened his eyes to see Papa Fluffy staring down at him.Holloway met its gaze in bewilderment. Papa Mao Mao pointed to the top. Holloway looked up. Above him, the thorny wood was covered with hairs, there were dozens of them. "My God!" Holloway sat up in surprise. The furries started to climb down from the tree and jumped onto the landing area, and after a while it was crowded with furries.Holloway stared at them, a little bit amused by the fact that there were so many furries together, and a little scared by that.A human has just killed two of their companions, and it's entirely possible that Mao Mao wants to take revenge on him, and he won't blame them. On the edge of the landing board, a smaller Momo caught his attention.Holloway stared at it for a few seconds, wondering why this furry was so weird, it didn't look like a furry at all. Holloway watched it carefully. It was a capuchin monkey. "You're kidding me!" said Holloway. Papa Fluffy looked at Holloway suspiciously, and Holloway pointed at the monkey. "I know the monkey," he cried. "The little bastard stole my purse. I can't believe he's still alive and hanging out with you." Papa Fluffy followed Holloway's finger to look at the monkey, then turned back to Holloway with a nonchalant shrug.Yes, it's a monkey.It seems to say.so what? "It's getting weirder today," Holloway said. Something moved out of the pile of furs towards Holloway, and one of the furs held it up in its hands, wobbling among its kind as the others made way for it.This little plush walked up to Papa Maomao, and Papa barked at it a few times.It held up the thing and handed it to Holloway, who took it over and took a look—— It's an information board. Holloway initially thought it might be his spare message board, which the Fuzzies had salvaged from the fire, but he later discovered it was a completely different model.The information board is lower-end than Holloway's, but has the same high-end device: It has solar cells on the back.An hour in the sun will last a week.This feature is very useful for those who often survey outside. Holloway turned on the display. Andy Apacka, the virtual character of the interactive e-reading enlightenment product "Super Literacy Adventure Series", stared at him with twinkling eyes and made eye contact with him - the camera on the information board can identify Harlow through facial recognition Prestige eye position. "Hello," Andy said, "My name is Andy Apacka! Come join me on a literacy adventure!" This is Sam Hamilton's information board.Poor semi-literate Sam, his spaceship crashed years ago.His monkey apparently survived, but Sam reckons it's unlikely he did. "Should have taken the emergency barrier, Sam," said Holloway. He looked down at the message board, and Andy Apacka waited for his response.Holloway looked again at the furries, who watched him patiently. For the third time since today, his mind was buzzing and spinning very fast.