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Chapter 354: The Giant Beast Shocks! Shanhai Ape [Please Subscribe]

After the tablet was placed, Zhu Yuanzhang saw the name of the movie before it even started.

Kong: Skull Island

Because Empress Ma loved Buddhism and Zhu Yuanzhang had stayed in a temple, he saw the name and wondered, "Is this a movie involving Buddhism?"

Liu Kuan said, "Your Majesty, this is a movie featuring a giant beast. It doesn't have much special meaning. I don't have many movies stored on my computer, so I can only find one that's a little interesting to show everyone."

Behemoth?

Zhu Yuanzhang was slightly surprised, then asked, "Could it be a movie similar to Jurassic Park?"

"That's about right. Your Majesty will know once you see it."

After saying that, Liu Kuan touched the screen to start playing the movie.

Zhu Liang, Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaoxu and other children were the most excited at this time. They all looked at the flat-screen with anticipation - they had talked about the "Jurassic Park" that was played before for a long time, and even made dinosaur clay dolls in private.

The movie started with a title sequence that was similar to the introduction to a novel.

Against the backdrop of World War II, two fighter planes crashed onto a deserted island in the Pacific, and then the Bald Eagle pilot who jumped out of the plane and the Japanese pilot started fighting.

Seeing the two men's clumsy fight, Zhu Ying felt that the content was a bit boring - at least not as good as Liu Kuanfang's previous films.

Seeing that the Japanese pilot was gaining the upper hand and about to kill the Bald Eagle pilot, Zhu Ying couldn't help but say, "It seems that the Western Barbarians' fighting ability is not good enough..."

He stopped talking as if his words were cut off abruptly.

In the movie, a big hand covered with black hair suddenly stretched out from the cliff where two people were fighting.

No, it should be called giant hand.

Because the fingers of that giant hand are thicker than a human waist!
Then another giant black-haired hand stretched out, and it was obvious that some monster was about to climb up from the cliff, which made the two men forget about fighting.

The Zhu family held their breath and stared at the screen. Sure enough, against the backdrop of the rising sun, they saw a huge head covered with black hair, most of which was exposed.

Because of the backlight, they couldn't see what the huge head was.

Just at this moment, the scene changed, and in a style imitating a black-and-white documentary, it began to tell the story of how after the end of World War II, the world had largely returned to peace, technology was constantly developing, but there were still many unsolved mysteries in the world, and a lot of things went on and on.

Just like that, the timeline turned to 1973, and the protagonists of the camera became a bearded foreign scientist and his assistant.

The two found a government official and asked him to conduct a scientific investigation on a mysterious island in the Pacific Ocean. This island was Skull Island...
Although Liu Kuan played the Mandarin dubbed version, this content was still a bit boring for the Zhu family - mainly because some of the content was set against the backdrop of certain events in the future, which was difficult to understand without understanding the background.

Fortunately, this is a commercial movie with a simple plot line and a fast pace. It doesn't take long before the story begins about the scientific expedition team and the bald eagle army entering Skull Island.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw in the movie that more than a dozen helicopters flew through the storm and entered Skull Island, they became frivolous, playing loud music, joking with each other, and dropping bombs for no reason, he shook his head.

He had a premonition that something bad was bound to happen since this group of barbarians were so arrogant and careless after entering a mysterious place.

However, most people's attention is different from Lao Zhu's. They are either attracted by the beautiful island scenery shot by aerial photography in the movie, or by the helicopters and the various wartime weapons and instruments inside.

Soon, a scene that shocked the Zhu family occurred.

The front helicopter was hit by a flying tree and crashed.

Then, a terrifying giant beast, probably tens of feet tall and somewhat similar in appearance to an ape, appeared in the picture. The helicopter in front of it was like a larger flying bird.

Although they had seen the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park", Lao Zhu and others were still quite shocked at this time.

After seeing this giant beast carrying guns and bullets and almost wiping out the helicopter formation, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but pause the movie and asked: "Liu Kuan, what kind of monster is this? Could it be that it also lived in ancient times like the dinosaurs?" There are no natural distribution of orangutans in China, so it is not surprising that Zhu Yuanzhang did not recognize the orangutan Liu Kuan.

He replied, "Your Majesty, this giant beast is actually an animal that exists today, called an orangutan."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Tan, who had read a lot of miscellaneous books, couldn't help but ask, "Teacher, is this the strange beast mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas?"

Although Liu Kuan had read the Classic of Mountains and Seas, he could not remember much of its content. Upon hearing this, he was surprised and asked, "How does the Classic of Mountains and Seas describe orangutans?"

Zhu Tan recited, "The Southern Mountains Classic says: 'There is a beast, its shape is like a monkey but with white ears, it lurks and runs after people who pass by. It is called a monkey, and eating it will make it run faster.'"

"The Book of Rites states: 'A parrot can speak, but it is still a bird; an ape can speak, but it is still a beast.'"

Liu Kuan was really surprised - there was clearly no natural distribution of orangutans in China, but ancient books such as "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Book of Rites" had records of orangutans. Isn't that strange?
Or, were there orangutans distributed in China in ancient times?

At this time, Lao Zhu asked again: "Liu Kuan, is this gorilla really as huge as in the movie? Where does it live now?"

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that if there really was such a huge monster in the world that could even withstand bullets in movies, the harm would be too great.

Of course, if it can be tamed, it will definitely be a war beast more powerful than a war elephant.

Liu Kuan said, "Your Majesty, gorillas are actually quite diverse, just like monkeys. The image of the giant beast in the video is most similar to a real-life gorilla, but gorillas aren't this big. Standing tall, they're only about two meters tall."

"This movie invented a Skull Island and giant beasts like gorillas purely for the sake of the story. At least, before I came to the Ming Dynasty, I had never heard of such huge animals being discovered in real life."

After hearing Liu Kuan's answer, Zhu Yuanzhang first breathed a sigh of relief, but then felt a little disappointed.

Then ask, "Where do the gorillas you mentioned live?"

"Africa."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and continued playing the movie.

As the plot continued, the more rational and logical people like Zhu, Zhu Biao, and Zhu Di shook their heads at the various unreasonable plots in the movie, but most of Zhu's family were immersed in the excitement brought by the giant beasts attacking people and fighting each other. The children even forgot that Zhu was there and let out bursts of exclamations...
After nearly two hours, Kong: Skull Island ends.

The children were still enjoying the show, but Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the content was boring and had no value.

So he immediately stood up and said, "All the adult princes, as well as Xiong Ying and Liu Kuan, follow me to the side hall to discuss matters."

"Yes."

Everyone responded and immediately followed Zhu Yuanzhang to the side hall.

Liu Kuan didn't even take the tablet computer. He left it in the main hall and asked Zhu Huilan to play a song video for Empress Ma and others to entertain.

Inside the west side hall of Dashan Hall.

After Zhu Yuanzhang led everyone to sit down, he said directly: "Sixth Brother, first tell me about the situation of supervising the affairs of Japan in the past six months."

"Yes, Father."

Zhu Zhen responded and began to narrate the story in a serious manner.

　Second update.

　　Good night~
　　[There are so many things to do at the end of the year that I have almost no time to update. I can only update less frequently. Please forgive me, my readers.]

　　I also wish everyone to return home soon and spend a happy and peaceful New Year with their families!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)