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Chapter 69 Seven-Nation Report

The second one was from Sam Eagle Country, sent by Wood.

On the same day, at the same hour, the upright apes of the Waimeming Plain drove all three herds of Tyrannosaurus Rex into the depths of the valley.

Previously, they only guided the Tyrannosaurus Rex to move around in the valley, but this time they drove it directly in.

After the Tyrannosaurus Rex herd was driven to the deepest part of the valley, the upright apes used rubble and tree trunks to build a barrier at the entrance of the valley.

It wasn't a defensive fortification, just a simple barrier.

Wood's observer wrote in his report: They were closing the gates, like putting livestock in a pen before a storm.

The third one, from the Kingdom of Hanscat, was sent by King William.

Yesterday afternoon at 3 PM, the upright apes of the Black Forest moved all 120 canisters of venom they had stockpiled underground.

They dug a special storage cave, about twelve meters deep, stacked the pottery jars neatly, and then sealed the entrance with soil.

After sealing it, they did not continue collecting venom, but instead all squatted around the collection point, facing the same direction.

Which direction?

King William's observer measured it—seventeen degrees east of south.

Nobody knows where this direction points.

The fourth one, from Jacques Chicken Country, sent by George.

The tapping commands from the upright apes in Toulon to Anomalocaris have changed.

Previously it was "wait", repeated countless times.

Starting at 3 PM yesterday, a new rhythm emerged.

George's naval engineers couldn't decipher the meaning, but they discovered a phenomenon: after Anomalocaris heard the new rhythm, the frequency of its spring claw ejection decreased by 70%, and it went from being ready to fight to being in a semi-dormant state.

The engineer wrote in the report: "This rhythm is like a lullaby, putting Anomalocaris to sleep."

The fifth one, from Vito in Giuseppe Valley.

A group of giant nautiluses abandoned off the coast of Luocheng Port surfaced collectively at 3 p.m. yesterday, reaching a depth of 10 meters above the sea surface, with all their tentacles spread out and arranged in a huge ring.

The center of the ring is empty; there is nothing there.

Vito's observer wrote in his report: They were forming a circle, as if waiting for something to fall into the center of the circle.

The sixth one, from the mighty Longguo, was sent by Kerry.

Captain Zhao from Bertswana reported that the upright gibbons under the mango tree at the village entrance stopped drawing circles simultaneously at 3 PM yesterday.

Three upright apes simultaneously stopped pawing, then raised their heads at the same time to look in the same direction.

The old chief Mossai was squatting nearby carving farewell rings when he saw them raise their heads, and he also looked up in that direction.

I can't see anything.

But Mosse said the clouds were moving in that direction.

It wasn't the wind that was moving it; it felt like something was pushing it from behind.

The seventh portion, from the Wynners Kingdom itself.

The water dragon beast in the square of the Executive Yuan crawled out of its hole at three o'clock yesterday afternoon and lay down in the square, holding up half of its broken shell.

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With its fangs resting on its front paws and ears pressed against the ground, it lay motionless for forty minutes.

Carrie squatted down next to it and took a picture. In the photo, the water dragon's eyes were half-closed, as if it was listening to a very, very distant sound.

Lu Cheng finished reading the seven reports and took a sip of his coffee.

The coffee has gone cold.

Seven countries and seven exotic creatures simultaneously exhibited abnormal behavior at 3 PM yesterday.

This is definitely not a coincidence.

Something in the intergenerational memories of the hominids was simultaneously activated at 3 PM yesterday.

It wasn't a system notification, nor was it an announcement from the sky; it was an alarm clock that went off within their own bodies.

After sending the report, Kerry sent another long telegram:

The Kyoto ape stopped at 3 PM yesterday. It was carving a list on the back of a mirror, halfway through, its paw dangling in mid-air for forty minutes. After forty minutes, it lowered its paw, not continuing to carve the list, but instead flipping the mirror over, face down. Then it went to a corner of the courtyard and began arranging pebbles in a pattern it had never made before. Not concentric circles, not "substitute for man," not "bullets are useless." It was a pattern neither Kerry nor Massa recognized: a circle with a vertical line inside, and a dot on each side of the line, like a closed eye.

Lu Cheng placed Kerry's telegram on the table.

Carrie brought in a freshly brewed cup of hot coffee and replaced the cold one.

"Seven countries simultaneously, with an error margin of no more than two minutes." Lu Cheng picked up his hot coffee. "The upright ape has a clock inside it that we don't know about, and it rang at three o'clock yesterday afternoon."

Carrie sat down opposite him: "What clock?"

"I don't know, but the Water Dragon Beast was listening too. It's not an upright ape, it doesn't have an intelligent brain, and it doesn't have intergenerational memories. But it was listening at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, which means that the signal wasn't transmitted through an intelligent brain, but through another channel."

What channel do you think is best?

Lu Cheng did not answer.

He looked out the window at the water dragon beast in the square. It still hadn't dug a hole today; it was lying on the ground with its ears pressed against the ground.

Carrie fed it three bone balls in the morning. It ate two and left one in its mouth without chewing it.

Bertswana, that evening.

Old Chief Moses finished carving the third farewell circle.

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The first one is counterclockwise, and the second one is clockwise wrapped around counterclockwise.

The two circles are stacked together, facing opposite directions.

The third one is horizontal, not a circle, but an elongated ellipse, like a closed eye.

Captain Zhao squatted down to take pictures, and after he finished, he asked him, "Why is this horizontal?"

Mosel wiped the carving knife on his trouser leg: "The first circle sends them away, the second circle sends us away with them, and the third circle—it doesn't send them away, it closes them. Our ancestors said that there are two kinds of circles that creatures draw. One kind of circle is drawn for living things, to welcome and bid farewell. The other kind of circle is drawn for closed eyes. When the eyes are closed, there is no difference between living and dead things. They are no different from us either."

"Whose eyes were painted on?"

"Give that eye that has always been open, the eye that has been open since they came and went a hundred thousand years ago. Watching them, and watching us. Now it is going to close, and when it closes, someone will press a switch."

Captain Zhao sent the photo and Mo Sai's words to Lu Cheng.

The Winners' Republic, the government, that evening.

Lu Cheng placed Mo Sai's photo on the table.

A horizontal circle, resembling a closed eye, is exactly the same as the pattern that the upright ape in Kyoto made with pebbles in the corner of the courtyard.

Two individuals who have never met—

A 71-year-old chieftain of Botswana, and an upright ape imprisoned in the courtyard of Kyoto, the capital of Taro Tanuki Kingdom.

On the same day, the same pattern was displayed.

Carrie stood behind him, looking at the photo.

"Mosel said that the eye that had been open was about to close. When it closed, someone would press a switch."

"Does he know what a switch is?"

"I don't know, but he carved three circles. The first was for the departing hominid, the second for the departing human and hominid together, and the third for the closed eye. He carved all three possibilities on the door frame within three days."

That night, dawn broke.

[Announcement for the 90th Day of the Exotic Creatures' Arrival]

[Average progress of camouflage among hominids in ten countries: 94%. Hominis worldwide are simultaneously entering a period of behavioral adjustment. New domesticated behaviors have been reduced to zero, and existing domesticated relationships are either maintained or contracted.]

[Synchronized behavior adjustments were observed in Grimoiremon, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Megalodon, Anomalocaris, Tyranitar, Meganautilus, and Sulyosaurus. The adjustment timing was highly consistent, and the triggering mechanism is unknown.]