Li Wei, who suddenly turned around, had not yet understood what was happening when Yang Lin suddenly felt a dark shadow rushing towards him.
Instinctively, he tilted his head to the side.
Thump!
With a dull thud, a pile of filth appeared on the wall behind him, accompanied by a pungent odor.
Looking at the pile of filth, Yang Lin was dumbfounded.
If he hadn't subconsciously tilted his head, this pile of filth would have hit him in the face, and he might have even tasted it.
The thought made him feel nauseous.
"Ah Wei, you bastard, how dare you throw that at me!"
Pointing at Li Wei, the chimpanzee in the cage, Yang Lin yelled angrily.
But as soon as he finished cursing, he heard a rough voice.
"What are you calling your grandpa, you brat? Keep calling me that, and your grandpa will throw it at you again!"
Yang Lin's eyes widened in disbelief upon hearing this.
If he hadn't misheard, the voice was coming from the mouth of the gorilla in front of him.
He immediately thought of the Beast Language Mastery skill mentioned by the system.
"Can I really understand it talking?"
With a hint of doubt, Yang Lin cautiously asked the chimpanzee in the cage again:
"Ah Wei, was that you talking just now?"
However, as soon as he finished speaking, the chimpanzee in the cage replied impatiently:
"Is 'Ah Wei' a name you can call me? By your human standards, I'm eighty years old this year."
"Hurry up and get me a cigarette, or I'll throw more at you."
As he spoke, the chimpanzee picked up a dried piece of ape dung and made a motion as if to throw it.
Seeing this, Yang Lin, terrified, quickly ducked into the zookeeper's workroom nearby.
When he returned, he was holding a pack of cigarettes and a lighter.
He tentatively pushed the cigarettes and lighter through the gap in the cage.
To his surprise, the chimpanzee Li Wei snatched them up the next second.
What was even more unexpected was that Li Wei skillfully took out a cigarette from the pack and lit it with the lighter.
Before long, he was puffing away inside the cage, even occasionally exhaling smoke rings.
"These cigarettes aren't good. When old Yang was here, I could occasionally get some 60s. Your pack is probably not even worth 10 yuan."
"This..."
Yang Lin never expected that this balding old chimpanzee was actually an old smoker.
No wonder he had been looking listless for the past two days since his father went abroad; it turned out he was having nicotine withdrawal.
Watching the chimpanzee's skilled movements, a spark of inspiration flashed through Yang Lin's mind.
The next second, he turned on his camera and pointed it at Li Wei in the cage to film him.
After filming and adding some background music, he casually uploaded the video to Douyin.
This incident finally confirmed that the skills gifted by the system were real and effective.
However, as far as he could tell, the Throwing Mastery talent didn't seem to have much practical use, other than throwing ape dung.
"Let's go see the other animals."
Setting aside the old smoking chimpanzee, Yang Lin quickly turned his gaze to its neighbor, the gibbon Li Qiang.
As an animal that used to perform high-altitude acrobatics in a circus, it had developed acrophobia and depression after leaving the circus, spending its days in a daze.
However, when Yang Lin used his Insightful Gaze on it, its talents surprised him greatly.
[Talent 1: Master of Mimicry (Green) - Requires 1 Talent Point to activate]
[Talent 2: King of the Skies (Blue) - Requires 2 Talent Points to activate]
[Talent 3: Flash of Wit (Gold) - Requires 5 Talent Points to activate]
[Talent 4: Elder's Wisdom (Gold) - Requires 5 Talent Points to activate]
[Talent 5: Winemaking (Gold) - Requires 5 Talent Points to activate]
......
Apart from one green and one blue talent, all its other talents were gold, making it even more remarkable than the chimpanzee.
But clearly, Yang Lin could only choose the green Master of Mimicry for now.
With this in mind, he immediately added one talent point.
The next second, the gibbon Li Qiang turned its head as if sensing something.
Suddenly, Yang Lin felt as if he was facing not a gibbon, but an old man.
"Grandpa Qiang, it's me, Xiao Yang, Guang's son, Shu's grandson. Are you feeling any better with your depression?"
As soon as Yang Lin finished speaking, an old voice came from the cage.
"Xiao Yang, hurry up and get your Grandpa Qiang a bottle of Coke. Grandpa Qiang is thirsty."
Although he knew that these animals had their quirks, Yang Lin never expected that this old monkey, with half its teeth missing, would enjoy carbonated drinks.
However, thinking of the smoking chimpanzee earlier, he felt it was understandable.
"Just a moment, I'll get it for you right away."
Without any delay, Yang Lin soon returned with a can of Coke from the zookeeper's office.
After handing it to the gibbon, it skillfully opened the tab and tilted its head back to drink.
While drinking the Coke, it showed no signs of depression at all.
Seeing this, Yang Lin immediately took out his phone to film.
After filming, he uploaded the video to the official account of Xihong Zoo, just like the previous ones.
However, to his surprise, while he was filming, the gibbon in the cage seemed to imitate his actions, picking up a brick from the side and scribbling on it.
Noticing this, Yang Lin's mind raced, and he somehow produced a spare phone.
"Grandpa Qiang, could you come here for a moment? I'll teach you something new!"
Five minutes later, watching the gibbon gradually become proficient in using a smartphone, Yang Lin's face showed a look of satisfaction.
After awakening their talents, these animals had shown significant improvements in both physical strength and intelligence.
The gibbon's ability to quickly master the use of a smartphone was proof of this.
Of course, Yang Lin teaching it to use a smartphone wasn't just out of a whim; it was for his upcoming plan of resurrection.
He intended to use this plan to bring life back to this dying zoo.
With this thought, he couldn't help but cast his gaze towards the other areas of the zoo.
And just as Yang Lin was envisioning his grand commercial blueprint, the two animal videos he had uploaded earlier were rapidly going viral on Douyin.