"Ding! Mission completed, the source of pollution has been thoroughly cleared."
"Congratulations to the host for obtaining 5 Talent Points and a random Talent Treasure Chest."
Listening to the system prompt in his mind, Yang Lin finally breathed a long sigh of relief.
The system-assigned time was almost up, and he had finally resolved the issue.
"A random Talent Treasure Chest, I wonder what it will give me. I hope for a Gold talent."
"No, a Legendary talent would be even better!"
Although Yang Lin knew this was somewhat unrealistic, he still held onto a sliver of hope.
Taking a deep breath, he immediately opened the Talent Treasure Chest.
The next second, another system prompt sounded in his ear.
"Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Legendary Talent - Tool Crafting."
"This..." Hearing the system prompt in his mind, Yang Lin almost doubted his ears.
He never expected to actually draw a Legendary talent.
This was the highest-level talent he had discovered so far, having only seen it in the Golden Eagle and the Saltwater Crocodile.
He hadn't expected to draw another one so soon.
It was just this name.
If he remembered correctly, the Golden Eagle's Legendary talent was called Sky Overlord, and the Saltwater Crocodile's Legendary talent was called Prehistoric Overlord. How come his talent name sounded so mundane?
"Tool Crafting? This can be considered a Legendary talent? Isn't this something you can do with your hands?"
As soon as the words of complaint left his mouth, Yang Lin realized something was wrong.
"I almost forgot, this talent is relative to animals. If animals mastered the method of crafting tools, wouldn't they be very close to humans?"
For some reason, Yang Lin thought of a saying: the biggest difference between humans and animals is that humans use tools.
And it was precisely because humans mastered the use of tools that they became the masters of this planet.
Thinking of this, Yang Lin immediately changed his view of this talent.
Without a doubt, this talent was most suitable for primates, as they had dexterous forelimbs like humans.
Imagine if Li Wei, the chimpanzee, had mastered this talent. The next time he threw something at tourists, it wouldn't be his bare hands, but a catapult.
Even if Yang Lin provided him with enough resources, he could even create some weapons.
"So, his next developmental path is a manual orangutan, the inventor king of the animal kingdom?"
"I hope it won't be Rise of the Planet of the Apes."
Of course, Yang Lin knew that the latter situation was absolutely impossible.
Any animal whose talent had been activated by him possessed absolute loyalty towards him and would never betray him.
Five minutes later, Yang Lin, holding a bunch of bananas, appeared at the entrance of the ape enclosure.
Unlike when the zoo first became popular, the ape enclosure now had many tourists, but fewer than before.
There were two main reasons for this. One was the recent surge in popularity of other animals in the zoo.
The other reason was that people's novelty-seeking curiosity had worn off, and simply throwing feces was no longer enough to satisfy the tourists' viewing experience.
After all, there were only so many tourists who enjoyed being humiliated.
To borrow a phrase from netizens, it had become outdated, the first generation internet celebrity of Xihong Zoo.
Of course, Li Wei himself didn't care about this. He wished there were even fewer tourists.
The only thing he cared about was the decrease in people offering him cigarettes. In the past, whenever a tourist saw him, who wouldn't offer him a cigarette?
Seeing Li Wei picking up cigarette butts to smoke in the enclosure, Yang Lin, holding a bunch of bananas, walked into the cage.
"Old Man Li, smoke less, it's bad for your health. Eat more fruit."
Hearing his words, Li Wei, who was happily smoking, immediately glared at him.
"Do you know how many years wild chimpanzees who eat fruit can live? Forty years at most."
"Do you know how old I am this year? I'm 52. If you count it in human years, I'm over 90."
"Next time, don't bring me bananas. Yesterday, a young man gave me a cigarette. He said the cigarette was called 'Hua Zi.' You should bring me Hua Zi from now on. Other cigarettes burn my throat."
After saying this, the chimpanzee Li Wei took a few deep puffs until half of the filter was burnt. He then stomped on the cigarette butt fiercely a few times.
After stomping, he realized he wasn't wearing shoes and winced in pain.
Seeing his appearance, Yang Lin was speechless.
For other animals, he needed to go in daily to clean up their feces. For this one, he only cleaned up cigarette butts and ashes.
Of course, he still had to sweep the feces, but it was outside the cage.
"It seems I really need to find something for you to do."
With this thought, Yang Lin bestowed the newly acquired Legendary talent, Tool Crafting, upon the chimpanzee Li Wei.
With a flash of white light that was invisible to tourists, Li Wei's previously dispirited eyes suddenly gleamed.
His brain, whose intelligence was already not much different from that of humans, seemed to undergo a subtle and wondrous change.
Whether it was an illusion or not, Yang Lin felt that he looked a bit bigger, and his back seemed straighter.
Seeing these changes in Li Wei, Yang Lin quickly asked him about his feelings.
"How do you feel? Is there any difference from before?"
Hearing Yang Lin's question, the chimpanzee Li Wei first showed an extremely human-like expression of contemplation, and then replied:
"My head feels a bit itchy."
"My head feels a bit itchy?"
Ignoring the doubt on Yang Lin's face, the chimpanzee Li Wei, unlike his usual lethargy, began to pace back and forth in the cage, appearing to be deep in thought.
Looking at his strange behavior, Yang Lin, though puzzled, did not disturb him and silently walked out of the cage.
However, not long after he returned to the administrator's office, he heard exclamations from tourists outside.
Upon hearing these exclamations, Yang Lin initially thought something had happened. It wasn't until he ran out of the office that he realized the exclamations were coming from the direction of the ape enclosure.
With a hint of confusion, Yang Lin soon arrived at the periphery of the ape enclosure.
Following his gaze, he saw that the chimpanzee Li Wei was currently grinding a stone he had picked up from somewhere.
In just a short while, the stone transformed into the shape of an axe.
But that wasn't the most astonishing part. The most astonishing part was that he combined this stone with a long piece of wood.
Instantly, a stone axe from the Stone Age was born in his hand.
This scene not only stunned the tourists but also Yang Lin.
Given the skill with which he crafted tools, he had no doubt that if Li Wei were given a few more days, he could forge iron in his cage.
At this moment, he finally realized the power of a Legendary talent.
The tourists, of course, didn't know all this. They only knew that the chimpanzee in the cage seemed to be acting strangely again.