I Got a Gallery in the Wild - Chapter 114

Subject: Watch this gorilla talking before you go.

Wild Grylls

(Video of Leader Gorilla talking)

(Video of Leader Gorilla talking)

(Video of elite guard and Leader Gorilla talking)

(Video of Leader Gorilla talking)

(Video of Leader Gorilla threatening)

Posting this since so many of you didn’t believe it.

Judge for yourselves whether it’s fake or real after watching.

Re: Heavenly Demon) Fascinating every time I see it. Even his speech mannerisms are archaic.

Re: Sword Matstar) I don’t know Central Plains language well, what is he saying?

Re: Heavenly Demon) He is saying Sword Matstar is a liar, and Heavenly Demon alone is grand.

Re: Sword Matstar) Spouting bullshit every time she opens her mouth again;;

Re: What’s with the translation manipulation

Re: F

Re: U

Re: CK

Re: What is this lololol

Re: Look at that teamwork lololol

Re: Allfather) By Aragon! Not just the leader, but even the gorilla next to him speaks. This will send massive shockwaves through academia...!

Re: Professor. Won’t those gorillas threaten us?

Re: Allfather) That possibility is slim. Unless they forge the Forest of the Four Seasons into their own civilization, that is.

Re: A civilization inside the Forest of the Four Seasons shiver

Re: Those bastards are strong right lol And they know how to use tools.

Re: Now if they just start farming, humanity 2.0 is complete.

Re: Then should we call them Beastfolk? Or what?

Re: Shouldn’t we classify them as Beastfolk?

Re: Suspiciously...) It’s ambiguous to call them Beastfolk. Their limb proportions don’t match.

Re: Allfather) The commenter above is correct. Beastfolk must possess body proportions similar to humans to be considered Beastfolk.

Re: Smart Demon) By the way, anyone know his name? If he has a language, he must have a name right?

Re: Wouldn’t the person who taught him to talk have named him? Does Grylls know?

Re: Seems he went off to do something else. No comments at all.

Re: Smart Demon) Then we should name him. How about Son Yuk-gong?

Re: Not Sun Wukong, what the hell is Son Yuk-gong lolol

Re: Smart Demon) Sun Wukong is a monkey’s name from Central Plains myth. He’s a gorilla, not a monkey, so Son Yuk-gong. Isn’t that fucking great?

Re: Holy shit are you a genius? Your IQ must be over 150!

Re: Smart Demon) I’m pretty smart, heh.

Re: And a guy like that is wasting time on the Gallery lol

As expected of the Gallery. Throwing a massive discussion topic, they play amongst themselves just fine.

Occasionally there were meaningful deductions, making it very comfortable to browse.

’Seeing how they all use archaic speech, an ancient person must have taught them.’

The remarkable part among that was that the Leader Gorilla used archaic speech.

Language naturally changes over time.

Without even looking far, comparing Republic of Korea speech from 50 years ago to present day reveals quite a lot of differences.

Let alone the fact that the ’Orthodox-Demonic War’ 60 years ago caused massive changes in the language of the Central Plains.

Meaning the language used by the Leader Gorilla was something a person of that era would speak.

’There really were all kinds of crazy events.’

Starting from the Immortal King to the Orthodox-Demonic War.

This is human history. About half of it gets smeared with wars and combat.

Bashing each other day in and day out is daily life.

’Same goes for here.’

Being the wild didn’t make it any different. A place where daily battles for survival unfolded.

Didn’t I almost die to the Leader Gorilla just moments ago?

It wasn’t a matter of swearing at anyone. As I’ve said time and again, my own nose is three feet deep in trouble.

I pondered how to spend the rest of today.

Since my daily plan was completely derailed because of the Leader Gorilla, I needed to revise it.

’Should I... build doors and walls?’

A single Palm Strike from the Leader Gorilla would collapse any wall or door.

Even in ’The Three Little Pigs’, the brick house stood firm.

But the Leader Gorilla was an entity that rendered all of that meaningless.

’The silver lining is that since he even apologized, he won’t trespass into my territory.’

Still, who knows where another monster as strong as the Leader Gorilla might pop up.

Meaning structures built with great effort could crumble down in a single ’click’.

And not just structures. The entire cave could collapse right along with my heart.

’Let’s abandon doors and walls. I’ll just install CCTV.’

Thanks to that, I could give it up cleanly. I should consider myself lucky for realizing it early.

If I built it all up only for the Leader Gorilla to show up and smash it down, my despair would have doubled.

Even so, I couldn’t just stand by with my eyes open and get robbed blind.

Fasting Pills were one thing, but the moment Elixirs were stolen, my very life would be in danger.Get faster updates on novеlping.com.

’Let’s hide important items in the floor.’

Dig up the floor and cleverly cover it with tiger skin.

Just in case, add charcoal inside to aim for deodorization as well.

To do that, I needed to dig up the hard cave floor to some extent.

’Will a pickaxe dig through it?’

The cave floor had dirt mixed in, but was mostly stone.

Short of hammering or using stone chisels, it would be difficult.

Besides, I couldn’t use my left arm immediately anyway, so I only intended to check it out.

’Hiding it around here should work.’

I found a relatively soft spot and marked it.

At the point when my left arm was deemed fully healed—that is, after lunch—I could remodel it.

"Chyap-chyap! Chyap-chyap-chyap!"

"Aigoo. Wonmo-ya."

Even so, you shouldn’t eat that many bananas. You’ll get diarrhea.

Just how delicious is it that he’s eating them peel and all? He’s already eaten four bananas by himself.

In the end, I had no choice but to hide the bananas somewhere else. Wonmo squirmed and resisted, but it couldn’t be helped.

’Does this roughly finish... things?’

Seems I’ve organized everything that needed organizing.

Digging the floor would start around lunchtime.

Thus, the current time was around 11 AM.

Because the Leader Gorilla paid a visit early in the morning, I had plenty of time on my hands.

’First, light the fire in the oven. Go up to the river and check the fish traps too.’

Even with a splint on my left hand, work must be done. I got up from my seat.

Then I became curious about what to feed Speed Sloth.

Since he had only eaten Fasting Pills until now, I didn’t know his staple diet.

"Bbareumbo-ya. What do you eat? We don’t have Fasting Pills either."

"...."

Then Speed Sloth raised a claw and pointed somewhere.

I turned my head toward the direction he pointed.

Cheombeong! Cheombeong!

It was the iron bucket containing fish.

Don’t tell me he eats fish? When I gave him a questioning look, he nodded.

’Come to think of it, didn’t he try to steal my fish at first too?’

I still remember it vividly.

The incident where he walked slowly trying to steal fish and got caught red-handed.

I didn’t know how absurd it felt back then. Of course, it was Bbareumbo showing mercy in hindsight.

’Seeing how both the gorilla and he like fish...’

Is it like gukbap? Delicious gukbap, even if it’s gotten so expensive lately that calling it ’common folk food’ feels embarrassing.

Highly likely, since it’s hard for both gorillas and Speed Sloth to hunt fish.

There’s the Golden Frog right by the water edge. Without fish traps, it would be difficult.

"Alright. I’ll give you fish for a while. You eat it raw like Wonmo, right?"

"..."

He nodded again. With this, no worries about meals for a while.

Loading Speed Sloth onto my back, I brought Wonmo along.

Soon arriving at the river, I could see two fish caught in the trap.

’Three in the morning. Two at lunch. Not bad.’

There’s still plenty of surplus. Around 3-4 fish left over.

Since I need to consider Speed Sloth’s staple diet for the time being, I need to conserve.

If push comes to shove, I’ll have to eat smoked meat.

’The time is gradually coming when I must earn things myself.’

Because unexpected events kept happening one after another, my reliance on the Gallery seems to be decreasing little by little.

No. It’s because the Gallery existed that I was able to survive until now.

Dressing the fish, I removed the Inner Core inside its intestines.

Seueuk—

"Huh?"

But right after removing the Inner Core, Speed Sloth reached out his hand from the side.

A gesture as if asking me to give him the Inner Core.

Alternating my eyes between Speed Sloth’s face and hand, I asked in a half-disbelieving voice.

"You want the Inner Core?"

He answered by nodding his head.

I felt slightly stunned, but soon pondered it.

To be honest, Inner Cores were overflowing right now.

Every time I gutted a fish, Inner Cores stacked up.

Giving them one by one to Speed Sloth might be better.

"Here. Take it."

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Giving him the round Inner Core, Speed Sloth popped it straight into his mouth.

Looks like he eats it as a substitute for Fasting Pills.

However, whether it tasted worse than Fasting Pills, he winced slightly.

Still, it should suffice for a meal. Since the mana would be far greater than Fasting Pills.

’Wait, he eats Inner Cores like meals?’

This is fascinating in its own right. Just how strong is this guy?

Glancing repeatedly at Speed Sloth, I finished cooking.

Though my left arm was a bit uncomfortable, gutting and putting it in the oven wasn’t difficult.

’Good thing the gorillas didn’t wreck the oven.’

Since I filled my belly comfortably, I should practice my Internal Cultivation Art too.

Originally, I would have consumed Inner Cores starting today, but because my arm was in this state, I postponed it.

I’ll probably eat the Inner Core starting around evening. The day I become stronger is not far off.

’My arm... seems roughly all healed.’

The arm where I injected Elixir via syringe. This too seemed mostly healed.

Of course, I have no intention of exploring today. I plan to stay glued inside the house all day.

Tapping my left arm here and there, I nodded. It felt sturdier than before.

’Let’s dig up the cave floor first.’

A place to hide various valuables, including Elixirs.

The gorilla probably won’t trespass again, but there’s always a ’what if’.

Since they are highly intelligent, there might be individuals with thief mentalities.

I purchased a suitable-sized pickaxe from the Gallery.

’Thinking back, I learned all sorts of things in the military.’

Shoveling I learned in the military, pickaxing I learned in the military too.

Back then I grumbled asking where I’d ever use this, but I’m using it very usefully now.

As the saying goes, life is full of ups and downs. I let out a hollow laugh and stepped forward.

’Centrifugal force spinning it in a circle. And using the tool’s weight itself rather than raw force.’

If I stupidly hacked away with force, only my waist and hands would get hurt. I felt that acutely in the military.

Getting hurt back then let me coast a bit, but after that, there were no free passes.

Shaking off useless thoughts, I spun the pickaxe in a circle.

Maintaining momentum, I applied a bit of force and slammed it down where I wanted.

Kkaang! Kkaang! Kkang!

Worried it wouldn’t shatter easily, I even used Aura while starting to pickaxe.

Fortunately, the cave floor wasn’t terribly hard either, so it shattered easily.

’I have to fit whole boxes inside, so let’s dig a bit deep.’

Beyond digging deep, I also needed to dig wide.

Because I might need to put in various items besides valuables.

Catching a rhythm, I swung the pickaxe enthusiastically. The ground started hollowing out bit by bit.

Kkaang! Kkang! Kkang!

But from a certain point, it stopped digging easily. Seems the rock type changed.

Still, if I keep digging steadily, it’ll break. With that mindset, I waited patiently.

Kkaang!

"No, wait."

Kkang!

"Why!"

Kkaaaang!!!

"Won’t it dig?!"

In the end, infuriated, I threw the pickaxe far away.

Just how hard is it that a pickaxe infused with Aura won’t dig into it?

Irritated, I stared down at the ground I had dug only halfway to my desired depth.

There was a pile of rubble around, so I cleared it away one by one with my hands.

Banjjak! Banjjak!

What was revealed upon clearing the rubble was a stone featuring an impressive green hue.

No. This wasn’t a stone, it was closer to an ore. I knew because I’ve seen Orichalcum before.

"What is this now?"

Now I can’t even dig the ground. Feels like God is spitefully forcing bad luck on me.

Apart from that, what on earth is this ore’s identity that even a pickaxe can’t dig it?

I immediately snapped a photo and posted it to the Gallery.

Subject: Anyone know what this is?

Wild Grylls

(Photo of mineral glowing green)

Digging the ground to store valuables and this shit pops up.

What the hell is this? Is it that Mithril thing someone mentioned before or something?

It’s so fucking hard my hands hurt.

Re: Passing Dwarf) Uh. Looks like that’s Mithril alright?

Re: Wild Grylls) ?

For real?