Chapter 5

Garrick's home is quite secluded. He bought a piece of land and built his house by himself, located by a lake.

Jin Si is too big to fit into the house.

Garrick set up a simple tent for Jin Si in the woods outside, basically just a cloth roof stretched between a few trees.

Jin Si sat by the fire, roasting meat, while Garrick was busy.

Genetic Energy Company—

"Garrick is back home, but I found in his card records that he bought a lot of food, a tremendous amount, far more than a human would need," Blake said.

"Does he have a lot of people at home?"

"No, he lives alone. He has no family. If it's just him, he definitely can't finish that much food, unless he's stockpiling for the end of the world."

"That means, besides him, there's another creature with an enormous appetite at his place?" Blair's eyes gleamed with greed.

"If there's no mistake, it's likely that giant ape. Maybe they've had a connection all along, and the giant ape came to save him."

"It seems we need to formulate a new plan, a more detailed and thorough one, after all, that creature is too smart."

...

Garrick found Jin Si to be incredibly smart.

Smart to the point of being scary.

His learning ability is no less than that of a human.

No, maybe even more so.

For example, he already knows how to watch TV.

To watch TV, he actually took out the window and went to the living room to watch it.

He even understands many jokes and slang in TV shows.

However, Garrick also discovered that this giant ape is a complete shut-in.

Its favorite food is not fruit, but the four great gods of shut-ins!

Fried chicken, chips, cola, and burgers.

When Garrick returned from the supermarket, he brought back a new batch of ingredients.

Garrick pushed open the door: "Jin, come help me unload."

But the moment he pushed open the door, he felt like he was blind.

Jin Si quickly turned off the TV.

"What were you watching just now?"

Huh—

Jin Si clenched his fists, his eyes glowing fiercely: "Do you want to be silenced?"

"Alright, I didn't see anything."

Garrick swallowed: "If you really need it, I can spend fifty dollars... no, maybe a hundred dollars."

Jin Si really thought about it, then looked at his lower body, and Garrick also looked at Jin Si's lower body.

"Forget it, I think this would be murder."

Jin Si also felt a bit dejected; the size mismatch was indeed a big problem.

"Um... if you really need it, I can find someone with a larger build. I think they might be able to satisfy you."

Huh—

凸(—_—)凸!

After unloading, Garrick planned to clean Jin Si's nest and found two huge wild boars lying in it.

"Jin, where did these come from?"

Eat, roast—

"Alright, I can't cook something this big, you do it yourself."

Jin Si being able to hunt on his own also reduced Garrick's pressure.

After all, Jin Si really eats a lot.

One or two meals are fine, but eating over a thousand dollars a day, who can afford that?

In the following two days, Garrick found that Jin Si was learning English.

Actually, Jin Si had learned it in college before, so now it's more like a review.

The main weakness for Jin Si is writing.

In just two or three days, Garrick found that Jin Si could use a phone to go online.

The most tragic part is that he realized his IQ might be lower than this giant ape's.

Of course, this also made their communication easier.

Jin Si can now use his phone to convey his words.

"Do you really not need me to find you a 300-pound fat girl?"

"Shut up, my taste is the same as humans. If you want to find someone, find a celebrity."

"No, I can't afford that much money."

"If I become a star in Hollywood, can I get with them? Maybe some of them like different species."

"Even if you really become a big star and get with them, what then? Use your hands? Also... before I came in, were you watching something weird again?"

"It's not my fault, I turned on the TV, and that's what was playing."

"Damn, you're watching a pay channel again?"

Suddenly, the alarm in the room went off.

"What's that?"

"Damn, someone has broken in."

Garrick's face changed. He had set up some traps and alarm devices around his house.

Those alarm devices were triggered.

"You've been exposed, leave immediately, go into the forest, no one can catch you there." Garrick immediately said, "Right now, immediately."

Garrick immediately took out his weapons.

But Jin Si didn't leave; he also grabbed a vehicle-mounted machine gun.

The recoil of this vehicle-mounted machine gun is like a heavy hammer to humans.

But for Jin Si, it's nothing.

"Aren't you leaving?"

"If I leave, they'll capture you and torture you to find out my whereabouts. They'll turn you into an RBQ."

"Staying won't help. We can't fight against the entire Genetic Energy Company."

"Then let's escape together."

"Where to? Do you want me to become a wild man?"

"Do you have any leverage against the Genetic Energy Company? Like something they made you do that's not public? For example, the board collectively saving fallen women, or their wives giving them green hats, or something like that..."

"Stop... I'm just a part-time mercenary, how could I have access to any secrets?"

"Don't I count as one of their company's secrets?"

"Alright, except for you... but I think if they knew their weapon is obsessed with celebrities, they'd dissect you."

"It seems there's only one way."

"What way?"

"Call the police."

(；乛д乛)

After a long silence, Garrick looked at Jin Si: "Why does it sound so awkward when you say 'call the police'?"

Suddenly, a bone-chilling feeling came over them.

"Damn!" Jin Si grabbed Garrick, using his massive body to shield him.

Boom—

"My house!!" Garrick roared.

Jin Si looked at a tank outside and the armed personnel lurking in the surrounding woods.

"Want me to avenge your house?"

"F***"

"You actually f*** me, do you want to become my RBQ?"

The man and the ape looked at each other silently, then tacitly ended this topic that made them both feel sick.

"I just had an idea."

"Do you have a way to escape?"

"No, it's an idea to make money."

"Snap out of it, you're a monkey. Do you plan to go back to the circus and sell yourself?" Garrick always thought Jin Si might have escaped from a circus and then mutated after being exposed to the Genetic Energy Company's chemicals.

"No, trust my intelligence. Haven't you noticed that I'm much smarter than you? You can only make money with your muscles, but I can make money with my brain."