In the pouring rain, a dark arrow struck.

This is Lin Shuo, the leader of the hunting gate, who has been injured for the first time since Yicheng.

It's just a little bit of skin on your fingers, but it's a unique thing.

Dark arrows struck and scared the people in this makeshift shack.

This arrow came by grazing Mao Dahai's ear.

Mao Dahai covered his ears and looked at Lin Shuo opposite, his mouth wide open.

Zhou Lingshi beside him reacted much faster, and immediately stood up, facing the direction of the dark arrow, blocking Lin Shuo behind him tightly.

The ones who reacted faster than Zhou Lingshi were Cao Yusheng and A

e, and Zhang Jin.

Zhang Jin was about to pounce when Lin Shuo just caught the arrow, but he was slapped on the shoulder by Cao Yusheng and choked him.

It's raining heavily outside, Zhang Jin is not familiar with the place, and the enemy is dark and I am bright, so going out like this is sending him to death.

A

e immediately put his ear to the ground and listened to the movement outside.

She held her breath and closed her eyes again.

Lin Shuo, who was beside her, slowly put down the arrow in his hand and handed it to Cao Yusheng on the other side.

Cao Yusheng had just pressed Zhang Jin, and immediately took the arrow, took out his reading glasses from his satchel, and began to study it slowly.

Wei Xingshan reacted at this time, leaned his head over, and observed the arrow together.

Lin Shuo searched for it in his carry-on bag with his hand and took out two band-aids.

Wrapping these two band-aids around his fingers, Lin Shuo looked at A lying beside him

e, do not rush.

He pulled out the two arrows of the chasing master, slowly twisted the threads, and connected the two arrows into a spear.

With a "click", the muzzle of the gun fell into place, and Lin Shuo put the spear flat on his knee and continued to wait for A

e's "Listen to the Mountain" results.

Lin Shuo knew that in the current situation outside, it was not wise for him to go out to ask for the enemy.

At this time, the rain outside is too heavy, no matter what smell factor, it is washed to the ground by the rain, and my sense of smell cannot play a role.

Eyes, the outside line of sight will not exceed two meters.

Now the only person who is possible to get outside intelligence is A, who is good at listening to mountains

e。

At this time, the situation is actually extremely critical.

The sneak attacker was in the rain, with a powerful bow and arrow in his hand, and the people in this shack, except for Lin Shuo himself, could be said to shoot one by one and die the other.

Lin Shuo didn't know how he aimed at his target in the rain, but there was no doubt that he was aiming accurately.

But no matter how dangerous the situation is, it's useless to be in a hurry, and now you can only wait for A

e listen out the results.

Once A

E reported the direction, and in the blink of an eye, Lin Shuo would be gone.

And in A

In E's ears, the earth at this moment is like a giant drum struck by hundreds of millions of drumsticks.

The loud noise constantly hit her eardrums, which were far sharper than ordinary people, and these dense and disordered movements greatly interfered with "Tingshan".

"The rain was so loud that I couldn't hear it. ”A

E said softly.

Hearing this, Lin Shuo nodded, his whole body relaxed slightly, and dismantled the gun on his knee again.

Lin Shuo is a hunter, but because of the existence of the family heirloom, he is also a shooter.

As a shooter, he naturally has insight into the psychology of shooters.

Regardless of the other party's method, he aimed at himself in the heavy rain and shot that arrow.

There are seven people in this shack, and one arrow can only kill one, and once the direction is exposed, what will happen to the other six?

So after he shoots, whether the target hits or not, he will definitely transfer.

If it is not transferred, it means that the bearing is exposed.

In addition, the power of this arrow just now, Lin Shuo had experienced it with his fingers.

The firing range was very close, definitely not more than thirty meters.

The first arrow is a sneak attack, and since it is a sneak attack, it is natural to hide as far away as possible.

This means that thirty meters is the farthest distance that the opponent can shoot effectively in this kind of heavy rain.

Since the rain is not light, then his second arrow can only be closer, not farther.

And within thirty meters, no matter how heavy the rain is, A

E's "Listening Mountain" should be able to hear the movement from his transfer.

Present A

e could not hear it, which means that the man quickly moved away after shooting the arrow.

So for now, everyone is safe for the time being.

Sometimes, when there's no news, it's good news.

Lin Shuo figured this out and relaxed.

And Cao Yusheng and Wei Xingshan, who were observing this arrow together, didn't seem to be nervous from beginning to end.

However, Lin Shuo felt that although these two people behaved the same, they had different reasons.

Cao Yusheng probably thought of what he had just thought, and he might even be more thoughtful than he thought, and he figured it out as soon as possible, so he wasn't nervous.

And Wei Xingshan is purely because of his big heart.

"Leader!" Mao Dahai, who was sitting opposite Lin Shuo, suddenly howled out with a "whoop" at this time, startling Lin Shuo: "You are too powerful, this kind of dark arrow is said to be accepted!"

After saying this, Mao Dahai turned around and pulled Zhou Lingshi's palm hanging by his side: "Boss, did you see it just now? The leader caught the arrow just now!"

Zhou Lingshi knocked Mao Dahai's hand away: "Don't make noise!"

At this moment, Zhou Lingshi was still blocking Lin Shuo, his whole body was tense, and he looked like a sworn guard.

Lin Shuo looked at Zhou Lingshi's back, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he thought to himself that this guy was really a slippery head.

If the other party really wants to kill himself, the second arrow will definitely not be in its original position, so the position where Zhou Lingshi is standing at the moment is actually the safest.

He's been a hunter for more than a decade and should be able to think of that.

But whether he wants to get it or not, in the situation just now, he can immediately use it to show his loyalty, this is not easy, it is a technical job.

So Lin Shuo didn't bother to investigate, but said lightly: "Okay, sit down, it's okay for the time being." ”

Zhou Lingshi relaxed his whole body, turned his head and sat down.

Now it's raining heavily, and the sneak attackers have run away, so there's nothing anyone can do.

After this leisure, Zhou Lingshi said: "Leader, your hand just now is really an eye-opener for Zhou. Just now, the arrow of the snowman, if it were replaced by someone else, it would definitely die here. That is, you, the leader, it can't help it. ”

"How do you know it's a snowman?" asked Lin Shuo.

"Who else could it be!" Zhou Lingshi said, as if he remembered something, "Oh, Mao Dahai was full of nonsense before, and I didn't make it clear to you."

The snowman is a human-like thing that makes some simple weapons and tools.

The level of production of its weapons and tools is really not very good, but its skills are good, and no matter how bad things are, they are also very powerful in its hands.

We used to have a poaching party here, and all thirteen of them were killed by its arrows.

The shaft of the arrow left on the corpse was similar to the one now. ”

"Hmm. Lin Shuo nodded.

"This arrow is really rough in workmanship. Wei Xingshan stretched out his head and looked at the arrow shaft for a while, then pursed his lips, "It's made of small branches, and the arrow shaft hasn't been straightened." And this arrow, of stone. This kind of broken arrow can go straight to the center of people's eyebrows, and the archery level of this thing is really good. ”

"It's not bad. Lin Shuo stretched out his fingers with two band-aids and said, "You Wei Xingshan will start practicing from now on, and in the next thirty years, before your old eyes are dizzy, the archery level can be half of this thing, even if I don't accept you as an apprentice in vain." ”

"Lao Lin, you are growing the ambition of others and destroying your own prestige, why bother?" Wei Xingshan scratched his head.

"I'm just telling the truth. Lin Shuo glanced at Wei Xingshan, and then looked at Cao Yusheng, "Master Cao, do you see something?"

Cao Yusheng took off his reading glasses, held the arrow shaft in his hand, slowly rolled it with his fingers, and said in his mouth: "This arrow is a typical Paleolithic craftsmanship level." In the Neo-Paleolithic Age, the most significant difference is whether the stone tools were made or polished.

Look at this arrow, the sharpness of the arrow is obviously formed after the stone was smashed on the ground and naturally shattered, and it has not been polished.

With this clue, I know what a snowman is. ”

"The mastermind deserves to be the mastermind. Zhou Lingshi exclaimed, "Please also advise." ”

"According to archaeological discoveries in recent times, there is a popular theory in paleoanthropology that humans have gone out of Africa three times. Cao Yusheng's opening, Zhou Lingshi and Mao Dahai were stunned.

Zhou Lingshi is not the same as Mao Dahai, Mao Dahai is a pure illiterate, and he can't read a basket of words.

Although Zhou Lingshi did not officially go to school, his master Wu Tiannan was not ordinary.

When Wu Tiannan was a child, he was invited by Mr. Teaching to come to the Wu family to enlighten Meng, so Wu Tiannan is a cultural person of the older generation.

That is, after all, the family is in the hunter's business, and the country's policy has also changed, otherwise Mr. Wu Tiannan's later belly of knowledge will at least be able to show off his talents.

Zhou Lingshi formally studied art with Wu Tiannan for three years, but before learning art, he also served the master for six years, for a total of nine years.

Wu Tiannan first taught culture, and then passed on craftsmanship.

So Zhou Lingshi spoke, with a bit of the tone of an old teacher, and the text was crepe.

However, the education that Zhou Lingshi received, that is, the set of the Four Books and Five Classics, benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, is not a big problem in being a man, but when it comes to anthropology, he can't understand it.

Zhou Lingshi didn't understand it, Cao Yusheng didn't care, he mainly said it to the several hunters present.

I only heard Cao Yusheng continue: "Our primates, the closest to us at the moment, are chimpanzees.

Then there are the orangutans, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons.

But before, this was not the case.

Starting from Australopithecus 4 million years ago, Homo erectus went through two stages, Homo erectus and Homo erectus, and 200,000 years ago, Homo erectus began to come out of Africa.

The 'Pekingese' of our Zhoukoudian are Homo erectus, and they have gone to East Asia.

Homo erectus wasn't smart enough to mix well in their new territories, and slowly disappeared.

This is the first time that humanity has gone out of Africa.

The second and third time that came out was Homo sapiens.

Homo sapiens are smarter, and when they come out, they will inevitably grab territory, fight, and so on.

In such a competition between several groups of people in Eurasia, whoever is smarter and has better tools will be able to grab better territory, hunt more prey, find more food, and feed more people.

Until 50,000 years ago, there were basically no ancient humans except our ancestors. Our ancestors began to become the top of the food chain on this planet.

And 50,000 years ago, in the process of competing with our ancestors, other Homo sapiens who came out before also began to learn the tool making of our ancestors.

One of the more typical ones is the Neanderthals, who also entered the Stone Age.

However, the brains of these ancient humans are not smart enough, it is useless to draw scoops according to the gourd, they are not creative, and they finally die.

The snowman, I suspect it's Homo sapiens, early Homo sapiens or late Homo sapiens, I don't know yet.

But since he can use stone tools, and he can make relatively complex weapons such as bows and arrows, it is not at the level of Homo erectus.

So the snowman, which is an old relative, is much closer than the chimpanzee.

Now the question is, how did this old relative of ours survive.

The Himalayas are indeed very remote, but there are other places that are also remote, and those ancient humans have long since died out.

Why, it's not dead here.

One of them, who didn't have long eyes, shot us with the first arrow. ”

After Cao Yusheng said this, he looked at A beside Lin Shuo

e。

Because he knows A

E is a Ph.D. in biology, and she has a lot of knowledge in this area, and I thought she might be able to add one or two.

As a result, he found A

E is still listening to the movement underground.

Lin Shuo also wondered at this moment, thinking to himself, why is this girl still lying on her stomach?

But Lin Shuo knew A

E must have heard something, otherwise he wouldn't have listened for so long.

"I think I've found the reason why the snowman survived. ”A

E finally stood up and sat up, "When I was listening to the sneak attacker just now, the rain was so loud that I couldn't hear anything.

At first I was raining too much, but then I realized it wasn't right.

Because I haven't heard such a heavy rain before, the movement of the earth is not like today.

So I listened for a while, and finally I knew something was wrong.

The sound of rain on this mountain, was amplified. ”

"Oh, I see. Cao Yusheng nodded, "Some of them were busy for a while." ”

"Hmm. Lin Shuo nodded, and understood.

"Hey, what do you mean!" Wei Xingshan scratched the back of his head, "A."

e How can you talk to Lao Lin now to be virtuous, revealing half and hiding half of it. The sound of the rain is amplified, what's going on?"

"It's like beating a drum. Cao Yusheng said lightly, "A solid wooden stake, no matter how you knock it, it doesn't matter where the movement goes." But if it's hollowed out in the middle, isn't the movement a lot bigger?"

"Oh!" Wei Xingshan understood.

"What do you mean?" Mao Dahai touched the back of his head, looking puzzled.

Zhou Lingshi gave Mao Dahai a slap on the face, and explained: "This mountain is empty, and there are tunnels or hidden holes underneath. ”

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