118. Battle for the Highlands: Stalemate
Emperor Wu leaned behind the tent, picked up his crossbow and looked for the most leading wild dog through the firelight, and killed it with one shot, and the wild dog group would retreat due to the lack of leadership.
It's a battle of wit, and the Dingo leader is like a ghost hidden in the darkness, mobilizing the race to change position through sound and smell.
More wild dogs have stayed away from the eucalyptus tree, and their millennia-old genes tell them that the prey on that tree is something they should keep away.
The barking of wild dogs is different from that of dogs and is more like the howling of wolves.
The Howling Sky Dog stood beside Emperor Wu, clenching his teeth, his eyes were full of murderous aura, completely different from when he was hunting deer, ready to rush over and fight at any time.
It has well inherited the will of the German Rottweiler, which is brave, resolute and indomitable.
Rottweilers were born with a talent for guards, and in the Middle Ages, wealthy merchants hung money bags around the necks of Rottweilers to avoid theft.
At this time, Emperor Wu remembered Lao Xue, the king of the jungle is now missing, lacking a powerful attack point, in terms of individual combat, with the flexibility of felines against canins has a natural advantage.
Suddenly, a wild dog with a green glow in its eyes entered Emperor Wu's sight, and its body was obviously larger than the wild dog next to it. Against the backdrop of the campfire, its pure white skin is fiery red, like a fire wolf walking at night.
This opportunity flashed by, and Emperor Wu didn't have time to aim, it had already escaped into darkness here. At that moment, Emperor Wu found that the white wild dog's green eyes were staring at him, and that look made him shudder, a murderous gaze, although it was less than half a second.
Emperor Wu realized that the white wild dogs had already marked themselves as the leader, and they had just appeared to determine the location of the leader on the opposite side, and when they attacked, they would rush up and run towards him without any scruples.
But that's what sets humans apart from other animals.
Throughout history, humans have been weak, marginal creatures, sustening by gathering plants, digging for insects, and eating leftover carrion from large animals.
100,000 years ago, the rise of Homo sapiens and the rise of humans to the top of the food chain were the result of a qualitative change in the brain's long-term quantitative response.
Humans have reached the top of the entire ecological chain by surprise, lions, sharks and other beasts have reached the peak after millions of years of evolution, but humans have reached the top in the blink of an eye.
The use of fire and the advent of imagination have left humans far behind other animals.
The use of fire to burn the jungle has turned the previously difficult road into a smooth road, killed the environment on which competing animals depend, and killed the bacteria in the meat, greatly improving human health.
Imagination gives birth to language, and language hastened the birth of civilization.
Imagination plays a huge role in improving human cognitive ability. Every day, the lion thinks of catching one antelope today, two tomorrow, and three the day after tomorrow.
What Homo sapiens wants is to eat mutton today, have a hot pot tomorrow, and grill a mutton skewer the day after tomorrow to bring the daughter-in-law next door over by the way.
The White Wild Dog could never believe how powerful the enemy it was up to.
Emperor Wu nodded at Patricia on the tree, and Pa responded with an OK gesture, just now he also saw the white wild dog.
This is undoubtedly a difficult race to deal with, and the leader of the wild dogs is very smart, and he understands that his pure white body hair and larger body are easy targets, so he has been wandering in the dark.
Emperor Wu knew about the dingo, most of which were sandy, ginger, and brown. White is rare, and its eyes glow green, which is a characteristic of wolves.
Thousands of years ago, dingoes entered the vast expanses of Australia with humans and fought with the same diet, and the thylacine gradually disappeared from the Australian grasslands.
Emperor Wu speculated that it was a hybrid offspring of a wolf and a wild dog, and the problem was that there were no wolves in Australia!
"BOSS, I don't think these guys want to go home empty-handed. Turks whispered.
"How many bullets do we have?" asked Emperor Wu, the atmosphere was tense to the extreme, and the wild dogs in the canyon were all old fritters who had experienced a hundred battles.
Brady's head was sweating, the wild dog pack he had seen before was only seven or eight at most, and the group in front of him was at least twenty, and the number was still increasing.
"We have 47 rounds left, including eight sniper bullets that Pa brought to the trees. Brady said.
This means that they have to kill at least one of the two shots.
No one expected to encounter wild dogs in the canyons, these guys usually live in wide areas such as grasslands and deserts, and there are so many in the dense jungles, and the leaders are more wolf-oriented creatures.
Emperor Wu looked at the crossbow next to him, there were only eight arrows, and after this shot, he didn't think that he could pick them up, and there were only eight chances, and after that, he could only hold the dagger and fight hand-to-hand.
In case the South Australian team runs out of ammunition and food, then the only thing waiting for them is to be bitten to death by wild dogs, and Pa will be better, trapped in a tree and starved to death.
At this time, the outermost circle of wild dogs began to slowly approach, taking two steps forward and one step back, and it was only ten meters away from the tent.
The Howling Dog roared incessantly, defending the ancient Rottweiler lineage within it.
Tex is holding a rifle, and he will be the main firepower because of his powerful burst fire. Brady's muskets are suitable for close-quarters combat, and the two of them are tasked with cleaning up the wild dogs that pose a threat to Turks.
Emperor Wu put his finger on the trigger, ready to shoot a crossbow arrow at any time, their only heavy firepower was this AUG, and the other rifle was left in the car without it, thinking that they would not encounter so many problems in the Australian jungle.
The M82 in the tree has only eight bullets, and Patricia will use them all for sniper bosses. In addition to the 16 musket rounds, only 23 are suitable for the AUG, and after the fight, you can only rely on the dagger.
Beads of sweat beaded down Brady's forehead, and Turks began to sweat as well, which he thought was even worse than in Baghdad, because you had no idea how many wild dogs there were in the pitch-black bushes on the other side.
And these wild dogs are even more ferocious than people, and they only have killing in their eyes.
This TMD is not a wild dog at all, but more like a wolf, they have strict organizational discipline, and the leader is a scheming fellow, who first tries to drain the enemy's confidence little by little, and then rushes up in one go.
There was less and less firewood in the campfire, and the flames were getting smaller. In addition to stubbornly defending, Emperor Wu couldn't think of a better way.
Maybe everyone could climb up the tree together, but Brady's body wouldn't allow it, and he would be torn to shreds underneath.
The wild dogs paced ten meters away, and the leader was always moving in the shadows, and after a brief eye contact with Emperor Wu, he never appeared again.
The wild dogs nonchalantly shrink the circle, and the atmosphere is suffocating with tension. Emperor Wu could even hear the uneven wheezing sound of wild dogs' mouths.
These guys sniffed on the ground with their heads down, as if they were looking for something.
The Howling Dogs began to bark, his voice full of power, but still suppressed by the careless lowlings of the wild dogs.
The war between man and wild dog is on the verge of breaking out, and if they go one meter further, the Turks are ready to shoot back, and at the same time, Wu Di and Brady's muskets will be fired together.
In the animal kingdom, only courageously defending territory will be respected, and weakness will sooner or later be eliminated. As for what happens after that, leave it to luck!