Chapter 3: The Hunter
Li Tieshan has been out of the safe house where he was hiding for more than an hour!
According to his usual memory route, he could climb over a slope after going a few hundred meters, and below the slope, there was a sunny land, which escaped the direct damage from the cold snap in the north, so there was a small pine forest here.
In this cold season, since there is a forest, it is natural that he wants the prey, those hedgehogs and wild beavers that spend the winter are not his first choice, what he wants is slightly larger beasts, they have more fur, and have a very high hunting value.
It didn't take long for the pine forest to come into view, although after a night of snow, the traces of yesterday's animal activity were no longer visible, but the whole day was enough for an experienced hunter to use his means.
Li Tieshan threw frozen hard meatballs on the snow, these meatballs were smaller than eggs, but larger than pigeon eggs, and each meatball hid a resilient fish bone.
Each fish bone is wrapped in a ring-sized circle, the head and tail are hidden inside, tied with silk threads, and then coated in meat foam and flour kneaded into a circle, and left outside to freeze for a few days, and then the silk threads are extracted.
When the outer meat foam thaws, the bones that are hidden in it bounce straight up.
How can the meatballs thrown in the forest thaw in this icy place? Only after being swallowed by a hungry beast, of course, will they be thawed in their bodies.
When a fish bone bounces off the beast's belly, it will instantly puncture its throat or stomach, but they usually do not die immediately, but will roar in pain and struggle in the snow and ice.
Li Tieshan only needs to follow the sound of the beast and find the door, so that it can be easily hunted and killed.
After throwing out the more than a dozen meatballs he had carried with him and making a rough mark, Li Tieshan prepared to leave the pine forest and find a hidden place to hide himself.
When approaching the end of the pine forest, Li Tieshan's eyes froze, and he looked in a certain direction, and there was a person lying on the edge of the pine tree.
Li Tieshan stood cautiously more than ten meters away, staring at the figure carefully.
From the eyes of ordinary people, this situation is absolutely unusual, because ...... Within two or three meters of the man's body, there was no snow.
It's not the kind of person who has been swept away, but it's ...... It was as if the snow near him had melted, but there was no trace of a fire around the man, so how could the snow melt?
According to normal logic, when people in the rivers and lakes encounter this kind of thing beyond their understanding, they should leave immediately to avoid encountering bad things, and no one has thought about what bad things are.
But this time, Li Tieshan didn't panic too much, one is that the person doesn't seem to wake up for a long time, even if it is really a stranger, he is confident that with the firewood knife in his hand, he also has the ability to protect himself, and the person looks like a half-grown child, his thighs are not as thick as his own arms, what is there to be afraid of?
Li Tieshan tightened his sleeves, carefully walked from behind the tree to the back of the man, and stabbed the back of the firewood knife in his hand, and found that there was no movement, so he put his mind at ease.
"After all, it's just a child, and it's a poor thing, alas, it's about the same age as that kid in my family!"
Li Tieshan thought of his own baby, his heart warmed, and he had a good impression of this child who was about the same age as his own baby.
Speaking of which, Li Tieshan's ancestor is also a literate person, literacy and hyphenation are not a problem, and the lyrics are also sloppy, but it was passed from his father to him, and he can only barely mix up literacy and hyphenation, so he not only wants to hunt a few more skins for his son to spend the winter, but also wants to send him out of the mountains.
He only knew that he came to the mountain village with his father when he was a child, and then within a few years, his father was gone, he naturally lived in the mountains, and married a more satisfied lady, and lost his yearning for the mountains.
However, seeing that his son was growing up day by day, he suddenly came up with an idea, since he didn't want to go out of the mountains, why not send his son out? Therefore, he would work harder every time he hunted so that he could prepare more for his son.
Literacy and hyphenation are useless in this mountain, but as long as he passes on his culture to his son, that son will come out of the mountain, maybe he will be able to come back to pick up his family and go out to enjoy happiness when he has a future in the future.
Thinking like this, Li Tieshan's hands were not slow, he helped the people under the tree up, touched them, and the clothes on his body did not look like poor children, but there was no hidden blade in his arms, and he would not look like he was in danger.
"Hey, the body is still hot, soft and weak, so cold that the weather is not freezing? Could it be that the clothes of the rich people outside the mountains are so warm?" Li Tieshan pulled the clothes of the person under the tree, as if thinking about what this person should do.
Soon, however, he had an answer, for he faintly heard the wolf's roar, which must be on the other side of the woods, in the same direction from which he had come.
Li Tieshan gently put down the people under the tree and walked cautiously towards the other side of the forest.
It's not that he doesn't want to save the child, it's ...... Encountering a wolf in the woods was what he wanted, but it was also very dangerous, and he couldn't stick to one place - taking a comatose man to hunt wolves was tantamount to looking for death.
Wolves often act in families, and how big is the family? usually two to seven, but there are a few lone wolves, but this is relatively rare.
Fighting wolves in close quarters is undoubtedly something that only fools do, because close quarters means getting hurt, and walking alone in the snow country is no different from looking for death.
So he took out the short bow that he had crutched at his waist, and prepared to hunt it in the woods, if there were no more than three, and if there were more than three, he was ready to run away.
Soon, Li Tieshan had already discovered the target.
A lone wolf, judging from some details, this wolf is in the prime of life, not like he is old enough to leave the group, although the situation is a little wrong, but the prey has already entered the trap, he can't give up!
In the molten meatballs, the bone spurs that bounced open caused the lone wolf to inflict lethal and continuous damage, and it had no way to relieve itself, so it could only let the pain continue to ferment.
The lone wolf ran through the snow, screaming, arching its back in pain, not even aware of the danger approaching.
The enemy came from both its surroundings and its abdomen, and the life that had been alert had lost its square inch, and the hunter at this time quietly raised the short bow in his hand, mounted a sharp bamboo arrow, and aimed at the prey.
"Huh~"
After a noisy while, the snow field is calm again!
Only ...... are left The human footprints on the snow, which were even lower than they had come, and the ground around the pine trees that had melted last night were slowly wrapped in the wind and snow.
The harsh natural environment quickly buries the traces of animal activity, and no one can find out what happened here before this, and if anyone can find out, then this person must not be an ordinary person.
......
Changxi had already walked a long way, but he always felt that something was wrong, as if he had missed something!
Since he finally killed the man he was chasing last night, the purpose of his trip should be half accomplished, and the rest is to find the legendary creature to achieve his goal.
He had not slept all night and walked all morning, and after going around and around, he returned to the pine forest, but it was already afternoon.
Standing in front of the pine tree, looking at the barely distinguishable skeleton of the snow wolf on the ground, it seems to have been weathered for several years, but it is actually damaged in a short time because it is contaminated with the saliva of scavenging rats, which looks very suitable for the characteristics of the snow country, but ...... The boy leaning against the tree was gone.
Along with this, the snow melted within two or three meters of the pine trees, which gave him an eerie feeling that something else must have happened during the period.
"Strange, that boy, obviously his breath is weak, and he is about to die......" Changxi stared at the empty ground for a while, but still shook his head and left.
Changxi looked at the sky, and in half an hour, it would start to dark. Although he was able to continue his sneak in the snow country at night, it was better to find a place to stay, and he knew that there was a very safe place for him to spend the night.
For Changxi, not every weirdness has a result, and like most people in the rivers and lakes, he can't easily find the weirdness of the result, he would rather not touch it, so that he can live longer.