Chapter 401: Hunting wildebeest
"Dear audience and friends, good morning, this is the wilderness survival couple - Beast Paradise, I am Danqing, today is the fourth day of arriving in this prairie, and we are now preparing to go. ”
"Morning, dear friends, I'm Weiwei!"
After saying the opening remarks, Liu Danqing began to report on their current situation.
"Now let me tell you where we are at the moment, and the first thing is that we will soon be able to get around the river and we will find a new route. ”
"Next we're going to go along the perimeter of the Okavango River delta, which is generally an oblique rectangle, and we're going to change our route and follow the southwest direction on the periphery to the bottom corner of it, and I remember to the southeast of the bottom corner, it's the A3. ”
"Along the periphery, we will neither lack water nor lose our way, the only downside is that the route has become longer, but we have underestimated the danger of the rivers in the delta, and if we go all the way to the west, there may be quite a few wider rivers, which are too dangerous. ”
"The last good news is that we have a relatively rich reserve of cold boiled water, in addition to two water bottles filled with water, our car auxiliary water tank also contains half a tank of cold boiled water, which we boiled last night and put it in a wooden bowl to cool. ”
After a pause, Liu Danqing continued: "There is also bad news now, first of all, the elephant poop is gone, which means that we have no mosquito coils and no fire folds. ”
"The second is that the food is gone, and we just ate the last of the snake meat. ”
"So today our task is not only to rush, but also to increase search and hunting. ”
The two of them packed up and walked in the southeast direction.
After half a day's journey, they arrived near a small pond.
Now, they were on a small dirt slope about 300 meters away from the small pond, and they were observing the animals at the edge of the pond.
There was a herd of fawns, a herd of antelopes, and looking at their towering horns, it should be a high-horned antelope, a few warthogs, and a herd of wildebeest that Liu Danqing promised Xiao Weiwei.
It's no surprise that wildebeest is arguably the most abundant large creature on the continent, and probably not one of them.
Especially the wildebeest in front of them, with a black tail, is also called black-tailed wildebeest, and they are the most abundant in the wildebeest family.
Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei looked at the large group of thirty or forty wildebeest, discussing how to hunt.
Now the opportunity is very good, the pond is not big, there are no African elephants in it, there are no crocodiles, and there are no carnivores around.
The most combative force by the pond should be their prey, wildebeest, followed by warthog, but neither animal has a strong desire to attack.
Warthogs are fine, and they will resist when they are in danger, attacking each other with their fangs.
The wildebeest, on the other hand, have grown a large body of more than 200 kilograms and a pair of sharp horns, but when they encounter danger, they still rely on their speeds of up to 70 yards to get rid of their opponents.
But Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei are not afraid of their attacks now, they are afraid that they will run fast.
At a speed of seventy yards, in a certain heavenly city, it can knock people dozens of meters away, and how can two people catch up.
After thinking for a while, Liu Danqing said: "Weiwei, let's go separately, form a triangle with the pond, sandwich the wildebeest in the corner of the pond, and when we get to the alertness of the wildebeest, we will rush towards the wildebeest together." ”
"When the time comes, see if there are any wildebeests that jump into the pond and if there are, it will be fine, and they will not be able to play their speed when they enter the water, maybe we can get close and throw spears at them. ”
"This is the way the Maasai hunt lions, for the lions that invade the tribe's range, the Maasai will hunt them, so as not to threaten the life of the tribe members, when they hunt the lion herd, it is a group of people fan close to the lion herd, and then rush up, throw the spear in your hand, and poke the hapless lion into a hedgehog. ”
"Of course, they often apply some poison arrow wood slurry on the tip of the spear, which can quickly disintegrate the lion's fighting power. ”
After the two discussed, they unloaded their belongings, brought only a spear and a mountain sword, and went into battle lightly.
Liu Danqing also cut some weeds and weaved them into two straw hats, one for each of Xiao Weiwei, which looked quite a bit like a guerrilla.
The two of them first walked to the predetermined point, and then hid in the grass that was almost a meter high, and slowly approached the pond.
Thanks to the dense weeds, until they were less than fifty meters away from the pond, the wildebeest did not find the two of them.
According to the plan, the wildebeest was not alert and was about to continue to approach, and at this time the two of them were more cautious, almost floating on the ground, slowly moving towards the wildebeest.
However, before the distance of a few meters was shortened, the wildebeest seemed to feel that something was wrong, and stopped drinking water and gnawing grass, looking up and looking around.
Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei had a good tacit understanding, and when they saw the wildebeest alert, they rushed out of the grass together and rushed towards the wildebeest.
The wildebeest panicked and jumped up from the ground to break through in all directions.
The incisive and exquisite interpretation of the word "cowardice" deserves to be a vulnerable group in the African savannah.
Three of the wildebeests who were scattered and fled rushed towards the gap between them, trying to rush directly through their swift speed.
It's a pity that they don't know that the two guys who came are open humans, who can not only attack in close combat, but also use spear throwing skills to launch long-range attacks.
Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei threw the spears in their hands almost at the same time, and the target was the big wildebeest that hit the head.
The wildebeest, which had just pulled up its speed, was faced with two spears flying at high speed, trying to dodge but unable to do anything, and watched them fly towards him and stick it in his body.
Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei are so strong that the spears thrown with all their strength are deeply inserted into the body of the wildebeest, Liu Danqing's one is inserted in the back of the wildebeest, and Xiao Weiwei's one is inserted in the chest of the wildebeest.
It was the spear that Xiao Weiwei threw that made the meritorious service.
The tip of the spear was inserted into the back of the wildebeest's chest, and the tail of the spear, which was more than three meters away, naturally drooped and fell to the ground.
Poor wildebeest hit a crossbar at a speeding motorcycle, and his whole body was hit sideways by the top.
Liu Danqing's reaction was still faster than Xiao Weiwei, rushed forward first, pulled out the mountain knife and rushed towards the wildebeest.
After approaching the wildebeest, he pounced, and the knife in his hand stabbed into the heart of the wildebeest, and then violently stirred, and the poor wildebeest lost his life.
"Slightly, quickly, let's unload the legs together, I unload the hind legs, you unload the front legs, and cut more meat when you unload." ”
Liu Danqing saw that the wildebeest was no longer moving, so he quickly pulled out the mountain knife and cut it towards the wildebeest's hind legs.
Three times five divided by two, the two brutally cut off both legs on one side of the wildebeest.
At this time, it was gun time, so both legs were cut extremely ugly, especially Xiao Weiwei's front legs, which had uneven edges.
Picking up the two hind legs, Liu Danqing said: "Weiwei, let's go, let's go to the river to wash the blood on our legs, and then quickly leave here and find a small forest to make a fire and barbecue." ”
By this time, the other animals around the small pond had also run out, and the two walked to the edge of the pond, washed the two wildebeest legs in the water, turned back and took their equipment, and hurried towards the grove in front of them.
"Now my biggest fear is encountering spotted hyenas, and what these guys like most is to snatch other people's prey, whether it's leopards, cheetahs, or even lions. ”
Liu Danqing said nervously while speeding up his pace: "We are now in a hurry to put the prey on the tree, just like the leopard who has successfully hunted, and the hyena will not climb the tree, so our food will be safe, and we will be safe." ”
Of course, although the speed of the two of them is accelerated, the vigilance they should have will not be less, but this method of rushing will consume more energy, and it is more difficult to replenish the consumption of energy compared to sufficient physical strength.
Fortunately, there were two of them, Liu Danqing, who was walking in front again, was mainly responsible for exploring the grass and the near in front, while Xiao Weiwei was responsible for checking the distance, including the danger behind him.
"Hey, good things come in pairs, but we don't have time right now, we'll collect those sage in a moment. ”
Liu Danqing said happily when he passed by a bush of grass with gray bouquets.
Xiao Weiwei looked at the bush of plants and wondered: "Isn't sage purple? My grandfather planted some of them, which are very beautiful, and your gray ones are also called sage?"
Liu Dan explained without looking back: "Who stipulates that sage must be purple? African sage is this color, good thing, there is no elephant poop, we point to it to repel mosquitoes." ”
"Mosquito repellent?" Xiao Weiwei heard this word, and became happy, there are a lot of mosquitoes on the African grassland, and there is no elephant poop, and now she is still worried about how to deal with the mosquito attack tonight.
Liu Danqing continued: "Yes, although they are not as fragrant as the horticultural sage we plant, they can give off a mosquito repellent smell when burned, and it doesn't matter what substance can repel mosquitoes, because this is a mosquito repellent plant often used by local aborigines. ”
"Sage that can repel mosquitoes, that's really good, we'll collect it in a while!"
Xiao Weiwei said happily that compared with Liu Danqing, her physique is more popular with mosquitoes, of course, she doesn't want this kind of welcome.
Walking into a small grove, the two of them first searched carefully in the trees, but found no leopards, good phenomenon, they don't want to be busy, a leopard ran over and took away two wildebeest legs, or in the process of roasting, a leopard pounced down from the tree.
In fact, it is normal not to meet it, because the beautiful fur is peeped at by humans, and the number of leopards in Africa is not large, and it is one of the more difficult creatures to encounter.
(End of chapter)