Volume 1 Chapter 14 The Unashamed Aborigines
Li Sheng couldn't help but hold his breath, wanting to see how the cat preyed on it, or how the squirrel escaped from danger. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The cat crouched on the ground and slowly climbed to the root of the tree where it was hiding.
The squirrel seemed to sense danger and stood upright and looked around. But the cat's eyes had already jumped into the air.
Squirrels are also not slow to react. It always prefers to stay too far away from the tree so that it can return to the tree to avoid danger. This time it is the same strategy. I saw it snort and returned to the trunk of the tree, and quickly climbed up.
The cat jumped up and climbed up on the trunk of the tree, but although the cat could climb the tree, it was not as fast as the squirrel. The cat seemed to be a bit reckless, and with the help of the momentum, it quickly climbed more than ten meters high, but the squirrel had already jumped to another tree more than thirty meters high.
The cat accidentally fell from the trunk of the tree.
However, cats are animals, and the height of more than ten meters is not necessarily a dangerous height for them. As long as they are agile enough, their feet can absorb a lot of momentum. It's just that the cat doesn't seem to be at that level yet. I saw that after a frightened cry in the air, its limbs scratched upwards a few times, and the antics gave people the feeling that it was like the Tom who was played by Jack in the cartoon.
The roots of the tree are a meter or two above the ground, and the ground is full of roots. The cat's eyes were about to turn sideways and crash into the roots. Falling from a height of more than ten meters, probably no animal is uncomfortable. You may even receive internal injuries.
Li Sheng kindly took two steps forward to catch it. It feels like the weight of this cat is very light, at least not fat.
But this cat doesn't know the hearts of good people, and the "meow" scratch is like Li Sheng's hand. Fortunately, he had gloves on his hands, so he was not injured.
The cat took the opportunity to flee to a distance of five or six meters from him before standing still, turned back to him and warned him, and ran away.
Li Sheng looked at the leather gloves on the gloves that had been scraped off a few scratches, and could only smile bitterly.
The jungle has always been prey-on to the jungle, and sometimes some animals even hunt their own kind. For example, chimpanzees in the forests of Africa. Even if it is of the same race, when there is danger, the most they can do is provide a solidarity, and it is unlikely that they will really reach out. In particular, a lone ranger like the cat is more wary of other animals, even if they are of the same kind, let alone a large man who is rarely seen.
Well, he can understand the cat's rudeness. Forgive it.
After experiencing this little episode, Li Sheng continued to set off in the northwest direction after eating his fill. After another hour of walking, he found that he had reached the hilly area. The terrain is no longer flat, and there are some ravines along the way, some still flowing with streams one or two meters wide, while others are only trickling.
He did not go up the mountain, but continued along the foothills. But the road is not so easy. It is not uncommon to encounter streams or pools several meters wide and have to take detours.
"Squeak~~Squeak~" A noisy and terrible cry came from afar. It seems that there is still a long way to go. It seems to be the cry of a monkey.
He sensed in the direction from which the sound came from, and someone had broken into his territory, and he clearly sensed that there were three animals that were supposed to be humans, as if they were hunting with weapons such as bows and arrows. Originally, he also felt that he should almost go back. But suddenly he found someone, whoever it was, he felt that he should observe it.
He sensed that the distance between the three people was still more than ten kilometers. If you go in the past and come back, I'm afraid it will be dark when you leave the forest. But he thought about it for a moment, and decided that it didn't matter even if it was dark. If you can walk faster, you should be able to get out of the forest before dark.
Having made his decision, he picked up his speed and took out the galloping speed he had trained in the jungle before. The monkeys soon stopped barking, but he still sensed the men, who must have hunted a monkey. They were heading northeast, as if they were about to enter the hilly terrain. He raced all the way over, hoping to keep up with the men.
The other party didn't go too fast. Li Sheng finally hung behind the other party after forty minutes. Although the terrain here is uneven, it is mostly very low mounds. On the ground of these terrains, some bushes grow on the ground by taking advantage of the sunlight leaking from the gaps in the canopy.
Li Sheng found that there was a small river three or four meters wide. However, this small river is not found on the map at all. Because it is completely obscured from the canopy. And by the river there is a path that people walked on. Judging by the three natives who were familiarly taken along the path to the hilly terrain in front, it is likely that this road was walked by them.
True, the three people in front are clearly indigenous. They had straight black hair, and although they were men, they both had their usual hair, and two of them wore them, one of them tied into a ponytail. They didn't wear any clothes on their upper bodies, only a crotch pocket made of linen or fabric. The fact that each of them carried a longbow and a few arrows that were apparently handmade proved that they were indigenous.
He's also seen some documentaries, or he's seen some news. There are still some indigenous tribes in Brazil that have not yet been discovered. A few years ago, two news stories of the discovery of new indigenous tribes were also revealed.
Some of the indigenous people of the Amazon are said to be cannibals. He didn't know if they belonged to an undiscovered indigenous tribe. I don't even know if they are cannibals.
Of course, there are also reports that cannibals in the primeval forest do not like to eat people. Cannibalism generally occurs in several situations. That is, after defeating the rival tribe and catching the leader of the opponent, the winning tribe will share the leader. On the other hand, when an important person dies, the tribe will eat him in the hope of sharing his wisdom or strength. The last type is people who are considered to have betrayed the tribe and, after being killed, may also be eaten.
Of course, in the event of a shortage of food, the average captive could also be eaten. He didn't plan to contact them until he figured out what kind of tribe they were.
However, seeing that the man they helped with the horse's tail was carrying a monkey with his tail on his back that dragged his tail to the ground, the tribe did eat meat. I just don't know if they eat human flesh or not.
A few natives turned around a mountain bag, and Li Sheng followed, and found that there was a small river more than two meters wide. The natives walked up the creek in the valley.
He thought for a moment and continued to follow. The natives walked along the river for more than half an hour, and the valley in front suddenly opened up, and there was a village in the back. Li Sheng sensed it, but no one was found to be watching nearby. So he climbed to the top of the mountain and observed.
It has to be said that this valley is very secluded. Less than thirty meters of flat land, the tribe's grass huts are built on the dirt slopes on both sides. They were all blocked by the canopy, and though there were no trees in the clearing, a small river ran shallowly through it. Even if this gap in the woods, which is less than fifteen meters wide, is found in the air, I am afraid that no one will notice that there is a tribe in this place.
The three men returned with their prey and seemed to be very well received.
Li Sheng saw the scene of him preparing food. They don't just eat meat, they also eat tubers that look like plants. Watch them mash the tubers and fry the juice, the juice doesn't seem to be thrown away, and after kneading the dregs and something, they break them into balls and flatten them, and then stick them on some stone slabs to roast.
And the hapless monkey was disemboweled, and the guts were also popular among their group of food-starved people. Then the monkey was skinned and the skin was hung to dry. It seems that this is the raw material of the leather skirts worn by the women of this tribe.
He also saw that there were more women than men in the tribe, at least among adults. They had no clothing above the waist and a leather skirt below the waist. Wear more men.
In the flat areas of the valley, small children play naked, and there are also some elderly people. He counted it slightly, and what he could see, including children, was about seventy or eighty people in this tribe. He observed for about thirty minutes, looked at the waterproof watch, and it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon. It's time to go back.
This time I went into the forest, and there was no harvest, but at least I found that there was a primitive tribe in it.
He quietly left the bushes and galloped all the way. Finally got out of the forest before 8 p.m. and found the jeep. As he drove, he sensed and found that he could now sense the presence of these natives, but it took more energy.
By this time, he noticed that some of the natives had begun to rest, and a few pairs were hiding in the surrounding bushes and were doing things that would make the sun shy.
The field is really open.