Chapter 6 Hunting
After entering the dry season, it has not rained for a long time, and most of the many swamps on the grassland have dried up, and the grass that can grow up to half a man's height during the rainy season has now become low and yellow.
Under the scorching sun above his head, looking for the footprints left by his prey, Gao Yang was trying to track down a huge antelope.
Yes, Gao Yang did not die, he was surprisingly lucky, with the physique of an urban person, somewhere in Africa at the intersection of grasslands and rainforests, far from modern civilization, he could survive for three years, not everyone has such haode luck.
This is the third dry season that Gao Yang has experienced in Africa, in other words, he has been in Africa for three years.
Here, whether you can survive or not has nothing to do with the skills mastered, and it has nothing to do with what you have at hand, it is simply a matter of luck, or whether your fate is hard enough, at least for Gao Yang.
I have to say that Gao Yang's life is indeed hard enough, he was bitten by a poisonous snake, although Gao Yang has used all the means, but if no one saves him, it is still a dead end, but Gao Yang was lucky to meet a primitive tribe on the way to migrate, and then, he survived.
Gao Yang later learned that if someone in the primitive tribe who rescued him was bitten by a poisonous snake, they would use traditional means to heal him, and Gao Yang was lucky to be cured by them, but he left a large scar on the palm edge of his left hand.
What could be the means of primitive tribes? In addition to using some unknown herbs, it is relying on the blessing of the gods of one of their beliefs, it is said that under the protection of the gods, the snake venom on Gao Yang's body is not a threat, but the huge wounds caused by Gao Yang's own knives almost killed him.
There was no way, Gao Yang was only afraid that he could let the poisonous blood flow out quickly, so he was excited for a while, and he was a little ruthless, but he was able to survive under the circumstances at that time, Gao Yang was particularly lucky, because according to what he later learned, according to the way to save people in the tribe, one out of ten people might be able to save one.
However, Gao Yang's most dangerous moment was not to be bitten by a poisonous snake, but after being rescued, about a month later, when Gao Yang was just able to start to move on the ground, he finally suffered from malaria, and took all the anti-malarial drugs he carried, but there was no effect.
In the past three years, Gao Yang has had malaria four times alone, and he has almost gotten all the types of malaria he can get, but he has always carried it down, and he doesn't know if it is because he will produce antibodies after malaria or what, Gao Yang has not had malaria this year, and he seems to have gotten rid of the nightmare of malaria.
Of course, the main reason why Gao Yang survived was that he met the primitive tribe that saved him, if it wasn't for those kind-hearted people to save him, Gao Yang would have died I don't know how many times.
The primitive tribe that saved Gao Yang was very small and quite primitive, with only seventeen people in total, in fact, a large family, living a life of migration and hunting.
Gao Yang didn't know which race this tribe belonged to, only that the name of the tribe was Akuri, and Gao Yang asked the chief of the tribe, that is, the oldest person in the tribe, but unfortunately the chief didn't know which group they belonged to.
The Akuri tribe does not even have the concept of race, and only when they meet a tribe like themselves can they have the opportunity to intermarry.
In the three years that Gao Yang went to the tribe, a total of four children were born, and three people died, the eldest was five or six years old, and the youngest one was just two days old, and the oldest in the whole tribe, that is, the chief of the tribe, seemed to be in his forties.
It's not that Gao Yang didn't ask the chieftain how old he was, but the tribal chief himself didn't know how old he was, he only remembered that he seemed to have lived through more than forty rainy seasons.
Gao Yang's ability to learn the language is still very good, and the language of the Akuri tribe is very simple, and the vocabulary is very small, it only took three or four months, Gao Yang has no problem communicating with people, but Gao Yang can get too little information from the mouths of these primitive people.
Gao Yang still doesn't know where he is in that country, he only knows that he is at the intersection of the savanna and the tropical rainforest, two or three days to the north, it is the savanna, and two or three days to the south, it is the tropical rainforest, and Gao Yang is not familiar with the terrain of Africa, and he can't analyze himself there from the geomorphological features.
It's been three years, and Gao Yang has been thinking about going home all the time, but in the past three years, Gao Yang has not encountered any trace of civilization once.
The reason why they are far away from civilization is because the Akuri tribe originally migrated to avoid war, and they migrated to places far away from civilization.
The Akuri tribe used to have civilized Shijie people who came to visit and brought some modern things to them, but later, when the war began, those with guns would kill anyone they saw, even just for fun, and after the Akuri tribe was killed three people when they went out hunting, the Akuri tribe began to move constantly.
In the past few years, neither the Akuri tribe nor Gao Yang has ever been able to Yujian anyone else, but Gao Yang has also cut off all contact with the outside world, he has explored in four directions, and the farthest time he walked out for seven or eight days, but in the end he found nothing, and now it is impossible for Gao Yang to find the river from which he came.
During the three years of the Akuri tribe, Gao Yang would go out hunting with the people of the tribe every day, and only five people in the whole tribe, including Gao Yang, could hunt, and the rest of the women and children would collect all the plants and insects they could eat, and if there was no harvest, the whole tribe would starve.
Thanks to the communication with the civilization Shijie a few years ago, there are iron tools in the Akuri tribe, and until now, the Akuri tribe still has six short knives and four spears, although they are crudely made, but they are very useful, according to the chief, these are all gifts from some very white-skinned weirdos.
But when Akuri hunts, he mainly uses bows and arrows, knives and spears only to complete a zuihou blow, and even the chance to complete a zuihou blow is rare, because most of the time, the prey is already dead without a spear.
Now, Gao Yang is tracking down an antelope that has been poisoned by a poisoned arrow with the rest of the tribe.
In the dry season, most of the swamps that used to spread across the grasslands have dried up, and only a few swamps still have water, and these swamps have become a source of water for all the animals in the vicinity, and hunting has become much easier than in the rainy season, as long as you stand by the swamp at the risk of predators, you can easily shoot your prey with poisoned arrows.
The oryx they were chasing was shot by the swamp.
The bow and arrow they used were negligible in their own right, and their main effect was the poison smeared on the arrows.
Curare poison is extracted from the larvae of a beetle, although this toxin is deadly, but the onset time is a bit long, if it is to hunt a slightly larger prey, it will take at least two or three hours to kill, and Gao Yang The antelope they shot this time is too large, about two hundred catties, although two poisoned arrows were hit, it will take at least four or five hours to kill the antelope.
After being hit by an arrow, the antelope will run frantically, and it is impossible to catch up with the speed of people, and the poison of the arrow cannot kill the antelope in a short time, so the hunting method of the Akuri tribe is to shoot the prey and follow the trail of the prey.
The distance of tracking the prey is long and short, and it is normal to chase a distance of dozens of kilometers, in short, until the prey is killed and they find it, they have to keep chasing, so the hunting skills of the Akuri tribe are not very clever, but the ability to track and chase and run long distances is extremely clever.
The people of the Akuri tribe can tell from the chaotic footprints that the footprints are left by their prey, and they can also accurately find the direction of the prey's escape from a few broken grasses, and even use the information revealed in the footprints or traces to know how long it will take for the prey to fall.
After staying together for almost three years, Gao Yang also mastered the skill of recognizing traces, but when he went out hunting with the tribal chief, he didn't have a chance to show it.
From the early morning after shooting the antelope and starting to chase, until noon, Gao Yang and the five of them were trotting all the way to track the prey, although the speed was not fast, but Gao Yang estimated that he had run at least thirty or forty kilometers away, he was already at the limit, but the four people of the Akuri tribe did not feel anything.
In the past, let alone let Gao Yang trot all the way for thirty or forty kilometers, even if he was allowed to walk three kilometers, he would have already choked Gao Yang tired, but the potential that people can stimulate under the pressure of survival is very amazing, at least now Gao Yang can run thirty or forty kilometers in one breath without pressure.
Finally, the chieftain, who was running at the front, stopped, looked at the ground for a few moments, and then pointed in the right direction.
"It's no longer working now, where it is, let's find it."
When he heard the chief's words, Gao Yang was very happy, because he had shot two arrows at the antelope, and the pursuit was much shorter than he expected, and it was always good to end it earlier, knowing that when he returned, he would have to carry the meat on his back and walk the same distance.
Gasping for breath, Goyan followed the chief and walked forward, and after about a kilometer or two, they spotted their target.
Just about two or three hundred meters ahead, an oryx stood in place, stumbling from time to time, although it had not yet fallen, but it was only a matter of moments.
Gao Yang followed closely behind the chief who was in the lead, and happily waved the hunting knife in his hand, and rushed towards the antelope, which was already on the verge of the end, and they had to hurry up, lest the antelope be preempted by the lion or the leopard.
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