Chapter 22: The Abilities of the Jackals
After standing in front of the marker for a while, Dekang decided to go inside and find out, wondering how the humans had trapped the tiger.
Before entering, Dekang had to return to Baoyue's side to rest for a while, the first encounter with the tiger took a lot of energy, and he didn't worry about leaving Baoyue alone at the ramp crossing, in case there was an emergency, he was probably too late to deal with it in the corridor space. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
trotted back to the ramp, and found that Baoyue turned over at some point, and the little face that was originally facing the ramp was facing the space this time, and the limbs were spread out on the rock sheepskin in turn, and the little belly rose and fell rhythmically with the breathing, and the little cub slept so soundly.
Dekang walked around her back and took a deep breath into the ramp space to make sure there wasn't any other scent, and then gently lay on the rock sheepskin, his head half-tilted on the crossed forelimbs, his body against Baoyue's back ready to sleep for a while.
Unexpectedly, the sleeping little cub felt the body temperature of the second brother, snorted a few times intermittently in his mouth, and scratched his forelimbs a few times at the same time, and then she rolled over half of her body, lying on the sheepskin with her eyes closed, stretching her neck and arching her little head to Dekang's chest and abdomen.
In this dark, silent space, these small movements of Baoyue caused a trace of sentimentality in Dekang.
In the past, when Baoyue was beside her grandma, she often saw her lazy grandma like this, and I didn't know if it was a habit she developed or the instinctive reaction of the cubs who were attached to her grandma.
Dekang had no choice but to roll over and lie down and hold her in his arms.
The little cub was a little half-asleep and half-awake, sniffed left and right with his eyes closed and his nose against Dekang's fur for two times, stretched out his little tongue and licked it a few times, and then drilled into Dekang's arms, moved his little lips a few times and shrunk his body to continue to sleep.
After a few gentle rubs on Baoyue's back and abdomen, Dekang relaxed his body and half-closed his eyes and pretended to sleep; Although I was a little tired, I didn't feel the slightest sleep, and I was a little excited after the fear.
No matter how strong an opponent is, being able to identify some of their weaknesses can at least give you a lot of comfort for the time being, and motivate yourself to move forward.
Dekang knows that if he wants to live with Baoyue, he can only rely on himself to fight, break through, and fight wits and courage.
After resting for a while, Dekang felt refreshed and full of strength, and got up to the side to move his muscles and bones.
Stretch your body, straighten your hind limbs, stretch your forelimbs diagonally to the ground, press your mouth as close to the joints of your forelimbs as possible and press down your whole body, press to the end for a while, press to the end for a while, and finally raise your chin and twist your neck to get up and walk.
Baoyue seemed to feel the departure of the second brother in her sleep, she turned over a few times without touching it, and her forelimbs began to move aimlessly on the sheepskin to try to determine the existence of Dekang, and after pulling for a while, of course she didn't touch anything.
After a pause, her head jerked up, then she whimpered and rolled over on the rock sheepskin, her head turning twice to the left and right before opening her eyes.
In fact, when Baoyue turned over, as long as she stepped forward and patted a few times, she would continue to fall asleep, but the problem of the way out was always hanging in Dekang's mind, and he didn't dare to take it lightly before it was solved, if it wasn't for Baoyue being too young and had to ensure a certain amount of sleep, Dekang didn't dare to waste precious time casually.
"Second brother. How did Baoyue sleep here? ”
"Baoyue is awake. You fell asleep on the back of the second brother, and the second brother wanted to go to the front to investigate, so he left you at the ramp to sleep for a while. ”
"Carry Baoyue to investigate, I don't want to leave the second brother."
Dekang held her in his arms: "Second brother doesn't want to leave you alone, but I felt danger ahead just now." ”
"Dangerous?" Baoyue's eyes widened, and she almost jumped out of Dekang's arms.
Dekang pointed forward, "Yes." The second brother felt that he had been stared at by a certain character there, so he stepped back and put you down and stepped forward to test you. Guess what the second brother discovered? ”
Bao Yue hesitated and slowly shook her head: "Bao Yue can't guess." ”
The little cub who just woke up has not fully recovered his consciousness, and he looks honest and cute, which is completely different from his usual fierce appearance, and Dekang likes it more.
"The second brother saw the tiger carved on the mark at the gate of the corridor."
"Tiger? Marked? Baoyue looked dazed, she hadn't heard of the tiger yet, and she didn't know how powerful that character was.
"Hmm. Tiger. Very powerful, very powerful character. Dekang nodded solemnly to Baoyue.
Baoyue still looked at Dekang with some puzzlement, looking at the solemn expression of the second brother, and gradually, she began to sober up a little.
She had seen that the second brother could handle even the incomparably strong brown bear, in the small world of Baoyue, the second brother was the overlord of the earth, and Dekang was very powerful, at most he was a guy like a brown bear, but the serious demeanor of the second brother made her doubt her judgment.
Dekang could not use specific words to describe the coldness of the tiger and the momentum of the tiger. He shook her a few times and said, "Let's go." The second brother will take you to the front to have a look. ”
With the moon on his back, he picked up the rock sheepskin and ran towards the gate of the corridor, and when he reached the place where he saw the mark, the feeling of being stared at immediately appeared again; Baoyue didn't react, still lying on her back and looking ahead.
Advancing again to half the distance from the mark, Baoyue suddenly pressed her whole body on Dekang's back, her little head drilled into her neck, and her mouth kept whining, Dekang knew that the little cub must have felt the tiger's majesty, and he was terrified and wanted to find a place to hide.
Dekang turned around and hugged Baoyue into his arms, touching her little head and comforting: "Baoyue is not afraid." That's just a tiger depicted on the mark, and it won't pounce. ”
Bao Yue shrunk into a ball, and did not raise her head and said intermittently: "But Bao Yue feels... There's a horrible scoundrel staring at me ... stared at Baoyue's heart, second brother... Baoyue felt cold. ”
Dekang yelled at the mark a few times and then said to Baoyue: "Baoyue, listen, the tiger didn't react, this is not a real tiger, it's just that the strange human is portrayed alive and has sharp eyes." ”
Baoyue still didn't dare to move.
Dekang paused and coaxed for a while before she raised her head, but her small face was tilted towards the middle of the space, unwilling to see the mark.
Dekang didn't expect Baoyue to be afraid of being like this, and thought about finding a way to give her courage and lift her spirits, her eyes rolled a few times, and she paid attention.
Holding Baoyue forward, Dekang said to Baoyue at a distance of about forty paces from the mark, "Baoyue." Look at the second brother's. After speaking, he took advantage of Baoyue's stunned effort to put her down, pulled his legs and rushed towards the mark, ran to the mark, he slowed down his pace, jumped up, pretended to be fierce, and pounced on the tiger on the mark, at the moment before touching the mark, Dekang contracted his claws, stretched out his forelimbs, pressed the surface of the mark with a foot pad, and gently half-turned and fell.
When he pounced on the tiger, Dekang found that his eyes were not simply depicted, and it was strange that humans had installed something like a magic eye on them, no wonder he always felt that those eyes were alive; At the same time, I also found that there were other lines behind the side of the tiger, like some other character.
Dekang took a few steps back and greeted Baoyue a few times, motioning for her to run over, and then looked up to inspect the other patterns.
It's strange that the first time I came to inspect it, I completely ignored the other lines.
The guy on the left back side of the tiger is slender, with a funny round birthmark on the top of his slender mouth, large triangular ears towering on both sides of his head, and a short tail with thick hair sticking out of the buttocks, which looks extremely disproportionate to the body, and is extremely thick.
When I wanted to look at the character on the right back side again, Baoyue had already run to the side, holding the second brother's lower limbs tightly and trying to climb up, rubbing her little head on her abdomen, and Dekang had to pick her up; Baoyue was probably shocked by Hu Wei, and after a quick glance at the mark, she leaned her little head on her chest and did not speak.
Dekang looked at the character on the right back again, unconsciously bent over, half-bowed his head, the fur on his body began to relax, and his eyes narrowed slightly to the character.
Baoyue obviously felt the abnormality of the second brother, stretched out her nose and sniffed a few times without finding anything abnormal, so she pulled his ears twice.
Dekang glanced at Baoyue in confusion, and instantly understood that he was overreacting, and shrugged his shoulders to relax his nervousness.
Bao Yue leaned next to her ear and asked softly, "Second brother?" ”
Dekang pointed to the pattern on the right rear side of the tiger and said, "Jackal." Very nasty character. ”
Bao Yue looked straight at the second brother, and after a while, she finally mustered up the courage to look towards the mark.
"The one on the left side of the tiger is the little fox, and the one on the right side is the jackal."
Baoyue looked at Dekang's guidance in turn, and when she looked at the little fox, she nodded, and when she saw the jackal, she gradually frowned and shrunk her body: "Second brother." The little fox looks similar to the jackal, but the jackal is so annoying. ”
"At a cursory glance, it's pretty much the same. But you see, jackals are much larger than little foxes, and they weigh nearly twice as much. There is also a face shape, the face of the jackal looks fuller, and our wolf clan, little fox and tracking dog are more flat. The biggest difference is in the eyes, the eyes of the little fox are always flickering, more sleek, this kind of eating the life of mice, but they delusionally think about the delicacy of the little antelope day and night, and catch some white food when they have the opportunity; The jackal's eyes are ruthless, and he is a ruthless opponent, you should have felt it just now. ”
Baoyue nodded: "Why didn't the second brother tell Baoyue Jackal last time, will he want to eat my meat like the flying eagle and the brown bear?" ”
Dekang touched her little head: "Baoyue, don't be afraid, Altyn doesn't have jackals here, so the second brother didn't tell you." ”
"Will the jackal be afraid of the second brother?"
"Afraid? Jackals are not afraid of anything, and sometimes they will even attack their own jackal leader when they lose their temper. ”
"Can the second brother beat them?" Hearing another big bad guy, Baoyue's voice was visibly trembling.
"Now. No more than five, the second brother can destroy them, we have to retreat immediately when we encounter more than five, there is no good in the confrontation, and when we encounter more than ten jackals, this is more terrible than encountering tigers, and our lives are worried; When summer comes, we can cope with no more than ten jackals; If we recruit one or two helpers, the little jackals will scatter when they see us. ”
"Baoyue. Jackals have a capricious temperament, bouncing and long-distance running are not lost to our wolf clan at all, in case you encounter jackals or jackals alone, don't entangle, immediately pull out your legs and leave. Confront the jackals, either kill them all, or be killed, with no other result. ”
"Second brother. Is a jackal more photographable than a tiger? Baoyue was a little puzzled.
"I think so, in a way. The tiger likes to be alone, let's not provoke him, even if we meet Zhiqu retreat from afar, he will not pounce on us. The jackals rush to eat everywhere, and when they have the advantage in numbers, they rush up, and use various inferior methods to attack in turn until the opponent is exhausted and then killed; When they encounter a disadvantage, they scatter in a hurry, and they flee in all directions. Remember, it's important to be aware of the surrounding terrain when dealing with a herd of jackals. ”
"Terrain?"
"Yes, topography is important. Jackals are good at bouncing, running long distances, and besieging them, and if they encounter a herd of jackals alone in the wilderness, they will definitely die if they don't flee immediately. If you have a confrontation, you have to find a place under a cliff or a boulder as a place to fight, and you can rely on them to protect your back for a decisive battle, and at that time, you must not have the idea of breaking through and never die. ”
"Second brother. If you can't beat it, why can't you escape? ”
"If you can't beat it, you have to grit your teeth and fight it. The jackals are wheel battles, you have been fighting with them for a while, even if you stand out, you are tired, how can you run past the jackals who are waiting for work, and then they will not even have the strength to resist, you must know that their long-distance endurance is not under our wolf clan. Baoyue. Telling this is to warn you of jackals' wheel battles and running endurance, not to say that jackals are invincible. The erratic temperament of the jackals leads to frequent infighting within their large and small groups, and the members fight and bite each other all over the body, which makes it impossible for the jackals to establish long-term and stable hierarchical authority; It is terrible for thirty jackals to gather together, and three hundred jackals are a rabble, and they are scattered in all directions in the morning and evening. As long as the wolf king appears in the prairie, the jackals are a group of clowns who jump off the beam, at best, they will beat the stuffy sticks, scoop up some bones, fur and gnaw, and they will not become a climate. ”
"Second brother, have you ever touched a jackal?"
"Nope. The second brother has never gone out for a walk, and it was all told to me by Ah Da before. Ah Da said that three adult wolves with their backs against the cliff, two in front of one behind, can resist the siege of a group of jackals, and the victory is in half; At this time, there is a great possibility that the jackal pack will disperse, because there is always a wolf in a resting state to replace some tired companions, and the jackal pack cannot take advantage of wheel warfare; However, these three wolves must trust each other, unite as one, and coordinate their advance and retreat, and a temporary combination cannot withstand a war of attrition. ”
Baoyue couldn't help nodding when she heard this, and Dekang hurriedly interjected as soon as she finished speaking: "Second brother." But there are only two of us, and we can't resist the hateful horde of jackals. ”
Dekang scratched her nose: "Even in the summer, the jackals dare not enter Altyn, and now that the second heavy snow is about to fall, how can you meet the jackals; When this cold winter passes, the second brother will take you around to take a look, and you may meet them. Therefore you have to eat more, and only those who grow strong will have the strength to fight. ”
"It's still just us, Ah Da didn't say that he couldn't beat it." Baoyue muttered quietly.
"There are wandering wolves on the prairie, and the second brother will find someone who has no malice and can be subdued as a helper."
Hearing that a small group could be formed against the jackals, Baoyue's little face smiled, and her eyes began to flow, and the nerves that had been suppressed by the tiger began to relax a little bit.
Dekang didn't want to linger too much in front of the mark, so he picked up Baoyue and ran into the corridor to explore the reality; To be honest, I was very curious about how strange humans could trap tigers, and this curiosity came from my own vigilance and fear that the wolf clan might suffer the same fate.
More than 200 steps into the promenade are the same as two open doors facing each other.
When he crossed the door on the right, Dekang felt something strange on the door panel out of the corner of his eye, and turned his head to see that there was a silver-gray mark on it. Dekang hurriedly stopped to inspect, and the mark depicted a little fox turning his head to observe the movement while walking.
There are no marks on the gate that I have seen all the way below, and it is strange that humans may have some special intentions in deliberately carving the pattern of the little fox on the door.
Dekang was puzzled for a moment and rushed to the opposite door, Baoyue on her back was caught off guard and almost fell down, she leaned back and screamed, he hurriedly stopped, kicked his right hind limb on the ground and shrugged his ass to prevent Baoyue from falling.
Baoyue, who borrowed the strength, hurriedly grabbed Dekang's ears: "Stinky second brother." Suddenly ran out without telling a word, Baoyue almost fell. ”
Dekang scratched his scalp: "Hmm... Well... This one... The second brother was in a hurry to see the gate opposite. ”
Baoyue pouted; "It's so close, it's just a few steps away, you don't need to fly."
"Yes, yes. Just walk over there. ”
There is also a silver-gray mark on the opposite gate, which depicts a leopard looking into the distance.
It's just that the spots on the character in front of him are not the familiar snow leopard, his spots are obviously more and denser than the snow leopard, this should be a guy he hasn't heard of yet, and Altyn definitely hasn't appeared here.
"Second brother. Are you in such a hurry just to see the mark? ”
"That's right."
"I've seen a lot of markings, why are you in such a hurry."
"The second brother was a little confused for a while. Baoyue, you think, the markings you see in the corridor space below are all on the low wall, but the markings here are on the gate. ”
"It's all markings, what could be the difference?" Baoyue had a disapproving expression.
"Maybe it's strange that there is something special about human beings, the second brother has to think about it."
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