Chapter 49: Concealment
One minute, two minutes......
Soon, a quarter of an hour had passed, and there was still no movement at the mouth of the hole beside the mound.
Fengyun's brows furrowed slightly, but his body still didn't move, and he continued to shoot at any time.
"There it is!"
Fengyun's eyes lit up suddenly, and the mud ball blocking the entrance of the cave suddenly moved.
Previously, he had been searching for gophers to no avail, forcing him to start thinking.
Thinking about it, an idea broke into his mind.
If the holes dug by gophers are compared to a house, then the holes left in the ground should be doors and windows.
If the hole is blocked, will they do something?
Unable to think of a better way anyway, he decided to give it a try.
It turned out that his idea was correct, and the gopher could not ignore the plugging hole.
However, the mud ball at the entrance of the cave only moved for a moment, and then it didn't move again.
Fengyun was not in a hurry at all, he had already seen through the other party's little tricks.
With his violent personality, he will take the drill gopher as a task to evaluate him and Ray, which shows that the drill gopher should have something special.
According to what he knows about rodents, most of them are cunning and timid.
From this, he concluded that the mud ball moved first, and it should be a test of the gopher to see if there was any danger.
After another five minutes or so, the mud ball moved again, and this time it moved significantly more.
The mud balls are getting higher and higher, and there is a tendency to be pushed out of the hole.
Fengyun's eyes began to narrow slightly, his body began to tense, and all his functions were mobilized and he was in a state of preparation.
A black shadow flashed and jumped up from the hole.
Fengyun didn't make any moves, and he still stood quietly.
His eyesight was very good, and he could see the true face of the black shadow, which was the mud ball that was violently pushed into the air.
"It's cunning. ”
Fengyun has a new understanding of the cunning of the gopher.
If it weren't for his very good eyesight and ability to see the situation clearly, the mud ball would fly up suddenly, and he would probably be fooled and subconsciously launch an attack to expose his whereabouts.
After a while, the dark hole suddenly became variegated, an inconspicuous grayish yellow.
Airplanes!
With the sound of a bowstring cracking, a black shadow appeared at the entrance of the cave and stabbed into it fiercely.
"Squeak......
A short scream came from inside the cave, but it soon fell silent.
Fengyun walked to the entrance of the cave, grabbed the arrow that only the tail of the arrow was exposed, and lifted it.
A grayish-yellow figure was pulled out of the hole along with the arrows.
Fengyun looked closely, and found that the arrow was hanging on a fat animal, larger than a rabbit, which should be the drill gopher in the mouth of the storm.
However, it doesn't bear much resemblance to a mouse.
With a flat, broad head, two long, wide front teeth exposed from the lips, and long, sharp claws at the ends of its forelimbs, it is immediately clear that it is very good at digging holes, which is probably where its name comes from.
The arrow passed through its eye, fatally wounded, and killed it in an instant.
Pulling the prey off the shaft of the arrow, and with a twist, Fengyun smiled slightly.
The burrowing gopher doesn't look very big, but it has some pressure hands, indicating that it should have a lot of meat.
Hunt a few more, and you should be able to eat a full meal.
After thinking for a moment, Fengyun dug a hole in the ground with arrows, pulled out some grass, wrapped the gopher in it, put it in with the arrows, covered it with soil, and compacted it.
He buried his prey.
Then he took the earth and covered it with the blood that had come out of the gopher, and stepped on it, taking care not to get the blood on his feet.
Eventually, he grabbed some dirt, rubbed it vigorously, and from time to time put his hand under his nose to smell it.
It took a long time for him to look satisfied.
He did it out of prudence.
He was worried that the gopher had an extremely keen sense of smell, and if there was any residue of his scent, the other gopher would smell it and avoid it in advance.
With a successful precedent, Fengyun decided to replicate the success.
He ran, getting closer to the holes in the ground, blocking them one by one with mud balls.
Finally, he climbed a small tree, stood at the top of the tree, condescending, his eyes centered on the small tree, and kept glancing.
His strategy was a success.
Over the next half hour, he shot three more gophers in quick succession.
I don't know if his luck ran out, or if it was for some other reason, after he finished shooting the fourth gopher, almost an hour had passed, and there was still no new harvest.
It's not that the gophers reacted too quickly and he didn't have time to act, but that they didn't reappear at all.
He thought for a moment, hung his bow on his body, and jumped down from the tree.
One by one, he walked to the holes that were pressed by the mud balls, pulled some dirt with his feet, stepped down vigorously, and completely blocked the holes with the mud balls.
He dug out all four gophers, carried them, ran towards the mouth of the valley, jumped up the stone wall, and immediately found the storm lying on the grass not far from the stone wall, with a large leaf covering its head.
As soon as Fengyun's gaze turned to him, Storm reacted and lifted the leaves off his face.
"Four. Good harvest. Were you alone, or did you hunt with Ray? I guess the two of you hunted together. But it's already good. ”
A satisfied smile was revealed.
Fengyun didn't speak, jumped off the stone wall, and walked towards the storm.
"Where's Ray? Why didn't he come?"
Seeing that Fengyun was alone, he showed a puzzled look.
"Uncle Tyrant, Brother Lei has some problems and doesn't want to see me, I want you to persuade me. ”
"What's the matter, why doesn't he want to see you?"
"This ...... I can't tell you clearly for a while, so I ask Uncle Tyrant to ask Brother Lei in person. ”
Storm took a deep look at Fengyun and stood up: "Okay." I'm going to meet Boy Ray. ”
Looking at the back of the leaping onto the stone wall, complex emotions appeared in Fengyun's eyes.
He didn't tell Storm the truth, and he didn't think to tell him.
Originally, he had planned to tell Ray the truth, and it was the Snake God's Vision that helped him complete the unbelievable performance, but now that he has calmed down, he has decided to hide the secret.
He wants to rot the secret of the Eye of the Serpent God in his stomach and use it as his hole card.
Unlike Tun, he would tell Tun to Wu at the beginning, firstly, it was difficult to hide, and there was no need to hide, and secondly, telling the truth could bring him great benefits.
The Serpent's Vision is a different story, it can be his killer weapon, both to save him from danger and to help him kill powerful enemies.
Fengyun cut the gopher with a bone knife, peeled off the skin, gutted it, skewered it with sharpened branches, smeared some spices and salt on it, lit a fire, and roasted it.
When the four gophers began to turn yellow and grease dripped downward, Fengyun's eyes saw a figure appear on the stone wall.
Turning his head to look over, Storm and Thunder were standing on the wall together, and Thunder's arm was grabbed by Storm.
A moment later, the two appeared in front of Fengyun, and it was only at this time that Storm let go of Lei's arm.
Ray kept his head down, neither looking at the wind and clouds, nor speaking.
"Yun boy, you can do it. It took less than half a day to learn arrows and surpass Lei, you really gave me a big surprise. Tell me the truth, how did you do that? Did you take advantage of any special abilities?"
He looked up and down as if he were seeing him for the first time.
Lei's body trembled slightly, squinted his eyes, and secretly looked at the wind and clouds, his eyes revealing a look of longing.
He refused to listen to Fengyun's explanation at the beginning, because he was hit too hard, and he was angry for a while, and now he is very eager to know the truth.
"Jiang is still old and spicy, and his eyesight is so powerful. ”
Fengyun secretly admired Tyrant's judgment, but he didn't show it at all, just said lightly: "Uncle Tyrant, you are exalting me too much." What kind of special ability, you should be a hairy pimple, a lot of it when you dig it. ”
"Looks like I guessed wrong. ”
Scratching his scalp violently, revealing a hint of embarrassment.
Ray's gaze darkened again.
He didn't get the answers he wanted to know.
If Fengyun surpasses him in archery, it is because he uses his special ability, the blow to him will be much less, at least he will have an excuse to comfort himself.
"Yun boy, you didn't use your special abilities, how did you surpass Lei Boy in archery? I want to break my head, but I can't figure it out. ”
Violent did not give up the search for answers.
"Uncle Tyrant, I'm sorry, I don't know why. ”
"You don't even know why? It can't be, right? How did you shoot the branch? Could it be that you shot with your eyes closed and hit all ten arrows, right? Haha......
Storm also seemed to think that what he said was ridiculous, and couldn't help but laugh.
"Of course I didn't shoot with my eyes closed, but I was very serious. I don't know exactly how it was shot, but I had a special feeling before I released it. ”
"What is the special feeling?"
Storm's eyes lit up, and Lei also raised his head and looked at Fengyun.
"I don't know if it's an illusion, but a voice in the dark told me that I could release the arrow, so I released the arrow, and it turned out that it really hit the target. Uncle Tyrant, don't you say it's strange?"
This is a good excuse.
He wasn't worried that his lies would be exposed.
Through this period of understanding, coupled with the memories of the original owner of the inherited body, he has come to know many situations.
In this primitive society, which was seriously inconsistent with his memory, all kinds of situations emerged one after another, and it was impossible for even the most knowledgeable person to explain them all.
"This ...... I can't say for sure, but in my experience, you probably have some kind of special talent in archery. ”
Storm really failed to debunk Fengyun's lie, on the contrary, he also gave his own explanation, helping Fengyun to fulfill his lie in disguise.
"Yun boy, your talent in archery is very strong, you must practice hard, you must not waste such a good talent. ”
"Uncle Tyrant, don't worry. If you don't say it, I'll work hard, and I want to be a real archer. ”
"Ambitious. Archers, I've only heard of them, I've never seen them with my own eyes, and if you really become an archer, you can be regarded as fulfilling my long-cherished wish. ”