Chapter 44: The Wasteland

In the animal kingdom, males often use urine to advertise their territory, which has a certain deterrent effect. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Ansu asked Simon to pee around the makeshift shelter, also to warn the intruders. The stronger the male smell, the stronger its strength is, and ordinary animals dare not break in casually. However, only the urine of males is sufficient, and females have no deterrent effect. Females generally indicate estrus.

Simon was embarrassed to pull a circle of urine, and without daring to look at Ansu, he got into the built cavern, and his shoulder had just entered, and he suddenly remembered something serious. In this cramped cavern, he wants to spend the night with the captain? The cave where I used to live was wide, and the two of them wouldn't be embarrassed to have one end at each end, but now there is a high chance that they will be close to each other? Thinking about it, why do you feel a little scary? Simon looked tangled, stepped back neatly, and stood aside honestly.

"Captain, you go in and sleep, I'll keep vigil."

Ansu kicked him: "Go in." ”

"But ......"

An Su glanced at him coldly: "What, I'm afraid that I will eat you?" ”

Simon silently turned and burrowed into the cavern, alas, the captain really couldn't look at it with ordinary eyes.

Digging into the cavern and blocking the exit with a large rock creates a safe fortress from the cold wind and danger outside.

Early the next morning, when they came out, they found that there were wolves nearby, but they only circled around the perimeter and did not venture in, and Simon's urine still played a role.

The two of them split up and searched the rocky mountains to see if there was any water or other food. Ansu dug at the bottom of the low-lying rocks, but unfortunately the sand was still dry after digging for almost two meters. She had no choice but to continue walking, and saw a thick, dead tree trunk lying on the ground. Ansu pulled out her dagger, knowing that the dead trunk might contain bugs, which were a source of protein.

The sharp dagger easily slices a large piece of bark from a tree that has become crunchy, revealing pitted wood. Ansu nimbly inserted and picked up the circular passage, and a larva the size of a white fat thumb was picked at the tip of the knife. She picked up the writhing larva, squeezed out its entrails with her thumb and forefinger, threw it into her mouth, and chewed it, it really didn't taste good.

Ansu ate all five larvae hidden in the trunk of the tree before moving on. She walked up a relatively large rock and saw Simon dealing with a snake with a red in the dark. It was about the thickness of an arm, and it was raising its head, baring its sharp teeth and forked tongue, confronting Simon. Its peritoneum can unfold like a cobra. This snake is able to glide through the air and change direction flexibly when jumping. Simon almost fell on its path.

Ansu frowned, and flew the dagger out of her hand as the snake jumped again, nailing its head to the ground. Before it died, pale yellow venom splashed out of its sac and squirted into Simon's eyes. Fortunately, Simon flashed quickly and avoided the possibility of being poisoned.

The snake's head was nailed, but its body was still writhing unwillingly, its mouth still wide open, and venom seeping out of its hollow fangs.

Ansu jumped down from the boulder, grabbed the dagger in his hand, and cut off the snake's head with a gentle pull.

"Be careful next time." Ansu wiped the dagger clean on the kelp-like plants and said to Simon.

Simon touched his nose embarrassedly. This time he was careless, he didn't expect this snake to squirt venom so far, ordinary poisonous snakes use their teeth to inject venom into the human body, this strange thing, actually sprayed venom to attack. If you are sprayed by it, there is a good chance that your eyes will be blinded. When the attack of this poisonous snake will be even more difficult to guard against.

Simon dug a hole and buried it with a branch around the snake's head. He picked up the still writhing snake body, licked the blood that had not yet congealed, and narrowed his eyes.

Today's breakfast is good for roast snake meat.

The two men each found some firewood and built a fire. Although Ansu had the flint and steel of the Ammanrah people with him, it was difficult to make a fire without a fire starter. This was not bothering Ansu, who quickly scraped some shavings off a piece of wood with a dagger, and formed a bird's nest. Sparks from the collision of flints splashed on it, and a wisp of smoke came out of it. Ansu carefully blew the fire up before daring to put it on the pyre, carefully adding some small, dry branches to it.

The fire was soon burning, and Simon roasted the salted snake meat on the fire, which they had scraped from the saline ground, and of course chose the one without impurities, otherwise it would be troublesome to filter.

"Captain, have you noticed that the sky is a lot darker today?" Simon said as he nibbled on snake meat.

An Su nodded, there are generally two reasons why the sky is overcast during the day, one is that it is going to rain, and the other is that the polar night is coming. Ansu roughly calculated the time, half a day had been going on for several months, and it was the turn of the polar night.

"We've got to pick up the pace."

The Great Snow Mountains are not a mountain but a group of mountains, continuous, extending from north to south, like a wall separating the eastern and western continents. Traditionally, the only people who have been able to climb these mountains are migrating birds. The elevation of the main peak is about 4,000 meters, and the average of the others is about 1,000 meters. On one side of the Great Snow Mountain, there is a barren and desolate land, while the other side is full of life.

But even in the desolate land, there is life.

A fire burned silently in the cave, and sawdust flew onto the fire and was quickly consumed by the flames. Ansu reached out and rubbed his thumb against the tip of the wooden spear, testing its sharpness.

"Captain, I'm all right, too." Simon raised his spear and swung it, grinning in satisfaction.

Today they are going to hunt a long-haired, thick-haired cow that is scattered across the wasteland and grabs on the few weeds. Like most animals, they live in groups, and it is not so easy to hunt one. This large animal cannot be caught with ordinary traps, and requires more violent methods.

As soon as it was dawn, Ansu and Simon walked out of the cave with their spears in their hands, and the cave was more like a crack, getting narrower and narrower the further they went. Ansu cleaned out all the stones in the cave and built them at the entrance of the cave one by one, as a heat reflection device, and also resisted the cold wind blowing through the hole. Their cave is located at the foot of the mountain, and the biggest advantage is that there is a small stream flowing not far from the cave. The source of the stream is on the mountain, and the water is very cold, which is supposed to be caused by the melting of the snow and ice on the mountain.

But the long-haired cow is not the only creature in this land, there are also wolves, rabbits and other creatures here. The cycle of life is playing out in this desolate land all the time. (To be continued.) )