Chapter 15: The Horned Deer Breaking Into the Valley

The afternoon sun is always the warmest, Stern is lying on the grass basking in the sun, Ash is lazily lying on the side to treat the wound, now the valley is quiet, occasionally a few blue rabbits pass by the grass, but now without the purple shirt bow is absolutely impossible to catch. He was waiting for the arrival of the horned deer, and he was going to pierce the body of the horned deer with his spear for an even more difficult hunt. Horned deer has reddish-brown fur, and a pair of forked horns, mainly feed on grass, mushrooms, tender leaves, and are more distributed in the periphery of the Cabernet Forest, and the men of ordinary families in the small town of Vic on the northwest border of the Bauhinia Empire are usually brave hunters, and their strength can catch up with low-level warriors, and hunting some wild animals such as horned deer is an important source of income for them.

Stern was covered in wounds, and the slightest movement of his body would cause him to pull the wounds, causing bouts of pain, but his right hand was slightly better, barely able to throw a spear, and he had no other choice for food. The wait was long, but now there was Ash, and in order to prevent Ash from being lazy, Stern asked Ash to observe the outskirts of the valley very seriously, alerting him at the sign of an animal intrusion, while he himself leisurely crossed Erlang's legs and fell asleep. As the sun set in the west, Ash lay beside Stern and looked at the valley from afar, when suddenly it pricked up its pointed ears and craned its neck vigilantly. I saw a few reddish-brown horned deer coming out of the north side of the valley, looking around very vigilantly, and boldly walking towards the stream when they saw that there was no danger around.

Ash stood up and pulled Stern's body with his paws excitedly, Stern opened his eyes in his sleep, and slept for five or six hours in the morning and afternoon, feeling a lot more energetic all of a sudden, he looked in the direction of Ash's head, and saw five or six large and small horned deer walking towards the stream. At that moment, he instructed Ash to go around the bushes on the outskirts of the valley to the back of the horned deer to ambush and wait for orders, and then to outflank him before and after, so that the success rate of the hunt would be much higher. Ash obediently walked to the edge of the valley and flashed into the bushes, and Stern watched as it silently touched its target, unaware. It seems that Ash is a good hunter by nature, and Stern almost caught his way last night without even noticing.

The horned deer was still wandering by the stream, eating the grass, and looking around from time to time, when Stern saw from a distance that Grey was already waiting behind the horned deer, and he began to crawl with his spear and slowly approach the unaware horned deer. Arriving less than 10 meters away from the horned deer, Stern slowly crouched up and aimed the tip of his spear at the nearest adult horned deer. Stern quickly bounced up from the ground, his right hand struggled to throw out the spear, only to see the spear 'whoosh' and fly towards the horned deer in front of him, the horned deer found the uninvited guest jumping in front of him, knew that the danger was coming, pulled his legs and was about to jump back, but at this time it was too late, the spear came in an instant, just shot the neck of one of the horned deer, under the impact of the spear, the horned deer fell heavily to the ground, Stern quickly chased forward, the injured horned deer stumbled up and followed the deer to the rear of the escape. Seeing that the injured horned deer was about to escape, Stern quickly took out an axe and threw it at the injured horned deer, and the 'bang' horned deer was hit the ground again by the axe and fell far behind the other horned deer.

Stern had already dodged to the side of the injured Horned Deer, picked up the axe on the ground and quickly slashed at the Horned Deer's neck, the Horned Deer was so badly injured that it could no longer escape. Stern tackled one with no danger, and his quick run severely involved the wound, and after he stopped, the sharp pain from the wound forced him to sit down and rest. He watched from afar as the other horned deer ran out of the valley, and the path happened to be where Ash was ambushed, and Ash took advantage of the evening afterglow to jump out like a ghost, and pounced on one of the horned deer that had no time to dodge, holding down its body, opening its bloody mouth and biting the throat of the horned deer, and the horned deer could not break free and was subdued. The harvest was quite lucrative, far exceeding the previous prediction, and Stern thought that the two wounded men would be lucky as long as they could catch one of them, after all, the horned deer can bounce more than 3 meters per time.

Little Gray proudly walked to Stern's side with the dead horned deer in his mouth, wagging his tail as he went, looking at it as if he had made a great achievement, and was anxious to ask Stern for a reward. Stern cut off the two hind legs of the horned deer, and threw the others to Ash, who wagked his tail excitedly and began to tear at the horned deer on the ground, and the bloody scene was unbearable to look at. Stern tied the three hind legs that had been torn off with hemp rope and hung them on a branch, and ordered Ash not to touch them, one leg was enough for Stern to eat for a day, and the meat would feed Stern for four days. Stern came to the lake with a deer leg in his hand, cleaned the fur from the leg with a dagger, made a few cuts in the skin, and rubbed some salt, then went and cut some branches and made a fire, and roasted the deer leg on the fire. Look at the little gray has stopped eating now, the side of the mouth is stained with blood, and it has eaten half a horned deer in one meal, it seems that these two horned deer are enough for it to last until the day after tomorrow.

The sun slowly lowered below sea level, the sky gradually darkened, and Ash fought fiercely for a night, thrilling to collect Ash as a contract monster, for which Stern was also seriously injured, after wiping the medicine and wine, rested for a few hours, and then began to cooperate with Ash for the first time to hunt horned deer, with good cooperation and rich food. Surrounded by a man and a wolf leisurely around the red-glittering fire, Ash was no longer as frightened by the roaring fire as he had been last night, and lay on its stomach by the fire, its eyes unblinking, its tongue licking the drooling saliva that kept flowing. The deer's legs on the fire had a golden sheen under Stern's turning, and the sight of it was appetizing. It was the heavy aroma of the roast that attracted the Timberwolves and led to the fight last night. After a while, the meat was cooked, Stern took the deer leg and cut off the meat with a dagger and put it into his mouth, the venison was as fragrant and tough as beef, Stern ate a lot, and after eating enough, he threw the rest of the meat directly to Little Ash. After eating, Stern climbed the tree and leaned against the trunk to get ready to sleep, he took the quilt and covered his body, now because the temperature is too low, there is really no quilt to eat, Xiao Ash is still lying under the tree for Stern to keep guard, they fall asleep like this, from tomorrow it should be relatively relaxed.