Chapter 11: A Crisis Hidden in the Night
After about four hours, about 20 kilometers of walking, Stern came to a slope with a flat landscape and a wide view, where the bushes were thick and the grass was fertile, and it did not look like a late autumn scene at all. The slope was facing the sunlit side, and the temperature seemed to be a little hotter than the rest of the place, Stern went to the high point of the slope to sit down on the rocks and rested, he looked around and found that his position was surrounded by mountains, and the cold wave from the north happened to be blocked by the surrounding mountains, so the temperature in his position was about 10 degrees higher than the temperature in Stern's house. Just as Stern sat down to rest, he noticed something moving in the grass not far away, Stern lowered his body and sneaked over lightly, training for so long and now he is familiar with it.
Stern slowly approached the target, and six or seven meters away from the target, he saw a rabbit with blue fur and long ears, which was happily eating the fat green grass. This is a blue rabbit, a common animal that is ubiquitous on the continent of Cadia, its meat is tender and fat, usually stewed or roasted, Stern used to go hunting in the forest, sometimes occasionally encountered, and also caught one or two. Stern lifted the purple shirted bow, took out the bamboo arrow, and began to aim at the blue rabbit, at this time the blue rabbit in front seemed to feel a sense of oppression, stopped grazing, pricked up its ears, raised its head and began to look around, when it saw the motionless Stern behind it, it obviously felt the danger signal, and immediately kicked up its hind legs and fled into the distance.
Without hesitation, Stern shot the bamboo arrow, and the bamboo arrow flew towards the fleeing blue rabbit in an instant, and the arrow grazed the blue rabbit's hind legs and shot to the ground. Stern immediately pulled out his legs and chased after the blue rabbit, and at the same time took the bamboo arrow again, and quickly shot towards the blue rabbit, but unfortunately every time the arrow shot was always flashed by the blue rabbit. Fortunately, the bushes here are not very dense, and Stern followed closely, and the bamboo arrows continued to shoot at the blue rabbit, but it never hit, and after chasing for about twenty minutes, the blue rabbit disappeared. By this time Stern had deviated from his original route, and did not know where he was now, but in the distance he saw a small natural lake at the foot of the lowest hill not far away. It's not a small lake, it looks like a small reservoir about 30 meters long and 20 square meters. Stern gave up chasing the blue rabbit and came to the small lake at the foot of the mountain, where he saw some fish swimming faintly, but now he couldn't catch them from the water.
Chasing the blue rabbit all the way, and finally lost it, Stern found himself in a valley, the valley is very large, there is a small lake in it, it walked along the lake, found an open place, sat down, and drove for most of the day, now he is hungry, take out a mud ball from the space ring and knock it open with a stone, take out the seabirds inside and eat it, the taste is still as fragrant and delicious as ever. While Stern was eating lunch, he observed the valley, which was flat and open, and the temperature was relatively high, and he would never have found this place if he hadn't tracked the blue rabbit. After lunch, he got up and began to explore the valley along the edge of the lake, and in one corner of the lake there was a stream running through the valley, and by the brook there were several horned deer, drinking water, and when they saw someone coming far away, they fled. This was the first time he had seen a medium-sized animal on the island, which also made him breathe a sigh of relief, and the appearance of prey meant that he, the hunter, would not go hungry.
Stern walked along the stream, and saw a fiery red meadow in front of him from a distance, which was a patch of blood orchids, and the purpose of his trip to the sea this time was to buy blood orchids and resell them at a high price in the Bauhinia Empire, but he didn't expect to see traces of blood orchids here. The blood orchid is red all over and produces fiery red flowers in summer, and it is now late autumn and the flowering season has passed. It can be used to heal wounds, or it can be eaten into the stomach and absorbed into the blood to accelerate wound healing. In the Bauhinia Empire, each blood orchid can be sold for 200 silver coins, and the high year and good medicinal potency can be sold for 1 gold coin, and the blood orchid here is worth at least a thousand gold coins.
For Stern now, it was useless for him to put so many gold coins in front of him, he just picked a few vintage blood orchids. I found a flat stone on the side, spread a canvas on the stone, put the blood orchid on the canvas, took out a dagger, and used the dagger to chop the blood orchid into pieces. Then he took out the rum, opened the oak cork, poured the crushed blood orchid into it, and a jar of fine healing medicine was ready. Stern put away the rum, picked a few more blood orchids and put them in the space ring, and continued walking along the stream.
Stern came to the edge of a large green meadow, squatted down, carefully observed the ground, there were some paw prints on the ground, it seemed that it should be the paw prints of small animals, it was speculated that nine times out of ten it was a blue rabbit or a marmot, along the footprints slowly went deeper into the grass, Stern was more careful this time than before, when he walked to a thigh-thick tree, put down the quilt on his back, and easily climbed to the tree, he looked around from high to low from the tree, he was looking for the traces of the blue rabbit, it is impossible for such a large piece of grass to not have a blue rabbit。 Stern looked around, and suddenly he noticed that the grass six meters in front of him on the left moved, and he looked intently to see that there was a faint head with long ears moving in the grass. Stern stretched out his bow and aimed at the target, and as soon as his hand was released, the bamboo arrow sped towards the target, and the arrow hit the target just right, and the blue rabbit stumbled on the grass a few times before stopping.
Stern carried the blue rabbit back to the lake, skillfully skinned the rabbit, entrailed it, cleaned it, then brushed it with rum and hung it on the tree to dry, then went to fetch some branches and piled them up, lit them with flint, and then skewered the rabbit on a stick and roasted it on the fire. By this time it was getting dark, and Stern was sitting by the fire and constantly turning the rabbits, and bursts of fragrance spread around, and Stern felt hungry and gurgled when he smelled it. The rabbit is bubbling out with oil under the scorching fire, and the golden roast meat makes people appetite a lot when they look at it. However, at this moment, at the foot of a mountain rock not far away, a behemoth stood up, sniffed with its nose, and in a few dodges ran in the direction of Stern, and it smelled the smell of roasted meat from a distance of several kilometers, which made it salivate. Stern was eating a delicious roast, unaware that extreme danger was approaching......