119. Reverence for the scroll
Making traps has always been one of the means of survival for hunters, and it is similar to archery, camouflage, tracking, Domestication of beasts has become the five directions of hunter development, orc hunters in the wasteland prefer to pursue bowing and tracking, in the wasteland, any camouflage will be fully displayed under this sky, orcs will also domesticate beasts, but they are more inclined to large non-combat pets, such as domesticating thunder rhinoceros or sub-beasts, the powerful hunter king can also domesticate dragons, etc., Kuz told me that there are many real wolf hunters who like to take falcons out hunting, so that they can easily track down the herd. www.biquge.info But for a long time, trap art has always been ranked at the bottom of hunter skills, not even as good as camouflage, hunters in the wasteland don't like camouflage, but far away in the wild swamps and jungles in the south, the barbarians in those swamp countries are famous for domesticating beasts and camouflage, and those salty and wet lizardmen can even tame brute bulls and swamp dragons.
Many hunters don't pay attention to trapping, believing that trapping is the last skill, and only low-level hunters will make some beast traps to assist them in hunting. Those beast clips weighing dozens of catties have some effect on ordinary beasts, but the powerful monsters seem to be powerless. Even the lowest-level Demon Antelope in Warcraft has a way to escape if he steps on such a beast trap. Not to mention that such a bulky beast clip is not very convenient to carry, unless you can have a thunder rhinoceros.
But on the whole, the thoughts in the hearts of these female orcs in the wasteland are still just staying in the ordinary beast trap and can only hunt some small beasts, and they usually need very careful maintenance, which is far less convenient and easy to carry than bows and arrows. For these small birdcatchers, they even think that these are children's toys, and the children in this tribe will have more than a dozen in their hands, especially in such a famine year, hunting some small birds is also a means for children to find food to satisfy their hunger. If it weren't for this, Kuz wouldn't have been able to collect hundreds of birdtraps in a short period of time, or he wouldn't have been able to set up a trap belt three meters wide and three hundred meters long.
Our group stood on the sand hill, and looked at the west position on the sand hill on the north slope, there were more than 20 demon antelopes lying horizontally, most of their limbs were frostbitten to the same degree, and some of their bodies were wrapped in ice, but just looking at their eyes, you can find that they only lost their mobility for a while, but their bodies were not much damaged.
The magic power of the Frost Scroll is still too weak, although Qige deliberately reduces the ratio of Tranquility Flower Juice when configuring the milky ink, the material of Tranquility Flower Juice is a very effective stabilizer, but the more you add, the less powerful the scroll will be, in order to maximize the power of the scroll, when Qige configures the potion, within the range that I can accept, the amount of Tranquility Flower Juice is reduced to the greatest extent, so that the power of the Frost Scroll is increased by about ten percent, even so, against the Demon Antelope with a certain magic resistance attribute, it can only freeze a pair of lamb legs。
In fact, the three-meter-wide trap belt is extremely narrow for the running magic antelope, as long as you can jump over it lightly, but the bird catcher is thrown in the weeds, even if you get close, you have to look carefully to distinguish clearly, for the galloping demon antelope, the landing point of each jump has an approximate location, as long as a demon antelope steps on the trap, it will cause a chain reaction, leading this piece of trap to be slowed down and stopped by the demon antelope stepped on one after another, the power of a single frost scroll is only two meters square, and if the surrounding temperature is not cold, the ice will easily melt away, and the magic antelope will soon recover its mobility。 But if the frost scroll is detonated one after another, the temperature of the surrounding air is reduced from below zero, forming an ice circle with a radius of more than ten meters, and all the plants and trees in the ice circle are wrapped in ice crystals, and the twenty or so demon antelopes are lying on the snow.
Kuz, who was running at the front, was so stimulated by such extreme cold that he shivered, and when he exhaled from standing outside the ice circle, he instantly condensed into a cloud of white mist, and it seemed that the temperature was even lower than we thought. As early as when we were fighting with the leader of the Lion and Tiger people, we discovered that the Frost Scroll had the characteristics of superimposing magic effects, and at that time it was only intermittently stepping on the trap, but now after the demon antelopes detonated the traps within a radius of more than twenty meters in the trap belt, the freezing effects were superimposed in an instant, and the power was naturally not too small.
It's a pity that there is no ice grass, and even such an ice explosion has not completely frozen the demon antelope.
Kuzi held a short axe in his hand, like an old farmer who stepped into the cabbage field, and slashed at the neck of a demon antelope with an axe, and suddenly a large hole more than a foot long was cut on the neck of the sheep, and the major artery was directly cut, and blood splattered more than two meters away. Seeing that Kutz was extremely excited at this time, I swallowed the words in my mouth again, in fact, I wanted to say that there was no need for such blood.
Qige, who came running over on the other side, was so beautiful that he screamed directly: "Az, you bastard, you cut a big hole in my magic antelope plumlum, won't you use a skinning knife to directly kill it?"
"Hehe, I'm a little excited!" Kuzi said excitedly, quickly hanging the short axe in his hand on his waist, pulling out a boning knife from his thigh and heading straight for the next demon antelope.
I was worried that the ice and snow world created by this magic would melt quickly, and the demon antelopes who were frozen and paralyzed on the ground would regain their mobility and flee, so I rushed to the edge of the ice and snow circle and the other orcs and said loudly in orc language: "Hey, Sister Gerile, you and others will help kill the sheep! Whoever kills the sheep, we will give her four sheep's hooves with calf meat......"
The orcs on the field exploded all at once, pulled out the boning knives on their thighs, and pounced on the demon antelopes regardless of the cold.
The beast girls have not killed the demon antelope, but they have all killed those ordinary yellow sheep, the demon antelope is nothing more than a little stronger leather, but at close range with a sharp knife, no matter how solid the skin of the demon antelope is, it can't stop those sharp boning sharp knives. Kig and Katerina and I stood at the edge of the field, and I helped Geril count the number of sheep killed, and whoever killed the sheep quickly made a mark on the sheep's ears with a carving pen, which was the first time I saw Gerile's sunny smile, like a sunflower in autumn.
I didn't expect this hunt to end in just one morning, the beast girls were a little reluctant to watch the slaughtered demon antelope being thrown on the back of the Yagui beast, although the demon antelope weighing a hundred pounds was not heavy, but the twenty-three demon antelope still made the Yagui beast cry miserably.
"Whoever is willing to carry the demon antelope back to the tribe, then we will give her the head of the sheep with the demon core, well, and we can borrow our big iron pot to boil these sheep's heads and legs to rot......"
There was no need to say anything at all, and in an instant, the back of the Yagui Beast was empty, and the beast girl who carried the least was also carrying two demon antelopes on her shoulders.
It has to be said that hunger makes everyone industrious.
"You ...... Peacetime...... That's how you catch sheep?" asked Grile, sitting beside Kuz, turning his head to me.
I shook my head repeatedly, patted the shotgun on my back, and said, "If there are few of them, Az and I will use alloy bows and shotguns against them, only herds of demon antelopes will do this." ”
I cautiously pulled a frost scroll out of my pocket, leaned forward and handed it to Grile, who looked at me in amazement, a little overwhelmed and unsure of what I was going to do, and looked at me in a daze.
"I'll give you a game to play, and you can follow our example and put it on a bird trap to make a simple trap. This can hunt demon antelopes, but I'm afraid it's not enough in high-level demonic beasts, and the power of cold ice is not enough. I said with a grin, and went on to say, "It's not much of value to us." ”
Gerille looked at the frost scroll in his hand with some surprise, his bronzed skin shining in the sunlight.
I snuggled up in Katerina's arms, squinting my eyes, and it was a pleasure to sit on the back of the Agui beast on such a warm afternoon, and rush to meet the warm spring breeze.
After the threat of hunger was gone, the beast girls had happy smiles on their faces, and when they looked at us, their eyes were not so contemptuous, but more awe-inspiring, maybe not in awe of our true strength, but in fear of the scrolls we had, but what did it matter!
...... Beautiful Dividing Line......
Three days later, we and the old orc Gribaschen prepared to cross the Urutu River in the Yelian Mountain canyon together, at the mouth of the canyon everyone to do the final rest, the Urutu River here, the river water is no longer so cold, but because of the great difference between the east and west terrain on the plateau, the river is very turbulent, even if the basin-sized pebbles are thrown into the river, they will be washed out more than ten meters away.
The width of the river is only a dozen meters, and the strong orc warriors can directly cross the river without even running, but it is impossible to ferry in such a turbulent river, and there is a pebble-paved plank road on the east bank of the canyon, which accompanies the bank of the Urutu River until it reaches the center of Yelian Mountain, and only separates from the Ulutu River at a sharp bend and turbulence, and the road will go up the mountain. At this point, the large animals will not be able to go any further, because the mountain road is very narrow, and even the Yagui beasts can only barely pass through.
These days, Qige is mixed with those female orcs all day long, and I don't know what price Qige has spent, they seem to listen to Qige very much, Miss Qi will always take this group of female orcs to collect all kinds of magical herbs in the wasteland, and gradually I slowly found that the herbal medicine package tied to the back of the Yagui beast is actually like a mountain.
Caterina was back to her old self, and she still liked to follow me so much, even though I was now well enough and didn't have nightmares every night, she still pretended not to know and put her arms around me to sleep. I don't know if Caterina's courage has increased these days, but her cooking skills have improved a lot.