【462】Spearfish Hunting (2nd Watch)
The uninhabited island is indeed as introduced by the Zhuang family, deep into the island, the place as far as the eye can see will be green, looking full of life, birds singing and fragrant, the air is mixed with the saltiness of the seawater, so that everyone except Qin Shuang, who has never been out to sea, feels fresh, the surrounding dense forest, no, it should be said that all kinds of novel and huge vegetation in the jungle that have never been seen before are not enough for them to see.
It was only half an hour since I walked from the shore, and it was difficult for even Acacia and Atractylodes to keep their calm, and their eyes burst with intense interest, and they continued to study the strange flowers and plants on the ground.
Qin Shuang also shared the system functions with Ah Chen as soon as he went to the island, opened the map, and directly enveloped the whole island, first to see if there were any living people other than them, or fierce beasts that might threaten them.
The people of the dealer are saying that there are only herbivores here, but it is impossible that there are no carnivores at all, otherwise the herbivores will be flooded without fields, and this place will not become a herbivorous zoo sooner?
Sure enough, using the map function and the search function together, Qin Shuang immediately confirmed the general situation on the island.
In addition to them, there are two groups of people on the island, both on the other side of the island far away from them, they initially plan to stay on the island for three to five days, and it is still more difficult to walk around the whole island in these days, and it is even more impossible for the other party to do it.
There are indeed not many large carnivorous beasts, but it is definitely not nothing, there are still some leopards in the jungle, jackals and other animals, just look at the range, probably will not haunt the periphery, and the depths of the jungle, even if the situation here is not as dangerous as the African jungle, it looks much more peaceful, but the danger will not be completely absent, ordinary people do not go deep, fierce beasts do not run to the periphery, and basically can maintain the two sides do not interfere with each other, do not threaten each other.
After making sure that there was basically no danger during the trip to the island, Qin Shuang and Ah Chen also let go and let the reunion run around to play.
Touching this flower, chasing the little rabbit that suddenly popped out over there, and asked Hehuan Baishu to help them pick the wild fruits on the trees they saw nearby, and they were completely worried that they would encounter some poisonous flowers and poisonous weeds to poison them, not to mention how pleasant the attitude of the group was to take a look.
It is true that a short distance in the forest can see a lot of wild tropical fruit trees, mangoes, bananas, jackfruit, many of which Qin Shuang recognizes, and some of which she has never seen, maybe she has not eaten them, but there are also zài in modern times, and they may also be some fruits unique to this world.
Those who know, let them pick and eat at ease, and bring them back to the shore a little, and those who don't know each other can be scanned with a scanning system, there is no poison, and it is delicious, and they are also picked, take and take, anyway, they are all ownerless things, it is rare to come to a trip, and if you don't take it in vain, you won't take it.
Qin Shuang and Ah Chen have a systematic backpack, not only preparing to bring back a batch of them to the crew of the same ship, but also preparing to pick a large number of fruits and put them in the backpack to take home, relying on all kinds of nutrients and fertilizers suitable for fruit trees in the mall, if they can feed some in the northern zone, plant one, in case they can't live, then take more ready-made fruits, at least to ensure that they have enough to eat before they come over next time.
Not only do they have enough to eat, but also the people of the entire Ruyi Village, and then there are the emperors and queens of the capital, relatives and friends from all walks of life have sent some of them over, so they have more to pick.
Fortunately, there are still a lot of crew members accompanying them, and they will bring back some freshly eaten food later, remember the place, and let those crew members pick it for them, and then put it in their backpacks and take it back after they are done.
Qin Shuang prepared more than nine thousand pieces of fruit to fill a backpack! Visually, there are more than a dozen kinds of tropical fruits that can be found on this island, hundreds of thousands of fruits, and he doesn't just eat tropical fruits every day, and those common fruits in the orchard of Ruyizhuang will not be eaten less.
Acacia and Atractylodes are more interested in all kinds of rare medicinal herbs that have been mentioned by Qin Shuang or seen from some ancient books, but have not been seen with their own eyes, and most of their eyes are aimed at the ground along the way, and occasionally they find something, so the two of them get together and mutter.
If they come across some medicinal materials that they didn't recognize, but Qin Shuang scanned out with the scanning function, she would also specially call them and ask them to pick up the medicinal materials, without taking more, each one of them will pick the ones that grow well, take two or three of the big ones, and have a copy function, and they can be 'batch manufactured' at any time.
When they arrived at the uninhabited island, it was just dawn, and they only ate some gruel and steamed buns before getting off the ship, because they had an induction cooker that they carried with them to fire, otherwise they would want to fire and eat hot food on the wooden ship, which was really whimsical, and one accidentally had to burn the whole ship.
The rest of the crew ate dry food prepared in advance, coarse crackers, jerky, pickle gnocchi or something, and if they wanted to eat something hot, make a torch to roast, or find an iron basin to light a fire, but these could accidentally let the sparks get on some flammable materials on the ship, such as sails, so it is better to avoid ignition as much as possible.
Only after they got off the ship could they use the rice, flour, grain and pots they brought with them to build a fire and catch some prey and eat some hot food.
Although the food brought by the ship was enough for them to eat for half a month, since they arrived on the island, there were many wild animals on the island, and they had to hunt on their own for lunch.
After the initial freshness had passed, the thought that they would have to stay here for a few more days, and that they didn't have to remember that they had to gather all the new things today, gradually calmed down.
When Ah Chenti said that they could compete to see who could hunt the bigger and best prey before noon, the three of them were eager to try.
"The premise is that you can't use pistols, you can't use all kinds of drugs, you can't use light work, you can use local materials to hunt." Qin Shuang deliberately added, not only did not make them feel distressed, but because it was more challenging, they seemed more interested.
Qin Shuang also deliberately smiled and said: "Since it is a competition, it has to be a little colorful, so let's do it, if anyone wins, reward a thousand-year-old ginseng, and then reward a small bazooka and an ammunition." ”
Qin Shuang said it very lightly, as if this little bit of color was nothing at all.
To her, it was really nothing, and there were so many thousand-year-old ginseng in her backpack that she didn't want to copy it now.
But Hehuan Baizhu and Fengxian are indeed very interested in these, they are indeed the most trusted members of the Tianzi Group around Qin Shuang and Ah Chen, they have seen and used more good things than others, but if they want to say what they have, Qin Shuang will never randomly assign them too many lethal weapons, not reluctantly, but because they feel unnecessary.
So far, the only thermal weapon on their bodies is a sand eagle, enough bullets, and a bazooka, a thermal weapon that can blow up a mountain, and if there is enough ammunition, it can also blow up a country.
Today, it was unexpectedly used as a lottery head, although the small bazooka, as soon as you heard it, you knew that the power must have decreased, but it was still very attractive to them.
Even if it is difficult for them to have the opportunity to use the thousand-year-old ginseng, they can also use it as a gift to the people around them in the future, or give gifts to others, of course, it is impossible to give them all, and it is enough to give one or two roots or something.
These rewards are definitely of little use to Qin Shuang and Ah Chen, to put it bluntly, they are for the three of them, they just have a good time and participate.
I don't know why, but I also clapped my hands on the side to cheer them on.
You can't borrow pistols, daggers and other foreign objects, and you can't use force, so you have to spend some time making improvised tools or traps that are convenient for hunting.
The three of them glanced at each other, and very tacitly chose three different directions to leave quickly, while Qin Shuang and Ah Chen, who stayed behind, took the reunion to find some small wild objects to catch nearby.
The three of them must have targeted large herbivores such as wild horses, wild deer, and wild sheep, and these prey could be caught so that the crew could share the food, but they themselves would be better off with a little taste, or a little pheasant or harre, and it would be better to eat meat that was easy to make and not too 'hot'.
Simply make some traps, or simply make a few forks, and throw them when you find the target, or you can catch a lot of prey by making a slingshot and hitting the birds in the trees.
Neither of them intended to compete with them, so they did not seek quality, but only quantity and variety.
Pheasants, hares, ducks, and several species of birds, and unexpectedly got a seabird, but after more than an hour of hard work, it was also very fruitful.
Tuan Tuan Reunion is still too young to hunt, and he honestly follows them to just watch, does not bother, and only claps his hands happily after catching the prey, and looks at his father and mother with adoring eyes, and the family of four has quite a good time.
At about midnight, the two men had already caught seventeen or eighteen wild animals before they stopped and walked towards the shore with two large piles of various fruits.
When they returned, several tents had been erected along the shore, and three of them, small but more sturdy and beautiful, had been erected in a good place, and there was no doubt that they were theirs.
One for a family of four, one for Hehuan Phoenix, and one for the poor Baizhu lonely family.
Some of the rest of the crew camped not far from them, some slept on the boat, and kept watch at night.
Several fires had been set up around the tents, and without their arrangements, the crew did not go out into the woods, but only picked some coconuts around the shore and piled them up instead of water and coconut water, as well as some rations brought down from the boat, some of which had already been put on the pot and began to be made.
They also noticed that some of the crew members were diving into the sea not far away, and they came out again, with more fish and shells in their hands, and it was obvious that they were also trying to increase their ingredients.
Ah Chen threw the prey he was carrying to the ground, called a few crew members over and asked them to deal with the prey briefly, and pointed to those people in the sea: "Shuangshuang, why don't we also go into the water and get some seafood to eat?" ”
Qin Shuang hooked her lips and said, "I thought of going together." ”
The seafood sent by Liancheng to Ruyizhuang and each branch is chilled, and most of them can maintain quite good freshness, but it is still impossible to eat live processing, if you can personally go to the sea to catch some seafood, and then cook it immediately, the taste, think about it and drool.
Just do it, while they didn't come back, both of them made a harpoon from the local materials, let Tuan Tuan Yuan obediently wait for them on the shore, and went into the water together.
Walking to a place about ten meters from the coast, the sea water is already above their waist, although the sea water here is not as clear as the modern tourist resorts of the Maldives, Bali, and the Great Barrier Reef, it is better than the ordinary seaside dirty fish in it I don't know if I can eat it is much stronger.
The two of them had better eyesight than the others, and not long after they stood still, they saw a lot of fish swimming around in the sea from time to time.
The harpoon in his hand was quickly and accurately aimed at the fish and forked it hard, and basically three forks could fork a sea fish weighing at least three catties.
Once everyone has harvested more than three, they toss their forks aside and let them float on the surface of the sea, then dive directly to the bottom of the sea to catch some other marine objects, such as shellfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, or abalone.
Ah Chen was also lucky to catch a squid, which was not very big, just right to hold in both hands, and it should taste delicious when grilled into squid skewers.
After putting all these messy sea objects in the bag they carried, in less than half an hour, the two of them returned to the shore with a good harvest, and by this time, the three of them had already returned with their respective prey.
The crew, who had been busy preparing lunch, were also attracted by their prey and formed a circle in amazement.
Seeing that even the reunion that was waiting for them was curious, Ah Chen scolded with a smile: "These two little ones have no conscience!" Don't give them seafood later! ”
The harvest of the three people of Hehuan is indeed not small, for nearly two hours, they can no longer use their weapons, and it is unlikely that they can only hunt one and a half prey, and the three of them hunted two medium and large herbivores respectively.
Acacia is a pony and an adult sika deer, Baizhu is a goat and roe deer, and Impatiens is an adult wild horse and a wild leopard! He actually hunted a leopard and came back!
As soon as they saw the prey of the phoenix immortals, Qin Shuang and Ah Chen knew that this guy must have gone to the depths of the forest, and he was also kind enough.
The reason why these gifts aroused the great curiosity of the crew was because of the existence of this leopard, they had also been to this island several times, but they only wandered around the periphery of the forest and a little further in, and only saw some herbivores, such as leopards, which were aggressive animals, and imagined that maybe there was a zài on the island, but they never thought to go out of their way to find it, or thought that they would be able to see it one day.
Who would have thought that not only did they see it today, but this fierce beast that seemed very dangerous to them was actually hunted back by a man who looked better than a woman!
Not to mention the impact of this kind, the crew also silently pulled away from the phoenix with a satisfied smile when they watched.
In the end, of course, whether it was in terms of size or hunting difficulty, the phoenix came out on top and won the competition.
In fact, strictly speaking, the size of the leopard itself is not very large, and the meat on its body is not as much as that of other herbivores, but the other wild horse that can't stand it is an adult wild horse, which is big enough, even if the prey of Acacia and Atractylodes is not small, it is at most the same as the impatiens, and then counting the hunting difficulty of the leopard, it is difficult to win the impatiens.
The color head was not given in front of the crew, and Fengxian was not in a hurry to ask for it, and he couldn't run anyway.
The prey was all gathered, and everyone began to divide these large prey, the small prey that Qin Shuang had hunted back before, as well as the seafood and fruits, and really arranged their first meal after going to the island.
Six large herbivores, to be honest, even if there are a dozen crew members to help solve it, one meal will probably not be able to eat one, the rest can only be eaten at night, or tomorrow, if you can't finish eating, you have to find a way to pickle it with salt, otherwise a good meat, this summer will be in vain.