Chapter Thirty-Eight: Saving People Is Far Harder Than Killing

Early humans used to divide animals into two types, those that eat grass and those that eat meat.

Later, people used to divide animals into two types, those that can be eaten and those that cannot be eaten.

Until modern times, humans divided animals into two types, those who could eat and those who could find ways to eat.

In short, in the eyes of humans, there are few things that cannot be eaten, especially the Chinese people.

But among animals, humans have an instinctive fear of meat-eating animals, which comes from the fear of carnivores of their ancestors in ancient times, so in order to overcome this fear, human ancestors ate the saber-toothed tiger to extinction, but did not completely overcome it.

The tiger is undoubtedly much smaller in size than the moose I've seen before, especially the one that seems to be injured.

But it still gave everyone a strong sense of pressure and fear, especially the wolves that followed the tiger out of the mountains and forests, which made Wang Xu feel like a great enemy.

When Wang Xu was in the Mongolian plains before, he witnessed the scene of a group of mastiffs driving out tigers, and at that time, in addition to lamenting the strength of dogs, only noise remained.

As a condescending animal, the wolf was silent when chasing its prey, and even though it was obviously frightened when it saw the bonfire, the wolves still didn't make much movement, but a few gray wolves that didn't have time to brake rolled around on the ground.

"Roar!" The tiger that fled in panic did not expect that there would be so many 'monkeys' on its own territory, especially the towering bonfire that made it let out an angry tiger roar again.

Everyone subconsciously covered their ears, because the tiger roar was too strong.

But Wang Li, the ink wolf, and the Zhu family directly pulled out their bows, and the feather arrows were like a streamer in the moonlight, intercepting the tiger's escape route, and one of the arrows also pierced the tiger's front paws.

The running tiger let out a terrible roar again, and after rolling on the ground twice, it struggled to get up, and did not continue to escape, and the dark green tiger eyes stared at Wang Li and the others like two ghost fires in the night.

After a red deer-sized, gray-and-white head wolf came out of the forest, the wolves also stopped, all prostrate and staring at the tiger and the crowd with gloomy eyes.

"There must be more than twenty." The muscles on the arm of the ink wolf pulling the bow were horizontal, and his voice was a little hoarse because of nervousness, such a large wolf pack was the most dangerous situation he had ever encountered in his life.

"Looks like I'm well fed." Wang Li licked the corners of his mouth and aimed his bow at the tiger that was already in an attacking posture, "I want this tiger." ”

"Shoot the head wolf first, otherwise it will be troublesome." The Zhu family whispered to his subordinates.

"Emperor, please retreat to the shield array." Mo Lian took Wang Xu's arm and dragged him into the wooden shield array.

Wang Xu looked at the people around him, and found that no matter how old or young, there was no fear on his face, but he was very excited to watch Wang Li and the others shoot wolves and tigers.

This is the hunting instinct that has been suppressed for many years, the instinctive reaction stimulated by killing and blood, and it is also one of the phenomena of psychological atavism.

The mournful roar of the tiger and the howl of the wolf and the command of the Zhu family formed a killing music, and under the bow and arrows and sharp blades, the ferocious beast was as fragile as paper.

Wang Xu saw the gray wolf that jumped nearly three meters high and was shot through the head by a sharp arrow in the air, the red and white liquid splashed in the moonlight, and also saw that the forelimbs of the colorful tiger were broken by Wang Li's three arrows, and he twisted his body on the ground in pain to survive.

The smell of blood wafting through the air was disgusting, but it also made people's blood boil.

The one-sided slaughter lasted less than five minutes, and all the beasts lay in pools of blood, except for a few cowardly gray wolves who ran away with their tails between their legs, and a few who were not dead were still trying to get up in vain, but their heads were cut off by the sword.

Wang Xu's face turned pale, this was the first time he had seen such a 'huge' bloody scene, which was even more terrifying than sleeping in a morgue for a night.

"This wolf is really big." The ink wolf excitedly carried the corpse of the head wolf, and wanted to run over to present the treasure to Wang Xu.

"Stay away from me!" Wang Xu frowned and waved his hand, "Hurry up and clean up the battlefield, beast blood is easy to breed germs." ”

Seeing that Wang Xu's face was ugly, the ink wolf stepped aside in a sneer.

"Emperor, do you want to change camps to rest?" Mo Lian hesitated for a moment and asked.

Wang Xu shook his head, looking at the children in the clan surrounding Mo Ren who was dissecting the beast corpse with interest, his lips moved, and finally he didn't stop it.

Adapting to the atmosphere of killing may not be all bad for the growth of these children, after all, this is an era of fighting with people and beasts.

"It turned out to be a cub!" Wang Li's exclamation attracted Wang Xu's attention.

"What?" Wang Xu got up, walked over, and saw Wang Li squatting on the tiger's blood-covered corpse and touching it, looking very perverted.

"It's a tigress with cubs, I said how could she be so embarrassed to be chased by this little pack of wolves." Wang Li touched it and frowned, "It seems to be alive?" ”

Wang Xu's breath stagnated, and pushed away Wang Li, who was about to cut the tiger's belly with a knife.

"You're coming?" Wang Li looked at Wang Xu with some surprise.

I am surprised that Wang Xu, who usually doesn't even want to stain his feet with blood, is willing to do such a pickled thing.

Wang Xu ignored him, his hand touched the position of the tiger corpse's womb, and sure enough, there was still movement, and he was immediately overjoyed, and called Mo Ren to cut open the beast's belly and womb, and took out two wet palm-sized milk tigers.

"It's a pity that the premature tiger can't survive." Looking at the two milk tigers in Wang Xu's hands that did not move, the Zhu family shook their heads regretfully.

Everyone else shook their heads or sighed in regret.

Humans are strange creatures, ruthless when they kill, but sentimental when they are faced with a new life.

Wang Xu didn't speak, pinched open the mouth of the milk tiger and blew inside, rubbing the milk tiger's belly with his thumb.

Everyone looked at this scene strangely and didn't dare to make a sound.

For about a minute, the silence was broken by two cat-like meows, and everyone exclaimed.

Feeling the powerful struggle in his hands, Wang Xu also showed a smile on his face, wrapped the two milk tigers who had not yet opened their eyes with a towel, and ordered, "Squeeze out all the tiger milk." ”

After witnessing Wang Xu's divine method of bringing the milk tiger back to life, Mo Kui led the clansmen to start the ritual against the clansmen.

"You people in the envy family are really omnipotent, and you can even do the work of a stable woman?" Wang Li squatted next to him and watched Wang Xu feed the little tiger with a needle.

"It's far harder to save people than to kill them." Wang Xu chuckled.

"This is the doctrine of your gods." Hearing the sound of Wang Xu's words, Wang Li chuckled and said, "For us mortals, killing people is saving people. ”

Wang Xu raised his eyebrows slightly, and did not continue the topic, "Tomorrow I will try to catch a doe with milk." ”

"Too small to feed?" Wang Li teased the little tiger, "Actually, you should commend your warriors, if you don't have them, where can you feed the tiger here?" ”

Wang Xu narrowed his eyes and chuckled, "This is the main reason why I am feeding the tiger here, and you want to kill the wolf in front." ”

Wang Li was stunned and frowned.

"Let Mo Ren peel off the tiger skin, and I'll make a fur coat." Wang Xu smiled and patted Wang Li's shoulder.

Wang Li snorted coldly, and turned his head away with some displeasure.

The success of a sudden collective hunt dispelled everyone's sleepiness, and nineteen wolves and a tiger provided not only supper, but also breakfast, and just after dawn, the party that had collected the morning dew in the forest and drank water set sail again.

Early in the morning, herbivores are active, and carnivores mostly start their activities in the afternoon, so there is no need to be too vigilant on the road during this time, and you can give the soldiers who kept vigil yesterday time to rest.

Wang Xu, who had stayed up all night, also fell asleep in the shaking carriage, and when he opened his eyes again, it was already noon, and the convoy stopped in front of a valley, and the tribesmen were cooking on a fire.

"The Great." Mo Lian, who was guarding the carriage, got up to say hello, holding two little tigers in his arms, and the golden eagle was chained to the carriage, looking down at them proudly.

Because he was afraid that the golden eagle would eat the little tigers, Mo Lian never let them go.

"How far have you come?" Wang Xu stretched his waist and touched the head of the golden eagle and asked.

"It's been at least more than twenty miles, because there is a valley ahead, Mr. Zhu asked us to stop and repair, and they went to explore the road." Mo Lian replied, "Does the Emperor want to eat?" ”

"Let's eat some fruit, the barbecue is a little hot." Wang Xu smiled and played with the little tiger in Mo Lian's arms, "Has the milk fallen?" ”

"Medding caught a doe with milk on the way, and it should be enough for them to eat." Mo Lian laughed softly, with a motherly smile on her dirty little face.

It was difficult for Wang Xu to associate Mo Lian at this moment with Mo Lian who wielded an axe to chop tiger meat last night.

Trembling inexplicably, Wang Xu looked at the valley that stopped in front of them, if nothing else, this valley should lead to the ancestral mountain.

In other words, the destination hot spring castle is close at hand!