Chapter 14: Catch it all
Lin Jibi didn't know about the rise in his value. Around the same time, he fell asleep in a daze. His body is not adapted to sleeping late and staying up late, and this is one of the strongholds of the former tribe, and it is relatively safe.
He woke up in a blur several times, only to hear the howls of various beasts and wolves in the surrounding forest getting more and more terrible, and then slowly became silent.
At dawn he crawled out of a shack between the stones, and saw that most of the men were awake and resting their weapons, and that the smoke of the fire had just been blown away by the morning breeze, and that the morning sun was still nowhere to be seen beyond the dense forest.
"How's it going?" Lin Ji wiped his face and asked.
"I don't know, I'll find out if I have to go and see." A man replied.
As they spoke, the men woke up one after another, and after a little preparation, they began to walk in the direction of the wolf's den. From time to time, the person in front swings a stick to beat away the dew, or breaks the branches and leaves to make a way for the person behind. The people in the back paid attention to their surroundings from time to time, and at the same time let out a strange cry of "Woo Wow, Woo Wow".
This is one of the ways to communicate in the forest. The trees in the forest are so reckless that you can't see far and it's easy to miss. If you want to find someone in the forest, you can only shout loudly. This wolf-like sound can travel farthest. If Po Tu is still alive and is nearby, he will respond.
The strange cry startled the birds of the forest, and the small beasts scattered, but there was no response around. The men were not discouraged, and from time to time they could distinguish the traces around them, and shouted in turn all the way.
Lin Ji noticed that there were many broken branches and leaves in the place where they walked. I don't know if this was broken when they left yesterday or if it was a mark left when they broke the slaughter last night. I secretly wrote down this simple skill in my heart. If you use this method to move around the forest, at least you won't get lost. It's also good to show your own companions.
After walking like this for more than an hour, when Lin Ji was worried about summoning the wolf, a faint response came from a distance. Everyone was overjoyed, identified the direction and quickly rushed out.
"Wait for me." Lin Ji was left behind by them in the blink of an eye, and then the men ran away in front of him.
"Horse eggs!" Lin Ji cursed, and could only chase down in the direction they had run.
When the forest trail ran out of a section, I saw a group of men dancing wildly around the broken slaughter between an empty mountain stream in front of me. This is the dance danced during the hunt harvest, and the heroes who are surrounded in the middle are often the greatest credits of this hunt.
Lin Ji gasped as they jumped, then looked to the side. The ground here seemed to be arched by wild boars, and the bushes had fallen and the mud had been turned up. More than a dozen gray-furred wolves, the size of large dogs in later generations, fell everywhere.
Most of these wolves have eighty or ninety pounds, and some are estimated to be hundreds of pounds, so it's no wonder that thirty wolves can chase down twenty or so men and flee. Fortunately, Lin Ji was not naΓ―ve enough to really use a gun to do it, and it is estimated that such a wolf will be enough for him to drink a pot of two.
However, these wolves are not the same as the wolves in the zoo of later generations. These wolves have longer and finer fur, similar to those of later Alaskan dogs, but look slimmer in size, which is supposed to be a unique body type adapted to the jungle and snow. I don't know if it's a prehistoric endemic breed or if the wolf at this time looks like this.
Lin Ji was about to look through the wolf corpses, which looked more clear, when a man ran out of the dance team, carried him into the crowd, and jumped around him with Po Tu.
Their movements are simple and regular, with two steps on their left foot, a posture of drawing a bow, and a muttering in their mouths. Step on your right foot twice, take a throwing position, and drink a sentence in your mouth. Then step back and bow your head, and move forward and raise your hand...... After just a few back and forths, Lin Ji quickly learned and jumped up with them.
Dancing makes people happy, and Lin Ji jumps and dances, and he also becomes giggling with them.
After frolicking for a while, Lin Ji saw that Po Tu had new scars on his body, and waved everyone to stop.
The leopard meat was roasted by the night watchman and brought with him, and then he took it out and gave it to Po Tu to eat. Lin Ji took the opportunity to clean Po Tu's wounds, and then found some herbs to bandage him.
"How did you get here?" Lin Ji asked as he bandaged his wound.
Po Tu smiled: "You said I could cure it, I thought it was better not to be reckless, I came here to pick up a lot of stones and trees, and then learned to howl as a wolf, lured the wolf and then threw the fish down." Then I tied myself to a branch and fell asleep, and when I woke up, it was like that. β
There was still a vine on a twenty or thirty meter tall tree on the side. There are quite a few scratches on the trunk underneath. Some of the branches were also covered with thorns, apparently to prevent wolves from climbing up. Wolves are not good at climbing trees, but they are not unable to climb, and they can still jump to trees more than ten meters high when they are in a hurry.
Po Tu said simply, but the process is not so easy. Lin Ji saw a number of new scratches on Po Tu's body. His spear also seemed to be broken.
The other men looked around at the wolf corpses, and looked at the fat wolves that they couldn't eat. If these wolves could eat, it would be enough for the tribe to eat for ten days. If you get so much meat back, can you save two words, and how many women can you get the favor of women? Now seeing this meat abandoned in the wilderness, I don't know how many men's hearts are dripping blood.
Po Tu asked, "These wolves can't eat them, can they get their fur back and wear them?" β
There was a stream on the edge of the clearing, and by the brook a peeled wolf's skin hung on a branch. This is obviously what everyone did before they came.
Lin Ji thought for a while and said: "Puffer fish poison is very domineering, and it is definitely not edible to eat." But if you wear it, if you don't have any injuries, it shouldn't be a big problem. I don't know how the puffer fish poison spreads on the wolf, why don't we peel it back first, and try it out of a living creature after washing it? β
The tribe is now short of fur for the winter, and these wolves have just grown their winter fur, and it is the time when it is warm and soft, and the fur at this time is used to make clothes, and Lin Ji thinks it should be very good.
When the men heard that they could peel the skin back, they were immediately overjoyed. The main thing is that women will like these furs, as for what if they are poisonous and can't wear them? That was for later, and maybe those women would blame the forest trail for the idea.
The men were in a hot rage. The two most skinners took out sharp stone knives, and the others looked around for the wolf corpse and brought it back to the side.
The two skinners were extremely experienced, and the two cooperated, and the stone knife quickly swung between the wolf's skin and flesh, and it didn't take long for a whole skin to be peeled off.
After searching for the wolf corpses around, there were only a dozen of them, and as soon as several men put them together, they took their weapons and went to the direction of the wolf's den. Lin Ji didn't think there was any danger, so he also took a short spear and followed.
It's not too far from the wolf's den, maybe less than a kilometer in a straight line. Along the way, I saw several more wolves that fell to the ground.
When he arrived at a small valley overgrown with thorns, Lin Ji saw that the men in front of him were starting to get cautious, so he went up a tree first.
A few men crossed the thorn bushes, and sure enough, several wolves roared and rushed out of it. Seeing them running crookedly, the men didn't pay much attention. They were afraid of hurting the wolf's fur, so they only greeted the wolf's head and neck with bows and arrows and spearheads. Usually, it is not easy for these wolves to fight like this, but some of these wolves are poisoned and have not died, and some have bloody wounds on their bodies, showing that they were injured yesterday, and their reactions are relatively slow, and they are cleaned up by them after three or two strokes.
Seeing that there were no more wolves rushing out, Lin Ji came down from the tree and got through the thorns to see what was going on. What the wolf's den looked like, he had never seen before.
In the thorn bush is a small sloping area, where the soil is relatively soft, and there are more than a dozen large and small caves. Judging from the scratches at the entrance of the cave, it was all gouged out by the wolf itself. Erha, who is emotionally in later generations, likes to dig soil, which is the inheritance of his ancestors.
The men threw rocks into the caves to see if there were any wolves inside. When he reached the mouth of a dark cave, the roar and frightened whimpering sounded together.
Lin Ji's eyes lit up after retreating: "There is a little wolf?" β
The tribe does not have dogs, which is very bad for a primitive tribe, not to mention that people are on duty at night, and there are no dogs to help pick up prunes and small prey shot out when hunting, which is also very inconvenient.
At present, he knew that the Gray Wolf Department had dogs, but he didn't know what the situation was there. If there were wolf cubs here, maybe they could be domesticated into dogs? Don't forget, he originally planned to open a dog farm in his later life, and he has already begun to understand the training of dogs, including the training content of fierce dogs. In fact, there are many stories of raising wolf cubs as pets in later generations.
Lin Ji thought he could give it a try.
"If there's a wolf cub, keep me alive." Lin Ji shouted, and quickly burrowed out of the thorn bush.
This time, a tall she-wolf pounced out of the wolf's den, and Lin Ji saw that the drooping part of its abdomen shook violently, and he looked forward to the wolf cub inside. I'm still breastfeeding. The wild is not so abundant, and the chance of domestication is higher.
This she-wolf should not have been poisoned, and when she pounced, she was amazingly imposing, and she was extremely vicious. But with a few bows and spears at the entrance of the cave ready to attack, the whole battle lasted for a while. Lin Ji saw a bone spear pierce almost the entire neck of the she-wolf.
More than an hour later, the men carried the wolf carcass and Lin Ji returned to the creek with a makeshift basket.
There were five wolf cubs in the basket of the forest ruins, all of them with gray-white fur and the same meat balls. His plan to raise wolves starts now. And this wolf pack has finally disappeared from their territory.