Chapter 102: Treading the Snow
Don't think about taking down the bronze arrows that shot into the wood, Po Tu looked at the remaining three arrows, and was a little unsure: "Let's go?" ”
Well, there are fewer arrows in the bow. Lin Ji didn't dare to be too impulsive, and said: "You get a stack to familiarize yourself with this bow, and then see if the arrows need to be modified, and I will cast some arrows for you." ”
"We'll leave tomorrow." Lin Ji's words in front made Po Tu breathe a sigh of relief, but the back still made him lift his heart.
On the second day, Po Tu stood at the gate of the village with a strong bow and a bag of arrows with thick shafts.
Lin Ji followed, put his finger into his mouth and whistled, two little wolf dogs and little black dogs immediately ran over, followed by Zhu Monkey, Stone Beak, Dunmu, Shouli, Little Snow Monster, Changshen, Zhonggu, etc.
There seemed to be something in the crowd. It's a small snow monster that is only half a man tall.
When this little creature returned to the tribe, he didn't think of himself as an animal at all. It will play, eat and sleep with children who are about the same height. Hide-and-seek snowball fights or something are crazier than children, and many people in the tribe have not yet learned to use chopsticks, they have already learned.
Except that it can't speak, it's almost no different from the average child.
Seeing the excitement, the ghost eagle also descended from the top of the watchtower, and threw everyone in the snow. The wildcat also seemed to be running down from the watchtower, but it didn't come close to this side, and when it turned around, it didn't know where it was going.
Lin Ji picked out one of the two little wolf dogs at random, and waved to the others and livestock: "Go back, go back, go out and kill the long hair, it's not nonsense, don't follow." ”
Lin Ji's three friends pouted and wanted to follow. Everyone is the same age, why do you kill the tiger and kill the gray wolf, we can only be good children in the tribe?
Shouli is also helpless, he just received Daji's request to follow Lin Ji before, and then Lin Ji left him to kill the gray wolf, and now he doesn't seem to want to take him when he goes out.
Changshen Zhonggu and others carried backpacks, held stone tools and wooden bows, and put bronze knives and axes in their waists. They were going to go to the mountains and forests in the northwest to find those wild people. But they went north first, just in time to point out the mammoths to the forest trails.
Zhonggu had just returned to the tribe and needed a little credit to gain everyone's recognition, and Lin Ji also wanted to see how his ability and heart were to do things, so he sent him out.
Lin Ji saw that his friends were motionless, so he said one by one: "Zhu Monkey, didn't you fall in love with that girl?" Today they went to work, and you didn't go to watch? What if someone else picks it off? ”
The captives were walking across the river, ready to work. Several men from the tribe who were exchanged with Shouli have not yet been married, and they are supervising the work there. The red monkey looked over there, snorted dissatisfiedly at the forest traces, but quickly ran to the other side of the river.
"Stone beak ......" Lin Ji turned his gaze to the stone beak.
The stone beak patted the bow that Youyan had made first, and interrupted, "I shoot very accurately, and I won't trouble you." ”
Dunmu and Shouli also took a step forward with a spear more than two meters high, indicating that they were not negotiable.
Chang Shen also said: "It's really too risky for you and Po Tu, it's better to have more people." ”
Lin Ji sighed, "Okay, let's go, let's go." If it's good to you, I think I'm hurting you. ”
Lin Ji originally thought that if there were fewer people, he would take a gun out and try it. After several months of high-sugar and high-protein food supplements, coupled with a lot of exercise every day, his weight has now increased by more than a dozen pounds, and he can be regarded as a strong teenager. During this time, or practicing shooting in a small town, you can also operate the Type 56 rifle a little well.
Now it seems to be in vain.
Lin Ji combed the feathers of the ghost eagle and pointed to the north, and the ghost eagle flapped its wings a few times and went up to the sky, and then slowly floated in the northern sky.
Waving his hand and setting off, the little snow monster followed silently. The injury on his foot has healed, and now he has no problem walking. And the soles of its feet are twice as large as a human child of the same height, and it can really walk silently on the snow.
"Come on, come on, come on, learn how to kill mammoths, and we'll treat you like an elephant hunter when we turn around." Especially you. Lin Ji said, and finally clicked on the little snow monster's head.
The little snow monster squeaked, staring at the forest trail pitifully with big eyes. But he pulled his clothes tighter and tighter.
All the way north, into the forest. It had only snowed two days ago, and it had not yet melted, so it was quite difficult to pull it out when you stepped on it. Fortunately, the sky was already sunny and there was no wind, otherwise it would have been a sin to go to the forest.
Changshen had seen the mammoth's footprints half a day's journey to the north before, but now that a long time has passed, he can't see it anymore.
However, Chang Shen remembered that those footprints were going to the east, and they looked to the east, there were ghost eagles in the sky, and there were little wolf dogs on the ground looking for traces, and it should not be difficult to find them.
After Chang Shen roughly pointed in a direction, he looked at Po Tu and took these thin or small people with some worries, and finally was persuaded by Lin Ji to go and set foot in his own direction.
Lin Ji and the others walked a little east along the road pointed by Changshen, and after passing through several valleys, they could see some stripped trees and small stumps that had been uprooted and gnawed off the branches and roots, and some trees with waist thickness were also knocked down, and the bark and branches on them were also eaten.
Lin Ji patted the trees that were knocked down and peeled, and said to the friends around him: "Why don't you go back, whose waist is as hard as this wood?" ”
Dunmu grabbed the spear and paused, and said stupidly: "I'm not afraid!" ”
The stone beak's face was a little pale, and he compared the size of the waist of the tree and the pier wood: "You can't get close, you can only attack from a distance with arrows." ”
Shouli was also a little uncalm when he saw it, and asked: "They are so fierce, even the trees have been torn down." ”
Lin Ji smiled and said: "This has nothing to do with whether they are fierce or not, they eat bark and roots, and an elephant eats four or five hundred catties a day." Like this, an elephant is tearing the bark of a tree, and when the other wants to gnaw on the branches, it topples it. Just enough to eat the roots. ”
Mammoths take shelter from the wind and snow in the valley and spend the winter in the valley. With these traces, everyone's certainty of searching was greatly increased, and after looking for a while, the ghost eagle in the sky circled in the posture of discovering its prey.
Everyone walked through the snow and ran towards a valley within the circle of the ghost eagle, but before they could get close, they heard the sound of Angang screaming and the sound of some heavy objects running, and everyone hurried to a small slope, only to see a few mammoths running away.
The valley was covered with snow and ice, footprints were messy, and the trees were in the same condition as anywhere else. There is also fresh dung from countless elephants.
Lin Ji walked into the valley, almost smoked by the pungent smell of urine and feces, and the little snow monster stood directly on the hillside and refused to come down.
Po Tu looked at the ghost eagle who was drawing a circle in the sky and said, "I'm afraid they smell our breath, and if we continue like this, it will be difficult for us to catch up with them." ”
These mammoths have gone through a terrible hunting process to get here, and they are actually very afraid of people. When I smell the breath of people, I naturally run away. It's not easy to catch up with them, and it's even harder to get close to nature.
The dun wood and the stone beak immediately looked at a puddle of brown liquid on the ground that had not yet frozen. In previous men's texts, animal droppings were used for a great purpose in hunting operations.
It's just that it's a little unclean.