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In this time and space, the indigenous people of this region generally do not have the habit of eating breakfast until they have prey. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But the beggers need three meals a day...... The abundance of food makes them never save on what they eat, they just don't waste it.

Breakfast is being prepared at the camp...... Xiao Er asked Liu Erlang to send them a bamboo tube of biscuits and salt water, at this time, they couldn't eat by themselves, but let the family wait in the distance.

The guide and his men didn't want it at first, it wasn't their way of life...... But in the end, I couldn't help it, and I still ate salt biscuits and drank light salt water, which was so delicious for them!

At that time, the food practices of Liuqiu became more and more diverse, perhaps because the practice of Liuqiu Navy spread, and almost all the cooks who followed the fleet to sea learned to bake a kind of food called biscuits...... As long as it is packed in a bamboo tube and placed in a dry place, the shelf life of this product is five times better than that of dough, and the taste can be sweet or salty.

The members of the Liuqiu team had a better breakfast, so they took out the noodles from the bamboo tube and began to cook them.

When the pot is boiled, the flavor of the soup wafts around...... The guide's nose was twitching, and the smell made his saliva come out.

But his face remained serious, but the constant movement of his throat up and down betrayed his feelings.

He was looking around...... In such a place, at such a moment, the aroma of food can easily attract a beast of prey.

But the camp was bustling with activity, and even the most ferocious beasts would regress...... In fact, normal beasts of prey will never take the initiative to attack humans, not because they love humans, but because the musculoskeletal ratio of humans is too low for predators.

Of course, if some old disabled beast eats a person once, it will become addicted...... Because it will find that although human meat is small, it is too easy to hunt.

The guide may not have understood the real reason for this, but despite his many visits, he remained vigilant...... That's what makes a good hunter.

Luckily, everything is safe.

After breakfast, the team rearranged all their hunting equipment and set off with the guide.

The guide led them to the river, a favorite spot for elephants.

After they walked along the river bank for about an hour, the guide found the elephant's tracks, a large pile of elephant droppings.

The guide crouched down and studied the...... Then he directly sent a subordinate to act as an elephant tracker.

They slowly began to track in a brisk manner, and the whole hunting party was immediately in a state of flux, they should be the kings of this jungle!

After about two hours, the tracker stopped, pointed to a large circular mark in the wet grass ahead, and screamed excitedly.

Liu Erlang translated: "He found the footprints of the elephant team! “

The guide walked briskly over and crouched down again to look...... It's so obvious, it's an elephant's front footprint.

Xiao Er immediately leaned over, they didn't care about the other elephant footprints, they only surrounded the footprints observed by the guide, and learned to study them carefully.

Xiao Er saw that it was a large circle with a diameter of half a meter...... He heard Liu Erlang translate the guide's words and say that this was the front footprint of a large male elephant, and if there was no mistake, it was still the head of an elephant team.

Then the guide went to study another footprint, and the crowd gathered around as well...... They saw that it was a slightly oval-shaped imprint, which Liu Jiro translated as the hind footprints of a large male elephant.

The guide's expression was rare with some joy.

He stroked the footprints and said to Xiao Er seriously:

"Look at this footprint, it's definitely a big bull elephant!

You have to remember that when the elephant walks, it hits the ground with its heel first, and then pushes the front of its foot and strides forward.

At this time, the front of the footprint will leave a deep imprint, which can basically determine the direction of the elephant's movement.

The entire team of elephants will follow the elephants, so it's easy to find them by keeping an eye on them...... If it doesn't threaten our lives, I hope you don't kill the mother elephant and the baby elephant......"

Liu Erlang's translation probably means this, the explanation is very detailed, since he let the second captain reprimand him once, he no longer dares to talk nonsense...... Don't look at the two of them being similar in age, but the sense of majesty is very different.

After listening to his translation, the second captain carefully looked at the characteristics of the footprints, and took the guide's words to heart.

He looked up and said to the guide sincerely, "Don't worry...... We will never kill indiscriminately, let alone act indiscriminately for the sake of our own momentary pleasure......"

They followed the guides and trackers and began a rapid march in the direction of the elephants.

The tracker also found other marks: broken branches, freshly fallen green leaves on the ground, and scratches on the trunks......

As they collectively tracked along the road, the sun rose higher and higher, gradually revealing to them the heat of the continent...... The sun has already roasted their backs, and the temperature has risen noticeably!

But the tracker and the guide had no intention of stopping, and they continued their methodical search with their sensitive senses, sometimes stopping to observe, sometimes listening.

As they went, the landscape around them changed.

When they left the jungle of the steppe completely, they entered a real forest, temporarily escaping from the scorching sun.

Everyone just took a breath, the weather here is completely different from that of Liuqiu Island, it is a kind of hot ...... But before they could fully recover, they stepped into a thorny bush again.

The ground is covered with hard soil, and their travel speed has to slow down, because the footprints are no longer as obvious as before, and the crossroads that appear from time to time, which are completely the roads stepped by the animals, need to be carefully observed and studied, at this time, you must not rush, take a wrong step and you will lose all your efforts!

At this time, the trees began to become breezy, and the breeze brushed everyone's cheeks, bringing a rare touch of coolness.

But the wind changed so quickly that the guide began to worry that the smell would blow everyone's smell under the nose of the prey, so he frequently took out handfuls of plant ash from his leather bag at his waist to measure the direction of the wind.

That's the remnants of the campfire they lit...... Xiao Er nodded, all of them didn't think of using this simple method to test ......

Before you know it, everyone has walked the road to the end of 20 kilometers!

At this time, Xiao Er was a little worried, and it was very likely that he would return empty-handed today.

Although he thought so, he still led the team forward, and the guide did not stop, he would never stop!

When the team had gone about 300 meters, the tracker in front of them suddenly shouted loudly...... It turned out that he had found a clear set of elephant footprints!

Xiao Er hurriedly followed to look, and he found that this footprint was different from the footprint found before:

The forefoot is printed deeper, and the distance between the front and back feet is also longer...... After a little thought, Xiao Er concluded that this was the footprint of a big male elephant running!

Other chaotic footprints may serve as evidence for this judgment......

The guide said slowly: "They have found us."

This is really discouraging news, and combined with other traces along the way, it is estimated that these clever elephants have been spotting them for a while...... But it wasn't until they came here that they found out.

On this continent, it's hard to tell whether elephants or humans are smart...... The whole hunting party was a little silent, they didn't have the confidence they had before. (To be continued.) )