Chapter 11: Traces of Primitive Man
The next day, it was light.
"One-two-one, one-two-one......"
Under the leadership of Ye Xiao, the big Liu, the ghost doctor and other six people carried out routine running drills in the open space in front of the cave.
This is what Ye Xiao requested, in order not to let them slowly decade in this carefree life.
In this other world, although they no longer have to worry about going out to carry out missions, maintaining good physical condition and high morale are the basis for their long-term survival here.
It wasn't until three o'clock in the morning that they stopped running, and the open space had already been trampled on by their daily running exercises.
There were also several wooden shelves on either side of the clearing, and on each of them hung a sandbag made of animal skins, filled with sand, which they used for their fists.
"Hah! Ha ......"
After they finished their run, they took a short break and then started to practice their fists and kicks against the sandbags.
However, Ye Xiao did not box, but came to the cave.
The two little saber-toothed tigers had already been woken up by Ye Xiao's running exercises, and they were holding the fence with their front legs at this time, waiting for their big round eyes to look out of the cave curiously.
"Hungry~Hungry~"
As soon as the two little saber-toothed tigers saw Ye Xiao, they hurriedly let out a cry and came over to Ye Xiao's side.
Ye Xiao knew that they were hungry, so they were begging him for food again.
So he took out his saber and cut off a piece of flesh from the thigh of an unknown beast hanging beside him.
"Two little gluttons, hungry, give." Ye Xiao smiled and threw the meat in front of them.
A relatively fat tiger cub immediately ran up, hugged the end of the meat and gnawed it.
"Hungry~"
Not to be outdone, the other, smaller tiger cub, bit the other end of the meat and pulled it along.
Ye Xiao watched the two little saber-toothed tigers compete for food from the side, feeling very interesting, although these two little guys are not big, they already have a sense of private territory.
One mountain can't tolerate two tigers, that's right, although it's a mother's sibling, but they still often fight for food, but other times they get along well.
Ye Xiao planned to wait for them to grow up and then separate them.
After feeding the tiger cubs, Ye Xiao came out of the cave, and outside the cave, the ghost doctor Liu was still struggling with the sandbags.
Ye Xiao looked at them and said, "You all stop, today's training is over here, and it will continue tomorrow." ”
Hearing Ye Xiao's words, the six of them stopped.
"Chief, are we going out hunting today?"
The big Liu looked at him with an expectant look Ye Xiao, yesterday Ye Xiao told them that the food was a little insufficient, and they had to go and get some back.
"Well, but don't worry about it yet, you guys take a rest first, and we'll go back when we have something to eat, we may have to go hunting a little farther away today." Ye Xiao nodded and looked at them and said.
In the past half a month, Ye Xiao and the others have gone out to hunt three times, and this area within a radius of twenty miles has also been swept by them, and all the prey they can hunt has basically been beaten by them.
"Haha, chief, you must take me with you on this hunting, I'm almost idle these days."
The big Liu was a little excited when he heard that he was going out hunting, and after coming here for so many days, he was a little absent-minded about doing other things, but he was very attentive to hunting.
The last time he hunted, Ye Xiao didn't take him with him, but asked him to stay and watch the house, but he was depressed.
"Hehe, okay."
Ye Xiao thought of his resentful eyes last time, smiled, and agreed to his request.
……
Northwest of the camp, on the ice field more than twenty miles away, Ye Xiao led the four team members to the location of the valley they had come to for the first time.
The reason why he came here was because Ye Xiao wanted to try his luck, the last time he observed that there were often traces of mammoth activity here, it should be a necessary route for mammoths to migrate to the northwest.
However, unlike last time, Ye Xiao led them to the top of the high mountain on the side of the valley this time.
It was a mountain hundreds of meters high, but when they reached the top, they realized that their previous guess was wrong.
For instead of a narrow mountain, they were greeted by a wider plain that stretched northwest from where they had climbed.
Looking down from the hilltop plain, the place where their camp was located was actually in a low-lying area similar to a basin, but due to the obstruction of vegetation, there was no camp they had built.
And that valley, not so much a valley as a canyon, is more appropriate, like a great fissure that divides the mountaintop plain in two.
At the other end of the canyon, there is also a plain like where they are, and the big trees on the plain are scattered around, like an ink painting.
"Boss, it turns out that there is another world on the top of this mountain, and we have always lived in this basin like frogs at the bottom of a well."
The big Liu looked at the scene in front of him and was a little dumbfounded.
Frog at the bottom of the well! Hehe, what he said is really like that, Ye Xiao smiled bitterly, if it weren't for his whim today and decided to climb up and take a look, I'm afraid I don't know how long it will take to find out about this situation.
"Boss, what are we going to do next?" The ghost doctor walked up to Ye Xiao and asked.
What to do?
Ye Xiao knew the meaning of the ghost doctor's words, whether to go forward to find out the situation, or to go back to the camp and come back when he was ready, he couldn't make up his mind for a while.
They went out to hunt today, and they didn't bring much food, and they didn't know where this mountaintop plain extended, even if they just went to find out the situation, I am afraid they would not be able to come back for a while.
"Boss, I don't think we should go over there first, anyway, it's still early, as long as we don't go too deep, there shouldn't be any problems."
Seeing that Ye Xiao didn't speak, the ghost doctor continued.
"Okay, in that case, let's go check it out."
Ye Xiao nodded and agreed, he knew that the ghost doctor should have some interest in this unknown ice field that had just been discovered.
When the big Liu heard Ye Xiao agree, he took the lead with a machine gun, like this kind of situation of exploring unknown places, he was more interested than the ghost doctor.
After going several kilometers deep into the ice field, they gradually discovered some anomalies.
The footprints of various animals on the snow here gradually increased, and they were all very large animal footprints, including the footprints of the saber-toothed tiger.
"Everyone, be careful, it doesn't look so safe here, don't capsize in the gutter!"
Ye Xiao looked at the slightly messy animal footprints on the ground and reminded him loudly.
Click......
The rest of the people pulled the bolt of the gun and made a posture of being ready to attack at any time, and without Ye Xiao saying anything, they also noticed the unusualness here at this moment.
It was a little too quiet here, and they couldn't hear anything but the sound of the cold wind blowing the leaves.
But the messy footprints on the ground reminded them that there should have been a chase and escape before they were here.
"Boss! Come here! ”
The big man Liu who walked in front seemed to have noticed something, and pointed to the back of a big tree and beckoned to Ye Xiao and them.
Ye Xiao hurriedly ran over, and the other three followed.
"What's going on?" Ye Xiao asked suspiciously.
"Chief, look at the footprints here!"
Ye Xiao looked in the direction of his finger, it was a footprint that looked like a human foot, only larger than an ordinary person, the five toes were clearly visible, and there were a few hairs scattered next to it.
"It's ......"
"Footprints of primitive people?"
Ye Xiao and the others looked at each other.
They didn't expect to find traces of primitive humans in this other world, and it seemed that the primitive people were still following those beasts.
The footprints were so hidden that they couldn't be detected without looking closely, and they were probably left by the hominid when he was hiding behind the tree.
"Boss, are we going to keep up?" The big Liu asked tentatively, a little excited in his words.
"Let's go, let's go up and have a look."
Just by virtue of a footprint, Ye Xiao couldn't be sure that it must have been left by primitive humans, maybe it was left by some kind of ape, of course, all this can only be determined by the owner who really saw this footprint.
Several people followed the footprints all the way, and although the footprints left behind were very hidden, they were all experts in tracking, so they easily found those hidden footprints.
They followed the footprints for dozens of miles, and found some huge beasts under a mountain peak.
The beasts were running frantically towards the mountain, and behind the behemoths were several huge saber-toothed tigers, which seemed to be hunting.
It's just that what makes Ye Xiao a little strange is that the footprints of the primitive man they found before were broken here, and no matter how they looked for them, they didn't find any other primitive footprints, as if the primitive human disappeared out of thin air when they arrived here.
However, Ye Xiao always felt that this primitive person was nearby, but he didn't feel it at all, which made him a little strange.
"Boss, are we going to keep up?" Big Liu asked.
Ye Xiao glanced around and said, "No, wait and see." ”
So, the five of them quietly hid behind a big tree, watching the two saber-toothed tigers hunt.
And dozens of meters away from Ye Xiao and them, on top of a tall treetop, a primitive human dressed in clothes sewn from animal skins and with a somewhat tall figure had his back to them, leaning against a thick branch, staring closely at those running beasts.