Chapter 39: Desperate Bark
When he saw the mammoth fall from the trap, Bihu thought of the pointed wooden stakes nailed underneath, and only felt that his feet began to ache faintly. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info how uncomfortable that feeling is, I know more clearly than the tiger.
The location of the trap is a small valley, wide enough for the mammoth to fall in its entirety. Its terrible screams indicate that the spiky stakes had finally pierced its long fur and thick skin. But it didn't die right away.
There was an empty exit on one side of the valley, and the mammoth screamed miserably, twisting its body and struggling towards the exit......
When Wang Chuan heard the cry of the mammoth behind him for a long time, he knew that the fierce elephant had fallen into the trap. His weak body seemed to be hollowed out again, and he no longer had any strength. The rope slipped out of his hand, and the baby elephant took the opportunity to walk away from his hand without paying attention.
The bark picked him up, ignoring the lost baby elephant, and walked back happily.
Back to the edge of the trap, Bark glanced at the trap, but ran quickly back into the woods.
Bihu slumped on the edge of a trap with a spear stuck in a flagpole on its head. He explained: "I saw that it wanted to run, so I pricked it. The bones are so hard that they can't be pulled out. ”
His attitude was so calm that he couldn't do it, and it was completely different from the roar he had when he killed the tiger. Wang Chuan knows that this is a manifestation of the improvement of Bihu's mentality and experience. The beast that once thought it was invincible was slashed by himself. This kind of improvement is not something that can be achieved by killing one or two tigers.
"Then tie it." Wang Chuan was powerless to think. How many times have I told myself, don't work so hard, why do you still fight naked when it comes to the end? It seems that what gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, and he has no chance with himself. When will this desperate day come to an end?
"What now?" Bihu asked.
The weight of this elephant must be more than ten tons, and the net meat may be more than 10,000 catties, and three people can't get it back.
"Let the bark go back and call someone."
After a while, the bark returned from the woods with a large ivory in his hand. Wang Chuan promised to give him a tusk, and it seemed that he couldn't wait.
"Bark, now let you go back to the tribe, do you dare?" Wang Chuan asked. Now the sun has basically reached its highest point. It takes almost a day to go back to the tribe, and now when I go back, it may take night to get to the tribe. There are countless dangers in the mountains and forests at night, and now walking at night is tantamount to walking in Longtan Tiger's Den. Not to mention the danger, those who don't have the courage will definitely not dare to go.
"What's not to dare?" The bark of the tree is fearless. Mammoths and other things can be killed, so what is there to be afraid of? After this battle, the whole courage of the bark has increased a lot. He is only twenty years old now, and if he eats more, he may be able to grow into a strong man like a tiger in the future.
Wang Chuan tied his dagger to a long pole to make a spear and handed it to the bark, and prepared a torch and a fire-starting thing for him, so that he could wash the pig's blood on his body, smear a layer of putrid mud in the forest, and then instructed him: "Don't take the wrong road on the way back, and pay attention to safety." Let the people of the tribe come forty. When I came, I also brought a few clay pots. Forty you don't know how many, and you tell the number to the Spirit. She knows. Remember? ”
Wang Chuan: The torches they used were brought out from the tribe. Grease torches are still a luxury for them, and they are made of bamboo. Cut down the bamboo and soak it in water for about ten days, and the dried bamboo burns brightly, which is more flame-resistant, and not easy to be blown out.
The bark repeated Wang Chuan's words, indicating that he remembered it.
Wang Chuan was afraid that he would not be able to remember, so he wrote these words on the leaves with charcoal and brought them back to him. He didn't underestimate the memory of the bark, he just wanted the people of the tribe to know what words were for.
"We'll only wait here for three days, and after three days no one from the tribe comes, we'll go back." Wang Chuan said. He also stuffed the tiger fur coat that his mother had given him into the bark. If the bark is going to be spent overnight in the wild, he can use it.
Bark nodded in understanding. He seemed to have inexhaustible strength now, let him rest before leaving, and he said no. With the basket on his back, he went back in a hurry. Wang Chuan asked him to put down the ivory, but he didn't put it down.
"What are we going to do now?" Bihu asked.
For them, if they want to keep the elephant meat, there is still a bad battle. All kinds of carnivores in the mountains and forests have a natural instinct, and they will smell blood in a short time and come to them. When the time comes, those flying in the sky, running in the woods, and climbing in the trees will definitely make people unguardable.
The only good news was that the mammoth had chased the other animals away and given them a little time to prepare.
Wang Chuan thought for a while and said, "Chop wood to make a fire first, and all the carnivorous birds in the sky had better be shot down." Then lay thorn traps all around. ”
Carnivorous birds, especially scavengers, are simply signal soldiers in the wilderness, and where they are, other carnivores will soon follow. Lighting a fire and keeping them from approaching should be useful.
While the two were talking, the escaped baby elephant actually returned to the dead female elephant, humming and nostalgic. Bihu picked up the machete and was about to kill the baby elephant. Wang Chuan stopped him.
The baby elephant still had the rope tied around its neck, and Wang Chuan pulled the rope in the past and tied it to the tree to finish the work.
"If we kill us, we have to see a pile of meat. This thing can be led, so we'll let it walk back to the tribe on its own. When to eat and when to kill. Wang Chuan explained. Bihu thinks so. He felt that Wang Chuan's words often had truths worth pondering. Let the meat walk back to the tribe by itself, this kind of idea doesn't know how Wang Chuan came up with it.
Then Wang Chuan and Bihu got busy, and they first cut down a lot of branches to cover the elephant's body. Then a couple of fires were lit not far from the elephants. Then they began to cut down the thorns around them and build them into a wall. Set up a variety of trap nooses around it.
Bihu also dragged back a few wild boars that had died in the battle with the elephants, and buried the bloodstains in the forest by the way.
In their anticipation, the process would be extremely arduous, and it could take three or two days to fight.
On the first day, however, some birds occasionally appeared in the sky and were smoked away. The first day passed quietly. The night was extremely cold, and there was no trace of any beast. The next morning, I learned that there had been a frost that made the sky and the earth white.
Soon after the sun comes out, annoying crows begin to chirp in the surrounding woodland. By noon, the sound of some jackals howling appeared around. When Bihu and Wang Chuan were nervously preparing for the big battle, the large army of the tribe arrived.
In Wang Chuan's plan, if the bark could go back on the first night, then the next day it would be dark to see the tribesmen. If he doesn't go back on the first day, he'll have to wait until the third day.
But in fact, the bark returned to the tribe on the first night. At that time, the tribesmen had just fallen asleep. As soon as he told him what had happened, his mother decided to prepare for departure immediately and light a torch to rush over. If there is a lot of people and there is a fire, it is not so dangerous to walk at night. When two people guard a mountain of meat, she can't rest assured, especially since one of them is a fire boy.
The bark eyes are all bloodshot from staying up all night, and after a big battle, he runs back and forth day and night, which shows how desperate he is. But looking at the smile on his face, it seemed that he didn't feel tired at all.
When the tribesmen saw the elephant like a mountain of meat, they were speechless for a long time. Especially those who came from the Dolphin Tribe. They had seen the danger of this thing, and now the tribe had only dispatched three people to kill it. This kind of shock to the soul can literally penetrate into the soul.
When Wang Chuan stood up and was about to command everyone to work, I don't know which one took the lead and knelt down on Wang Chuan, and then everyone knelt down. In the crowd, only Wang Chuanbihu and Bark were left.