Chapter 3: Etta's Memories II
The hunters of the goshawk tribe are armed with weapons and look for prey in groups. Tiktor shouted Etta's name from afar, saying, "Etta, watch out for your cubs! Etta glanced at her son and knowingly slapped Tictor's ear.
Not far away, about a dozen dire wolves and a few earth liners fought. Where is such a small number of dire wolves the opponent of the earth tree? There is no need to arrange troops in the earth, just the head of the rib "boom" howls twice, and the dire wolves are so frightened that they are fartful and urinate, and they disperse elsewhere. Among them, several of them were walking towards Etta and were seen by Tictor, who reminded them.
The earth is huge, five or six meters tall, weighs four or five tons, almost larger than the Asian elephant, and has strong and sharp claws on the front and back feet, which can stand only on the hind feet, forming a two-legged standing posture, coupled with its strong, more than one meter long tail, forming a "three-legged tripod". This position allows it to easily feed on leaves and branches, and its strong arms and huge claws can pluck entire branches off. That's why the clever and cunning Dire Wolf didn't dare to engage the Earth Tree head-on.
Etta was grazing when she heard her son scream and looked up to see that the little mammoth had been thrown to the ground by several dire wolves. Dire wolves in the distance are also galloping here, ready to support, ready to share. The paws brought up strings of splashes, splashed on the body, and soon became a "water wolf".
The innocent and curious little mammoth will only walk forward when he learns from his mother to step on the green, and will not turn around and step back and forth along the side of the original footprints, so the farther and farther, he is picked up by the dire wolves.
Etta roared and pounced on the dire wolves.
A hunter saw Etta's son pounced on by a dire wolf and tried to rescue him, but was stopped by Tyktor.
"Why? Why don't you let us come to the rescue? ”
"I've already warned Etta that it's been negligent," Tiktor said. What's more, it's a matter between animals, do you want to join the mammoth and live with them? ”
The hunters didn't understand what Tiktor meant, but they knew that Tiktor wouldn't allow them to rescue the little mammoth. Everyone could only watch from afar as the dire wolves pouted their butts and crossed their tails, surrounding the little mammoth in the middle.
Etta roared, sniffling and waving his fangs, driving the dire wolves away from her son again and again. Again and again, the hungry dire wolves surrounded the little mammoth.
Etta howled hoarsely, wrestling with all her might against the dire wolves. It glanced around as fast as it could, and its companions in the distance were hearing the news. It also saw Tyktor and his fellow hunters, whom he often met and sometimes "greeted". How he wished they could come and help him, take his beloved son back from the dreadwolf's mouth, and let him grow up!
However, the hunters did nothing but hold their spears and stood there from afar to watch.
When the dire wolves saw that Etta was desperate with them, a few sturdy ones simply fought with it, in order to contain Etta and let those companions kill the little mammoth as soon as possible.
Etta spun in circles, beating with its fangs, stabbing, plucking, picking and fighting with the dire wolves, it tried several times to trample a dire wolf under its big feet, so that it was crushed to pieces, and a life whimpered, but the dire wolf was too agile, and when he saw his big feet falling, he could step on the dire wolf steadily, who knows, the dire wolf used a little force on its hind legs, its neck was crooked, and it escaped.
A dire wolf bit Etta's hind legs, and Etta shook his leg vigorously, and the dire wolf flew a few meters away, and the dire wolf's teeth were nailed into its flesh, and the dinosaur with its teeth pulled out cried in pain with its bloody mouth open, and hid to the side. Another dire wolf that was biting the little mammoth was kicked in the waist by Etta, and the dire wolf spewed feces from its buttocks, and its two front paws slashed into the ground, dragging the broken back half of its body in an attempt to escape, leaving a pool of blood behind it. It turns out that the blood of the dire wolf can also stain the snowy region red!
Numerous mammoths had already arrived at the little mammoths, howling and rushing towards the dire wolves. The dire wolves fled in a hurry. The dire wolf, who had been trampled by Etta and had broken his waist, was no longer able to dig any longer, and lay there with a desperate, "please spare me" gloom in his eyes.
All herbivores, including earth pistelles and mammoths, regardless of their size, fast or slow in action, are actually weaklings in the snowy region, and all their attacks are just self-defense, and they will not maliciously retaliate. So, not a single mammoth went over to kill the broken and dying dire wolf.
Several adult mammoths looked at the baby mammoth, and they stroked it with their noses, telling it that the little mammoth would not have a miracle of life. So, the mammoths collectively raised their teeth that were large enough to make the entire snowy region collapse, opened their mouths wide, and "whooped" and groaned in deep mourning. The cry from the dantian, which seemed to tear the voice apart, shook the whole snowy area, and on the other side of the river valley, the ice and snow on the trees of the Liason forest fell straight down.
The dire wolves, who were unwilling to give up, were so frightened that they were huddled together not far away. The dire wolf with its teeth stuck in Etta's hind legs, still with its bleeding mouth open and crooked its neck in despair, how will it live in the future?
After the mammoths wailed en masse, Etta tried to take his son away with his teeth, and he rolled it up with a quilt and picked it with his teeth, and tried several times, but without success. So, remembering that there were still good people in the goshawk tribe, maybe they could help, it walked quickly towards the Mammoth River Valley.
After Etta left, the mammoths departed.
Tyktor and his hunter brothers are here. Golotta killed the dreaded wolf with a broken waist and was dying, removing the fear and pain that had existed before it ended.
Tyktor untied the leather rope from his waist, tied the little mammoth, and let Golotta and another hunter drag him all the way down the valley, and crossed the rainbow bridge, so that he could take the little mammoth to show off in front of Maiatten and increase the leader's favor with him.
When Maiatten and Regete approached the little mammoth, Maiatten said to the onlookers in a tone of intolerance: "Look no further, bury it, and bury it under the pine tree in front of the cave, and let it be at peace forever." ”
So, Regett led the group to pick up the little mammoth and walk towards a large pine tree in front of the cave. A few children turned their sorrow into joy and jumped with joy and followed behind.
Maiatten and Uger stood where they were, keeping Wangmu company.
Wanmu gently touched each wound on Etta's leg with his hand and wiped the blood away from them. When she touched the wound on Etta's hind leg, Etta's leg jerked up as if it had been electrocuted. Wangmu understood that it might be that the injury was too bad. When she stroked the two wounds again, she could clearly feel something beneath her skin. She hurried back to the room, and brought a sharp ivory knife, trying to open the two wounds and see what was going on. Etta knew what Vum was doing, and it stood there meekly, not moving.
Maiatten and Uger were discussing the Crystal Grass.
Uger said: "Maybe there is really crystal grass in the world, but it may be far away in the world, along the way the mountains and rivers, and the beasts are infested. ”
Maiatten laughed: "If the goshawk doesn't spread its wings in the blue sky, how can you know that the mountains are small." If I don't go on a trek today, how can I know that the snowy region is vast. Seeing that a large number of animals are migrating westward, and the prey in the vicinity is about to be slaughtered, we will leave here sooner or later without a good food for the tribesmen and herbivores. ”
Wangmu pointed the tip of the knife at a wound, gritted his teeth, and screamed "Hi", and the skin on Etta's leg was sliced open, revealing a yellowish dire wolf tooth, which Wangmu carefully took out. Etta shook her head in pain. However, its body remained unmoved. Wangmu took out the second dire wolf tooth the same way as before.
"Look, Etta pulled out the dinosaur's teeth." Wangmu holds the dire wolf tooth for Maiatten and Ugg to see.
"Haha, my Wangmu is out." Maiatten praised his wife.
Ugg took the dire wolf's tooth from Wangmu's hand, twisted it with his fingers, and said, "The dire wolf is not easy, and humans should not be its enemy. ”
As soon as Wangmu heard that Ugg was talking for the dire wolf, she hated the dire wolf to death now, and the trace of joy that had just appeared on her face immediately disappeared: "Is it a human being who is looking for an enemy of the dire wolf?" They attack tribes, bite and eat people, and are the most hateful of animals in the world. ”
Ugg was silent. Perhaps, she thought that she would never be able to explain it to Wangmu.
Silence is sometimes an answer.
"Carnivores live on meat, so you can't let them get rid of their fangs and graze, right?" said Maiatten. We've eaten all the prey the dire wolves can catch, and they'll have to find something to fill their stomachs. What's more, let's also hunt down the dire wolf. All of this is caused by the imbalance of the snowy ecology. If there is a large area of crystal grass, we take food as the staple food, reduce the killing, pronghorn antelope, red deer, flat-headed pigs, desert forest rabbits and other small animals that can be eaten by carnivores will soon accelerate reproduction, cheetahs, dire wolves have something to eat, what do they still look for people to do? They were inherently afraid of humans. ”
While picking a kind of black grass that can stop bleeding and reduce inflammation, Wang Mu said without raising his head: "Mammoth teeth are so long, why don't you eat meat?" You better talk to the dire wolves, maybe they will make you the wolf king. ”
Maiatten smiled bitterly, wiped the spit from the corner of his mouth with his hand, and raised his head to look at the sky.
Wangmu and Ugg kneaded the black grass into a ball, put it in the palm of their hands and twisted it to extract the juice, and wiped the wound for Etta.
Etta couldn't wait, it shook its nose, shook its head, and swung a pair of plump **s in the direction that the people carried away their son.
Tiktor and Golota came over, and they smiled strangely at Maiatten, said nothing, and went to the place where the mammoth cub was buried.
Uger, who has always been mysterious and unpredictable, looked at the backs of the two of them, muttered a few words silently, and said, "Heaven, open your eyes!" He let out a "wow-" and burst into tears.
Maiatten looked at Ugg inexplicably, not knowing what to do.
Wangmu advises Uger not to cry and asks her what is wrong.
Ugg choked and said, "I saw a bloody knife in Tiktor's eye stabbed at Maiatten. ”
"That's an illusion," said Wangm. Look, Maiatten is standing there. ”