Chapter 121: Can't Stop at All
There is only one chicken in this round of harvest, and it took about an hour, and an hour to catch a chicken, who is enough to eat, isn't it funny?
Funny, but Wang Yang couldn't laugh, the rules of his life were completely arranged according to the normal situation of natural changes, and he was caught off guard in the face of sudden accidents.
If you could go back in time...... Well, he can't go back.
Today's business is over today, and today's dinner has not yet been settled, Wang Yang will not think about whether the snow will stop tomorrow, nor does he plan to kill his prey and sacrifice to the heavens, praying that the heavens are too unreliable.
He cleared the area of snow near the trap too much so that the critters had no more chance to escape, and then returned to the cave to escape the cold.
Not long after, he set out to inspect the trap again.
This time, he didn't wait an hour before going out, and after only half an hour, he walked out of the cave.
Obviously, the number of small animals infested exceeded his imagination, and their scarcity of food also exceeded his expectations, and it would not take that long to be hit.
As if to confirm his intuition, the first trap point was rewarded.
It was a snow hare with pure white fur.
Rabbits are very common, especially in the mountainous areas, where rabbits can often be seen jumping around, and Wang Yang has raised a litter himself.
But what he raised was a gray rabbit of one color all year round.
The snow hare is different, it is one of the representative animals of the cold zone and the subarctic zone, the individual is larger, and the body length is generally about 55 centimeters. The ears are short and the tail is short.
What is the concept of fifty-five centimeters? Half a meter long, what is the concept of half a meter long? According to Wang Yang's current height of about one meter, two or three, if he is lying on the ground. The snow hare can reach his thighs.
The weight can reach ten catties, which is considered to be the largest rabbit.
Snow rabbits in order to adapt to the harsh winter snow living environment. In winter, the coat color turns white until the roots of the hair.
The tips of the ears and eye circles are dark brown, the front and back soles are pale yellow, and the coat color becomes darker in summer, mostly russet.
This species is not the post-modern kind of white rabbit that does not change in the four seasons, in other words, it is a chameleon among rabbits that has the ability to change its appearance as the environment changes.
Wang Yang was surprised to be able to spot snow rabbits here, because the climate here has always been stable. The winter lasts for about five months, which is enough to pass the upper subarctic zone.
That said, this is supposed to be the edge of the subarctic zone, and snow hares will also appear here, but they are rare.
In the past many years, Wang Yang has never seen this kind of rabbit, not nothing, but his range of activities is limited, and he has not had the opportunity to see it.
He had seen beasts that resembled hares. It's the lynx.
The lynx kills countless hares a year, and there are many natural predators of the lynx, including bears and wolves. Big cats, etc., are difficult to accommodate lynxes based on the distribution of these four areas.
I really don't know what the only lynx that was active in the neighborhood thought in the first place.
This snow hare is very cute. It's cute and it's an adult rabbit. Large body size and heavy weight. Its white fur provides it with good cover and hides from many predators.
Perhaps it was because last year's winter was so long that it thought the climate here was similar to where it lived.
God also gave it face, and it snowed heavily, as if he wanted to wash the dust for it.
However, even if it has the magic power of change, it can't avoid the simplest trap.
Wang Yang is not God, he has no neurotic kindness, he accepts all the prey sent to the door, the current situation cannot be missed, if I don't eat you, I will starve.
As a matter of course, he slaughtered the snow hare, put it in his bag, and came to the second ambush site.
The second location did not continue the luck of the first, and although the barrel was covered, the animal that came to steal the food was too small, and still dug a hole in the thin snow and escaped.
Wang Yang was not too disappointed, he allowed too small animals to escape, but slightly larger animals like the snow rabbit pheasant were not to be missed.
He was right, because the snow was swept away, leaving a large area for the barrels, and the newly fallen snow was not too thick for a short time to allow the animals to escape.
Because of this, Wang Yang harvested another prey in the next few traps.
He did not hesitate and set the trap again.
This method lasted a whole day, with the time spent on harvesting the prey, clearing the snow and setting traps, and the time spent waiting for each harvest, which lasted nearly an hour at a time.
Wang Yang caught sixteen prey in nine to ten hours, each of which was not large, and there were not many animals like snow rabbits that weighed about ten catties.
Now there are more than forty people in the tribe, and the food consumed is naturally huge, and because of the long lactation period, it is a pity that the combat power cannot be replenished quickly.
What bothers Wang Yang even more is that they can now participate in the hunt with as many as 20 people, but the amount of food that the territory can provide does not need so many people.
There is a surplus of combat power, and this is where it is wasted.
It's a shame to have the number of people who can get more food, but not so much territory.
At the moment, there is no need for territory, more precisely, in winter, there is no fixed territory boundary, and many animals will cross the boundary and enter other people's territory to prey.
Animals that are more aggressive, such as wolves, can also go out of other animals' territory in the other three seasons.
These are the current status quo of the tribe.
The current status quo is not these, but there are not enough traps, when Wang Yang created this kind of trap, he just wanted to avoid a crisis, and did not think about vigorously developing and promoting, so in the future, Zhang San's wooden barrel, Wang Yang did not let it be transformed into a trap.
Nowadays, there are not enough traps, and a large amount of instant combat power does not play much role in the snowy weather, which makes people speechless.
And the dozen or so prey obtained from these traps alone, combined with the last bit of food stored, is enough for today's dinner.
And tomorrow will be the day of the real zero grain stock.
Of course, the little animals raised are not having a good time, the rabbit's grass and twigs are all eaten, a large wave of rats have no food guarantee, and the civets don't know what to feed.
Wang Yang thought that if the food harvested was not enough tomorrow, he might have to kill a few small animals to eat.
Well, eat the male first, anyway, they will one day have to help them reduce some conflicts because of the conflict between their spouses.
Thinking about it, he quickly filled his stomach and prepared for bed.
The wind was howling, the wind and snow did not stop, the next morning and yesterday did not change, the snowflakes fell unfatally, the snow on the ground was already knee-thick, and one foot down, although it would not be so deep, but it was not shallow.
Wang Yang came to the mouth of the cave, looked at the day, the place, and said to the little guy on his shoulder: "I bet that the god in charge of the snow forgot to take his medicine." (To be continued......)
PS: The author of the same issue has such a strong outbreak, just like this heavy snowfall, I can't stop at all, I'm very worried, seeing that there is no monthly pass yet, I think, my outburst, can't stop.