Volume 2 Chapter 140 Destroy the Crocodile II
The biggest problem with this failure should be attributed to the archery that has not been practiced for too long, even if I have practiced it hundreds of times intermittently in recent days, I have not been able to reach the original proficiency.
When I got home, I continued to practice until I felt that I had improved significantly, which proved that no matter how good I was at something, I could still make mistakes if I didn't get started for too long, especially those techniques that required a lot of skill!
The action continued, and the difference before the departure the next day was that I practiced archery for a while, although many times sharpening the gun in battle did not mean much to the result, but in my opinion, there was still a certain effect in archery.
There is no distinction between the targets, and now they are indiscriminate attacks, but the first one to be found is still a small crocodile......
It's the same size as yesterday's, and if I didn't know the inside story, I might have recognized it as the same one, but it also proves that my guess is completely correct!
I'm glad that I wanted to deal with the crocodiles in time, if I delay the time until the next year, these crocodiles will grow to more than two meters, and the difficulty will be different.
The terrain near this little crocodile was even more unfavorable to me than yesterday, but this time the result was completely different from yesterday, and a rare arrow hit from a distance of nearly thirty meters.
The result was almost the same as the usual score of hitting the center of the target when shooting, and what was even more exaggerated was that an arrow pierced the crocodile, and the arrow also stuck a few centimeters into the sand.
For a man who has hunted a crocodile four or five meters long, it is not even a piece of cake to solve it, but I am very excited at this time, this is not a sense of achievement, but there is meat to eat again, a lot of meat!
A small crocodile can provide me with almost forty or fifty pounds of fresh meat, almost as much as a sheep, and even surpass.
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Sensing that there were no other crocodiles nearby, I rushed up and took a spear to finish it off, and a future henchman was so angry about it.
I was not interested in squatting on the beach and slowly dissecting the little crocodile, which weighed only a hundred pounds, but carried it back to the open space outside the room.
It only took an hour or two to find and solve it, and the rest of the time is still a lot to be done, and if I can only solve one crocodile a day, or even one when I'm unlucky, the efficiency is really not acceptable to me.
After all, the number of these small crocodiles is still unknown, and it is not impossible for the group of crocodiles, which originally only had a few crocodiles, to skyrocket to dozens of crocodiles!
After returning home for a short rest, I set out to look for crocodiles again, but the next process was not very friendly to me, and I found three crocodiles in a row, all of which they noticed.
Every time they didn't reach a distance of thirty meters from them, they had already turned their heads and fled into the sea, and when they saw me, it was like seeing a "plague god", and of course I was, wahahaha......
But I didn't give up, and finally found another one at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and this time I finally found a larger one, more than three meters long.
Although the small crocodile is not difficult to solve, the process of hunting the big crocodile is always more exciting, and the key point is that it is also more threatening to me......
I used to hunt crocodiles with fishing nets that I had discarded, mainly because the island was flatter and the way to deal with crocodiles was more neat.
And from my point of view, there don't seem to be crocodiles more than four meters above on the island, so the difficulty is much lower, and the attack power of the new spear is more than twice as strong as the old one!
Everything forced me to abandon the slow entanglement of fishing nets in favor of a cleaner and quicker solution.
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Maybe today is destined to be the end of this big crocodile, and I barely reacted to it in the slightest when I approached it, and if I didn't know anything about the crocodile, I would even have the illusion that it was dead.
Of course, my cautious movements are still the same as before, and if I had walked normally with a swagger, I would have already been exposed.
In order not to startle the snake, I felt that I should not be too bold, and finally only walked twenty meters away from it and stopped moving forward, and began to bend the bow and arrow......
This crocodile is the tenth crocodile I hunted, and the way it ended up is a little unacceptable to me, so it can be said to be very aggrieved!
The part that it was aiming at was only the heart of the crocodile, but the arrow deviated from the target and plunged into its head, and it no longer struggled significantly within a few seconds of the arrow entering its body.
I made all kinds of assumptions during the hunt, most of them were biased towards rushing up to fight in close combat after the arrow was shot, and now this situation was completely outside my plan, and I was stunned on the spot for a while!
One word I can think of is "shit luck", and it seems to be the case today.
I never expected that there would be such a rich harvest on the first day, so that the poor life of the poor who was still lacking meat suddenly became rich again, and they could eat meat with their stomachs open!
The only headache is dealing with the marinated fish, the two crocodiles have broken down and processed the meat one by one and then marinated it in a clay pot, it is close to ten o'clock in the evening, and it is foreseeable that tomorrow it will be necessary to sleep until three poles in the morning to get up.
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From the point of view of my own consumption and demand, the fresh meat obtained yesterday will make it impossible for me to hunt again for the next three to five months.
But sometimes you can't use it and don't do it, it's like making money!
I've been letting the crocodile threat go for nearly two years, and I've been doing so little and missing out on the beach for the past two years, and now I want to wipe them off the island completely!
In the next three days, I stopped almost all the work I was doing, and devoted myself to the plan to destroy the crocodile population, which suffered more than five failures, but the result was not bad, and I got rid of four more, which should add up to two hundred catties of fish.
As can be seen from the fish meat obtained, five of the six crocodiles removed are small crocodiles, and if this batch is all grown, the consequences will be unimaginable!
After walking around the island for four consecutive days, it was concluded that there were many crocodiles on the island, and more than a dozen were found.
If you add in the unknown number that may still exist in the sea, it is estimated that it is likely to be close to 30, a very shocking number......
I could feel a little tired after four days of traveling, and at the same time, the salt at home had been used up by these hundreds of catties of meat, and I had to prepare to make some more.
Although I was not greedy enough to put all the crocodile meat into the clay jar, I also wanted to store as much as possible, after all, there would be no such a large amount of high-quality meat after this time!
I worked hard for boiling salt for five days in a row, and although the harvest was not much, it exceeded ten catties again, and the main reason why I didn't do it again was because of the limited containers at home.
Even if I boiled 100 catties of salt to marinate meat, there would not be enough pottery for meat, and it would be an unsolvable problem!
The appeal is also very simple, fill all the pottery that can be used, and the excess can only be used to feed the fish, and the idea of getting rid of crocodiles will no longer be shaken by the fish, and they must be solved before the summer comes.
Otherwise, when a new baby crocodile is born again this year, the trouble will be even greater, and I don't want to waste my time on these unnecessary things.
After five days, the container at home was basically full, and a total of seven crocodiles were eliminated in these five days, but unfortunately all of them were small crocodiles of more than one meter.
In line with the principle of wasting as little as possible, I decided to stop work for a few days and use a few days to make a kiln of bricks and tiles.
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Although a few days is not much, it can also consume more than 30 catties of fish meat, especially the fresh meat just obtained is very ferocious, and it is almost 5 catties less to stew a can.
A rain has postponed the interval to more than ten days, and a small clay pot is almost empty, and it is no problem to hold the meat of a small crocodile.
The hunt continued, and the handle on the island was finally found the next day, but its body length had just reached four meters, which seemed to be one point smaller than the second villain that was solved at the beginning.
It would be unwise to fight it without a fishing net, but I attacked it without hesitation, and the reason for this was that it was in my favor.
It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as it is more than a hundred meters away from the sea in the shade of the beach trees.
Happy to happy, I didn't slack off, but took a detour to the direction of its tail, ready to attack from a direction it couldn't see, after all, the opportunity is too good, and if you miss it, you may never have it again!
Perhaps it was savoring various delicacies in its dreams, completely unaware that a figure with ill intentions was approaching it at the tail until it was only twenty meters away.
I was tempted to get closer, but for safety and not to be detected, I had to attack right here, but luckily it was very visible, like a large target......
The aiming time of the first arrow took more than twenty seconds, because the first arrow is so important that it depends on the effect of this arrow!
The arrow flew only for a split second, but my mood went through a long process and the result was not bad for me.
Although it was a little offset from the dirty part, it was very close, and the ground was stained red with crocodile blood in a few seconds after the arrow entered the body.
The effect is very significant, but because of its strong vitality, I still sent the second arrow out immediately, but unfortunately the crocodile in the mobile state can only ensure the hit, and the damage is not high.
The third arrow, the fourth arrow, and until the seventh arrow was fired, and it was carrying six arrows on its back like a hedgehog, the crocodile was finally incapacitated because of its serious injuries!
Of course, the final mending knife is still done by the spear, the only difference is that it is not very mobile, unlike the crocodiles that used to fight in close combat.
After taking out all the arrows on its body and cutting a large piece of fresh fish meat and collecting crocodile skin, the remaining high-quality ingredients can only be abandoned, which is a pity, but there is nothing to be done!
This activity continued for a week, with four small crocodiles being killed on the highest day, and ten in the first four days, including two large crocodiles of more than three meters and eight small crocodiles.