Chapter 7: The Hunt
The chaos in the tent is not to be seen, but where did our Soram go, and it all started with Solam's second-instance Aunt Zaira's pregnancy. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Solam was raised by Aunt Solari since he was a child, which is true, but Solari is also a shaman himself, so he is usually very busy, after all, there are not many shamans in the tribe. (As we all know, orcs are notoriously lacking in spell-casting talents, so each clan has only single-digit shamans, let alone mages, and there isn't a single mage in the whole of Avalon anyway, where shamans are the only spell-casting class.) In the orc clan, shamans have the most part-time jobs, usually as doctors, veterinarians, emcees, and other professions, while female shamans are even busier, who has a wedding and funeral to be present, and some things between big girls and small daughters-in-law also have to worry about her, so there is basically little time to take care of Solam. Fortunately, Aunt Zaira had just married from the Frostwolf Clan at that time, so when Aunt Solari was busy, it was the little Aunt Zaira who took care of Shoram and Krum. In addition, Zaira has been married for many years and has no children, so he raised Solam, a child without a father and mother, as his own son. It's a bit inappropriate, but if Solam were to take pictures of his loved ones with a degree of closeness, Mama Garrom and Aunt Zaira would definitely be in the top two.
When Aunt Zaira got pregnant, Solam thought that he should do something for Aunt Zairah, to help take care of the pregnant woman, not to mention that other people were not at ease, even he didn't believe it. So he thought of hunting to make up for Aunt Zaira, and he also knew that Zairah was not lacking in these, after all, her husband was the best hunter, and the old man and uncle also hunted some rare prey everywhere during this time to replenish Zaira's body. But Soram felt that he had been cared for by Aunt Zaira for so many years and that he should do something for her. After all, in Solam's own opinion, he is an adult, and he cannot enjoy the care of others with peace of mind. So he decided to go hunting himself.
Although orcs advocate bravery, they are not yet to the point where children are also exposed to danger. Therefore, orcs who are not yet adults are generally not allowed to enter the forest. In the past, Soram didn't have much chance to run out, and until today, the family didn't have the heart to look at him, so he decided to run out, but he didn't know what was going on, Krum, who had always been honest, actually found out about Solam's attempt, and when he knew that Soram was going to sneak out to hunt, he threatened and begged to go with him. In the end, Soram had no choice but to agree to take him with him.
They took their wolf companions into the forest early in the morning, and in the past two years, the frost teeth and blood teeth have grown as fast as blowing up balloons, and now they are almost the size of a calf, and Solam looks strange, Nima, the creatures in this world are really unscientific, and they have grown into this appearance in only two years.
It wasn't until near noon that they found their ideal prey, the mountain goat, a goat that lives above the snow line, rarely moves below the snow line, and is very alert. Its mother's milk is the best tonic for Avalon, they will give birth in the forest when winter comes, as long as one winter, the cubs can grow up to be able to easily climb the mountains and walk on the cliffs under the moisture of the ewe's milk, so the Avalon orcs believe that the milk of the alpine goat is the best tonic for the newborn baby and the mother who has just given birth.
Solam and the others found the tracks of a mountain goat at the foot of a hill in the forest, and recognizing them was a hunter's most basic skill. They were followed by two wolves to the edge of a clearing in the forest.
They crawled in the snow and slowly approached the edge of the clearing, there were four big, three small and seven high goats in the clearing, which was not a small group, because of the living environment, the high goats were all such small groups, a male high goat was the head sheep, the leader of the group, and the others were ewes and cubs. The habits of the goats are similar to those of lions in previous lives, and they are usually carried by a male goat with 3 or 4 females.
The goats were tossing in the snow with their heads down, and the grass roots under the snow were the best food for the goats.
"What are we going to do," Krum asked, gesturing to Solam, and when hunting, any unusual noise will alarm the prey, so the hunters have special gestures to communicate with each other.
"Kill the first sheep with a bow and arrow, then catch the milky ewe with a net, and leave the rest alone, let the frost and blood fangs deal with it." Soram gestured back.
Kill the goat first because it is very troublesome for the male goats to launch a rush to protect the herd, although they are not afraid, but Solam still remembers the lesson of the second Uncle Trick, be careful, and make less trouble if you can. After all, they're here to hunt, not to fight.
Soram gestured to Frostfang, telling it to go to the side to prepare to outflank, and Krum next to him naturally gestured to Bloodfang to let it go to the other side. Wolves have a high IQ, and they even have their own language to communicate with each other.
Then Solam and Krum distanced themselves, carefully approaching the low bushes at the edge of the clearing. At the same time, they carefully observe the movements of the head sheep, they cannot move in front of the head sheep's eyes, so the chance of being detected is even lower. The goats are very alert, although they are also rummaging in the snow for food, but from time to time they look up to observe the situation around them.
The head sheep is vigilant when the flock is foraging for food and leads the flock to escape when it encounters danger, so it will constantly observe the surrounding environment in order to detect the danger as quickly as possible and escape with the fastest route. If you can't escape, the goat will desperately drag the predator to let the tribe escape, so Solam wants to kill the goat first.
Every time the sheep looked up, Solam and Krum immediately lay motionless on the ground. Not to mention the two-seated wolves, they are natural hunters, and they don't need to worry about what to do at all.
Don't look at them not far from the flock, but by the time they move to the best position, more than half an hour has passed, hunting is to be patient, which is not bad, after all, the sense of smell of the goats is not outstanding, if you want to hunt the kind of prey with excellent sense of smell, it is more strenuous, not only to be careful, sometimes to lie in the mud for hours in order to deceive this prey.
Soram lay on his stomach on the snow and waited for a while, presumably Krum was also in place. According to the previous agreement, he would attack, and Krum and they would not attack until they saw Soram move.
Soram slowly took off the horn bow on his back, took out an arrow from the quiver holster with his other hand, carefully observed the movement of the head sheep, and when the head sheep looked up and looked down, he lowered his head and prepared to continue turning the snow, Soram immediately pulled the bow and shot the arrow.
The moment the head sheep lowered his head, he suddenly saw a shadow flying towards him, and before he could react, he was stabbed in the eye by a sharp arrow just after raising his head. Without a snort, he knelt down, and the sheep were immediately in disarray, and Krum immediately jumped out of the bushes not far away, and threw the net in his hand directly at the ewe. The net was beautifully spread out into a beautiful circle in the air, just to put the ewe in the center of the net, and by the way, the rabbit was caught in the net, which was also a surprise.
Throwing the net is a unique hunting technique of the orcs, this kind of bubble net is made of a rope made of a plant similar to hemp, and then a kind of thorny short thorn is installed in the net, the edge of the net is connected with some stones, bone carved weights, once the net is in the prey it is difficult to escape, the real master of throwing the net, can net the birds flying at high speed.
Two wolves also outflanked at the same time. Each pounced on their chosen target, and Frostfang was closer to the other lamb because of the position just now, so he didn't pick and killed the cub directly. And Bloodtooth was lucky, it was aiming for a ewe, and Bloodtooth bit the neck of the ewe and caught it to the ground, but it didn't bite to death, just firmly restrained the ewe. The last ewe was the furthest away, and at first ran away like a frightened rabbit without even looking at the direction. It was lucky enough for it to escape, but they didn't chase it.
Krum ran to the prey caught in the net, "Great, double yolk eggs." No wonder he was so excited, his first official hunt was able to use a net to make a double shot, which was a remarkable achievement.
Solam also happily ran to the dead head of the sheep and pulled out the arrow that had been stuck in the sheep's eye. "Nima, what a luck, I actually came to the right eye." It is a great thing to see the eye piercing in the eyes of the hunter, you must know that killing the prey in this way is the best performance of the hunter's archery skills, and the prey killed in this way will not be damaged in the slightest, and the fur will be more valuable. However, Solam is completely shit this time, and in fact, there are very few hunters who can do it in Avalon, even the first hunter of the Warsong Clan, Solam's second Bertrick, and only once in a while.
The two brothers tied all their live prey with ropes, and when Krum tied up the ewe that had been restrained by the bloody fangs, he noticed that the ewe was also pregnant. "Ram, come and see, this ewe is pregnant too."
"Where? Where? "Soram was cleaning up the goat, and when he heard this, he immediately ran to Krum." Holy, really. We're so cool this time. ”
"yes, thanks to the blood teeth, we didn't even see that the sheep was pregnant, and if it hadn't bitten the ewe to death, we would have missed it." Krum said as he hugged Bloodfang's head and rubbed Bloodfang's head desperately, and Bloodfang happily licked Krum's face with his tongue.
Solam also praised the blood teeth, a dead ewe is just an extra piece of meat, and a living ewe is a milk machine, and the value is completely different. With these two milk-producing ewes, at least this winter, Aunt Zairla and their newborn brother or sister will be able to survive the winter healthier.