Chapter 3 Eat Your Food, And You Die!
Whoa!
A guinea deer in its early two meters fell into the trap, and King Kong immediately rushed over and easily dealt with the prey.
The two brothers returned with a full load and went back happily.
I checked for a few other small traps along the way, and was pleasantly surprised to find two more rabbits.
It has been two full months since the last time the two brothers hunted wild boars.
After that, the brothers would come down every two or five days to hunt, and after they had enough food, they would return to it for ten days or so.
Plenty of meat, as well as an amazing amount of exercise to climb up and down, made King Kong and Ding Zheng both grow rapidly.
However, compared to King Kong, he already has a height of about four meters and a half and a development speed.
Ding Zheng still doesn't look like he was born to an orangutan father and a mother.
It has grown to more than 1.3 meters, and its body is a little stronger, and it no longer looks like it is covered with skin.
But this is nowhere near the same as King Kong.
If nothing else, the gap between Ding Zheng and King Kong will only get bigger and bigger, and it will become more and more obvious.
This more fully proves that Ding Zheng can only put his hope on the system.
As it walked, it looked at the countdown: 5 hours and 23 minutes.
Now go back to the temporary place of the prey, pack it up and transport it to the cave, and the time is very rich.
Then it can eat and drink to its heart's content, and wait quietly for the first crossing to come.
As for King Kong...... Ding Zheng really couldn't explain the concept of crossing and system, he could only hope that when the time came, it would suddenly disappear, and King Kong would not jump from the top of the mountain excitedly.
Because when Ding Zheng crosses over to the mission world of the system, Skull Island will not stand still.
There is a time difference between the two, but the time difference between each quest world and Skull Island is different.
And now, it is still unknown where Ding Zhengyao has crossed over, and only after entering the mission world can it know from the system what the time difference is.
"Probably won't jump, right?"
Ding Zheng looked at King Kong, who was carrying himself and bowing his head silently, and he was quite a general, and he felt a little bottomless in his heart.
King Kong is indeed very good-looking, a tall and strong beast, full of security, but only Ding Zheng, the younger brother, knows how good King Kong is in private, how naïve he is.
"I can't care so much, and I can't refuse to cross."
Shaking his head to dissipate his thoughts, Ding Zheng stood up and began to pick leaves.
Caught prey cannot avoid the smell of blood, and it is easy to steal and eat if left haphazardly.
Fortunately, Ding Zheng discovered a peculiar kind of leaves, which are not smelly or fragrant, and have the ability to isolate the smell.
Therefore, Ding Zheng would wrap the prey he had caught before with this kind of leaf and hang it on a high branch.
Other large carnivores, who generally only stare at the ground and do not notice such tall branches, can greatly reduce the probability of being spotted.
With this method, the prey of the two brothers has never had an accident.
……
Hacking birds lived in South America 6500~2 million years ago.
It is now extinct.
But on Skull Island, they survived.
Also because of the peculiarities of Skull Island, it has become stronger and larger.
Hacking birds are solitary animals whose natural predators are group predators, such as wolves.
Although they are birds, their wings have long since degenerated into meat hooks, and they have lost the ability to fly, so they can only run on the ground.
Hacking birds can easily kill prey that is about the same size as themselves.
In long-distance pursuits, they will use their strong long legs and meat hooks sticking out of their sides to attack the lower plate of their prey.
Once the prey loses its balance and falls to the ground, they hold it down with the soles of their feet and stab them directly through the brain with their long, sharp beaks.
Kill instantly!
The success rate of the hunt is 50%.
They love to suck the bone marrow of their prey, and their hard beaks can pierce almost any bone.
……
A pitch-black bird's head poked out of the jungle.
The long, sharp beak can easily touch the neck.
It's the hacking bird.
More experienced predators are afraid to set foot in this forest for the time being.
Even if the aura of the king here has become weaker and weaker.
But the most privileged hunting ground in the entire Skull Island will never have a shortage of pretenders.
The newly grown bird was driven out by its mother, and it was brave enough to come here to get a piece of the pie.
It walks through the jungle, its black feathers cover its body, and its size is huge, more than seven meters.
Moreover, it is still very young and has great potential, and the adult horror birds on Skull Island can almost reach ten meters.
The thick legs, which could not be hugged by two adult humans, were covered by thick feathers, and underneath were thick muscles.
Few animals are able to outperform a hacker bird in leg strength and then either flee or be killed.
Fine, smooth, scaly skin covers the dry legs and soles of the feet.
The sharp and slender beak resembles a sharp dagger, and the tip even reflects cold light.
This beautiful appearance, every place shows its youthfulness.
Including its selection, which also proves this.
The best battlefield for hacking birds should be the plains.
The rugged and dense forests can only let it tie its own hands.
However, there is no shortage of such adventurous "young people" everywhere and at any time.
And most of their fate depends on the will of God.
The young bird walked, its withered, hard paws making it impossible to avoid making noises as it moved.
The luxuriant foliage makes its proud height and view in the plains completely obscured.
It is difficult to spot its prey, and it is difficult to spot danger.
Luckily, it has a keen sense of smell, and it happens to catch the smell of blood in the air and move with it.
Smack!
The young frightening bird's head slammed into a cloud of leaves, making a muffled noise.
The strong smell of blood crept into its nose, and it tilted its head slightly, touching something in its path.
Then give a light peck.
Smack!
A pile of corpses, wrapped in rattan and leaves, fell from several branches and scattered to the ground.
There were rabbits and rats, and there were more than a dozen of them.
Surprise flashed in the young bird's eyes.
It was more optimistic about its decision to come to the forest to clear the land.
And the smell of blood doesn't stop there!
The young bird continued on his way, and soon came across another clump of leaves.
Pecked down, this time it was a few pieces of fresh flesh and blood.
It searched around again, but found nothing again, so it reluctantly went back, and directly lowered its head and devoured it.
It has been hungry for a long time, but the prey that has fallen from the sky is completely enough for it to eat.
I have to say that this hacking bird was very lucky.
Just wandering around aimlessly, it happened to come across two orangutans who had been trying to hunt for days, and temporarily stored all the results here.
Ding Zheng never imagined that there would be a bird that would pick up their harvest for several days!
Moreover, they are not only unable to recover this field, but they are also approaching danger step by step!
Whoa......
The sound of leaves wakes the bird from its lunch break.
It had just eaten a big meal, though the little thing didn't have much of its favorite bone marrow in its body.
But it's always a pleasure to get something for nothing.
It stood up and looked at where the sound had come from, and a gorilla with its head up to its chest had swung from a distant branch.
This prey is strong, it should have more bone marrow, and it can't run fast at first glance!
The young bird was overjoyed.
I just ate one meal, and another one was delivered to my door.
Even if you're full, you can kill it first and save it!
It had no doubts at all that it would have a chance to catch its prey in front of it.
For hacking birds, as long as their size and strength can't match them, there are only two situations, one is food, and the other is food that escapes!
And this orangutan, the size gap with it is obvious.
Ding Zheng lay on King Kong's back, and as he got closer to the target, it suddenly realized that something was wrong.
"Woo woo" Ding Zheng let out a hurried call, and King Kong didn't know why, but he still stopped.
However, it was still too late!
Swish!
With a crisp sound, the hacking bird hidden in the bushes rushed out at the most opportune time at the moment!
The black shadow approached quickly.
Just judging from the fact that it was a full half of King Kong's height, this thing was not something the two of them could solve!
This is probably a predator more powerful than the boar!
Ding Zheng directly threw the rabbit in his hand to the hacking bird, and didn't care about whether the prey he had caught before had already entered the bird's belly, and shouted loudly, urging King Kong to leave quickly.
King Kong's reaction was not much slower than Ding Zheng's.
The first time it saw the frightening bird, it threw away the guinea deer and turned and swung towards the branch next to it.
Ding Zheng leaned on King Kong's body, turning his head to look behind him from time to time, hoping that the bird would let them go because of the prey they had dropped.
But the bird had already eaten enough, and had slept after digesting it, and was now trying to move.
It's not stupid, the orangutan is noticeably stronger and fatter, and besides, those two prey are dead, and they won't run away on their own!
The bird moved its legs quickly, its two fleshy wings flapping at its sides, maintaining the balance of its running.
Blazing fast.
The most striking thing is the sharp beak on the head, which is much bigger than a basketball!
Ding Zheng absolutely believes that if this thing pecks at himself, I'm afraid it will be a cold body.
Ding Zheng naturally couldn't recognize what kind of creature this giant bird resembled an ostrich was.
But this does not prevent it from observing, associating.
After watching the hacked bird rub against the trunk of the tree from time to time, or rub against several branches, it was greatly slowed down.
Ding Zheng immediately leaned on the side of King Kong's ear, whined, and commanded frantically.
But because of Ding Zheng's lame "orangutan language", it took a while for King Kong to understand its meaning.
Then, King Kong deliberately chose the more complicated and denser direction to escape.
But the birds are also adapting to the rhythm of running in the forest.
This forest is not so unfriendly to the birds, and the orangutan mother lives around it all year round, which naturally creates a lot of gaps between movements.
What's more, the speed of the hacking bird is very fast, and the endurance is extraordinary!
Even if the terrain is not suitable for playing, it can be tightly attached to the place not far behind King Kong.
A long manhunt began.
King Kong also had some scruples, it could only run in the direction it was familiar with.
Strange places symbolize more danger, and at the same time, in completely unfamiliar environments, its speed decreases.
At first, King Kong was able to keep a relatively safe distance.
But just a moment later, its physical strength couldn't keep up.