Chapter 10: Map Gate

"I'll go out and collect firewood, and you clean up the room." I said, looking at Baguio's embarrassed appearance now, I think it's better to separate and calm each other down.

"Room?" Baguio was stunned, "Are you talking about this hole?" ”

"That's right, you have to clean it up, and provide convenience for the 'tenants' in the back, which is the rule of mountain chasers." I laughed.

Baguio nodded and muttered in a low voice.

"What did you say?" I started to tear down the door.

"I mean," Baguio asked shyly, biting her lip, "the cave room, the cave room, did you come here?" ”

“…… Seems to be, right? "I'm not so sure, "Cave House", well, it's very vivid!

Tear down the door, although the weather outside is still a little cold, but the sun is shining, the sun is very comfortable on the skin, I stretched my waist, I feel a little sore in the back, I don't know if it is because of the wrong sleeping position, this time in the morning, the wild animals are busy all night, all back to the nest to sleep, the probability of successful hunting is not high, but also try your luck, I feel that I need to add more protein, to make up for last night's continuous fighting, in retrospect, I am a little embarrassed, I know that her condition is enough, But no one wants to stop, there is no active and passive one, until exhaustion and the sea is soft.

I didn't want to think about it, I shook my head, looked left and right, found a large broad leaf, took the dew in it with my hand, washed my face, and immediately poured back the small flame that had been rekindled.

After waking up, carrying a small spear, I climbed the big rock, looked around, the area hit by the cold wave last night, the first bud of the leaves was more seriously damaged, the chlorophyll was lost, the color was dull, and the surrounding mountains were obviously different, the range of the cold wave was really small, covering most of the Tiger Ridge, as well as a part of the Wild Boar Ridge.

On a whim, will this "king" level cold wave freeze the small animals to death? If there is, then wouldn't it make me pick up the bargain for nothing!

Thinking of this, I jumped off the rocks and walked in the direction of Wild Boar Ridge, an area with dense forests and many animals.

Sure enough, only more than 30 meters, I saw a half-sized gray rabbit lying on the ground, but it was not dead, lying in the grass, its head slowly turned to my side, struggled, wanted to escape, but had no strength, I bent down with a spear, approached quickly, and looked closely, it turned out to be a female rabbit with a big belly.

Now is the month of Meng Chun (the first month of spring), and the mountain chasers have the rules handed down by their ancestors: in the month of Meng Chun, it is forbidden to cut down trees, destroy bird nests, kill pregnant animals, hunt young animals, and take poultry eggs.

The harmonious coexistence of man and nature does not mean that you cannot kill, but you must abide by the laws of nature, and you cannot dry up and fish, kill chickens and take eggs.

The female rabbit was frozen and had not yet recovered, so I picked up some hay and buried it deep with the rabbit's nest so that it would not be attacked by other wild beasts.

Skirting the rabbit, I continued on my way, and soon met a half-sized muntjac, lying on the ground, motionless, I kicked its feet, its body was a little stiff, and I was sure that it was frozen to death, I cut off one of its hind legs with a dagger (enough for both of us), and hung the rest of the deer on the tree for the other animals to eat.

Seeing the blood, I had to leave quickly, lest I encounter the predators I found, I found a deep clump of leaves, dug up the wet leaves on the surface, gathered dry pine branches from below, and found a birch tree lying on the ground after death, found the location of the moth, and dug out the dry and fluffy trunk with a dagger.

After the collection, back to the top of the mountain, the "cave house" has been cleaned up by Baguio, I took out the muntjac legs, Baguio seems to really like to eat meat, ecstatic, quickly help me to support the pot to make a fire, venison can withstand roasting, do not need to be buried under the fire, directly peel, cut into pieces, add pepper and salt to stir, marinate for a while, and then, with wild cherry branches skewered, fruit wood roast.

This is an underage muntjac, the meat is very tender, and it is quickly baked, I let Baguio eat it first, and then soak two compressed biscuits in water, boil them as porridge, meat and vegetarian matching, salty and sweet are not greasy, Baguio does not care about the image of a lady, gobbling up, eating a mouth full of oil.

"As for hunger?" I used my thumb to wipe the oil off the corner of her mouth, and I don't know what to think, but it actually covered my finger!

"What are you doing?" I pulled out my fingers and wiped them on my clothes in disgust.

Baguio sneered, "Do you want this?" ”

"What?" I asked, puzzled.

"Don't pull it down!" Baguio sank his face and continued to eat.

I looked at my moistened fingers, but I still didn't understand what she meant.

After breakfast, at seven o'clock, the two of them left the cave, bypassed the big rocks on the Tiger Ridge, and continued on their way, if everything went well, they could reach the Old Eagle Ridge at about eleven o'clock at noon.

Today's Jin Biguio's physical strength is obviously much better than yesterday, not only can she carry her own backpack, but she also jumps when she walks, her energy is infinite and energetic, and it is a little difficult for me to keep up with her.

"You have a little more to go, there's still a long way to go!" I was worried that she was overdrawn, so I dressed up and persuaded her.

"Fully charged, full of gas, and still not let the car run?" Baguio laughed and trotted down the mountain road and disappeared into the dense woods, but soon she ran back the same way she came, her face full of horror.

"What's wrong?" I asked warily.

"Tiger! Or a leopard...... I'm not sure! ”

"How far?" I took out the dagger, if I encounter a leopard, it is fine, in case I encounter a wild Siberian tiger, the danger factor will be very high, the tiger may not eat us, but it is very likely that we have intruded into its territory, as an intruder, it will be killed!

"Fifty meters, just ahead!"

It shouldn't be a tiger, if it's a tiger, fifty meters away, it has already spotted Baguio!

I walked in front, around a bush, Baguio pointed forward, I saw, not a tiger, not a leopard, but a lynx with black spots on a yellow background, this "big cat" is much smaller than a tiger, and there is no threat to humans.

The lynx was lying on a half-crooked dead tree, lazily basking in the sun.

"It's a lynx, it's fine." I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Lynx? The lynx of the relics? "Baguio also saw that this thing is not big, probably, the size of two domestic cats.

I gave her a blank look: "The lynx next to the dog word, the lynx next to the dog word, felines, is ......it good for the relics to be ashes?"

Baguio nodded as if he didn't understand, and then asked, "Is it delicious?" ”

“…… Haven't eaten it! I picked up a rock and threw it in the direction of the lynx, and the lynx got up and barked its teeth at us, so frightened that Baguio quickly hid behind me and clung to the corner of my clothes.

"Get out!" I shouted, and the lynx, seeing that his bluff was not good, immediately relented, and ran into the woods with his tail between his legs.

I walked over with Baguio, and found a pool of blood on the trunk of the tree where it was lying down, and there was a rabbit's head on the ground.

At nine o'clock, I rested for twenty minutes, mainly because I was tired, and at ten forty o'clock, when I passed through a large broad-leaved forest, a low and ugly crow cry startled a flock of crows in ambush in the canopy, and they all flew into the air, and in an instant, the sky covered the sun, and the scene was magnificent.

I stood still and exhaled, "It's finally here!" Walk through this wood, and in front of you is the Old Eagle Ridge! ”

"So fast!" Baguio pouted, pouted and said, "I'm going to see your little sister ginseng!" Do you say you're excited, or excited, or excited? ”

"She's a plant, why are you eating her vinegar......" I frowned.

Baguio thought for a while: "Well, that's right, she's a plant, we're animals, besides, she hasn't had physical contact with you, so it's not that wrong!" ”

"I'm with a ginseng, why is that ......" I was speechless, it was just a dream.

"Let's go!" Baguio reassured, took my hand, and strode forward.

Soon through the woods, a mountain ridge is in front of you, there is no end to the front and back, left and right, and the slope of the mountain is very steep, it looks difficult to climb up - like the Tiger Cave, I have never been here, only heard my grandfather describe, woods, crows, steep peaks of mountains, can judge, this is the old eagle ridge.

However, I don't need to judge, because a bare mountain rock halfway up the mountain is written in vermilion lacquer.

"Raven Ridge?" Baguio said, "Are we in the wrong place?" ”

"Isn't the crow just the old owl, what is written underneath, can you read it clearly?" I asked, there seemed to be a few lines of small characters under the three vermilion characters.

"It's too far away to see clearly."

Baguio and I climbed up the mountainside and came to the bottom of the bare rock, and then we saw clearly.

"Ginseng dojo, Lin Jiao haunts; Figure access forbidden place, trespasser dead! Baguio read it again, "What is Lin Jiao?" ”

"A venomous snake with a cockscomb." I said, she didn't ask what "Tumen" meant, she must have known, she was at her grandfather's house before, and she deliberately said that she didn't know, she was angry with her grandfather.

"Why are you so scary?" Baguio frowned.

"It's just a warning slogan, it's like 'set fire to the mountain, sit in the bottom of the prison.'" I laughed.

Suddenly, above the big rock, there was a sharp bird call, extremely high-pitched, listening to the timbre, as if it was a warning!

"Mallet, be careful." I looked up, and it didn't matter, it almost scared me half to death!

"Where?" Baguio also wanted to look up, so I quickly pressed her head, hugged her and turned around, pretending to be relaxed, "We're not ready, let's go down the mountain first." ”

"Oh, I finally climbed up, what are you doing down?" Baguio broke free of my hand and turned his head to look at the top of the boulder, "Mom! What is it! So big! ”

"Three-eyed Lin Jiao." I lost my voice, I didn't expect that as soon as I went to Laoyu Ridge, I encountered such a hard stubble......