Chapter 52: A Little Try
"What the hell is a bamboo-eating beast?"
Fengyun tried to sketch it out in his mind, but without success.
He had obtained too little information about it, only that it ate bamboo and was good at concealing its whereabouts, and nothing else.
After thinking about it, he put the bow on his back, pulled the spear off his shoulder, and took it in his hand.
The bamboo forest is very dense, carrying a spear on his back, it is very inconvenient to walk, it is easy to trip over the bamboo, and it will make a loud noise, which is easy to expose his whereabouts.
As he advanced, he gently flicked away the bamboo in front of him with his spear, and his steps were also very light, in short, trying to minimize the sound he made.
He mobilized all five senses, gathered all the information he could gather, and prepared to find out the whereabouts of the Bamboo Eater as soon as possible.
His purpose was not achieved.
It took him a full hour, and he still didn't get the results he wanted.
During this time, he did not find any animal traces.
He saw several animals, but none of them matched the characteristics of the Bamboo Eater.
Their front teeth all look normal.
The Tyrant promised him to use the front teeth of the Bamboo Eater as a proof of completion of the assessment, they must be different, or at least more special.
Another half an hour passed, and the wind and clouds still found nothing.
His brow furrowed slowly.
He couldn't resist the idea of using the Serpent God's Vision, but he eventually held back.
The Snake God's Vision could indeed greatly increase his chances of finding the Bamboo Eater, but it would be beneficial and harmless to the training and improvement of his observational powers.
It's still early, don't be in a hurry, if you really can't find the bamboo-eating beast, you won't eat it if you use the snake god's eye.
Suppressing the urge to use the Eye of the Serpent God, his state of mind also changed, calming down a lot, but still not completely calming down.
He walked to a place where the bamboo was sparse, found a vacancy, and sat down.
He wanted to calm himself down completely, and then comb through the information he had obtained from Tyrant, as well as the information he had gathered during his time searching, to see if he could find a breakthrough.
The bamboo leaves are verdant, the air is filled with the fragrance of bamboo, the wind blows, and the bamboo shadows are swaying...... The atmosphere is very good, especially for meditation and thinking.
After a short time, Fengyun's heart began to calm down, and in less than a quarter of an hour, it reached a state where his heart was almost like water.
He closed his eyes, and at this time he seemed to have an illusion that his heart became a mirror, and everything around him was like a reflection on the water, one by one.
Of course, it was indeed an illusion, and he had this delusion because his mind was still, and he clearly recalled the scene he had seen before.
After about five minutes, he opened his eyes again.
A smile appeared on his face.
He slowly turned his head and looked ahead to the left.
His gaze moved back and forth over an extraordinarily dense cluster of bamboo, as if looking for something.
After a moment, his gaze rested on a piece of bamboo.
At first glance, it seems to be nothing special, almost indistinguishable from the surrounding bamboo, but it is different in the eyes of Fengyun.
When the wind blows, it sways with the surrounding bamboo, making a rustling sound, but it doesn't just sway because the wind is blowing.
It was sinking slightly, not much, and it was swaying, and compared to the surrounding bamboo, it was very similar to the surrounding bamboo, and it was difficult to spot, but its anomaly was still caught by the wind and clouds.
In fact, Fengyun will find its anomaly because he has discovered a useful piece of information before.
After meditating, Fengyun's sense of hearing also became keen, and he successfully caught the sound of the wind blowing the bamboo leaves mixed with a trace of discordant noise.
At first glance, it sounds similar to the sound of bamboo blown by the wind, but a closer look reveals the difference.
He immediately began to look for the source of the murmur.
He had a hunch that if he could figure out the source of the noise, the bamboo-eating beast would no longer be mysterious, and its true face would be exposed to his eyes.
Fengyun's gaze never left the strange bamboo, and his hand reached for the spear beside him, holding it firmly.
He grabbed a thick bamboo beside him with his other hand and pressed it down, and at the same time, he put his feet on the ground, his waist straightened, and the whole person rose into the air, flying three or four stories high.
Without waiting for the momentum of the upward charge to slow down, he threw his spear out.
Sou!
Fengyun used considerable force, and the spear made a piercing sound that pierced through the air, and pierced deep into the base of the strange bamboo, and two-thirds of the six or seven long spears sank into the ground.
The spear was trembling, as if something was striking him.
"It worked!"
Fengyun smiled.
The movement of the spear indicates that his attack has achieved the desired effect.
He walked briskly over to the spear, cut off a thick piece of bamboo, plunged it into the ground, and dug it up quickly.
As he dug in, the amplitude of the spear's trembling quickly diminished, and soon it was completely still.
After digging down about two feet deep, Fengyun felt that his hand was empty, and when he looked down, he found that a hole had appeared underneath.
He widened the cavity and found that it was not a cavity, but part of an underground passage, which he dug through.
At this time, he also saw clearly what had been stabbed by the spear, which was a gray-white animal with a slender body, and the spear pierced its back and nailed it firmly to the ground.
He grabbed the spear, drew it, and lifted the animal out.
His eyes lit up when his gaze fell on its mouth.
The spear had apparently stabbed its guts, and blood was pouring from its mouth, but it wasn't this one that really caught his attention, but its incisors, flat and flat, with very sharp ends, like a chisel.
If this kind of incisor is not suitable for eating bamboo, Fengyun himself will not be able to convince himself.
With such iconic incisors, the identity of the animal that was inserted to death by him is about to come out, it is a bamboo-eating beast.
There is also a strong argument in favor of his assumption.
It is somewhat similar to a gopher.
Storm told him and Ray that hunting the Bamboo Eaters was to test their training performance, so he was most likely to target animals that had similar characteristics to the Gopher.
Fengyun pulled the bamboo-eater off the spear and opened its mouth, revealing that its incisors were deeply embedded in the maxilla, very strong.
He pulled it out with great force, and it was the length of a middle finger.
He wiped the blood from his teeth with dirt and put it in a bag he had sewn from gopher skin.
After looking around, he carried the bamboo-eating beast and walked towards an extraordinarily tall bamboo forest.
The underside of the large bamboo is relatively open, not as crowded as the thin bamboo forest.
He found a thigh-thick bamboo, nailed the bamboo-eating beast to it with a spear, skinned it, gutted its internal organs, dug a pit, and buried the skin and internal organs, so as not to attract brute beasts.
He pulled out his knife and tapped it lightly on the bamboo, then he stopped in front of a bamboo tree, and with a wave of his arm, he cut it in two.
Immediately after, a stream of clear water flowed out of the place where it had been cut.
This is a method of finding water that Tyrant once taught him.
In the bamboo forest, some bamboos have clear water, which is very clean and can be drunk with confidence.
He gently pulled the bamboo, tilted it, poked his head over, and used his mouth to catch the water that flowed out, it was very sweet, and there was a fragrance of bamboo, which was delicious.
He cut off some bamboo, washed away the blood of the bamboo-eating beast with the water in it, cut it into relatively large pieces, kneaded it with salt and spices to absorb the flavor, stuffed it into a bamboo tube, put some bamboo leaves, and then sealed his mouth with mud.
Go a little farther, dig a pit in the ground, bury the bamboo tube containing the meat of the bamboo-eating beast in it, find some dead bamboo and put it on it, and light a fire.
This method of handling food can avoid attracting carnivorous beasts due to the smell of barbecued food, and at the same time, it will not delay his feasting.
He put some more dead bamboo on the fire, stood up, climbed up along an extraordinarily thick bamboo, crossed his legs around the bamboo, and looked around to see if there were any signs of dangerous beasts.
Later, when he opened the bamboo tube to eat meat, it was inevitable that some fragrance would be emitted.
Opening the bamboo tube, the meat was sent into the stomach at a very fast speed, and his body was greatly strengthened with the help of swallowing, and he was not afraid of burning at all.
There was a hint of regret on his face, the meat of the bamboo beast was delicious, and it should be chewed and swallowed slowly, not swallowed jujubes.
I don't know if it's because I have eaten bamboo for a long time, or because I cook it in a bamboo tube, but there is a fragrance of bamboo in the meat, which has a unique flavor.
Next, instead of hunting the bamboo-eating beast again, he quickly ran in one direction.
When I climbed the big bamboo just now and checked the traces of the brute beast, I found that there was a mountain in one direction.
He was going to take a look, and the main purpose was to find a safe place to store his prey and rest.
This time was different from the last time he hunted gophers in the valley, and the test of the storm was all-round, not only to complete the task of hunting the bamboo eater, but also to be able to survive in the wild.
Finding a cave to rest in is undoubtedly a better option than building a shelter in the wild, firm and safe.
Fengyun was fast, much faster than the average person running on the main road, but when he reached his destination, it still took him about two hours.
Fengyun still thinks it's worth it.
As soon as he came to the mountain, Fengyun found a rock wall, which was not the key, the key was that there was a hole two or three feet from the ground.
If there are no other creatures in the cave, it will be an ideal place to rest.
Fengyun picked up a few stones, put them in the animal skin bag, jumped up, and instead of jumping directly into the hole, he reached out and grabbed the stone on the edge of the hole and hung it in the air.
The stone was taken out of the leather bag and thrown into the cave, making a crisp crashing sound, and Fengyun listened attentively.
Tossed a few more pieces, still without movement, he put his head close to the hole and squinted his eyes in.
Although the cave is relatively dark, his eyesight is very good, and he can see it more clearly, and there are no traces of other animals.
Not very relieved, he urged the eye of the snake god, and suddenly the entire cave was unobstructed, it was indeed very clean, and there were no other creatures.
At the same time, he also discovered an anomaly, the inside of the cave actually had traces of excavation, and it was still very new.
A warmth swelled up in his heart, and he guessed the identity of the excavator, which was Tyranny.
In other words, this cave was simply a resting place that he had prepared for him in advance, but he didn't say it explicitly.