Chapter 42: The Wolf's Lair
A mile away in the river, the two of them soon arrived when four tamed beast dire wolves scattered to guard the way. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, it is a pity that Li Hang touched it this time, and did not encounter any large and medium-sized herbivores, and occasionally there were a few wild frees or bobcats, which were very keen, and they quickly jumped away before the two approached.
"Look, these should be wolf marks." Li Hang suddenly found a lot of dire wolf footprints on the soft muddy ground by the river.
He had long been familiar with these dire wolf footprints under the guidance of the beast slave, so he didn't think he was wrong to distinguish them.
"That's right, these messy footprints are fresh and have been around for several days, and I guess the wolves' dens should not be far from here."
The two of them did not hunt for anything, but they succeeded in spotting the wolves and using them to guess the general location of the wolves' dens, which is also a good progress.
Suddenly, the beast was at the edge ......of the woods, pointing to a pool of fallen leaves on the ground, and several dire wolves were also circling in cycles.
"Dire wolf blood?" Li Hang's eyes froze, and when he looked down, the beast slave was telling him that the dire wolves he had tamed had determined that the ground was the blood of their kind.
"It should be the wolf that I shot in the back leg last night, so cunning, these wolves actually wiped out the blood all the way to here, so they didn't continue to cover it up." Shi Qiang thought for a while.
"Let's go, tell the dire wolf to track down these bloodstains and find the base camp of the wolves." Without Shi Qiang's reminder, Li Hang hurriedly instructed the beast slave.
Although the four beast-taming dire wolves also obeyed the drive of Li Hang, the lord, if they wanted to order them in more detail, Li Hang had to communicate with them through the beast.
The four dire wolves received the order and immediately opened side by side, while looking down and sniffing the fallen leaves on the ground, they walked forward together.
Li Hang and the others were in good spirits, and immediately followed carefully.
They are not worried about directly encountering the entire wolf pack, firstly, the life and rest of the dire wolf pack basically acts collectively at night, and secondly, they themselves have four dire wolves of the same kind, and they can smell the wolves from a distance.
Therefore, this time the adventure of taking the initiative means that the role positioning of who is the prey has begun to reverse.
With the smell of the four dire wolves tracking the bloodstains, the group moved quickly in the forest, and the group first walked through the woods for nearly an hour, and probably left the river for about two or three miles.
Gradually, Li Hang found that the environment of the woods gradually changed, first of all, there were fewer and fewer trees of tens or hundreds of meters, and the further he walked north, the woods gradually became shorter, which meant that he was about to get out of the range of this forest.
Sure enough, the two followed for another half an hour, and the sight in front of them became clearer and clearer, the woods were gone, and in front of them was an undulating grassy slope and mountain.
That is, the further north they go, the closer they are to the mountains.
The territory of this dire wolf is so large that the water source point alone is at least a few miles away from their burrow, which is inconceivable for a modern wolf pack.
It also proves that the creatures of prehistoric civilizations, with their wide range of activities, were a rare and uninhabited era, a period in which humans did not dominate the earth.
The grassy slopes and plains are getting steeper and steeper, and people don't even notice when they walk on them, but when you suddenly look back, you find that you have unconsciously walked up hundreds of meters from the flat woods to the plateau.
It can only be said that the continuous mountain range where Li Hang and the others are now is very open, and this is an unimaginable mountain plateau.
Just as the two of them followed for a while, and Li Hang felt that he could no longer walk forward, in a place on the right that was like a canyon and a mountain, the dire wolf who led the way to the front already let out a low roar.
Dire wolf's lair in the canyon that has sunk into it ahead?
It is unimaginable that the real lair of the dire wolves is not in the woods, but in the mountains and valleys nearly ten miles away.
"This is out of the woods, we have a clear view of where we are hiding, we need to find a safe spot before we can continue exploring the canyon." Shi Qiang looked around, and their current location was equal to the high slope of the mountain.
In addition to the tenacious vitality weeds around, there were occasionally some unspeakable vegetation and small trees, and the two of them looked for a while before finally landing on a giant scale tree.
This is also the only giant tree that can be found in the nearby field of vision, thick and hugged, more than 40 meters high, the reason why the two can recognize this is the disappeared giant scale wood, the main reason is that this tree grows too distinctively, its trunk bark, all like a piece of huge scales.
At first glance, it doesn't look like a tree, but more like the snake body of some kind of black python, which is very scary.
Leaving the woods also means leaving the protection of the giant trees, which will increase the high risk of encountering the dire wolf pack directly.
Therefore, now the two of them must first find a temporary safety point before planning for the next step, and this one of the few giant trees nearby, the giant scale wood, is the target that the two rely on.
Before there was an unexpected risk, the two quickly took out the large bundle of paracord on their backs and tied them up to make a temporary rope ladder, which did not need to be very beautiful, but it must be strong.
Soon, a simple rope ladder about ten meters long and twenty centimeters wide was tied out with umbrella ropes, and then Shi Qiang climbed the tree, looking for a stable focus point, and hung the rope ladder and dragged it down.
At this point, a temporary safety point that can be quickly climbed up the tree with the help of a rope ladder has been roughly built.
The two of them successively hung the baggage of their backpacks on the trees, and the two of them were slaves, and they also hung a water bladder on their bodies, as well as the most basic defensive weapons, and immediately decided to quietly go into the canyon to explore.
After preparing all the back roads, Li Hang waved his hand, and the four dire wolves walked towards the nest that originally belonged to them.
This canyon is not deep, it is about a deep pit tens of meters on the slope, and the two of them walked down after several careful groping.
When they came down to the canyon, they were greeted by a mountain wind, which blew from the other end of the canyon, which was a bit fierce and difficult to breathe, but more importantly, both of them smelled a rancid smell of blood.
Sure enough, it seems that the wolf's lair is hidden in this canyon, the width of the canyon is about ten meters, it is more cool and damp, the ground is rugged, and it is covered with raised boulders, and the surface of the stone is covered with moss-like vegetation, which is difficult to walk and very slippery.
Only large beasts such as wolves and cats would make their homes in this environment, and the bones and corpses of various creatures have appeared on the ground in this small canyon area, which is not wide.
As the four dire wolves were very familiar with the road, probably in the middle of the canyon, finally, Li Hang and the two were suffocated, and they saw it.
I saw a cave about a hundred meters away, in a mountain in the canyon, a very large cave, at least two or three meters in diameter.