Chapter 13 Legs and Pulls
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Li Hang is very satisfied, you must know that half a month ago, he was not an outdoor expert, nor was he a master of wild survival. Now that he can do this, although he is assisted by the beast slave, a strong man, it is also very remarkable.
What he needs to do today is simpler, and that is to use the knowledge he has as a modern man to hunt.
What hunts directly with a spear and shoots wild animals with a hand crossbow? This is all too naïve thinking, what Li Hang has to do is to get enough materials and make enough traps.
If you want to get enough food in the world of prehistoric civilizations, it is difficult to solve the problem with strength, and only by collecting the wisdom of the predecessors can you get twice the result with half the effort.
Obviously, Li Hang will not take an easier shortcut, but he has to go hunting in person.
He first set his eyes on some small animals that often haunt the woods, such as the big squirrels in the trees, the reason why they are called big squirrels is mainly because the squirrels here are particularly fierce and large.
Somewhat different from the squirrels common in the 21st century, the big squirrels here not only have long and fat bodies, but they also have two slender fangs in addition to a pair of large teeth.
Li Hang has noticed in the past two days that these big squirrel guys seem to like to suck blood more than they usually eat insects and plants.
Whenever they are caught, they often jump down from trees, jump on the backs of some large and medium-sized herbivores, and use their two fangs to suck and suck blood.
Therefore, Li Hang named these large squirrels as vampire squirrels, he is not a biologist, nor is he a scholar of prehistoric civilization biology, he does not know whether humans have found this kind of vampire squirrel in later human data.
But obviously, it would not be surprising that later generations of humans did not find out, after all, the time is too far back.
These blood-sucking squirrels are one of Li Hang's targets, basically, each of their adult individuals weighs about a dozen kilograms, which is several times that of the common squirrels in later generations, and they are big, fat and strong.
As long as one is caught, it is enough for Li Hang to eat alone for a week, of course, if you add the amount of food of the beast slave, then you can only eat for two days.
The second target is the most common and most abundant bird in the forest, this bird is covered with blue and black hair, has a slender beak like a bee needle, usually feeds on insects and sap, basically one weighs about two to three kilograms, compared to the real poultry and chickens about the same size.
Because they look like king-sized hummingbirds, Li Hang calls them bee busines.
The above two goals are the purpose that Li Hang needs to capture today, but before that, he must collect enough materials to make traps.
Early in the morning, the vines were harvested, the rattans here were hard and tough, and without any knives, only with the stone axes that Li Hang had brought over, the two of them had been busy all morning before they could be considered to have collected enough materials.
After that, the rattan is peeled, and then the tree fiber material inside is torn apart, torn into one finer shape after another, and finally it is woven in three intertwined and crossed with each other, and it takes a lot of time to finally make a thin rope ready-made.
This is also one of the most primitive methods of weaving rope in the wild, in fact, Li Hang also omitted one of the most important steps in a hurry, which is to dry the fibrous matter and moisture in the rattan.
However, since he is only used as a trap to catch small animals, it does not require great requirements, so it directly omits this most time-consuming step.
With the ready-made string, the next thing he needs to do is much simpler, there is only one trap he has to do, which is an elastic lasso for the bait.
First, use the rope to make a snarl that can accommodate the head of the prey, then put the bait into the noose range, and then tie the rope to another branch or trunk with a large elastic pressure, wait until the prey enters the noose range to bite the bait, and then trigger a small mechanism to loosen the elastic branch, so as to tighten the lasso with the help of elastic instantaneous tension.
This kind of bait series elastic lasso is one of the most simple and practical, and it does not need to be made of too demanding materials, which is undoubtedly suitable for Li Hang's current situation of nothing.
Therefore, when it was afternoon, Li Hang began to set traps, and his primary goal was to catch blood-sucking squirrels, as long as he caught one, he could eat it for several days, and naturally he would not miss it.
Li Hang immediately searched for several trees that were often infested with vampire squirrels among the trees near the cave, and under the big trees, the squirrels often went back and forth through the main path to lay bait, and set up a circle on the spot.
As for the more elastic branches, it is easy to find, as long as you tell the beast slave to climb a tree casually, break some vigorous branches down, and plunge them deep into the ground near the lasso, then the arrangement is complete.
Since vampire squirrels like to eat insects, Li Hang naturally broke off all the insect limbs caught in the fallen leaves of the woods and put them in.
So far, for the lasso to capture the vampire squirrel, Li Hang has set up a total of four around 30 meters, and each trap is roughly more than 10 meters apart.
It takes a bit of effort to catch the noose of the bee forest bird, because this bird with the largest number of trees is generally very timid. They don't usually fly to the ground, so the lasso can only be placed on some of the thicker branch branches.
In order to avoid the destruction of the blood-sucking squirrels that infested the trees, Li Hang also spent a while thinking about the bait, and he did not hesitate to choose the seeds of an unknown vegetation on the ground.
These seeds have a bitter taste that squirrels don't touch at all, but they are one of the favorite foods of bee forest birds.
In order to capture more bee forest birds, Li Hang climbed up and down a total of six trees, and set up a total of six stilt-type elastic lassoes.
As soon as the birds can't resist eating the seeds, causing the mechanism to be triggered, the lasso will be immediately pulled up by the elastic branches, and in an instant, the birds will often be caught in their paws and hung upside down in the air, leaving them to toss and never fly out again.
Often as long as they are hung upside down for a moment and a half, even if these birds still have the strength, they will be hung upside down, causing the blood to become upside down and have no strength to struggle.
I have to say that all of the above is quite simple and convenient to operate, but Li Hang has been busy since early in the morning, first collecting tree rattan chairs, weaving strings, setting traps and a series of other completions, and the whole day has passed.
There are still beast slaves who have lightened most of the work, otherwise, it is estimated that it will not be finished today.
However, with these ready-made strings, if Li Hang wants to set up traps in the future, it will be much simpler and more time-saving and labor-saving.
"Everything is difficult at the beginning, let's get through." Li Hang comforted himself, then stopped staying, resolutely returned to the cave, and ordered the beast slave to block the entrance of the cave again.