Chapter 37: Surfacing

The sun only showed its face for one day, and the next day after noon, the sky began to snow again, and after two good snowfalls, when I stood on the rabbit hill and looked around, my eyes were already white and snowy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Liu Zixuan has been in a good mood in recent days, he didn't have to think too much about the unexpected harvest, with the old hunter in the winter of the previous years into the mountains to hunt ferrets, he has won both sides of the east and west, and now he is an experienced ferret. However, under the snowflakes that were all over the sky, there was still a bow clip left in the mountains and forests waiting for the prey, the one that had repeatedly missed at the entrance of the cave on the western slope. All previous signs showed that there was undoubtedly an unusually cunning guy living in the cave, and Liu Zixuan, who was curious and unwilling to admit defeat, could put such a place, so in this snowy afternoon, he went to the foot of the west slope alone, wanting to completely solve all kinds of doubts in his heart.

Liu Zixuan got off the rabbit hill with his empty hands, walked a short distance along the path leading to the cemetery platform, then turned his head and left the trail to the west, walked out of a small wood, passed the sour jujube tree, and then went west from the labyrinthine shrub, under the snow, and soon arrived at his destination.

The bow clip was still lying there quietly, the snow had covered all the previous traces, but fortunately there was a bush above the bow clip, not covered with too much snow, and the palm-sized pedal in the middle could still be seen. This time Liu Zixuan did not approach the entrance of the cave, only stretched out his head to look at it from a distance, and then shrank into the small shack that had been erected a few days ago. This matter is far beyond imagination, and it has already deteriorated into a heart disease in the past few days, which is really unpleasant.

The fluttering snowflakes kept floating, and the small bunker made of dead branches inevitably had gaps, and a large number of snow flakes drilled in from the holes and accumulated on Liu Zixuan's back.

Now that on snowy days, not only do wild mice and hares appear on the snow, but many birds are also forced to land from branches to the ground to dig snow to feed, and for weasels, all this becomes an excellent predatory opportunity, and the probability of burrowing out of the hole is bound to increase.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and in the vast snowfield, Liu Zixuan endured the cold under the cover, lying motionless in the snow nest, grabbing a few mouthfuls of snow and holding it in his mouth from time to time, trying to exhale steam so as not to expose his whereabouts. At this time, Liu Zixuan had already become one with this nature, and even his footprints when he came were slowly covered by the falling snow, which was exactly the result he wanted, so that no animal would ever be aware that there was a hunter hiding in this wilderness.

About two hours passed, and Liu Zixuan watched the snow on the ground in front of him thicken layer by layer, but there was no movement at the entrance of the cave. He knew in his heart that this kind of squatting was a contest of patience between humans and animals, and he had to persevere calmly until he witnessed the truth in order to become the ultimate winner of this contest. Lying in the snow nest, remembering that his father spent nine days ambushing the she-wolf, and then thinking about his current self squatting in this cold and snowy place, Liu Zixuan felt ridiculous.

I was thinking wildly when there was movement in the hole in front of me.

A small head with two round black eyes slowly poked out of the hole, stayed in front of the bow clamp at the entrance of the cave for a moment, and then quickly retracted. After just one glance, Liu Zixuan's heartbeat turned out to be stronger, it was really a cunning big guy, and today he finally saw its true face with his own eyes, this weasel obviously knew the danger at the entrance of the cave, and would not easily get out of the hole again. The prey was about to come out of the hole, and Liu Zixuan didn't dare to blink when he saw it, for fear that he would ruin the peace in front of him and arouse the vigilance of the opponent by his slightest mistake, so he only focused all his attention on the hole in front of him, to see how it passed through this trap set up by his heart.

Not long after retreating into the hole, the little head poked out like a ghost, this time it appeared, it looked more cautious than the previous time, and the movements were more slow, looking from a distance, it was like a big fish slowly rising to the surface, and Liu Zixuan saw a trace of horror in his heart.

After a few seconds, the weasel retreated back into the hole.

This thing is really alert, and after three outs and three in, it still hasn't come out of the hole. Liu Zixuan was hung up but didn't see it stepping on the bow clamp, and he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, did it know that there were hunters ambushed in front of his cave? After thinking about it, I felt that it was unlikely, two or three hours ago, it should have been sleeping, and for fear of alarming it, Liu Zixuan just glanced at the entrance of the cave from a distance, and did not approach it at all, and during the time he was hiding, he did not make any movement!

Just when Liu Zixuan was suspicious, he saw the little head poke out again, this time, it did not retract into the hole like the previous two times, after staying at the hole for a while, I saw it slowly leaned out of half of its body, and stretched out the two stubby forelimbs from the gap between the bow clamp and the pedal one after another, so that it actually stabilized its front body on the ground under the bow clamp, and then it slowly stretched the thick neck forward, until the entire head extended directly above the pedal!

A shocking scene happened in front of Liu Zixuan's eyes, in his opinion, that kind of action is undoubtedly extremely dangerous for this weasel, if its neck accidentally presses the pedal, as long as the pedal sinks slightly, the other ride fixed on the pedal will inevitably be displaced, once the thimble loses the barrier of the other pair, the tiger's mouth will lose the control of the thimble rope at the root, and under the strong pull of the spring at the bottom of the bow clip, the tiger's mouth will close in an instant - in this way, It is not just the forelimbs that clamp this weasel, but its entire head, if it is caught in the neck, it will not take half a minute to die!

However, imagination is imagination after all, and the scene in front of him is not as Liu Zixuan expected. After the weasel put its head above the pedal, there was no follow-up movement, it just froze there, and the tiger's mouth of the bow clamped showed no signs of biting.

Liu Zixuan knew that it was impossible for the clamp to bite, otherwise how could it pass through the mechanism safely the first two times without being injured! But what is this weasel doing? Putting its whole head on the pedal of the bow clamp, is it provocative? Looking at the strange behavior of the animal in front of him, Liu Zixuan was full of suspicions.

For half an hour, the weasel froze above the bow clip, motionless, like a finely crafted taxidermy.

Liu Zixuan couldn't imagine what it was doing, so he could only watch quietly, like the weasel in front of him, motionless.

The temperature around him was getting lower and lower, Liu Zixuan shivered from the cold, and after holding on for more than half an hour, he saw the weasel slowly retract its neck, and then retracted its two forelimbs one after another, and then withdrew its whole body into the hole.

Mom, could it be that this guy really has some supernatural ability to communicate with that bow clip? Is it there to talk to the bow clip? Otherwise, what is it doing that?

After the weasel retreated to the cave, Liu Zixuan waited quietly for a few more minutes before he saw the guy poke his head out again. Once again, it probed out of the hole, but it repeated its previous movements, and stretched its head over the bow clamp pedal again. It's not hard to see that it's already familiar with this series of moves, and it's long since it expects that it won't trigger the trap and kill it.

After another half an hour or so, the weasel withdrew again into the cave.

The snow had been falling for a long time, and the snow was getting smaller and smaller, and the branches of the surrounding bushes had been bent by the snow, swaying gently in the cold breeze...... At this time, Liu Zixuan didn't have the heart to enjoy the snow scene in front of him, and his two eyes were still staring at the cave.

After withdrawing into the cave for the second time, it was not long before the weasel was seen quickly emerging from the hole and passing safely above the bow clip, which should have been closed and exploded, was still as silent as the surrounding mountains and forests. A yellow wolf bow was placed in the wilderness by the hunters, and its whole mission was to wait for the moment to come, but now that the time was now, why did it pretend to be deaf and dumb?

A sturdy weasel finally showed its full body in front of Liu Zixuan's eyes, it sat up straight at the entrance of the cave, stretched its neck and looked around, alertly understanding the surrounding environment, but in Liu Zixuan's opinion, it was more like appreciating this God-given beauty. Isn't that the one? It is the red weasel that made a hole in the grave, Liu Zixuan hated not to bring the gun out, otherwise it would have ended its life with one shot today, and it could also settle the circle of hatred that had been haunting his heart for months.

After sitting for a moment, he glanced back at the bow clip in front of his house, and saw the ghostly creature calmly lean down and sweep the snow with his long thick tail a few times, and then swept away the string of plum blossom-shaped toe prints that connected from the hole to the bottom of it. In this way, it slowly moved away from the mouth of the cave, crawling slowly while not forgetting to wag its tail from side to side on the snow. It wasn't until he was far away from his cave that he saw it leaping and striding forward, showing its arc-shaped slender body high and low.

In Liu Zixuan's eyes, this yellow skin is not just a long tail, but more like a banner of victory, and the loser is Liu Zixuan himself. The weasel had already gone away, and the scene left in front of Liu Zixuan was still the same as when he first came, the bow clamp had not exploded, and there was no trace on the snow. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, how could he have imagined that such a thrilling and bizarre phenomenon had just appeared on this seemingly ordinary snow surface in front of him?

That's it, a weasel passed through the yellow wolf bow unscathed, and it happened in front of Liu Zixuan's eyes. After watching the weasel's various performances, Liu Zixuan's heart rose not only doubts, but also a lot of fear and panic, what did he do to the clip? It seems that those bizarre legends are not groundless, the weasel must have some kind of mysterious power that no one knows, and it must have cast some kind of spell on the bow clip just now, so that it could not be triggered normally at that critical moment! Otherwise, why did a weasel as big as a head pass over it, and the bow clip was dumbfounded?

After being silent under the bunker for a long time, Liu Zixuan withdrew and retreated. Standing on the vast snowfield again, the cold wind blew and the snow flakes drilled into his neckline, and he felt a chill to his bones.

When Liu Zixuan walked closer to the cave to take a closer look at the bow clip, the gloom on his face turned into a smile that was still immature.

Where the thimble of the clip meets the donor, there is a small lump of ice the size of a pea! Seeing the lump of ice beans, the doubts and horrors in Liu Zixuan's heart disappeared in an instant. It turned out that the weasel had no abnormal magic power at all, it just used the hot breath exhaled from its mouth to condense into water on the surface of the iron tool, and the low temperature solidified the water vapor into a hard ice lump, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing the thimble from separating from the other partner, and in this way, it easily dissolved this dangerous and deadly mechanism without the help of any tools. No wonder it stayed there stiff for so long! The previous few times out of the hole, it must have used the same method, but when Liu Zixuan checked the bow clip, the ice beans had already melted into water and evaporated into vapor in the daytime sun, at that time, how could he find any abnormalities in the bow clip?

It seems that the minds of animals have indeed gone far beyond people's imagination, which is probably the origin of those terrible legends. Looking at the bow clip, Liu Zixuan thought in his heart.

After standing in the snow field for a while, Liu Zixuan withdrew this futile bow clip from the entrance of the cave, he didn't want to chase this clever and witty weasel anymore - since nature gave birth to such a different life, let's keep it in nature first. Isn't the evolution of all their means of survival precisely because of human hunting? It seems that that a pair of exquisite skins should not be worn on people's bodies.

(To be continued)