The ancients had a saying, "Those who live around the village are all hunters", which means that the families living in the outlying areas of the village are all hunters. On the one hand, this is because the hunters need to travel back and forth in the forest every day, so for convenience, the hunters live closest to the forest.

On the other hand, because the hunters are all strong and strong, and they know the habits of wild beasts, and they live on the outskirts of the village to guard their vigilance, in case some vicious beasts target the village and break into it and kill people.

Then Huang Dashuang's thatched hut is naturally no exception, since he is the top hunter in ten miles and eight towns, his residence is of course also set up on the periphery of the village, and walking forward is to march towards the woods, and to retreat is the direction of the village where the thatched huts are closely packed together and the smoke rises. So Li Hou and the others quickly arrived in the woods.

Huang Dashuang travels back and forth in the woods all year round, and knows the situation in the woods well, basically every time he returns from hunting, he will bring back a good prey, but in recent days, he doesn't know what's going on, even Huang Dashuang, who is proficient in the habits of wild beasts and can judge what animals pass by from the subtle changes in the grass, can't find any trace of the prey, and he hasn't found anything in the past few days.

This made Huang Dashuang, who began to plan for the future of his child after adopting Lin Lan, very distressed. Although he said that he wanted Lin Lan to inherit his skills, he knew that Lin Lan was born smart, and if he studied poetry and books hard, he would definitely make great achievements in the future, so he had already begun to prepare to keep money for private school tuition.

"Is prey scarce? Didn't two gray wolves pop up all at once yesterday? Hearing Huang Da complain to himself, Li Hou couldn't help but wonder if the situation was really so bad.

"Those are two gray wolf demons, probably from the Demon Pill Stage Demon Beast somewhere, who came to our side. The essence of the flesh and skin of the body had already been overdrawn when the demon beast was ignited into a human form, and it had no value, and even the lifespan was only three or four months. Huang Dashuang patiently explained to Li Hou.

"Demon Pill Stage Demon Beast?" Li Hou was stunned, this is a demon beast as powerful as a Jindan period monk, "Big brother, how do you know that these two little demons are running from somewhere else, can't they be the demon beasts in this woods?" Li Hou hurriedly asked, if there was really a demon beast in the Demon Pill Stage living in the woods, how could it make people feel at ease. A sneeze can destroy the village outside the woods.

Huang Dashuang couldn't help laughing after hearing Li Hou's worries, feeling that Li Hou was too worried: "Hehe, Lao Huang, I've lived here for so long, and I don't know what's going on around here, if there really is a demon beast in the Demon Pill Period, I would have moved away with the whole village, and it is impossible to stay here." You must know that this demon beast is actually the same as the cultivators, they like to take it with them in the famous mountains and rivers, where the aura is more sufficient, and it is suitable for them to cultivate, so they will not stay in our ordinary place. ”

Li Hou immediately realized after hearing this, and also felt that he was indeed worrying too much, if there was really any problem, Huang Dashuang had already explained to the people in the village, how could it be Li Hou's turn to be an afterthought here.

Then Li Hou followed Huang Dashuang to move forward, and came to various hidden places in the woods, which were all places where Huang Dashuang laid traps in advance, and there were baits on them that were full of temptation to animals and beasts, and the first thing Huang Dashuang did when he came to the woods every day was to check the traps to see if there was any harvest in them, and replace the bait in them in case they lost their attraction to wild beasts.

And as Huang Dashuang said, there are obviously countless traps that dazzle Li Houdu, but he didn't even fall into a single prey, Huang Dashuang had to smile bitterly and silently change the bait, looking forward to seeing a prey fall into the trap during the next inspection.

Since he couldn't rely on trap hunting, Huang Dashuang had to lead Li Hou to wander around in the woods, observing the possible foraging locations of each animal, investigating the changes in the nearby grass, whether there were wild animal footprints on the ground, and even better to see the feces left by wild beasts, which was more helpful in finding prey traces.

"What is this sound? Sounds so strange. After exploring a small mountain spring where animals might come to drink water to no avail, Huang Dashuang was about to lead Li Hou to other locations when Li Hou suddenly heard a strange "fluttering" sound, which was mixed with a strange chirp of "zhagu" after a while.

"This sound should be the call of the mallard......" The experienced Huang Dashuang immediately judged what kind of animal this was calling, and looked up at the branches of the surrounding trees, "Look, it's right there." ”

Huang Dashuang's eyes narrowed, and he accurately found the direction from which the voice came from, and stretched out his hand to point out which book it was on to tell Li Hou.

His eyes moved to the direction of Huang Dashuang's fingers, and on a big tree in front of him, Li Hou saw a bird the size of a pigeon, with a head like a goshawk and a green feather, constantly circling and flying next to the branches, with a "fluttering" sound between the flapping of its wings, and a "cooing" scream from its mouth from time to time, which was exactly what Huang Dashuang said.

Just above the forks of the circling branches of the mallard was a nest the size of a sea bowl, made of many tiny branches, and three white oval eggs were placed in it.

On the branch of the tree where the green-headed finch's nest is located, a flower snake with the thickness of Li Hou's two thumbs and a whole body of about a meter long is winding around it, staring at the eggs in the nest, but it has not made any further movement due to the constant screaming warning of the green-headed finch.

"This is a mother bird protecting the eggs, don't look at this mallard finch doesn't look big, in fact, it is very fierce, even if it is a bigger bird, it dares to fight...... It stands to reason that this snake will not think of touching the eggs of the mallard even if it is hungry, this is a big snake more than a meter long, and it is impossible not to know how fierce the mallard is not. Huang Dashuang said strangely, in his impression, the flower snake should not be included in the animals that dare to provoke the mallard.

"But it just so happens that we can eat snake soup and bird eggs tonight, and you must know that the eggs of the mallard are very replenishing." After speaking, Huang Dashuang walked to the tree, his leg muscles tensed, and the true qi in the late stage of qi refining in the dantian flowed into the leg meridians, strengthening his bounce ability.

I saw Huang Dashuang jump slightly, and the whole person was as light as a swallow and jumped to the side of the high branch at once, his right hand stretched out like lightning, and pinched the seven inches of the flower snake in an instant, and the fingers were slightly strained, cutting off the vitality of the flower snake.

The right hand pulled back hard, and the body of the flower snake wrapped around the trunk of the tree was also withdrawn. Just when Huang Dashuang was about to fall, his empty left hand quickly grasped the branch again, and the whole person hung on the branch as if there was nothing, and then hooked hard, and his body flew up again and landed on the branch.

"Brother Hou, you can catch it." Huang Dashuang, who was stepping on the branch, jumped slightly, and the branch immediately began to sway, and the bird's nest with a fork at the top also swayed and fell to the ground.

If this sudden attack was changed to the previous Li Hou, he would really not be able to react, but Li Hou's body had already been strengthened by the phoenix essence, and the ball of true qi in his body was greatly increased because of the integration of a small stream of phoenix essence, so that Li Hou entered the middle stage of qi refining, and his reaction power was extremely agile and fast.

The legs swayed, although it was not like Huang Dashuang who was able to condense the true qi on his legs subconsciously, but Li Hou's speed was not fast, and he instantly ran to the bottom of the bird's nest to catch it.

Then I heard another scream of "plucking", and the mallard's wings, which had been robbed of its eggs, fluttered, and its whole body turned into an arrow and rushed straight towards Li Hou.

And just when the scream of the mallard finch full of anger and provocation sounded, Li Hou felt that the phoenix essence in his heart cavity suddenly vibrated involuntarily, and a breath that only birds could feel emanated from Li Hou's body, and instantly oppressed and shrouded the green-headed finch, and the flexible body suddenly became as stiff as copper and iron, and fell straight to the ground, revealing the fear of birds that could not appear.