Chapter Twenty-Six: The Old Eagle
When night falls, around the camp where everyone rests, the murderer who disturbs everyone's rest is inferred to be the "old eagle".
Then the guide told us the amazing story about the old eagle.
When You Gui was young, he used to raise a crow. Because crows eat pests and are beneficial birds. The crow's pitch-black satin feathers will also glow with blue, green and purple metallic light, so many Orion families will keep crows in captivity after catching them. It is also because the meat of crows is sour and unpalatable, so they are not slaughtered to eat meat, so they are kept as pets.
Guide You's father, while playing with the crows he was feeding, accidentally discovered that the crows could even count to seven. The story is that one day, when he was drinking, he casually put a grain of corn (corn kernel) on the table, but the crow lay on the table, so he pecked a grain and put it aside. Guide You's father was very amused, so he put the two grains aside with chopsticks, and the crow did the same, pecking the two grains with his beak and putting them aside. Guide You's father was immediately interested, and after repeated tests, he found that the crow he was serving could count seven bags of grains, and he was immediately happy.
Then the father, when he had nothing to do, began to train crows regularly. Crows are found to be very intelligent and innovative, able to make tools and complete various tasks, such as using twigs to fetch food from crevices in rocks.
Another time, Guide You, who was playing in the yard, accidentally found that the crows he raised had actually placed walnuts in his yard. Park the farm tractor under the tires and wait until the tractor is started. The wheels crushed the walnuts, and the crows flew to the ground. A delicious meal was a great surprise to the guide, who was still young at the time, and left a very deep impression.
You said that although the domesticated crow is gentle, the crow is fierce and cunning, aggressive, and is an expert in group fighting, very organized, and everything is based on the interests of the group.
Crows are forest steppe birds. They often live on forest edges or mountain cliffs, and are accustomed to digging and pecking food in the wilderness. The cluster is strong, and a group can reach tens of thousands. It's rare to hear of crows acting alone, but judging by the scattered crow feathers in Scarface's camp, it should be a flock of crows, not a single individual.
But as far as I know, there is only one eagle that has appeared around our team so far.
I still don't know what the purpose of this old eagle is. But after listening to Guide You's story about the eagle, I felt deeply. Listening to a very wonderful detailed explanation about the eagle made me know more about this highly intelligent animal, and I couldn't help but worry.
Summing up the current situation, we come to the conclusion that there is a group of people with high IQ and high intelligence. The talkable crow stared at us, presumably related to Scarface and the others, possibly mistaking us for being an accomplice to Scarface and the other poachers. That's why it haunted us.
When we think of being entangled by this kind of animal, we can think of it being intimidated by ghosts. You will feel chills.
After hearing this, the fat man pouted and said, "No matter how clever a bird is, it will never be able to fight humans." You don't have to take the hairy beast to heart at all, do you say it's Lao Zheng? You are our military advisor, you give everyone a statement, little bird, it is not worth mentioning at all. ”
Scarface's group of people suddenly disappeared without a trace, and it may have something to do with this group of high-IQ crows, and I think this matter should definitely not be underestimated. Our team should be prepared in advance, so as not to be caught off guard by the deceitful birds, and end up with the same terrifying fate as the scar-faced man.
Now that I think about it carefully, the harassment tactics of the old eagles in recent days can be seen from this, and the crows have clearly gained the upper hand.
At first, I thought it was a fine yellow skin doing tricks, but I never thought that it was some ordinary birds that had been bothering us.
I asked the cigarette man for his opinion, and he felt that he should also be careful in everything, and he had to be careful.
Now although I know that the midnight ghost cry is the masterpiece of the crow, the night owls with extraordinary night vision ability have not been able to catch the crows, which shows that they blend into the night well with their black color. If they are clever enough to sneak up on them in the night, then we won't be able to guard against them.
I thought of the days to come, when the scheming crows would continue to haunt us, and we would have to be on guard against them, beware of an attack that would come at an unknown time, and we'd be exhausted by the fact that the ranks would be crushed before the attack came.
So I said to everyone, "We'd better start first." ”
"Entrapment", is the conclusion I gave. But when I was in Kunlun Mountain, I had the experience of failing to trap birds, which made me inevitably feel a little uneasy.
The fat man still said with great disdain: "It's just a mountain husband, why bother to make such a big battle, I don't know and think we are going to hunt wild boars!" ”
I really admire the fat man's character who is not afraid of everything and thinks about everything for the good.
The entrapment was finally confirmed, so the team slept only two or three hours during the day, and then kept a collective vigil at night. The old eagle, who turned out to be a chicken thief, did not show up, as if he already knew our plan. The hunt ended in failure, and the exhausted team had to sleep at night again.
I asked Guides You if they would let the team rest on the open grass at night, so that they could effectively detect the sneak attack of the cunning eagle.
Shaking his head in denial, he explained, "There is not only one old eagle that disturbs us. On the open ground, if we were to be attacked by hordes of old eagles, the consequences would be unimaginable. ”
The team finally decided to rest in the dark and dense woods.
After tonight, we will leave the hills and arrive in the dense mountains and old forests of the Little Khing'an Mountains.
The lush and lush deep forests of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains may be the real territory of the eagles, and this kind of thinking makes my nerves, which have been tense, tense even tighter, as if they are about to break. I only felt this nervousness in Guide Yu, perhaps because he was familiar with the relationship between crows. The other teammates, because they hadn't been disturbed by the crow's ghost cry for the past few days, seemed to have forgotten about it. But I know that this ill-timed atmosphere of tranquility is a sign that a storm is coming.
The storm really came suddenly, and I didn't expect it. I never imagined that the old eagle, which could hide in the night, would attack during the day.
As soon as the team marched to a relatively flat bare mountain hill that day, they felt that the sky suddenly became dark, and they couldn't help but look up in surprise.
Everyone originally thought that it was going to rain on a cloudy day, but as a result, they saw a large number of crows covering the sky and the sun, like dark clouds, flying towards us all over the sky, frightening everyone to immediately run away from the hooded rats in the south, east and west.
I put my clothes over my head and shouted, "Gather the team, don't disperse." "Look around for a place to hide.
When he found a small forest on the lower right side of the bare mountain mausoleum, he immediately beckoned his teammates to run towards the woods.
The woods looked very small from a distance, but when I walked in, I found that they were really small, and the trees were very scarce, and more than a dozen people were hiding in them, all of which were clearly visible.
After the guide rushed into the woods, he shouted, "Build a net." ”
When I heard this, I knew that I wanted to build a rope net on the trunk of the tree to prevent bird damage. However, under these conditions, how can we have time to use ropes to knot ropes, and before the rope nets are formed, we have been pecked into dry bones by flocks of crows.
However, the knotted rope net mentioned by the guide is not a rope, but a mesh hammock that we sleep on, and the four corners are tied to the four tree trunks respectively, forming a large area of protective net, which is very effective on our heads, but the area is not too large, and only one or two people can hide underneath.
When everyone saw the example of the guide, they untied the mesh hammock from their backpacks and began to build protective nets in the woods.
The sparse trees were still very effective in blocking the attacks of the old eagles, but there were still many crows rushing into the woods. In just a few moments, my hair was pecked bare, and I became bald; The shoulders were also pecked to the point of bloody flesh, and there was not a single piece of intact skin on the hands.
With my hands that were trembling with pain, I gritted my teeth and tied the knots one by one, so as not to be vigorously washed away by the flocks of old eagles.
Seeing that my face was covered in blood, Zha Ling'er wanted to come out from under the protective net to help. I was worried that she would be hurt, so I kept holding her shoulders on top of the protective net to prevent her from getting up. I saw tears rolling quietly from the corners of Zha Ling'er's eyes, so I reluctantly smiled to reassure her.
Suddenly, I heard a scream behind me, and hurriedly turned my head to look, and found that Liu Shao's right eyeball was pecked out by the old eagle, and the blood stained his face like Bao Gong.
Standing next to Liushao was the night owl of the smoke man's junior brother, he hurriedly pulled a piece of clothing, tied it to Liushao's head, and helped him rest under the net.
I turned my head, gritted my back molars, and continued my work, the hammock had to be layered a few more times to be safe, or it would be difficult to resist the large flock of crows.
Taking advantage of the fact that I turned my head to check on the six young people, Zha Ling'er came out from under the net, holding the shirt in both hands, and kept waving around me, driving away the old eagles that surrounded and attacked me.
I finally tied the last knot, and hurriedly pulled Zha Ling'er under the three-layered protective net.
The protective net formed by the hammock effectively resisted the attack of the old eagle flock, and everyone temporarily hid under the protective net. (To be continued......)