Chapter 54: The Burning of the Forest
The number of bamboo-eating beasts in the bamboo forest is not particularly small, and Fengyun only hunted one in a morning, but his method was not used correctly.
There's nothing wrong with looking for the flaws that the Bamboo Eaters reveal when they eat, but the Bamboo Eaters can't eat all day long, and most of the time, they're doing something else.
In other words, just by capturing the flaws exposed during eating, the number of bamboo-eating beasts that can be found is very small, and it is not able to meet the assessment requirements of the storm at all.
Thankfully, he found a better way.
Listen to the underground through the bamboo tube to lock on the tracks of the bamboo-eating beasts.
Bamboo-eaters spend more time digging or running through tunnels than eating, and these activities produce much less noise than they do when they eat.
Even if Fengyun's ear power has been greatly enhanced due to the improvement of his physical fitness, it is impossible to hear these sounds, at least he can't do it now, after all, through the thick soil, the sound is obscured.
It's not the same when he inserts a bamboo tube into the ground, it is equivalent to extending his ears to the ground, and it is much easier to catch the sound of the bamboo eater's activity.
By being able to capture their voices, he can determine their orientation and hunt them.
It's just that it's very difficult.
The first is that it is difficult to determine their orientation, in fact, it is difficult to lock them.
They make sounds because they are moving, and activity causes their position to change constantly.
In order to hunt them, he had to pierce his spear from the ground into the ground, and the bamboo-eating beast was not very large, so it required extreme precision to hit them successfully.
This is also the reason why Fengyun failed many times in a row at the beginning, and if there is a slight deviation, the previous efforts will be wasted.
However, after trying again and again, summing up experience, and correcting errors, he finally achieved an accurate hit.
Although one success does not mean that he will succeed every time in the future, with the experience of success, it will be much less difficult to succeed again.
Fengyun's next performance also showed that he had indeed mastered the ability to hunt bamboo eaters with precision.
In the beginning, he often missed, three or four times out of ten, and even half the chance of going home empty-handed, but as time went on, his success rate increased.
By the time the sun was about to set, the chances of his success would not be less than eighty.
Looking at the dense bamboo-eating beasts hanging from the bamboo poles, Fengyun decided to stop hunting for the time being and go back to deal with them.
Back in the cave, Fengyun counted them, there were twenty-five in total, although it was not enough to reach the number of daily hunts stipulated by the storm, but it was not far off.
The most important thing is that this is what he has gained in less than half a day.
If you hunt for a whole day, you can kill more than fifty of them.
As he makes more shots, so does the experience he accumulates, which in turn increases the chances of success in his hunt.
Therefore, if nothing else, the bamboo-eating beasts he hunts every day will only increase.
Due to the limited conditions, Fengyun's method of reining down the bamboo-eating beast was very limited, but he still came up with a trick.
Using bamboo as a pot, he put chopped animal meat in it and boiled it, and he was stunned to make a delicious soup.
In the end, all the bamboo-eating beasts were eaten by him, but it was also the middle of the night, which took a lot of time.
Fengyun felt that it was worth it.
He discovers a secret.
Although the bamboo-eating beasts are not brute beasts, their efficacy is not much worse than that of brute beasts.
Fengyun can feel that they have a strong tonic effect.
After eating them and being swallowed again, he felt very comfortable.
Although the heat flowing from his stomach was much worse than when he ate the meat of brute beasts, when they spread throughout his body, it was like the earth being moistened by spring rain, and it was full of life.
I don't know if it's an illusion, after eating the flesh of the bamboo-eating beast, Fengyun feels that his vitality has been enhanced.
He was intrigued by the changes in his body, but he eventually gave up on the search.
He didn't have the ability to learn the deeper secrets of his body, at least not yet.
Three days later, Fengyun's skin bag had already placed two hundred and twenty-seven incisors of the bamboo-eating beast, and he had already overfulfilled his task.
There are still two days left before the agreed time, and Fengyun feels a little bored.
Before, he hunted the bamboo-eating beast to complete the assessment, but now that the goal has been achieved, he has lost the motivation to continue hunting.
As for exercising reaction speed, orientation judgment and prediction ability, he himself already felt that there was not much room for improvement.
By the time he completed the assessment, he was already able to hit 100 percent.
In the end, he could even directly lock on to the whereabouts of the bamboo-eating beast without the help of the bamboo tube.
He didn't know if it was just for him.
In the process of searching for the bamboo eaters through the bamboo tube, his hearing has improved greatly, and in the end, he can also capture the sound they make when they move even if he throws away the bamboo tube.
The ability to determine the direction and predict also seemed to have become his instinct, and after making repeated shots, he no longer needed to obtain coordinates through complex calculations as he did at the beginning.
Without thinking about it, he naturally knew in which direction to throw the spear, and the result was to successfully take the lives of the bamboo-eating beasts.
If that's what Storm wants, Fengyun has done it perfectly.
On the sixth day, after having breakfast, Fengyun wandered around the bamboo forest.
In the meantime, he had locked on to several bamboo-eating beasts and could kill them with a single shot, but he hadn't done so, he was already a little tired of this kind of activity that no longer challenged him.
"Why don't you go and see the woods that look like they're on fire?"
Fengyun's mind suddenly came to the extremely strangely colored woods he had seen when he climbed to the top of the mountain.
"Will it be dangerous?"
Before leaving, there was a hint of hesitation in his heart.
"Danger? In this strange world, the last thing that is lacking is danger. Even if that forest is in danger, if you dodge it today, you will still encounter all kinds of dangers in the future. ”
"This time, it's time to practice in advance. Besides, if you really encounter an irresistible danger, you can also ask for help from the tyrant, what is there to be afraid of. ”
A voice jumped out of Fengyun's mind and retorted loudly.
Fengyun turned and walked towards the forest, he was persuaded, in fact, he was persuaded by himself.
Three hours later, Fengyun appeared outside the forest.
As if agreed, there was a blank space about 20 zhang wide between the bamboo forest and the strange forest, and there was not a single bamboo or red-leaved tree in the middle.
Such a strange situation made Fengyun can't help but raise his vigilance.
He didn't rush into the empty space, but gathered his eyes and looked into the forest opposite.
It's calm, it's normal, there are all kinds of plants growing under the tree, and you can also see insects and small animals, the only thing that seems strange is the color of the leaves.
Out of caution, he urged the Eye of the Serpent God, but still found nothing out of the ordinary.
After thinking about it, Fengyun retreated.
He did not leave, but found a straight and long bamboo, cut it off from the roots, removed the branches and leaves, and turned it into a bamboo pole six or seven zhang long.
He held a spear in his right hand and grabbed the root of the bamboo pole with his left hand and leaned forward.
Bang Bang ......
Before stepping into the empty space, Fengyun twitched the ground with a long bamboo pole a few times.
His pupils suddenly narrowed.
As the bamboo pole hit the ground, gray-white smoke and dust were raised.
At this time, a sudden gust of wind blew the gray-white smoke and dust into the autumn leaf forest, and finally landed under the trees.
There was no change in the red leaf tree or the plants under the tree, but the insects and small animals that inhabited the trees fell to the ground after being contaminated with smoke and dust.
"What a terrible smoke!"
Fengyun couldn't help but gasp.
Taking a few steps back, and steady, Fengyun once again urged the Eye of the Serpent God to look at the insects and small animals that had fallen to the ground.
"Fortunately, they are not dead. ”
In the vision of the Eye of the Serpent God, their state did not change much from what he had seen before, and they were not much different from other insects and small animals that were not contaminated with smoke and dust.
"Do you want to go over or not?"
Fengyun hesitated again.
He didn't know if his adventure was worth it, the main thing was that he couldn't be sure what kind of benefit this adventure would bring him.
If you enter the red leaf forest and find nothing, the risk is not worth it.
"Do you want to go over and have a look?"
Just as Fengyun was constantly weighing the benefits and disadvantages, a voice suddenly sounded not far behind him.
Fengyun was startled at first, but soon calmed down, slowly turned around, looked directly at the visitor, and asked word by word: "Uncle Tyrant, are you following me?"
"No, and there is no need. I've explored this bamboo forest many times, and there are no powerful beasts, and there are no terrible poisonous insects, so I don't have to worry about your safety at all. ”
"So, why should I follow you? I might as well go to sleep when I have time. ”
Violent behaved very calmly and should be telling the truth.
"Then why did you suddenly appear behind me?"
"Why did I suddenly appear behind you, it's you leaning over by yourself. ”
"So you say you've been around all these days, but why are you here?"
"Aren't you the best answer to me?"
"I'm just the answer?"
Fengyun showed a thoughtful expression.
"Uncle Tyrant, do you want to say that you are here just to prevent me and Brother Lei from entering this red leaf forest?"
"You've finally figured it out. But isn't it more vivid to call this forest not a red-leaved forest, but a burning forest?"
"It's really more like a red leaf forest. Well, I have a question for Uncle Tyrant, how do you know that Brother Lei and I may come to burn the forest?"
"Young people are very curious, and it is rare to be able to suppress their curiosity when they see the burning forest so strange. Don't forget, I was a young man, and I know very well what you young people think. ”
Storm looked at the wind and clouds, showing a smug smile, as if I had already seen through you.