Chapter 52: Meeting an Acquaintance
Above the fire, there was also her roasted jerky, which was soaked with salt, and the taste was crispy and chewy, and it was eaten with the broth, and the two of them were soon full of food and drink.
The sun was moving westward, and it was not too early, and the two were ready to return, and the hunt did not take much work, but the distance was long and time-consuming.
Qin Yue frowned, glanced at the useless bow and arrow, and was not very happy, but she didn't have anything to say, Liang Jian's target was a bison, and it would be a burden for her to follow with strong attack power.
She set her eyes on the sparse forest, the white sheep grazing leisurely on the grassland, the withered yellow weeds, they ate fragrantly, and looked at the past a few clumps of white velvet, spreading in dots.
She remembered the fluffy carpet in her bedroom, and the cashmere floor must have been comfortable and warm in the cold winter, and her heart was tickling.
Liang Jian seemed to understand what she meant, and shook his head with a staring face, "There are wild beasts lurking in the valley, and there is a smell of blood here, so you can't stay for long." ”
Qin Yue nodded resignedly, the time is not early, you have to go back early, it is not safe to drag it until it is dark, the bison is still dripping with blood, and the smell of blood is strong, and it will be troublesome to provoke a beast like that just now.
Besides, dragging such a big bison is not convenient to hunt white sheep again.
Seeing that she couldn't hide her lost look, his expression darkened, and he promised: "If you like it, I'll bring it back to you next time." ”
Qin Yue naturally nodded happily, but thinking of the long distance, he hesitated, and said, "Actually, it's okay, you don't need to come over." ”
Wool wool can also be substituted for other animal skins, and they are not short of animal skins.
"Gone. Liang Jian leaned over to pick up the bison and took the lead in walking back.
Qin Yue had to follow behind with her things on her back, thinking that it would be good if she encountered a small animal on the way, so she could let her arrow shoot once.
In late autumn, it is difficult for animals to hide their bodies in the forest, and they are no exception, and they have almost encountered wild beasts several times, but they have avoided them without danger.
Fortunately, the bison seemed to be dripping with dried blood, and the smell of blood was far less intense than it had been a few hours earlier, but it still alerted the beasts, and they had to be extremely cautious.
All the way through the forest and around the mountains and rocks, the animals they encountered were either eyeing them, or they were too busy to take care of themselves, or they were fleeing like frightened birds, and Qin Yue had no chance to make a move along the way.
Animals are frequent in late autumn, as if to prepare for hibernation, Qin Yue has seen all kinds of strange animals, they live strangely but harmoniously on this continent, fighting each other to maintain the balance of the biological chain.
It's just that I don't know why the place where they live rarely encounters all kinds of animals, except for a few small grass-eating rabbits and squirrels climbing in the treetops.
Qin Yue naturally didn't know that all animals had a natural vigilance to danger, and Liang Jian's long-term hunting had a hunter's blood, which was enough to make animals uneasy.
He had been hunting nearby, and many of the animals had escaped deep into the mountains, so he was hunting farther and farther away.
When he was still halfway from home, he unexpectedly encountered a group of primitive people wrapped in animal skins.
Due to the previous few unfriendly experiences, Qin Yue had no good impression of the primitive people he met halfway, and the two hid behind large rocks to avoid encountering them.
Through the cracks in the stones, she caught a glimpse of a group of more than a dozen people walking along the stone wall, they were armed with stone spears and carried prey on their shoulders, apparently from which tribe had come out to hunt.
When they got closer, Qin Yue saw clearly that the leader was still an acquaintance.
There were several encounters at the previous tribal exchange meeting, the leader of the black wolf tribe, the black wolf.
She still admires the leader who has never gone out to hunt, but only huddles in the tribe's cave and waits for the hunting warriors to bring back food.
He always chooses the most tender and largest piece of food when distributing food, but the rest of the tribe still has people who do not have enough to eat, and the rare animal skins also belong to him, which is the authority of the chief.
For this kind of predatory behavior standing at the top of the pyramid, she despised it for no reason, and thought that all the tribes on the continent were like this, but she didn't expect the powerful Black Wolf Tribe to be an exception.
The black wolf's arm was trickling blood, but he didn't care, and the stone spear was on top of a deer-like animal, which was carried on his shoulder. They were so far away that she could even smell the blood on them and the animals as they passed the rock wall where they were hiding.
The smell overshadowed the almost non-existent smell of the bison, and when they disappeared into the rocks in front of them, the two of them circled out.
Qin Yue looked around, the mountains were swirling, they were halfway up the mountainside, and there was a deep ravine on the right side.
She wondered, "How could you meet the leader of the Black Wolf Tribe here, isn't their tribe far from here?"
Among the tribes of the mountains, the nearest tribe was a day or two away in order to divide the tribes into a wider hunting area and avoid tribal territorial conflicts.
This place is far enough away from the footsteps of the Black Rock Tribe for more than ten days, but they accidentally bumped into the people of the Black Wolf Tribe hunting, either they were like Liang Jian and them, and they went out hunting for several days before returning, or they were next to the Black Wolf Tribe here.
But it doesn't look like they've been hunting for days, and they look like they're in the dust.
She couldn't help but turn her head sideways and ask Liang Jian, "Did you meet anyone else when you went out hunting before?"
"I've seen it a few times, and I've avoided it from afar. ”
He didn't know which tribe it was, he was alert when he heard the unfamiliar movement, and he avoided it far away before he could meet it head-on, not that he was afraid of anyone, but it was irrelevant why there was a conflict.
Hearing this, Qin Yue's brows furrowed even tighter, "It may have been someone from the Black Wolf Tribe before, and this place is not far from them." ”
There are a few times that happen to meet, and sooner or later they will meet head-on, and the hunting movement is not small. The Black Wolf Tribe is powerful, and ordinary tribes don't dare to provoke it, not to mention that there are only two of them.
Knowing what she was worried about, Liang Jian said disapprovingly: "This area is not in their hunting range, I will act cautiously, and they are not afraid." ”
Qin Yue knew that his archery skills were accurate, and it was not a problem to fight ten enemies, but the Black Wolf Tribe was an absolutely large tribe in the mountains, with thousands of people, and ordinary small tribes could not be compared with it.
He couldn't help but give a few more instructions, lest he despise the enemy at that time.
Liang Jian's expression was a little cautious, and after a while, he smiled again: "Before this happens, you are starting to worry about the sky." ”
It seemed that she was too worried, she blushed and said: "I was scared by primitive people, and it may be bad to meet on the road." ”
Primitive people have not been civilized, rude and barbaric and unreasonable, if they are encountered during hunting, there is a conflict of prey ownership as before, it may be inevitable to do it, after all, for primitive people, brute force is the means to solve the problem.
If it weren't for the Xiong tribe's ban on tribal clashes at the tribal exchange meeting before, they wouldn't have been patient enough to go out of the valley to retaliate.
The two of them encountered some small animals on the way, but they didn't meet anyone from the Black Wolf tribe again, so they must have taken a different route in the previous place.
When I returned to the cabin, it was just getting dark, and the daylight hours were getting shorter and shorter in late autumn, which was similar to the earth, the same 24-hour change of day and night stars throughout the year.
If it weren't for the fact that she couldn't see the Big Dipper and the Milky Way, as well as the strange initial changes of the seasons, she would probably think of this place as the Earth in prehistoric times.