【055】White-bearded ape
This forest covers a very large area, and it is not so easy to encounter a hybrid beast in it, it is possible that if you are lucky, you can run into two or three hybrid beasts in a row, or if you are unlucky, you will not even see the shadow of a hybrid beast for a long time.
Fortunately, before Chi became a first-class warrior, he had been the leader of the hunting team for a period of time, and he had a certain ability to find traces, and he could tell from the feces, footprints or hair left on the ground whether the original owner who left these traces was a fierce beast or a wild beast, and where he went later.
As he walked, Chi suddenly stopped on the spot, as if he had discovered something, and slowly bent down, only to see him lying on the ground, carefully playing with the grass, trying to find clues from it.
"What's wrong?" Shen Nong asked with a strange bow.
He didn't speak, just picked up a small handful of white hair from the grass.
"What is this?" Shen Nong asked curiously.
"The body hair of the white-whiskered ape, a kind of hybrid beast that likes to live in groups, they usually only look for food next to the nest, and do not go too far from their companions, it seems that there should be a nest of the white-whiskered ape nearby. Chi said with a serious face.
Ordinary mutual-blooded beasts need to dispatch two first-level warriors to be able to kill them, while a first-level warrior can fight with the mutual-blooded beasts on an equal footing, and unless they give their all, no one can hurt the other.
And the white-whiskered ape's nest is full of white-whiskered apes, which means that they are not at all something that Shen Nong and the others can deal with at the moment.
"Wu, let's go look elsewhere, it's too dangerous to kill the white-whiskered ape. Chi couldn't help but say.
However, Shen Nong didn't have any reaction, just asked lightly: "Where does the white-bearded ape live?" ”
"The caves, just like us, but the entrances to the caves they live in are relatively high and small, making it difficult for outsiders to enter. Chi replied.
Shen Nong's eyes rolled, and he soon had a plan: "You can take me to find the nest of the white-whiskered ape first, and when I see what their nest looks like, it's not too late to decide whether to leave or not." ”
Chi had no choice but to follow the footprints of about five fingers on the ground and patrol forward.
Soon, the two came to a wooded area, which made people feel that there was a rocky mountain with no grass in this area, and the surface of the stone mountain was very steep and smooth, and ordinary people could not climb it without the help of tools.
I saw that halfway up the stone mountain, a little white monkey was lying on the mountain wall, eating a fruit very leisurely.
The little monkey has a long snow-white hair, and from a distance it looks like a big coat on its body, and the most interesting thing is that there is a pinch of white whiskers on the chin of this little monkey, and the white whiskers are as long as the chest, looking like a little old man.
"This is the white-bearded ape, is this too small?" Shen Nong asked in confusion.
The white-whiskered ape in front of you is about 30 centimeters tall at most, and it looks very small, and you can't believe it is a fierce beast when you see it at first sight.
"This is just a white-bearded ape's child, and an adult white-bearded ape is much larger than that. Chi said softly.
The white-bearded ape's sense of hearing is very developed, and it is easy to sense strange movements around it, and he doesn't want the little monkey who is lying on the mountain wall to eat to find out about his existence.
You must know that the white-whiskered ape is a very timid beast, no matter what kind of enemy they find, weak or strong, they will immediately choose to call out their companions, usually a white-whiskered ape calls, it does not take a few blinks of time to gather a whole group of white-whiskered apes, which is very deadly for some intruders who are not strong.
At the moment, there are only two people here, himself and Wu, and Chi is also very cautious in his heart, because he knows that the two of them are definitely not the opponents of the entire white-bearded ape group.
Shen Nong lay on his stomach in the grass, and the waist-high grass easily covered his body, so that the little monkey could not detect his figure.
Looking at the little monkey that had eaten with relish, Shen Nong reached out and quietly took out something from the animal skin bag hanging on his arm.
This thing is Y-shaped, with elastic tendons tied at both ends of Y, which can be pulled for a long distance.
"It's finally your turn to come in handy. Shen Nong looked at the slingshot in his hand and laughed softly.
Shen Nong's grandmother's family lived in the countryside, and when he was a child, he often carried a slingshot to hunt birds and rabbits on weekends, and slowly practiced a precise slingshot technique, which could easily stun a sparrow flying in mid-air within a distance of ten steps.
At this time, the little monkey was exactly about ten steps away from Shen Nong's position, looking at this distance, Shen Nong was very confident that he could easily knock this little monkey down from the mountain wall, and hit the braincase, and he would be dizzy when he landed.
Reaching out and taking out a stone bead polished to the smooth surface from the animal skin bag, Shen Nong put the stone bead on the animal tendon, and pulled the animal tendon back with a length of more than 20 centimeters, at this time the animal tendon has been pulled by Shen Nong to the limit, and it is straight in his hand, as long as Shen Nong lets go, the animal tendon will shoot out the stone bead at a super fast speed.
Squinting his right eye, Shen Nong accurately aimed the stone bead at the head of the little monkey, the so-called hunter is to kill with one hit, if you can't kill the prey by sneaking in secret, then the prey will react and escape, and even counterattack you directly.
Shout!
After confirming the crosshairs of the slingshot, Shen Nong released his right hand without hesitation, and the stone bead instantly flew out at a speed invisible to the naked eye, and shot the little monkey's head after one breath.
The little monkey lying on the mountain wall did not react, and without even making a scream, his body stiffened and fell off the mountain wall. You can see that there is an extra blood hole the size of a marble in its head at some point, which is the cause of its fatal death!
"Hiss......!" Chi looked at Shen Nong with a surprised face, and said incredulously: "Wu, you did that?"
"That's right. Shen Nong nodded without hesitation and admitted.
"This ......" Chi obviously didn't expect that Shen Nong still had this kind of means that could kill a white-whiskered ape in an instant, and looked at the little monkey lying under the mountain wall in disbelief.
And at this moment, Shen Nong's own heart was also extremely surprised, he had beaten a sparrow before, even if he hit the sparrow's head with a stone within a distance of ten steps, he could only knock the sparrow unconscious, and he couldn't let the stone penetrate the sparrow's head at all.
But now......
He actually pierced a monkey's head with a stone bead?!
When did you have this power?
"Could it be ......" Shen Nong looked at his hands, after eating two pieces of fierce beast meat that day, Xiong Yao also asked his clansmen to send him the remaining fierce beast blood, saying that he could increase his strength after drinking it.
Although Shen Nong hated the bloody smell of the beast's blood, for the sake of strength, he still pinched his nose and drank all the beast's blood.
But because he hadn't tested it with others after drinking it, Shen Nong didn't know if he had increased his strength or not, until today.
"It seems that the blood of the beast does have an effect! Shen Nong looked at his palm and said excitedly.
Chi raised his head from the grass to observe the surroundings, and after seeing that there were no other white-bearded apes nearby, he quickly got up and ran towards the corpse of the little monkey, grabbed the little monkey's arm, and immediately turned around and quickly returned to the original hiding position.
"Wu, drink quickly. Chi handed the little monkey to Shen Nong and said.
"Uh......" Looking at the monkey corpse in front of him that was still with his eyes open, his face was stunned, and the blood hole on his forehead was still spilling blood, Shen Nong immediately lost the desire to drink the blood of the fierce beast.
I had to wave my hand and say, "Forget it, I don't want to drink it now." ”
"Oh. Chi nodded, took a mouthful of the blood hole in the little monkey's forehead, and sucked it vigorously.
"Tut-tut! squeak!" The sucking was extremely violent, and the sound produced couldn't help but make Shen Nong's heart chill, and even a little sick to his stomach.
Shen Nong hurriedly twisted his head away to prevent himself from seeing the scene of Chi being like a wild man.
In fact, cooked food is not the only choice of the Huangqiu tribesmen, when they have no fire in the forest, they will choose to eat raw, and in order not to waste the blood of the beast, when there is no utensils to hold, everyone will choose to drink directly to the mouth, until they can no longer drink.
But this kind of behavior seemed to be barbaric in Shen Nong's eyes, and he would definitely have no way to accept it in a short period of time.
"Chi, since there is such a small white-whiskered ape here, that means we understand that the bearded ape's nest is nearby, how should we find it?" After waiting for a while, seeing that Chi finally left the mouth of the little monkey's head, Shen Nong hurriedly asked.
"White-bearded ape nests are usually built on high ground, and if we want to find them, we have to climb up the hill to find them. Chi reached out to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, and then put the little monkey carcass that was no longer bleeding into the animal skin bag he was carrying.
"Go up the mountain, ......" Shen Nong looked at the almost vertical mountain wall not far away, only to see that the wall surface was extremely smooth, and there was no place to stay, and ordinary people had no way to climb it without the help of tools.
"Wu, are we really going to find the white-bearded ape's lair?" asked Chi with a puzzled expression.
There is no vegetation growing on this stone mountain, it is full of stones, and the people who go up the mountain have no place to hide, and they will easily be discovered by the white-bearded apes who live on the mountain, in that case, once the two are discovered, it means that they will have to start a war with the entire white-bearded ape group, and this kind of battle, Shen Nong and the others will definitely lose, because they have to face an unknown number of mixed blood beasts.
Therefore, in his heart, he didn't want Shen Nong to go up the mountain to find the nest of the white-whiskered ape, and now it was an unexpected surprise to be able to harvest the corpse of the little white-whiskered ape.
"Well, let's see what their nest looks like, maybe I have a way to deal with them. Shen Nong said confidently.
There was no way, since Wu Du said so, then Chi could only do it, he walked out of the grass and took Shen Nong to find a mountain wall with a relatively gentle slope.
Although it is said to be gentle, it is only compared to the previous vertical mountain wall, and the slope of this mountain wall found by Chi is about 70 degrees, and it is still more difficult for people to climb it with their bare hands.
But Chi, who was a first-class warrior, didn't care about this, and saw him pull out the stone knife on his waist and slash directly at the surface of the mountain wall.
Bang!
The mountain wall was instantly cut into a dent about the length of an adult's palm, barely enough for a person's toe to step on in it.
He continued to climb upwards by stepping on this dent, while he slashed as he climbed, and soon cut a ladder up the mountain wall.
This steep mountain wall is more than three meters high, and after reaching the top, Chi immediately took out a bundle of rope rolled from the animal skin bag and threw it downward, the rope hung just at the same height as Shen Nong, so that he could climb along the rope to the location where Chi was.
"Wu, climb up quickly. Chi shouted softly.
"Hmm. Shen Nong nodded, didn't hesitate much, and directly grabbed the rope without removing mud or water and climbed towards the top of the mountain wall.