Chapter 019: The Rhinoceros and the Wolves
After eating a whole layer of snow konjac, not to mention more than fifty palm-sized snow konjac, Lu was lightly ground by the freezing hardness and felt that his mouth and throat were bleeding, and he finally suppressed that hunger.
She was very suspicious that her stomach was made of iron, and she had eaten so much that she hadn't broken it.
After eating enough, it was like the body had replenished enough energy, and it was much more comfortable, but the cold was still cold, and the miraculous kidney did not move again, Lu gently and helplessly returned to his snow house, shivering and hugging together, I don't know how long it took before he fell asleep in the unbearable cold.
In order to find out the function of this kidney, Lu lightly tried to find a way to drag it out for another two days before going on the road.
On this day, the weather was rare and sunny, the sun sprinkled on the snow, glowing faintly, and as far as the eye could see, there was almost an endless snowfield, except for the mountain peaks showing a little dark brown, and the trees showing a withered yellow, there was almost no other color.
Lu Qing had a feeling that he would get lost as soon as he went out, and he was even more worried about whether he could stand walking in the snow for a long time.
Lu Qingqing, Dacheng, Ershi, and two strong young men, a group of five people set out on the road, wearing sturdy straw sandals, wearing pointed animal skin hats, and dragging a small sleigh with food.
The snow had accumulated deeply, but at first it was fine, but it was far from the cave, and the snow layer was getting thicker and thicker, and you could reach your knees when you stepped on it.
Lu Qingqing's face was a little chapped, so what did he come out for in this weather? This was the case all the way? When the Dapeng tribe came back, spring would come, right?
She regretted it a little, she was in a hurry, maybe she shouldn't have come out at this time, there will always be a chance to understand this world in the future.
Fortunately, when they came to a wide and flat place, they took out the planks with both ends upturned and tied them under straw sandals, and slid with two sticks in each hand, so that they did not have to take a pit step by step, and their speed increased a lot.
When it was almost dark that day, they reached a mountain.
Lu lightly thought it was Mengmeng Mountain, but in fact it was not, the mountain of Dachengguan was called a small mound, and it was said that Mengmeng Mountain was behind this small mound, and it was heroic and majestic I don't know how many times.
Lu gently raised his head to the small mound with an altitude of two or three hundred meters, and was silent.
Dinner is bracken root glutinous rice cake with snow konjac.
In the past two days, the tribe has made a lot of fern root glutinous cakes, pinched them like adult cakes, enough for them to bring out hundreds, while it is still hot, they use wooden skewers to insert them one by one, and then take them out and roast them directly on the fire.
Snow konjac is also roasted on fire.
The glutinous rice cake is slowly roasted and soft, becoming more fragrant and sticky, and the ice in the snow konjac is also roasted, which is really like a sponge, with a unique flavor.
Lu gently brought a few stone bowls and jars, filled them with snow, and boiled them on the fire to make water to drink.
Ershi said admiringly: "Why didn't I expect that when the clansmen came out in the past, they would dig the snow directly and bite it." ”
"It's better to heat it, even if the river is abundant in spring and summer, it's best to boil the water and drink it. Lu said softly.
"Why?" asked Oshiro.
"There are bugs in the water, so it's safer to kill them and eat them. Speaking of this, Lu lightly thought that these natives had lived a life of drinking blood since they were born, and their hygiene habits were particularly bad, and there were piles of and urine pits everywhere inside and outside the cave. Also, after the incident, almost no one went back to absorb it, and the hand went directly to grab something to eat......
Lu gently thought about how many parasites these people must have in and out of their bodies.
Dacheng thought thoughtfully: "I also vaguely remember that it was going to be like this, but the tribe drank it directly, and I thought I remembered it wrong." ”
"Probably Ayutthaya, your former tribe knows this. Lu looked at Dacheng lightly, he was very capable, he could make bows and arrows and use bows and arrows, no matter how he thought about it, he was not a person from a small tribe.
Now there is one more that does not eat raw water.
Before dark, they dug a big snow hut, and all five of them were crammed into it, taking turns to change careers, but of course it was not Lu Qing's turn.
After walking for a week, Lu Qingqing was already tired, and fell asleep as soon as he lay down.
She was woken up by a series of high-pitched, mournful screams.
The sound was like a baby's cry, but it was a little different, extremely sharp and long, accompanied by the roar of a beast.
Lu suddenly shook his head in a vague and sat up, not "beast-like", but a beast!
There are wild beasts sneaking up! And there are a lot of sounds, and they are getting closer and closer.
Lu got up gently, and saw that it was still dark outside, and the four people of Dacheng were guarding outside with a solemn and cold face, she asked, "Yourself?"
"It's the rhino canal and the wolves, and the rhino canal is fighting with the wolves again!" said Oshiro, grimacing.
Lu Qingqing only learned what the rhino canal was when he heard people talk about it in the past two days.
The rhino canal is a kind of monster, it looks like a cow, its fur is pitch black, but its cry is like that of a baby, especially when it is a terrible and long howl, it is particularly infiltrating.
Although this rhino canal looks like a cow, this girl is a carnivore, and likes to eat people, because of its strong physique, its attack power is also extremely strong, so it is a very dangerous and terrifying beast in the eyes of the natives.
Lu asked gently, "Is it the one you encountered?" But this is no longer the range of rhino canals and wolves. ”
"Listen to the sound, they're running this way!
Ayutthaya immediately took people to hide in the woods in the distance.
Said to be a forest, in fact, it was just a few bushes, bare branches, just now their firewood was taken from here, can not play any block, fortunately with good intentions some big rocks, they quickly and calmly hid behind the rocks, and then one by one brought out the ...... A crossbow.
This is the reason why Lu Qingqing dragged on for three days before leaving.
She's making a crossbow.
The production principle of this thing is not difficult, even children can make toothpick crossbows in later generations, as a person with a retired officer and a grandfather who is a fan of cold weapons, it is not difficult for Lu Qing to make a crossbow.
The difficulty lies in the simplicity of the tools made of chord materials.
As for the strings, they are all made of a kind of golden black vine after peeling off the outer skin, taking the most tenacious core in the middle, and twisting several strands into a strand, which is both elastic and very tough.
Because of the poor workmanship and poor running-in of the parts, the range of this crossbow is limited, only about ten meters, and the accuracy is not high, but compared with the stone knife and stone axe, it has a great advantage in long-range attack.
The view was poor at night, but there was a moon tonight, and the moonlight reflected back on the snowfield, shining the earth quite brightly.
In a burst of banging sounds, I saw a black shadow like Chery rushing towards him, Lu Qing couldn't believe it, although this piece is a slope and the snow is thin upstream, but such a huge body actually runs so fast, it is simply unscientific.
The black shadow screamed as it ran, and the object of its pursuit was a few wolves that seemed to be wounded, and those wolves couldn't run fast, and one of them was the most behind, and then the black giant shadow jumped up, and Tarzan stepped on it like a top under the hoof, and bit off the neck fiercely.