Chapter 422: Prelude to Domestication
Shao Xuan didn't touch the old man, he just left directly with his things.
When you come out to mix, you always have to pay it back, and you must be prepared to be robbed and killed by others.
When he came down from the tree, Shao Xuan didn't see the fat duck, leaving only a piece of straw rope tied to the tree, and the other end was pecked off.
Shao Xuan was not interested in pursuing the movement of the duck any further, he came to the place where he had killed the robber before, and the person who fell there had already blurred his appearance, as if the wax figure had melted, which was very weird.
Shao Xuan tried to dig up a little bit of the highly poisonous grass and take it away, but saw that after the grass left, it quickly withered, Shao Xuan only took away a few dead grasses, but after testing with prey, he found that those grasses that could poison a high-level totem warrior to death, after withering, the toxicity was greatly weakened, and the more severe the withering, the weaker the toxicity, and even an ant could not be poisoned.
It was useless to take it away like this, so Shao Xuan could only give up. Perhaps, these strange trees and plants can only grow in this place.
Shao Xuan continued to walk in the planned direction, and as he passed near the treehouse, he heard a bang, like the sound of large wooden planks falling and breaking, among which was the angry scolding of the old man and the cries of the fat duck, as if they were fighting.
"Ahh
Shao Xuan didn't look over and continued to leave with the packed things.
Over there, the wooden house that was originally built on the tree collapsed.
After Shao Xuan left, the old man spat outside the door and continued to scold, but his voice was much quieter, and he didn't dare to scold loudly, for fear of luring the little evil star over again. I'm glad I survived. The old man saw an emerald green figure fly into the house from outside, quickly scratched a claw on the old man's head, and ran away again.
A few strands of hair on the head, the roots of which are still sticking to the scalp and blood, are torn off hard, and not only that. The fat duck also left a few deep claw marks on the old man's head, and if its claws were sharper and stronger, it might be able to scratch through the head directly.
After being hit like this, the old man screamed in pain, picked up the axe and chopped, just now he was frightened, and now he encountered this fat bird rebelling, and he was so angry that his head smoked. Swing the axe vigorously and slash around.
However, the fat duck was not slow, and scurried about the house, and the old man not only did not cut off the duck's head, but chopped the hut into a mess.
The wooden house, which was not very sturdy, fell from the tree and shattered into wooden planks.
The old man who fell to the ground got up from the rubble. Grab the axe that is missing a hole, and continue to chase the fat duck to chop. However, when he reached the forest, the fat duck's movements were much more agile than the old man's.
As if to tease him, the fat duck led people around in circles, giving them a paw from time to time. It usually works honestly, and a big reason is that it is afraid of other people. In terms of combat effectiveness, the old man can only be ranked last. Now that everyone else is dead, only this old man is left, and the fat duck doesn't want to listen to him anymore, such a good chance to counterattack. It won't give up.
When the old man was so angry that he almost lost his mind when he turned around, the fat duck led people to nearby traps, most of these traps were arranged by the other three people, the old man did not know, the scream Shao Xuan heard was made when one of the old man's feet was caught by a clamp with wooden thorns.
Seeing that the old man had been caught in the trap one after another, he was trapped by the lasso again, and the axe was no longer in his hand, and he could not get out of the trap for a while, the fat duck gave him a few more blows, and then he swayed away and spread his wings and flew up.
Not long after the fat duck left, the sky gradually darkened in the mountain forest, and a black figure stopped on a nearby tree, staring at the old man below, and before long, another same bird flew over. They are nocturnal and like to eat carrion, which they produce if there is no carrion.
The old man was no stranger to these birds, and he had fed them with the remains of other people's corpses before, and now when he saw these birds landing in the trees, a sense of despair spread.
In the silence of the night, in this mountain forest, the silence in the forest was broken by a sudden scream, accompanied by a very tactful-sounding birdsong, and the scream became more intense.
Some beasts hidden in the dark corners, smelling the blood in the air, smelled the smell and went over to join the feast.
As for Shao Xuan, he had already found the way he came, and there was no cave to rest, so Shao Xuan rested directly on the tree.
Before closing his eyes and resting, Shao Xuan glanced at a tree not far away, where, behind the bushes, a fat figure stopped there, thinking that he was hiding well.
Shao Xuan ignored it, in order to deal with the three robbers, his physical strength was consumed a lot, so he made up for it now.
The next day, Shao Xuan woke up and continued to hurry.
Not far from Shao Xuan, the fat duck continued to follow, and sometimes when Shao Xuan saw it, it flew up and dodged, and when Shao Xuan didn't look back, it continued to follow.
Shao Xuan couldn't quite understand, what was this fat duck thinking?
On this day, when Shao Xuan was in a hurry, he suddenly heard a tragic "quack" behind him!
As it flew over the tree, the fat duck was slapped down by the paws of other large birds in the sky, and several of the duck's feathers were snapped.
After the fat duck fell on the branch, it was entangled by a snake on the tree, and its little claws could not catch the snake's body, and the duck's neck was bitten by the snake, and it couldn't even make a sound.
Shao Xuan swung his sword to cut off the snake, lifted the duck's leg and shook it, and the duck's neck swayed leisurely. He was unconscious, poisoned, and probably dying.
Shao Xuan looked at the fat duck that was no longer moving, tied the duck's legs with a straw rope, and carried it away, picking up the severed snake as well, and finding a place to roast and eat it later.
Many of the poisonous snakes in this mountain forest are very poisonous, but I don't know how long this fat duck can last, Shao Xuan is a little pity, it is not delicious if it is poisoned.
At night, Shao Xuan rested in a cave, which was one of the resting points on Gongjia Hengxun Mountain Road, and there was also a stone pot polished by Shao Xuan when he came.
Roasted some animal meat, boiled a pot of soup, and threw the snake in, Shao Xuan looked at the fat duck on the ground next to him, just at this time, the fat duck woke up, raised the duck's head, and met Shao Xuan's gaze.
"Gah!" the fat duck tried to dodge, but the snake venom in it had not completely dissipated, and its wings and legs had no strength.
Shao Xuan looked at this fat duck and thought about whether to stew it in a pot, since it could wake up, it meant that the snake venom in its body had been dissolved, and it was not life-threatening...... Just under the pot.
The fat duck, who was stared at by Shao Xuan and was about to explode all over his body, was so angry that he crapped again.
Shao Xuan turned his head, picked up a stone stick, and stirred it in the pot. Look at the snake inside, the poison of this snake, although it is not considered the top here, it should not be underestimated, even if it is a high-level totem warrior, you have to guard against them, but this fat duck, without eating any antidote, spontaneously solved it so quickly!
Yes, the poisonous plants that grow in that place are more toxic than other places, so it is speculated that the fat ducks living in that place will also have high toxicity resistance.
Shao Xuan looked at the fat duck lying there meaninglessly. Surrounded by roasted and boiled food, the duck was not interested, probably because the residual poison was still clear, and fell asleep again.
The next day, Shao Xuan was woken up by the sound of a duck calling.
The duck pecked the straw rope that bound its legs and ran out as fast as it could. Shao Xuan didn't stop it.
The stone blocking the entrance of the cave has not been removed, and the fat duck can only squeeze out of the gap between the stone and the entrance of the cave, and it is almost stuck.
When Shao Xuan got up, he moved the stone at the entrance of the cave and looked outside, and saw the fat duck turning and pecking in the grass not far away, jumping and flying for a while.
Looking at the jumping energy, the snake venom was completely cleaned up, and the hungry ducks were foraging, Shao Xuan didn't care, and didn't pay attention to what to do.
After eating the leftover barbecue from yesterday, Shao Xuan continued to hurry.
And the fat duck that was originally pecking in the grass, seeing Shao Xuan walking away, couldn't care about foraging anymore, so he hurriedly followed. This time I had to follow more closely than some time ago, but Shao Xuan's speed made this duck a little difficult.
Walking through the monkey forest, Shao Xuan came to the big river again. Looking around, he didn't know if the giant crocodile was still around, but he wasn't going to risk it, raft or something, he didn't plan to get it right away.
Shao Xuan took out a wooden whistle, which Gong Jiaheng made from the branches of the Gongjia Valley, and taught him how to blow the whistle, as for whether the hammer bird would give face or not, Gong Jiaheng would not dare to guarantee it.
According to Gong Jiaheng, Shao Xuan blew the wooden whistle.
Not long after, a bird flew over from the other side of the river, it was the hammer bird. It's just that after seeing Shao Xuan, the hammer bird didn't land immediately, and after Shao Xuan said a few words and gave a prey, the hammer bird reluctantly agreed.
While the hammer bird was eating, the fat duck landed from the sky and hid not far behind Shao Xuan and watched vigilantly. For birds so much larger than it, fat ducks are afraid of it.
After a full meal, the hammer bird took Shao Xuan across the river in a good mood, and the fat duck continued to follow behind, the hammer bird didn't want to give a superfluous look, this kind of small, it couldn't look at it at all.
When crossing the river, Shao Xuan didn't see the giant crocodile outcropping, and successfully reached the opposite bank.
Shao Xuan will repair here for two days before setting off, he didn't go into Gongjiaheng's stone house, he rested in the tree house where he slept before.
The fat duck rested outside, not far away.
Knowing that following Shao Xuan was likely to be eaten, the fat duck still followed. Because it is not capable of living in this mountain forest, it has probably been trained by the old man, lost some wildness, and has a certain dependence on people, when everyone else died, the hatred for the old man was vented, and he felt that he could no longer live in that mountain forest, so he flew over with Shao Xuan. But I don't want to, after leaving that forest, there are more fierce beasts in the mountains and forests outside, birds flying in the sky, which can shoot it to death with one claw, and can be seen every moment.
And Shao Xuan is also wondering if this fat duck has Stockholm syndrome, which in the words of the tribesmen is a prelude to domestication. (To be continued......)
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