Chapter 60: Hunting Is So Easy?
The queen sent Fred, the old minister at yesterday's banquet, to personally lead Chen Tang in person, plus a squadron of 100 Kingdom Guards, to rush to the limestone hills. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info this place is hundreds of miles away from the royal city, and it will definitely not be able to come back in a short time.
After two days they were walking into a hilly area full of broken rocks and overgrown with weeds. It is a vast and undulating place, and it is desolate as far as the eye can see, and there is hardly any life to be seen.
"Lord Brian, this is just the edge of the limestone hills, and the chime goats rarely come outside, and we will need to walk inside for a few days before we may be able to see them. The old minister, Fred, explained: "Her Majesty has sent five hundred troops to stay here to hunt the bell goats, and let us go in and look for them, and we may be able to find the traces of the bell goats without trouble." ”
Chen Tang did not object, and entered the hilly area with everyone. For Nemo, the lion he rode, with his swift body and pads on his paws, was not afraid of the gravel rocks that were difficult to walk on the ground, and he was bitter to the mounts and horses of the Cat Warriors. If you are not careful, your hooves will be twisted by the rocks, and after only half a day's walk, three horses have been wasted. Chen Tang suspected that the bell goats were also artiodactyls, how did they survive in this environment?
There's no way to walk fast, and it's even better not to ride a horse. In the end, only men were left to guard the horses, and they stayed at the edge of the hills, while the others walked deep into them.
It's not all lifeless, and along the way, you can always see small animals such as marmots and hares in the wild grass. The cat warriors are agile, but they have caught a lot, and the barbecue tastes good. Chen Tang once again discovered that there was no long-range weapon such as bows and arrows in this world. Even the dwarves were able to make crossbows and use the machine to fire crossbow arrows, but they never thought of making bows that could be shot with arm strength. Maybe you can try to make bows and arrows, and maybe you can change the way this world wars.
Of course, this is all for later, and the most important thing at the moment is to catch the chime goat. On the third day, they finally joined up with the 500 troops that were rounding up the monsters here. These people had apparently been here for a long time, and they all looked a little dirty and haggard. But the effort and the harvest are not proportional, in addition to the injury of more than a dozen people for so many days, not a single chime goat has been hunted, which is not miserable.
The old minister Fred took over the command, scolded the leader who was not doing well, invited Chen Tang to ask him what he was going to do.
"Let's take a look at the monster like the chime goat first!" Chen Tang didn't say too much, after all, he didn't know about this kind of demonic beast yet. "Are you still chasing the herd of chime goats, can you find where they are at the moment, I want to see from afar. Chen Tang asked the general who was reprimanded.
The general of the cat clan named Dennis was very respectful to Chen Tang............ Seeing the mid-level Demonic Beast Lion he was riding, he had to be respectful: "Your Excellency Brian, we have always been on the periphery of the Windbell Goat's colony, and those Demonic Beasts don't care about us tailing, as if they don't take us seriously at all. Ahead of the highland slope, there was a relatively gentle meadow, where the chime goats were roaming at the moment, and they could be seen clearly from a distance. ”
Let Dennis lead the way, Chen Tang climbed up the hillside, only to see a large open meadow in front of him, and there was actually a river that was rare here, far away, a few miles away, a group of animals with horns on their heads were grazing and eating by the river. These goats actually have blue animal hair, which makes them almost integrated with the surrounding grass, which makes it more difficult to hunt. If it weren't for Dennis's guidance, Chen Tang really didn't notice the large herd of hundreds of goats for a while.
"You five hundred people have been busy for so many days, and you have only captured one chime goat, is there anything peculiar about them?" Chen Tang asked casually. He was unintentional, but it made Dennis a little ashamed.
"Alas, these chime goats, though they make a loud noise when they run, are not easy to lose. But their speed is too fast, like a gust of wind, one moment it is clear that it is in front of you, and it has been completely surrounded, but the next moment it has already jumped out of the encirclement without paying attention, and you don't even have time to wave the weapon in your hand. And when you encounter a ram with a violent temper, it will attack you in turn, and the few soldiers we died in the battle just couldn't escape, and were killed by the chime goat with its horns alive. ”
"Huh, that's a demonic beast, you say they only attack with the horns on their heads, and don't release magic?" Chen Tang was surprised, feeling that these wind chime goats were not brain-dead? If a few wind blades or something magic were sent in an instant, even if it was a beginner, it would be enough for the cat clan warriors to walk around.
"Actually, we don't want to hunt these animals, they are very kind, and if you don't provoke them, they won't hurt anyone at all. But the Tiger Kingdom is our suzerain, and his king has commanded us to obey. Dennis sighed with emotion, after being in contact for so long, unless they took the initiative to hunt, those chime goats never took the initiative to fight back. You must know that the wisdom of the Warcraft is very high, and you must know that these cat clans have bad intentions, and if hundreds of chime goats fight back, I am afraid that five hundred cat clan soldiers will die.
Chen Tang nodded and did not speak, quietly observing the group of wind chime goats from a distance. This is a kind of monster that has no natural enemies in the surrounding limestone hills, and in the Northumbrham Mountains, it has long been eaten alive and there is no one left. Don't bother these kind animals, catch twenty of them and leave!
"Prepare yourself, tomorrow we'll go hunt the bell goats. Chen Tang turned around and returned, he had already thought of a way, maybe it would be useful, try it tomorrow.
Although I don't know what method Chen Tang is going to use to capture the demonic beast, since Minister Fred ordered him to listen to Brian's arrangement, then do as he is told. Dennis thought as he left the highland slopes.
The next day, after getting up very early and having a simple meal, Chen Tang led everyone to the river in the meadow. By this time the chime goats had left, and they were very vigilant, and only came to the river when they were drinking, and usually did not spend the night in such gentle places, but returned to the rocky area. These nimble creatures bounced through the undulating rocks and gravel, never hurting their hooves.
After observing yesterday and generally knowing the range of activities of the sheep, Chen Tang began to take advantage of the gap between the sheep and the sheep to drink water, and ordered the cat clan warriors to urgently start digging some small but deep pits in the places he demarcated. Although this kind of pit, which can sink into the horse's hooves, certainly does not do much to the bell goats, it can at least slow them down.
The Cat Clan warriors were puzzled, wondering what was the use of just being able to put one foot into a rather deep pit. But both Minister Fred and General Dennis ordered them to obey, and there was only one digging hole. Fortunately, there are many people, and even if they don't have the tools they can take advantage of, they will be busy quickly.
Chen Tang asked everyone to retreat to the hillside, he stayed by himself, and began to busily arrange along a specially set aside area. Actually, it's nothing, it's just some buckles. On Earth, in the fields where soybeans were planted in the countryside when I was a child, hares often came to gnaw on the crops. At that time, before his grandfather died, he made a noose out of some thin wire, placed it at both ends of the ridge of the soybean field, and fixed one end to a wooden stake and nailed it into the soil. Don't worry about it anymore, the next morning when I go to look, I will always find a hare in the ridge of the field that has eaten soybean leaves at night and accidentally stepped on a wire lasso and was strangled. Chen Tang likes this kind of activity the most, and always follows his grandfather to catch hares, and he will naturally be able to do it after a long time.
There is no iron wire in this world, but he has found an extremely tough beast tendon rope that can be completely replaced. The other end was tied to a thick wooden stake that was a meter long and nailed into the ground, which was definitely not something that the chime goat could break free from in a short time.
Chen Tang did not ask for help, but did all this by himself. Because he knew that the chime goat was very kind, he was afraid that others would learn this kind of buckle and catch it driven by interests, and the chime goat would soon perish, which was not what he wanted to see.
It took me more than two hours to finish it, and at this time I could already see the figure of the chime goats in the distance, and they were ready to come and drink water.
Hurry up and ride the lion away, and arrange tasks for everyone before the goats come. There is no need to hunt, just drive around the perimeter and let the bell goat run in the direction where he has placed the buckle.
There was no one by the river, and soon the chime goat, led by the head sheep, gradually walked slowly to the river to drink water. Chen Tang saw that the timing was good, so he let the cat clan soldiers move, and they began to circle in a large circle, passing through the periphery, until it was almost time, Chen Tang asked Dennis to blow the horn and give the order. Hundreds of cat-clan soldiers roared loudly and pounced on the chime goats.
The goats were frightened, but they did not panic, but fled according to their previous habits under the leadership of the head goat, but many traps had already been dug by the cat warriors around it. Although he was always able to jump out in time and didn't hurt his hooves, it also slowed down his speed. Almost unaware of the flock, they subconsciously avoided the direction of the trap and gradually ran to the lasso area along the 'passage' deliberately left by Chen Tang.
Almost had thrown the cat soldiers away, and the sheep felt safe and a little relaxed, when suddenly a goat stumbled under its feet, was bound by something, and fell to the ground fiercely. When he was about to get up in a hurry, he couldn't break free from the tough beast tendon rope.
Immediately after that, the second and third goats fell into the lasso............ At this moment, the head sheep panicked, bleated and gave an order, only to see the flock of sheep began to release magic, one by one seemed to have wings, jumped up more than ten meters high, and saw a tornado at the corner of the head, blowing the grass in front of him wildly, almost even the dirt and turf were scraped open, like an iron plough ploughing the ground. Most of the lassoes were destroyed, and Chen Tang watched the sheep flee in a hurry from a distance. Shaking his head, he knew that they would not dare to come to the river again for a short time.
Fortunately, it was not bad, and at least a dozen chime goats were trapped in the initial panic. In the past, the goats were tied, and these poor creatures were actually scared after they fell to the ground, and they didn't even know to launch a magical counterattack. Shaking his head and sighing, he took all the nooses before letting Dennis and the others come over. He didn't want to kill this cute animal, so he asked Dennis to take someone to do it.
The cat people have long been dumbfounded, is it so easy to hunt?