Chapter Eighty-Three: The Return
"Kusha root, blood leaf, seven-pronged palm, bloodline flower ......"
Ta and Tuo are counting the results of these days, and Shao Xuan is calculating the time, and it is estimated that the time limit for hunting has arrived, and he will go back.
In the days after getting the green thief, every night the team would play a few sets, but with little success, and there were no other things that could be used, and that night was really just a matter of luck.
And in the past few days, Shao Xuan has been running around with them every day, although with his combat effectiveness, he can't help much, but he doesn't need others to bother more, Shao Xuan can take care of himself, which is the biggest help for others.
In the past few days, Shao Xuan has also learned a lot of wonderful things, and once in order to find a plant like Seven Prongs, he almost directly confronted the tearer.
When the plant senses danger, it closes its thick bark-like leaves, wrapping the core of its body into a solid mass like a pine tower, and secretes a liquid that attracts the tearer. If it weren't for the quick movement of the hunting team, they would have been surrounded by a large group of rippers who had followed the smell.
Over there, Tuo has already counted it.
"Compared to the results of the last hunt, there are two less, but this time we found the wind signal and the green thief, and the merit is much better than before. Tuo said with a smile.
Ta also showed a relaxed look, this time it was indeed a bigger gain than before, "When the time comes, we will count it after meeting Ah Wei, maybe they have found the other two over there." ”
Wei is a high-level totem warrior, about the same age as Ta, and leads the other twenty people to separate from Ta and the others.
Ta said to the others, "Let's rest today, and prepare for the return journey tomorrow." ”
"Yes, chief!" the crowd responded. They can't wait to go back and are looking forward to sharing their experiences with other members of the advance team.
Shao Xuan was also looking forward to going back, but not because of the green thief, but because of the bird's eggs in his animal skin bag.
There were still more than a dozen eggs that were not eaten that day, and the rest of the advance team was not very interested in the eggs, and the eggs that were not eaten were thrown out as bait when they met the ripper that day, and the tearer also ate the eggs. Shao Xuan also threw it away, but there were still some bird eggs left in the tree hollow, which was what was left now.
Now the place where they stayed was not the hole in the tree before, but another place, and in order to find a target, their resting place had been changing, and one night they slept in the leaves, rolling themselves into a tube with the leaves, and slept all night. That night, the layers of leaves around the ham-like plant were supposed to stand upright, but twenty-one leaves were rolled into cylinders and hung there, and in each roll was a person asleep.
He said that the plant had an insect repellent effect and was one of the targets they collected, and when there was no place to sleep, they wrapped themselves in the large leaves of the plant so that they would not be attacked by insects that came out at night. But not during the day, the leaves of the plant become so hard that they can't be rolled up at all.
For Shao Xuan, this was a very novel experience. As for the eggs in the leather bag, he wanted to take them out and try them.
Most plants will die if they leave here, but what about the eggs?
The plants here are very unusual, and the insects that eat the plants here are also unusual? Further, is it possible to speculate that the birds that eat the fruits or insects here will also have more nutritional value or medicinal properties than the birds in other places?
Raw eggs have a longer shelf life than cooked eggs, and I don't know if this applies equally to these weird-looking bird eggs, Shao Xuan didn't cook them.
The next day, Ta ran back with the others, and joined up with twenty other people at the place they had already agreed, and one of them was wounded, but fortunately the injuries were not serious.
After hearing about the green thief, the other twenty people all stared at the stone box wrapped in leaves, eager to break it open and take a look, but they also knew that this was not the time.
When I came, I used those big dragonflies to glide down the mountain, and when I returned, I borrowed them.
When the sun was about to set, everyone in the advance party waited in one place, and some people climbed the tall plants to check the position of the dragonfly army, after all, the route they took on each return trip was not absolutely the same.
"Over there!
"Hurry, hurry, hurry, if it's slow, you won't be able to catch up, and you have to wait for tomorrow!"
Shao Xuan didn't need to carry those boxes with plants, he only carried a bag of animal skins, which was much lighter than others.
At this time, in order to catch up with the flight of this group of dragonfly army, everyone hurriedly ran over there, and Shao Xuan suddenly had the illusion of catching the bus in his previous life. Tut!
Quickly climb up the tall plants, tie a noose with a straw rope in your hand, throw it out to lasso their feet when the dragonfly army flies by, and when you are pulled up, if there are dragonflies flying below you when you are in the air, you will jump on the back of the dragonfly below. The rope is too long, and it is easy to be swept by the wings of dragonflies when hanging in the air.
As soon as they reached the mountain, the dragonfly began to flap its wings and pull it higher. The ground gets farther and farther away, and the objects below quickly get smaller.
Behind the green earth, tall plants fold their unfurling leaves, open flowers fold their petals, and various sounds announce that evening is approaching.
"Be careful when jumping, don't get pumped away!" shouted to Shao Xuan.
"Got it!"
At the moment when the dragonfly flew up the cliff, Shao Xuan quickly ran towards the tail end of the dragonfly, jumped down from the gap, inserted the stone knife into the mountain wall, and slowly slid down the mountain wall until he stood firm in a slightly flat place.
"Let's get it!"
Boom!
The dragonfly that he was sitting on flew a little higher, and when he jumped, he hit the mountain wall and rolled a few times before hitting the ground. Although he hit it, he still protected the box containing the herbs in his arms, rubbing his sore back and grinning when he stood up.
When everyone had jumped, the dragonfly army climbed over the mountain and went to the pool where they were resting.
"Let's go, everyone have a good rest, there are still a few busy days ahead. Tower said.
It's just that everyone was too excited to talk about the green thief that night, and they didn't sleep long.
After leaving the mountain the next day, Shao Xuan saw what they meant when they said, "There are many things that can't be taken away here."
The green earth was no longer visible, and the fragrant leaves that wrapped the box withered, turned yellow, and then fell as debris as the naked eye did.
Just relying on the mud wrapped around the stone box could not completely cover the breath of the green thief, and what made everyone depressed was that many fierce beasts seemed to be very interested in the green thief.
Originally, everyone in the advance team thought about instructing Shao Xuan on the return journey and helping him hunt some food by the way, but everyone was so busy that they couldn't even say a few words this time.
In order to protect the green thief, the advance team fought all the way, and in order to rush back faster, they did not bring their prey, and the longer they stayed, the more difficult the situation.
At the beginning, everyone came to kill one of the fierce beasts that came, kill two and kill a pair, and slaughter a row in a team.
Robbery of the thief? Door, no door! Dead, dead!
But gradually, everyone's coping strategy changed.
What? There are fierce beasts coming to rob the green thieves?! How many are coming? Run, run!
The people in the advance team felt that they had never been so wolf-like, and they could bring some prey or cut some souvenirs from the fierce beast on the way back in the past, but this time they didn't have that effort, let alone that thought.
Everyone has a strong smell of blood, and they are all blood belonging to high-level fierce beasts, and there is no time to scrub the blood stains on their faces, their hair is messy, and they are more sloppy than the children in the tribal cave, and the animal skin clothes on their bodies have coagulated blood clots, and they can fall off a lot of blood powder when they are rubbed after drying.
Even at night, they were attacked from time to time. Miserable.
Lack of sleep, fatigue along the way, fighting non-stop, running all the way to kill, killing all the way to run, also thanks to the average strength of the advance team, if you change to other hunting teams, how can you break some manpower here.
As a result, Shao Xuan, who was able to take a nap and be energetic, became an outlier among them.
The eyes of the others looking at Shao Xuan were all gloomy.
Shao Xuan looked at the animal skin bag, the bird eggs inside were still fine, he put some dead leaves and hay in it, and since he left, only one has been broken.
The rules of the team, except for the target, the things they get are their own, so everyone will not say anything about the bird eggs that Shao Xuan carried, and they are not interested in bird eggs, when they are looking for the target, they all eat a lot of bird eggs, as well as all kinds of fruits, and they have not eaten cooked meat for many days, so naturally they will not eat bird eggs again. However, when everyone bit the flesh of the beast, they chewed like enemies, and they crunched and creaked, and it was estimated that they were scolding the fierce beasts that kept coming up in their dreams.
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