Chapter 12: Fight!
The weather is indeed sunny today.
The river is also calm, very quiet, there is no wind, and a few days ago the water on the bank of the river would wash the shallows wave after wave, but today, this is not the case.
It's so calm, it's a little weird.
The water is not clear, the shoals are fine, and a meter further out, a little deeper, you can't see the bottom of the water.
In such a crisis-ridden world that cannot be judged by common sense, we cannot underestimate any detail, and to ignore it is to die. What's more, the river is considered by the tribe to be as dangerous as the Black Marsh, and being able to fish in the past few days does not mean that it is safe.
Seeing Shao Xuan's appearance, the child, who was originally excited, stopped his movements in confusion and stepped back. They are greedy and not smart, but they are not stupid, and they will spare their lives. Besides, the events during this period of time made them have a lot of trust in Shao Xuan, and after retreating, they all looked at Shao Xuan.
Shao Xuan stood on the bank, looking at the calm river in front of him, thinking.
The river is still calm, but other than that, it's not much different than usual. The river did not change color, and nothing suspicious appeared.
Is it too suspicious?
Suddenly, white translucent creatures appeared in front of them, like upside-down shuttlecocks, with many whisker-like tentacles. Swim with the swing of the tentacles.
With the experience of the previous few times, Shao Xuan knew that such a situation would not appear for no reason, it should be that there is such a creature in the water, and this thing is still very dangerous.
Shao Xuan took the straw rope that tied the stone insect and threw it into the water, and the place where the stone insect fell into the water was only two meters from the shore. After the stone worm fell into the water, Shao Xuan did not feel the violent pull of the piranha biting bait through the guò grass rope.
The black block floating on the surface of the water is trembling gently, if you don't look closely, you will only think that the stone worm below is struggling, but after fishing for a few days, Shao Xuan is very familiar with the situation of the stone worm struggling, but the current fact is that the black block on the water surface is trembling slightly smaller than before, and there is a tendency to tremble even less.
Shao Xuan pulled the straw rope back, and when he saw the appearance of the stone worm, the little cubs who had been staring at this side all gathered around.
The stone worm was not bitten off, but the whole body of the insect was white, shrunk in a circle, and still stiff, maintaining the twisted state of the underwater struggle.
Placing the deformed stone insect on the ground, Shao Xuan used the back of the stone knife to hit the insect body a little harder.
Click!
After a slight crunch, the stone worm broke, brittle, and completely devoid of the soft body of a normal stone worm.
The little cubs standing next to them looked horrified. If a person goes into the water, will it also become shriveled and hard and brittle, and it will break as soon as it is broken?
No one dared to try, not even touch the water, and avoided it from afar.
Shao Xuan threw a few more stone worms into the water, every time it was the same situation, it could turn into a brittle dried worm in a few seconds, and there was not a single fish bite bait in the water for a long time.
"It's either that the fish aren't interested in dried worms, or that there are no fish around today at all. Now there's something terrible in the water, and the fish may have run away, and it will probably not come back until the creature leaves. Shao Xuan took back the straw rope and said.
"That'...... When will the fish come back?" asked one child. Now they are not afraid of the hideous-looking piranhas, but they are looking forward to seeing them, and they are panicking when they don't see them for a day.
"I don't know, I'll come back tomorrow. Shao Xuan shook his head, and went over to briefly talk to the two soldiers who were in charge of guarding the riverbank, telling them to be careful not to let the tribesmen go into the water, and left a worm stem for them to study.
"Let's go back, weave more straw rope first, and use it next time. Shao Xuan persuaded. If the straw rope is not well braided, it is not strong, and it will not work if it is used twice, so the consumption is very large, and it is just a break today, Shao Xuan thought about it, so he let them pull the grass enough, and sat in the hole to weave the straw rope.
Although the appearance of the stone worm made this group of cubs very scared, they were more unwilling in their hearts.
If they could catch fish today, how many would they have to catch? There would have to be four, right? If Caesar could have dug up more stone worms, they might have caught more. For the sake of my life, I can't catch it today, according to what Ah Xuan just said, I'll come back tomorrow to see. But what if this is the case tomorrow? The day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and even the day after tomorrow, you will not be able to fish?
It's scary to think about!
The children in the cave were anxious, and they were absent-minded when they returned to the cave to weave straw ropes.
Shao Xuan sat at the entrance of the cave, basking in the sun, while thinking about the creature he had just "seen", and by the way, thinking about the upcoming winter.
On this day, many of the people who went to the river bank to fish were driven back by the guards.
The people who lived near the foot of the mountain had seen a few days ago, and the children who lived in the cave, who had eaten and slept and slept, and who had rarely come out of the cave once and snatched things everywhere, had become more diligent! The children would go out every day, and they would come back from the river bank in the afternoon when they had dinner, and every time they came back, they dragged back with straw ropes strange big-headed fish with long arms and fangs.
Some curious people followed and looked at it, and they also wanted to learn to fish, but first, it was difficult for them to dig up stone insects, and they couldn't replace them with anything else, and they couldn't catch fish just by throwing straw ropes; second, even if they caught stone insects or used other alternative things, it was difficult to catch fish lightly like Shao Xuan and them, and a few times they caught creatures that they didn't know what they were, and they would be swollen when they pricked their bodies.
In the end, those people noticed that Shao Xuan had used a black thing that would float on the water, and the fishing equipment in their hands was only missing that compared to Shao Xuan. When you don't use that thing, you don't really get the best results.
Shao Xuan analyzed the reason, probably because those piranhas don't like to move underwater, and they sink when they tie the bait with the grass rope tied to it, and once the stone worms touch the bottom of the water, they encounter the underground soil and sand and gravel, and they are easy to escape.
In the past few days, Shao Xuan asked Caesar to help catch some insects in the black swamp, and made a lot of small black pieces, and exchanged some meat and fur with this person near the foot of the mountain, but there was not much meat, and it was distributed to the children in the cave on the day of the exchange. As for the fur in exchange, even if it is not a good fur, it can make the coming winter a little better.
Therefore, in addition to these children in the cave, some people in the area near the foot of the mountain who have not gone out to hunt are also fishing, and no one will be afraid of lack of food.
But today is very disappointing for everyone.
Shao Xuan looked at another group of people returning from the river with their heads hanging down in the distance, and sighed.
Suddenly, Caesar, who was lying next to him, stood up and stared in one direction.
Shao Xuan looked over.
There are a few big rocks about 20 meters away from the hole, and on weekdays, if the weather is good, there are children lying on them to bask in the sun, but now after something to do, no one goes there anymore. At this time, there was no one on those big stones, but on the side, Shao Xuan could see a little bit of the exposed corners of the animal skin.
Even if it is a little corner, Shao Xuan can recognize it, it is a race, he used to always rob Shao Xuan's things, and he was beaten down by Shao Xuan on the training ground a few days ago. Normally, the two boys who will be followed by Ye and Zhan will be next to the race, and now they are here again.
The day before yesterday, when Shao Xuan took Caesar to the edge of the black swamp to catch insects, these three people blocked Shao Xuan in the gravel field, wanting to grab the kind of black pieces that can float on the water, and the two sides fought, but at that time there were children in the cave, and the three of them ran away quickly, and today these three people probably didn't give up, and they wanted to steal something from here.
They don't dare to grab fish, and the tribe has rules that prohibit the food of the children in the cave, but other fishing tools are not included in the food.
Shao Xuan touched his chin, patted Caesar, and told him to wait for a while, while he turned around and entered the cave.
"Little ones," Shao Xuan said to the people in the cave, "Everyone's appearance has been good recently, and we have hunted a lot of prey, which is very good, if we continue like this, plus the food from the tribe, we will not go hungry this winter." But what if someone comes over and steals our stuff at this time?"
Originally, when I heard Shao Xuan's voice, I thought I could go out fishing, and the eyes of the people who were wilting brightly lit up, but when I heard that it was not behind me, my eyes dimmed again, but when I heard the whole sentence, the eyes that had just darkened were replaced by anger.
Grab something?
Beat!!
Don't grab fish, only steal tools?
Tools don't work either!!
But what is "stealing"? What, you say that taking without telling is stealing? That doesn't mean the same as robbing?!
Shao Xuan said that for these little cubs, "eating" is the most beautiful and beautiful word in the world, and food is the specific interpretation of this word.
At this time, he took two of his followers to hide behind the big rocks outside the cave and discussed how to leave while the people in the cave were not paying attention to take some of the black pieces, and just as he was talking in a low voice, Caesar suddenly jumped down from above and pounced on the three of them.
Too suddenly, the three of them were frightened and reflexively jumped away.
Sai, who had dodged the game, was in a state of panic, and his stick was clenched in his hand, staring at Caesar, thinking that if the wolf took one step further, he would swing it.
Thinking too preoccupied, Sai didn't pay attention to his surroundings until Ye and Zhan poked him.
"What poke? Didn't see me ......?"
Sai turned his head and yelled, but before he finished speaking, Sai followed the direction that Ye He Zhan was pointing and saw more than 20 people standing at the entrance of the cave, holding sticks, stones and other things, staring at this side with anger and fierce eyes, little cubs.
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