Chapter 118: Smoking
The five teams would send people to the mountain where the sinkhole was located every day to investigate the situation, and the three people who were captured by their team have not heard any news so far.
The investigators had been observing from a distance, and could not enter the cave of the bats, which was full of flying bats, much more than around the stone crevices of the sinkhole.
Seven days have passed, and according to everyone's judgment, the chances of those three people still alive are very small. However, because it was about Fire Crystal, and it was still a combination of five squads, it was impossible to act rashly without being prepared, in that case, it would not only be three people to be lost, but probably three teams.
"However, quite a few of the prey were caught and nothing was thrown out. Said a man who had just returned from a survey.
Those prey that bats have eaten outside, they will not take away, and they will not eat it all, many times they are more inclined to blood, and when the blood is exhausted, the interest is gone......
Shao Xuan carefully explored several places, only one was closest to the surface, and the others needed to be dug a little deeper.
The fire crystals closest to the surface were dug up, and of course they also alarmed the big bats in the stone crevices, and they were chased for some distance.
But the strange thing is that the previous time they chased a long distance, if it wasn't for the people of the hunting team halfway to cause some trouble, they would not have been thrown off, but this time, Shao Xuan found that those bats gave up earlier, and they stopped chasing a little far, it seems that for them, these people in the hunting team are just trivial things, and they don't need to care.
It is speculated that bats slowly gathered in the mountain where the sinkhole is located. All the bats in this area, all went there.
Luckily, most of them don't have a high IQ, and they can only be considered relatively powerful beasts.
Shao Xuan wanted to make some big nets to catch bats, but he gave up because he didn't have suitable materials to make them. Take those bat's claws and razor-like teeth. Vine grass nets and the like, they can be broken at will.
In the end, the plan finalized by the five bosses was to smoke it.
The five squads together were less than two hundred, but there were thousands of large bats in that mountain, and, according to the information returned by the observers. New bats are being added all the time.
The good thing is that not all of them are as big as the ones they encountered in the sinkhole that day, and many of them are similar to the ones that attacked Caesar.
It's easy to deal with one by one, but too many are still a problem.
Now the goal of the hunting party is to dig up the fire crystals, find the missing people, and minimize the head-on collision with those bats. Either way, the bats need to be chased away first. And smoking, is undoubtedly a good idea.
To the people of the hunting party. Smoked plants are also often used during hunting, such as to remove bugs. Push back the beasts and so on. And this time, everyone is also planning to try it with the smoking method first.
Smoked plants have to be carefully selected, bats don't smoke it, but smoke their own people to death, then it will pit teammates.
The five small bosses compared several plants that were often smoked and chose the one with the most obvious effect.
"Those things seem to hate the smell very much. I threw a small ball at them yesterday and they just ran away. Lang Ga said proudly.
Yesterday, Lang Ga encountered a few bats that were hunting, and he was already about to succeed, so Lang Ga threw a smoking ball of grass over. They landed right next to their prey, which had lost their ability to move and could not run, and the bats, who had been eager to enjoy a good meal, screamed and flapped their wings away after the smoke spread from the grass, and they were very unhappy with the smell of the grass.
"That's great, because it gives us a better chance of success. Mai said.
In addition to choosing smoky plants, you should also prepare herbs in case you faint from being bitten or smoky. The smell of smoky grass is not much of a nuisance to them, but it is enough to smell it for a long time.
Under Shao Xuan's suggestion, the people of the hunting team weaved a refreshing rattan grass into a mask-like shape, and wore it when they entered the cave, and the cool smell of rattan grass could make people who were smoked more sober.
"Chief, when can we go?" someone in the cave asked. The food they eat every day is grabbed from those bats, and in the surrounding area, many wild beasts and fierce beasts have left, and it is difficult to find suitable food, and they have to guard against those bats to attack first.
"It's coming. Cheng said.
Stone tools, herbs, and other needed items are ready, and it's time to get moving.
Shao Xuan sat on the side, listening to them talk about the upcoming action, looking at his hands. In his hand, he held a small red crystal, which they dug when they went to the sinkhole for the second time, there were two fire crystals close to the surface, both of which were not big, one was taken away by Cheng for safekeeping, and the other was smaller, Shao Xuan held it himself.
This small fire crystal is slightly larger than the rice grain, much smaller than the one dug up for the first time, and therefore, the other leaders did not have any objections to Shao Xuan holding this fire crystal by himself, in their opinion, the sinkhole is the most important.
Feeling the warm current from the palm of his hand, Shao Xuan was puzzled. Mai They said that the energy in the fire crystal can only be absorbed after the fire is burned, but from the first time he held the fire crystal, Shao Xuan absorbed a little energy from the fire crystal, not much, but obviously. And this time, he wanted to keep a piece for himself, just to be sure.
In the sea of consciousness, you can see a trace of red "thread" gathered on the totem, and it merges with the totem. Even though this fire crystal was small, the energy it contained far exceeded Shao Xuan's expectations.
If he used another ability vision in his body, Shao Xuan could see that the fire crystal on his palm was "burning", and the red energy released by the burning bent in the air, and then it burrowed into the palm of his hand, arm, or other places on his body, and finally gathered into the totem-
Two days later, five hunting parties were in action.
The assigned work has been done well, and each has its own duties.
Shao Xuan followed Mai and a few people to a bat cave, originally planned to enter directly through the gap on the other side of the sinkhole, but in the end, it was rejected after discussion, and it was difficult to hide around the sinkhole. And the bats that move there are much larger and easier to spot. Compared to the other places in the mountain, the bat caves are much easier, where the bats are easier to deal with, and there are places for them to hide.
"The stone crevices in the mountain and the holes in other places should be connected, and we entered through one of the holes first. Mai said to his men.
Everyone wore masks made of vines. It's not very comfortable, but it's practical, and the cool smell of the grass and vines calms their impatience a lot.
Looking at the direction of the wind, Mai motioned for everyone to get moving.
Some of them hid in the grass and covered themselves with grass, while others, with smoky grass, approached the cave.
They carried some slender spears in their hands, all of which were wooden. Clusters of smoky grass were tied to the spearhead.
When the fire is almost burned, the fire is extinguished, and smoke suddenly rises from the spearhead.
"Shoot!"
The slender spear was thrown out, like an off-string arrow, and flew towards the bat cave in front.
One by one, each with dozens of spears tied to smoky grass in their hands, a few breaths. All accurately projected into the bat cave.
Soon, smoke rose from inside the bat cave.
Choose the Bat Cave. I also looked at the direction of the wind, and in front of me, the wind was blowing into the cave at the moment.
A small part of the smoke is blown out of the cave, and more is blown deeper into the cave.
Squeak squeak -
A sharp voice came from inside the cave, and these Lang Ga and the others could also hear it.
Seeing smoke start to drift out of the cave, this proves that the bats inside are flapping their wings towards the outside of the cave.
The thrower was also immediately ready.
Whew-
Bats flew out of the cave at a rapid pace. In the blink of an eye, hundreds came out.
The bats that had been forced out of the cave were flying outside the cave, some of them screaming angrily, and when they looked around, they saw a group of people standing there.
Squeak -
A shrill cry rang out, and a flock of bats forced out of the hole. Fly towards the man who just threw the spear.
"Run!"
The spear-throwing men were the fastest runners in the hunting party, and when they saw the bats chasing after them, they ran away.
In the direction they ran, there was a gray area, and the hunting team had walked through it once, and they knew that there was a group of huge spiders in the woods over there, and that gray area was not on their hunting route, so the hunting team usually did not go there. But now, they're going to use the big spiders.
Lure the bats over and let the bats fight the big spiders!
When a large number of bats chased away, the people hiding outside the cave came out and walked into the cave. When you go in, don't forget to throw some more smoked grass at the entrance of the cave.
According to common sense, on a sunny day like today, when the sun is right, those bats should hide in the cave, but this is not the case in front of you.
Some of the bats had already gone out, some had just chased them out, some of them had flown deeper into the cave, and there were not many of them left in the cave at the moment.
These bats are not difficult to deal with, Mai took people with torches, and hunted several bats one by one. These bats have large eyes, but in this dark cave, they don't do much, relying more on their sensitive sense of smell and hearing.
The members of the hunting party wore thick leather shoes, and many of them were not used to wearing shoes, and they were forced to wear them before the move.
The cave has accumulated a thick layer of bat droppings, and there are some small bugs crawling in the bat droppings.
Burst!
Lang Ga stabbed a worm crawling in half with a spear, frowning: "This place really stinks. ”
Mai didn't speak, took the torch, and continued to walk inside. While cleaning the bats, they will also throw out some smoky grass.
The other four hunting squads, like Mai and them, had now entered the cave, in order to hurry up and prevent any changes.
Everyone endured the stench of the cave and the smell of smoky grass, and walked quickly inside. The cave was not flat, and the raised stones were everywhere, some of them so sharp that they could hardly have walked without the light of the torches.
There had been speculation that the stone crevices on the mountain were connected to the other bat caves, and after a while, the five hunting teams heard the voices of others.
"Sure enough, it makes sense. (To be continued......)