The snow that had fallen all night finally stopped, and the white expanse was blank at a glance, covering all the traces of yesterday's busyness. Outside the Northern Wasteland, Tooth Bay is still a quiet and eeriely snow-white.

Liu Binyuan rode his horse back and forth in the snow, absent-minded. In the past half a month, the Liu family has searched in and out of the area near the broken wood found by Liu Binyuan several times. Although the people were a little afraid of the Northern Wasteland, Liu Yuelei personally went into battle, and none of his subordinates dared to say anything. Liu Binyuan didn't know why his father attached so much importance to this matter.

The men and horses of the Liu family walked along the road that had been carved out, and found that it was only a small puddle at the end, which had long been frozen into ice. They found nothing but some faint traces of blood and the kind of arrows. The irregular heavy snow has long since erased many traces.

Liu Binyuan watched another group of people enter the Northern Wasteland, and he could vaguely hear someone complaining in a low voice, this is no longer the first batch of people and horses, and there is still no gain, and the people under him are inevitably a little unhappy. Fortunately, for so many days, apart from encountering a few not very strong beasts on the periphery of the Northern Wasteland, they did not encounter any other dangers, and people's fear of the Northern Wasteland was also a little lighter.

Although the Northern Wasteland is not very spacious, and the trees are unevenly distributed, even large beasts will not have much of a problem if you walk through them. This road with no head and no tail shows that the beast was either attacked in Tooth Bay, entered the Northern Wasteland from Tooth Bay, and was eventually hunted or fled, or it was attacked in the North Wasteland before it took its way and fled to Tooth Bay. The people of the Liu family were more inclined to the second possibility, because they did not believe that there would be fierce beasts in the bay. Liu Yuelei also didn't think that this beast was still alive, although he sent some people to search the entire Yawan, but his focus was still on the periphery of the Northern Wasteland, and almost all of the idle disciples and disciples of the Liu family were ordered by him to go out and search nearby, obviously compared to this fierce beast, he cared more about the mysterious arrow crossbow.

With the enemies and powerful weapons lurking in the Northern Wasteland, this group of people may even shake the Liu family's position in Shuozhou!

Liu Binyuan was more concerned about the whereabouts of the beast, and after he followed the team into the Northern Wasteland to search unsuccessfully a few days ago, he planned to look for it in Yawan. He rode his horse on the flat snow of Tooth Bay, his eyes looking around.

He often hunts in Nga Bay and is very familiar with the terrain here. The terrain of Yawan is flat, and as far as you can see, there seems to be no place to hide, and because of this, the Liu family thinks that the possibility of the beast hiding in Yawan is very small. But Liu Binyuan knew that there were a few not too big ravines in this flat snowfield, and when they looked at it from a distance, they were hidden under the white snow, and they couldn't be seen at all, and if it weren't for Liu Binyuan who almost fell into it while hunting, he wouldn't have noticed this kind of place.

He rode his horse and searched several ditches in succession that he knew, but found nothing. Most of these ravines are below the ground, and the holes on the surface are covered with snow, and if Liu Binyuan hadn't dug carefully, he wouldn't have been able to find a small hole under the snow. It's just that these small holes are small, and it's barely possible to hide a person, but it's impossible to hide a big beast.

Liu Binyuan was not too frustrated, and he was just holding the mentality of trying. He got on his horse again, and ran down to the next ravine, shooting arrows with his bow and shooting some prey on his horse.

This ravine is different from the others, there are several large stones in the openings on the surface, which are inserted obliquely into the ground, and are staggered, vaguely like the palm of a half-held hand, just covering the hole in the palm of the palm. From a distance, these are just a few random rows of stones.

What a great place to hide. Liu Binyuan thought to himself.

When he got closer, his eyelids jumped. A stone near the entrance of the cave was smashed violently! The cracks on it were like tiny snakes, all over the stone wall under the snow, presumably left by the wild beast when it entered the cave.

In addition to the surprise, Liu Binyuan felt that his heart was beating faster and his breathing became a little short. He hurriedly leaned down, gently approached the entrance of the cave, and looked inside. In addition to the vertical part under the opening, the rock wall of the gully turns horizontally, and there is more space in the depths. No wonder it was not covered in snow, only the part directly below the hole was covered with snow, and further down, it was pitch black with no traces of snow.

Liu Binyuan lay on the head of the cave and listened carefully, but he gained nothing except the whirring wind and his own heartbeat. After a moment's hesitation, he tied his horse and took off a piece of hemp rope from his horse, one end firmly tied to the upright stone, and the other end tied around his waist. Then he took his bow and arrows with him, pulling the rope in one hand and holding the bow in the other, and his feet resting on the near-vertical stone wall. Every time he kicked up, the rope he was holding in his hands would loosen and his body would drop some distance. When the rope around his waist was about to be straightened, there was a "squeak" sound under his feet, and his feet stepped on the snow in the ravine.

As soon as Liu Binyuan landed, the hand holding the rope quickly loosened, poked into the quiver behind his back, pulled out an arrow and put it on the bow, and slowly walked forward.

He quickly noticed that there were still blood stains on the ground in the deep ravine, as there was no effect of the falling snow. He frowned, took a deep breath, then took the rope around his waist and walked into the depths alone.

His steps were light, but his surroundings were quieter, and the sound was particularly noticeable. He was sure that the beast, as long as it was not dead, must have heard his approach, but there was no movement around him, only his own footsteps. He was almost out of the light that could shine through the hole, and beyond that, there was darkness.

Could it be that it is already dead? Liu Binyuan couldn't help but guess in his heart, and he also hesitated a little. He had brought a fire fold, but he didn't dare to use it, for the beast had always been sensitive to fire, and perhaps a little spark would have caused him to suffer a death blow. He didn't dare to take that risk.

There was a faint smell of blood in the air. Suddenly, he heard heavy footsteps on his right, but the pace was so fast that Liu Binyuan even felt the ground under his feet tremble slightly.

Without a tilt of his head, he rolled backwards without hesitation, coming to a brighter place. The place where he was standing just now, as if he had been hit by a heavy object, there was a "boom", and Liu Binyuan felt a slight tremor under his feet. As far as the eye can see, I can only see the rubble flying.

He also saw the appearance of the "beast" clearly. At a cursory glance, it looks like a person's body, but the whole body is covered with gray-white hair, about eight feet when it stands upright, and even the head is full of white hair, only a pair of eyes are exposed, full of bloodshots, and they are glaring at Liu Binyuan viciously. The limbs are thick and long, muscular, and even in such a taller than ordinary body, the hands and feet are somewhat uncoordinated.

It's just that this "person" is obviously seriously injured, and the attack just now seems to have ripped its wounds, and blood flowed down its abdomen, and in a moment it merged into a pool of blood. It crouches down on its knees and makes a "whirring" sound, as if gasping for air. At the same time, it also reached out to cover its wounds, and a pair of amazingly large eyes stared at Liu Binyuan, with a fierce look on its face.

"Savage ape!" Liu Binyuan was shocked in his heart, and he couldn't hold the bow in his hand.

The Liu family has been in the north for more than a hundred years, so naturally they have heard some legends. Legend has it that there is a group of savage apes in the Northern Wilderness, although they are called apes, but compared with apes, the appearance is more similar to humans, and compared with ordinary beasts, they are more intelligent and powerful. It is said that an adult ape can reach seven or eight feet tall and can crush a boulder with the force of a single punch. Liu Binyuan had no doubt that the creature in front of him was a brute ape.

In addition to the worst wound in its abdomen, the ape had several cuts on its shoulders and arms, many of which had been scabbed. It crouched in place at this time, and did not make any other movements except glaring at Liu Binyuan, obviously unable to launch another attack.

Liu Binyuan didn't make a move. At this time, the ape remained motionless in place, apparently running out of oil, and was simply a living target for him. Even if the ape has rough skin and thick flesh, he can shoot through the ape's eyes, and at such a close distance, he is confident that he will kill with one blow.

But for some reason, he suddenly felt a little unbearable. He met the eyes of the ape, which burned with anger and a sense of sorrow.

With such a serious injury, it must be very unwilling to be able to die and struggle for so long. Liu Binyuan thought so, and suddenly found himself speculating about the condition of this brute ape with the mind of a human.

Compared to his previous prey, the behemoth in front of him was undoubtedly more ferocious, but more like a person.

Liu Binyuan lowered his eyelids slightly, stepped back slightly, then threw his bow back, and then stretched his empty hands in front of him, showing the ape that he had no weapons in his hands. The brute ape seemed to be ready to fight to the death, but he didn't expect that the other party had no intention of attacking, and his big eyes revealed a little doubt. It originally struck hard with one breath, but now that this breath was relaxed, the previous fierce aura suddenly weakened a lot, and its eyes were a little sluggish.

Liu Binyuan suddenly thought of something, retreated to the rope on the rock wall at the entrance of the cave, and pulled the rope and climbed back to the entrance of the cave. When he returned, he had a few more dead snow rabbits in his hand, which he had come over to beat along the way. He slowed down, trying not to make the brute feel hostile. The brute ape also seemed to realize something, his eyes were not as sharp as before, a pair of eyes looked at Liu Binyuan with some curiosity, and his whole body sat on the ground, still covering his wounds, dripping with blood, and there were blood stains all over the ground.