Chapter 5 Hunting
The group walked through the forest.
After leaving the tribal camp, the hunting party split into three teams, two teams of ten men each patrolling the area around the village, while Rock Hammer led the rest of the warriors north into the forest, including Leon.
The deeper you go into the forest, the higher the probability of encountering fatty prey, but it also means more risk, because in the depths of the forest, in addition to wild beasts, there are also terrible monsters.
The path in the forest is extremely difficult to navigate, with countless towering trees blocking the way, a dense canopy that shades the sky, and thick vines hanging from the trees, weaving a green net that you can get lost in if you are not careful.
The plants in the forest are not all harmless, such as a giant purple wolf flower more than ten meters high that can spray a poisonous mist, drag people into the cavity full of sharp teeth after anesthetizing the poison and swallow it, and there are many strange plants, making the forest full of dangers.
However, Rock Hammer and the others are quite familiar with the situation in the forest, and can always avoid dangerous areas and find the path that the beast has trampled on.
Since the hunting party had to return before dark and could not stay overnight in the forest, there was not much time for the rock hammer, and in order to be able to hunt enough prey today, he had to urge everyone to speed up their pace, until the team members were tired and almost exhausted.
This kind of rapid march consumes a lot of physical strength, but it does not have much effect on Leon, but he finds the feeling of fighting in the jungle in the past.
Since he crossed over into this world, he found that not only had his strength increased, but his body's sensitivity and perception had improved at the same time, and his memory and learning ability had far surpassed before.
Perhaps this is the compensation given to him by the god of fate, who suddenly threw him into this world and gave him a little self-preservation.
Despite being hunting in the Wuthering Forest for the first time, Leon is confident that he will be able to hunt alone as long as he walks a few times, provided that he does not encounter the so-called "monsters".
Along the way, Leon felt more and more the inadequacy of the hunting party led by Rock Hammer, although the twenty warriors were large, but their stamina was seriously lacking, and the lack of food caused most of them to be empty.
To make matters worse, their weapons were poor, the main weapon was a wooden pike gun, although the head of the spear was made of iron, but the quality was inferior, it would break and damage after a few uses, and a few wooden bows were also unsightly.
You must know that the Rock Hammer team is the most elite hunting team of the Wild Hammer Tribe, the Rock Hammer is a fourth-level barbarian warrior, and there are several second- and third-level warriors, but even so, they can't hunt enough food to meet their own needs and the needs of the tribe.
These are not the biggest problems, the real thing is that all the warriors, including the rock hammer, lack enough hunting experience, let alone a good scout guide.
This was what Rock Hammer had told Leon during the break, that the best warriors and hunters of the tribe had all died in battle to protect the tribe, and many of the fighting and hunting skills had not been passed down, and the younger generation had hurriedly taken up arms to fight for the tribe.
As Rock Hammer spoke, Leon could see the sadness in his eyes, but more of a strong look.
As the hunting team continued to go deeper, the animals in the forest gradually increased, but most of them were wild monkeys and pheasants, and there was still no trace of large prey.
The long-tailed monkeys jumping around the trees were so annoying that they jumped up and down in groups over the heads of the hunting party, making a tooth-aching hissing sound.
This kind of harassment continues, even if there is any prey around, I am afraid that it will have already been scared away.
Not only that, but the monkeys arrogantly threw wild fruit branches at the hunting party, and several of the entangled warriors fought back with wooden bows, but they found nothing but two precious arrows - the monkeys were extremely agile and climbed high enough.
Rock Hammer stopped their impulse in time, shook his head and said helplessly to Leon: "These long-tailed red monkeys like to make trouble the most, as long as we get out of their territory, it will be fine." β
Leon nodded, but before he could speak, suddenly there was a sudden sound of wind above his head, and a black mass smashed towards him from the air!
Leon's reaction was extremely fast, and he dodged it, and the mass fell to the ground and smashed into pieces, emitting a foul smell, and he didn't know what kind of rotten fruit it was.
When he looked up, he saw a strong long-tailed red monkey not far away, crouching on a tall tree branch, grinning at him, and tossing a fruit up and down in his paws.
Leon was suddenly angry, the tiger is not threatening, you should really be critically ill?
He lifted the shuttle gun and rushed forward with an arrow step, raised his arm and exhaled to make a sound, and threw the shuttle gun with ten percent of his strength!
Call!
The shuttle spear shot straight out like an arrow offline, drawing a straight trajectory in the air, piercing the air and making a heart-stopping roar!
The long-tailed red monkey instinctively sensed the danger, and tried to jump and dodge with both legs, but the speed of the shuttle gun was too fast, and as soon as it jumped, the sharp tip of the spear penetrated its abdomen!
Squeak!
The long-tailed monkey's terrible scream soared into the sky, and the shuttle spear completely penetrated its body, and it continued to fly forward for some distance before stabbing another monkey crouching in the tree.
One shot, two lives!
When the corpses of the two monkeys fell from the trees, the arrogant monkeys immediately collapsed, and they fled with a long scream, and in the blink of an eye they slipped away without a trace, apparently frightened by Leon's thunderous methods.
There was silence in the woods, and a group of bear men were dumbfounded, it may not be too difficult to shoot a long-tailed red monkey with a shuttle gun, but it is not too difficult to kill two monkeys with one shot...
"It's just luck!" Leon smiled, he didn't expect such a result, the second one was completely lucky.
But it wasn't just luck, he threw a shot thirty or forty meters away, and he still hit the slippery long-tailed red monkey from the bottom up, strength and skill are indispensable.
Rock Hammer obviously understood the difficulty of this shot, and walked over and punched Leon in the chest, which represented his admiration for Leon, and the heavier he was, the more he admired.
The bears came to their senses, laughed and learned the rock hammer, and came up in turn to punch Leon.
If the previous competition between Leon and Rock Hammer made him recognized by the tribal warriors, then now this shot has allowed him to really integrate into this team and truly become a member of the hunting team.
A soldier ran over and picked up the monkey's corpse and the shuttle gun, his face was full of joyful smiles, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, and the two long-tailed red monkeys are also a little meaty.
Rock Hammer asked the team members to sit down and rest, and introduced Leon to each other: "This is Stone Hammer, my brother, this is Storm Hammer, this is Iron Hammer..."
Leon was speechless, all of them had hammers in their names, they were completely a group of bear hammers, no wonder they were called the Hammer Tribe, fortunately there was no one called Stick Hammer, otherwise he would really have to laugh off his big teeth.
Rock Hammer's younger brother, Stone Hammer, who had just reached adulthood and had a more honest surname than his brother, stammered to Leon and wanted to learn the art of throwing a spear, but without saying a few words, a bear face turned purple.
"No problem, I'll teach you when we get back to camp!" Leon tapped him on the shoulder with a smile.
The warrior who had retrieved his prey returned the pike to Leon, who examined it and found that the head of the spear had been broken and could no longer be used.
It's too bad! Leon couldn't help frowning, I heard that these iron spear heads were exchanged by the tribe for animal skins and collected herbs from the Terran merchants, and several animal skins or a few baskets of dried herbs could be exchanged for one, and the texture was so poor, those merchants were really black-hearted.
It's just that the Hammer Tribe doesn't have a blacksmith, so they can't make their own weapons or even repair them, and if they are broken, they can only exchange them with those black-hearted merchants.
"Brother Leon, you use mineβ" Stone Hammer handed over his pike gun, which was his only weapon.
Leon shook his head, pulled out the tiger stabbing saber tied to his leg, tied it firmly to the head of the gun with a rope, and a new shuttle gun was baked.
Many warriors showed envy in their eyes, although the tiger stabbing saber was only half a foot long, but the peculiar shape, the cold and shining blade and the hideous serration all showed its ferocity and strength, which was tantamount to an artifact to them!
After the break, the hunting party continued on the road, and it was not long before they came to the hunting area where they are today.
The hunt was fairly simple, with twenty men scattered over a distance, fanning out carefully and carefully searching the woods, and encircling and attacking if they found their prey - it was a matter of luck to find it.
I don't know if it was because there were no monkeys to make trouble, but the luck of the hunting team was quite good, and after a long time, they actually hunted three pheasants, five forest hares and a spotted roe deer.
This kind of harvest made Rock Hammer and the others very happy, especially the roe deer that Leon shot with a shuttle gun weighed hundreds of pounds, which could make the people of the entire tribe eat beautifully.
However, Rock Hammer was not satisfied, and the situation of the tribe was so difficult that even one more hare would be a real help, so he decided to continue deeper into the forest in search of more prey.
Out of an abundance of caution, he sent two of the most astute warriors in the group to search the front, while the others rested on the spot and ate some dry food to recuperate.
It didn't take long for the two fighters in charge of the search to return, their expressions very excited, bringing back good news.
There is a small lake outside the dense forest ahead, and there is a group of blackthorn porcupines drinking and playing by the lake, and there are dozens of them!
"Blackthorn porcupine?" Rock Hammer's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately jumped up from the ground: "Let's go and see!"