Chapter 5: The Hunt
In the blink of an eye, a man and a bear chased in the forest for half an hour, running out for more than ten miles. In this half an hour, not counting the trees that were broken by the Earth Storm Bear, even the towering giant trees, the Storm Bear has at least hit dozens of trees!
At this time, the earth storm bear has lost its original majesty! After stumbling and running wildly in the dense forest for half an hour, hundreds of fierce impacts in a row, the thick skin of the storm bear was already scarred and bloodstained. In particular, the shoulder blade area, which is often hit, has already opened the skin and flesh, and the injury is not light.
And the seemingly endless brute force of the violent bear was also consumed by the continuous impact, and the speed became slower and slower, and the distance between him and Zhou Hao became farther and farther.
Seeing that the violent bear had fallen forty feet behind him, Zhou Hao's eyes flashed in the gallop, and he suddenly smiled slyly, and stopped in front of an old pine tree with branches.
"Choke!", Zhou Hao took out the short knife on his waist, followed the figure and jumped up, jumped on the horizontal branch, and firmly stuck the handle between the branches seven or eight feet above the ground, and the tip of the knife was shining cold, facing the direction where the violent bear was rushing from.
Zhou Hao set up this simple trap, and the violent bear had already chased after him more than ten feet away.
"Hahaha, the master is here!" Zhou Hao, who was surprisingly energetic, let out a long laugh, lured the Earth Storm Bear to chase in this direction, and then flicked his legs, jumped off the branch, and continued to run forward.
The earth storm bear, who was completely blind, of course didn't know that there was a deadly trap ahead of him, waiting for him! Following Zhou Hao's smell and laughter, just in an instant, this violent bear slammed into the old pine that Zhou Hao had laid the trap.
The violent bear in the frenzy, how huge the force of this collision was! Just hearing the sound of "flutter!" The two-foot-long sharp blade was inserted into the right shoulder blade of the violent bear, which had already been fleshed open, penetrating the thick bear flesh, and deeply piercing into the lobes of the lungs.
"Roar, roar!" There was a terrifying roar, Rao is earth storm bear with rough skin and thick flesh, and he can't afford to withstand such a heavy blow!
With a burst of roar, countless blood foams erupted from the mouth of the violent bear, and the stabbed right shoulder blade even rushed out a stream of blood arrows!
Stimulated by rage and severe pain, the violent bear stood up again, and with a pair of huge front paws, frantically snapped at the old pine tree in front of it.
In the case of not being able to chase Zhou Hao, this violent bear obviously regarded this old pine as the object of venting!
The huge old pine tree that the two of them could hug together was devastated by the furious bear, and large pieces of sawdust flew away, and most of the huge trunk was cut off in an instant, and the towering tree, which was more than ten feet high, suddenly became crumbling.
"You stupid bear, die for the master!" Seeing that his calculation succeeded again, Zhou Hao shouted violently, his legs flicked with all his strength, his body rose vertically, and with a dip of his right hand in mid-air, an armor-piercing arrow was already on the string!
Then, in mid-air, he "looked back at the moon", with one arm, the horn bow was instantly pulled into a full moon, and the arrow of "whoosh!", a ray of cold light, crossed the night sky like a meteor, and went straight to the wild roaring giant mouth of the violent bear.
"Poof!", and the armor-piercing arrow drilled into the big mouth with incomparable precision, instantly penetrating the upper jaw of the violent bear and penetrating deep into the brain marrow.
Unlike the carved arrows, which are made of fine iron, the three-edged arrows made of fine iron are longer and heavier, and the shafts made of hemlock wood are thicker. An armor-piercing arrow is enough to weigh one catty and two taels, which is more than three times the weight of the carved arrow, and only when it is shot with a strong bow of more than two stones, can it be lethal enough.
Zhou Hao's hand-crafted several armor-piercing arrows were specially used to deal with rough prey with thick skin and meat, and today was the first time that they were really used against the enemy.
The armor-piercing arrow that he carefully crafted lived up to his expectations, piercing the hard jawbone of the violent bear in one fell swoop, and giving the violent bear a heavy blow. Even if the vitality of the Earth Storm Bear is amazing, if it is directly injured to the brain like this, it is absolutely fatal.
Under the repeated blows, the earth storm bear finally couldn't support it, and its huge size shook violently, and it fell on its back.
"Woo!" A piercing arrow was stuck deep in his throat, and the violent bear that slowly fell backwards turned into a whimper.
But that's not all!
The mountain tiger jumped out of nowhere, flew up, and bit the throat of the violent bear.
If it had been placed in the past, the mountain tiger with milk teeth would not have been able to bite through the thick skin of the violent bear. But tonight's mountain tiger was surprisingly ferocious, biting through the throat of the violent bear in one bite, and even biting off the large blood vessels in the neck of the violent bear in one fell swoop.
After the mountain tiger took a sharp bite, he immediately pulled away. And this unfortunate violent bear, the wound on his neck was like a fountain, and the blood that spurted out was seven or eight feet high.
"Boom!" There was a loud bang, and the earth storm bear weighing six or seven thousand catties fell to the ground with a bang. But for a while, he was still not dead, and four huge bear paws slashed on the ground, digging out four large pits in the ground.
A moment later, the blood spurted out wildly, gradually filling the four large pits that the storm bear had dug by himself. This earth storming bear, the overlord of this mountain forest, finally swallowed his last breath unwillingly.
"Oh haha!" Seeing that the earth storm bear was out of breath, Zhou Hao raised his head and laughed. Thinking that he had done something that countless generations of hunters in Changqing Mountain had never done, Zhou Hao couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart.
Rubbing the furry head of the mountain tiger vigorously, Zhou Hao continued: "Mountain tiger, you guy is not bad! brave enough, clever enough, it is really the master's hunting dog, and I have the same style as the master!"
I don't know if Zhou Hao is praising Shanhu or praising himself, Shanhu rolled his eyes speechlessly.
"I've been running for so long, and I'm hungry again, how about we have another supper?"
"Wang!" the mountain tiger's furry head jerked, and his eyes were eager.
Zhou Hao took out the short knife inserted in the shoulder blade of the violent bear, took two pieces of fat bear meat weighing more than ten catties on the bear's back, and raised the bonfire again to barbecue the bear meat.
Half an hour later, more than a dozen catties of bear meat were eaten, and Zhou Hao and Shanhu finally enjoyed it. A man and a mastiff shyly propped up their round bellies and fell asleep by the campfire
By the time Zhou Hao woke up yawning and stretching, the sky was already bright.
Touching his stomach that began to "growl" again, Zhou Hao muttered depressedly: "When is the master so able to eat? I only ate so much meat in the middle of the night, and I was actually hungry again this morning!"
And the mountain tiger guy is even more excessive, he has already been lying next to the earth storm bear, gnawing happily!
"Most of the master was infected by you foodie! If you eat it like this, I'm afraid the prey that the master has hit will not be enough to fill our two mouths!" Zhou Hao kicked away the mountain tiger, and while scolding, he cut off more than 20 catties of bear meat and roasted it on the bonfire that was not extinguished.
When one person and one mastiff filled their stomachs again, Zhou Hao looked at the corpse of the violent bear like a mountain of meat, but he was worried.
This Earth Storm Bear is an extremely rare mutated beast, and the essence and blood of its body are countless times stronger than ordinary beasts, and it can be said that its whole body is a treasure. This huge bear skin alone can make several pieces of leather armor with excellent defensive power. Bear bile and bear bone are precious medicinal materials, bear paw is the finest ingredient that is hard to find, and bear tendon is an excellent bowstring material. Even bear meat and bear blood are rare things that greatly replenish qi and blood.
Zhou Hao, who was born in Orion, has never had the habit of wasting. But how can this earth storm bear, which weighs six or seven thousand catties, be transported back?
If you go back and ask someone for help, you won't be able to come back until tomorrow at least. In this day and night, groups of wild wolves and vultures may have gnawed at the corpse of this violent bear to the point that there is not even a single bone residue left!
It is impossible to carry back thousands of pounds of violent bear carcasses by one person. Unthinkable, Zhou Hao only took the essence and brought it back.
With branches and bark, he made a sturdy plough. Then the most valuable parts such as the bear's head, bear's skin, bear's bile, bear's tendon, and bear's paw were taken and tied to the plow. These things alone weigh five or six hundred pounds!
Zhou Hao tried to pull the plow, but he actually felt very relaxed!
"Hey, the master's strength seems to have grown a lot in the past few days!" was slightly surprised by his strength, but Zhou Hao thought that he was at the age of growing strength, so he didn't think about it elsewhere, and then took more than 200 catties of bear meat and bear bones, and then pulled the plow and embarked on the way home.