36. The way back
The soldiers of the second squad still complained about abandoning a dying earth bear lying near the stream.
But since Captain Surdak made this decision, even Augustus, who dared to take risks, didn't say anything more.
Although everyone didn't say anything, they could still feel everyone's dissatisfaction, so on the way back, the atmosphere of the team was a little dull.
Two days later, when the team members climbed over a huge red rock mountain with no green shade, someone in the team suddenly exclaimed:
"Look over there, the bear fishing by the bend......"
The soldiers of the second squad stood on the top of the red rock, lined up, and the team looked very neat, and they all saw the giant bear standing on the edge of a large rock in the river bay.
The terrain of the river bay is somewhat steep, the water is turbulent, and there are several dangerous bends.
A Tim fish was swimming up the river bay, and there was a low waterfall at the bay, and the Tim fish continued to slap its tail, making a huge splash, and rushed forward, taking the opportunity to jump out of the water, ready to jump into the pool of water on the previous level.
At that moment, the bear would stretch out its giant paw and slap the hundreds of pounds of Tim fish out of the water sideways to the rocky beach on the shore, leaving the Tim fish to bounce on the pebble beach and struggle back into the river.
The giant shook its bulky body, lazily walked to the river beach, stepped on the Tim fish, bared out its sharp canine teeth, hooked the skin on the gills of the Tim fish, shook its head violently, tore off a whole piece of fish skin, tore a few bites and swallowed it into the stomach, and then hollowed out the liver and swim bladder in the fish's stomach and swallowed it, and finally began to slowly lick the fish meat.
I don't know how many Tim Fish it has eaten, so it can have such a skillful fishing technique, and it can completely hide its body in the shadow of the boulder, and the Tim Fish, which belongs to the first-level demonic beast, is completely undetectable.
At this time, the giant bear seemed to sense that someone on the top of the mountain was secretly observing, and suddenly erected its huge body upright, and let out a roar at the side of the red rock on the top of the mountain.
In the belly of the giant bear, the stitched wound could still be faintly seen.
Augustus involuntarily took two steps forward, everyone stood on the Chiyan Ridge, on both sides of which were cliffs dozens of meters high, if He Boqiang hadn't dragged him, he would have almost slipped off the slippery Chiyan rock wall, but when he came back to his senses, he also scared himself out of a cold sweat.
The bearded man glanced at He Boqiang with a complicated expression, and then stammered:
“…… It's the Earth Storm! ”
Red Socks' personality was a little soft, and he looked at the valley down the mountain with wide eyes, showing an expression of disbelief, and couldn't help but lower his voice and said:
"It's really not dead!"
The Earth Storm Bear seemed to roar at the Second Squad of warriors once, then ignored them and leaned over to continue enjoying the food on the riverbank.
The warriors also woke up from their shock and continued to walk through the red rocks.
The atmosphere in the team was finally less dreary, and everyone's conversation fell on the Earth Storm Bear.
The bearded Cagle is a believer in the goddess of the earth, and he usually likes to introduce the doctrinal allusions introduced to him no matter what the topic is, so he naturally refuses to let it go at this time.
Hurriedly said: "I heard that the Earth Storm Bear has the bloodline inheritance of the Earth Goddess Gaia, and is often blessed by the Earth Goddess, so after being so seriously injured, he can recover so quickly, and his physique is really not ordinarily strong." ”
Augustus did not agree with the bearded man's statement, and said as he went:
"Even if there were, it would be so thin that it would be almost nothing, all right! But then again, it really recovered so quickly! ”
Red Socks muttered, "It's thanks to little Dark's amazing first aid skills, and of course my bag of needles and threads!" ”
The soldiers of the second squad ignored the red socks, and one after another they jumped off the red rock wall and burrowed into the dense woodland again.
The trees on the mountain beam are shady, much cooler than on the rock wall, and there is no scorching sun, and it is particularly refreshing to be blown by the cool breeze between the mountains and forests.
The bearded man wiped the fine beads of sweat on his face with a rough linen, and said with emotion:
"I'm thinking, it's good we didn't do anything stupid."
"It's good to honestly stay and return to the camp with a few demon heads!"
"Hearing you say that, it seems like that's true!"
The warriors said in a rambling voice, no longer feeling how foolish it was to give up the bear skin of the earth storm bear by the stream.
The warriors were very direct in their thoughts, and they liked to keep their emotions on their faces, and when they saw the Earth Storm Bear appear by the stream, they no longer had any complaints about Surdak and He Boqiang.
Everyone began to discuss that although the search and rescue mission was not completed, there were a lot of gains from this trip.
……
The second team returned to the Yansai Lake where the Tim fish were hunting, and saw that there were many people on the shore, and the Tim fish in the river once again drew a line of water and quietly gathered here, this time the soldiers of the second team had the experience of catching Tim fish, and once again cut a wave of leeks under the big willow tree.
It wasn't until the Tim Fish gnawed the bait into a bone rack that the fishing operation was over.
When Surdak was skinning these tim fish, he suddenly raised his head and asked He Boqiang:
"At that time...... You know the bear is still alive, right? ”
He Boqiang nodded without hesitation.
"You know that...... If it could get up and bite us to death at any time, wouldn't it? ”
He Boqiang glanced at Surdak and did not speak.
In fact, at that time, he didn't know if the bear would get up, but he thought it would be dangerous.
In the past few days, the soldiers were about to vomit when they drank the fish porridge, and the soldiers only shaved off the back of the fish, and the other parts of the fish were casually discarded on the river beach and ignored.
However, the weather is hot, these cut fish still have to be dried before spoiling, fortunately there are no shade trees around the rocky beach, the scorching sun directly burns the pebbles of the river beach, these fish meat is cut into thin slices, sprinkled with some white pepper and salt, spread on the hot stones, it will not take long to dry.
This time the catch was a little less than the last catch, only 12.
However, Augustus took out five magic cores from the heads of these Tim fish, and his luck was better than the last time, which added another amount of income to the rescue operation.
When the soldiers of the second squad collected the dried fish and were ready to go back on the road, He Boqiang saw those indigenous women on the bank on the other side of the river, and several indigenous women stood quietly under a big tree, looking at the remaining Tim fish on the river beach, their eyes full of longing.
However, He Boqiang did not see the figure of the indigenous girl in that group, which made him slightly disappointed.
He Boqiang felt as if he had a strong sense of insight, and could always find something that others couldn't notice, just like these indigenous women standing under a tree on the other side of the river near the edge of the woodland, far away from this side, but still being seen by him.
He stopped, wondering if he should tell the story, and Surdak, who was at the front of the line, was shouting his name and telling him to follow the group.
He Boqiang finally decided to swallow this matter in his stomach, he looked up at the sun that was about to set, and hurriedly caught up with the team that had gone away.