Chapter 525: The Hunter and the Prey

The fire scorched the camphor wood, the fine grease slowly seeped out from the fibers, and the air was filled with a rich fragrance.

The leaves of the camphor tree are plucked and placed on a stone slab, ground into green clay with smooth stones, and applied to the bare skin, and the mosquitoes around it seem to dissipate.

The flames were entangled, and the body of the stick slowly turned black.

Bi Fang picked up the stick, used the dagger to make a cross at the top of it, pressed it against it, picked up a round stone and struck the back of the knife, splitting it into a cross.

The wooden handle of the steel dagger was removed, and the slender iron handle was inserted into the middle of the cross opening, in addition to accommodating the slender iron handle, Bi Fang also carefully opened several grooves inside the cross, and the dagger body was also accommodated about two centimeters, so that it was a simple inlay structure.

When the cross is brought back together, it is impossible to see that something has been stuffed inside.

Bi Fang explained: "One side is concave, the other side is convex, and they are embedded together, which is the simplest mortise and tenon structure, which is not easy to break or fall off, and the body of the dagger is also partially accommodated, so that it is not easy to be bent." โ€

Holding the pinched break, Bi Fang took out a piece of white rope from his bag, wrapped it around it finely, and finally tied a dead knot.

"The material of this rope is made of Dyneema, which is cut-resistant, wear-resistant, and more than 10 times stronger than high-quality steel, second only to premium carbon fiber. It's less dense than water, it can float on the water, it's very light, if anyone who has seen my video of climbing Mount Everest, you should know, and you guessed it right, this is the one I used before. โ€

"I didn't use it up after climbing Mount Everest last time, and we continued to use it this time, but its strength is really high, and I have a lot of hard time cutting it......"

Bi Fang grabbed the extra rope and cut it little by little with a whaling fork, which was a dagger given by the system, and it was difficult to cut the Dyneema rope, which showed how high its material strength was.

[I rub it, the rope that Lao Fang personally used to go up Mount Everest, the steel blade forged in the wilderness, and then use it to bathe in bear blood, I can't imagine how high the value of this thing can be]

[Conservative estimate, two million!] ใ€‘

[It's really awesome, if I can be a family heirloom, put it at home]

[White tassel spear! ใ€‘

[Back then, I made this gentian bright silver spear and killed him seven in and seven out on Nagasaka Slope, full of holes, fart and urine! ] ใ€‘

Bi Fang waved the spear of about one meter eight in his hand, The bark on the trunk was stripped away, leaving only the white branches with delicate lines, the whole was straight, the blade was six inches, and the excess rope head hung down and swayed in the wind.

Stuck on the ground and stepped on it, it was full of toughness, and it bent nearly sixty degrees without the slightest sign of breaking.

After finding a pine tree, it was easy to pierce into it, slowly spilling resin, and Bi Fang wrapped the pine resin flowing out around the part where the spearhead and the spear body were combined, and reinforced it three times.

Mortise and tenon, rope wrapping, resin bonding, three steps down, the wooden spear has become a whole, whether it is chopping, or stabbing, it is difficult to get out.

The sharp spear pierced the air, making a sharp whistling and the leaves rattling on the side.

Bi Fang put it away with great satisfaction, and followed up to make the other two wooden spears.

At the same time, the rest of the hunters were also in full swing about their activities.

Everyone chose their own scope of activity, but the program team did not airdrop everyone to the center of any forest, but asked them to rush by themselves.

The radiation range of the human gathering place is very wide, and most people have not gained anything, only encountered some pheasants and hares, and the larger animals have not yet been encountered.

Only by entering the depths of the forest is the beginning of the real competition.

It was now half past nine in the morning, and Bi Fang expected that after about noon, people would start to find out one after another.

In the jungle, Sato, who is fully armed, wears a circumcision suit, carries a small explosion-proof shield, and shuttles between the jungle with a one-man high naginata and a crossbow, giving people a sense of disobedience that combines the modern and the ancient.

Times have changed.

Traditional hunters also know how to use it to protect themselves.

The program prohibits the use of heavy crossbows and thermal weapons, in addition to ordinary bows and arrows and modern equipment.

The rest of the hunters who participated in the show, they didn't have Bi Fang's system blessing, and they couldn't be "young and promising", but they didn't have mission restrictions, and everything they could equip was installed.

In addition to offensive humanoids like Sato and Mugallen, who carry weapons, there are naturally defensive counterattacks that dig traps.

Primitive hunting, without the containment of hunting dogs, or hunting large beasts such as black bears, is a very dangerous thing after all, and the best choice is naturally to lure black bears into the trap range.

Giant wood traps and deep pits with wooden thorns are all good ways to deal with large animals.

"Since we can see camphor trees more than twenty-five meters away, it means that we have actually entered the deeper part of the forest." In the jungle, Bi Fang got up from the ground and extinguished the fire pit.

At this time he had two wooden spears behind him, a sharper and harder steel spear in his hands, and at the same time five half-man-long short spears on the ground, and a pike dart thrower.

To deal with a thick-skinned creature like a black bear, an ordinary bow and arrow is far from enough, and it is necessary to use a more penetrating shuttle dart, which can penetrate the thick layer of fat and injure the internal organs and muscles.

Gu Zhu

"Edmund, the founder of modern forensics? Rocca once proposed a law named after him, which reads:

โ€˜every contact leaves a traceโ€™ใ€‚ โ€

"To put it simply, it's eight words: 'Where there is contact, there will be traces', my translation may not be very good, but the meaning is probably just that."

Bi Fang brandished his spear, split the bushes that stood in his way, and strode forward, and with his long-handled weapon, the road was much easier.

"This sentence, after repeated examples by Roca, was regarded as an axiom by industry insiders and became a cornerstone of forensic science, especially physical evidence."

"Rocca's law tells us that matter is made up of countless particles, and when a suspect enters and leaves the scene and commits a crime, the surface of the object he has touched will exchange particles with his body, leaving some traces."

"His body also had some marks on the surface of these objects; Even if the suspect has deliberately cleaned up, it is difficult to completely erase these traces. โ€

All the corners he stood, all the objects he touched, all the things he left behind, even if unconscious, would be silent witnesses against him.

Not only his fingerprints and footprints, but also his hair, the fibers on his clothes, the glass he shattered, the marks he left with his tools, the paint he scraped off, the blood or bodily fluids he left behind or collected.

All of these and more underpin the silent testimony against him. This evidence is not forgotten, it is not confused by the moment of stimulation, it does not disappear like human witnesses.

It is evidence of the existence of facts.

Physical evidence is not infallible, it is not perjury, it is not completely gone.

Only those who cannot find, learn, and understand will diminish its value.

"It seems to me that the search for prey is the same as the search for a prisoner, and only if it has ever existed somewhere, it will definitely leave traces."

"As for what the traces are, from the point of view of the signs and behavioral habits of the 'suspect', there are two kinds in total, tangible and intangible."

"What is tangible is hair, scratches, footprints, destruction along the way, and what is invisible is the smell, favorite food, possible gathering points."

"If you want to find a bear, you need to be familiar with its behavior."

Bi Fang lifted a branch and swept his gaze over one big tree after another.

"Bears, except for polar bears, all like to rub trees, because their four can't reach their backs, and long-haired animals are prone to lice, so pay attention to see if there are traces of scratching on the surrounding trees, it will be very obvious, and the whole tree will be rubbed into a pit."

"The second is footprints, the weight of a black bear, which can easily leave deep footprints on the ground."

"The third is smell, but if you don't have a hound, you don't have to worry about that."

Bi Fang himself can use this trick, and people with a super sense of smell are not non-existent, but obviously, the vast majority of people can't do it, so in the absence of hounds, this trick does not need to be considered.

"Finally, there are traces of behavior, from eating to walking, predators at the top of the food chain don't care too much about hiding their whereabouts, and many times, when you see an obvious passage in the wild, you need to pay attention, it is likely to be a path taken by a large herbivore or predator."

It's a kind of self-confidence that sits at the top of the food chain.

Rabbits and rats need to look around when they graze, but elephants are never overly vigilant because very few animals pose a threat to them.

"It is more important to pay attention to whether there is any hair falling on the road, if there is hair, there is a 90% chance that it is a ferocious predator, you must be careful and careful."

"There's also the habit of eating, looking at places where things that should have been there have disappeared on a large scale, or there are signs of destruction."

"Asiatic black bears are standard omnivores and eat mostly plant-based foods. It eats a wide variety of foods, including but not limited to the buds, leaves, stems, roots, and fruits of various plants, as well as mushrooms, shrimps, crabs, fish, and invertebrates, birds, rodents, and carrion, and it also digs into ant nests and hives. โ€

"We can see if there is an ant nest that has been turned upside out, a fruit that has been gnawed up in the vicinity, or a honeycomb that has been bitten off most of it."

[Ah, this, I know, bears like to eat honey. ใ€‘

ใ€It's too cowhideใ€‘

[Details, all details]

[Slow down, I'm already taking notes]

[Knock on the blackboard, remember it all for me!] ใ€‘

[Anyway, why do bears like to eat honey?] ใ€‘

Bi Fang did not answer, he shook his spear, grabbed the tail end, and picked up a hanging branch with the spearhead.

The leaves were turned up, and several sharp scratches appeared on the trunk in the sunlight.

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