Chapter 31: Friends for Life

In the vicinity of the sky hook, it is easy to find food.

First of all, there are many kinds of wild fruits. Secondly, there are many mammals in the forest. Not only do they see all kinds of wild beasts during the day, but many wild animals also come out to feed and hunt at night.

The two teenagers ushered in a relatively peaceful day recently.

After experiencing the pain of bereavement, the joy of stabbing the enemy, the sense of accomplishment of rescuing compatriots, the mental pressure of being hunted down, the joy of successfully escaping, and the pain of a serious illness, Zhang Zhiliang's recent experience is far more tempered than the sum of his previous ten years, so the spiritual baptism and tempering he has experienced far exceeds the sum of his previous ten years.

Invisibly, Zhang Zhiliang has far surpassed the past in spirit and willpower, and has reached a higher level.

The vicinity of Tiangou was more suitable for cultivation than anywhere they had been before. Chen De feels that here, it is easy to settle down, and the operation of qi is smoother.

When Chen De was looking for food outside the Tiangou, Zhang Zhiliang was alone in the Tiangou, and when he meditated many times, he entered an ethereal state without sorrow and joy.

The desire to become stronger, and the desire to advance and retreat together with his friends, has made Zhang Zhiliang cultivate very hard.

Recently, he felt that he was in an ethereal state, vaguely producing some kind of change in his body. He's been looking forward to it.

On this day, Zhang Zhiliang, whose body had gradually recovered, glanced gratefully at his friend who was groping for adjusting the bowstring after eating the fruit that Chen Decai had received. Then, he quietly entered the cultivation state again.

Soon, after nightfall, there was the sound of the wind shaking the leaves, interspersed with the howls of wild beasts.

Zhang Zhiliang, who had entered the ethereal state again, suddenly felt a trace of warmth in the dantian.

As soon as the heart was happy, the person fell out of the ethereal state. After calming down, he settled down again, and soon he felt a trace of warmth in the dantian again.

The next day, Zhang Zhiliang woke up Chen De, who was asleep, and said excitedly: "Ade, I have a sense of anger!"

"Oh, that's great! Congratulations!" Chen De was very happy to hear the good news.

"To celebrate, we're going to open the meat today!" he grabbed the bow next to him and waved it.

After many times of life and death, Zhang Zhiliang did not die in great tribulations, and finally had the ability to cultivate, which was also God's reward for him, which was in response to the sentence: "If you don't die in great calamity, you will have a blessing in the future." ”

It is very important for them to have a partner who can trust and rely on each other on the road ahead.

Especially in the world of cultivation that neither of them knows, both of them will be each other's lifelong friends.

After having a sense of qi, the haze in Zhang Zhi's conscience disappeared, and the cheerful optimism of the past returned.

Chen De, who is in a good mood, has good luck hunting in the woods. He met many animals that he had never seen before. In many animals, he felt threatened. To be cautious, he chose a herbivore.

Because, only homemade wooden arrows, no metal arrows, and the lethality was insufficient, and it took a dozen arrows to shoot down the unknown beast that was grazing.

The two of them, who haven't had meat for a long time, can finally have a good meal.

After the meat was in his mouth, Chen De felt the same feeling as the delicious food he had eaten at Wang Ruoxue's house, and his body had a warm feeling.

The two of them ate wild fruits for a while, and their mouths were already too light. At this time, I had a great appetite and had a full meal.

This is also Zhang Zhiliang's luck, as soon as he had a sense of qi, he ate food that was extremely beneficial to his body. When he meditated at night, the sense of qi in the dantian became stronger. Occasionally, a faint warm current will be noticed from the blood veins around the dantian into the dantian.

In the process of cultivation, Chen De also felt the slightest warm current flowing from the meridians into the meridians or dantian. This made him overjoyed, which meant that his innate qi was more and stronger.

Could it be the food of the day? With this thought in his mind, he decided to hunt stronger prey in the future.

Without sharp arrows, Chen De had to rely on the hunting traps and methods used by Yang Jinyong when he was hunting with Yang Jinyong in his memory.

Fortunately, now, Zhang Zhiliang can go out hunting with him.

Because the food of the two is too large, hunting a small animal is not enough for the two to fill their stomachs.

They came up with a solution. Dig a trap, place sharpened stakes underneath, and place the critter on top of the camouflaged trap as bait. Heavy predatory beasts come smelling blood, and when they pounce on the bait, they fall into a trap and are killed by a pointed stake.

If you want to catch a large beast, you need to dig a trap that is deep and big enough.

First, find a place where wild beasts are frequented and where traps can be dug well. For example, if a place is infested with wild beasts, but the ground cannot be dug up, it is necessary to lay traps, so it is natural not to talk about it.

The two found a suitable place, much like where large predators would pass by, and the soil was soft. The two of them started work.

As soon as they got their hands dirty, they discovered a new problem: there were no tools.

The two men only had sabers and daggers, and no hoes, shovels, shovels and other tools.

Helpless, the two had to dig the pit little by little with sabers and daggers.

Moreover, the two are still physically weak. Traps are dug slowly. Fortunately, there were two people, one was tired and took a break, and the other continued. It was dug in the morning until nightfall, when the pit used as a trap was barely dug.

Then, the excavated soil is moved to a nearby low-lying area.

At night, the forest is dark, and they have no advantage over nocturnal animals. The two had to drag their tired steps back to Tiangou.

The next day, the two woke up and managed to hunt a squirrel. The squirrel was larger and more agile than they had ever hunted before, and it took them a great deal of effort to catch it.

Chen De shot about 20 arrows before he hit it, which surprised the two of them.

This is something they had never done before when they were hunting. Chen De's archery skills have long reached the level of arrows.

After the arrow fell from the tree, the squirrel fled a long distance. Let Zhang Zhiliang, who was still weak, chase in the woods for a long time.

The two of them sighed, the beasts around Tiangou seemed to be much more powerful.

Set up the trap and place the squirrel as bait on the dead grass that covers the trap.

In view of the experience of hunting squirrels, the two did not dare to go too far from the trap, because they were afraid that the prey would fall into the trap, but they still had the ability to escape.

After all, the beasts here were different from what they had known before. Worried that the trap they had dug hard would not work, they ended up losing a squirrel, so the two of them hid about five or six feet away from the trap.

Under normal circumstances, hunters do not wait at the edge of the trap after setting it up. Just come back every once in a while to see if any beasts have fallen into the trap.

The two of them hid by the trap, a little silly. Zhang Zhiliang asked Chen De twice: Is this a waste of time? Chen De said: I think I want it, just look at the squirrel.

After a while, the wind picked up. This made the two of them a little happier. In order to make the smell of blood stronger, Zhang Zhiliang deliberately cut a few more knives on the squirrel. When there is wind, the smell of blood spreads farther and wider.

After about half an hour, the two of them finally heard the beast approaching. From the depths of the woods, downwind, there was the sound of large beasts marching, and it was getting closer.

Its route passes through the vicinity of two people. Zhang Zhiliang pulled Chen De, and the two quietly changed places.

An animal resembling a bear appeared in their sight.

Because its hair is very long, some of it will cover its eyes when blown by the mountain wind, and its forelimbs are long, so its head is held high when it walks, which is completely different from the bears they have seen before. Zhang Zhiliang exclaimed and whispered, "What a big hairy bear!"

The woolly bear saw the squirrel on the dead grass, and when he looked up, he didn't see any threat in his sight, nor did he smell the breath of other beasts, and his doubts about the lonely appearance of the squirrel corpse on the ground were easily dispelled by his desire for food.

The hairy bear moved its limbs to approach the squirrel, and when its front paws were about to land on the squirrel's corpse, it heard the sound of dead branches breaking, and before it could understand, there was a sharp pain in its hind limbs and buttocks.

The two men who had been waiting for a long time rushed excitedly towards the trap, one holding a knife and the other holding a bow. The howls and roars of the woolly bear came from below.

When the woolly bear falls from above, its massive body crushes a large piece of the dead branch that covers the top of the trap, pressing a large hole into it.

The trap is more than one person high. The woolly bear's sheer weight, combined with the momentum of its fall, caused the sharp stakes at the bottom of the trap to pierce its skin and into its body.

Enraged, it swept its palms and swept off all the remaining stakes.

Injuries to its hind limbs prevented it from jumping as usual.

The four walls of the trap, the soft soil layer is not a little difficult for it, the front paws are inserted up and down in the soil, it is easy to insert, and then it is easy to climb up along the trap wall.

When Chen De and Zhang Zhiliang rushed to the edge of the trap, the long-haired bear was only a foot away from crawling out.

The two were taken aback when they saw this scene.

Zhang Zhiliang's knife slashed at its head, but the long-haired bear didn't dodge.

As soon as the knife went down, Zhang Zhiliang felt that the knife seemed to be cut into very hard wood, and he couldn't cut in. It turned out that the furry bear's skin was thick and tough, and the knife failed to cut through its scalp.

Chen De's eyes were sharp, and when he saw this, he knew that this long-haired bear had rough skin and thick flesh, and with the wooden arrow in his hand now, shooting it on it was also tickling, so he turned the target and shot the arrow at its eyes.

When the long-haired bear saw the arrow coming, he first raised his right hand to block it, but the arrow could not penetrate its skin. Seeing this, Chen De shot an arrow into its left eye. The long-haired bear instinctively raised his left palm to block. Now, losing the support of his palms, the hairy bear fell to the bottom of the pit again.

Because of its weight, it fell again, and the stake on its old wound was inserted even deeper, far more than the damage caused by the attack of the two men.

The woolly bear howled miserably, and with its mouth and front paws, it bit out and pulled out the stake.

The two glanced at each other, and secretly said in their hearts: Oops, this long-haired bear is still not easy to deal with after being injured.