Chapter 5: First Food
Mei carried Zhang Wuge on her back and struggled in the snow, occasionally stepping on a dead branch, making a clicking sound, startling a few grouses.
Fifth Brother Zhang has eaten and slept well in the past few days, and his face has become ruddy, but his hands and feet are not very convenient, and he still needs Mei's help for shameful things like drowning, but he has already thought about it, and other girls don't care, what do they do with a red face and a thick neck, it's a big deal that the hands and feet are sharp in the future, if the girl doesn't dislike it, she will marry her as a wife.
Surrounded by a tall and straight pine tree, the pine needles were verdant, and the heavy pine towers were so heavy that the branches were bent down.
Rose stopped beside a pine tree, looking at the fresh paw prints on the trunk, her face full of wariness. "Blackstone Wuge, this is the bear's paw print."
Fifth Brother Zhang poked his head out from Mei's back and looked at it, and the five long paw prints were like chisels carved out, and he was suddenly shocked. He had never seen a bear, but he had heard from the old people in the village that the bear was not only powerful, but also able to swim in trees, especially with barbs on its tongue, and if it licked it on your face, all the flesh on it would be gone, and only the bones of Bai Sensen remained.
Mei is a huntress, not afraid of bears, she just thinks it's strange, it's winter, how can bears come out to hibernate if they don't hibernate.
In the wasteland, bears eat and drink heavily in the summer, eating their bodies fat and fat, and when the snow falls in the winter, the bear will find a tree hole or burrow into hibernation.
Barbarians will also hunt hibernating bears in winter, usually a dozen hunters go out together, the hound will find the bear sleeping place, and then one person is responsible for making noise to wake up the bear, the awakened bear will become extremely violent, and other hunters will stab the bear in the heart with a stone spear at the moment when the bear just crawled out. If you don't stab the heart, it will become very troublesome, and the barbarians will let the hounds rush up and fight the bear, and then everyone will look around for opportunities to stab the bear's vital parts, usually this process will last for a long time, and even if the bear is hunted in the end, the hound is likely to be killed or injured.
"You put me down, you go by yourself." Fifth Brother Zhang didn't want to drag Mei down, if he met a bear, he would have no ability to resist now, and it would be better to die alone than two people dying together.
"I can't go back, and I won't leave you." Mei said firmly, she shook the bow and arrow in her hand, and said to Fifth Brother Zhang: "I used to kill bears alone, don't worry." ”
"You still say you're going to have bones?" Fifth Brother Zhang flattened his mouth and muttered quietly, he didn't believe what Mei said at all.
"Really, I'm not lying." Mei's expression was particularly sincere.
"And how did you kill the bear?" Fifth Brother Zhang asked curiously.
Mei raised the bow and arrow in her hand, shook it in front of Fifth Brother Zhang's eyes, and said, "I shot the arrow into the bear's ear, and it died in an instant." ”
The bow and arrow in Mei's hand, the arrow is polished from animal bones, Zhang Wuge feels that such a simple bone arrow may not even be able to shoot through the bear's ear wax, and the bear will not stand still honestly, let you shoot the bow and arrow into your ear.
Seeing that Fifth Brother Zhang didn't believe it, Mei smiled, no longer defended, and continued to walk forward with his back on his back.
After walking for a while, in a clearing, Mei saw the corpse of a black bear, with a large hole in its stomach bitten open, its intestines flowing all over the ground, and all its internal organs were eaten.
Mei leaned Zhang Wuge against a big tree, held a bow and arrow, and cautiously walked up to check.
The dead black bear weighed six or seven hundred pounds, and most of its neck was bitten off, leaving only a bit of flesh and skin still attached to its body. There was a clear trail of blood in the snow, indicating that the black bear had been dragged out of a tree hole not far away and then eaten.
In this forest, bears and wolves are the animals at the top of the food chain, but wolves and bears have fixed territory and generally do not clash. And judging from the traces left, there was no violent fight, and the black bear was easily killed without the ability to resist.
"Blackstone Wuge, let's take a detour." Mei is not reckless, and for the dangers she does not understand, avoiding the edge is the best way.
Seeing Mei's solemn face, Fifth Brother Zhang asked, "What is it that can kill a black bear?" ”
Mei shook her head and said, "I don't know, but it should be a very powerful beast, I may not be able to defeat it, let's go quickly." ”
It was the first time since Fifth Brother Zhang saw Mei that she looked a little panicked.
At this moment, a fishy wind came, followed by a loud roar.
Fifth Brother Zhang's scalp was numb, and he saw a white bear coming out of the bushes in the distance, its body was much larger than that of a bull, and the bear's paws on the snow were like dustpans, and the claws that poked out were abnormally sharp, at least ten centimeters long.
Fifth Brother Zhang had no doubt that as long as he was slapped by this white bear, he would be beaten to the point that his bones and tendons would be broken.
"Run!" Fifth Brother Zhang hit Mei with his head and shouted anxiously.
"If I run, you'll die." Mei had never seen a bear so large, as big as two ordinary black bears. And the bears in the wasteland are all black, where did this white bear come from?
Before she had time to think about it, Mei opened her bow and arrows, swished twice, and fired two bone arrows at the white bear in succession.
The white bear just raised his forepaw, and then slapped one bone arrow away, and the other bone arrow shot at the white bear's chest, but it could not penetrate the thick fur and fell to the ground.
Roar! With a roar, the white bear spewed hot air and ran towards it on all fours.
"You hide behind a tree and don't move!" Mei shouted a loud admonition to Fifth Brother Zhang, then took the bow and arrows on his back and ran towards the white bear.
"Oh, ......," Mei raised her arms and danced, screaming loudly to attract the white bear's attention.
Angered by Mei, the white bear stood up with his head held high, and then pounced on Mei like a hill.
Mei ran quickly on the snow, and the white bear behind her had blood-red eyes, emitting a bloodthirsty light.
"Run!" Fifth Brother Zhang's heart was hot, and tears welled up in his eyes.
The white bear is huge, but its speed is not slow at all when it runs in the snow, and the distance between it and Mei is getting smaller and smaller.
Seeing that Mei was about to be overtaken, she suddenly climbed a tall pine tree, and the white bear looked up at Mei on the tree, and became not in a hurry at all, and circled around the pine tree a few times before climbing up slowly.
The bear is a natural tree climber, its claws gripping at the trunk like a steel hook, and as it climbs upward, the snow falls from the pine trees.
"It's over!" Fifth Brother Zhang saw that Mei seemed to climb the tree in a panic, and his heart was cold, this is a big bad thing.
"Big Stupid Bear, come and eat me!" Fifth Brother Zhang twisted his body and crawled out from behind the tree, shouting loudly at the white bear.
When the white bear heard the sound, he stopped suspiciously, hugged the trunk of the tree and looked at it, and saw Fifth Brother Zhang wriggling on the snow like a caterpillar.
"Big stupid bear, there is a kind of you come to eat me, I am better than the firewood girl in the tree!"
The white bear naturally didn't understand what Fifth Brother Zhang was saying, so it stopped, just to judge whether Fifth Brother Zhang was in danger to it. However, it is obvious that Fifth Brother Zhang, who is as thin as a handful of bones, has an infinitely close combat power close to zero, and to a white bear, he is not as threatening as a bee.
The white bear was stunned for a moment, and then continued to climb, chasing after Mei.
This large pine tree is more than 20 meters tall, and the higher you climb, the thinner the trunk becomes. Rose was nimble, and after a while she climbed to the treetops, and when she looked down, the white bear's face was hideous and terrifying, and it was approaching the treetops little by little.
A cold wind howled and swayed the pine trees, and the white bear stopped climbing, clinging to the trunk and remained motionless for fear of falling off the pines.
"Blackstone Wuge, I'll let this big stupid bear dance for you." Mei looked at Fifth Brother Zhang on the snow in the distance and shouted, and then shook the treetops sharply, and the entire upper part of the pine tree also shook.
The white bear's fat body swayed from side to side along the trunk of the tree, like a tumbler.
"It's over, this is stupid!" Fifth Brother Zhang was very desperate in his heart, he didn't understand why Mei did this, the white bear firmly grasped the trunk of the tree with his four paws, and shook it like this, even if Mei shook himself unconscious, it was impossible for the white bear to fall off the tree.
The treetops swayed more and more, and Mei suddenly jumped up with the force of elasticity, and landed like a big bird on the pine tree next to her, and then used her hands and feet to climb down the tree quickly.
The white bear looked at the rose under the tree, his butt down, and slowly retreated step by step.
"Silly, you don't want to run!" Fifth Brother Zhang's heart was about to jump out, and he reminded loudly.
Mei didn't seem to hear Fifth Brother Zhang's words, untied the bow and arrow from behind, and stared at the white bear crawling down motionlessly, just when the white bear's hind legs were about to hit the ground and the two forepaws were still holding the tree trunk, Mei caught up with one step, opened the bow and arrow, and shot an arrow into the white bear's ear.
The white bear let out a roar of pain, fell to the snow, and then staggered back to his feet, as if drunk, and pounced on Mei with his huge bear paws.
With a light jump, Mei dodged the white bear's attack, and with a click, the bear's paw smashed a thigh-thick tree.
Fifth Brother Zhang was stunned, it turned out that this girl could really shoot a bow and arrow into a bear's ear, and she didn't brag.
The white bear was already at the end of his crossbow, and he missed it, turned around and pounced several times in succession, but was deftly dodged by Mei.
About the time of the meal, the white bear's roar became quieter and quieter, and finally lay motionless on the snow.
Rose was on a longbow, gasping for breath, covered in cold sweat. This white bear is the only one she has seen in her life, just now she fought to the death, exhausted all her physical strength and mental strength, fortunately totem blessed, she killed the white bear.
After resting for only a moment, Mei fell to her knees on the snow, raised her hands high, and prayed sincerely: "Great Totem, thank you for giving me the flesh and fur of the white bear, I dedicate the soul of the white bear to you, may you bless us from all calamities!" ”
After listening to Mei's prayers, Fifth Brother Zhang suddenly felt a burst of excitement from the depths of his soul. A little yellow flame silently appeared at the center of Fifth Brother Zhang's eyebrows, and then transformed into countless tiny fire snakes, twisting and circling in one place, forming a flame vortex.
The white bear had just died, and his soul did not dissipate, and he was sucked into the flame vortex with a whoosh, and after a few breaths, it disappeared.
The yellow flame seemed to have taken a dose of great tonic, circling faster and faster, and the yellow light emitted became thicker and thicker, gradually enveloping Fifth Brother Zhang's whole body.
Fifth Brother Zhang's eyes were yellow, and a voice sounded in his head: "In my name, give you the power of the totem!" ”