166. Chapter 166: Hunting
Disheveled!
There was a violent bang in the square again, this time Du Long's body didn't even shake, and Hu Tu's whole person was shocked by the huge force and flew backwards, and finally couldn't keep his body shape at all, and fell on the stone floor with a bang, smashing a human-shaped pit on the spot!
In an instant, the entire square was dumbfounded, and the eyes that looked at Du Long's thin figure one by one were full of disbelief!
The big girls in Nanshan Village, who were not very interested in Du Long's handsome appearance with a little white face, showed extremely admiring eyes one after another, staring at this handsome and powerful foreign young man with bright eyes!
Fengxing's footwork changed suddenly, and Du Long appeared next to Hu Tu, who had fallen on his back, stretched out his hand to help him up, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry Brother Hu Tu! You didn't hurt anything, did you?!"
Hu Tu, a strong man with a blushing face, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Hehe! I'm fine! I really didn't expect that there was such a terrifying power hidden in the seemingly thin body of Little Brother Du Long! In addition to admiring Brother Hu Guo in Nanshan Village, I Hu Tu has another opponent who convinces me today!"
"Haha!How about it, you're finally convinced, right?!Stinky boy, I've told you a long time ago, just look at the figure of the little brother Du Long, you know that he is definitely a master, you don't believe in evil, you have to challenge before you die!" Hu Guo, the village chief on the side, immediately burst out with hearty laughter and teased.
"Alas...... I didn't see that they had only been practicing for half an hour, and they were already tired and sweating, and I thought it was just some showmanship, so naturally I was not convinced!" Hutu sighed with a bitter face.
In this regard, Du Long and the three of them naturally would not tell their secrets stupidly, and after this trouble, the village bell rang for the end of training, and everyone gradually dispersed.
"Let's go, little brother Du Long, go back for breakfast, and you're about to go out hunting!" Hu Guo enthusiastically took Du Long's arm and rushed towards his house.
"Brother Hu Guo! I have probably read it today, the strength of your people in Nanshan Village is very strong, can it be said that the people of the entire Barbarian Hu Kingdom are so powerful?!" On the way to Hu Yan's house, Du Long couldn't help but ask curiously.
"How is that possible?!" Hu Yan waved his hand and said: "My Nanshan Village is located on the edge of the Demon Beast Forest, and the chance of being threatened by the Demon Beast is relatively large, so the strength of the villagers is generally higher, and the more you go to the Hu people inside the Barbarian Hu Kingdom, the weaker the strength will be!
"I see!" Du Long suddenly said.
Breakfast was originally simple, butter milk tea and a plate of pastries!
Du Long took out a lot of delicious snacks unique to the Haotian Empire from the space of the Snake Ring, as well as some fruits, which added a lot of color to this simple breakfast, and several delicious fruits were also produced in the Barbarian Hu Kingdom, but now it was not the season for the fruits to ripen.
The Hu family, who hadn't eaten fruit for a few months, ate this breakfast with relish, especially the strong boy of the Hu family, not to mention the appearance of eating, and almost swallowed his tongue into his stomach.
After breakfast, many of the sturdy villagers began to assemble in the square, armed and armed, and the women, young and old, came out to see off the men of their village who were about to go out hunting.
Of course, not all the middle-aged men in Nanshan Village need to go out hunting, and the safety of the village is also very important, so half of the middle-aged men will be arranged to stay behind to guard their homes and the other half will go out hunting.
The two classes of people happened to alternate travel, only in this way can the men who go out hunting have no worries, otherwise how can they rest assured that their wives and children stay in the village?!
Without too much nonsense, the hunting team set off, all riding demon beast war horses, with scimitars pinned to their waists, bows and arrows on their backs, and some demon beast war horses were also pulling carriages, with long and short weapons, animal trapping nets, hooks and pliers and other things.
Du Long naturally rode on the big lion with his two sweethearts, followed the village chief Hu Guo out of the south gate of the village with the team, and went slightly westward in the direction where Du Long came.
In Du Long's impression, on the way to Nanshan Village, he rarely encountered groups of demon beasts, and after chatting with Hu Yan, he knew that there were fewer demon beasts in the south direction, and he had to move towards the southwest, where there were more monsters in the border area of the grassland and the desert!
As they walked along, they came to a strange area, with a grassland on the left, a desert on the right, and a river in the middle!
"Look! This is the second largest mother river in our Barbarian Hu Kingdom—the Cangqiong River!" Pointing to the big river in front of him, Hu Yan introduced affectionately.
"Cangqiong River?!" Du Long looked into the distance and said with emotion: "In this great wilderness in the northwest, any water source is precious! It is not an exaggeration to call it the mother river!"
"That's right! The Cangqiong River flows from the northwest to the southeast, starting from the snow-capped mountains of the Cangyue Mountains and ending at the shore of the southeast ocean, it is also a boundary river separating the Haotian Empire and the Barbarian Hu Kingdom, and in the southeast, many places are bounded by this river!" Hu Yu nodded and continued to explain.
"So, if I follow this Cangqiong River all the way to the southeast, I will be able to reach the territory of the Haotian Empire?!" Du Long smiled.
"That's right! The Forest of Demon Beasts is too dangerous, big brother, I still want to advise you that it is better to return to the territory of the Haotian Empire first, and then it is safer to go back by the official road!" Hu Yan persuaded at the right time.
"Understood!We will definitely consider Brother Hu's suggestion!" Du Long nodded in response.
The team continued to move forward, encountering some lone low-level demon beasts along the way, Hu Yu and they didn't bother to pay attention to them, and directly ignored them, just when Du Long felt strange, they finally came to an area where a large number of low-level demon beasts gathered.
It is still on the side of the Cangqiong River, but the river surface in this area is wider, which also causes the phenomenon of shallow river water, only one meter deep, and the shallowest point is less than half a meter!
Because of this, this area has become a ferry port for demon beasts on both sides of the north and south, and they all like to travel between the north and the south from here, and before the arrival of the villagers of Nanshan, this area can already see several hunting teams working there from a distance.
Du Long and these humans are located in the north of the Cangqiong River, and the level of demon beasts is low, and the number is much smaller than that in the south!
Looking at the grassland in the south, there are a wide variety of demon beasts, Du Long couldn't help but ask: "Brother Hu, why is there the most demon beast group in the south, but there are no hunting teams, on the contrary, the number of demon beasts in the north is small, but there are several hunting teams?!"
"Hehe! There are a lot of demon beasts in the south, but there are also many high-level demon beasts, as long as one or two fourth-order demon beasts appear, our team will be formed and wiped out by them!" Hu Guo patiently explained.
Du Long nodded suddenly, if his strength was not enough, he would run to the other side, then for the villagers of Nanshan, it was really looking for death! It is estimated that as long as one or two fourth-order demon beasts are needed, they can be wiped out!
The team continued to march northwest, and Hu Guo could be seen greeting other hunting teams from time to time, all of whom were villagers in this area, and most of them knew each other.
There is a custom of intermarriage between men and women in the nearby villages, and it is not surprising that many people are related to each other!
Along the way, Du Long asked the Ring Spirit Beauty to start probing the situation of the nearby demon beast group to see if there was a suitable demon beast group for the demon beast army.
This exploration, I really found a demon beast suitable for being a demon beast cavalry regiment, and it was another ironclad water rhino group, with nearly 10,000 heads, living in the depths of the grassland on the south bank of the Cangqiong River, where there seems to be a large grassland lake!
Nearly 10,000 iron-armored water rhinos, at least five or six thousand iron-armored water rhinoceros legions, this discovery made Du Long very excited, you know, he swept the entire demon beast swamp and found thousands of iron-armored water rhinos, dare to love that this is the main base of the iron-armored water rhino group?!
According to the intention of immediately subduing this ironclad water rhino group, Du Long followed Hu Guo and his party to continue to hurry, and finally came to the hunting ground selected by the people of Nanshan Village.
Although the north bank of the Cangqiong River is mostly desert, after all, it is close to the big river, and there are still sparse trees and grasses growing along the river, and there will still be some small number of demon beasts here.
Du Long finally saw how more than a hundred villagers were hunting, everyone scattered, rode horses and galloped, drove those scattered low-level demon beasts to the water's edge, and then shot with bows and arrows, assisted by animal trapping nets and other equipment, and at least a dozen demon beasts could be captured in one trip.
Of course, the hunting ground area assigned to the people of Nanshan Village is so large, and they have to stop after running at most two or three times a day, and they must rest for one night, and when there are demon beasts on the other side that can't help but run over, there will be a new harvest the next day.
At night, some people were preparing to eat in the camp, while others began to set out and head northeast, and Du Long also set off curiously with Hu Yu, their target was the Hu people's favorite food sand demon!
It is a low-level demon beast that is a bit like a pangolin, the body surface is covered by a thick layer of scale armor, and it hides in the depths of the sand during the day and does not come out to move, and only runs out at night to find food, and its food is insects and termites and other things unique to desert areas.
I ate the delicious stewed sand demon meat made by Sister-in-law Hu last night, and it is still unforgettable, Du Long naturally wants to come out in person to get a few sand demons back, and in the future, it will be stewed for his father and grandfather to compensate for the freshness!
The moon is bright and the stars are scarce, and the village chief Hu Guo showed Du Long superb hunting skills, identifying the footprints of the demon beast, feces and other things, he can know how long ago these traces were left, and then decide whether to follow these traces to hunt down the demon beast.
These sand demons aren't very fast, which is why they are easy to catch once they come to the ground from the bottom of the sand!