Chapter 38: The Culling
Zhao Xifeng looked at the figure hovering in the air, and said silently in his heart: Bald Eagle.
Although he had never seen an eagle, he had seen the picture books in the academy and vaguely recognized that it was a relatively common eagle in the northwest.
The eagle flies in the sky, the person hides under the snow, and a man and an eagle face each other across a hare on the surface.
The mother eagle seemed to feel something, in the face of the prey that could be obtained by spitting "claws", circling up and down, wandering and hesitating, although Zhao Xifeng was anxious, he had nothing to do for a while, after a while, finally Zhao Xifeng decided to grit his teeth and gamble, so he carefully shook the rope in his hand, the hare couldn't bear the strength, and swayed left and right a few times, which in the eyes of the bald eagle, but it was a signal that the prey was about to escape! So I couldn't care so much anymore, after all, for a mother, the great vigilance can't compare to the few small mouths in the nest waiting to be fed.
The bald eagle no longer hesitated, quickly retracted its wings, and stabbed down, like a sharp arrow shooting from the sky to the ground!
If you keep diving at this speed, then the bald eagle will crash headfirst under the snow cliff in a few moments, but when it is less than a foot close to the hare, the bald eagle suddenly spreads its wings and makes a beautiful stop in the air! At the same time, a pair of sharp talons from under the wings show out and grab at the top of the hare's head!
As early as when the flying eagle hovered in mid-air, the hare had found the natural enemy above its head, and had been struggling back and forth restlessly, but the other end of the rope on its hind legs was still in Zhao Xifeng's hands, no matter how hard he tried, he could only spin in place, just at the moment when the eagle claw was about to touch the back of the hare's neck, Zhao Xifeng pulled the rope violently, and the hare immediately flew backwards two feet, this action far exceeded the bald eagle's predation experience for so many years, so the catch missed, but it immediately quickly adjusted its posture in the air, and immediately grabbed the second claw, this time the hare was not so lucky, although it was not caught away, but there was an extra wound on the body that was an inch long, oozing blood, let out a terrible scream.
The bald eagle couldn't strike a blow, so it slowly flew back to the sky, brewing a second attack, Zhao Xifeng Xifeng's eyes stared at the various movements of the eagle's body without blinking. So I was looking forward to the second save that was coming.
Bunny hold on a little longer and do it again. Zhao Xifeng said silently to the pitiful one in his heart,
It didn't take long for the bald eagle to fly down for the second time, in the same way, blinking and piercing the distance of dozens of zhang, and then it was still the same routine, emergency stop, bright claws, culling, all in one go! Faster and more fierce than the last time!
Zhao Xifeng didn't drag the rope again this time, because the distance of the rope had reached the limit, and if he made another move, his position would be directly exposed, which might cause the bald eagle to be alert and stop the hunt.
At the critical moment of life and death, the hare burst out with an amazing desire to survive, and at the moment when the eagle's talon reached the body, he suddenly shook his head, and his body twisted to the left, the so-called movement is like a rabbit!
This reaction was not unpleasant, but it had no effect, and the bald eagle stretched out its other paw, just in the way of the hare's escape, and it looked like a tacit cooperation, and the rabbit crashed headlong into the eagle's talons.
Having succeeded, the bald eagle did not make any stops, turned around and flew into the air with its prey, where did the blood of the rabbit struggle under its claws flow.
When the bald eagle rose into the air for about three or four feet, he suddenly felt a sudden sinking on his claws, and it turned out that the rope in Zhao Xifeng's hand was pulled to the limit, Zhao Xifeng shook off the snow on his body and stood up, pulled the rope in his hand and said with a smile in the air: "Sister Feiying, this rabbit is my partner who stole from you, but it is not used to pay for tuition." ”
Although the bald eagle is not small, but among all the eagles, the courage is the kind that is very small, especially the mother who is still feeding the eaglet, and it is a veritable bird with a frightened bow.
Zhao Xifeng ran forward in three steps and two steps, caught the hare falling from the sky, hugged it in his arms and comforted: "A few days ago, when I went up the mountain, I may have roasted your cousin or second aunt, and tossed you for a whole day, but this time at least your life was saved, and you are not allowed to hold a grudge against me when you go back." ”
After saying that, untie the rope of the rabbit's hind legs.
The hare was tied up for half a night, and was frozen in the snow for an hour, and then escaped death for the second time, how could he be in the mood to listen to Zhao Xifeng say these nonsense, struggled twice and threw himself out of his arms, and then jumped three times and ran towards the jungle at the foot of the snow mountain.
Zhao Xifeng looked up at the bald eagle that had gone away again, and thought in his heart, I didn't hurt your family's life, and I learned your unique skills, I didn't come in vain this time, but you didn't suffer either.
Put away these messy thoughts, Zhao Xifeng was about to look away, go back to the cave to pack up his things and go down the mountain, suddenly saw that a dark cloud floated out of the shadow of the cliff, and silently went to the top of the bald eagle's head from above, and waited for the "dark cloud" to reveal the whole picture, Zhao Xifeng saw clearly, where is this dark cloud, this is a huge bird!
"Golden thread carving!" Zhao Xifeng shouted after seeing the faint golden thread under the belly of this giant peng.
The golden thread carving is not a fierce beast, but a spirit beast! Born with a natural sympathy with the vitality of heaven and earth, intelligent as a human, and infinitely powerful, ordinary cultivators in the consensual period are unwilling to provoke, Zhao Xifeng originally thought that this kind of spirit beast only appeared in Zhou Zhe's mouth in those strange things in the cultivation world, but today he met a living one here!
Zhao Xifeng cautiously stepped back, while looking at this scene in the air, he knew that after the golden thread eagle dealt with the bald eagle, the next one might be himself, after all, in Mr. Zhou's story, this spirit beast is cannibal!
The bald eagle was still unaware of all this due to its perspective, and finally when it sensed the abnormal flow of air around it, it suddenly looked upward, and then its eyes were full of only a pair of sharp claws.
In the view of a hare in the distance. The big bird that had killed him just now was crushed into a pulp by a claw ten times larger in an instant, and blood and feathers fell from the air.
If the two blows of the bald eagle just now are clever and changeable, smart and fast, then the claws of the golden thread eagle are like silent thunder on the flat ground. Insidious and domineering!
Zhao Xifeng didn't dare to stay in place, he didn't have any luck, and without saying a word, Zhenyuan ran with all his might, and ran wildly in the direction of the cave with the most suitable wolf suddenly for short-distance attacks. The golden thread eagle hovered in the air, sent the flesh and blood on the claws into his mouth, glanced at the direction of Zhao Xifeng's escape with mockery in his eyes, spread his wings and followed, thinking in his heart, you run with your legs, I fly with your wings, how can you be faster than me, why don't the gadgets running on the ground understand this truth.
From the foot of the mountain to the mountainside cave, a distance of 100 zhang, Zhao Xifeng raced to the death and died.