Chapter 29: The Golden Leopard
"Here ......"
When Zhou Qing saw this scene, his heart couldn't help but tremble slightly.
"I've been here for three years, and there have been five people living in this cave, three of whom have been eaten by worms, and one of them has fallen to his death under the cliff. There is another person, after living for a month, he spent money to fix the relationship, and he was lucky to save his life. ”
The young man next to him said lightly, it seemed that he was no longer surprised by this kind of thing.
"You can just call me Senior Brother Qi Nan, there are currently seven people living in these caves, and you are eight.
There are a few people with strange tempers, and you must not provoke them.
Otherwise, if you are killed, no one will come to your rescue. ”
Qin Zhou understood, thank you Senior Brother Qi for reminding him. ”
Zhou Qing bowed to Qi Nan with a fist, Qi Nan lowered his head and smiled softly, not knowing why he was laughing.
"You're good at it. ”
Qi Nan said that, and returned to his cave.
Zhou Qing found weeds, laid out the bed, and went outside to find some firewood. He spent a lot of time making a fire break, which can be regarded as solving the problem of lighting.
It was already dark, and he had no hunting skills, except to steal a few eggs from the trees and pick some wild vegetables, which was enough to make dinner.
On the second day, Zhou Qing did not go to the mountains to look for purple gold bamboo shoots, but began to make some simple traps. In this mountain, the sect does not provide food and clothing, and everything has to be solved by himself.
If you want to survive these few years, you must first know how to survive.
The purple gold bamboo shoots are harvested once a month. Zhou Qing is still more than ten days away from handing over the bamboo shoots, and Zhou Qing feels that he still has some time.
In the first few days, Zhou Qing spent almost every day in hunger. The other senior brothers, in addition to going up the mountain to pick bamboo shoots on weekdays, are hunting.
Zhou Qing rarely encountered it, even if it was near the stone cave, he only saw them roasting some game, and cooking a wild vegetable soup was over.
It wasn't until seven or eight days had passed that Zhou Qing's trap caught a fawn. Although Zhou Qing couldn't bear to kill, his hunger told him that if he couldn't eat meat again, he would probably starve to death in the mountains.
Zhou Qing dragged the deer into the stone cave, holding the stone in both hands and smashing it down on the deer's head. Blood splattered, and after a few convulsions, the fawn lost its vitality.
Zhou Qing used the stone tools he made to peel off the deer skin, and then made two forks from the antlers.
From the skeleton of the deer, Zhou Qing picked out a few bones of moderate size and high hardness, and made two bone knives.
This venison was eaten by Zhou Qing for a few catties that night, and the rest of the venison was put in the cave by Zhou Qing and put it on a high height with bamboo, and it is estimated that it can be put for a few days before it stinks.
It's a pity that there is no salt in this mountain, otherwise this deer can be pickled and dried, which is definitely enough for Zhou Qing to eat for a while.
As the time to collect bamboo shoots approached, Zhou Qing began to panic.
A few days ago, Qi Nan told him that if the number is not reached, the time spent in these eleven mountains will also become longer.
Although it was dark at night, Zhou Qing had not yet fallen asleep, and he had been making weapons all night. The bone knives were sharpened by him, and one of them was tied to a stick and used as a spear.
The deerskin asked Zhou Qing to make a water bag, and everything was almost ready.
I slept for only two or three hours, and it was dawn. Zhou Qing rubbed his sleepy eyes and went to the mountain stream to wash.
The moment he raised his head, there was a huge black shadow in the grass on the opposite side.
Zhou Qing sat on the ground in shock, he quickly clenched the bone spear in his hand, and touched the location where his dagger was hidden.
A few egrets flew into the sky in the canopy, and the beast in the grass didn't pay attention to Zhou Qing, but stared at the roe deer grazing alone under the hillside.
On closer inspection, the black shadow was actually a blind bear. Looking at that size, there is no doubt that it is a male.
When the blind bear approached less than ten feet away from the roe deer, he suddenly sprang up at a rapid pace. The roe deer hurriedly kicked up four long legs and ran quickly, although the roe deer looked dexterous, but he was still chased by the bear blind man.
The bear paw that was bigger than Zhou Qing's face plate was slapped, and the roe deer fell to the ground in an instant, and the blind bear bit the roe deer's slender neck.
There was a frantic thrashing, and the roe deer struggled and kept letting out a low cry of pain, but in a few moments, the roe deer's anger gradually disappeared, and its head hung on the ground, and there was heat and blood coming out of its long tongue.
When the blind bear threw down the roe deer, the head and body of the roe deer were almost only a layer of skin still connected.
"No wonder almost three of the five people who lived in my cave died at the hands of the beasts. The beast in the eleventh mountain is truly ferocious. ”
Zhou Qing moved his steps slowly, and after a while, he avoided the sight of the blind bear.
He walked a lot of treacherous terrain and saw a few purple gold silk bamboos. Because he grew up on a mountain cliff, Zhou Qing finally chose not to take this risk.
After walking for a long time, Zhou Qing also understood. What can be picked up is basically picked by other senior brothers.
If he wants to get the purple bamboo shoots, he has to climb to the top of the cliff.
Zhou Qing wrapped the vine around his waist and used it as a tool to bind the purple gold bamboo shoots. He tried the hardness of the rocks under the cliff, and except for a few rocks that looked like they were about to fall, they basically allowed him to climb without error.
When I looked up, the purple gold silk bamboo that extended from the crack in the rock was at least twenty years away from me.
Zhou Qing took a deep breath, and then climbed up.
Halfway through the climb, he began to feel a little weak in his arms. But the ground is already some distance from him, and it is difficult to retreat, so it is better to fight.
These twenty zhang or so don't look very tall, but climbing the rock takes almost all of Zhou Qing's strength. When he touched the rhizome of the purple gold silk bamboo, Zhou Qing couldn't help but let out bursts of laughter.
He slammed his hand into it, and his body finally climbed up. The place where the purple gold silk bamboo grows here, although it is located in a high place, it can be regarded as being able to accommodate Zhou Qing to sit here and rest.
He lowered his head and saw small bamboo shoots five inches long emerging between several purple and gold silk bamboos.
The tip of this bamboo shoot has a faint golden vein, like a dense silk thread covering it. And between the bamboo shoots and the cracks in the rocks, there is a faint purple.
Therefore, this bamboo shoot is called Zijin bamboo shoot. As for the purple gold silk bamboo, it is actually not much different from other wild mountain bamboos, they are all thin and short.
Zhou Qing carefully pulled out the bamboo shoots and put them on his chest. I thought that there were several purple and gold silk bamboos here, and I should be able to pick more bamboo shoots. But when I climbed up, I realized that I still thought a little too beautiful.
After recovering his strength, Zhou Qing did not climb down, but climbed up the cliff. There are more than 20 zhang below, and up to the top, in fact, there are only a dozen zhang.
And on the way down, he still had to look down, and he clearly understood that his vision was not affected by the mountain.
With his previous climbing experience, Zhou Qing is much faster. When he reached the top of the cliff, he found a safe place to climb down.
After returning to the forest, Zhou Qing hurriedly found more rattans, made a rope more than ten zhang long, and put it on his bone spear.
With this rope, Zhou Qing finally felt much more down-to-earth.
Before it got dark, he picked three more bamboo shoots. This harvest is not small, of course, it is somewhat because of his martial arts foundation.
Zhou Qing was going to go back here, but on the way, he ran into a gray rabbit.
"It's good luck today, this is all over the work, and I will send a meal of meat to eat!"
Zhou Qing rubbed his palms, although in the stone cave, he still had most of the wild deer that he hadn't eaten. But this rabbit is different, with his body and speed, he may be able to catch one alive.
If you get together with a male and a female on that day, you won't have to worry about eating meat in the future. Rabbits give birth to bunnies, and there are several of them almost a month.
It only takes two months, and there will be no shortage of rabbit meat in the future.
Zhou Qing hunched over and quietly approached the gray hare from behind the bushes. After a dozen breaths, he was less than twenty paces away from the hare.
Zhou Qing swallowed his saliva, he wanted to be captured alive, so he was still a little nervous.
But before Zhou Qing could make a move, he felt a chill hit behind him. Zhou Qing's heart chuckled, and cold sweat immediately penetrated his clothes.
A paw gently brushed the withered yellow grass, and the slender and toned body quietly came to Zhou Qing's back. The sound of heavy breathing, as if it was close at hand, stirred the long hair fluttering between Zhou Qing's eyebrows.
The rabbit didn't know that Zhou Qing was going to prey on it, but Zhou Qing already knew that there was something even more terrifying, and he was already eyeing him.
He clenched the bone spear in his hand and grabbed the other one on the rattan.
Zhou Qing was short of breath, and his forehead was already covered with beads of sweat, which were put together and turned into sweat the size of a bean from his cheeks and slid down to the tip of his chin.
Syllable!
When his sweat fell on the back of Zhou Qing's hand, Zhou Qing suddenly turned around, and the thing behind him was suddenly startled by Zhou Qing's changes, and he actually took half a step back.
"Leopard!"
Zhou Qing's eyes widened, one pig, two leopards and three tigers, the day he came, he bumped into a big wild boar, he didn't expect that only a few days had passed, and he had touched a big leopard with money spots!
The two dots on the forehead of the golden leopard wrinkled, and the beast pupils stared at the weapon in Zhou Qing's hand, and a big mouth opened, revealing sharp canine teeth that were two inches long.
"Wow!"
The big leopard let out a roar, and in a blink of an eye, it pounced in front of Zhou Qing, slapped it with one paw, and brushed it next to Zhou Qing's body.
Zhou Qing threw out the rattan on his body with one hand and smashed it on the big leopard, but the big tiger and leopard's body got acquainted, and the tendons and flesh of his body were almost unaffected.
Zhou Qing saw that the big leopard got acquainted with the muscles, so he quickly lifted the bone spear and stabbed the big leopard in the neck.
The big leopard dodged gently, although it could only dodge, but it made Zhou Qing's bone spear deviate from the direction, and this stab only stabbed the leopard's back.
As the big leopard struggled violently, with a click, Zhou Qing's hands suddenly lost the strength to support them. The bone spear had been broken by the beast's struggle!