Chapter 132: "Ru Mao Drinks Blood"
On the way back, the road was peaceful, and the apes supported the injured people, picked up the weapons and the carcasses of baboons and bighorn deer left along the way, and soon saw the banyan forest.
"Oula!!"
Ah Yan roared loudly, reminding the people in the woods that he and the others were back, which was a sign that the hunting team had encountered a big incident outside.
When the apes in the tribe heard the roar, men, women, and children all ran out quickly, and after seeing the leading three-tailed cat, they first bowed respectfully, and then bypassed Li Hang and surrounded the leader A Yan and his party.
"Wow! That's a big baboon? And two?"
"Where? Don't squeeze, let me see too, is it the guardian who killed?"
"Thorn, why are you hurt like this, why don't you see the grass branches?"
"It's really a big baboon, look at the tail, I really want to taste what its tail tastes like!"
.......
There was a lot of noise in the crowd, some were judging the hunt, some were looking at the members of the hunting team and praising them, and some were looking for familiar companions.
"Don't go around, the big guy will take a hand, and I'll talk about it when I get back!"
Seeing that the crowd was getting bigger and bigger, Ah Yan put down the bighorn deer he was carrying, jumped up and shouted loudly.
As the leader, his prestige among the people was still very high, and as soon as the words fell, the apes stopped talking, stepped forward and stretched out their arms and arms to help lift the prey and walk towards the banyan forest.
Death seems to be a common occurrence for apes, and while they grieve for their dead friends and loved ones, it's more of a habit.
I am used to a friend who talks about everything, and I don't know when I go out one day and never see him again, or the last thing I see is just a cold corpse.
So, when they carried their prey to an open space in the banyan grove that had been used as an open-air restaurant, all the apes had no sadness on their faces, and all that remained was the desire and joy that they were about to fill their bellies.
Pile your prey on the ground, where piles of collected wild vegetables and fruits are already placed.
"Guardian, the moa you hunted has been sent to the altar, would you like to taste these baboons and bighorn deer?"
The apes sat around their prey, but they didn't rush to make a move, but Ah Yan asked the guardian beast about its needs first.
"Well, you can take care of me and eat it yourself. ”
Then he answered, Li Hang squatted aside and pondered, in such a short time, he had already counted the number of all the apes left, plus the young children and the elderly, there were only a little more than a hundred left.
In other words, it was only the first day, and more than twenty apes had been lost, and it seemed that what I thought was simple before was indeed overthinking, and the "difficult" level task world was really not so easy to complete.
As for this ape in his early 100s, not to mention other dangers, if there were several births, old age, sickness and death in five months, it would all be a failure.
No, you can't sit back like this, "Samsara" will definitely not issue a mortal mission, there must be something I didn't think of, or overlooked.
At this time, Li Hang didn't know that today's moa and big baboon were just a temptation, and more dangers were still brewing, which could erupt at any time and instantly drown the entire ape group.
The apes didn't notice the signs of impending disaster at all, and they didn't understand what Li Hang was thinking, and after the guardian beast said that it could have dinner, they adjusted their positions one after another, and divided them into three circles according to their ranks.
The first circle was made up of adult sturdy apes led by Ah Yan, almost all of whom were members of the hunting team, plus a few strong half-adult ape juveniles, who gathered around the core of the food, and the remaining two circles of apes had to wait for them to eat before they could go over to eat.
In the second circle are adult female apes and slightly disabled male apes, whose duties are to collect wild vegetables, wild fruits, roots, insects and other vegetarian food, so they have a lower status, but when there is enough food, they can basically eat a full stomach.
As for the third circle, it is the least numerous, consisting of the elderly, young children, and severely disabled apes, with only a dozen or so figures, who are the lowest part of the tribe and have little to contribute to the tribe, and who usually do not have enough to eat, regardless of the amount of food.
"Ula!!Praise!!
The guardian of the great beast, protecting the longevity of my clan,
The protection of the ancestral spirits of the past generations bless my clan for eternity,
The provision of the rich steppes for the eternal survival of my people,
The shade of the majestic banyan tree makes my people endure,
........”
Surrounded by the center of the food, Ah Yan raised his arms and led the leader in singing a hymn, which is a tradition, and apes believe that eating is a very sacred thing, so they must be thankful before eating.
Perhaps they were really hungry, and although the apes sang very seriously, they did not speak slowly, and soon ended the hymn.
Looking around, seeing that the eyes of the clansmen were focused on him, Ah Yan was expressionless, took out a bone dagger from his waist, took a few steps forward, walked to the corpse of a big baboon, looked at the wound, and stabbed it down.
Burst!
The bone dagger was quite sharp, and it didn't enter the wound in response, Ah Yan held the baboon's head with one hand, and the arm holding the dagger pulled hard, and the baboon's epidermis was instantly cut out of a huge crack. Since the blood had already coagulated in the body, not much blood was spilled.
After he drew the first knife, the apes beside him took out the bone fragments one after another, and the stone fragments stepped forward to help, and after a while, most of the baboon's skin was peeled off.
The smell of blood was pervasive in the air, and although Li Hang was not disgusted by this smell, he couldn't say that he liked it, but the apes were different.
When the apes in the first circle cut the raw meat and ate it raw with wild vegetables and insects, the women in the second circle could still salivate and watch, after all, it would be their turn after the men ate it.
But the old people and children, who had been half-starved all year round, were very uncomfortable, and although they did not dare to rush up to fight, the sound of hungry stomachs and the cries of young children still sounded.
Rules are rules, and perhaps among these young and old people, there is a father or child of an adult ape in the first circle, but no circle of them takes the initiative to give alms or ask for food.
Even if Li Hang was willing to give them his moa, they didn't dare to accept it.
Ru Mao drinks blood!
This is Li Hang's first impression when he sees them eating, the bloody apes seem to be completely indistinguishable from the beasts outside at this moment, civilization or barbarism, in this world seems to have no boundaries.
Barbarous?
Civilization?
Li Hang's eyes suddenly lit up, he stood up suddenly, how could he forget that, if there was it, the probability of survival of the apes would simply multiply several times.
"Whew!!"
He let out a loud roar, and all of a sudden, the apes who were eating or waiting looked over.