Chapter 65: Jungle Hunting (Part 3)
Li Si couldn't rely on the reputation of hunting rock-fronted bears to sit back and enjoy his success.
This time was the first time he went out hunting after rescuing Shen Chong. And Shen Chong, as an adult male in the Huangquan realm, naturally wanted to go hunting with him.
However, Shen Chong was quite looking forward to it, firstly, he was curious about the fresh environment of this other world, and secondly, he happened to take the opportunity of going out to hunt to try his luck nearby to see if he could encounter a spatial wormhole.
After the meal, under the reluctant gazes of Lu Xiang'er, Aunt Lian, Xiaolong, and Xiaofeng, Fourth Uncle Li and Shen Chong picked up the wooden bow and iron spear and slowly walked out of the village.
Lijiazhai is located on a small plain in the middle of several mountains, and it takes several hours to get to the nearest hunting spot.
Hunting, there are those who go alone, and there are also dozens of hunters who go together. The length of the hunt also varies depending on how deep the hunter is in the mountains. Generally speaking, the sparsely traveled deeper into the mountains, the more likely it is to encounter ferocious beasts. In the forests near Orion's villages, most of them are just small beasts such as pheasants and hares, and even if they are caught, they can only sustain the needs of a family for a day or two at most.
Today, with a gentle breeze and warm sunshine, it is a good day for hunting.
The wind is light, so that the smell on the hunter's body is not easy to detect by the prey. Good light makes it easier for hunters to find their prey's tracks and make it easier to track.
Because Shen Chong came out to hunt for the first time, Fourth Uncle Li also told the family that this time they came out, mainly to take Shen Chong to familiarize himself with the surrounding terrain and basic hunting skills, and they would come back in two to three days at most.
Not long after Lijiazhai, the surrounding jungle became dense.
Along the way, Fourth Uncle Li kept chattering about Shen Chong's introduction to common beast species and characteristics.
Shen Chong listened while curiously looking at the strange terrain and plants around him.
I have to say that this Yellow Spring Realm is still very different from the New Realm that he was originally familiar with.
Those plants, just from the shape, can be said to be tall, short, vine, thorny, you can say everything. The colors are also strange, mainly blue, green, purple, and cyan.
Shen Chongzheng looked up strangely and looked at a huge colored mushroom more than ten meters high, but Fourth Uncle Li dragged him aside.
The two of them crouched down beside a dwarf plant with slender branches that twisted like twisted flowers and clouds.
Fourth Uncle Li pointed to the plant, lowered his voice and said, "Brother Shen Chong, look." ”
Shen Chong looked at it when he heard this, but saw that the plant was covered with small fruits one by one, and the fruits had a strange shape, like goose-yellow bird claws.
Fourth Uncle Li's eyes lit up and explained to Shen Chong: "This little tree is called 'annoying'. These fruits stick to the fur of wild beasts, and they can't be rubbed off no matter how much they rub them......"
Speaking of this, Fourth Uncle Li suddenly picked a bird's claw-like fruit, looked at the handful of snow-white fluff on it, and even his tone trembled with excitement: "I'm so lucky today, there is an edelweiss deer!"
"Edelweiss?" Shen Chong also stared curiously at the handful of fluff on the small fruit.
Fourth Uncle Li nodded, and lowered his voice a few points again: "That's a beast that feeds on beech leaves. Very timid, very fast, very ear-catching. However, the meat is delicious, and the snow-white fur is very expensive. I didn't expect that in the mountains and forests so close to the village, there were traces of them. Their noses are also very sensitive, and they can often smell the breath of living people from dozens of miles away, and under normal circumstances, it is impossible to come to the mountains and forests so close to the village. ”
After speaking, Fourth Uncle Li no longer spoke, but carefully looked for traces nearby.
After a while, he identified a direction and quietly followed Shen Chong with him.
The two of them galloped through the forest for some distance, and then, outside a forest of thorns, they saw the snow-white fawn.
At this time, the edelweiss deer, with a few red scars, was stomping its hooves in a panic, as if hesitating to jump into the thorny forest to escape.
Although he caught up with the rare and precious edelweiss, which made Uncle Li a little excited, he still tried to stay calm, waved his hand to Shen Chong, and whispered: "Ah Chong, something is wrong, this edelweiss deer has been injured, and is still thinking about escaping, it may be being chased by some fierce beast, let's wait and see." ”
As soon as his words fell, a long howl rang out from the depths of the forest.
Hearing the howl, the edelweiss's eyes welled up with a thick color of fear, and his whole body trembled in shock.
"It turned out to be a coyote!!" Fourth Uncle Li's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly pressed Shen Chong's shoulders to hide the figures of the two.
There was a loud noise, and two gray figures suddenly jumped out of the dense forest and landed on the grass not far from the edelweiss.
Two giant gray wolves the size of calves were walking slowly around the edelweiss, their bloodthirsty eyes staring at the fawn, and their throats were purring and gasping, ready to start enjoying a good lunch.
The edelweiss trembled in despair and kept retreating towards the thorn bushes. But the sharp spikes made it jump in pain.
The two coyotes, still unhurried, gathered nearby, seemingly enjoying the fear of the edelweiss before its death.
Come to think of it, they also know that this prey has no way to escape.
Fourth Uncle Li's heart was beating fast, he couldn't have imagined that not far from the village, not only did he encounter an edelweiss deer, but he was also unlucky enough to bump into two ferocious coyotes.
Snatch prey from the mouths of two coyotes?
He doesn't think he's going to live too long. All he wanted now was to sneak away while the coyotes were besieging the edelweiss, so as not to attract the attention of the two beasts.
When the heart retreats, the breath will inevitably disperse.
Suddenly, the hair on the whole body of the two coyotes stood up in an instant, and one of them turned his head to the bush where Shen Chong and the others were hiding, and a fierce glint flashed in his eyes.
"Oops, it's been discovered!!" Fourth Uncle Li's heart sank, and he immediately pulled up Shen Chong, covered his head and fled into the depths of the dense forest.
A good hunter, even if he encounters a fierce beast, should not leave his back to the other party.
But Fourth Uncle Li is just a timid rookie hunter. With the threat of death, where did he care so much? He just prayed that the coyote would give up chasing the two of them because of the edelweiss.
The coyote threw its head back and howled. One of them continued to keep an eye on the edelweiss, and the other flew up and chased after Shen Chong and the others.
Wolves are greedy beasts, and at this moment, they want their prey on both sides.
"Huh~~ This coyote is not bad, the speed is so fast!" was pulled by Fourth Uncle Li to hug his head, and Shen Chong was not flustered at all in his heart.
Within a moment, the coyote caught up with the two who had fled, and jumped up with their mouths open.
"I don't know if I'm alive or dead!" Shen Chong sneered, grabbed a tough branch with his right hand, and then pulled it in his hand, and the light flashed, and the branch shot towards the coyote that was rushing towards him.
"Flutter~" A crisp sound. The rapidly ejecting branch was inserted into the coyote's chest and stabbed in the heart.
The coyote died instantly and fell to the ground.
Fourth Uncle Li looked back in a panic and found that the coyote had actually hit a tough branch and died, and he forgot to escape, stopped, and looked at the coyote that had been cut off from life.
"Wow~~" The death of his companion aroused the ferocity of the other coyote. It immediately didn't even care about the edelweiss, jumped up directly, and rushed towards Shen Chong and them, although Fourth Uncle Li was scared in his heart, but there was only one coyote left, and he dared to resist slightly, so he hurriedly pulled out his spear.
"Ah Chong, get out of the way!" Seeing Shen Chong standing in front of him, he didn't hide, and Fourth Uncle Li shouted anxiously.
Seeing that the coyote's claws had reached the top of his head, Fourth Uncle Li couldn't care much more, and suddenly waved the stone spear in his hand and poked at the coyote.
Halfway through, Shen Chong's hand quickly caught the stone spear in Li Si's hand, and after adjusting the direction of the stone spear, he slammed forward, and in the sound of fluttering, the spear suddenly poked the coyote through, directly resulting in the life of this brutal beast.
Shen Chong shot too fast, and Fourth Uncle Li didn't see it clearly at all. He just looked at the coyote killed by himself in a daze, and after a while, he felt that the stone spear was still carrying a huge coyote, which was very heavy. Only then did he hurriedly throw away the stone spear, sit on the ground, and gasped for breath.
secretly shot and killed two coyotes, Shen Chong didn't feel too much guilt in his heart. The world is like this, the law of the jungle. If you don't kill other lifeforms, you won't be able to survive on your own, not to mention that in this unaccompanied Huangquan Realm, if Shen Chong is not ruthless and resolute, maybe he won't be able to return to the Nascent Realm alive.
"It's... This...... I'm so lucky today!" After a long time, Fourth Uncle Li came back to his senses, looking at the two wolf corpses nearby, his eyes were full of surprise.
"Fourth Uncle Li, don't catch the edelweiss deer?" asked Shen Chong with a smile.
Li Si turned his head and looked around, and found that the edelweiss deer had already run away, so he immediately shook his head and said, "Don't catch it, with these two animals, we can return triumphantly." ”
Soon after leaving the stockade, there was such a harvest, and naturally there was no need to go deep into the dense forest to track down other beasts.
Li Si and Shen Chong, who were full of joy, immediately made two wooden shelves that could be dragged on the ground, one person and one wolf, and dragged them back to Li's village.
Li Si and Shen Chong had been away from the village for a short time, and now that they had returned, they were curious about some hunters, women and children who were recuperating at home.
But when they saw the giant wolf dragging behind the two of them, the whole village was in a stir.
Among the beasts of the mountains, the coyote is also quite vicious. They are not the fastest and not the strongest, but they often travel in groups, with at least two of them working together to hunt. At the same time, coyotes are very cunning, and it is difficult for hunters' traps to work.
A team of hunters does not need to worry when encountering coyotes, because small groups of coyotes will not attack without opening their eyes.
However, if a coyote is encountered by one person, or two or three people, it will be very troublesome, and it may even cost you your life.
Like Li Si who went out this time, even if he set a trap in a short period of time, it was not enough, and he successfully hunted two adult coyotes, how can it not be surprising.