4. Hunting
The wind swaggered back and forth in the woods. Two arrows slashed through the air with a whooshing sound and shot at a rabbit. One arrow hit, and the other fell to the ground. But the rabbit didn't die. A rabbit that eats pain will run away.
"Not good!" a teenager's voice came from the bushes, and two figures sprang out. One is a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl wearing a red women's power suit, with fair skin and elegant temperament, under the background of the power suit, she is more heroic. Another...... It should be the young man who made the sound, but he is not sure, because this young man is too handsome and delicate, and ordinary beautiful women will be dwarfed by him, only the masculinity between the eyebrows makes people believe that he is a man.
This boy is Tianshu, and that girl is Qing'er.
Tenshu leaned over and picked up the arrow that had fallen to the ground.
It is an arrow with only a body and no arrowhead, and the top of the body is painted with red powder paint. This is Qing'er's arrow. The top of Tenshu's arrow is a black powder pigment. Of course, there are also no arrows. They use this kind of arrow for a reason: they first learned that hunting is a thing from the book, and this kind of activity is very attractive to them, but they think that killing a life is too cruel, so Qing'er came up with this kind of arrow to shoot animals, the powder on the arrow has a special fragrance, after shooting, they will take it to look for it every day, and after finding it, see where they have shot, and win or lose.
This kind of hunting is actually just a pastime game, but I didn't expect that after a few years of practice, coupled with the growth and development of physical strength, Tianshu was able to make the wooden stick shoot into the **!
Tianshu returned the arrow to Qing'er, and said to himself: "It's all my fault, I didn't control my strength well, and I shot and injured the little rabbit, if it has any accident because of this, then I will be guilty." β
Qing'er took Tianshu's hand and said, "Brother, don't worry, let's find that little rabbit and heal its injuries." β
Tianshu sighed and nodded. Suddenly I felt that something was strange, and when I looked around, I saw that there was a missing figure every day.
After so many years, the most surprising thing is every day. Originally, as a wolf, it should be very big now, but it looks like Tianshu, still a young "Lang". This surprised everyone, but no one could tell why. And every day I am the most assured, it eats and drinks well, sleeps well, the body is not painful or itchy, there is no disaster and no disease, and life is really happy and boundless. As a result, it is accustomed to being lazy to eat, and its body does not grow, but only grows fat, and the meat is more and more boiling. This makes the family feel very bad, after all, it is a wolf every day, and it doesn't matter if the body grows slowly, but how can you do it so fat, you have to lose its nature!
Therefore, most of this hunting activity is also for every day. But every day is different from other wolves, as the saying goes, there are policies and countermeasures. It was really annoying and funny to pretend to run around twice while hunting, and then find a bush to sleep in a bush when they weren't looking. But another reason why it dared to do this was that their little princess, Qing'er, liked it very much, in her words, "how cute the meat is!"
Tianshu's eyes swept around, and he knew that it must have fallen asleep in a small bush nearby, because it didn't do it once or twice. He walked to the bush where he had just hidden, and sure enough, in the bush on the side, he saw Tiantian, who was closing his eyes and grinning, and his whole chin was wet, and it seemed that he didn't know what to eat in his dreams. Tianshu sighed and poked its round belly with a bow. It twitched its ears twice, grabbed it and waved it where it had been poked, rolled over and went back to sleep. Tianshu was speechless. Qing'er knew what was going on by looking at her brother's expression. She ran over with a grin, squatted in front of Tiantian, touched its head, and called softly: "Okay, don't sleep, my brother will be angry if I sleep again." β
It's really a thing to a thing, Qing'er called softly twice, and slowly opened her eyes every day. Look at its misty eyes, its unrepentant expression, this whole is a second lord!
Tianshu was helpless, and motioned to Qing'er to let Tiantian help find the injured rabbit.
Tian Tian lazily walked over, sniffed the smell of black powder from Tianshu's arrow left on the ground, and then walked towards the woods as he sniffed.
The brother and sister followed behind Tian Tian. They kept walking, I don't know how long, I don't know how many turns they turned, and where they went. Finally, Tian Tian stopped and moved his paw at a pile of weeds.
Tianshu understood that there was a situation, and when he got closer, it turned out that there was a cave under this pile of weeds. With a bow, the hole is not big or small, and people can just climb into it.
"Hmm...... Is the little rabbit inside?" Qing'er looked at Tianshu with some hesitation, "Do we really want to go in?"
Tianshu thought for a while and said, "Otherwise, I'll go down with Tiantian first, and I'll take you down again if there's nothing to do, okay?"
Qing'er ran over and grabbed Tianshu's hand, shook her head and said, "I don't want to, standing alone in this wilderness, what if I encounter a fierce beast?" I'm afraid, I don't want to be alone." β
"Don't worry, silly sister, if there are any fierce beasts in this area, Tiantian will not come. Have you forgotten last time? That time we were also tracking a rabbit, and after a few steps, we went back every day, and we dragged it over, and although we heard the tiger's cry after a while, it was probably several miles away from us. Tianshu patted Qing'er's head and continued to comfort, "And it's not me." Looking at Qing'er's face full of "don't", Tianshu had no choice but to give up, "Okay, then let's all go in." Follow!"
Tianshu patted Tiantian, signaled it to go in first, and then led Qing'er to bend down to follow.
After entering the cave, I suddenly felt a lot empty. Tianshu straightened up, took out the fire folds, and looked around, and found that the small fire folds could not show what the hole looked like at all. Fortunately, there are people every day, or with such a small fire, there will be ghosts if you don't get lost.
Holding Qing'er in one hand and the folds of fire in the other, he followed Tiantian closely. At this time, he was very glad that he was so fat every day, otherwise it would be really difficult to keep up with it in this environment.
I walked every day, I don't know how far I walked, I suddenly stopped and began to spin in place.
"Brother, what's wrong?" Qing'er grabbed Tianshu's arm and hid behind him.
"Be careful. Looking at the hesitation every day, there may be danger ahead. β
As soon as the words fell, a "hiss" sound came from the depths of the cave, and it was rapidly approaching!
"Ahh
Tian Tian reacted, turned around and bit Tianshu's clothes and pulled out.
Tianshu patted Tiantian's head to calm it down, and then said to Qing'er: "Let's go back immediately, Tiantian runs ahead, you follow Tiantian, and I will break at the back." Then he said to Tiantian: "Don't run too fast in front, take care of the sunny day." β
Every day, I got a "woo" to show my promise. Then he scurried out of the cave without looking back.
When Tianshu turned around and was about to leave, he felt a distress gaze behind him from a distance. He looked back, and at the end of his eyesight, a small figure was limping towards him. This is the little rabbit he shot and wounded.
Tianshu rushed over, picked up the rabbit, and when he turned back, he found that there was no more Qing'er and them. He shouted a few words loudly, and his voice was like a small lonely boat drifting in the boundless sea, drifting towards the horizon, slowly approaching, and finally merging into the horizon.
The voice fell, and suddenly a piercing chill welled up in my heart, because the surroundings were so quiet that it was dead silent. The faint light emitted by the folds of fire in his hand was like the breath of a patient when he was dying, like a gossamer, and in the overwhelming darkness around him, it was even more lonely and uneasy.
Tenshu stood still, trying to discern his direction, for the darkness had swallowed away his sense of direction. He felt that the direction he was facing now might be the exit point, but he didn't dare to move hastily, for he didn't know if he would go to a fork in the road, or run into something strange that he couldn't even fight.
Just as he hesitated, the little rabbit in his arms began to tremble.
"What's wrong? Is the wound painful? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. Tianshu said, squatted down and put the little rabbit on the ground, took out the wound medicine and a little gauze he carried with him, poured the medicine on the gauze, and wanted to bandage the little rabbit's wound.
The little rabbit seemed very anxious and restless, and kept using his head to defy the heavens.
Tianshu gently stroked the little rabbit and comforted it: "Don't be afraid, there is me." β
The little rabbit seemed to understand and gradually stabilized.
Tianshu pulled out the arrow as fast as he could, bandaged the little rabbit, and hugged it into his arms. He knew what the little rabbit was panicking just now, and he also felt that there was a pair of cold eyes staring at him greedily behind his back.
The fear that darkness brings to people is indeed huge, because darkness symbolizes the unknown for people, and the unknown means danger, so when people are surrounded by darkness, they seem so small, so helpless, so vulnerable, so uneasy, so they hate darkness so much.
"It would be great if you could give me some light at this time, so that I can see my surroundings clearly!" Tianshu thought silently in his heart. In this situation, he felt like meat on a chopping board, to be slaughtered.
Suddenly, as if the heavens heard what he was saying, the surroundings lit up with a "poof".
It turned out that several fires had been lit under the walls of the cave.
Tianshu slowly looked back behind him. He was mentally prepared, but he was still stunnedβa huge snake was coiled around a stone pillar, and the crimson snake crown on top of its head was the size of Tianshu's head.
The little rabbit trembled again, and it didn't dare to look at it, so it buried its head in Tianshu's arms.
Tianshu's out-of-body spirit was pulled back by the little rabbit's actions.
He involuntarily took a step back. The thought of having such a monster behind him just now made a cold sweat on his back.
"But why didn't it attack right away?" Tenshu seemed to find a point to calm himself down, "and it's going to play tricks on me first?"
Tianshu raised his eyes to look at the big snake and found that the big snake was not the kind of arrogant look, but was very vigilant and ready for battle.
"Is there something here that it is afraid of?" Tianshu continued to analyze, "Then I can't run now, maybe out of this area, it will be more dangerous." He looked around, and the fires should last long. "Why is there a fire here, is it something to fear about the fire?" but he didn't find anything unusual in the fire.
Tianshu couldn't think of an answer, and finally decided not to want to, everything will be blocked by soldiers, water will be covered, and let's take one step at a time. After making a decision, he sat down, because he felt that the big snake would be in this state for a long time, and the main thing was - weak legs......
At this moment, the serpent suddenly began to rage. It shook its head desperately, as if it was striking something. The originally dark snake crown turned bright red, and it seemed that blood would burst out immediately.
The serpent doesn't know how many times it hit. Judging by the results, it seems to be in vain. This made it even more irritating. It straightened its neck, and with all its strength, the stone pillar around it "clicked" many cracks.
It's still straining.
Tenshu stood up and stared at it closely.
I don't know if it's a hallucination, but the snake seems to let out a low roar. Then the snake crown on the top really burst open, and the black and red blood shot out, but it was cut off by something in the air. At this time, Tianshu discovered that there was an invisible and transparent barrier around the big snake.
The serpent returns to its previous position. Blood flowed arbitrarily along the lines of its scales, and I don't know if it was a reflection of blood, but its eyes were also bright red.
The ramming began again. This time it was different, the cave shook violently every time it hit, and more than once.
God knows that something is wrong. He regretted that he had not chosen to run away in the first place.
With a sigh, he put the little rabbit on the ground and said, "Run, I can hold it here for a while, and you can run as far as you can while you have this time!"
With that, Tenshu straightened up and took out his only weapon, a wooden bow and arrows without arrows. With his arrows and bows, his arrows could pass through the barrier without hindrance, but unsurprisingly could not pass through the scales of the snake that had metamorphosed hundreds and thousands of times.
The serpent slammed even more frantically against the cage that had held it in. The violently shaken ground was no longer able to stand on its feet.
After Tianshu struggled twice, his body was still thrown out. He slid and rolled on the ground, and finally slammed into the wall of the cave. Suddenly, his throat was sweet, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, splashing red with arrows scattered on the ground.
Under the reflection of the firelight, the serpent glowed with a strange dark red, and with its crazy swinging appearance, it really looked like a hellish demon!
Seeing that the big snake was about to break through this shackle, Tianshu knew that if the big snake rushed out, his little life would almost come to an end. So, with his back against the wall of the cave, he struggled to his feet, grabbed an arrow stained with his blood, took his bow again, and shot at the serpent.
As if it had a soul and power, the arrow roared through the air and flew straight into the eye of the serpent.
By the time the serpent reacted, it was too late, and the arrow had passed through its eyeballs and pierced deep into its brain.
The massive body stopped, and so did the shaking of the cavern. It looked at Tianshu in disbelief, though it didn't know if it could still see. It seemed to be very unwilling, as if it wanted to struggle to do something, but it was powerless, and the huge snake head was like a collapsed tower, crashing to the ground, stirring up countless dust, flying all over the sky, as the last mourner to see it off.
Tianshu sat on the ground, his head bowed, his head blank. He needed to rest because his spirit was suddenly filled with exhaustion.
Sneaking a glance at the big snake out of the corner of his eye, he didn't dare to look at it more, because it was the life he had killed with his own hands.
Life is really fragile, no matter how powerful it may seem on the surface.
At this time, there was a "click" sound on the wall of the cave next to it. Tianshu turned his head to look, and a hole appeared not far away. He got up and went over, and found a light in the distance at the end of the hole!
Outlet!
Tianshuhao did not hesitate to run in.
I don't know if it's because of exhaustion, but the concept of time has become very blurred. He can't tell how long he had been running, but fortunately, slowly, the bright spots grew bigger and stronger, and the light became more and more intense. There was a figure running towards him in the white light.
"Qing'er!" Tianshu ran over as if he had found spiritual sustenance and went crazy.
Qing'er helped Tianshu out of the hole, saw the blood and dust on his chest clearly, his eyes immediately turned red, and hurriedly asked, "Brother, what's wrong with you?"
Tianshu touched her head, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said with a smile: "It's okay, don't you see if I'm fine." I just ran into a little snake. He sighed silently, and then said, "It's good that you all came out." β
Qing'er glared at Tian Tian on the side and said, "It's all to blame Tian Tian, running so fast, so my brother didn't keep up." And just now I was about to go to my brother, but every day I said that I wouldn't go in, so angry that I ran in alone, but fortunately I didn't run a few steps before I ran into it. β
Tianshu tugged at Tiantian's ears and said to it: "You, how many times have I told you that you must keep Qing'er safe, how can you let her go into the cave alone? If this happens again in the future, see what I will do to you!"
"Woo" twice a day, indicating that he admits his mistakes.
The sun was sinking in the west, and a ray of afterglow spread over the mouth of the cave. A small figure popped out of the hole, with gauze still wrapped around its legs. It looked into the distance for a long time, and finally bowed its head, and seemed to return to the cave very lonely.