The high-temperature flames were roasting on the grill, which gradually gave off the aroma of meat. The damp rain and the moist earthy smell could not hide the aroma that tempted the animals. After a while, an adult female fox with a red body ran into the cave. in front of. However, the dissected body of the Iron-Cracked Brown Bear was displayed at the entrance of the cave. It recognized that this was a ferocious monster that could kill itself in one bite. The instinct of wild animals told it that the guy inside was very dangerous.
So it gave up going to the cave, and instead bit out some unprocessed internal organs from the body of the brown bear, clamped it in its mouth, and then quickly disappeared deep into the bushes.
Other animals also arrived here at the same time, and they also made the same decision, and the bold ones began to gnaw directly outside. After a while, the corpse of the iron-cracked brown bear became an empty shell with only a skeleton. It filled the hungry stomachs of the surrounding predators, and the empty shell became the best deterrent and natural barrier at the entrance of the cave.
"Eat it." Inside the cave, the woman sprinkled a piece of cooked hind leg meat on an iron rod with a little salt and handed it to the little boy. The little boy took it and immediately devoured it.
Hungry is not a unique state of wild carnivores, he is the same, but before getting food, he is as quiet as if nothing happened.
"Archie, starting from tomorrow, I will take you hunting together." The woman's voice was very pleasant, like the sound made by beautiful fingers plucking the strings of the world's best guzheng.
The boy named Archie nodded quietly. After finishing the meat and drinking a small bowl of distilled water, he returned to a quiet state.
Quietness, health, and physical strength are the three survival principles that women give boys. Even in wild mountains where mutated creatures are rampant, women do their best to maintain these three survival principles for boys.
This goes back and forth for 6 years.
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Time flies, 9 years have passed since the boy and the woman hunted together, and 3 years have passed since the woman left without saying goodbye.
In the same resting place, bones of ferocious beasts have piled up like a mountain outside the cave. The inside of the cave is much different from what it was 9 years ago. There are large thermal insulation carpets made of animal skins, and rattan walls woven with tough hair vines. The grill made of iron rods, stones and wood, the glass pieces and porcelain bowls for making distilled water are still the same as before.
The cave is as dry as before, and time has proven that this area is one of the few blessed places in the wilds of this mountain range.
The boy who has grown to 16 years old has a face that is as gentle as jade but has been polished by the wind of the mountains and has a graceful demeanor. His eyes, as deep as obsidian, are bigger and rounder than before, enough to envy the teenagers to middle age. of all women. His eyebrows were blown by the wind and rain in the mountains, the bridge of his nose was shaped by the smell of the blood of prey, and his lips were tasted from the sinews of ferocious beasts.
Every inch of his body's strong but spring-like muscles were developed through hunting one after another.
He held the three-foot long wavy knife that was polished black and reflective, just like the woman who once protected and taught him held the knife.
"Sister Ruorong, I bet on the success or failure of the level you set for me. I will definitely come out of the mountain this time, and then I will travel thousands of miles across mountains and rivers to find you."
The young man looked at the mirror-like blade, reflecting his unwavering and persistent eyes. His voice was clear and clear, like the sound of jade stones being struck against each other, sonorous and pleasant to the ear.
His name is Wu Qi.
Wu Qi stood up from the smooth stone bench he had been sitting on for nine years. The brown leather boots on his feet were shiny and tough. They came from the leather of the "Bog Crocodile", the overlord of the Devil's Swamp at the foot of the mountain. The soles of the boots were as hard as steel. , and the two rows of thick, blunt spikes on the back of the boots were deliberately left behind when he made them. In addition, all of his clothes were made by himself from his own materials during hunting year after year. They are all excellent in terms of keeping warm and keeping out the cold, as well as being tough and lightweight.
Wu Qi left the cave without a trace of nostalgia. His luggage was simple and light, except for a water bottle, animal skin notebooks and wolf hair pens, and some dried meat to satisfy his hunger.
Wu Qi walked in the dangerous forest with ease. The mutated plants had doubled in height on average compared to 9 years ago, and the bushes had grown to the chest of Wu Qi, who was 1.8 meters tall. The mutated kapok branches were pushed up higher by the growing stems, and Wu Qi could easily jump up even from that position.
The air doesn't seem particularly humid because it rained three days ago and the land is now dry. It was very easy to find the target's footprints in the dry mud. Soon, Wu Qi found a five-toe footprint more than a foot long in a messy and broken vegetation. The target's other footprints could be seen around the footprints, half of which had four toes mixed in.
Wu Qi saw the first clue with his outstanding eyesight, and then it was his turn to use his more developed sense of smell and hearing to help him navigate and avoid danger. For mature hunters, well-developed sense of smell and hearing allow them to do this With a perspective effect of ten meters in radius, Wu Qi obviously met this standard.
In the dense and humid forest, hair vines hang between the tall kapok trees, forming a long yellow-green natural curtain. These hair vines are the "spider webs" used by alert mutant animals to detect the movements around them. They grow crazy and long. There are many, but only a few herbivores will take a few bites when they are particularly hungry. At the same time, it effectively blocks Wu Qi's sight, which makes him very inconvenient.
Taking out a knife and covering it with vines will serve as a warning to the surrounding mutated animals. It is best to let them roll as far away as possible.
After expanding his field of vision, he could clearly see what was in the light mist of the forest ten meters away with his amazing eyesight. In addition, he had been living in this forest for many years, and he had all the information about the ecology. His talent With his extraordinary and well-trained body and excellent sense of smell, hearing and vision, his overall strength has reached the first echelon of the food chain. The movements of his hands and feet, the eyes that instantly lock onto the prey's every move and heart, and the long knife that has been entangled in the blood of creatures in this area for more than nine years, in the eyes of any creature lower than him, it is bigger than the bloody mouth of the iron-cracked brown bear. A more intimidating presence.
Not surprisingly, the small mutated animals ten or twenty meters away retreated away after sensing the sound of a large number of hair vines being cut off and smelling Wu Qi's scent.
There was only one guy with blind eyes, and it appeared in Wu Qi's field of vision seven seconds later. With a height of 2.1 meters at the shoulders, a body length of nearly 4 meters, and a body weight of 980kg, he is confident.
This is the Iron-Cracked Brown Bear 9 years later. It is definitely more than twice as powerful as 9 years ago. Wu Qi searched his mind for the knowledge Ruorong had taught him, and determined that the iron-cracked brown bear was a big guy with a first-level ability to "transform into a giant beast" and a mutation strength close to 100%.
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