From the top of the mountain until he left the tribe, Caesar got a lot of attention.
When walking down the road of glory, the people on both sides of the road put almost all their attention on it.
Why did the wolf also go out with the hunting party
Are they crazy? !
Such a new thing is enough for the people who stay in the tribe to chat for a long time.
For the first time hunting with a team, what Lang Ga said to Shao Xuan was: Don't do anything, just keep up. And now, the first test Caesar faces is to keep up.
The tribe's people went out to hunt, relying on the early training and the teachings of their predecessors, while Caesar, after walking into the mountains and forests, showed more of the instinct of beasts.
Relying on this instinct, Caesar was not afraid or flinched when facing the strange environment around him, but instead became more and more excited. Even if he was locked up in the tribe for two years and grew up in the tribe, after he came out and entered this forest, the wildness was still aroused, and he ran like a gust of free wind. If the hunting team did not allow it, he would have wanted to come. A voice.
At first, Caesar was also curious about the surroundings and sniffed everywhere, but after Shao Xuan warned him a few times, he restrained a lot. Now, under the influence of instinct, it followed the hunting team and did not hold back.
Sometimes the people of the hunting party walked directly through the tree, and Caesar couldn't get up the tree, just below. It slowed down a little in the bright light, and then accelerated and started running in the dark. This is a nature hidden in the blood of Caesar, and it has never been shown in the tribe, but it is very obvious in the mountains and forests.
Seeing that Caesar has been following, and nothing has happened, the people of the hunting team are also relieved. On the way, Caesar also helped the hunting team lead a large beast away, and easily returned to the team.
Climbed over the mountain, came to the first stronghold, rested for a night, started in the morning, and went down the mountain to hunt.
When going down the mountain, Lang Ga said to Shao Xuan: "A Xuan, keep an eye on Caesar, there are traps in this area, be careful not to let it be..."
Before he could finish speaking, Lang Ga saw that Caesar had already walked to the place where the trap was set. He sniffed around and looked around. He seemed to be walking around, but none of his feet were in the trap.
The members of the hunting team also slowed down and looked over there.
In this place, there are very few large beasts and beasts. The traps are set here mainly for prevention. If there are other large beasts or beasts chasing up the mountain, these traps can be used to block them.
However, at this moment, Caesar was walking inside, but there was no sound of any traps being activated.
coincide
That's too coincidental. The place where Caesar walked was not just a few traps. However, so far, none of them have been driven.
Everyone turned their heads to look at Lang Ga, Lang Ga blushed, and his brows moved again and again. Obviously, the situation in front of him was beyond his expectations.
"I taught it to recognize some traps, and I usually practice a lot in this area." Shao Xuan said calmly. He had long expected that the traps over there would not pose a threat to Caesar. When he was in the tribe, such traps were a necessary training task every day.
"It... can avoid traps?" Lang Ga swallowed hard, unable to accept it.
If even such a beast knows how to avoid traps, who will set traps in the future? Does it look good there
"When I come back in the afternoon, I'll change the one over there." Lang Ga said heavily. He really didn't put much effort into the traps over there. After all, the chances of using it there are not high, and it is rare to use it once a year. enter.
Seeing Lang Ga like this, Mai felt amused, "Okay, the beast also knows how to learn, Lang Ga, you have to be more attentive."
After going down the mountain, Caesar did not run far, but followed closely beside Shao Xuan, vigilantly paying attention to the surroundings.
The place at the foot of the mountain lost three thorns and black winds last year, but other beasts will soon enter this area, so it is still not to be taken lightly.
"Mai! There is a hole!" Ang, who was in charge of investigating the front, called out in a low voice.
When the others heard Ang's words, their hearts were filled with joy.
"Where?!" After confirming that there were no dangerous beasts nearby, everyone immediately surrounded Ang.
Shao Xuan brought Caesar closer, and saw that Ang pushed aside a bunch of knee-length grass, and a small hole was exposed.
"They're out!" Ang said happily.
The "they" Ang said were green rodents. The hunting team called them "grass squirrels" because they looked like a mass of green grass. When it is quietly in the grass, it is difficult to be found by the hunting party, and it will come out during the day and night.
The reason why everyone in the hunting team is so excited is actually for this season, a kind of plant that grows on grass squirrels - rat wood.
Ratwood is a parasitic plant in its seedling stage. Its seeds are very similar to a type of nut that grass rats like to eat. Before winter comes, grass rats collect food from all over the mountains and forests, and then store the food several meters deep underground. In the cave, a wealth of food is stored, and they hide in the cave throughout the winter, eating, drinking, and sleeping.
However, the climate in the basin under the mountain is different from that on the other side of the mountain. In the four seasons of the year, when there is no snow, the winter is much warmer than that on the other side of the mountain. Even so, the grass mice living in this basin still maintain the habit of hibernating.
When winter is approaching on the other side of the mountain, the grass rats in the basin begin to hoard food and burrow for the winter. Throughout the winter, they sleep most of the time. When they wake up, they go to the "granary" to find food, and continue to sleep after eating.
The rat wood seeds that were picked up in the grass rat cave, but after being eaten, began to sprout, broke out from the grass mouse's body, and grew into a seedling similar to the grass mouse hair. All the energy required for the growth of rat wood comes from the grass rat, because there is no sunlight in the underground hole.
After a whole winter, when the winter on the other side of the mountain is over, when the grass rat comes out of the hole again, the rat wood seedling has grown almost, and at a suitable time, it will be detached from the grass rat and begin to lignify. and grow independently. And this time period is within fifty days after the end of winter.
Shao Xuan had seen the rat wood in the mountain forest. It was a very huge tree. It was hard to imagine that such a huge tree, from germination to seedling stage, turned out to be parasitic on the grass rat.
The rat wood before lignification is very beneficial to the human being. Children who eat rat wood seedlings will have a stronger physique, and the awakening time will be earlier. Of course, there is also a quantitative effect. The more you eat, the more obvious the effect. Even if the awakening time cannot be shortened, it can also enhance the constitution.
Many people in the hunting team have unawakened children at home. For them, if they can wake up a year earlier, they will have more soldiers at home, and they will be able to go out hunting a year earlier and have more food. For the awakened warriors, the rat wood seedlings also have a certain detoxification effect, which is better than the medicine packs they usually use.
The people on the tribe mountain may not be uncommon, but for the people at the foot of the mountain, the rat wood seedlings are indeed very attractive.
What's more difficult is that grass squirrels are not easy to catch. They are very concealed. After leaving the hole, they don't know where they will jump to. There are many entrances to the hole. If you hold on to one, it can still enter and exit through the other hole, unless you Block the other holes. Second, we have to hurry. If the rat wood has been detached from the grass rat, it is useless to find it.
Mai carefully looked at the soil at the entrance of the cave and calmly said: "Look at this soil, they should have been out for at least half a day."
When I heard that it had been a day, everyone's happy mood just cooled down a lot. They have been out of the hole for so long, can they still be found
"Can Caesar find it?" Ang looked at Caesar and asked Xiang Shao Xuan.
"You can give it a try." Shao Xuan said.
Hearing this, everyone's slightly cooled excitement rekindled.
"Can it really be found?"
"How to find it, it has never seen a grass mouse."
"Okay, let Caesar try it first." Mai stopped the others from continuing to ask. His two children have already awakened, and they don't need the assistance of rat wood seedlings, but they can try their best to look for its detoxification effect.
Under Shao Xuan's gesture, Caesar sniffed at the entrance of the hole, and walked around the hole again. He seemed to be sure of something. It had never seen a grass rat, but there was a smell of a creature around the hole, and that was a grass mouse.
Caesar took a few steps in one direction and looked back at Shao Xuan.
"Uncle Mai, it may be over there." Shao Xuan said.
"Follow!"
The crowd followed behind Caesar, and the speed was not very fast, and sometimes they would warn against beasts.
Caesar, who was tracking the state, seemed very excited, and as its speed increased, Shao Xuan knew that they were getting closer and closer to the grass mouse.
Whoosh!
Caesar shot out like an arrow, jumped high, jumped over a row of bushes in front of him, and got into the grass that was taller than a person.
"Caesar!" Shao Xuan was a little worried. He was afraid that Caesar was too excited and ignored some dangers hidden in the grass.
The grass was so dense that I couldn't see what was hidden inside, and I didn't know what was going on inside. Only after Caesar rushed in, there was a rapid rustling sound, and only a "squeak" was heard, and after a while, Caesar rushed out of the grass again.
Seeing Caesar, everyone's tensed muscles loosened slightly, but soon, they were attracted by the green hairball in Caesar's mouth.
"It's a grass rat!"
"Hurry up! Ah Xuan, see if there is rat wood on that grass rat!"
The crowd immediately became excited.
Caesar held the grass rat in his mouth, but he did not kill it, nor was it bitten.
Shao Xuan pulled the grass mouse from Caesar's mouth. If it didn't have the green hair, the grass mouse would be about the size of two fists, but with the green hair on, it would triple in size.
However, when he held it in his hand, Shao Xuan could feel the weight loss of the grass rat, which was the result of rat wood parasitism.
I didn't see the bald spot that the mouse wood had detached from, and after searching carefully, Shao Xuan's eyes were placed on a "hair" that was slightly thicker than the other green hairs, and the other hand put the stone knife back on his waist, empty He took action to twist up the green "hair" and saw a thin brown lignified circle at the root of the green "hair", Shao Xuan said with certainty, "It's still there!"
He handed the grass rat to the people next to him and asked them to cut down the green-haired rat wood seedling, while he looked around.
When Caesar got in just now, he had a bad feeling, but fortunately Caesar came out soon. Now, that unpleasant feeling has not disappeared, but it has become much stronger.
Glancing at Caesar, the wolf who had just been excitedly holding the grass rat, now the fur on his back stood up.
"Uncle Mai!" Shao Xuan whispered.
Mai, who was watching the team members cut the rat wood, saw Shao Xuan like this, realized something was wrong, and made a gesture to the others.