It was the first time that Shao Xuan saw this little beast called a tree raccoon. It was not much bigger than an adult's slap. The gray fur was interspersed with some brown stripes. His eyes were particularly innocent, his ears on both sides were slightly lowered, he squatted on a ten-meter-high branch, hugged the trunk, and looked down at the person below.
"Don't look at it, that little thing is not delicious." Lang Ga said to Shao Xuan in a low voice. They are resting here, and they are not forbidden to speak, but the conversation is all in a low voice.
Generally speaking, the warriors of the tribe are not very picky about the taste of food, and they will eat those with bad taste, as long as they can replenish energy. But if you can get a "not delicious" evaluation, it is not just unpalatable, but there may be other bad effects on the body.
"Aren't they afraid of people?" Shao Xuan asked in a low voice.
"Many beasts actually don't show fear when they first meet people, but curiosity, but if you show a little killing intent, it's different." Said Lang Ga, lifting the bow loaded with arrows. up, facing the beaver in the tree.
The tree raccoon, who was particularly innocent and looked docile and harmless just now, suddenly had a fierce look in his eyes. The mouth that was not open before is now the boss, and Shao Xuan can see the fangs in its mouth.
Lang Ga did not shoot at the beaver on the tree, but lowered his hand and no longer aimed at it.
"It doesn't taste good with less meat, and it sounds ugly." Lang Ga said something and went over to install his ground bow to check if it was damaged.
When Lang Ga left, the beaver on the tree returned to its original appearance.
A finger-long flying insect flew over, flapping its wings, with a layer of fine scales attached to the body surface, reflecting the sunlight, flickering, and appearing in this position for a while, and appearing in another place the next moment, they flew in the air. Extremely fast, you can move positions in an instant.
Swish!
The raccoon holding the tree waved his arms, as if he had expected the place where the flying insect was going to fly in the next instant.
In the blink of an eye, the flying insect was already trapped between the tree's claws.
Shao Xuan saw that the tree raccoon twisted the flying insect, broke its wings, and then ate the flying insect in one bite, chewing it while staring at Shao Xuan under the tree, like chewing on fried dough sticks.
When there was only one tail left, the raccoon stopped gnawing, looked at the wreckage on its claws, looked at Shao Xuan under the tree, and threw it towards Shao Xuan.
Aware of the insect wreckage that was quickly thrown at him, Shao Xuan dodged and took a small step to avoid it.
"Shhhhhh!"
The beaver on the tree called out.
Shao Xuan thought that the raccoon was dissatisfied because he avoided it just now, but he caught a glimpse of Ang Dong not far away, and then looked at the raccoon on the tree, he had already run away, as if he was avoiding what.
Ang went in the opposite direction where the beaver fled, and climbed a tree nimbly. Behind him, he was carrying five short spears that were half shorter than the ones he usually used for javelins.
The rest of the hunting team quieted down and their breathing slowed down. If it hadn't been seen with the naked eye, it would have been hard to imagine that there would still be so many people here.
Ang seemed to see something, and quietly and quickly drew out a short spear, just as he was about to throw it, but just before throwing it out, he stopped again and made a gesture towards this side.
Mai thought for a while, then waved to Ang back.
With regret on his face, Ang returned to the team after descending the tree. Meanwhile, the hunting party took cover with raised rocks and trees. Shao Xuan naturally followed suit.
After two breaths, Shao Xuan saw something that looked like a fox jumping out of the bushes, looked around, and then ran away in one direction.
Lang Ga motioned to Shao Xuan to continue to wait.
After a while, Shao Xuan heard the sound of swishing, which was the sound of creatures walking and rubbing against the branches.
A creature about seven meters high slowly appeared, with brown fur, thick limbs, and a thick and powerful tail behind it. It looks a bit ferocious, but watching it slowly move its heavy body, it feels a little stupid and lazy.
Nose sniffed, it walked to a few trees, stood on its hind legs, the strong tail was behind it, forming a tripod with its feet, and the front paws, after standing, showed a sickle-like folded into the arm. The sharp claws hooked over the trees in front of him, and easily cut off the branches and leaves from the trees like wheat.
This is an animal whose main food is leaves, but seeing Mai and the others acting like this, Shao Xuan also knows that this big guy is not easy to deal with. Recalling the hunting stories I heard before, corresponding to the big guy in front of me, this should be the giant claw beast. Shao Xuan thinks such a giant-clawed beast is already very big, but in fact, this one is not yet an adult, and the adult giant-clawed beast is even bigger.
Moreover, the giant-clawed beasts just look cumbersome and lazy. When they encounter a threat, their response is not slow, and the giant claws can easily uproot a tree.
In fact, the giant claw beast is also on the hunting list of the hunting team, but Mai has not let anyone hunt it now.
Those trees are not big, the giant claw soon ate almost the leaves on the trees, and the rest of it lost interest, and continued to look lazy, landing on all fours, striding, moving The heavy body left.
After it left, Mai continued to go up the mountain with the people.
When walking up the mountain, Lang Ga checked several traps that were set before, and there were a few poor guys in them. They didn't fall into the traps for a long time, and they were still alive. They were neatly dragged out by the hunting team and solved.
The traps are not large, so only smaller prey are caught.
While repairing the device in the trap, Lang Ga taught Shao Xuan his experience.
Pointing to the soldiers who were handling the prey, Lang Ga said to Shao Xuan: "After catching the prey, you must first check whether they are sick. Like the one you caught just now, the eyes have changed color and the body is bald. , The blood from the cut meat has a strange smell, even if the prey is still alive, it probably won't live long, if we eat it, it is estimated that it will have the same result."
The person in charge of handling the prey over there has neatly skinned the prey, removed the guts and offal, disassembled it into pieces, and put some grass juice on the bag, probably to cover up the smell.
Mai led the team and focused on climbing the mountain, so many large beasts encountered were not hunted.
The environment on the top of the mountain is not as mild as the one below. The snow-capped peaks glisten in the sun, and if you look around, you can clearly see the large basin on the other side of the mountain.
Finally, before the sun went down, the hunting party climbed over the mountain and reached a cave on the side of the mountain. This is a stronghold here for the hunting party, where the hunting party will spend the night tonight.
There is a cave for the night, which is naturally more relaxing.
After a tense journey, they were finally able to rest, and the soldiers were relaxed.
"There used to be a cave bear in this cave. Later, our team hunted that cave bear and robbed the place." Lang Ga told Shao Xuan about the origin of this cave.
"By the way, Lang Ga, what trouble did A Fei get into last time?" Shao Xuan asked.
The smile on Lang Ga's face, who was talking about his glorious deeds, suddenly disappeared, he sighed, and whispered to Shao Xuan, "You said that what is wrong with that bastard, but he wants to get into the thorny black wind!"
Heifeng does not refer to a certain kind of beast, but a general term for those predators who like to lurk in the tribe, so when it is said, it is usually called "XX Black Wind", and Thorn is one of them.
After the sun went down, the temperature began to drop, the entrance of the cave was blocked with boulders, and the cold wind poured in from the gap, but there was a fire inside the cave, there were many people, and it was still warm. If he looked outside the cave at this moment, Shao Xuan could still see two crescent moons gradually revealing in the night sky.
Lang Ga and the others said that the weather will be good tomorrow.
Outside the cave, in the silent mountains and forests in the dark night, in the seemingly peaceful basin, one by one nocturnal beasts began to become active.
In a small water pool at the foot of the mountain, the calm water surface made waves, and a huge body quietly emerged from the water surface and climbed out of the water pool. The few nocturnal animals that were drinking water outside the pool had already fled as if they had escaped for their lives.
The giant beast did not rush to chase the small prey, but stood by the pool, waiting for the water on his body to drip and dry, and the moonlight did not reflect a little light on it. At this time, the giant beast started to move, and its huge body quickly merged into the night.