A strange tree, without any leaves or branches, was like a bare wooden stake with hundreds of fist-sized holes in it.
Click!
The swinging axe, with swift winds, chopped down the strange tree.
"This is the last tree." Qu Ce wiped the sweat from his forehead, and with a few axes, chopped the tree into several sections. With each chop, in those fist-sized holes in the tree, a A bud-like thing stretched out, and the two closed leaves were wide open, as if they were about to bite something.
It is this kind of tree. Today, a piece of flesh was bitten off from a warrior of the Mang tribe, and it is also poisonous. Plant toxins can prevent the blood from coagulating. If the wound is left untreated, the blood will continue to flow.
After cutting the tree into small pieces, the large flower buds on the tree seemed to have lost their strength and were unable to hang down. Then Qu Ce picked up the pieces of wood and threw them into the woven net, saving them for fire. As long as the "buds" are picked, this tree is very easy to burn and is suitable for firewood.
They followed Shao Xuan and other Yanjiao people into this place where the mountains stood, and then found a place to settle on another mountain not far from the Yanling people.
A little up the mountainside, there is an underground cave, where they all rest now.
Standing on the mountainside and looking at the mountain in front, if people in Yanling were on fire, they could still see the smoke over there.
Qu Ce dragged a net bag of chopped firewood back to the resting place. There was a flat boulder, and there was a wide and short hole under the boulder. Qu Ce had to bend his knees and bend over when he entered.
It looks cramped from the outside, but it's much more spacious once inside.
It accommodated more than 50 people, and also put some roasted meat and fresh fruits, and the cave was not crowded.
However, because it is an underground cave, several ventilation holes opened around it cannot bring more light. When staying inside, you can only rely on the water moon stone.
"It's so hot!" Qu Ce tossed the bag full of firewood and lay down on the ground in the cave to rest.
The cold bottom of the cave made Qu Ce, who had been busy all morning, let out a long sigh.
When the temperature outside is getting higher and higher, it is indeed much cooler inside the cave. With such weather, it is easy to forget that it should be winter now.
The people in the cave were all around Shao Xuan, ignoring Qu Ce, but staring at the movements of Shao Xuan's hands. The younger ones, with a slightly lower status in the team, couldn't squeeze in at all, so they could only scratch their ears and scratches on the side, listening to the words of the few people inside, itchy, but there was nothing they could do, so they could only wait by the side.
"It's not finished yet?" Qu Ce asked the person who was pushed aside, a young soldier from the Weiba tribe.
"It should be soon." The man said.
When Qu Ce was out of the cave to chop wood, someone brought back a trap, which was removed from the trap set up by the slaves of the Yanling. Although it was dismantled, most of the trap remained intact, just because there were some complicated knots and structures in it. Many people wanted to split it up to study and speculate, but there was nowhere to start. In the end, Shao Xuan stood up to pick it up. down this thing.
At first glance, the trap was set in a dense grassy area. There were lures and nooses for capture, as well as a combination of parts made of gold. It seemed to be a trap specially made for something.
What are people in Yanling City looking for? Green-faced fangs!
Shao Xuan had already told everyone that the people in Yanling were looking for green-faced fangs, but there were many strange animals in the forest.
They have been here for two days, and they have not met the slaves of Yanling City, nor have they seen the so-called green-faced fangs. If they hadn’t really seen those people from Yanling City stationed here, and they have been stationed for a long time, other tribes People who don't believe Shao Xuan's words.
Shao Xuan told the story about the green face and fangs, but only revealed that they learned the news from the "robber".
Yanjiao did catch a "robber", and several other tribes knew this, so they still believed some of Shao Xuan's words, but what was the use of the people in Yanling City looking for Qingmian Fang? Shao Xuan didn't say anything, and the other four of Yanjiao were also tight-lipped.
No matter what the truth is, if they want to understand the purpose of the slave owners in Yanling City, they have to know what those blue-faced fangs are. Several tribes regard desert slave owners as their most threatening opponents, and every move of Yanling affects their nerves.
So now, when Shao Xuan was dismantling the trap, people from several tribes gathered around. In terms of catching the beasts in the trap, the people from Yanjiao were stronger, and they were willing to wait for Shao Xuan's explanation.
Shao Xuan looked at the dismantled trap and took a long breath, "Okay."
"How?!" The waiting person asked impatiently.
Shao Xuan picked up a handful of green grass that had been completely untied from the trap, "This should be the favorite food of 'Blue Faced Fangs', so the people from Yanling would use it as bait. Judging from the size of this trap, Green Faced Fangs should not be Big."
Getting up and making a gesture, Shao Xuan said: "The range of body size should be from this tall to this tall."
According to Shao Xuan's speculation, the height of those green-faced tusk beasts should not exceed their chests. Of course it could be higher, but that's the answer given by this trap.
"It should still have horns, probably at this location." Shao Xuan picked up a burnt branch and drew it on the cave floor.
The paintings that Pirate Seven gave them were too abstract. Even if they were exactly the same as the original paintings, they could not see the specific appearance of the blue-faced fangs. Shao Xuan just summarized them and drew them based on the information he had learned.
The people around Shao Xuan stretched their necks and stared at the painting on the ground with wide eyes, as if to imprint it in their minds.
"Can only one trap be predicted accurately? Otherwise, let's dismantle another trap?" Reed Ye suggested.
"Go again? It's not impossible, it's easy to be discovered by people in Yanling." Someone hesitated.
"Do you think they really don't know?" Shao Xuan threw away the branch in his hand and looked at the trap that had been dismantled. "This trap may have been left on purpose by them."
"Intentionally? Why is that? Could they have changed the trap and tried to fool us?" asked Spring Ye.
"It's not. I think the people from Yanling want us to find it."
"how you said that?"
"Because they can't find it!"
The three words "can't find" were deliberately aggravated by Shao Xuan.
Green-faced fangs are indeed hard to find, otherwise the Flaming Horn's hunting team will not be able to gain anything so far. Those slaves in Yanling City should have been carefully selected, and there are thieves who follow them. Even if those slaves didn't notice, the thieves must have noticed the existence of their group.
Noticing that the group of them followed, but still pretended not to see, the two sides never met, but instead left a trap close to this side to catch the beast, saying that Shao Xuan didn't believe it if he had no other thoughts.
"So, the people from Yanling didn't come over these two days because they knew we were here?" Gu Zhi circled around in place, thinking, "This is also a good thing, everyone finds their own."
"That's right, just based on what Elder Shao Xuan drew, everyone started looking for this... green-faced fangs." Hu Ye said, looking at Shao Xuan, "Does Elder Shao Xuan have anything else to say?"
"If there is nothing else, it is to prepare everyone psychologically." Shao Xuan said.
"What preparations?" The people in the cave looked at Shao Xuan.
"According to what Gula and the others saw in the sky, the people of Yanling have built houses and walls, and it looks like they are ready to stay here for a long time."
Ready to be here for a long time
The cave was silent for a while.
The slaves in Yanling can live in wooden houses, and these people are really ready to sleep in stone caves all the time
"Let's build a house." Reed Ye suggested.
The people of the Yu tribe have something to say at this time, and it is rare to have the opportunity to express, "It is too conspicuous to build on the ground, it is better to build it on a tree in the woods, do some cover up, and it is difficult to be discovered."
"Then let's build a house, let's look for it first, and see where there is this kind of grass around." Reed Ye distributed the pinch of grass that Shao Xuan handed over to everyone. Looking for a place where a lot of this grass grows, he can't believe he can't wait for one!
Separate actions, all the people in the cave go out at once, leaving only a few injured people to stay. If you find something abnormal, you can blow the whistle.
Shao Xuan and the five acted together. Without the others, Duo Kang couldn't hold back his words.
"Shao Xuan, are you really worried that those people will capture all the green-faced fangs?" Duo Kang didn't like to cooperate with those tribesmen and didn't trust them.
"If you can find it, let's talk about it." Only five people from Yanjiao came over. Since the other people's target is also Green-faced Fang, there is no need to hide it, because the most important thing now is to determine whether Green-faced Fang is really here. If there are really green faces and fangs, there will be more opportunities for flaming horns in the future, anyway, they live in the forest of fierce beasts.
Dokang thinks about it too, no more words.
The grass obtained in the trap does not look distinctive at first glance, but if you look closely, you will find that it is still different from many similar-looking grasses in the mountains and forests. The biggest difference is that when you get close to smelling it, you can Smells a light fragrance that distinguishes it from other grasses.
The difficulty is that there are so many similar-looking grasses in the mountains and forests, it is impossible to see one that looks like it, so let's go over and smell it, right? What if you are poisoned
As people who often hunt in the forest, the eyesight of the Yanjiao five people is still good, stronger than others, but, they have been finding the stone cave at night, only to find five trees, a whole mountain, so far they only If you can find five, the growth rate is terribly low, and the chances of green-faced fangs appearing here will be much lower.
"No hurry, continue tomorrow." Shao Xuan comforted.
Outside, the people of the Yu tribe are very efficient. They have built small houses on the trees, each about ten square meters. They are covered with vines and branches, so it is not easy to notice.
However, compared to those, the five people from Yanjiao still prefer to be in the cave.
This night, half of them were outside, and half of them remained in the cave.
Compared with the restless sleepless nights of others, Shao Xuan slept well, and it was rare that he had a dream.