To the north of Wildfire Town, the terrain gradually flattens, and large tracts of forest occupy most of the northern part of the Wildfire Field. There are no high mountains here, even if you encounter a few high places occasionally, they are just some earthy hillsides, but these low hillsides are often seven or eight miles long. It's like God has set up roadblocks one by one on this wildfire.
Xia Leiming climbed mountains and mountains all the way, and the skills he had cultivated in the mountains and forests since he was a child have been brought into play. He hunched his body like an agile and sturdy lynx, running quickly through the woods, and while running, his body could deftly dodge the tree branches that jutted out from time to time. His feet stepped on the ground full of fallen leaves, making only a very slight rustling sound.
In fact, Xia Yaleiming has consciously controlled the speed. He must save his energy because he knows that his rations are not too much. So a large piece of rye bread, no matter how much he saves, will only be enough for him to eat for two days.
Fortunately, in the evening, he dug out the nest of a long-billed beast in the woods.
This long-billed beast is one of the few ordinary beasts living on the wildfire plains. This kind of thing is about the size of a puppy. It likes to drill holes in the soil, making its fur slippery, short limbs and slow movements. The mouth is flat and long, with a pointed tip. What this kind of thing likes most is to stick its pointy mouth into the wormhole in the soil to eat the eggs.
This long-mouthed beast was very unfortunate. It encountered Xia Leiming, and Xia Leiming used a skilled technique to knot a rope, and then pulled it out of the nest, and then turned it into Xia Leiming's dinner.
The meat of the long-mouthed beast is unpalatable and has a very unpleasant smell of the earth, but for Xia Yaleiming, who is poor and white, in such cold weather, it is already a great enjoyment to have a bite of meat at night.
It's not that he hasn't had the idea of hitting other beasts. For example, getting a deer back may be more palatable, but he knows better that he needs to save his energy now, and it's best not to hit those big beasts.
At noon the next day, his luck came.
Xia Yaleiming found a silly herding deer in the woods. The antlers of this silly thing were entangled in a thorn and had been struggling for a while.
Xia Yaleiming cheered and rushed up. He didn't intend to kill this guy, but took out the rope and tied two knots, carefully tied it to the antlers and the deer's neck, and then pulled the antlers from the thorns. come out.
As soon as the deer got out of trouble, he tried to escape in panic, but Xia Yaleiming had already seen the opportunity and jumped onto the deer's back, pulling the rope in his hand, just like riding a horse.
It was obviously not the first time for him to do this kind of thing. He was very skilled at manipulating the deer. The deer was pulled back and forth a few times by him, and finally he was obedient. Xia Yaleiming carefully used the "reins" in his hand to control the deer's running direction, and then hugged the deer's neck.
The deer took Xia Yaleiming to run for a full morning. At noon, Xia Yaleiming spared the exhausted poor fellow, but he still used the end of the fire fork to pierce a small hole in the deer and put it on the deer. A little deer blood came out, and then the deer was wounded with herbs that were picked up in the jungle, and this guy was released.
A few mouthfuls of deer blood poured down his stomach, and soon there was a burst of heat in his stomach. This heat quickly roamed the whole body, and even though the surrounding wind was cold, people were warm.
Xia Leiming judged the direction and determined that he was about 200 miles away from the north of Wildfire Town. It's just that the direction is not due north, but a little bit west.
Can't move on. If you go further, you will be close to the dwarf's territory. Xia Yaleiming didn't want to die.
And the east is not good. To the east is a wilderness, where the goblin's territory is, and the ground mice are more difficult to deal with than the dwarves.
The old profiteer on the black street told him that lions and beasts should be haunting this nearby jungle. Maybe a little further west.
Time to do some preparation!
Xia Leiming walked around in the jungle for a while, and finally found a few croaking black mud frogs beside a small swamp. These mud frogs resembled toads with a sac on their backs.
This kind of little thing is a fool, it doesn't move at all, it just crouches beside the swamp all day long and screams, even if you go up to catch it, it won't move.
Xia Leiming found a sharp branch and took some mud frog sacs from the sacs on the backs of several mud frogs - this kind of thing is not too toxic, but it can make people feel paralyzed.
Basically, many hunters who are familiar with the jungle know this thing, and many old hunters are used to using this thing as a pain reliever when they are injured.
Xia Yaleiming found another tall pine tree, stepped on dozens of pine needles that were hard and sharp after drying, found a thin branch, and pulled out the branches inside without damaging the bark at all - doing these When it comes to things, the movements of his hands are meticulous and gentle, and he is extremely skilled and dexterous.
This is also thanks to the dead old guy, that guy taught Xia Leiming the axe skills - you have to carve patterns on tofu with an axe of more than 20 pounds all day long, and after a few years, you can also practice a pair of skillful hands.
Using the rolled bark as a blowpipe, the pine needles are stained with mud frog venom. This becomes a set of blow arrows.
Xia Leiming even smeared a little mud frog venom on his fire fork and axe blade. Then he tied his trouser legs with rope and began to patrol the jungle.
Just when he left the swamp for less than a meal, suddenly, there was a rustling movement in the jungle ahead. This voice immediately alarmed Xia Yaleiming.
His eyes lit up! Is it my luck? !
He immediately took the axe in his hand and approached it carefully, while holding a fire fork in his other hand, ready to throw it as a spear at any time!
You know, lions can be very ferocious in temperament!
When he was about a dozen steps away from the bush, Xia Yaleiming smelled a faint smell of blood. He was a little puzzled, hesitated a little, quickly grabbed a stone on the ground and threw it hard. .
boom!
The stone was thrown into the bushes, and there was a muffled sound, and then a soft "hum" was heard, which seemed a little vague, but it smelled of pain.
is it human? !
Xia Yaleiming was stunned for a moment, walked over a few steps, and opened the bush with a fire fork.
Behind the bushes, there is a person on the ground. This guy was wearing a good-quality leather robe, his body was shrunk into a ball, his hands were holding his head hard, blood was bleeding from the top of his head, and blood seeped out from the gaps between his dirty fingers.
Obviously, this is the fault of the stone that I smashed just now...
Xia Yaleiming breathed a sigh of relief, he was not angry, stared at the guy on the ground and shouted: "Hey! Dude! Do you know, people are scary, scary to death! Fortunately, I didn't throw a fork just now, otherwise you'd be burping by now. It's gone!"
The man covered his head and whimpered in a low voice, as if it was called "it hurts" or something.
Xia Yaleiming approached angrily: "Nonsense, of course it hurts your head to hit a stone. Is there something wrong with you? Why are you hiding in the bushes, I almost regarded you as a monster... You almost killed me, do you know!! "
He walked over, but suddenly saw this guy's left leg!
A round steel sleeve gripped his calf tightly!
This is an iron trap, the bite is full of sharp iron teeth, the guy was badly injured, he was wearing thick leather boots, but the boots had been pierced, and the bite of the left leg calf was bloody It was blurry, and there was a pool of blood on the ground.
Obviously, this is a trap set by a certain hunter, and this unlucky ghost probably stepped in for some reason.
Seeing this scene, Xia Yaleiming was stunned...
Uh... It's already very immoral to throw stones at people, let alone a poor bastard who has been seriously injured
Well this...
This time, even Xia Yaleiming himself felt a little sorry. So he ran over immediately, helped the poor bastard up, then grabbed the trap with great effort, and pulled it apart.
Finally, the poor bastard let out a scream, and Xia Yaleiming rescued him, lifted his body, and moved back.
But as soon as this guy got out of trouble, he actually struggled violently, pushing Xia Yaleiming with both hands, and shouting vaguely: "Let go of me, I won't go back with you if I die!"
Xia Yalei was stunned for a moment, and was thrown away by him. The guy jumped up immediately, and he didn't know where the strength came from, and he was about to run away.
After only two steps, Xia Yaleiming couldn't help but shouted, "Hey, wait a minute..."
"Go away, I won't go back if I die!"
"No, I mean..."
Before Xia Yaleiming finished speaking, she heard a shrill scream, "Ah!!!", mixed with the sound of the iron spring closing.
Unfortunately, the poor bastard stepped into the trap just now...
And this time, it's the right leg...