Azhang didn’t have many things left in the tribe, and with the addition of Ali’s things, the three of them had already moved after two trips. Azhang planned to go hunting in the forest after moving things. Ake’s stomach has started to feel a little bit lately The news is that the previous prey was enough for him and Carlo to survive the winter. Although he felt that it would not hinder the hunting, everyone was worried. In the end, only Aze decided to go with Azhang.
The Loya Forest will not be like the Dora Plain where most of the plants will wither in winter. Except for some wild fruits that are easy to freeze, the forest is basically the same as usual except for a little more snow, and it still maintains a lush scene. .
Aze came to the forest not to hunt, but to pick wild fruits and vegetables. The cabbage that he picked before has been eaten up, because he made meat porridge every morning, and there are not many rice berries left. This time I brought several animal skin backpacks out, intending to fill them all up and tie them together to carry them back. This method can only be done by a strong female like them.
"Uncle Azhang, is that an antelope dragon?" Ze was squatting on a tall branch and softly asked Azhang next to him. They were looking for a porpoise dragon. The hungry predators there have begun to expand their range of activities to the outskirts of the forest.
Regardless of its huge size, the dragon is actually very timid. Whenever it hears any movement, it will spread its hooves and run wildly. The running dragon has a huge impact, and even the females will suffer a lot if they are attacked head-on. , Therefore, when hunting the dragon, it is mostly to confirm the approximate range of activities of the dragon, and then hide in the tree and wait quietly for the dragon to enter the attack range, and subdue it before it starts to escape.
Azhang looked in the direction of Aze's finger, there was a small pool in that place, the middle of the pool had already started to freeze, there was only a gap at the edge of the pool where you could see the gurgling water under the ice, a figure seemed to be almost two meters Tall, a creature with giant antlers was standing leisurely by the pool drinking water. When Azhang looked over, the creature just raised its head, and a little stream of light flashed in its beautiful emerald green eyes.
Linglong is quite far away from the two of them. Just like the cheetah is the king of speed on the Dora Plain, Linglong is also the speed king of Luoya Forest. Moreover, Linglong will not only run at full speed for tens of seconds like a cheetah. It can Instantly increase the speed to the highest speed, and can maintain the highest speed running until it escapes the attack range of predators.
"It found us." Azhang shook his head. The orcs will also hunt the Antelope, but they can only hunt successfully if the distance is close enough and the Antelope does not find them.
A Ze thought for a while, and said to A Zhang that he would leave first and then quickly jump off the tree trunk. He did not walk towards the pool where Linglong was, but ran in the opposite direction out of Linglong's line of sight. It was only after turning a corner and taking a long way back.
Antelope has a weakness, that is, they are too confident in their speed, so that they often miss the best opportunities to escape.
The antelope dragon by the pool saw the orcs on the tree and just took a look, then lowered its head and continued to drink water leisurely. This distance was enough for it to escape when the orcs jumped down, so it didn't Fear.
After a while, all the water sources in the forest except the Sanchen River and its three tributaries will start to freeze. Linglong needs to replenish enough water before the water sources are frozen. After all, the Sanchen River has been eaten by those vicious predators. The hunters have occupied it. With Linglong, a creature with only speed but no attack power at all, as long as it gets close to the Sanchen River, it will undoubtedly become someone else's delicacy.
Aze lay quietly in a tall grass by the pool. His movements were very light, and he could easily get close to the prey without making any noise and being noticed by the other party. However, Linglong was too alert, so he didn't dare to lean too close. Recently, he planned to wait for Linglong to leave the pool after drinking the water before starting to act.
Linglong drank very slowly, and Aze squatted for more than ten minutes before he saw Linglong leave, and the direction it left happened to be the tall grass at Aze's place.
Aze breathed lightly, the muscles all over his body tensed, his fingers and nails were completely animalized, and he quietly waited for Linglong to come over.
Apparently, Linglong didn't realize that it was in danger. It walked leisurely, with its head with beautiful giant antlers raised high, and gracefully looking for a place with plenty of grass to have a good meal.
When Linglong approached the tall grass at the shortest distance, Aze suddenly jumped out, turned over and rode on the back of Linglong, grasping the horn of Linglong with one hand and gathering five fingers together, the sharp nails easily cut open the soft neck of Linglong, under his feet The snow was quickly stained red.
Linglong neighed loudly and struggled a few times, its nails cut its throat, and it didn't take long for Linglong's tall body to fall to the snow, kicking up snowflakes all over the ground.
When Azhang came over, Azhang was cleaning the blood stains on his hands with snow. Azhang looked at the fallen Linglong and had to admire Azhang's hunting speed, "Let's go here first for today's hunting. Ye Guo will go back early."
Ace nodded.
Because the hunting ended early, the two came back earlier, and the gate on the ice wall was opened a lot to facilitate the handling of giant prey. Chen Qi made two wooden gates, one was usually closed, and the gate was opened for hunting. The gate will only be fully opened for large prey.
Before Aze reached the door of the house, he heard a burst of cheers from inside. He looked at Azhang suspiciously, and put a few full animal skin backpacks on his back into the yard. Cai and Azhang opened the curtain and entered the room.
"Chen Qi, is this my name?" Carlo asked excitedly holding a piece of bamboo.
Chen Qi nodded, and handed a piece of bamboo with the word "gram" written on it to Ake beside him. The bamboo slices were baked overnight. Except for a few pieces that were placed too close to the fire and were burnt black, the other bamboo slices were baked very well. A few orcs also polished them seriously last night. The surface of the film was extremely smooth, Chen Qi simply made a brush out of wool, and couldn't wait to try the effects of these props, which led to the current scene.
"What are you doing? I heard your voices from afar." Azhang asked with a smile as he walked over.
A Li handed him a piece of bamboo with Zhang characters written on it, "Chen Qi helped us write the name, this character is your name." A Li shook the bamboo piece in his hand again, "Look, it's my name are different."
The orcs do not have writing. They can understand numbers and some complex words, but they have no written records. For thousands of years, they have all passed information by word of mouth.
"Name?" Azhang looked at his own piece of bamboo, and then at the piece of bamboo in A Li's hand. There were some black crooked marks on it. Azhang couldn't read the words, so he looked at Chen Qi suspiciously.
Chen Qi touched his nose in embarrassment. He only picked up a brush in art class when he was a child, and never learned it systematically, so the characters he wrote were all crooked, and he couldn't bear to look directly at them. Only Carlos and others who have never seen words are so excited with their own words.
"This is a character. What you are holding in your hand is a Zhang character, which has the same pronunciation as your name."
Azhang looked at the bamboo in his hand curiously and asked, "What's the use of this word?"
"You can record it. Even if you forget what you wrote down, as long as it is written down, you can read it no matter how long it takes." Chen Qi explained.
"Can you understand this text?" Azhang asked.
Chen Qi nodded, if he couldn't read it, how could he write it down. However, considering that it was the first time for them to see text, they explained: "There are many such things as text, each of which is different and represents a different meaning, and they can also be combined with other text to form One sentence." Chen Qi handed the first piece of bamboo that he started writing to Aze behind, and then picked up a brush to write four characters on another piece of bamboo. "For example, Aze's name, I only wrote one word Ze on this piece of bamboo, which only represents Aze's name. And on this piece of bamboo, I wrote Wenrun Ze." Chen Qi looked at Aze and smiled. Laughing, "Although there is the word Ze on it, it is not just a name, but another meaning."
Aze tightened his hand holding the bamboo piece, "Which character is your name?"
Chen Qi was stunned, bent down to write his name on another piece of Hsinchu, and handed it to Aze, "The one on the top is the character Chen, and the one below is the character Qi. These two characters are my name."
Azhang held the bamboo piece and fell into deep thought. After a long time, he asked, "Can you teach me this character?"
"Do you want to learn?" In fact, Chen Qi thought about whether to teach A Ze to read or not when he knew that they had no words, but he had been busy preparing for the winter before, but he didn't take the time. He didn't expect A Zhang to be there. When I saw the text, I wanted to learn.
Azhang nodded solemnly, "In the past, many things were passed on orally by the old people. Their memory is not clear, and many things they say are not accurate. If they can record things, they can be passed on forever. I am not afraid of myself. I will forget, and I am not afraid of making mistakes.”
Chen Qi was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Azhang had already started to think about this kind of thing. No wonder he was the one who could become the tribal chief. "If you want to learn, I can teach you."
"Chen Qi, can we learn too?" Ali asked.
"Yes, Ake and I also want to learn." Carlo raised his hands and said anxiously.
"Wow." The little wolf cub nestled in the palm of A Jing's hand and found that the people who were booing together here also yelled, and Chen Qi turned his head just in time to see A Jing's burning eyes.
Chen Qi smiled, looked at A Ze next to him, "Then A Ze, do you want to learn too?"
A Ze, who was staring at the bamboo piece with the word Chen Qi written on it, raised his head when he heard the question, "I want to learn."
"Okay." Chen Qi clapped his hands, "Then I'll teach you how to write tonight. Let's learn to write your names in the first lesson."
Everyone cheered. In order to celebrate being able to learn to write, A Li and Carlo directly took over the task of cooking tonight. A Ze handed over the piece of bamboo with warm and lustrous writing on it when A Zhang and A Ke went to deal with the prey. Going up to Chen Qi, he asked, "What do these four words mean?"
Chen Qi smiled, stretched out his hand to hold Aze's hand holding the bamboo piece, and said softly: "A gentleman in the past was more virtuous than Yuyan, warm and moist, and benevolent."