Two fat cod were roasted on the fire, and the cod was slashed to allow the heat of the flame to penetrate into the fish, making the fish cooked faster and more thoroughly. The fat of the fish turned into oil in the flames and was dropped drop by drop on the fire, splashing sparks all over the sky from time to time.
Lucy was drooling looking at the fish that was gradually turning golden in the flames, and couldn't help but reach out and want to tear off a piece to taste it. At this time, Alan will be patted back with a small branch, and they are hiding near the Jiwan River Valley. There are a lot of cod here, especially the nearly 90-degree sharp bend of the estuary, where the cod snow will be washed ashore directly from the river from time to time. Therefore, dangerous species like sabre-toothed wolves are always attracted by these delicious big fish from time to time.
Allen turned the two cod over, picked out some firewood from the fire, so that the flames would not be so fierce, and simmered over a simmer. The cod meat baked in this way, its own oil will be eaten into the fish, so it will not taste dry and keep the fish fresh and delicious. The fish will be tastier if it has seasonings. Of course, they weren't here for camping now, so they naturally didn't have seasonings, but they were much better than the canned food provided by the conference organizers.
"Is it okay to eat? I'm starving to death!" Lucy looked at Allen with a greedy face, her eyes were like a poor puppy, her big eyes blinked. You pity.
"Okay, okay." Allen cut off a piece of fish from one of the tails with a cleaned dagger, wrapped it in clean leaves and handed it to Lucy.
Lucy bit her mouth immediately, and then cried out with tears in her eyes, "It's so hot."
"You deserve it." Allen laughed: "Who made you eat so impatiently, just like Luce..."
"Luce? Who is Luce?"
When Allen said this, his face darkened: "It's nothing. When I was five years old, predators attacked the town where I lived. My mother died that night, and I lived with a group of snow wolves after that. Luce was One of them. He was gluttonous and short-tempered, but he was a good fellow. Unfortunately, he died, too, and they all died."
Having said that, the boy looked up at the night sky. Looking up from Babylon, the night sky is extremely clear. On such a night, the moon hangs in the sky, and the Milky Way hangs upside down like a waterfall, which is so beautiful.
Allen's raised angle left Lucy with a sentimental profile. She thought for a while, took the fish and sat down, snuggling beside Allen. Allen felt it, bowed his head and asked, "What are you doing?"
"It's nothing, I'm cold, I'll let you come to me." Lucy said as if it was a matter of course, and then asked: "After that, you participated in the death ring?"
"At that time, those people killed the pack of wolves where I stayed, and then sold me to a man named Hearn. The man's son was brain-twitched and had to participate in the death ring. Hearn sold me and his son It's been changed. But this is fine..." Allen lowered his head, and the flames danced in his ruby-like eyes: "This is an opportunity to change my destiny, and I will firmly grasp it."
"If you win the death ring, what are you going to do?"
"To take revenge on the predators who killed my mother, and the hunting group that killed the wolves. Besides, I still have something in the hands of the group leader."
"I support you. After that?"
"After that? Presumably a hunting party will also be set up
Group, then, find my biological father. "
Lucy raised her head immediately: "Your father?"
"Well, my mother told me to go find him, he should still be alive..."
"That's good, at least, you still have relatives."
Allen smiled and said nothing, what he didn't tell Lucy. Looking for his father is not for any family affection, but to fulfill his mother's last wish, to pass the dagger called Devil's Praise into that man's body!
"Don't talk about this, you have recovered, let's leave here tomorrow."
Lucy nodded, ate the cold fish in twos and twos, then clapped her hands and said, "In this case, we need to agree on a battle plan first. Do you have any ideas?"
Allen shook his head, and Lucy simply jumped up, patted her chest and said, "Then I will make it up!"
Next, the girl was eloquent, and the battle plan that came out of her mouth could be described as colorful. Using open swords and hidden arrows, luring the enemy into ambush, spreading rumors and rebelling, I can't wait to put all the strategies that can be seen in textbooks on the table, which makes Allen feel dizzy.
After talking eloquently for a long time, the eldest lady asked, "How about my plan?"
"Not good." Allen denied on the spot.
"Not good?" Lucy put her hands on her hips: "Why?"
"I said how your plan is the same as your knife skills. It's so fancy that you can't stand it at all." Allen shook his head and said, "Which training camp did you come from? Your instructor will teach you how to fight." these things?"
"These are all from me..." Lucy swallowed the rest of the words quickly as if she was about to say something, and then said, "You don't care where I learned it. Then tell me, my plan is not good. Well, what better idea do you have?"
"Leave here tomorrow and go for a stroll. If you encounter one, you will kill one, and if you encounter a pair, you will kill both. There are so many plans." With a wave of his hand, Allen cut off a piece of fish and ate it by himself.
"Wander casually? Kill casually?" Lucy made an expression of being defeated by you: "You are really a muscle. Well, just do as you say. Let me ask you, this place is so big, how can you Where do you go wandering around to bump into those other guys?"
Allen asked without answering: "Do you know how wolves hunt when they encounter a large number of prey?"
"Of course it's rushing up, grabbing and biting."
"No." Allen said slowly: "They will harass and scare their prey. Drive them together, drive them to a specific location, and then strike."
"Oh, but what does it matter to us?" Lucy asked, spreading her hands.
"You also said that this place is so big. You can hide in any place for ten and a half months. The organizers don't know, if you let it go. Even if we intend to kill other people, we don't know how to hide from them." How to start. So..." At this point, Allen looked at Lucy.
The latter suddenly realized: "You mean they will treat us as prey and drive us together by various means?"
"This is in line with the purpose of the death ring, isn't it? Therefore, it doesn't need to be as troublesome as you said. As long as we have enough energy, we will kill whoever we bump into!"
The night is getting darker, the floating clouds are flowing, occasionally sinking.
West of Yellowstone Park,
There is a vast canyon landform. There is a very nostalgic name here. Roosevelt Canyon has a strong taste of the old west, which makes people think of cowboys. Of course, there are no cowboys in this canyon above Babylon, but it is the territory of armored rhinos. The third-level dangerous species, the Iron Armored Rhinoceros, is just as described literally. This evolved rhinoceros has a hideously thick armor, and they have a bad temper. Usually in groups of twos and threes, they will attack any creature that enters its territory.
Occasionally there will be a feeling of earthquakes in the Roosevelt Canyon, you don't need to panic, it is not an earthquake, but a group of wild rhinos galloping across the ground.
In a 7-shaped crack in the canyon, there is a faint light shining. A pile of not very vigorous flames was burning, and the fuel of the flames came from the dried wild rhino feces. This is the cheapest fuel in the canyon. In this area where vegetation is hard to find, it is almost impossible to use tree branches as fuel.
Not far from the fire, a boy curled himself into a ball in a sheet patched with many torn pieces of clothing. This sheet is his quilt, and with the flames and the quilt, he will get through this long night that is not too cold.
Mike closed his eyes, but didn't let himself fall asleep completely. Just three hundred meters away from here is Wang Xiaoxiao Spring, which is one of the few water sources in this canyon area. There are dozens of wild rhinos guarding the spring, and only at around three or four o'clock in the middle of the night, when the wild rhinos are asleep, Mike can steal part of the clean water from the spring.
And tonight, he'd have enough clean water for several days to get out of this damn place.
His luck was indeed not very good. When he entered the game, he appeared in the same place as several other boys and girls who were ranked lower because of his ranking. Although he managed to leave alive with some scheming, he was attacked by a group of steel-feathered warhawks on the way. Those third-tier dangerous species have the advantage of air dominance, and Mike was lucky to be able to escape, so losing supplies is nothing to be ashamed of.
Then it turned into Roosevelt Canyon, and when he found himself facing a barren land, Mike wanted to back off. It's a pity that a few wild rhinos happened to pass by and found Mike chasing after him, so they forced the boy in.
Mike had to find another way out, and he had a hard time these few days. Maybe God didn't intend to abandon him. Mike found a single young rhinoceros yesterday, so he had a full meal today. Now, he still has some rhino meat left. The slices of meat, roasted and dried, will be his rations as he walks out of the canyon.
Coupled with the clean water stored in the past two days, at least he didn't have to worry about starving to death before leaving the canyon.
Mike waited quietly, waiting for the moment when Kuang Xi fell asleep. But tonight seemed destined not to be peaceful. Not long after he closed his eyes and fell asleep, he heard the sound of sand rolling. That's not a sign of Kuangxi passing by, it's more like someone walking this way. Mike opened his eyes and immediately rushed to the fire to put out the fire. At a time like this, anyone who meets is a strong enemy, and Mike doesn't want to cause trouble in vain.
His condition is not very good now.
However, it was too late, the boy just threw himself out. Before approaching the fire, suddenly a gunshot sounded in the distance, and the cow dung used as fuel for the fire suddenly exploded. The sparkling poop splashed Mike's face, and the boy's eyes suddenly lit up with anger. At this time, laughter sounded from the left side of the fork.
(end of this chapter)