Amidst the downpour, a hidden arrow struck.
This is the first time Lin Shuo, the leader of the Hunting Gate, has been injured since Yicheng.
Although it's just a little scratch on the fingertips, this is considered to be a unique thing.
The back arrow struck, startling the people in this temporary shack.
This arrow was aimed at Mao Dahai's ear.
Mao Dahai covered his ears, looked at Lin Shuo opposite, his mouth opened wide.
Zhou Lingshi, who was beside him, reacted much faster. He immediately stood up and faced the direction of the stabbing arrow, completely blocking Lin Shuo behind him.
Those who reacted faster than Zhou Lingshi were Cao Yusheng, Anne, and Zhang Jin.
When Lin Shuo had just caught the arrow, Zhang Jin was about to pounce, but was slapped on the shoulder by Cao Yusheng, holding him firmly.
It was raining heavily outside, Zhang Jin was not familiar with the place, and the enemy was in the dark, so going out like this would be death.
Anne immediately put her ears on the ground, listening to the movement outside.
She held her breath and closed her eyes again.
Lin Shuo beside her slowly put down the arrow in his hand and handed it to Cao Yusheng on the other side.
Cao Yusheng held Zhang Jin down just now, and now he immediately took the arrow, took out the reading glasses from his satchel, and began to study slowly.
Wei Xingshan only came to his senses at this time, moved his head closer, and observed the arrow together.
Lin Shuo searched in his satchel with his hands, and took out two band-aids.
Wrapping these two Band-Aids around his fingers, Lin Shuo looked at Anne who was lying beside him, and did not rush.
He pulled out the two arrows of Master Chaser, slowly twisted the threads, and connected the two arrows into a spear.
With a "click", the bayonet of the gun fell into position. Lin Shuo put the long gun flat on his knees, and continued to wait for the result of Anne's "listening to the mountain".
Lin Shuo knew that in the current situation outside, it would not be wise to rush out to hunt down the enemy.
At this time, the rain outside was too heavy, and no matter what the smell factor was, it was washed to the ground by the rain, and my sense of smell couldn't play a role.
The eyes, outside the line of sight will not exceed two meters.
Now the only person who can get information from the outside world is Anne who is good at listening to mountains.
The situation at this time is actually extremely critical.
The attacker was in the rain, with a powerful bow and arrow in his hand. Everyone in the shack, except for Lin Shuo himself, shot everyone to death.
Lin Shuo didn't know how he aimed at the target in the rain, but there was no doubt that he aimed well.
But no matter how dangerous the situation is, it's useless to be anxious. Now we can only wait for Anne to hear the result.
Once Anne reported the location, within the blink of an eye, Lin Shuo would disappear.
To Anne's ears, the earth at this moment is like a giant drum being struck by billions of drumsticks.
Huge noises kept hitting her eardrums, which are far more sensitive than ordinary people. These dense and chaotic movements greatly disturbed "Listening Mountain".
"The rain is too loud, I can't hear it." Anne said softly.
Hearing these words, Lin Shuo nodded, relaxed slightly, and removed the gun on his knee.
Lin Shuo is a hunter, but because of the existence of the chasing master passed down in his family, he is also a shooter.
As a shooter, he can naturally understand the psychology of the shooter.
No matter what method the opponent used, he aimed at himself in the heavy rain, and then shot that arrow.
There are seven people in this shack, and one arrow can only kill one. Once the position is revealed, what will happen to the other six
So after he finishes shooting, no matter whether the target is hit or not, he will definitely transfer.
If it is not transferred, it means that the position is exposed.
In addition, Lin Shuo had experienced the strength of the arrow just now with his fingers.
The shooting distance is very short, definitely not more than thirty meters.
The first arrow is a sneak attack. Since it is a sneak attack, it is natural to hide as far away as possible.
That means that 30 meters is the farthest distance the opponent can shoot effectively in this heavy rain.
Since the rain never stops, his second arrow can only be closer, not farther.
And within a range of 30 meters, no matter how heavy the rain is, Anne's "Listen to the Mountain" should be able to hear the sound of his transfer.
Anne couldn't hear it right now, which meant that the man quickly moved away after shooting that arrow.
So for now, everyone is safe for the time being.
Sometimes, no news is good news.
Lin Shuo thought about it and relaxed.
And Cao Yusheng and Wei Xingshan, who were observing the arrow together, seemed to have never been nervous from the beginning to the end.
However, Lin Shuo felt that although the two behaved the same, their reasons were different.
Cao Yusheng probably thought of what he thought just now, maybe even more thoughtful than he thought, and figured it out immediately, so he wasn't nervous.
As for Wei Xingshan, it was purely because of his big heart.
"Leader!" Mao Dahai, who was sitting opposite Lin Shuo, suddenly howled out "Aww", startling Lin Shuo: "You are too good at this, you can catch this kind of backstabbing as soon as you want! "
After saying this, Mao Dahai turned back and tugged at Zhou Lingshi's palm hanging by his side: "Boss! Did you see that just now! The leader caught the arrow just now!"
Zhou Lingshi knocked Mao Dahai's hand off: "Don't make noise!"
At this moment, Zhou Lingshi was still blocking Lin Shuo, his whole body tensed up, as if he would defend to the death.
Lin Shuo looked at Zhou Lingshi's back, and the corners of his mouth twitched, thinking that this guy is really cunning.
If the other party really wanted to kill him, the second arrow would definitely not be in the original position, so the current position where Zhou Lingshi was standing was actually the safest.
He is an old hunter of more than ten years, so he should be able to think of this.
But whether he wants it or not, he can immediately use the situation just now to show his loyalty. This is not easy, it is a technical job.
So Lin Shuo didn't bother to pursue it, and just said lightly: "Okay, sit down, I'm fine for now."
Only then did Zhou Lingshi's whole body relax, he turned his head and sat down.
It's raining heavily outside right now, and the attackers have run away, so there's nothing anyone can do.
After a while, Zhou Lingshi said, "Boss, what you did just now really opened someone Zhou's eyes. If the snowman's arrow was replaced by someone else, he would have died here. It is you, the boss, what can it do?" No."
"How do you know it's a snowman?" Lin Shuo asked.
"Who else could it be!" Zhou Lingshi said, and then he seemed to think of something, "Oh, Mao Dahai was full of nonsense before and didn't explain it clearly to you.
The snowman, who looks like a human but not a human, can make some simple weapons and tools.
The production level of its weapons and tools is not very good, but its technique is good, and even the rotten things are very powerful in its hands.
We used to have a poaching team here, and all thirteen people were shot to death by it.
The arrow shaft left on the corpse is similar to the current one. "
"Yes." Lin Shuo nodded.
"This arrow is really rough." Wei Xingshan stretched his head to look at the shaft for a while, then pouted, "It's made of twigs, and the shaft is not straightened. And this arrowhead, made of stone. That's all." This kind of broken arrow can go straight to the center of a person's eyebrows, this thing's archery level is really good."
"It's more than good." Lin Shuo stretched out his fingers with two band-aids on it, and said, "You, Wei Xingshan, start to practice from now on, and in the next thirty years, before your old eyesight is dim, your archery level can be half of this thing. Even if I didn’t accept you as an apprentice in vain.”
"Old Lin, you are trying to build up other people's ambitions and destroy your own prestige, why bother?" Wei Xingshan scratched his head.
"I'm just telling the truth." Lin Shuo rolled his eyes at Wei Xingshan, and then at Cao Yusheng, "Patriarch Cao, do you see anything?"
Cao Yusheng took off his presbyopic glasses, held the arrow shaft in his hand, rubbed it slowly with his fingers, and said, "This arrow is a typical Paleolithic level of craftsmanship. The most significant difference between the New and Paleolithic Ages is That is, whether the stone tools were made or ground.
Look at this arrow, the sharpness of the arrow is obviously formed after the stone was hit on the ground and naturally shattered, it has not been ground.
Based on this clue, I probably know what a snowman is. "
"The mastermind deserves to be the mastermind." Zhou Lingshi sighed in admiration, "Please enlighten me."
"According to the archaeological discoveries in modern times, there is a popular theory in paleoanthropology, that is, humans walked out of Africa three times." When Cao Yusheng spoke, Zhou Lingshi and Mao Dahai were dumbfounded.
Zhou Lingshi is not the same as Mao Dahai. Mao Dahai is purely illiterate, and he doesn't know a lot of Chinese characters.
Although Zhou Lingshi had never formally attended school, his teacher Wu Tiannan was unusual.
When Wu Tiannan was a child, the teacher invited him to Wu's house to enlighten him, so Wu Tiannan is a cultural person of the older generation.
That is to say, the family is a hunter after all, and the country's policy has also changed. Otherwise, Mr. Wu Tiannan's later knowledge would at least be a scholar.
Zhou Lingshi formally studied art with Wu Tiannan for three years, but before learning art, he also served the master for six years, a total of nine years.
Wu Tiannan taught the culture first, and then passed on the craftsmanship.
So when Zhou Lingshi spoke, he had the tone of an old teacher, and he was polite.
However, the education Zhou Lingshi received was the set of Four Books and Five Classics, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness. There is no major problem in being a human being, but when it comes to anthropology, he can't understand it.
Cao Yusheng didn't care if Zhou Lingshi could understand or not. He mainly said it to the several Liemen Patriarchs present.
I only heard Cao Yusheng continue to say: "Our primates, the closest one to us at present is the chimpanzee.
Then bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons.
But in the past, it wasn't like this.
Starting from the Australopithecus four million years ago, after two stages of Homo habilis and Homo erectus, Homo erectus began to walk out of Africa 200,000 years ago.
The "Beijingers" in our Zhoukoudian are Homo erectus, who have already traveled to East Asia.
The Homo erectus were not smart enough, did not do well in their new territories, and slowly disappeared.
This is the first time humans have left Africa.
Those who come out for the second and third times are Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens are smarter, and after they come out, they will inevitably grab territory, fight and so on.
Several groups of people compete in Eurasia. Whoever is smarter and has better tools can grab better territory, hunt more prey, find more food, and feed more people.
Until 50,000 years ago, there were basically no ancient humans except our ancestors. Our ancestors began to become the top of the planet's food chain.
And 50,000 years ago, in the process of competing with our ancestors, other Homo sapiens who came out before also began to learn the tool making of our ancestors.
The more typical ones are the Neanderthals, who also entered the Stone Age.
However, the brains of these ancient humans are not smart enough. It is useless to draw from gourds. They were not creative, and eventually died out.
I suspect that the snowman is Homo sapiens, whether it is early Homo sapiens or late Homo sapiens, I don’t know yet.
But since stone tools can be used, and relatively complex weapons such as bows and arrows can be made, it is not at the level of Homo erectus.
So the snowman, our old relative, is much closer than the chimpanzee.
The question now is how our old relative survived.
The Himalayas are indeed very remote, but other places are also biased, and those ancient humans have long since died out.
Why, there is no death here.
One of them was short-sighted and shot our leader with an arrow. "
After Cao Yusheng finished speaking, he looked at Anne beside Lin Shuo.
Because he knew that Anne was a Ph.D. in biology, and he had ample knowledge in this area, so he thought she might be able to add something.
It turned out that Anne was still listening to the movement underground at this moment.
Lin Shuo was also puzzled at this moment, wondering why this girl is still lying on her stomach
But Lin Shuo knew that Anne must have heard something, otherwise she wouldn't have listened for so long.
"I think I've found the reason why the snowman survived." Anne finally propped herself up and sat up, "When I was listening to the attackers, the rain was so loud that I couldn't hear anything.
In the beginning, I was also because of the heavy rain, but later I found out that it was wrong.
Because I haven't heard of such a heavy rain before, and the movement of the ground is not like today.
So I listened for a while, and finally knew what was wrong.
The sound of the rain was amplified on this mountain. "
"Oh, that's how it is." Cao Yusheng nodded, "I'm busy at that moment."
"Yeah." Lin Shuo nodded and understood.
"Hey, what do you guys mean!" Wei Xingshan scratched the back of his head, "Anne, why are you talking like Lao Lin now, half revealing and half hiding. The sound of the rain is amplified, so what's wrong?"
"It's the same as beating a drum." Cao Yusheng said lightly, "No matter how you knock on a solid wooden stake, the movement will not go anywhere. But if the middle is hollowed out, wouldn't the movement be much louder?"
"Oh!" Wei Xingshan understood.
"What do you mean?" Mao Dahai rubbed the back of his head, puzzled.
Zhou Lingshi slapped Mao Dahai's bald head, and explained: "This mountain is empty, and there are tunnels or hidden caves underneath."
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