When Wei Xingshan and Zhou Lingshi were ready, Lin Shuo set off with the two future apprentices.
It was common for hunters to accept apprentices in the past.
It's just that hunters used to accept apprentices, and the requirements for apprentice talents were extremely high.
Because as long as it is an inheritance hunter, it often represents the highest talent of the family.
It is the survival of the fittest for dozens of generations, and the continuous optimization of bloodlines. Such a generation has been inherited, coupled with the practice path that matches the talent, so that these inheritance hunters are all strong and at the same time their eyes are higher than the top.
Ordinary people can't get into their Dharma eyes at all.
However, if there is a talented outsider who is suitable for the cultivation path of the family, then these inheritance hunters will accept this apprentice and pass on some skills of the family for the convenience of hunting.
Of course, unique skills will not be taught, so as not to teach apprentices to starve to death of the master.
But although he doesn't teach the unique skills, he can't stand the apprentices who are smart, will steal the teacher, and will find another way.
As for the family, because of the respected status and the carefree life, future generations will gradually lose the skills of their ancestors.
Therefore, families that come from behind are not uncommon in the history of Liemen.
The tradition of hunters accepting apprentices was first established by the Yun family.
The reason why the Yun family is called the ancestral family of hunters is because the Yun family is the first group of hunters to be recorded in writing.
The hunting door was able to take shape because the Yun family took in apprentices with foreign surnames, and then these apprentices with other surnames established their own houses, and then took in apprentices with foreign surnames, so it slowly grew.
Therefore, the Yun family has the longest history of Liemen, tens of thousands of years. The threshold of this family, until three hundred years ago, was also nine inches nine, the highest.
It wasn't until the 300-year peer alliance ceremony, when the Yun family was absent for the first time, that the threshold of nine inches fell on the Lin family.
The ancestors of the Lin family were apprentices of the Wei family in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Wei family was also a way to cultivate strength.
During the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Wei family gradually disappeared into the long river of history due to years of war.
During the same period, the Lin family located in the south of the Yangtze River escaped the chaos of war and rose from then on.
By the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Lin family had changed from a three-inch threshold to a nine-inch threshold, becoming one of the few families in Liemen. Three hundred years ago, in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, they became the leader of the nine-inch-nine family.
With the changes of the times, the changes of the Liemen family members, the strong ones go up and the weak ones go down, are relatively frequent.
The root of this is the hunter accepting apprentices.
Objectively speaking, this is also the means of maintaining and expanding the hunting gate.
But today, Lin Shuo did not mean to accept Wei Xingshan and Zhou Lingshi as apprentices.
Wei Xingshan was involved here. He wanted to change his career to become a hunter, so Lin Shuo naturally wanted to support him and earn money from the door. That was the way of the world.
The two said they were masters and apprentices, but they were actually brothers.
Zhou Lingshi was originally a hunter with a threshold of one inch, and Lin Shuo accepted him as a compliment.
This person has a flexible mind and seems to be a good person.
It is quite effective to let him go into the mountain and take care of him from front to back.
To accept him is actually because he has taken a fancy to him and wants to use him as a person.
The talents of the two, one is thirty, the other is forty, no matter how good the talent is, it is too late now, that is impossible to talk about.
If they want to establish a hunting gate family in the future, Zhou Lingshi is fine, after all, they are close to five inches, and soon they will be the emperor's willow again.
Wei Xingshan, that is impossible, and his ability is not enough.
The descendants of Wei Xingshan, because of the relationship with Lin, Su, Zhang, and Cao, are here, and if their talents are not bad, maybe there is such a fortune.
But these things are still far away, and what is imminent now is the peer alliance ceremony.
Since the two are Lin Shuo's apprentices, they will inevitably face several challenges.
Lin Shuo didn't want them to lose face to the Lin family, so he had to practice and practice.
Especially this guy Wei Xingshan, his mouth is getting skinny now, but his ability has not grown much.
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Although Wei Xingshan's ability is not very long, after taking it for two days, he has adapted to the high-altitude environment.
He ran smoothly on the five-kilometer mountain road.
Zhou Lingshi followed behind him, praising him all the time: "Senior brother is indeed a senior brother, he has adapted really quickly, and I can't even keep up with the current pace."
Lin Shuo followed behind the two of them, and said calmly, "That's right, I can't even keep up with him."
As soon as Wei Xingshan heard this, he knew that something was wrong, so he quickly slowed down a bit, and explained: "Old Lin, I really don't want to be looked down upon by the new junior brother. But at the same time, it's also because that thing hurts me." Anne, I am so angry and anxious."
"It's okay." Lin Shuo said, "Anyway, your legs are weak from running now, and you turned back to the cave, and I will wave the flag to you as a senior brother from behind. If you, Wei Xingshan, can single-handedly subdue the snowman, then I, the master, will lose face." Up, it’s also glorious.”
Wei Xingshan scratched his head, and his feet became even slower. He knew that Lin Shuo had reminded him rightly, that his physical strength should not be wasted like this.
Yielding the leading position and letting Zhou Lingshi lead the way, Wei Xingshan came to Lin Shuo and asked, "Old Lin, what are we going to do later?"
"Ask me why?" Lin Shuo glanced at him, "You can figure it out yourself."
"Isn't it?" Wei Xingshan rubbed the back of his head, "You really don't worry about the two of us."
"That's right, one is my first disciple, a former special forces commander, and the veteran king of the Southern Military Region. The other is my second apprentice, an old hunter who has been in the industry for 20 years. How can I be worried?"
"Master, don't flatter us like that." Zhou Lingshi, who was leading the way, also panicked, "Don't be so reassuring about the two of us. If there is nothing I can do about the snowman, I won't wait until now to do it, that's true We can’t do it. Besides, this is considered an away game, and this is someone else’s territory, so why don’t you give some pointers?”
Lin Shuo sighed, "Let me ask you two, what do we hunters rely on to get into the mountains?"
"All in one body!" Wei Xingshan replied.
"Eldest brother, that's not right." Zhou Lingshi said, "It's mainly about brains, not ability. Because no matter how great our ability is, it can't be compared to wild beasts, but our brains are better than them."
"That's true." Lin Shuo said, "Even our Lin family sometimes has to weigh their strengths when fighting against fierce beasts, let alone you
"Yes, outsmart." Wei Xingshan nodded, "Then what is the outsmart method?"
"That's right, master, what kind of outsmart method?" Zhou Lingshi also asked.
"It's over, these two stupid apprentices." Lin Shuo shook his head, "What kind of fanfare did I have to take you two, can you go back on your word?"
"You are the leader, so you can keep your word." Zhou Lingshi said hastily.
"Once a man speaks a word, it's hard to follow!" Wei Xingshan also said.
"Okay, it's just my fate." Lin Shuo said helplessly, "Remember, the first step to outsmarting is always intelligence. So far, how much information we have learned about Snowman, do you know for yourself? ?”
"This thing is very skilled, quick to move, much faster to react than ordinary people, and has great strength." Zhou Lingshi said, "And it is cunning by nature."
"Second Junior Brother is right." Wei Xingshan asked.
"It's too superficial for you to summarize the information like this, no wonder you can't come up with an idea." Lin Shuo shook his head, "Think about what you have experienced in the past two days.
Seeing is believing, what Mao Dahai said before, you have to forget it all.
That kind of information is second-hand information, which is interfered with by Mao Dahai's personal subjective factors, so it is not reliable and must be eliminated.
And what you have seen and experienced in the past two days, about the snowman, this is the first-hand information, and it is also the latest.
Think about it, summarize it, and then analyze it. "
Wei Xingshan thought for a while, and said firstly: "Actually, I have been wondering about one thing, why this thing can shoot you an arrow from a distance and be so accurate in the heavy rain yesterday. You can be regarded as a good sniper, in this case, let alone a broken bow, even if you give me a gun, I can't do it."
"Also, when it was dark in the cave yesterday, this thing was able to attack us, and it didn't seem to be affected by the dark environment." Zhou Lingshi added.
"The eyesight of this thing is far beyond that of ordinary people." Wei Xingshan concluded, "So if we fight it, we must use our strengths and avoid weaknesses. We must do so in broad daylight, otherwise there is no chance of winning."
"Yes!" Zhou Lingshi said, "However, how to draw it out?"
"Little panda!" Wei Xingshan said, "Isn't this little guy its pet? Don't you think Master will take it for us?"
"That's right, master, do you think this will work?" Zhou Lingshi asked, "We will use a little panda to lure it out, and then senior brother will give it a shot and it will be over."
Lin Shuo rolled his eyes: "There's nothing wrong with it. At worst, I won't have to put up branches in two months. The apprentices are all dead anyway, so it's easy."
"No, Lao Lin, tell me carefully, why doesn't this method work?" Wei Xingshan asked.
"Information is never one-sided, but mutual." Lin Shuo said, "It's not enough for you to know some information about the other party. Do you know how much information the other party knows about you?"
"That's right." Zhou Lingshi nodded, "This thing is not an ordinary prey. It has intelligence close to ours, and it is cunning by nature. It will definitely use our intelligence. It is here to fight the poaching team. After so many years, I must know about guns, so I will definitely take precautions.
And the snowman had met the master before, and the master had a little panda in his hand at that time, so it didn't act rashly. "
"Then this trick doesn't work!" Wei Xingshan shouted.
"I have a way." Zhou Lingshi said, "It will definitely work."
"any solution?"
"We hunters rely on our brains to enter the mountains, and we can't waste our energy." Zhou Lingshi said, "Brother, the reason why we can't think of more information is because we don't have enough vision and ability.
We can't think of the intelligence that can't be used.
But our master is different, with his old man around, why do we bother
Things that we think are perfect, in the eyes of the old master, are all flaws!
When it comes to analyzing intelligence and making suggestions, our surname is not Cao, and we don't have the ability to do so!
Brother, are you right? "
Wei Xingshan slapped his thigh: "It makes sense!"
"Master, I know that you brought us out this time mainly to increase our knowledge, not to send us to death. You are kind-hearted and love others!" Zhou Lingshi said to Lin Shuo with a flattering face.
"You bastard, you're really slippery." Lin Shuo laughed angrily.
While the three of them were talking, they came to the entrance of the cave where Anne and the others had come before.
The rocks that originally blocked the entrance of the cave were already kicked away by Zhang Jin, and the entrance of the cave was just exposed.
Lin Shuo looked at the cave. Although he was a little annoyed at Zhou Lingshi's cunning, he also knew that what he said was actually right.
Wei Xingshan and Zhou Lingshi are both smart people.
Looking at their resumes, anyone with a stupid mind would have died a long time ago.
Can't think of a way, not because they are not smart enough, but because they don't have enough vision.
Coupled with the lack of ability, even if they thought of a plan, they couldn't implement it.
Although Zhou Lingshi has this understanding, although he is a bit slippery, he is indeed a sensible person.
"Okay." Standing outside the entrance of the cave, Lin Shuo twitched his nostrils, smelled the smell inside, and said, "Then you all stay with me, don't come in vain."
"En!" Wei Xingshan nodded.
Zhou Lingshi clasped his fists and said solemnly, "Master, please do your best to let the apprentices gain more knowledge."
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