The next morning, the rain cleared up. Although the sun was still hanging in the sky, I could still feel the chill.
Chen Chao was thinking about the lynx in the mountains, but there was still a problem, how to catch this thing
The hunting team ate something hastily in the morning, checked their equipment, and set off with jerky.
Essentially, when food is plentiful, they still eat three meals a day, but the meal at noon is not considered a regular meal. After all, hunting is hard work.
Only the old people in the tribe have two meals a day, and when food is scarce in winter, they can't afford one meal a day.
During the rainy day yesterday, everyone had nothing to do, so they prepared a lot of spears and slings.
But it is impossible to take all of them out for hunting, so each person only carried two spears. For example, Da Zhuang and others carried a sling. In fact, the things they needed could only be collected and made along the way.
Chen Chao also carried two spears. The lynx was a cat, and it ran extremely fast, but its body was too thin to resist blows. These were its shortcomings, so he planned to start from this aspect.
Generally speaking, it is a wave of moving cover strikes. When encountering a lynx, if he does not climb a tree, first throw a long spear, but this is easy to damage the fur.
If you want to climb the tree, there is no way, the tree-climbing lynx is too difficult to deal with...
Super Chen sighed, if only there were bows and arrows...
Stone axes should also be put on the agenda as soon as possible. Although the broken pottery fragments are also very sharp, they can only be used for things like cutting meat.
If it is cutting down trees to make bows and arrows, it is basically not even thinking about it. Moreover, he asked Wu several times for the cracked pottery pot. Although the pot could neither hold water nor food, Wu still looked like a treasure.
Especially when Chen Chao expressed that he was going to smash the clay pot, the little old man with the goat's horn looked at him resentfully
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hit me! Can! fall through! no!
The mountain wind blew over everyone with cool moisture, causing the hunting team in short skin skirts to shudder.
Chen Chao thought in his heart, 'It's really going to be cold. '
He raised his head and looked at the forest. The trees were full of shade, revealing that the blue sky and white clouds could be seen through the gaps in the leaves. Ignoring the possible hidden dangers in the forest, as well as the possibility of starving to death, freezing to death, being bitten to death by wild animals, or dying from various accidents at any time if you leave the group, this world without any pollution is still very beautiful.
Moreover, this is my world!
Chen Chao closed his eyes slightly, a female lynx was about to walk back to the nest with her two cubs, and a male lynx was proudly patrolling his territory.
That's it for you!
Although he knew exactly where it was, Super Chen still patted Yi next to him, and told Yi with gestures, "There is a prey with fur, not far ahead."
After many times of cooperation, the members of the hunting team have been able to master some vocabulary and understand some meanings that Chao Chen wanted to express. In the whole tribe, they were the first to contact and master Professor Chao Chen. words.
Language is something that was originally born in the daily life of human beings. When there are things that must be said in life, such as cooperation during hunting, wanting to convey information, of course, there may be gossip in daily life...
For example: You go from here, I go from there, let's surround this leopard/tiger together and stab it to death with a spear!
Another example: Wow, so-and-so got a witch's animal skin while sleeping last night, and got an extra fish today!
Such needs, and under the superposition of these factors, language is naturally produced. However, these factors must be based on one foundation, that is, human physiological organs, such as the throat, have developed to the point where they can express language.
Yi looked very curious, and asked with gestures, how did you know
Chen Chao pointed to the nearby trees, which had obvious scratches and were still very fresh.
And there is another obvious thing, that is, there are very few rabbits here, and they are very smart. The rabbits that the hunting team encountered before were all obviously stupid.
The lynx mainly lives in the forest thickets, dense forests and mountain rocks, and its main food is various hares such as snow hares. In hunting areas, lynxes can control the number of hares, and they can kill 10% to 40% of the local hares every year population.
Although Chen Chao didn't really rely on some conventional means to find the lynx, it didn't prevent him from inferring some possibilities from the results.
After Yi heard the news, he ran to the front of the team and made gestures with Yuan. Yuan also attached great importance to this matter, because it was almost winter, and he was also worried about the animal skins in the tribe.
A group of people tiptoed forward and saw the male lynx patrolling the territory with the female lynx. The hunting team didn't dare to get too close, so they found a bush that could hide their figure.
Chen Chao said in a low voice, "Throw, spear."
Everyone in the hunting team nodded.
After calculating the distance, Chen Chao threw the spear in his hand with all his strength, and the others followed suit, but the pair of lynx fell to the ground before they could react.
Seeing that it was so easy, the members of the hunting team were overjoyed, and were about to walk out of the bushes to collect the corpses of the two lynxes. However, before they got close, one of the lynxes who had fallen to the ground "whoosh" He jumped up suddenly, and climbed up the towering tree next to him in two or three steps.
The team members were annoyed for a while, and Chen Chao was also very depressed. He ignored that animals are also very cunning, and lost a lynx skin for nothing.
But the team members are still very happy. They know this thing. It is called a "lynx" in the tribal dialect. They have encountered it before. It is very difficult to grasp and has strong claws. They did not expect to catch one this time.
Chen Chao searched around, and found that lynxes often live in caves and rock crevices, and there doesn't seem to be any caves around here, so they should be in rock crevices.
Sure enough, after a while, he found two lynx cubs from a crack in the rock.
The members of the hunting team picked up the spears, carried the dead lynx on their backs, and set off after killing one of the two baby lynxes produced by Chen Chao.
Let’s not think about taming this thing for now. I can’t even eat enough, and I don’t have clothes to wear in winter. How can I still tame it? And in modern times, it seems that I have never heard of lynxes being kept as pets.
This thing is properly classified as a beast, and his father has escaped and ascended to heaven. If he is attracted by the cub's cry all the way, it will be very troublesome to sneak up on the hunting team from time to time.
It's still early, and if we go a little further in, we should be able to get two more litters of lynx.