Xu Chen stood there and waited for about ten minutes, listening to the howls of wolves and various wild beasts running in panic from far and near. After observing the surroundings, he led a group of people to turn their horses and head towards a building not far away.
Go up the hill.
Only when you stand high can you see far.
He decided to find a higher place to get a better view.
This hill is not high. It is the remnant of a nearby mountain. Half of it stretches on the river beach. It is just that the way up the mountain is a little difficult to walk. Fortunately, in winter, the leaves have fallen and the forest is relatively empty. A group of hunters are waving in front of them.
The waist knife cut through the thorns and vines to open the way, and soon a group of people climbed to the top of the mountain.
In a location where the trees were slightly sparse, Xu Chen climbed up a big rock and looked downstream.
At this time, you can roughly see the activities of several teams such as Feng Helong.
Wild wolves have a very strong sense of territory, and there is a clear hierarchy within the group. The alpha wolf has great authority and can deal with any member of the family at will.
Moreover, during hunting, the alpha wolf usually does not show up. Instead, a group of strong male and female wolves in the second echelon hunt the prey. Once the kill is successful, the alpha wolf has the first opportunity to eat.
This group of wild wolves is similar to the wolf group that originally occupied Wild Wolf Beach. After sensing that a large number of aliens were intruding into the territory, they began to howl to convey information to each other. In order to maintain the security of the territory, the alpha wolf seemed to have also begun to dispatch troops.
, prepare to kill or drive away enemies who invade the territory.
At this time, the hunters who entered the wolf's territory had dispersed in twos and threes, and began to hunt some wild beasts on a small scale. At the same time, they made some noise to disperse some of the foraging beasts, in order to create movement and seduce the hatred of the wild wolf.
Sure enough, not long after, wild wolves began to appear. Some were hunting in the tall grass on the river bank, while others came out of the mountains and forests on both sides to go to places where some hunters were active.
Slowly, for several miles up and down, you can hear the howls of wild wolves one after another everywhere. It feels like the entire area is surrounded by wild wolves. It sounds creepy.
Although Xu Chen couldn't see clearly, he could roughly tell the number of wild wolves by listening to the sound. I'm afraid it wouldn't be less than the number of wolves that originally occupied Wild Wolf Beach. It must be a large group of dozens or even hundreds of wolves.
Wolves.
No wonder the Pi tribe, which has a large family and a large population and a population of several hundred, cannot drive them away.
Or in other words, you have the ability to dispel it, but you don't have the ability to hold on to the results.
Because this place is thirty miles away from the valley where the Pi tribe lives, it would take half a day to walk there, and then there would not be much time and physical strength to fight against the wolves. You might be able to kill a few at a time, but for such a huge wolf
It doesn't matter to the group, but it will arouse hatred, follow the Pi tribe in groups, and attack lone hunters near the Pi tribe's valley.
This is just like how a group of hunters of the Ba people did not like hunting on the big river beach.
To deal with such a large group of wolves, one can either have an overwhelming advantage and make them retreat, give up their territory and leave, or they can completely crush them with the power of thunder.
But obviously, the Pi people can't do either of these two solutions.
As a result, they were trapped by wild beasts from the southeast and northwest, living within a narrow range of only forty miles in diameter, which could be traveled back and forth in half a day.
If you want to communicate with other tribes, you must mobilize a large number of people to get through, and you also have to take great risks.
Especially in areas where super beasts such as tigers and dragons are inhabited.
As for wolves, relatively speaking, they are still the easiest to deal with.
After all, in a one-on-one situation, a wolf can't defeat a hunter. If there are more people on both sides, they will be evenly matched at best, and a stalemate will form between them.
In the river beach area three or four miles downstream, you can hear the howls of wild wolves and the figures of hunters galloping on their horses everywhere.
At present, four groups of hunters have dispersed and contacted the wild wolves and started chasing each other.
Because the weeds and thorns are too lush, hunters may not be able to gain a big advantage when alone. However, relying on the speed of their horses, hunters can quickly get rid of the siege of wild wolves, and then convey information through shouting, chasing the wild wolves.
The wolf leads into the designed pocket.
Standing on the top of the mountain and watching for nearly half an hour, except for the howls of wolves and the occasional calls of hunters to convey news, there was basically not much that could be seen. Therefore, Xu Chen gradually became tired and gave up.
In order to watch the excitement, he took Gu Heju and others to search in the mountains and forests.
Although he also practices some archery and spear throwing in his free time on weekdays, his skills are not the same as those guys who go out hunting all day long. In the tribe, apart from women and children, he may be the one with the best hunting skills, even in ancient times.
He Ju is much stronger than him.
When he first time traveled, he was only twelve or thirteen years old, and he started learning hunting almost at the same time as Gu Ju. Now four years later, he has grown into a young man close to 1.8 meters tall. In other tribes, he already belongs to the younger generation of hunters.
The core exists, but he is still a scumbag of war who is protected.
Although Gu Heju did not go out hunting, his archery and spear throwing skills were much better than him. After all, they also had to participate in various trainings with the hunter team every day, and Xu Chen started to show off after more than half a year of participation.
, because no one allowed him to go out hunting.
After all, his experience of falling to death on his first hunting trip had frightened all the tribesmen.
This magical breed like him, which has been favored by the gods, is destined to be protected and serve as a tribal mascot, responsible for being visited and admired by all tribes.
Even if you occasionally go hunting when your hands are itchy, you can only deal with some wild beasts that are not dangerous at all, such as small rabbits and wild birds, wild sheep, deer and other harmless animals under the protection of a group of hunters.
If you get a hit, everyone will be happy. If you don't get a hit, you can just have fun and have fun.
As long as Xu Chen is happy, the whole clan is happy.
Therefore, Xu Chen's main hunting entertainment was to take a group of little savages with a net bag to fish and catch birds near the river.
The most terrifying thing is that every time he catches only a few small loaches, the whole tribe will praise him.
This mountain forest is not big, and the trees are not very tall. It is just a patch of ordinary low trees, mostly oaks and peaches mixed with some deciduous trees. Of course, there are also traces of running animals and wild birds in it.
There are more, then there are rabbits and some small animals such as badgers and foxes.
After all, there is a huge family of night wolves living here, and few other animals can survive.
After searching for a long time, Xu Chen shot more than ten arrows, and with great luck, he actually shot a hare weighing seven or eight kilograms, which made him almost think that Lu Bu was possessed by Lu Bu and that he was invincible.
The remaining hunters such as Gu Heju had average luck and only managed to catch a badger and two wild birds.
But what made everyone very excited was that they also found a lot of shiitake mushrooms and a few Hericium erinaceus in the woods.
Chicken stewed with mushrooms has always been the favorite of the whole clan, and it seems that we can make a meal today.
Originally, if autumn came, there should be a lot of wild fruits and other wild foods in this mountain forest, but unfortunately there is nothing now.
"Woo~~~"
There was a faint sound of a horn from downstream.
A group of people refreshed their spirits, gave up hunting and looking for mountain products, and hurried up the mountain to observe again. Sure enough, on the river beach in the distance, they could already see the figures of hunters gathering on horseback.
Looks like the hunt is over!
Xu Chen was excited. Although he didn't know what the harvest would be, the hunting lasted for nearly two hours and covered seven or eight miles of the river valley, so he thought it wouldn't be too bad.
And now I can no longer hear the terrifying sound of wild wolves howling everywhere at the beginning.
"Let's go and take a look!"
Xu Chen hung the bow and arrow next to the saddle and then got on the horse. A group of more than ten people rushed down the mountain in a gust of wind.
And when they arrived near the river beach where they first parted, hunters had already arrived on horseback. Not only were the hunters sitting on the horses, there was also a wild wolf with blood still dripping in front or behind them.
The fur of these wild wolves was green and black. Although they were dead, they still grinned and showed their ferocious and sharp fangs. They looked very ferocious.
It's a pity that no matter how ferocious the wild wolf is, it can only turn into a dead wolf in front of a group of fully armed primitive riders.
Because these humans are more brutal and cruel.
Soon, hunters came back on horseback one after another, and loud chatter and laughter could be heard from far away, and the shouts of bang-ho-ho-ho resounded throughout the river valley.
And with the return of these hunters, the results of this hunt finally appeared.
There were four teams participating in the hunt. Counting the four commanders, there were a total of forty-four people. Except for a few riding with the Pi tribe hunters who did not bring prey, each of the remaining horses had one or two animals tied to it.
wild wolf.
Finally, they gathered together to make a clear count, and found that more than fifty wild wolves had been shot and killed.
Facing this huge harvest, Xu Chen also smiled from ear to ear.
These wild wolves are huge in size. One weighs at least sixty or seventy kilograms. Many of them are as big as calves, and their weight is estimated to be hundreds of kilograms.
The arrows on these wild wolves have all been removed, but some are still stuck in their bodies after being broken. Most of them are still dripping blood. The strong smell of blood makes everyone's blood boil.
A large group of hunters gathered together to talk and laugh loudly, discussing which wolf was bigger and who could kill more. The atmosphere was lively and joyful. However, several men from the Pi Tribe who came to serve as guides had empty eyes at this time, as if their spirits were still there.
Not returned to the body.
The hunting speed was so fast that they were completely frightened.
They had never seen such a large-scale crushing of ferocious wild wolves.
As guides, they were refused to participate in the hunt, but were placed in a slightly open area to serve as bait. When they heard countless wild wolves howling and roaring towards them, before they had time to be frightened, they saw something they had never experienced before.
In a scene like this, dozens of war horses led and drove these wild wolves from all directions, and then an unprecedented wolf-slaying contest began near the empty river beach.
Arrows flew across the river, war horses galloped and neighed, and the sound of intensive horse hooves ran back and forth within a few hundred meters of the river beach. The ups and downs of the hunters' screams mixed with the howls of wild wolves.
One after another, huge and fierce wild wolves rushed out, and were killed on the spot by popping arrows. They rolled and howled, blood spattered, and withered grass and thorns fell in pieces.
Blood soaked through the vast swaths of muddy sand and withered grass on the riverbank, and the howling of wolves and the sound of horse hooves like drums were rolling and stirring in my ears like a tidal wave.
It didn't take more than half an hour, but when the surroundings gradually became quiet, and the hunters on horseback chased the wild wolves that had gathered and fled in embarrassment, they dispersed. What appeared in front of them was the densely packed carcasses of wild wolves lying on the river beach, and
The remaining struggling and wailing sounds of some seriously injured and dying wild wolves.
This was a one-sided and brutal massacre.
It wasn't until the hunters who had been scattered in pursuit came back one after another to collect the wild wolf carcasses that they finally woke up slightly.
But when they saw more and more wild wolf carcasses piled up like a hill, their souls began to leave their bodies again.
This time it was not a fright, but a kind of confusion with a blank soul, as if I was in a dream. I was even dragged on horseback by several hunters to join Xu Chen and others, but I still didn't wake up.