"Does this thing have an obvious place of origin?" Hou Zi paid close attention to the methods of his senior brothers and asked.
Xiang Zhiwen shook his head, "There are no too fixed regional restrictions. As long as it is not an extremely cold climate, the Slender Waisted Wasp can survive. It especially likes hot and humid environments, so it should not appear in the relatively dry Yinling." The habits of the slender-waisted bee are the habits of the beeswax."
This involves a question that is difficult to explain clearly. Why does a monster that doesn't like such a climate and environment come here? Is it its own initiative? Or was it transferred here?
It is necessary to find a basis, rather than making whims and talking nonsense; the migration of monsters is still an unknown category for humans. No one can absolutely say that this beeswax should not come here. People have the right to move freely, and so do monsters.
There are not many clues left. After all, seven days have passed, and most of the remaining traces have been destroyed by passing creatures. The so-called aura left by a monster can rarely be retained for seven days and still linger.
Dou Gong squatted on the ground and shook his head, "Ordinary honeycombs are fixed in one place, so the breath cannot be hidden; but beeswax is different, it is a mobile honeycomb, because the honeycombs are built inside the body of beeswax, so it is basically impossible. Honey may fall out.
I think these footprints are a bit suspicious. Judging from the toes, they should be an upright creature with two legs. It is not light and must be huge. It is probably a giant ape. This is also in line with the requirements for the nesting of the Slender-waisted Wasp. After all, it is too big. It’s so small that the inner hive can’t hold too many bees.”
Having footprints does not solve the problem. There are too many complex terrains in the wilderness, such as small rivers, rocky beaches, hills, and dense grass in farmland, which can perfectly cover up such footprints. If you cannot find them for a long distance, you will lose the clues. It is not meaningful.
Xiang Zhiwen walked around the scene a few times and gave Hou Zi a somewhat puzzling task.
"Dig up some dung beetles, and I'll make you a spicy dung beetle to drink with you tonight!"
This was really a task that challenged Hou Chi's lower limit. He couldn't even figure out whether Xiang Xianyou was joking or serious? But seeing Dou Gong execute it without hesitation, he had no choice but to start this kind of disgusting digging.
Dung beetles are the most widely distributed burrowing creatures in the Yinling Wasteland, and in fact throughout the entire continent; they are nature's cleaners and play an indispensable link in the biological chain: decomposing biological excrement.
Whenever autumn comes, they will work diligently to prepare food for themselves for the winter. In order to survive the cold winter and raise the next generation, they will lay eggs on these foods. When the flowers bloom in spring next year, there will be a large group of little dung beetles.
Their food sources are diverse, mainly feces, but they are not immune to other temptations, such as dead insects?
The dung beetle's cave is easy to find. You can tell just by looking at the floating soil on the ground the size of a copper coin. The cave is not deep, and the depth of a few feet is the limit. After all, this thing does not have the strength of the mountain beetle.
The simple brains of these cute creatures couldn't understand why humans came to destroy their homes and put them in a bag? But when Tsuta dug a few shallow holes and found the body of a praying mantis in one of them, He finally understood the purpose of asking.
In the battle at that time, some Slender-waisted Wasps would definitely die. No matter how useless the Zhenya brothers were, they would not be able to kill even one Slender-waisted Wasp! While this thing's attack power is amazing, its defensive power is not. How about it, it's just stronger than a normal wasp, how can it withstand the anger of a human monk and fight back?
There was not a single body of a Slender-waisted Wasp at the scene. It is possible that part of it was indeed eaten by animals passing by in search of food, but it is also possible that part of it was moved back to the hole by the industrious dung beetles as a breeding ground for their babies.
This is their weapon for tracking beeswax.
After thoroughly understanding, Hou Zi shook his head and smiled bitterly, and poured out the dung beetle in the bag. He was still too young to hear the meaning of the patrolling messenger's words; but as soon as he poured it out, he heard the voice of Xiang Zhi asking for dissatisfaction.
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"Why dump it? That's food! In Yinling, it's shameful to waste food! It's important to find the body of the Thin-waisted Bee, but it's also important to find the spicy dung beetle at night!"
Hou Tzu, "..."
This area is not big, and after a moment, all the dung beetles in the area were wiped out. In addition to twelve incomplete or complete carcasses of slender-waisted wasps, the three people harvested three large bags of dung beetles.
Xiang Zhiwen gathered the bodies of the Slender-waisted Bee together, put them into a jade bottle, added several cultivation materials, melted and dissolved them, and soon, a strong sweet fragrance could be faintly smelled through the bottle.
Then he took out a spirit animal bag, released a small dog from it, and let it sniff the fragrance; this thing was very intoxicating, and when Xiang Zhiguang put the bottle into the gourd, the little dog was very dissatisfied and walked around the ground.
He turned around in a circle, then pointed in one direction and ran out.
The three of them did not dare to neglect and followed closely behind.
This is the nose dog, a very special creature, a dog breed, docile, and extremely sensitive to smells; all its abilities are in its nose, and it is the hunter's best helper.
The Nose Dog runs and stops, on the one hand, because its memory of smells is far less outstanding than its sensitivity, and on the other hand, certain special terrains will also terminate the Nose Dog's tracking.
When the nose dog's memory of the smell becomes blurry, Xiang Zhiwen will take out the bottle and let it smell again; but if the smell trace is lost, then the three people can only rely on the experience to judge the direction, in all directions.
Try until Nose Dog catches that breath again.
No matter how much people practice their nose sense, at least when they are at a low level, they still can't compare with dogs; people are shorter, dogs are longer...
This kind of tracking was a waste of time, and I didn't run more than twenty miles in one afternoon. Hou Zi was still a little dissatisfied, but for two experienced veterans, this result was already very good.
Although Nose Dog is very effective, in practical applications, the probability of ultimately being in vain will be more than half; in this wasteland full of variables, nothing is guaranteed.
The sky was getting gloomy. Xiang Zhiwen decided to set up camp and search in the dark. There were too many variables. Humans were better off. After all, they were all capable Quanzhen monks. But Nose Dog was different. This thing was timid and would refuse to work as soon as the monster came out.
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Hou Tsuta didn't feel very good because the two seniors started preparing the food to go with the dinner.
Xiang Zhiwen lit the fire, and Dou Gong began to process the ingredients. Of course, it was impossible to put them into the pot directly. Several procedures were needed to deal with the odor of the dung beetles.
These little things are soaked in oil to expel gases from the body, vinegar is used to remove stains, spirits are used to remove fishy smells, and platycodon water is used to add fragrance... Each move is done in a precise and orderly manner, and you can see that it has been done frequently.
Hou Zi asked dryly, "Brothers, I still have some cooked food here, so it's not that troublesome..."
Xiang Zhiwen glanced at him and said, "Although it is a simple meal, can cooked food have a fresh aroma?"
...When you are just a little old, you can easily have enough. Your heart is wide and your body is long and comfortable. Your intestines are filled with delicious food, and your knees are wide enough to live in peace.
