The soldiers of the second team still complained quite a bit about abandoning a geomantic bear lying near death by the stream.
But now that Captain Surdak made this decision, even Augustus, who dared to take risks, said nothing more.
Although no one said it, everyone's dissatisfaction could still be felt, so the atmosphere in the team was a little dull on the way back.
Two days later, when the team members were climbing over a giant red rock mountain with no shade, someone in the team suddenly exclaimed:
"Look over there, that bear fishing by the bend of the river..."
The soldiers of the second team stood in a row on top of the red rock. The team looked very neat. They all saw the giant bear standing by a big rock in the river bend.
The terrain of the river bend is somewhat steep, the water flow is fast, and there are several dangerous bends.
A tim fish was swimming upstream along the river bend. There happened to be a low waterfall at the river bend. The tim fish continuously flapped its tail, raising huge waves of water, and rushed forward violently.
Take the opportunity to jump out of the water and prepare to jump to the pool on the upper level.
At this moment, the big bear would stretch out its huge palm and fly the hundreds of pounds of Tim fish out of the water sideways to the stone beach on the shore, leaving the Tim fish to float on the pebbly river beach.
He jumped up and down, trying to struggle back into the river.
The giant swayed its bulky body, lazily walked to the river beach, stepped on the Tim fish, bared its sharp canine teeth, hooked the skin around the gills of the Tim fish, flicked its head, and pulled
He tore off a whole piece of fish skin, took a few bites and swallowed it into his stomach. Then he took out the liver and swim bladder in the fish's belly and swallowed it, and finally started to slowly lick the fish meat.
I don’t know how many Tim fish it has eaten before it has such a proficient fishing technique. It can completely hide its body in the shadow of the boulder. The Tim fish, which is a first-level monster, is completely undetectable.
At this time, the giant bear seemed to realize that someone was secretly observing on the top of the mountain. It suddenly stood upright with its huge body and roared towards the red rock on the top of the mountain.
Just on the belly of the giant bear, you can still vaguely see the stitched wound.
Augustus involuntarily took two steps forward. Everyone was standing on the Red Rock Ridge, with cliffs dozens of meters high on both sides. If He Boqiang hadn't grabbed him, he would have almost fallen off the slippery Red Rock.
He slipped down the wall, but when he came back to his senses, he was so scared that he broke into a cold sweat.
The bearded man glanced at He Boqiang with a complicated expression, and then stammered:
"...It's that violent earth bear!"
Red Socks has a somewhat soft character. He stared at the valley below with wide eyes, an expression of disbelief on his face, and he couldn't help but lower his voice and said:
"It's really not dead!"
The violent earth bear seemed to roar once at the second team of soldiers, then ignored them and leaned over to continue enjoying the food on the river beach.
At this time, the soldiers also woke up from the shock and continued to walk through the red rock.
The atmosphere in the team was finally not so dull, and everyone's topic of conversation fell on the earth-violent bear.
The bearded Kagel is a believer of the Earth Goddess. He usually likes to introduce allusions to his teachings no matter what the topic is, so he naturally refuses to let it go at this time.
He quickly said: "I heard that the Earth Dire Bear has the bloodline inheritance of the Earth Goddess Gaia, and is often blessed by the Earth Goddess. Therefore, he can recover so quickly even after suffering such serious injuries. His physique is really not ordinary."
Augustus did not agree with Bearded's statement and said as he walked:
"Even if there is one, it's so thin that it's almost nothing, okay! But then again, its injuries heal really quickly!"
Red Socks murmured to the side: "This should be attributed to Little Duck's amazing first aid skills, and of course my bag of needlework!"
The soldiers of the second team ignored the red socks, and everyone jumped down from the red rock wall one after another and got into the dense forest again.
The shady trees on the mountain ridge are much cooler than on the rock wall, and there is no exposure to the scorching sun. It is particularly refreshing to be blown by the cool breeze in the mountains and forests.
The bearded man wiped the fine beads of sweat on his face with a piece of rough linen cloth and said with emotion:
"I was thinking, luckily we didn't do anything stupid at the time."
"It's pretty good to just return to the camp with a few evil ghost heads, I think!"
"Listening to what you said, it seems like this is really the case!"
The warriors all talked about it, no longer thinking that it was a stupid thing to give up the bear skin of the earth rage bear by the stream.
The soldiers' thoughts were very direct and they liked to show their emotions on their faces. When they saw the Geomaniac Bear appearing by the stream, they no longer had any complaints against Suldak and He Boqiang.
Everyone began to discuss that although the search and rescue mission was not completed, there was a lot gained from this trip.
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The second team returned to the Yansai Lake where they hunted Tim fish again, and saw the figures on the shore. The Tim fish in the river once again drew water lines and gathered here quietly. This time
The soldiers of the second team had experience in catching Tim fish and once again cut a wave of leeks under the big willow tree.
The fishing operation was not over until the Tim fish chewed the bait into a skeleton.
While Suldak was skinning these Tim fish, he suddenly raised his head and asked He Boqiang:
"At that time...you knew the bear was still alive, right?"
He Boqiang nodded without any hesitation.
"You also know...if it wants to, it can get up and bite us to death at any time, right?"
He Boqiang glanced at Suldak and said nothing.
In fact, he didn't know if the bear would get up at that time, he just thought it would be dangerous.
In the past few days, the soldiers were almost vomiting from the fish porridge. The soldiers only shaved off two strips of meat from the back of the fish, and discarded the other parts of the fish casually on the river beach, ignoring them.
However, the weather is hot, so the cut fish meat still needs to be dried in the sun before it goes bad. Fortunately, there are no big trees that can shade the beach. The scorching sun directly burns the pebbles on the river beach to the point of burning your feet. After cutting the fish meat into thin slices, spread it out.
Add some white pepper and salt, spread it on a hot stone, and it will dry in the sun in a short time.
The Tim fish caught this time were a little less than last time, only twelve.
However, Augustus took out five magic cores from the heads of these Tim fish, and his luck was better than last time, adding another income to this rescue operation.
When the second team of soldiers packed the dried fish into their bags and prepared to get back on the road, He Boqiang saw the indigenous women again on the bank across the river. Several indigenous women stood quietly under a big tree.
Looking at the remaining Tim fish meat on the river beach, my eyes were full of longing.
However, He Boqiang did not see any indigenous girl among the group of people, which made him slightly disappointed.
He Boqiang felt as if he had a strong insight and could always discover things that others could not notice. Just like these indigenous women standing under a tree on the other side of the river near the edge of the forest. Although they were far away from here, they
He was still seen.
He stopped, thinking about whether to tell him about it, but Suldak, who was walking at the front of the team, shouted his name loudly, asking him to follow the team.
He Boqiang finally decided to swallow the matter in his stomach. He looked up at the sun that was about to set, and quickly caught up with the team that had left.