Chapter Fifteen: Hunting Beasts Near the Mountainside (2)
Good guy, if I don't give you a chance, you really won't be fooled. Since you are so smart, I'll wait and give you a tough one. I'm not afraid that you won't be fooled.
Feng Ziqing started his second trap.
He slowly raised his legs, took a few steps back, calculated the distance, leaned back, stumbled to the ground, and the broken sword in his right hand fell away not far away.
The ferocious beast roared, a little excited, and jumped to bite. Feng Ziqing stood up quickly, deliberately taking a step slowly, and failed to retreat in time. After the ferocious beast jumped into the air, it quickly opened its mouth and bit, Feng Ziqing held his hands forward and held it back.
Shut the beast's mouth.
He thought to himself that this beast was really strong, and then he yelled, using all his strength, he grabbed the beast's mouth with both hands, swung it back, and threw it on the pile of dead leaves.
With a pop, the ferocious beast fell down, and then a scream came from below, and then the sound became smaller and smaller.
Feng Ziqing finally felt relieved. I can't cure you, dear. You must be dead.
He fell backward and lay on the ground panting. After resting for a while, he stood up, picked up the broken sword beside him, and looked into the pit.
After just one glance, Feng Ziqing's eyes blurred, and a bloody mouth suddenly appeared in front of him. He didn't have time to think about it, and subconsciously quickly raised his right hand holding the sword, tilting it from top to bottom.
, slashed hard, followed by a scream.
After a closer look, the unknown ferocious beast had been chopped into two pieces and fell into the pit again, covered in blood. Maybe it was because of the speed and the sharpness of the knife. There was no blood on this cut, but the clothes were naturally
It's tattered.
The fur of this beast is hard enough. If it fell from such a height, it would only be stabbed by the bamboo tip, which did not penetrate deeply into the flesh. No wonder it could jump out of the pit and fight to the death.
Feng Ziqing looked into the pit, stunned, and then cursed loudly.
After this battle, Feng Ziqing became more cautious. He threw branches and stones into the pit for a long time, cut down a few dead trees to block the trap, covered it with grass, bundled the firewood again, and went down the mountain.
Back home, Chen Shiye asked why his clothes were in tatters. Feng Ziqing had to say that he accidentally fell down the slope while chopping firewood and rolled far away, and his clothes were torn. Chen Shiye comforted him and wiped his face.
I drank some medicinal wine and mixed in.
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"What are you thinking about, brat, cheer up, we're almost there, be careful."
"Oh, I see."
The two of them walked for more than half the time of the incense stick, and arrived at the temporary settlement built by the villagers on the mountainside, a small wooden house with many hunting tools inside.
"Uncle Chen, it's strange to say that for so many years, why has this ferocious beast near the mountain never come down to disturb the village?"
"Hehe, that's not because you, Uncle Chen, and I are so powerful. When ferocious beasts see me, they will run away from me. It hurts me so much that it's hard to find them when I go up the mountain to hunt them."
Feng Ziqing glanced sideways, "Stop bragging, then why was he bitten by a seven-section snake last time?"
"It's not like I climbed a bit higher last time and didn't bring a dagger, so that beast had the chance to take advantage of me."
"Just keep blowing." Feng Ziqing had asked this before and got similar answers, so he didn't ask any more.
After drinking some water and resting for a while, he followed Chen Shiye into the cabin, picked up his tools, and headed towards the hinterland of the mountainside.
After half a month of study, Feng Ziqing had a general understanding of the types of ferocious beasts in the nearby mountains, and also basically mastered some basic coping methods.
In the whole nearby mountain, there are actually not many types of ferocious beasts that can hurt people. Most of them are herbivorous animals at the foot of the mountain. Usually when villagers want to hunt, most of them go downstream on the mountainside, and they rarely encounter them.
Like the ferocious beasts he had encountered before.
The three most common species on the mountainside are dwarf stone bears, pine-tailed wolves, and long-toothed dogs. Due to their small size and weak strength, they cannot compete for territory high up in the mountain. The top of the mountain is different. Those on top are ferocious beasts.
There are people who live alone and in groups.
Chen Shiye said that they were unwilling to go down the mountain to look for food, because the top to the mountainside was enough. But Feng Ziqing knew that this was just a one-sided statement, and in fact it should be similar to what he thought. You are all practitioners, and you are afraid of the evil spirits on the mountain.
The beasts have learned your skills a long time ago and no longer dare to go down the mountain. Those ferocious beasts that occasionally appear at the foot of the mountain are probably driven down after being defeated.
We walked about one stick of incense without stopping along the way, and arrived at the hinterland of the mountainside, where we found a dense forest. Here were several traps that Chen Shiye had laid out long ago.
The two of them stopped, and the man motioned to the young man to rest against a tree for a while, while he went to check whether several traps were damaged.
Feng Ziqing leaned the bamboo gun against the tree trunk, took off the animal skin water bag from his waist, and drank a few sips of water to relieve the tension in his heart.
Chen Shiye checked it and found that one of the obvious mechanisms had been destroyed. It must have happened in the past two days. After a little repair, it was still usable.
After finishing the repair, he took the water bag handed by the boy and took a few sips. Just as he was about to speak, he heard a low roar and a ferocious beast with two black and white tails slowly walked out from behind the tree, his eyes glaring.
green light.
Feng Ziqing raised his head and looked up, and cursed inwardly, "We are really enemies on a narrow road. I just killed one a few days ago, and I met him again this time. This one was much bigger than the last one. If you look carefully, you can see that there are some spots on the legs."
The injury has scabbed over. Well, this one probably had a fight with him last time. This one won, and the other one lost and was driven down the mountain.
Chen Shiye exclaimed, "Black and white tail tiger wolf, how could we meet it here!"
While the two men were exclaiming, the black-and-white-tailed tiger and wolf launched the offensive first, jumping back and forth between the trees. Seeing the right moment, they leaped forward and quickly attacked Feng Ziqing, who was leaning against the tree.
Feng Ziqing cursed secretly, "Damn it, even a man of virtue thinks that he is easy to bully! I wonder if I will kill you today, let him have a companion."
Just as he was preparing to stab with his spear, Chen Shiye quickly ran up to the young man, swiped the bamboo spear in his hand and hit it on the hind legs. The latter fell out and stood up quickly.
After the black-and-white-tailed tiger and wolf received such a blow, it did not continue to bite, but took a few steps back and looked at the two of them.
Taking advantage of the gap, Chen Shiye turned his back to the young man and said, "You brat, this beast is called Black and White Tailed Tiger Wolf. The few tufts of hair on its forehead don't look like the character "王", that's why it got its name. Don't look at it just now
It took a shot from me, but it couldn't hurt it. This beast's fur is hard enough, not much worse than a dwarf stone bear."
Feng Ziqing knew this and asked, "Uncle Chen, what should I do? The body of the gun is useless, so I can only use the tip. But this beast is so fast, it's not easy to stab him."
"Don't panic, this beast is obviously injured, and it appears alone. There is nothing to be afraid of. We are two people. It has learned a lesson just now. Now it does not dare to act rashly. Bamboo guns cannot do it. Isn't there a sword behind you?
Well, it's more than enough to cut it.
You take the guy now and choose a tree with a better view to climb up. Don’t be too high. I will slowly lure it over. When the time comes, you go up and down, attacking from the front and back. The chance of winning is very high. But don’t shake your hands when the time comes.
, otherwise one of them will miss and you will suffer a loss if it seizes the opportunity."
Seeing that the young man was still a little panicked, Chen Shiye comforted him and said, "It's okay. Think more about what I usually teach you. You can still deal with it."
Feng Ziqing hummed, raised his head and looked around, took a few steps back, climbed up to a tree with a high trunk and had a good view, took the bamboo gun in his hand, squatted on the trunk, and waited for the opportunity.
The black-and-white-tailed tiger and wolf seemed to feel that the situation was not good for itself. It slowly took a few steps back, turned around and ran away. The light in the dense forest was dark, and it disappeared without a trace.
Feng Ziqing breathed a long sigh of relief and changed from squatting to sitting on a branch.
Seeing this, Chen Shiye shook his head. He was just a young man, and he was not cautious enough. If he were alone, he would definitely suffer a big loss, so he reminded him: "You brat, do you really think that beast has escaped? Appearing alone like this?"
The fierce beasts generally think highly of themselves, especially those related to tigers. Even more so! They will never give up easily until they suffer big losses.
Just now, you just turned around and ran after a little test to make us relax our vigilance. You sit like this for now, waiting to watch a good show, and listen to my orders at any time."
After that, Chen Shiye deliberately chose a wider place, threw the hemp rope around his waist on the ground, threw the bamboo gun to his side, leaned against the tree, folded his hands around his chest, closed his eyes and rested.
Only a moment later, a gray shadow quickly jumped out. Chen Shiye smiled, his eyes suddenly opened, and he turned sideways to avoid the attack.
Seeing that the black-and-white-tailed tiger and wolf failed to succeed, it pressed its front paws on the tree trunk and used its strength to jump forward and continued to pounce towards Chen Shiye. Several moderately deep claw marks appeared on the tree trunk in an instant.
Chen Shiye knelt down and quickly picked up the bamboo spear and thrust it in front of him. The bamboo spear clicked and was bitten off.