wild trail

Chapter 388 Hunting
Facing the dangers in the water, human beings have a natural sense of fear, and whether to cross the river or not has now become a difficult problem for everyone.

The captain suspended the logging work, called everyone over, and discussed a reasonable solution together.

Everyone chattered and discussed, and most of them thought that they would rather take a long way to go, and don't want to die here for no reason.

Seeing that Zhou Yu had remained silent, the captain asked, "Zhou Yu, tell me your opinion."

Seeing the captain asking himself suddenly, Zhou Yu was taken aback, and said slowly: "Guys, I think we can still cross the river."

The captain became interested as soon as he heard it. He was in favor of crossing the river. Seeing that Zhou Yu had the same opinion as himself, he asked, "What are you asking?"

"I think we can kill the beasts in the river. The pool is not that big. I don't think there are too many beasts of that size. If we take the time to kill them and cross the river later, no Is it safe?" Zhou Yu expressed his thoughts.

But just as the words fell, someone retorted: "Are you kidding? How can we kill a monster that is four or five meters long? And it's not just one, just rely on a raft?"

Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "Calm down first, I don't mean to fight that thing on the water surface."

"Then what do you mean?"

Zhou Yu coughed lightly, organized his words, and said: "You should have heard that more than ten years ago, when Xia Guo still had the Ministry of Salt, His Majesty led people to fight the big snake in the pot?"

Everyone nodded. After so many years of spreading, this incident has become quite legendary, and Xia Guo can be regarded as a household name.

Hearing this, the captain slapped his thigh and said, "You mean we can bring things up and kill them on the shore."

Zhou Yu nodded and said: "Just now I thought about it myself. When I went to the pool to throw those internal organs, it didn't take long before I took the things and came over. I guess this thing should have no wisdom. As long as we put the food Put it on the shore, and set up traps nearby, as long as that thing comes out, isn't it very simple to kill it?"

After Zhou Yu finished speaking, everyone began to think carefully about the feasibility of this matter.

After repeated thinking, everyone felt that this matter could be tried, and it would not take too long to do this matter. If it succeeded, then there would be no need to worry about food problems for a long time to come.

"Okay, I didn't expect you to come up with this method." The captain patted Zhou Yu on the shoulder.

Zhou Yu chuckled and said, "I just suddenly remembered the story of His Majesty."

The captain nodded and said: "Everyone cheer up, let's prepare well and try to lure out all the monsters from this pool."

The expedition mobilizers who regained their motivation immediately used their ingenuity and began to discuss what kind of traps could be the most effective way to deal with the big guys in the pool.

Everyone put forward their own ideas, and finally after integrating everyone's opinions, the expedition team came up with a method that they thought was the most effective.

The way this amphibian crawls is very similar to that of a crocodile. Although its body is very long, its limbs are indeed extremely short, making it extremely inflexible to move on land.

As long as you dig a one-meter-deep hole in the ground below the bait, and then bury some sharpened branches, you can put it to death.

The expedition team did not have a shovel, so they had to think of other ways to replace the shovel if they wanted to dig traps.

Fortunately, there are a lot of obsidian scattered around the river and the cliffs. This kind of stone is very hard. As long as it is polished, a simple stone shovel can be made.

More than a dozen people work together, half of the people make digging tools, and the other part breaks up to make sharpened branches.

After a busy day, with the joint efforts of everyone, they made three sturdy and usable stone shovels and a large number of wooden thorns.

Knowing that there were ferocious beasts in the water pool, the night duty personnel paid extra attention to the movement in the direction of the water pool to prevent this thing from launching a sudden attack on them.

The next day, after everyone had a hasty breakfast to replenish their strength, they began to dig traps.

Although there are rocks distributed in the soil by the pool, they are all small pieces of stone, which did not have much impact on the progress of the excavation.

The soft and muddy ground was easy to dig. At dusk, when everyone took turns digging, an irregular round pit with a diameter of more than two meters and a depth of more than one and a half meters appeared in front of everyone.

Zhou Yu jumped into the pit, inserted the wooden spikes into the soil at will, climbed out of the mud pit, and looked down. The dense spikes made people shudder.

"There should be no problem. Cover this place with branches and spread weeds on it. With the wisdom of a fool, you should not be able to see the abnormality here." The captain said slowly.

Everyone nodded, and couldn't help looking forward to the scene of hunting the monster.

The trap was set up before dark, and after dinner and the night watchers were left behind, everyone gradually fell asleep in anticipation.

Before dawn the next day, everyone woke up early to prepare for this very exciting hunting operation.

Cut a few pieces of raw meat into small pieces, and place one at intervals of about one meter from the edge of the pool until it reaches the position of the trap.

And in order to increase the chance of success, some blood was even poured near the bait.

After doing this, everyone immediately lurked.Enclose the place from three sides.

This is done, on the one hand, to drive away the rest of the beasts, and on the other hand, it is a supplement to the trap plan. Although the plan looks perfect, Suiye dare not guarantee 100% success. If the prey does not go to the trap Over there, these people can attack it immediately.

The waiting process tested everyone's patience. As the sun gradually rose, the evaporating water vapor made the vicinity of the river extremely humid, and squatting in the grass was very sticky and uncomfortable.

The blade of grass cut the skin. Although it didn't bleed, it was still painful under the attack of salt-rich sweat.

But the waiting was still effective. In the originally calm pool, a huge figure moved under the water, heading towards the place on the river bank that exudes a strong smell of blood and carrion.

Seeing that the prey was hooked, everyone raised their hearts to their throats, staring intently at the river bank, and couldn't help clenching their weapons a little bit.

The prey was very vigilant, it got out of the huge head above the water, looked around, and dived back into the water.

Just when everyone thought it was a pity, the monster came out of the water again. This time, it wandered back and forth two or three meters away from the river bank for a while, probably thinking that there was no danger, so it swam towards this side with its tail wagging.

Zhou Yu swallowed nervously, fixed his eyes on the huge prey, and secretly prayed for God's blessing.

Everyone didn't dare to take a breath. They hid mostly in the dark, and saw a huge head sticking out of the water, and the thick and short forelimbs stepped on the river bank.

The prey puts its head in front of the bait, sniffs it, and swallows it in one gulp. After eating this bait, it raises its head and sniffs around, dragging its heavy body slowly towards the next piece of bait.

At this time, its entire body was exposed outside, and seeing such a huge body made everyone startled.

If he crossed the river rashly on a raft before, and the monster attacked him in the water, he would be able to smash the simple raft into pieces, and humans in the water could only be slaughtered by it.

The bait is too small for its huge body, and two pieces of meat can't fill its hungry stomach.

With short limbs, it walked towards the direction of the trap, and now as long as it walked four or five meters forward, it would fall into the trap.

At this moment, everyone's heartbeat seemed to have stopped, and Zhou Yu couldn't help but rushed out to drive this guy into a trap.

But he knew that if he went out now, all his efforts would be in vain, so he could suppress his inner impulse and wait patiently.

The time seemed extremely long at this time, and no one dared to make a sound, even if the sweat was streaming down the corners of their eyes, they didn't dare to raise their hands to wipe it off.

The prey should think that this place is completely safe. With its small brain capacity, it can't figure out why these meats are kept here waiting to be eaten by itself.

After eating one bait after another, it finally reached the last one. When people saw the prey continue to move forward, everyone knew that the plan was successful.

When its right foreleg stepped on the trap, there was only a crisp "click!", and the branches covering the trap couldn't bear its heavy body at all, and broke almost instantly.

It happened so suddenly that the prey didn't have time to react, and due to inertia, it slid head-down straight into the trap.

Seeing this, the people ambushing at the side knew that they had succeeded. At this moment, they couldn't control the excitement in their hearts anymore, and ran out from various hidden places, and ran towards the direction of the trap quickly.

Zhou Yu looked at the trap. At this time, the pit was in a mess. He saw that the huge prey was belly up, and the huge body was pierced into a sieve by the sharp wooden thorns, but it was not dead yet.

The trap of more than three meters could not accommodate such a large prey, and the flat tail hung weakly above the hole, swinging weakly.

"It's a bitch, it's not dead yet." The captain spit on the ground, and ordered everyone: "The one with the spear, kill it immediately."

Hearing this, several spearmen immediately stepped forward, stabbing the prey's head with their spears.

The sharp spear directly pierced its brain, killing it instantly.

Seeing that this thing finally died, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Such a big guy gives people a sense of oppression just by looking at it, and I don't know what he ate to grow up.

Although this thing was killed, how to get it out was a problem.

The corpse of the prey almost occupied a large part of the trap, and there was not even room for a person in the pit.

"We have to get it out, this big guy is enough for us to eat for several days." One person said.

"But how do we get it out?"

Zhou Yu hid by the pit, tilted his head and looked towards the bottom of the pit.

"I have a solution." Zhou Yu said suddenly.

"What way?" Everyone asked.

Zhou Yu pointed to the bottom of the pit and said: "Look, the body of this thing is not completely close to the ground. We only need to find two strong pieces of wood. With our strength, we should be able to lift it up a bit. We only need to move a person to stand on it. space, it can be broken down.”

"Good idea, you kid, you have such a good head, it's a pity that you failed this time." The captain said in a deep voice.

Mentioning this matter, Zhou Yu was also a little helpless. He was only five points away from being on the list, but there was no other way. If he lost, he was defeated. He could only blame himself for his lack of strength.

He smiled helplessly, and said to everyone: "Let's work quickly, I don't know if there are any of its kind in here."

People stopped chatting and began to look for suitable wood. The wood used to pry the corpse should not be too thick or too thin. After half an hour, a group of people cut down two small trees with a diameter of about ten centimeters, and three people carried them. Come to the place where the trap is.

When the others were about to start working, Zhou Yu suddenly said, "Wait a minute!"

"what happened?"

People looked at Zhou Yu in confusion, wondering what this guy had discovered.

"The soil here is too soft, and it should be difficult to pry it up. I think a stone should be placed beside the pit."

Zhou Yu explained.

Everyone thought about it carefully, and felt that it was so reasonable. They ran to the edge of the cliff to find two relatively round stones, and moved them over with great effort.

Put the stone on the edge of the pit, put two pieces of wood used as crowbars under the body, and gently pry the pry, and when he felt that it was right, the captain said to everyone: "I will count to three in a while, and everyone will use force together. "

"understand!"

The captain nodded, held the crowbar with both hands, and said in a deep voice, "One, two, three!"

"Hey!"

Under the joint efforts of a dozen young and strong men, although the prey was huge and extremely heavy, it was still pried up.

Five or six minutes later, the exhausted and panting expedition members finally turned over the body that had been lying on their backs in the pit, and leaned against the pit wall.

In order to prevent the corpse from falling down again, everyone used wooden sticks to support it, and asked two people to throw the prepared short log into the pit and jump down quickly.

Carefully avoiding the surrounding wooden thorns, insert two short logs obliquely into the soil to support the corpse.

With the support of wood, everyone immediately felt much more relaxed.

In order to prevent accidents, the captain left eight people to continue to hold the corpse with sticks to prevent the wood below from breaking and hurting the companions in the trap.

At this time, the pit can accommodate two workers, and the ax and dagger are handed over to them, and the other five people hold weapons and guard the surroundings to prevent sneak attacks by wild animals.

The two people who dismembered the prey moved very quickly. They didn't care about the integrity of the prey's skin at all, and swung their axes to chop the prey into pieces.

The blood stained the soil in the pit red, and the smell of internal organs and blood made people want to vomit.

(End of this chapter)