silent farm

Chapter 97 A Good Hunter Doesn't Need a Gun?

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The next morning, Li Sheng woke up early.The toilet water didn't have much effect. The mosquitoes made a final attack before dawn, and he was woken up by itching.

When he woke up, he was not surprised to find a sweet little girl in his arms.He hasn't forgotten what happened last night.Of course, he can not only send four, but also ten.Nothing happened to them other than a night of sleep in a hammock.

He gently pulled out his pinned arm and got out of the hammock.The little girl was still at the age of snoozing, so his actions didn't completely wake her up.

He went to the small river to wash, and waited for the sky to slowly dawn.

At dawn, the tribe began to get busy again.The men are ready to go hunting.Women need to have breakfast prepared for them.The breakfast is very simple, it is tapioca flour cakes kneaded into balls.

The taste is quite bad, so Li Sheng ate it.

When the men divided into groups and went hunting.Only old and young women and children are left in the tribe.The women pulled Tia and didn't know what to say, and they would glance at Li Sheng from time to time as they spoke.

Don't even think about it, you know that's definitely not a good thing to say.

After a while, Tia seemed unable to stand the teasing of those women, she ran to Li Sheng's side and said, "Let me take you for a walk."

Li Sheng was also always uncomfortable among a group of indigenous people, so it was good to go out for a walk, so he said, "Where are we going?"

Tia rolled her eyes and said, "Have you brought a gun? Let's go hunting."

In fact, Li Sheng really wanted to go hunting. He seemed to be walking with Taklolo and the others just now, but he thought that he could not understand the language, and he was not familiar with their cooperation.If you go by yourself, you won't be able to help, and maybe you will become a burden to the family.

Now Tia's proposal was exactly what he wanted.

He brought not only a pistol, but also a bow.

Seeing Li Sheng take out the folding bow, Tia rolled her eyes and said, "Bring some snacks, we won't be back at noon."

It turned out that the men in their tribe who went out to hunt basically would not come back at noon.Because they probably need to hunt tens of kilometers away from home, and spend a lot of time finding and tracking prey during the process.It is impossible to come back at noon.

Li Sheng learned that those middle-aged men were not coming back, and he didn't want to stay here to be judged by those women, so he said, "Okay." He not only took a pistol, but also took out a quiver, which contained 36 arrows.Twelve heavy arrows with three-edged arrows, and the rest are ordinary bows and arrows.

There was a sudden cheer—he thought it was a cheer—from the tribe as they departed, which seemed a bit inexplicable.

Tia took Li Sheng up the river.After walking for a kilometer or two, there is still a small road, which I think was stepped on by people in the tribe.They walked to a small hillside with only small trees, and Tia told him, "This is the tribe's cassava field."

Li Sheng saw that there were indeed some cassava on it. The place is not big. If you look down from a height, you will see the same green color, and there are some small trees in the middle.

But isn't it said that the agricultural model of the indigenous tribes is slash-and-burn?The cassava is very dense, it doesn't look like it.

"You've been growing cassava on this land?" he asked.

"Huh? The elders say we should plant cassava on a piece of land. If we burn it, the devil will find us."

Li Sheng probably understood.Maybe this tribe had an accident because of burning wasteland, so now they all use fixed places to plant.

But how did they ensure the fertility of the land?
Regarding this question, Tia raised her small chin and said proudly: "We have known for a long time that leaves and grass can maintain the fertility of the land, so we will collect leaves and grass from other places and put them here for composting, and then when planting cassava mixed in the dirt."

Compared with other indigenous tribes, it is indeed quite advanced.Li Sheng vomited in his heart.But it's better if they don't burn wasteland.Burning wasteland means the risk of forest fires.

"Are there many cassava fields like this?"

"Several pieces are planted like this."

Li Sheng looked at a land of about several acres, and although the cassava was planted in a rather messy manner, it was very dense, probably because they maintained the land very well.

Passing through the cassava field that made Tia proud, they followed the mountain stream into the depths of the depression.There is a big pool here, which is the source of the mountain stream.There should be a spring in the pool, and the water has been flowing out, but no water source was found.

However, they didn't stay by the water pool much. Tia looked at the ground by the water pool for a while, and then took Li Sheng to start climbing.And from here, there is no way.

There are many shrubs and vines on the hillside, and a path needs to be opened, so Li Sheng walked ahead.

Li Sheng just remembered something, and asked while opening the way: "Aren't men in your tribe going out to hunt? How do you know there are prey here?"

Tia said with a smile: "Usually men go out to hunt, not to say that women are forbidden to go too. When we fish, men, women and children go out together." She giggled as she spoke.

She remembered that when she and Li Sheng met for the first time, it was the whole tribe who went out to fish.At that time, she was pulling the weeds of poisonous fish with a few partners.

Li Sheng had also heard her say that before, and now thinking about it, he also felt that it was a mistake.If they hadn't been out all together, maybe he and Thomas wouldn't have noticed.Of course nothing like that would happen.

He was about to speak, but Tia whispered, "There are animals passing by here. It's Simolo."

Li Sheng also smelled a special smell.But what is Simolo?After listening to Tia's description, he probably thought it was Xizhu.He watched many documentaries about this kind of animal, and he also heard about this kind of animal from Thomas.

Peccaries are also known as Amazon wild boars, but they are not actually wild boars.They have scent glands on their body and the smell is not pleasant.Many times they pass by, and the smell sticking to the road will not go away for a day.

They are usually not very big, and it is said that the largest can grow up to sixty kilograms, but they always move in groups.Usually there are between ten and one hundred, and a herd of young wild boars.They are omnivorous, but mainly eat plants, insects, frogs, and sometimes dead bodies.

The body of the drug dealer who was killed by the farm last time was gnawed off a lot of meat by this animal.

However, "the smell is very weak. They should have passed here for a long time."

Tia searched the ground for a while, and said, "I should have passed by here last night." She pointed in a direction. "Let's chase this way."

Thomas said that although peccaries are small in size, they are numerous.If provoked, there is still a certain danger.

He grabbed Tia and said, "Go behind."

"But I can find traces of them passing by." Tia was a little unhappy.

Li Sheng smiled and said, "You think you're the only one who can find it?" He asked her while carefully looking for Xizhu's footprints in front. "You have been hunting before, so you know this?"

"No. But my friends and I have made traps, so we know how to find them."

The two followed the scent and footprints of Xizhu for more than ten kilometers.Li Sheng smelled a strong stench of scallops.Explain that they have stayed in this place for a long time, and they probably left not long ago.

Peccaries also have their own sphere of influence, so they usually don't go too far.Li Sheng released the energy field induction for a while, but he didn't find it within a radius of one kilometer.But soon he and Tia found the direction of Xizhu in the messy traces.

The two continued to chase after the smell and traces left by Xizhu for about an hour, and Li Sheng heard the sound of slamming and the noise of animals in front of him.The distance is not far.

Li Sheng raised a finger in front of his mouth, signaling her not to make any noise.Then he pointed at the same place, meaning to let her stay here and not follow.

Tia pouted, but still nodded in agreement.

Li Sheng handed the machete to her.Then he took out an ordinary arrow and put it on the bowstring, and unfolded the energy field to sense the situation of the scallop group.

He hadn't taken two steps, and he probably had a clear sense of the situation of the Xijiao group.This is not a small population, there are more than 60 big ones, and about [-] small ones.

He was worried that he would alarm Xi Qiao, so he didn't dare to walk too fast.He also controlled the air to gently move the branches and leaves of the bushes, and locked his scent around him, preventing it from spreading temporarily.

This trick worked, and he quietly touched a place more than 100 meters away from the Xilu group.Xizhu still didn't feel any vigilance.

However, the bushes on this hillside were relatively dense, so he couldn't see the scallops, he could only see the shrubs shaking, and he could hear their calls when they were looking for food.

But this is not an obstacle for him.The air can tell him where each peccary is.It's just that the bushes are in the way, and the arrows will definitely be affected.

He put the arrow in his hand back into the quiver, and took out a heavy arrow.Heavy arrows are heavier, have stronger penetrating ability, and are relatively less affected by the branches and leaves of shrubs.

He touched another thirty meters or so, but still did not disturb the Xilu group.But this distance is enough.This group of peccaries is not the largest number, but several of them are relatively large.

His target is the biggest of those.

This folding bow, he can't just leave it casually.He stood in a good posture, held his breath and drew the bow, and then the arrow was ejected by the bowstring.The arrow sank into the bush, but he didn't stop there. He drew the bow five times in a row in just three seconds, and shot five arrows in a row.

The peccaries make sounds like barking dogs, and some make rattling sounds.The group of peccaries that had been rummaging leisurely to find insects in the roots of rotten leaves fled.Li Sheng didn't want to let them go, and regardless of the bushes in front of him, he rushed forward like a leopard to break through the bushes blocking his way, and shot three arrows one after another before he ran to the place where the scallops were looking for food.

When he ran there, the frightened scallops had already run away and were blocked by big trees. Unless he could guide the arrows, no matter how powerful he was, he couldn't do anything to them.

However, the eight arrows shot just now have gained a lot.There were four peccaries on the ground whose heads had been pierced by long arrows and were nailed to the ground, and they were already dead, while one was shot through the abdomen and was also nailed to the ground, still howling.However, the damage caused by the Mitsubishi-shaped arrows will kill it sooner or later.

Li Sheng took out the dagger and pressed down on its head with one hand. The dagger was inserted from its neck obliquely to the back, and when it was pulled out, a stream of blood spurted out.Its heart was pierced.After a while, the injured Xi Zhu became silent.

He just pulled out the arrow and walked away, the smell was too strong.He also found the remaining three heavy arrows, two of which were shot one by one, and one shot was empty.He took a look at these heavy arrows, the arrows were a little blunt, but it wasn't very obvious.Then he took out a cloth to wipe off the blood on it and put it back into the quiver, then dragged the two peccaries to the place where the other five were placed.

(End of this chapter)