Section 144: New Discoveries
After dinner, according to the plan, I wanted to bypass the mountains and continue to move north. However, everyone was curious about what the outcome of the battle between the wolves and brown bears last night? Yi also wanted to know that after repeated research, Yi decided to venture closer to the mountains and glance at the battlefield last night, and then went eastward to the mountains.
Everyone rode wild horses toward the mountains. There was no wind and the snowy weather seemed extremely beautiful, as if the gods were going to lay a layer of white color for this yellow and gray land to illuminate the eyes of life. However, the only drawback is that under such beautiful scenery, no animal can be seen in the grassland or the woods. Even the wolf pack and the brown bear disappeared, leaving only a quiet and dry earth.
The wild horse was not very fast. After half an hour, everyone stopped. For safety reasons, Yi led a dozen people into the jungle. After walking only about one or two hundred feet away, he saw a large number of trees lying on the ground in front. On the ground, there were snow everywhere, and all traces were buried by snow. However, the traces of the fight were very obvious, and the faint smell of blood still existed.
Yi thought for a while and then broke down a branch from the red pine tree next to him, and then cleaned up the snow on the ground. Soon, the entire fight scene was revealed on the ground. A large number of corpses were lying on the ground, and even the surrounding woods were everywhere. However, what was strange was that most of them were corpses of wild wolves, but the corpses of brown bears were rarely seen. The broken trees were each of them as thick as a person, and some of them had traces of bitten by wild wolves on the trunks. What was even more surprising was that dozens of wild wolves had no fur, and even had a lot of meat. The dark and incomplete corpses made people feel a little scared.
Seeing that there was no danger in the woods, Yi walked around and walked around him even more surprised. The number of corpses of all urban wild wolves in the surrounding woods should be more than seven or eight hundred. Well, maybe there are more, and I can't count them clearly. At this time, Yi's heart was completely unlucky. According to his previous estimate, there were at least a few thousand wild wolves in the mountains. Even if the brown bears were strong, they could not face the wolf pack that made a living by number and strategy. However, now it seems that everything is wrong. He still doesn't understand the brown bears! Are they really that powerful?
In fact, Yi didn't know that in the northwest of the mountains, there was a lake surrounded by woods. There were more brown bears living around this lake. When fighting, wild wolves did not have the advantage. On the contrary, the huge lack of power caused the wolves to fall passively. As mentioned earlier, although brown bears do not have the wisdom of wolves, they have claws like humans. They can use their claws to attack with their claws. One stone flies over and kill the yellow sheep. Such power is not something that wolves can compete with at all. Now there are logs in the place where fighting, and these logs are the weapons of brown bears. They use stones to attack when they are far away, and when they are close, they use logs to attack. This is a common method used by brown bears near the mountains.
Yi stood on the edge of the battlefield, and the more he looked, the more he felt a bad feeling in his heart. After recording every trace of the fight on the battlefield, he left with him. No one spoke in the whole process. Yi knew that from yesterday's situation, the brown bears here liked to live in dead trees. There were countless dead trees in the huge forest. Once a sound was made, it was very likely to wake up the brown bear, which would be troublesome.
When he walked out of the woods, Di was about to ask, but saw Yi with a cold face and waved his hand. Then, Yi rode on the wild horse and everyone headed east. After leaving the woods for about one mile, Yi sighed: "Hey, I really didn't expect that the brown bears were so powerful. The huge pack of thousands of wild wolves was not their opponent."
Di was always very curious, but Yi didn't let her enter the forest, for fear that she would talk too much and cause unnecessary trouble. Seeing that Yi finally spoke, she couldn't wait to ask. Zhen said the scene in the forest, and Di looked excited when he heard it.
Yi was silent. He was thinking about what would happen if they fought with the brown bear? He repeatedly thought of more than a dozen methods, among which only fire attacks and traps can defeat the brown bears. Fire attacks are very simple. As mentioned earlier, the so-called traps are digging deep pits around the base. These pits should be at least one person high, so that the brown bears cannot jump out of it and then starve them to death. However, this takes a lot of time to do it, and will the brown bears give them such a long time?
He shook his head. There are too many incredible things on this land. Any life has its ability to survive, from divine beasts to cattle and sheep. Just like antelope, the wolves are strong enough, but they rarely hunt them. The reason is that antelope likes to live on cliffs. Even if the wolves are smart, they cannot climb the steep rock walls. There are also bisons, and bisons are also herd animals. Once attacked, older bisons often protect the little bison like crazy. Once the bison goes crazy, the wolf pack will pay a huge price even if it wins.
Think about it now, when I first encountered a brown bear, if there were no bows and arrows, they would probably not be able to kill more than 20 brown bears. Perhaps, all this is a coincidence? Who made them just made a powerful weapon like bows and arrows at that time? In fact, strictly speaking, the successful research on bows and arrows is the necessity of human survival, it is also the beginning of human beings' attacks from primitive close-range hunting to long-range attacks, and it is the beginning of life gradually disappearing.
Just as Yi was thinking about it, everyone had already walked into the woods to the east. Perhaps because of the snow, there were no animals in the woods, and even the young eagles that Yi saw were gone. In the woods here, there were no rock caves where wild wolves lived. Some were just a gray-black and white ground. The gray-black is the natural color of the winter land, and white is snow.
A thick birch tree grew on a steep slope, which was very conspicuous in the woods with all gray trunks. It was known to everyone. However, such birch trees as thick as a person had never seen before. Soon, everyone gathered under the steep slope and looked at the birch tree with a "tsk" and the layers of bark cracked from the trunk showed its long-term existence. Yi also stopped. He looked at the birch tree and did not care. He was about to look away, but found that there was a scratch on the main trunk of a birch tree that was more than one foot high near the ground. The scratch was not very obvious, and it would not be seen without careful attention. Yi was shocked that the scratch was very strange, like the sharp claws of some kind of large animal slapped it hard.
Yi hurriedly jumped off the horse, and several laterals came closer to the birch tree. He squatted down and looked at the scratch carefully. He saw that the scratch was the size of someone's palm, and the whole piece of bark was cut off directly, revealing the solid wood inside. When he lowered his head, he saw some fragments of the bark on the ground. These fragments were broken into powder, of more than twenty pieces of large and small. However, when Yi saw these broken wood, his eyes instantly opened. He hurriedly stood up: "There is a ferocious beast."
As soon as Yi finished speaking, all of them took out their weapons and looked around. However, there was silence in the woods, and there was no shadow, let alone a ferocious beast.
Yi also saw that there was nothing in the woods. He frowned and looked up the steep slope. He saw that there was a layer of snow on the gentle slope. However, the snow was very strange. Starting from the steep slope, the deeper the further forward, and on top of the snow, a row of deep footprints remained on it.
Yi hurriedly climbed up the steep slope, squatted down on the edge of the snow, and carefully looked at the footprints. The footprints were deeply trapped in the snow and stepped onto the ground. They were about the size of a bird's egg. However, it was not left by the bird. The neatly arranged footprints showed that it should be a large animal.
At this moment, there was a slight sound behind Yi. He knew it without looking back. Sure enough, Die came to Yi and said excitedly at the moment he saw the footprints: "Oh, what a big ferocious beast?" After that, he squatted down and compared with his hands: "Hey, if you can step on the ground, your body shape is at least similar to that ball."
The ball is the monster that protects the colorful divine stone. Hua called it Nian Beast. Yi has also seen it. In fact, he has a way to deal with this kind of monster, but there are not many tribes and cannot withstand such losses. However, when he saw the footprints, he did not immediately think of the ball monster. What he thought of was a four-legged animal, a ferocious beast named Tiger. Tiger Yi has seen it and has also killed it. The footprints on the snow are very similar to those of the tiger, but they are a little bigger. Therefore, he hesitated whether the footprints were left by the tiger?
Yi ignored Di's words, but looked into the distance along the footprints. The footprints extended four or five feet away and disappeared on the steep slope on the other side. Looking back at the birch tree, many possibilities flashed in Yi's mind instantly? This was a huge tiger, and even its fur was different from a normal yellow tiger. I don't know what hunting it was chasing, and accidentally hit the birch tree. But what kind of prey was that? The jungle overlord didn't hunt it? Suddenly, a scene I saw yesterday flashed through his mind. A young eagle flew around in the woods and sang from time to time. Could it be an eagle?
When Yi thought of this, the more dangerous he felt in his heart, he hurriedly stood up and jumped down the steep slope: "Let's go quickly." After that, he turned over and urged the horse to continue walking eastward.
Chapter completed!