Tuesday 10 November 2020

Chapter 16: Into the Mountain

  It rained and cleared the next morning. Although the sun was still hanging in the sky, I still felt a noticeable chill.

    Chen Chao was thinking about the lynx in the mountain, but there is another question, how to catch this thing?

    The hunting team ate something hastily in the morning, checked the equipment, and set off with the dried meat.

    Essentially, when the food is abundant, I still eat three meals a day, but that meal at noon is not considered a regular meal, after all, hunting is hard work.

    Only the veterans in the tribe have two meals a day, and when there is a shortage of food in winter, they can't take one meal a day.

    Yesterday when it was rainy, everyone had nothing to do, so a lot of spears and slings were prepared.

    However, it is impossible to take all of them out for hunting, so each person only carried two spears. For example, Da Zhuang and others carried a sling. In fact, the things needed can only be collected and made along the way.

    Chen Chao also carries two spears. The lynx is of cat family attributes and runs fast, but the body is thin and cannot resist blows. These are its shortcomings, so he plans to start from this aspect.

    In general, it is a wave of moving covering blows. When he encounters a lynx, he throws a wave of spear first when he is not on the tree, but it is easy to damage the fur.

    There is no way to climb the tree. The lynx that climbs the tree is too difficult...

    Chen Chao sighed, if only there were bows and arrows...the

    stone axe should also be put on the agenda as soon as possible, although the broken pottery pieces are also very sharp, but Can only do things like cutting meat.

    If it is to cut down trees to make bows and arrows, it is basically not to think about it. Moreover, he asked Wu for the cracked pottery pot several times. Although the pottery pot could neither contain water nor food, Wu still had to be like a treasure.

    Especially when Chen Chao said he wanted to smash this pottery pot, the little old man with the horns looked at him

    (?`∧′) ~

    smash me! can! fall through! No way!

    The mountain breeze blew across the crowd with cool moisture, causing the hunting team that was only surrounded by animal skin skirts to shiver.

    Chen Chao thought to himself,'Innocent is getting cold. '

    He raised his head and looked at this piece of forest, trees, leaves revealed gaps can see the sky blue and white. Ignoring the dangers that may be hidden in the forest, and the possibility of starving to death and freezing to death at any time after leaving the group, being bitten to death by beasts, and dying from various accidents, this world without any pollution is still very beautiful.

    Moreover, this is my world!

    Chen Chao closed his eyes slightly, a mother lynx and her two children were about to walk back to the nest, and the male lynx was proudly patrolling his territory.

    Just you!

    Although he knew exactly where he was, Chen Chao still patted Yi next to him. He even told Yi with gestures, "There are furry prey, not far ahead."

    After many cooperations, he hunted. The team members can already master some vocabulary and understand some of the meanings that Chen Chao wants to express. In the entire tribe, they are the first to contact and master Professor Chen Chao, some new words.

    Language is originally born in the daily life of human beings. When there are things that must be said in life, such as collaboration and cooperation when hunting, you want to transmit information, of course, there may be gossip in daily life...

    such as Say: You come from here, I am from there, let's surround the leopard/tiger two by one, and stab it to death with a spear!

    For another example: Wow, so whoever got a witch’s animal skin while sleeping last night, got one more fish today!

    Such needs, and the superposition of these factors, naturally produce language. However, these factors must be built on a basis, that is, human physiological organs, organs such as the throat have been developed to be able to express language.

    Yi looked very curious, he gestured and asked, how do you know?

    Chen Chao pointed to the tree next to it. There were obvious scratches and it was very fresh.

    And there is another obvious thing, that is, there are very few rabbits here, and they are very smart. The rabbits that the hunting team encountered before were all stupid.

    Lynxes mainly live in thick forests, dense forests and rocks. Their main food is snow hares and other hares. In hunting areas, lynxes can control the number of hares, and they can kill 10% to 40% of the local hares every year. Population.

    Although Chen Chao didn't really rely on some conventional methods to find lynxes, it did not prevent him from using the results to predict some possibilities.

    After Yi learned the news, he ran to the front of the team to make another gesture with Yuan. Yuan also attached great importance to this matter, because it was almost winter and he was worried about the animal skins in the tribe.

    A group of people tiptoed forward and saw the male lynx who was patrolling the territory with his mother lynx. The hunting team did not dare to get too close and found a bush that could hide their figure.

    Chen Chao whispered, "Lost, spear."

    Everyone on the hunting team nodded.

    After calculating the distance, Chen Chao threw the spear in his hand hard, and the others did the same, but the pair of lynxes fell to the ground before they could react.

    Seeing that it was so easy, the hunting team was delighted and was about to walk out of the bushes to collect the bodies of two lynxes. As a result, before they came close, one of the lynxes that had fallen to the ground "swish". He jumped up and climbed up the towering tree next to him in three or two steps.

    The players were upset for a while, and Chen Chao was also very depressed. He was also very cunning when he ignored the animals. He lost a lynx skin for nothing. This thing was basically impossible to catch once it was on the tree.

    However, the team members are still very happy. They know this thing. It is called'Lynx' in the tribal dialect. It has been encountered before. It is very difficult to grasp and its claws are still very powerful. They did not expect to catch one for them this time.

    Chen Chao looked around for a while. Lynx often lived in caves and rock crevices. There didn't seem to be any caves nearby, it should be in rock crevices.

    Sure enough, after a while, he found two lynx cubs from a crack in the rock.

    The hunting team picked up the spear and carried the dead lynx on their backs. The two little lynxes that Chen Chao had gotten out were also killed on one back and set off.

    Don't think about taming this thing for now. You can't eat enough to eat, and you don't have any clothes to wear in winter. You still tamed? And in modern times, it seems that I have never heard of keeping lynx as a pet.

    This thing was properly classified as a beast, and his father had escaped and ascended to heaven. If he was attracted by the cubs' cries, it would be a troublesome thing to attack the hunting team from time to time.

    It's still early, if you go further in, you should be able to get two more nests of lynx.

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