Doomsday: Gain experience by hunting

#90 - Wilderness, help

【Beast Taming Art, Novice (711→719/1000)】

“Caw caw!”

The blood crow spread its black wings, circling in the sky.

Tang Wen asked in an uncertain tone, "Do you mean there are two prey items?"

“Caw!”

A single caw should mean affirmative, right?

He guessed and asked a few more questions, to which the blood crow responded.

It should be a sure thing.

Tang Wen was pleased to be able to communicate smoothly with the blood crow.

He specially took out a food made from minced exotic beast meat mixed with beast blood and millet.

It was a meatball the size of a malt ball, rare, with blood, definitely tender enough.

After eating its fill, the blood crow flew even more happily.

It frolicked in the air.

It flew towards the desolate hill.

Hooves of horses and deer crushed the dehydrated and weathered stone pieces on the ground, and the southern wind stirred up the flying sand and stones.

Just as they reached the foot of the desolate hill, faint roars could be heard.

“What’s with this commotion?”

Tang Wen left the horse and deer where they were, and quietly took out his spyglass to observe.

Not far from the desolate hill was a dried-up river.

By the river, dozens of exotic beasts were fighting in pairs, their roars mournful, sending sand and rocks flying.

One side was sand lizards, and the other was black hyenas.

Roughly counting, there were more than thirty of them.

Tang Wen looked at the sky speechlessly: "These are the two prey items you mentioned?"

“Caw, caw,” the blood crow called firmly, raising its head, as if to say it was definitely right.

The sand lizards were gray lizards two meters long, and the black hyenas were a third larger than giant dogs from his previous life.

The former was slow but strong.

The latter was agile and dealt high damage.

Both were mid-level exotic beasts, so their fight was evenly matched.

The river had dried up, the plants had withered, and herbivores were hard to find.

Tang Wen understood the reason for the fight; the drought had the most severe impact on the wilderness, and the exotic beasts were also not getting enough to eat.

They were probably fighting for territory and water sources.

But while he was sighing, he felt strange in his heart.

Since water sources were so scarce, and exotic beasts were not ordinary wild animals without intelligence.

Seeing that the population was about to face a significant reduction, why didn't they go to the lake to hunt and survive?

Although the water level of the lake was dropping rapidly, the water source was still countless times greater than here in the wilderness.

Speaking of which, the terrain around the camp was very interesting.

It covered a variety of terrains such as lakes, forests, mountains, wilderness, and swamps.

From north to south, the temperature difference was very obvious.

In terms of terrain, the altitude of the east, west, north, and south fluctuated, with almost no regularity.

On Earth, high mountains are snow-capped, and downwards, depending on the altitude, there are frozen soil, grasslands, cold-resistant forests, and lakes.

The different landforms around the camp should also be caused by altitude.

Awoo~

The wolf howls were faint.

Tang Wen looked into the distance, but he couldn't see anything.

The drought had arrived, and the family ice cellar was far from being filled.

He was determined to eat this group of mid-level exotic beasts.

Even if the sand wolves came, it wouldn't work.

As soon as the thought arose, a wolf howl came from the distance.

Awoo!

The wolf howls gradually became clearer.

The fighting parties by the river paused, and then pounced on their opponents with even more violent postures.

Exotic beasts ultimately had limited intelligence. At this time, they were blinded by the fight, and they were not thinking about cutting their losses in time, but rather winning quickly.

A foolish choice.

Tang Wen no longer waited, restrained his aura, tiptoed, crouched down, and like a shadow, floated downwards.

Some sand lizards and black hyena groups noticed his figure.

But it was precisely when they were fighting inextricably that they could not care about a human.

Tang Wen came to the south bank of the river, stood on the east side, about four or five hundred meters away from the fighting parties.

With a rustling sound, he opened the cloth bag filled with pebbles, rummaged through it, and took out a stack of "round" pebbles, or rather, stone flakes.

These stone flakes had been simply polished, and were of uniform thickness and size.

Anyone who picked them up would have the urge to skip stones.

Each stack had ten stone flakes.

Tang Wen walked closer to the battlefield from east to west.

Five hundred meters, four hundred and fifty meters, he walked very slowly for fear of disturbing the two sides, but the distance was not long after all.

When he counted to "559" in his heart, he was less than a hundred meters away from the battlefield.

“Awoo!”

The wolf howl was like a death knell. The two warring races fought even more frantically, preparing to completely finish off their opponents before fleeing for their lives.

Anyway, the sand wolf pack's territory was in the south, and they wouldn't stay by the river.

Suddenly.

An unprecedented, sharp whistling sound rang out.

It was as if someone was holding a sharp weapon and rapidly sliding it across a sheet of iron.

The sharpness made people's backs crawl!

The sound was so loud that it drowned out the mad roars of both sides.

Exotic beasts were far more sensitive than humans.

The moment the sound rang out, more than thirty sand lizards and black hyenas paused in unison.

As if receiving some kind of order, they simultaneously turned their heads, casting the cruel red light in their eyes in Tang Wen's direction.

Then, at an even faster speed, they shifted their gazes away, ignoring their opponents and making movements to burst out and flee in all directions.

But this delay in turning their heads meant that it was too late to escape.

Tang Wen rapidly visualized the burst, and ten flying locust stones locked down the space for their escape from five directions: "high, middle, low" and "front and back".

A series of sonic booms, like thunder, surged.

Flames flowed in the air.

Heat waves rose by the river.

The stone flakes madly pierced into the bodies of the sand lizards and hyenas, flying out with large pieces of flesh and blood, and then shooting into the next target...

In an instant, flesh and blood flew, and screams were miserable.

More sand lizards and black hyenas used the bodies of their companions or opponents as shields.

Those who survived fled madly.

Tang Wen burst out ten times in one breath, adjusted his breathing in place for a few breaths, and rushed to the river with his knife, giving each wailing prey a finishing blow.

The roar of the sand wolf pack became clearer and clearer.

He didn't bother to clean up carefully, turned around and ran back to the desolate hill, bringing the warhorse and two moose to the river together.

He tied the thirteen prey items on the ground in pairs.

He quickly calculated in his heart: one moose carries four, two moose carry eight, and the remaining three are for the horse!

He will definitely be able to take them away easily... right?

He picked up two black hyenas and hung them on the back of a moose.

The moose immediately softened its hooves, staggered a few steps, let out a mournful cry, and could not walk steadily.

“Useless thing.”

Tang Wen cursed, and had to turn out the prepared rainproof cloth.

He piled the prey on the cloth and let the two deer and one horse pull it.

“Awoo!”

Before Tang Wen could cross the river, the figure of the sand wolf appeared in the south.

One, two... five.

Just these few?

His eyes flickered.

Five sand wolves, mid-level exotic beast strength, can they come over and help me transport the prey?

The next second, he gave up the fantasy. Sand wolves are mid-level exotic beasts after all.

One or two is fine, but it is almost impossible to capture five alive.

“Awoo!”

There were more wolf howls in the distance.

The five sand wolves smelled the fresh blood and meat, and approached at a trot.

At their speed, Tang Wen would be caught up within three to five miles.

“Bullying the few with the many, not practicing martial ethics.”

Tang Wen grabbed cobblestones and smashed them out, and the air roared.

But the distance was too far, and in the short time it took to fly over, the sand wolves had already escaped far away.

The flying locust stones smashed into the hills, and explosions came, and the ground collapsed, forming deep pits.

The sand wolves lingered and dared not go forward. After a long while, they slowly came to the edge of the deep pits and looked down for a long time.

But in the end, no one dared to chase after them.

The effect of the grandmaster-level flying locust stones far exceeded the sand wolf pack's knowledge.

After Tang Wen took the moose and horse far away, the sand wolf pack approached the south bank of the river, lowering their heads to lick the remaining flesh and blood on the ground.

“Hunting is fun for a while, but transporting meat is really hard!”

When there were no more traces of sand wolves behind him, he picked up his hand crossbow and shot it into the sky.

“Eh!”

The signal arrow dragged a long tail and streaked across the sky.

This was the signal he had agreed upon with the wilderness hunting team.

The hunting team would send someone to meet him when they heard the signal.

“Tap tap tap”

In less than ten minutes, the sound of horses' hooves rang out.

So fast?

Impossible.

Could it be that someone happened to be nearby?

The sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer.