Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

The sky is bright.

Desert outside the city.

There is a slight bulge on a mound. When you get closer, you can see that it is a crouching figure.

Lu Meng was wearing a robe, with a layer of sand sprinkled on his body for cover.

His leather robe was made of camel skin and originally had a protective color similar to the sand.

The right hand holds the crossbow steadily like a stand, and the left hand slowly shakes the wheel on one side of the crossbow, slowly tightening the bowstring.

There are two ways to cock a crossbow. One is to pull it directly by hand. The reaction will be faster, but the accumulated potential energy is not as good as using the wheel to wind it in advance.

However, the latter can only fire one shot.

Lu Meng's eyes followed the movement of the machine and locked on a small black spot far away in the distance.

The black spot gradually enlarged, and it was a goat.

It is said to be a goat, but it is completely different from the goats of ancient times.

Its entire frontal face was covered with horn, its eyes were open on both sides, and a pair of thick horns were bent forward instead of backward, like a triceratops.

This goat has sparse black hair hanging down all over its body. It must be the season of shedding.

The goat walked and stopped for a while, sniffing the air from time to time, and burying its mouth in the sand and arching it, as if it was looking for something.

Lu Meng knew its goal very well.

It's bait.

The bait he made.

Chop up the meat that is about to go bad, coat it in cooked tapioca flour, pour a few caps of wine on it, and knead it together to ferment.

With Lu Meng's current cooking skills, it took him a whole night to succeed once and for all. The whole yeast dough continued to exude a mellow aroma that could spread far away. Placing this kind of bait is fatally attractive to hungry animals with a keen sense of smell.

The principle of making a nest is actually similar to that of fishing, except that one is in the water and the other is in the sand sea.

The goat was attracted by the smell.

Don’t think that goats don’t eat meat.

Lu Meng once saw a video of a goat secretly eating a chicken cub and chewing it raw.

Goats are inherently capable of foraging. When there is a lack of food, they can dig out and eat the roots of plants that have been left over for the winter.

This also led to the overgrazing of goats in ancient civilizations being extremely destructive to pastures and the environment.

But in the wasteland era, this ability has become the advantage of the goat species.

Whoever can search for and master even a little more resources has a greater chance of survival.

Humans evolved the Sons of the Scorched Earth subspecies, and almost all original herbivores were forced to evolve or revert to omnivorous traits.

After all, in the first few generations, the most abundant resources in the world were the animals themselves.

Now this goat is still very alert. It will look around from time to time when looking for scent clues, and its legs will always be in a position where it can bounce and start running.

This vigilance will not diminish when goats eat. They just want to swallow the food quickly and then hide in a safe place to chew the cud. No matter how delicious the food is, it is impossible to savor it now.

However, the moment it discovers the bait, the goat's tense nerves will be at their most relaxed.

That was the opportunity Lu Meng was waiting for.

Although goats are not as threatening to people as camels, it is still easy to escape at this distance.

The goat approached the bait step by step.

Lu Meng also calmed down.

【Crossbow 13】

【Perception 17】

Proficiency is also slowly increasing.

The arrow has locked on the goat's neck, which is a place that its mask-like horn cannot cover.

It had stepped on the sand where the bait was buried and stopped.

Lu Meng's finger pressed on the trigger.

The goat leaned down...

Whoosh!

Along with the sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the wind, another black shadow jumped out from behind the goat.

He pounced straight on the goat!

"What!"

The goat spotted the shadow and jumped up quickly. Lu Meng's crossbow arrow only hit its rear hip.

That's the thickest part of its body. Although it looks painful, it doesn't affect the sheep's escape at all.

The black shadow followed closely after the fleeing figure of the goat.

"Beast!" Lu Meng cursed, immediately dropped the arm-length crossbow, drew out his long knife and rushed down the mound.

He saw the black shadow clearly.

It was a bone dog. It had been stalking and lurking behind the goat, and it chose almost the same timing as Lu Meng to attack. It was just a little more impatient, but it still alerted the goat.

It also made Lu Meng's arrow miss.

The bone dog opened its mouth, revealing rows of sharp teeth, and chased after the goat.

Its back rippled, and its bones stacked together and collided with each other, making a crisp sound, like a warrior covered in scales.

It's just that the costume looks so heavy, but it doesn't affect the bone dog's running speed at all.

Perhaps it was because of the arrow in his butt and the weakness in his thighs that the goat gradually slowed down.

The bone dog jumped deep and just bit the goat's hind leg.

But before that, Lu Meng, whose speed attribute had reached 14 points, arrived first and chopped off the goat's head with one knife.

This clever wasteland creature lost its life under the trap of two hunters.

Then Lu Meng kicked the bone dog away.

Don't let it bite the goat's fur.

"Woof!"

The protruding kick knocked the bone dog unconscious. It rolled several times on the ground before it got up and screamed at Lu Meng.

Where did this human come from!

Lu Meng aimed the long knife at the bone dog's eyebrows.

This big dog has sharp teeth and claws, and the bone fragments and mane all over its body also have good defensive capabilities. Although it is still underage, its body shape may be more than half the height of a person when it stands upright.

But fighting alone is impossible for him to be his opponent today.

Eat dog meat tonight.

"Zizzizi." The bone dog seemed to have sensed the danger, with bone fragments standing up all over its body, looking threatening, but in fact it was hesitating whether to attack or retreat.

It can feel the threat of the tool in human hands, but its natural instinct tells it that the person holding the tool is the greatest source of danger.

This sense of oppression was something that no leader of the pack had ever brought to it before.

If the sense of danger hadn't stimulated its nerves, it would have wanted to lie down and spin with its belly exposed!

etc.

This feeling……

In front of Lu Meng, a strange scene happened.

The bone dog, which had been grinning at him just now, suddenly raised the bone spurs connected to its tail vertebrae and wagged its tail at him.

The long bright red tongue also stuck out,

"Ha, ha" breathed out.

This scene seems familiar.

Lu Meng's knife dropped a few inches.

"Why is it your kid again?"

It was the small bone dog that tried to sneak up on him after he hunted the camel, but was finally sent away by him with a piece of offal.

The images of the two dogs gradually overlap.

It’s just that the puppy that was originally only as tall as his calf has grown so big now?

However, facing this "old acquaintance", Lu Meng had no intention of relaxing at all.

As the saying goes, bestial nature is hard to change.

Although it seems that the bone dog still remembers him, who knows what the animal is thinking.

What's more, a few months have passed and it seems to be doing well in the desert.

This is already a terrifying wasteland predator.