Chapter Fourteen: Hold Me Closely(1/2)
Li Qi is looking forward to the stars and the moon is waiting for the hunting day, but the first thing everyone does to wake up is to pray, but they don’t need the tortoise shell.
After praying, they eat, like dinner, with fruits and rhizomes, but the quantity is much higher than at night. Yesterday, Li Qi knew that they didn’t eat meat every meal, and most of them rely on picking, so the white rhizomes are their staple food.
"Can you leave?"
After finally waiting for them to finish their meal, Li Qi was impatient.
"etc!"
Taba waved his hands slowly, then brought a stone bowl, and saw that there was crushed grass inside. Taba grabbed a handful of black ash from the fire pit, threw it into the stone bowl, stirring it, and then dipped his fingers on his red face and drew it.
What is this doing? Li Qi was confused.
After Taba finished painting, Li Qi hurriedly leaned over and looked at it. He saw a strange pattern on his left face, which looked a bit like a turtle, but not a turtle. It looked a bit like the word "Xuan".
However, the murals in the cave have already made Li Qi realize that most of Taba's paintings are similar to words, and Li Qi even guessed that this is the origin of the words.
Just as Li Qi was stunned, Taba suddenly appeared in front of him. He was stunned. He saw the black painted thing in the stone bowl and said in a resistant way: "I... I'll forget it."
“It will bless you.”
Taba said with a pious look on his face.
Believe in it? I would rather believe in my weak body. By the way! It seems that the totem of the primitive era is believed in. Could this be the totem of the Black Stone Valley? Even so, Li Qi was still unwilling to do so. He did not believe in these things, but he had no choice but to let Taba paint on his fair face. In order to go out to hunt early, he could only endure it now.
After each hunter had his face finished the pattern, the ceremony was finally over.
The hunters took their weapons and walked towards the valley entrance. There were eighteen people, accounting for about two-thirds of the young men in Blackstone Valley.
Although Li Qi came from outside, he was unconscious when he came. This can be said to be the first time Li Qi saw the scene outside the valley.
When you leave the valley, it is really different from the situation inside. Outside, there is a terrain similar to the Gobi Desert, with some green shrubs scattered. In addition, they are strange-shaped huge rocks. Not to mention that people rarely visit, birds and beasts are also extinct.
But this is very beneficial to the Blackstone Valley. There is no food or water here, and wild beasts will not come here to forage, which is equivalent to a natural protection area.
Bang!
I saw that the uncle, who was always sleepy and named Luang, suddenly fell to the ground, poked his big butt high, and laughed out loud. He saw him slowly stand up and shook his right hand and said, "Look, what did I catch?"
At the end, Li Qi looked at it and saw that it was a black, bare lizard. He looked at it again, thinking, he wouldn't be... This... This is terrible!
There was a light bang.
Rumble directly twisted the lizard's head, threw it aside, and then started eating.
Damn! Li Qi almost vomited it out, so he quickly covered his mouth with his hands.
Lie said with envy and jealousy: "Why didn't I see it?"
Nong said: "Long, you are so stupid. This four-legged insect should be handed over to Li Qi. Li Qi can make it more delicious."
Rumbled back and looked at Li Qi.
"I can't do it. I can't do it."
Li Qi quickly waved his hand to declare that he was almost disgusting. He saw other people searching on the ground again, and he was crying without tears, and he was speeding up civilization. Add your sister, I will be successful if I don’t make a mistake.
"Liqi! Hurry up."
Chi shouted dissatisfiedly.
"oh....!"
Li Qi was stunned and found that the distance he was getting further and further away from the brigade.
Before he started hunting, Li Qi was already a little breathing. It was not because it was very far away, but because they were walking too fast. Li Qi felt very difficult and tried his best to come to the Nong's side and asked in a low voice: "How far is this?"
Nong said: "It's not far!"
But after walking for a long time, he walked out of the Gobi Desert, and Li Qi's legs were already trembling.
After leaving the Gobi Desert, Chi and the others immediately became very cautious. They observed the ground while paying attention to the surroundings.
Li Qi didn't understand at all and asked curiously: "What are you looking at?"
Nong said: "The footprints of beasts and shit and urine."
Li Qi almost fainted when he heard this and said, "A piece of land is so big, when do you have to find it?"
Chi suddenly asked, "How did you hunt before?"
Li Qi said, "It's much simpler. If the beast eats meat, we throw that piece of meat in a place where the beast may appear, lure the beast to eat, and then hide it next to it. When the beast comes, we go up and kill it."
After saying that, he saw Chi and Nong looking at him blankly, and said nervously: "Am I wrong?"
Nong said excitedly: "Yes! Why didn't we think of such a good idea before?"
Chi also frowned and thought.
They are still using their power to fight the power of wild beasts head-on, and there is no concept of falling into it, but Li Qi is a person who will not play without falling into it.
"Hei! Here."
Just then, a man suddenly shouted.
Chi Wei was stunned and hurried over, only to see a huge footprint on the mud.
"Wow! These are the footprints of the elephant!"
Li Qi said in surprise and thought to himself, could it be a mammoth? He couldn't help but feel a little excited.
Chi and the others immediately followed their footprints to search for it. After a while, they came to a small hill, but they crawled very cautiously. Although the hill was not high, at first glance, the scenery in front was full of scenery. There was a wide grassland in front, but it was not the grassland of later generations. The grass was at least one meter high, most of which were about two meters high, and it was grayish-white. I don’t know what kind of grass it was. It was very dense. When the wind blew, it was like a huge wave.
A river winds through the side of the grass, and there is a green forest behind the grass, and there is no sight.
forest?
Li Qi looked at the woods excitedly, then looked at Nong. Nong also happened to look at him. Seeing Li Qi's appearance, he nodded in a very entangled way.
But when Li Qi focused his eyes on the woods, Chi and his team searched the river area, and soon they discovered their prey.
I saw a brown beast drinking water by the river.
Li Qi also noticed that although it was far away and could not see clearly, it was definitely not a mammoth. He muttered in his heart, wow! Taba's prayer seemed to be really effective. Oh, God, then you have to bless me to get my backpack back. You have played me like this, you have to give me a way out!
Chi and the others set off immediately, but instead of crossing the hill directly, they went down the original path, with the purpose of preventing the prey from discovering them. However, Li Qi believed that it was unnecessary. It was impossible for the prey to discover so far.
The group of people hid around the hills and entered the grassland. With the protection of the grassland, they quickly moved towards their prey.
When we arrived at the edge of the grass, except Li Qi, everyone was dispersed very disciplinedly, forming a half-encirclement, and then crawled on the ground and gently pushed away the grass in front of us.
Li Qi followed the farm closely, but when he saw the wild beasts by the river clearly, he was shocked. He didn't see clearly because the distance was far. Now, when he looked closely, he saw that the wild beast looked like a wild boar, but was extremely huge, about two meters high, and had a body length of four or five meters. He had a pair of long fangs on his jaw, which was drooling, which was very disgusting.
The atmosphere suddenly became solemn.
The wild boar was standing by the river, drinking water, but he seemed very cautious. He raised his head from time to time and looked left and right.
After observing for a while, it felt relieved and continued to lower its head to drink water. However, the moment it lowered its head, its two collapsed big ears suddenly stood up, as if it had replaced its eyes with ears.
I finally understood why they were so awesome and so cautious, because the beasts outside were even more awesome. Li Qi couldn't help but wiped his cold sweat.
This opportunity was fleeting. Chi began to squat up and slowly moved forward. But as soon as she came out of the grass, Chi suddenly started to rush towards the wild boar like a cheetah.
The wild boar seemed to hear the movement, and he turned around and ran away without looking back.
When he was talking, he was about to come, Chi jumped up and jumped about a meter high. He threw out the stone gun in the air. The stone gun turned into a white light and shot at the wild boar.
But the huge wild boar stopped in an emergency, avoided it, and then turned around and continued to run.
Li Qi's eyes almost fell out, and he couldn't react at this speed at all, so he never expected that the huge wild boar was so agile that he could still avoid it.
However, Chi and the others seemed to have expected that the rest of the people were circumventing from both sides to block the wild boar's escape route.
"Wait!"
Nong subconsciously wanted to rush out, but Li Qi grabbed his shoulder and dragged him to the direction of the woods. He had no intention of hunting, because it was no different from dying when he went out. He was waiting for this opportunity, because only at this time no one would pay attention to him.
Nong also reacted. Although he did not resist, he still seemed a little hesitant between his eyebrows. But soon, his desire defeated reason. He pulled Li Qi with his backhand and ran towards the woods frantically. Since he was going, he had to hurry up.
The two walked through the grass and came to the woods. They stood outside and looked inside. It seemed as if it was dark and gloomy. No tree seemed to be able to see the top. The lush leaves covered the sky and the sun.
"Are we really going in?"
The farmer seemed a little nervous again.
Li Qi smiled and said, "If you can only eat those boring things in your life, what's the point? Life is just for eating."
As soon as he talked about eating, the Nong's eyes lit up, licked his dry lips, immediately tied the stone gun to his back, and then trotted and jumped up to a big tree.
Li Qi looked up at him and said, "What are you doing?"
"Inside the woods, it's very dangerous underneath."
Of course I knew that it was dangerous downstairs, but the problem was that I couldn't get up! Li Qi was crying and said, "But I can't get up!"
Nong's mouth twitched, as if he had the urge to beat Li Qi. Everyone was the same, why was this guy so weak? He didn't say a word and suddenly jumped inside.
Li Qi was stunned. Just as he was about to shout, Nong suddenly fell from the sky. He saw a vine in his hand. He tightened the vine and took a few steps back, and then said with disgust: "Hold me tight."
"Hug... hug you tightly?" Li Qi was stunned for a moment, then reacted, thinking to himself, you still dislike me, I didn't even think you were dirty. But this seemed to be the best way. Li Qi could only hold the farmer and squeeze his legs. You must know that Li Qi was one head taller than the farmer, but at this time, the bird hugged the farmer by the other person, and it was inconsistent no matter how you looked at it.
Li Qi's face turned red.
After Li Qi hugged him tightly, Nong helped him run, then jumped up, kicked up a big tree in front, and the two of them swung into the air.
To be continued...