Chapter 123 Exploration
In the early morning, Lawrence formed a team of five people to explore the forest.
In addition to the five people, there were two dogs.
The puppies that were three or four months old are no longer small. Now the two lively puppies are as big as big roosters.
Because Salil and others have been protecting the chickens, and they were often chased by the big rooster when they were young, the two puppies never dared to provoke the big rooster. If they were chased by the big rooster, they would scream and howl. .
What Lawrence doesn't want is this kind of coward who just knows how to play. It's a good thing that he doesn't dare to bully the chickens. After all, he needs to form his own recognition in the manor.
You can't be so weak when you go out. This time you take two puppies with you to hunt, just to gradually develop the hunting awareness of the two dogs.
It was not Lawrence who was responsible for leading the two puppies, but Sophia.
Sofia held a shield in one hand and shouted to the two running puppies with the other: "Jim! Lim! Follow!"
The two puppies rarely left the manor, and this was their first time in the forest.
The outside world was too new for the two puppies, and they quickly ran away, lowering their heads and sniffing randomly among the leaves and branches.
Hearing Sophia's call, the two puppies quickly ran over with cheerful steps.
Lawrence and others were not moving very fast. Seeing that the two puppies were in such good spirits, Salil said: "Put them in the basket so they don't get lost." Lawrence said: "It doesn't matter,
Sophia is here. Watch."
Salil reminded: "Let Seravan watch. Sophia's eyesight is better than ours. Taking care of two dogs will interfere with her concentration."
Lawrence suddenly realized that he had forgotten one thing. , Sophia is not an ordinary little girl.
"Sofia, don't worry about the two dogs. You follow behind Regloo and pay attention to your surroundings!" "
Yes, Master!" Sofia also wanted to come in handy and quickly walked from the back of the team to the front.
After the two puppies followed Sophia for a few steps, they were quickly attracted by the plants, grass and berries on the left and right. They lowered their heads and curiously looked for something on the ground.
Lawrence ignored the two puppies. They would bark when something happened, and they would rely on their noses to get back if they got lost.
If it doesn't know how to follow its owner, doesn't have a keen sense of smell to follow the scent, or doesn't have vision and memory, and doesn't know how to yell for its owner, then it is equivalent to a useless dog.
Lawrence and others walked forward for more than ten minutes, and the surrounding vision became dim. There were tall trees over forty meters high everywhere. There was little sunlight in the forest, and the temperature dropped significantly by several degrees.
Salil looked back and found that there were tall and similar cedar trees everywhere behind her.
"Lawrence! We're lost!" Salil panicked.
Lawrence looked back and said calmly: "No, we are walking in the southeast direction. If we go to the west, we can see the river, which is the river in front of our house." Salil breathed a sigh of relief, "Really
? ?"
Lawrence didn't waste any time, and changed the direction and said, "Let's go this way, let's walk along the river, and pay attention to see if there are any traces of wild beasts nearby." Several
people followed Lawrence to the so-called west, where only Lawrence If you can clearly distinguish between east, west, north and south, others will almost forget it after entering the forest.
In addition to pine trees, there are also oak trees nearby. Lawrence thought that if he continued walking, he could get closer to the area of the Ug people, but for safety reasons...
"I suddenly remembered that many people died there, and Doug would definitely not bury all the bodies. I won't take the trouble to take it back."
Lawrence said calmly: "Maybe a wild beast was attracted there."
Reglo asked: "I'll go over and have a look."
"No need." Lawrence said: "It's not far from us. It's very far, and these distances are enough to cope with it for a while. When the Pumi Xiu people come back, we can join forces to go hunting. Now everyone is not short of food." Reglo agreed, and everyone followed Lawrence for three to four hundred meters. Sure enough, there were several trees in the forest. I saw the river behind the big trees.
The river here does not flow towards the place where the Pumixiu people live, but winds down towards the south.
Lawrence did not remember that there was a river near the Ug people. This river should have been bypassed from a remote place. Considering that the Ug people had their own mountain spring water to draw from, the river should have flowed away from the Kingdom of Luofen. of.
Where exactly will it be extended?
When Lawrence was thinking about the unexplored areas ahead, Sophia shouted excitedly: "Master! There is a wild boar there!"
Upon hearing the wild boar, Lawrence quickly took off the bow and arrows he was carrying.
Salil quickly said: "It's a dead pig."
Lawrence looked in the direction Salil was looking and saw the wild boar lying next to a gray mound of grass.
The wild boar is not very big. It looks about 1.78 meters long, about the same as an adult domestic pig of this era.
An adult boar can reach more than two meters in length, has a majestic body, extremely strong fighting ability, and is ferocious and aggressive.
Generally, except for breeding boars, all other boars will be killed in advance. No family will raise two adult boars at the same time.
Lawrence approached the boar that had been dead for about half a month. The pig's body had been eaten away by insects and wild beasts, leaving only a layer of skin and bones.
There was an obvious round hole in the skin of the abdomen, and there were also obvious holes in the remaining rotten flesh of the wild boar, like fatal wounds from a fight.
Lawrence quickly said: "It must have been an accident while fighting for a mate. If it was killed by wolves or bears, the bones on the body would not be so intact." Salil retorted: "Wild boars are killed at the end of winter
. Preparing for the birth of piglets should be over now."
Lawrence asked: "Then what do you think was the cause of death of this wild boar?"
Salil said blankly: "How do I know..." She
never spoke much. Seravan said: "Maybe it was killed by a male wild boar. This wild boar broke into another wild boar's territory."
Lawrence looked around, "It seems that there are other male wild boars here."
Sariel Regardless of that, he looked at the wild boar carcass and said: "We take out the pig's tusks and make them into daggers and weapons!"
Lawrence shook his head, "The best tusks are taken out when they are just killed, especially those that The tusks close to the brain are easiest to preserve."
The tusks of most giant beasts are difficult to maintain and should not be exposed to wind, sun, or moisture.
The bones of dead beasts will soon lose their value. Many hunters kill toothed creatures such as giant elephants and take away the part of the tusks with brain blood, also called blood teeth.
Salil asked: "Then you don't want this pig tooth?"
Lawrence turned around and said: "No, there are too many bugs on it and it's too troublesome. Besides, there are iron tools, so what kind of pig tooth do you want?"
Everyone walked back along the river and walked out of the cedar forest. Later, I looked at the fish in the fish pond by the river.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the two tired puppies finally realized that they were lost and howled loudly in the forest.
Sofia shouted into the woods, and soon the two puppies followed the sound and ran back excitedly.
After confirming that there was a wild boar on the opposite side, Lawrence was not in a hurry to develop the forest, and planned to wait until autumn to find trouble with the wild boar.
The blacksmith must be very busy recently, and Lawrence needs a lot of iron tools.
(End of chapter)