Chapter 6: hunt

After entering the dry season, it has not rained for a long time. Most of the swamps on the grassland have dried up. During the rainy season, the grass can grow to a height of half a person. Now it has become low and yellow.
With the blazing sun on his head, looking for the footprints left by his prey, Gao Yang is trying to track a huge antelope.
Yes, Gao Yang did not die, he was very lucky, with the physique of an urban man, somewhere in Africa where the grasslands and tropical rainforests do not know where they are, away from modern civilization, they can survive for three years, not everyone All have such good luck.
This is the third dry season Gaoyang has experienced in Africa. In other words, Gaoyang has been in Africa for three years.
Here, whether you can survive is not related to the skills you master, or what you have on hand. It is simply about luck, or whether the fate is hard enough, at least for Gao Yang.
I have to say that Gao Yang ’s life was hard enough, and was bitten by a poisonous snake. Although Gao Yang had used all the means, but no one saved him, he was still dead, but Gao Yang was lucky to have encountered a migration. The primitive tribe, then, he survived.
Gao Yang later learned that if some people in the primitive tribe who rescued him were bitten by poisonous snakes, he would be healed by traditional means, and Gao Yang was lucky to be cured by them, but only left a large area on the palm of his left hand. scar.
What can the means of the primitive tribe be? In addition to using some unknown herbs, they were blessed by the gods of one of their beliefs. It is said that under the protection of the gods, the snake venom on Gao Yang's body did not pose any threat. The wound almost killed his life.
No way, Gao Yang was afraid that he could let the poisonous blood flow out quickly, and he was agitated at the moment, but he was a bit ruthless, but he was able to survive under the circumstances at that time. Gao Yang was particularly fortunate, because according to his later knowledge, according to the tribe Among the ten people, one might be saved.
However, Gao Yang ’s most dangerous moment was not bitten by a venomous snake, but after being rescued, probably one month later, when Gao Yang just started to go down to the ground, he finally contracted malaria and took him with him. All the anti-malarial medicines were taken, but there was no effect at all. After a dozen days of continuous pendulum swings, the whole person was thin and not as good as it was, but miraculously did not die.
In the past three years, Gao Yangguang had to get malaria four times. He almost got all the types of malaria he could get, but he always carried it down. I do n’t know if malaria will produce antibodies or what happened. Gao Yang has not committed this year. After malaria, he seemed to get rid of the nightmare of malaria.
Of course, the main reason why Gao Yang survived was that he met the primitive tribe who rescued him. If there were no good-hearted people to save him, Gao Yang died long ago and did not know how many times.
The primitive tribes that saved Gaoyang are small and quite primitive. There are only 17 people in total. In fact, they are a family of people. They live around and live by collecting and hunting.
Gao Yang does not know which race this tribe belongs to, only knows the tribe's name is Akuri. Gao Yang asked the chief of the tribe, that is, the oldest person in the tribe, but the chief does not know which ethnic group they belong to.
The Akuri tribe does not even have the concept of race. Only when they meet the same tribe as their own can they have the opportunity to intermarry.
The extremely primitive state of life, the mortality rate of the Akuri tribe can be imagined. In the three years of Gaoyang ’s tribe, a total of four children were born, and three people died, the largest one was five or six years old, and the smallest One of them was born two days ago, and the oldest of the entire tribe, the chief of the tribe, seems to be in his forties.
It ’s not that Gao Yang never asked the chieftain ’s age, but the tribal chieftain himself did n’t know how old he was. He just remembered that he had lived more than forty rainy seasons.
Gao Yang's ability to learn language is still very good, and the language of the Akuri tribe is very simple, and the vocabulary is very small. It only took three or four months. Gao Yang has no problems with people, just The information that Gao Yang can get from the mouths of these primitives is too little.
Gao Yang still does not know, he is in that country, where he is, he only knows that it is at the intersection of savanna and tropical rainforest, two or three days to the north, that is, the savanna, two or three days to the south It is the tropical rain forest, and Gao Yang is not familiar with the topography of Africa, and he is completely unable to analyze where he is from the geomorphological characteristics.
Three years ago, Gao Yang was thinking of going home all the time, but for these three years, Gao Yang has never encountered any trace of civilization.
The reason why will stay away from the civilized world is because the Akuri tribe originally migrated in order to avoid the war, and moved to a place far away from civilization.
The Akuri tribe used to be visited by people from a civilized world, and brought some modern things to them, but later, they started fighting. Those with guns would kill anyone they saw, or even just In order to have fun, after the three people of the Akuri tribe were killed when they went out to hunt, the Akuri tribe began to migrate continuously.
In the past few years, the Akuri tribe and Gao Yang have not met other people, but Gao Yang has therefore cut off all contact with the outside world. He has explored in four directions, and at the farthest, he walked out for seven or eight days. But in the end nothing was achieved, and it is impossible for Gao Yang to find the river when he came.
In the three years of the Akuri tribe, Gao Yang went out hunting with the people of the tribe every day. In the entire tribe, including Gao Yang, only a total of five people could hunt, and the remaining women and children would collect everything they could eat. If plants and insects are not harvested, the entire tribe will have to go hungry.
Thanks to not knowing the communication with the civilized world a few years ago, there are iron tools in the Akuri tribe. Up to now, the Akuri tribe has six short knives and four spears. It's very easy to use. According to the chief, this is a gift given to them by some very strange people.
But Akuri mainly uses bows and arrows when hunting, and the sword and the spear only complete the last blow, and there is very little chance of completing the last blow, because most of the time, the spear is not used, and the prey is already dead. Too.
Now, Gao Yang is tracking the poisoned arrow antelope with the other four people in the tribe.
After entering the dry season, most of the swamps that were originally spread on the grasslands have dried up. Only a few large swamps still have water. These swamps have become the source of water for all animals nearby. Hunting has become much simpler than during the rainy season. , As long as the threat of beasts guarding the edge of the swamp, it is easy to shoot prey with poison arrows.
The antelopes they were chasing were shot by the swamp.
The power of the bows and arrows used by them is negligible, and the main effect is the arrow poison smeared on the arrows.
The dart poison is extracted from a larva of a beetle. Although the toxin is deadly, it takes a long time to attack. If it is a larger prey, it will take at least two or three hours to kill. The body of the antelope that was shot this time was too large, about two hundred pounds. Although two poison arrows were hit, it took at least four or five hours to kill the antelope.
After hitting the arrow, the antelope will run wild, and the speed of the human is impossible to catch up, and the arrow poison cannot kill the antelope in a short time, so the hunting method of the Akuri tribe is to hit the prey and follow the prey The trail has been chasing.
The distance to track prey is long and short, and it is normal to chase a distance of tens of kilometers. In short, until the prey is found by them, they must be pursued, so the hunting skills of the Akuri tribe are not very clever, but The ability to distinguish between pursuit and long-distance running is extremely brilliant.
The people of the Akuri tribe can tell from the cluttered footprints that their prey was left. They can also find out the direction in which the prey escaped from a few broken grasses, and even use footprints or traces. In the information disclosed in, I know how long it will take for the prey to fall.
Has been together for almost three years, and Gao Yang has mastered the skills of identifying traces, but when hunting with tribal chiefs, UU reading www.uukanshu.com has no chance of his performance.
After hitting the antelope in the early morning and chasing, until noon, Gao Yang and all five of them trot all the way to track their prey. Although the speed is not fast, Gao Yang estimates that he has ran at least 30 to 40 kilometers away. He is already fast The limit was reached, but the four people of the Akuri tribe felt nothing.
Before switching, let ’s not let Gao Yang trot all the way for thirty or forty kilometers. Even if he was allowed to walk three kilometers, he would have choked Gao Yang already, but the potential that people can inspire under the pressure of survival is amazing. At least the current Gao Yang ran for thirty or forty kilometers without any pressure.
Finally, the chief who ran at the front stopped and looked at the ground for a few times before reaching for a direction.
"It's not working now, we will find it where it is."
After hearing the chief ’s words, Gao Yang was very happy, because he hit two arrows of the antelope. Today ’s pursuit is much shorter than he expected, and it can always end early. It will always make people happy. Know to go back When you have to carry the meat and walk the same distance.
Gasped and gasped, followed the chief and walked forward. After about a kilometer or two, they found the target.
Just about two or three hundred meters ahead, a big antelope stood on the spot, staggering from time to time. Although it had not fallen, it was only a matter of moments.
Gaoyang followed behind the leader of the horse. He waved his hunting knife and rushed towards the gazelle which was about to finish. They must seize the time so that the antelope was not taken by the lion or leopard.