Chapter 717

Mu Feng and his party follow the traces of the black horse's escape all the way.

They first walked west for a day and a half.

There was a rough field in the middle, and they almost lost it.

Fortunately, there are eagle-feathered dragons in the sky, Mengji beasts and wolves on the ground, and they can always follow the hoofprints of those horses.

But what surprised everyone was that the further west they went, the lusher and greener the vegetation on the grassland—as if the season here was many days later than the direction they came from.

Even the surrounding temperature is much higher.

When they got away from the river bank, they encountered a few boa constrictors, but then the boa constrictors disappeared, and they just sloughed off one by one.

Until half a day later, they did not see a python again.

Gradually, they began to find traces of the grass being eaten by the cows and horses.

Everyone cheered up, thinking in their hearts that they were right!

Mu Feng's mood also improved a lot.

Because judging from the grazing of the surrounding vegetation, there were indeed large-scale herbivores gnawing traces here.

But because they had been on the road for more than a day, they did not see any cattle or horses.

It will be late.

According to Mu Feng's estimation, those cows and horses should "go home".

And their home should look like a towering forest some distance away from them.

The area of ​​this forest is not small, it looks like a small island on the grassland green sea from a distance, the trees on it are very tall, far surpassing the tens of meters tall trees on the other side of the valley!

But Mu Feng vaguely felt that the large green area should not only be a forest, maybe it was also a hill, otherwise it would be impossible for the trees to look more than 50 meters - of course, this was just Mu Feng's estimation from a distance.

The actual situation is only afraid that it will be even higher!

He stretched out his finger to the forest and estimated that the "short trees" on the edge were also fifty or sixty meters long!

In this way, it is undoubtedly a hill.

Mu Feng's heart was excited.

Judging from the surrounding grass marks, these cows and horses have only been gnawing nearby for a short time.

And judging from the traces of grass nests trampled by cows and horses on the ground, they went in that direction!

Mu Feng intends to go all out to find the horses and take them away.

But there was a problem when I continued to walk along the trace of broken grass-the swamp!

After Dazi led the way into the swamp, everyone hurried to find a way to rescue Dazi, and retreated with a low cry.

Wooden frowned.

There are swamps!

This also means that he cannot move forward.

In desperation, he had no choice but to let the clansmen retreat, choose a safe place, set up a tent away from this area, and wait until the next day to see what to do.

As for him, he led a few soldiers to carefully test the surroundings, only to find that the land to the west was mostly a swamp, and they walked back and forth for a long time without being able to avoid it!

Fortunately, he made marks while walking along the way, so it would be no problem to go back.

"What should I do?" Mu Feng was depressed.

He was almost sure that the horse he was thinking of was on the hill in the distance, but the surrounding swamps were full of dangers in front of him, and he dared not let his tribe take this risk anyway.

You must know that the swamps around Wanzhangyuan blocked the Liaolong Department, which has a large number of people, and also protected tens of thousands of people in the Blue Bird Department.

Witness the horror of the swamp!

But knowing that the herd of cows and horses was on that hill, he would definitely not do it if he was asked to turn around and go back.

"What should I do?" Mu Feng struggled in his heart, sighed and said to himself, "It seems that we can only sit on the sidelines and wait for the rabbit!"

For now, he can only find a place to hide, and then wait for the cows and horses to come out of the mountain by themselves.

But there are grasslands all around, and there is no suitable hiding place.

So if he wants to sit on the sidelines and wait for the rabbit, he has to go a little further.

But in this way, he might not be able to see how these cows and horses came out.

On the way back, Mu Feng thought carefully, but couldn't figure out what to do, so he shook his head and sighed: "I can only take one step at a time!"

To be on the safe side, he didn't let the clansmen make too many fires that night, so he set up a few tents and had an early rest.

Fortunately, the autumn dew is quite heavy at the moment, and the surrounding grass leaves are wet.

Cattle, horses and sheep rarely eat grass with morning dew.

In this way, the cattle and horses will graze later, leaving more time for them to react.

This is a blessing in misfortune.

The next morning, the sun rose as usual.

Wooden Wind got up early again, urged the soldiers to tidy up, drove a large number of horses to other places, and then picked some more domesticated horses, untied the saddles and reins, and loosened Da Lei's saddle, and let him lead the horses. These 20 or 30 horses "lounged" and grazed in the relatively conspicuous open space on the grassland.

In fact, these few horses can be regarded as the "support" for the wooden wind to lead and catch the horses.

His idea was very simple, that is, as soon as a large number of dark horses appeared, he would immediately silence Da Lei with a voice, and then let the Jiang warriors who were lying in the dark overtake them from the side, blocking the way of the group of dark horses.

This method was also mentioned in a hunting show he watched in his previous life. He said that when he caught wild boars, he made a fake one and put them in one place, and then the wild boars would approach them carefully and tentatively when they saw them.

As for using horses to attract horses, it was also his first time, and he didn't know whether it would be successful or not.

Especially when a white horse like Da Lei appeared in a group of black horses, it seemed out of place.

The black horse can still lower its head and try to chew the grass on the ground, but Da Lei, who is omnivorous, obviously doesn't like the green grass on the ground, and his whole state is like a stubborn donkey looking around there with his head held high.

If it wasn't for Mu Feng who was staring at it not far away, it would have already gone for a walk in custody.

The waiting time is the longest and boring.

Especially now that they're going to nest in the wet grass.

Fortunately, the grass was deep enough that people could not see clearly after squatting in it for more than 30 meters.

Any further away and you won't be able to see it.

This somewhat made him a little more sure about catching these horses.

In fact, he didn't think hunting and catching horses was any more difficult for a long time.

But leading to the swamp in the middle of the hills in the distance, he suddenly realized the difficulty - in the face of the harsh natural environment, people are still weak!

While sighing, Mu Feng suddenly felt strange.

Because they haven't seen any boa constrictor since they left the river yesterday.

It stands to reason that it is normal to not see pythons away from the river bank, after all, those pythons seem to like to live near the water.

But even the horses know that there is danger on the river bank and stay away from the river bank, so why these pythons can't catch their prey and don't know to stay away from the river bank and go deep into the grassland?

It seems that horses are more dependent on water than pythons, right?

He thought about seeing some dried snake skins after leaving the river bank yesterday.

But after approaching this piece of grass, it is true that there is no boa constrictor, which is really strange!

"Is there any special reason here?" Mu Feng secretly guessed.

When he was "thinking wildly", Da Lei, who had been motionless in his line of sight, suddenly moved.

To be precise, they all raised their heads and looked in one direction - the "isolated island" hill that Mufeng saw yesterday.

Because in that direction, a group of black dots and yellow dots appeared faintly, and they were coming towards this grassland!

"Here we come!" Mu Feng poked his head carefully, and saw a group of cows and horses turning left and right in the swamp and coming here through the grass.

Because of the distance, he couldn't see the route they took at all.

But obviously, the herd of cattle and horses knew the safe route.

He wanted to mark the route by hand, but he knew it was impossible, so he could only hold back his temper and wait obediently in place.

Waiting for the horse...