Chapter 6 Hunting

After entering the dry season, it hasn't rained for a long time. Most of the many swamps on the grassland have dried up. The grass that can grow up to half a person's height during the rainy season is now low and yellow.

Under the scorching sun above his head, Gao Yang was trying to track down a huge antelope, looking for the footprints left by his prey.

Yes, Gao Yang is not dead. He is surprisingly lucky. With the physique of an urbanite, he is somewhere in Africa where the grassland and tropical rainforest meet, far away from modern civilization, and he can survive for three years. Not everyone All have such good luck.

This is the third dry season that Gao Yang has experienced in Africa. In other words, Gao Yang has been living in Africa for three years.

Here, whether you can survive has nothing to do with the skills you have mastered, or what items you have on hand. It simply depends on your luck, or whether your fate is hard enough, at least for Gao Yang.

I have to say that Gao Yang's life is indeed hard enough. He was bitten by a poisonous snake. Although Gao Yang has used all means, if no one saves him, he will still die. The primitive tribe, then, he survived.

Gao Yang later learned that if someone in the primitive tribe who rescued him was bitten by a poisonous snake, they would use traditional methods to heal him. Fortunately, Gao Yang was cured by them, but he was left with a big wound on the edge of his left hand. scar.

What could be the means of primitive tribes? In addition to using some unknown herbs, they relied on the blessing of a certain god of their belief. It is said that under the protection of the god, the snake venom on Gao Yang's body did not pose any threat, but the few knives that Gao Yang gave himself caused huge damage. The wound, on the contrary, almost killed him.

No way, Gao Yang was afraid that the poisonous blood would flow out quickly, so he was a little bit ruthless when he was excited, but he was able to survive the situation at that time. Gao Yang was very lucky, because according to what he learned later, according to the tribe If there is a way to save people, maybe one out of ten people can be saved.

However, the most dangerous moment for Gao Yang was not being bitten by a poisonous snake, but after he was rescued, about a month later, when Gao Yang was just able to go to the field, he finally contracted malaria and took him with him. I took all the anti-malarial medicines, but there was no effect at all. After more than ten days of continuous beating, the whole person became extremely thin, but miraculously, he did not die.

In the past three years, Gao Yang suffered from malaria four times. He almost got all the types of malaria he could get, but he survived all the time. Malaria, he seems to be free from the nightmare of malaria.

Of course, the main reason why Gao Yang survived was because he met the primitive tribe who saved him. If there were no kind people to save him, Gao Yang would have died many times.

The primitive tribe that rescued Gao Yang was very small and quite primitive. There were only 17 people in total. In fact, they were a big family. They lived a life of gathering and hunting, migrating from place to place.

Gao Yang didn't know which race this tribe belonged to, he only knew that the tribe's name was Akuri. Gao Yang asked the chief of the tribe, that is, the oldest person in the tribe, but unfortunately the chief didn't know which tribe they belonged to.

The Akuri tribe doesn't even have the concept of race. Only when they meet a tribe like themselves can they have the opportunity to intermarry.

In the extremely primitive living conditions, the death rate of the Akuri tribe can be imagined. During Gao Yang’s three years in the tribe, a total of four children were born and three died. The oldest one looked five or six years old, and the youngest One of them was just two days old,

The oldest person in the entire tribe, that is, the chief of the tribe, seems to be in his forties.

It wasn't that Gao Yang didn't ask the chief's age, but that the tribal chief didn't even know how old he was. He only remembered that he seemed to have lived through more than forty rainy seasons.

Gao Yang's language learning ability 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 for Gao Yang to communicate with others without any problems. Gao Yang could get too little information from these primitive people.

Gao Yang still doesn't know which country he is in or where he is. He only knows that he is at the intersection of tropical grassland and tropical rainforest. If you walk north for two or three days, you will find the savannah. If you walk south for two or three days, It was the tropical rainforest, and Gao Yang was not familiar with the terrain of Africa, so he couldn't figure out where he was from the features of the terrain.

For three years, Gao Yang has been thinking about going home all the time, but in the past three years, Gao Yang has never encountered any trace of civilization.

The reason why they are far away from the civilized world is because the Akuri tribe originally migrated to avoid wars, and they migrated to places far away from civilization.

The Akuri tribe used to be visited by people from the civilized world, and some modern things were brought to them, but later, wars began, and those with guns would kill anyone they saw, even just For fun, after the people of the Akuri tribe killed three people while they were out hunting, the Akuri tribe began to migrate continuously.

In the past few years, neither the Akuri tribe nor Gao Yang has met other people, but Gao Yang has also cut off all contact with the outside world. He has explored in four directions, and the farthest time has been seven or eight days. But in the end nothing was found, and now it is impossible for Gao Yang to find the river he came from.

During the three years in the Akuri tribe, Gao Yang went out hunting with the people in the tribe every day. In the whole tribe, including Gao Yang, there are only five people who can hunt, and the rest of the women and children will collect everything that can be eaten. Plants and insects, if not harvested, the whole tribe would starve.

Thanks to the communication with the civilized world a few years ago, the Akuri tribe has ironware. Up to now, the Akuri tribe still has six short knives and four spears. It works very well, and according to the chief, it is a gift from some strange people with very white skin.

But when Akuri hunts, he mainly uses bows and arrows, knives and spears are only used to complete the final blow, and even the chance of completing the final blow is very small, because most of the time, the prey is dead before the spear is used up.

Now, Gao Yang and the other four people in the tribe are tracking down an antelope that was hit by a poisoned arrow.

After entering the dry season, most of the swamps that originally covered the grasslands have dried up, and only a few large swamps still have water. These large swamps have become the water source for all nearby animals, and hunting has become much easier than during the rainy season. , as long as you guard the edge of the swamp under the threat of ferocious beasts, you can easily shoot your prey with poisoned arrows.

The eland that Gao Yang and the others were chasing was shot by the swamp.

The power of the bows and arrows used by Gao Yang is negligible, and the main effect is the arrow poison smeared on the arrows.

Curare poison is extracted from the larvae of a beetle. Although this toxin is deadly, it takes a long time to attack. If it is hunting a larger prey, it will take at least two or three hours to kill it. The antelope shot this time was a little too big, weighing about two hundred kilograms. Although it was hit by two poisoned arrows, it took at least four or five hours to kill the antelope.

After being hit by an arrow, the antelope will run wildly for their lives. It is impossible to catch up with the speed of a human being, and the poison of the arrow cannot kill the antelope in a short time. Therefore, the hunting method of the Akuri tribe is to shoot the prey and follow the prey. The trace has been pursued.

The distance to track prey can be long or short, and it is normal to chase a distance of tens of kilometers. In short, they have to keep chasing the prey until it dies and they find it. Therefore, the hunting skills of the Akuri tribe are not very good, but The ability to distinguish and chase and long-distance running is extremely brilliant.

The people of the Akuri tribe can tell which footprint is left by their prey from the messy footprints, and can also accurately find out the direction of the prey's escape from a few broken grasses, and even use footprints or traces In the information disclosed in the book, it is known how long it will take for the prey to fall.

After staying together for almost three years, Gao Yang has also mastered the unique skill of identifying trails, but when he went hunting with the tribal chief, he didn't have the chance to show it off.

After shooting the antelope in the early morning and starting to chase until noon, Gao Yang and the five of them trotted all the way to track the prey. Although the speed was not fast, Gao Yang estimated that he had run at least 30 to 40 kilometers away, and he was already fast. The limit was reached, but the four members of the Akuri tribe didn't feel anything.

In the past, let alone let Gao Yang trot all the way for 30 to 40 kilometers, even if he walked three kilometers, Gao Yang would be tired enough, but the potential that people can unleash under the pressure of survival is amazing. At least the current Gao Yang can run thirty to forty kilometers in one breath without pressure.

Finally, the chief running at the front stopped, looked at the ground for a few moments, and pointed in the direction.

"It's dead now, where it is, let's find it."

After hearing the chief's words, Gao Yang was very happy, because he shot two arrows at the antelope, and today's pursuit was much shorter than he expected, and it would always make people very happy to end earlier, you must know when you go back Sometimes you have to carry the meat on your back and walk the same distance.

Panting heavily, Gao Yang followed the chief and walked forward. After walking about a kilometer or two, they found their target.

About two or three hundred meters ahead, a big antelope stood on the spot, staggering from time to time. Although it didn't fall down, it only took a moment.

Gao Yang followed closely behind the leading chief, happily waving the hunting knife in his hand, and rushed towards the eland that was about to reach the end. They had to hurry up to prevent the antelope from being overtaken by lions or leopards.