Chapter 37 36. The way back
The soldiers of the second team still complained about giving up a dying earth storm bear lying by the stream.
But since Captain Suldak made this decision, even the adventurous Augustus didn't say anything.
Although no one said anything, they could still feel the dissatisfaction from everyone, so on the way back, the atmosphere of the team was a little dull.
Two days later, when the team members climbed over a huge red rock mountain without shade, someone in the team suddenly exclaimed:
"Look over there, that bear fishing by the bend of the river..."
The soldiers of the second team stood on the top of the red rock, lined up in a row, and the team looked very neat. They all saw the giant bear standing by a big rock in the river bend.
The terrain of the river bend is a bit steep, the water flow is turbulent, and there are several dangerous bends.
A timfish was going upstream along the bend of the river, where there was a section of low water waterfall. The timfish flapped its tail continuously, setting off huge splashes of water and rushing forward. Take the opportunity to jump out of the water, ready to jump into the pool on the upper floor.
At this moment, the big bear stretched out its giant paw, and slapped the hundreds of pounds of Tim fish that jumped out of the water sideways to the rocky beach on the shore, leaving the Tim fish alone on the pebble-covered river beach. Jumping up and down, trying to struggle back into the river.
The giant swayed with a heavy body, lazily walked to the river beach, stepped on the Tim fish, bared its sharp canine teeth, hooked the fish skin by the gills of Tim, and shook its head violently, A whole piece of fish skin was torn off, and after a few bites, it was swallowed. Then the liver and swim bladder in the fish's stomach were emptied and swallowed, and finally the fish meat was slowly licked.
I don’t know how many timfish it has eaten before it has such proficient fishing techniques. It can hide its body completely in the shadow of the boulder, and the timfish, which belongs to the first-level monster, can’t detect it at all.
At this time, the giant bear seemed to sense that someone was watching secretly on the top of the mountain, and suddenly stood up its huge body, and let out a roar towards the red rock on the top of the mountain.
Just in the belly of the giant bear, you can still vaguely see the sutured wound.
Augustus took two steps forward involuntarily. Everyone stood on the Chiyan ridge, with cliffs tens of meters high on both sides. He slipped down the wall, but when he came back to his senses, he was scared into a cold sweat.
The bearded man gave He Boqiang a complicated look, and then stammered:
"...It's that violent earth bear!"
Red Socks has a soft personality. He stared wide-eyed at the valley below the mountain, showing an expression of disbelief. He couldn't help lowering his voice and said:
"It really isn't dead!"
The earth storm bear seemed to growl once at the soldiers of the second team, then ignored them, bent down and continued to enjoy the food on the river beach.
The soldiers also woke up from the shock at this time, and continued to walk across the red rock.
The atmosphere in the team was finally not so dull, and everyone's topic fell on the violent earth bear.
The bearded Cagle is a believer in the Goddess of the Earth. He usually likes to introduce allusions to his teachings no matter what the topic is, so he naturally refuses to let it go at this time.
quickly said: "I heard that the earth storm bear has the blood inheritance of the earth goddess Gaia, and is often blessed by the earth goddess, so he was able to recover so quickly after suffering such a serious injury. His physique is really extraordinary."
Augustus did not approve of the statement made by the bearded man, and said as he walked:
"Even if there is, it is so thin that it is almost nothing, okay! But having said that, its injury really recovers very quickly!"
Red Sock muttered from the side: "This is due to Little Duck's great first aid skills, and of course my bag of needles and threads!"
The trees on the mountain ridges are shaded, much cooler than the rock walls, and there is no exposure to the scorching sun. It is extra refreshing to be blown by the cool wind in the mountains and forests.
The bearded man wiped the fine beads of sweat on his face with a rough linen cloth, and said with emotion:
“I was thinking, thank goodness we didn’t do something stupid at the time.”
"It's not bad to return to the camp with a few evil ghost heads honestly!"
"Hearing what you said, it seems to be true!"
The soldiers chattered and said, no longer feel how stupid it is to give up the bear skin of the earth storm bear by the stream.
The soldiers were very direct in their thinking and liked to show their emotions on their faces. When they saw the earth storm bear appearing by the stream, they no longer complained about Suldak and He Boqiang.
Everyone started to discuss. Although the search and rescue mission was not completed, there were a lot of gains from this trip.
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The second team went back to the Yansai Lake where they hunted the timfish again. They saw people on the shore, and the timfish in the river once again drew water lines and gathered here silently. This time The soldiers of the second team had experience in catching timfish, and once again cut a wave of leeks under the big willow tree.
The fishing operation was not considered to be over until the Tim fish gnawed the bait into a bone frame.
While skinning the Tim fish, Suldak suddenly raised his head and asked He Boqiang:
"Back then...you knew the bear was alive, right?"
He Boqiang nodded without any hesitation.
"You know...it can get up and kill us anytime it wants, right?"
He Boqiang glanced at Suldak, but did not speak.
Actually, he didn't know if the bear would get up at the time, he just thought it would be dangerous.
Drinking fish porridge for the past few days almost made the soldiers vomit. The soldiers only shaved off two pieces of meat from the back of the Tim fish, and discarded the other parts of the fish casually on the river beach, ignoring them.
However, the weather is hot, and these cut fish meat still have to be dried before they go bad. Fortunately, there are no shade trees around the rocky beach, and the scorching sun directly burns the pebbles on the river beach. Add some white pepper and salt, spread it on hot stones, and it won't take long to dry.
The Tim fish caught this time is a little less than the last harvest, only twelve.
However, Augustus took out five magic cores from the heads of these tim fishes. His luck was better than last time, which added another income for this rescue operation.
When the soldiers of the second team packed the dried fish into their bags and were about to go on the road again, He Boqiang saw those aboriginal women on the opposite bank of the river again. Several aboriginal women stood quietly under a big tree, Looking at the remaining Tim fish on the river beach, his eyes were full of longing.
However, He Boqiang did not see the indigenous girl among the group of people, which made him a little disappointed.
He Boqiang felt as if his insight was very strong, and he could always find something that others did not notice, just like these aboriginal women standing under a tree on the other side of the river near the edge of the woodland. It was still seen by him.
He stopped, thinking about whether to tell the story, but Suldak, who was walking at the front of the team, was calling his name loudly to let him follow the team.
He Boqiang finally decided to swallow the matter to his stomach. He looked up at the sun that was about to set, and hurriedly caught up with the team that had gone far away.
(end of this chapter)