Volume 1, Ghost City of the Bone Forest_Chapter 63, Insect Search
I followed nervously behind, and the ancient wind demon fled into the woods as soon as he exposed his body, and this little guy was very fast, and his body shuttled between the grass and trees.
Lingqian and the others ran ahead of me, but the ancient wind demon was very cunning, and it disappeared after a while, leaving only the wind whistling in my ears and the low roar from the forest from time to time.
"Gone?"
Lingqian stood outside the grass, panting and looking around, we were completely lost in the forest and ran for nearly three hundred meters in one go. Several big men looked around with shotguns.
Luo Qiong and the fat man were late, and the two of them stood behind me looking cautious and cautious.
"Damn, all of them are as light as swallows, running and flying...... I...... I took a breath. ”
The fat guy runs like a big meat ball, and he has never passed the sports in school in the past, and he basically relies on walking for long-distance running.
I pulled Luo Qiong to the side and whispered, "Is there a way to find that little thing just now?" ”
Even if Lingyan is a good hand at dealing with earth beasts, if you want to say that the ability to track around in this big mountain is really not as good as Luo Qiong next to me, this kid is in the mountains when he is young, and drilling in the forest is like entering a small garden.
"Brother Shan, what are you going to do?"
Luo Qiong still didn't understand what I meant.
In fact, I have my own plans, according to the so-called principles that Lingyan showed before, it can basically be summarized as you respect me one foot, and I return you one foot, which belongs to the meaning of absolute fairness and mutual non-debt. If I can catch the Ancient Wind Demon first, I may be able to exchange it for an antidote. Even if you can't change the antidote, you can still get some benefits, get some treasures or something, and still earn money in the end.
"You just say there's a way, don't you?"
I patted Luo Qiong on the shoulder.
After thinking about it, he reluctantly nodded and said: "There is a way, but it is an old method, my father taught me, and I may not be able to do it in one step if I really want to use it." ”
"It's okay, you're ready, it's okay if you don't succeed."
The method Luo Qiong said is an old method used by hunters in the mountains, called the insect search method, the name is simple and straightforward, but it is difficult to operate in practice. To put it simply, some earth beasts or beasts of prey will leave traces when walking in the mountains and forests, including footprints, feces, and even smells. Of course, these are relatively intuitive, and there are some traces that are not intuitive, that is, when the earth beast passes by, other flowers and trees, small beasts will detect the danger before people, and the most sensitive of them are insects, which can often detect the danger of the beast early and avoid it far away. If you take advantage of this, you can determine the whereabouts of this beast, and even track it all the way.
Of course, this method is very difficult to do, and there are not many hunters who know it.
Luo Qiong took a few steps back, stood behind a tree next to him, and then took out two small wooden cans from his arms, gently unscrewed the wooden cans, and heard a "buzzing ......" sound. After a while, a black head emerged from a small wooden jar, and a closer look revealed that the black head was actually a small bug.
This insect has a black body, a round body, about the size of the peanuts we usually eat, and a pair of long antennae on its head, which can fly, and when it flies, its wings vibrate and make a slight noise.
"This is the bug that my father started raising at that time, in the words of our village, this kind of insect is called 'Qi Xian', they are generally a group of about ten, there is a leader, the leader will command the other nine 'Qi Xian' with a simple voice, 'Qi Xian' is very sensitive to smells, and also has a very keen sense of powerful creatures, I can use them to track where the flying guy just now."
While speaking, Luo Qiong put the wooden jar on the ground, and then took out a thumb-sized whistle from his waist, put it in his mouth and blew it, originally I thought that the sound of this whistle should be very loud, but I never thought that the sound of this whistle was so light and sharp that I couldn't even hear it if I didn't listen carefully.
Luo Qiong blew a few times in a row, and the black insects around him flew up, jumping aimlessly around, Luo Qiong's face was a little unsightly, and the young man said to me with a red face and embarrassment: "Brother Shan, I'm sorry, I made this thing inflexible, you wait for me to give it a try......"
I can't blame him, I used to hear people say that the hunters in the mountains are also divided into high and low, the hunters who can make dogs can generally fill their stomachs, the hunters who can play with guns can often make a small fortune, and the hunters who can play with insects must be the top in the industry.
Luo Qiong was only 18 years old at that time, and it took time to learn art, not to mention that the old man of his family died early, and it was already very remarkable to have this ability.
After about five or six minutes of tinkering, Luo Qiong suddenly showed a faint smile on his face, turned back to me and whispered, "Brother Shan, it's done!" ”
After hearing this, I hurriedly looked over, but I saw that the black insects were actually lined up in the air, and it felt like a column of fighter planes lined up in the air.
Luo Qiong blew another whistle, a sharp and slight sound came out, this column of insects flew out quickly, Luo Qiong hurriedly said to me: "Brother Shan, let's wait here, the insects will come back in a while, if they are found at that time, they will circle around me, and we will follow the insects again." ”
We are waiting patiently here, but Lingqian's side has no clue, Lingqi should have a way to fix the qi of the ancient wind demon, but the premise is that the ancient wind demon must stay somewhere for a long time first. The Ancient Wind Demon who had been defeated by Lei Fa before must be running away with his life now, and it was not so easy to settle his breath.
Time passed minute by minute, and after I waited for almost half an hour, "Qi Xian" finally began to fly back slowly, and the first few fell on Luo Qiong's palm without moving, obviously not finding anything.
"I guess it's hanging."
I sighed and said, I didn't expect that the last one to fly back actually began to fly around Luoqiong, and my face suddenly showed a look of great joy, so it seems that there is really a door!
"I'll call the fat man, let's work secretly, don't be found out by them."
From the very beginning, I calculated and prepared to catch the ancient wind demon by myself, the fat man's god fight also learned for a while, there must be some skills, the ancient wind demon has no magnet as armor, the body is very weak at a glance, as long as you determine where it is, let Luo Qiong set a trap, I outflanked it from the periphery, and drove the ancient wind demon into the trap, if this earth beast comes to fight hard, then let the fat man open the god to fight and do it. I still don't believe it, such a palm-sized gadget can really turn the sky upside down!
We sneaked into the forest, Lingqian and they didn't pay attention to our movement at all, after entering the forest, the "Qixian" who only found something flew slowly in the air, I followed while whispering to the fat man: "Hey, fat man, I have something to tell you." ”
"What's the matter?"
The fat man looked over suspiciously.
I pointed to Luo Qiong, who was walking in front, and said, "This kid, what do you look like?" ”
The fat man was stunned, and after rolling his little eyes, he said, "What's the matter, do you want to pull Xiaoluo into the gang?" ”
"Hmm." I nodded and said, "I have seen a lot of knowledge when I came to Da Heishan this time, everyone is a team, at least three or four people, the team has a clear division of labor, and the cooperation is also very tacit." The two of us are still laymen, and there are only two ways out if we want to eat this bowl of rice in the future, the first is to take refuge in other people's doors, but it is no different from working for the boss, the boss is okay, if we meet a boss who does not treat his subordinates as people, then I can't say when we will explain. The second way is to pull a team of our own, but we are still apprentices, and there are no good people out there who want to work with us. Therefore, if you want to find someone to join, you have to find someone who is not deeply involved in the world and has the same spirit. I see that Xiao Luo is good, in the future, I will be responsible for the intelligence of the earth beast, in terms of planning, you are mainly responsible for opening the gods to fight and negotiate business with others, Xiao Luo's tracking skills, and his familiarity with the forest are not comparable to us. What do you think? ”
The fat man immediately laughed when he heard this, patted me on the shoulder and shouted: "I thought so fucking before, pull this kid into the gang, and we won't be afraid of getting lost in the forest in the future." But are people willing to follow us? ”
As he was talking, Luo Qiong in front suddenly raised his hand to signal us to stop, and then turned back and said, "I found the situation!" ”