Chapter 50 The weak and the strong
Hunting prey like the black blind man requires patience, and the black blind man is very smart. The slightest flaw will make him alert, causing the trap to fail.
Anyway, when Zhao Ya came to the trap the next day, he found nothing.
Zhao Ya was not discouraged and rearranged the trap again, then put a bait in the trap.
Niu Yuan also talked about baits separately. The first thing is that they must be salty.
Because for the beasts in the mountains, salt is the most precious thing, and a piece of salty fresh meat is extremely tempting to them.
The second thing is not to be too obvious.
Beasts are not fools, especially those alienated beasts are very smart.
If the bait you place is too obvious, it will not be effective.
Zhao Ya carefully placed the bait according to Niu Yuan's instructions, and then found a place to hide it.
Patience is the most basic quality of a good hunter.
Zhao Ya hid quietly in the forest for more than an hour, always staring at the beast's path.
finally.
As if smelling the scent of the bait, the grass in the distance began to shake, and then a huge black bear slowly walked out.
As soon as he saw this black bear, Zhao Ya's eyes lit up.
Because this is obviously an alienated black bear.
Zhao Ya hid in the dark and waited quietly.
This black bear was very wary and slowly approached the bait, but did not pass by. It was obviously observing something.
finally.
Still unable to resist the temptation of the bait, it tentatively stretched out its front legs and stepped on the ground.
No movement!
Zhao Ya had anticipated this, so he adjusted the triggering mechanism of the trap to a high level.
The black bear finally relaxed its vigilance and walked into the trap just to bite the bait.
At this moment, the iron wire cover buried under the dead leaves was activated immediately, covering the black bear's hind legs. At the same time, many logs flew from all directions, with sharp knives nailed on them, and stabbed the black bear fiercely.
The black bear couldn't bear the pain and let out a roar.
At the same time, Zhao Ya opened his bow and nocked an arrow, aiming an arrow at the black bear's open mouth.
After shooting the arrow, Zhao Ya reached out and pulled out the meteorite sword, and rushed over like a strong wind.
He did not slowly grind his prey to death as Niu Yuan taught him.
Because although Niu Yuan and the others have rich hunting experience and good sword skills, they are still ordinary people after all, and they are far from as powerful as Zhao Ya.
As long as you find your prey and trap it, the rest is easy.
Zhao Ya rushed forward and cut off the black bear's spine with one knife.
After it fell to the ground, Zhao Ya's knife was inserted directly into its eye, ending its pain.
After the hunt was successful, Zhao Ya quickly cut open the black bear's belly, took out the bear's bile, and put it into a medicine bottle that had been prepared in advance.
As for the other flesh and blood, Zhao Ya did not waste it. He packed up the bear paws and some edible places before returning to the city.
After returning home, Zhao Ya first marinated the bear bile with several antiseptic herbs, and then started cooking the bear meat with great interest.
But after working hard for a long time, Zhao Ya looked disappointed after eating the bear meat.
Because he didn't feel much energy and blood from the bear meat, it was almost the same as the pork sold in the market.
The key is that the taste is very bad.
Zhao Ya finally understood why there were so many people practicing martial arts in Wuxiang City, but few went hunting in the mountains and forests.
The flesh and blood of these wild animals do not have much nutrition at all.
Only certain parts, such as the bile of this black bear, have medicinal properties, but they also need to be combined with medicinal materials before they can be eaten.
No wonder the dried earthworm meat and dried green bamboo snakes flowing out of the inner city are artificially bred.
In the next few days, Zhao Ya went hunting outside the city every day. His hunting skills improved by leaps and bounds, and he soon became an experienced hunter.
However, as time passed, Zhao Ya found that the situation outside the city was getting worse and worse.
At first, the refugees could still enter the city, but as the number of people increased, the carrying capacity of Dancing Elephant City reached its limit.
So the three major families in the inner city sent people to guard the city gate to prevent the refugees from entering the city.
The refugees who could not enter the city had to gather on the edge of the mountains and forests, and soon formed many large and small communities.
When walking into the mountains, Zhao Ya could often see hungry refugees taking desperate risks and trying to enter the mountains and forests to hunt.
But after long-term hunger, these people's physical strength has been severely exhausted. How can they survive in this dangerous mountain forest.
Therefore, their fate without exception is to become the belly food of the beasts in the mountains.
In addition, the security situation in these refugee gathering places also began to deteriorate rapidly.
After all, for these extremely hungry people, no law or morality is as practical as a piece of sour steamed buns.
Coupled with the lack of external restraints, these gathering places quickly transformed into a jungle society where the weak and the strong preyed on each other.
As long as you have the power, you can deprive others of their belongings and even their lives at will.
In the past few days alone, Zhao Ya had witnessed more than a dozen fighting or killing incidents.
Zhao Ya couldn't do anything about it and could only watch silently.
After all, one or two people can be saved, but with so many people, even if Zhao Ya has extraordinary abilities, he cannot save them.
On this day, Zhao Ya was preparing to go into the forest for hunting as usual. He had just walked not far when he suddenly heard a weak voice coming from beside him.
"Master, please have mercy on me and save my child!"
Zhao Ya followed the sound and saw a woman holding a child on the edge of the forest, leaning against a big tree and looking at him.
Seeing Zhao Ya stop, the woman stood up with difficulty and said in a trembling voice.
"Master, they wanted to eat my child, so I ran inside. Please have mercy on me and give the child something to eat! I will do anything for you!"
As she spoke, she tried her best to puff out her chest, but the long-term hunger had already made her as thin as a stick, and even the symbol of womanhood had become shriveled.
Zhao Ya was silent.
He saw that although the woman had become extremely thin and even looked like a skeleton, the child in her arms was actually in good condition. Although she was also very thin, there was a trace of blood on her face, and she looked at him curiously.
"Uncle, just give the child a piece of steamed bun!" Seeing Zhao Ya's silence, the woman couldn't help but start begging.
Zhao Ya sighed, took out a small bag of dry food from the package and handed it to the woman.
"Just hide here and eat quietly, don't let anyone see you, got it?" Zhao Ya reminded.
After taking the bag of dry food, the woman knelt down and kowtowed madly at Zhao Ya.
"Thank you sir, thank you sir!"
Zhao Ya shook his head, "Okay, it doesn't have to be like this, just eat it quickly."
After saying that, Zhao Ya turned around and entered the forest.
After he left, the woman tremblingly took out a piece of bread from the dry food bag, put it in her mouth, chewed it a few times, and then began to feed her child.
After being hungry for such a long time, she had already run out of milk and could only feed her child in this way.
At the same time, Zhao Ya, who entered the deep mountains, felt a little depressed.
He asked himself that he was not the Virgin, but the scene he saw today still hurt him deeply.
A mother would pay any price for her child, and in this case someone actually planned to eat her child.
Zhao Ya suddenly didn't know how to describe his mood at this time.
He could only breathe out and mumbled softly.
"What a bloody world!"
Today's harvest was good. Zhao Ya hunted two golden snakes and obtained snake gallbladder, which was another useful medicinal material.
In the evening, Zhao Ya walked out of the mountains with today's harvest, but when he came to the edge of the mountain forest, he did not see the woman during the day.
Zhao Ya's heart sank and he quickly walked out of the forest. Then he saw smoke rising from a refugee gathering place in the distance, and at the same time there was a faint smell of meat.