my age of magic

Chapter 115 116. Raitu's Injury

The light in the tent is very dark, although the leather curtains have been raised, and the skylight on the top of the tent is also open, the afternoon sun shines in through the skylight on the top of the tent, countless fine dust is turning in that beam of light Wandering, let me feel so clearly that every time I breathe, I have to inhale thousands of dust and bacteria into my lungs. I even have the urge to make myself a mask.

The smell in the tent was very pungent, and there was still uncooled soup on the short square table, full of bitter medicinal smell.

It was served later by the woman who fed Raitu the broth. It is said that this woman is the fifth most favored wife around Raitu, although I don’t think she is beautiful at all, even with a flat and big nose , the only good thing is that she has a pair of big eyes, but the eyes are always a little slack, and I don't feel a little bit of energy. I doubt whether the aesthetic views of the orc werewolves are the same as mine.

This tent may not have been scrubbed and washed for many years, and the smell of cowhide can still be clearly smelled after such a long time, mixed with the smell of sweat, the sour smell of the man's feet, all kinds of smells are mixed together, It gave me a feeling of deja vu, ah!It is very similar to the taste of Laotan Beef Noodles with Sauerkraut.

The women of Raitu were sitting at the entrance of the tent, holding an awl with a hook in their hands and making a piece of leather armor. They were talking in a low voice, and I vaguely heard that Raitu was planning to make his youngest son also Join the hunting team, but he is a bit young, I have seen that child, he is only as tall as me, and should be younger than me, women are always worried, but when they set their eyes on me After the body, it seems that those views have been shaken.

The orcs still uphold the ancient inheritance. Women usually do housework, take care of children, herd herds, collect herbs, and sew leather armor.The men are only responsible for hunting and fighting, so the men who can hold weapons in the tribe are almost dead, but the women and children can still survive.

But we have to face a problem, which is also the main reason why Raitu and Gribaschin brought the tribe to the wilderness, that is the problem of food, Kurz can rely on his "survival instinct" to lead everyone Digging gerbils, hunting hares, pheasants and other small animals seems to have solved the food problem in the tribe, but in fact, we all have to cross the entire Yelian Mountains and return to our hometown.But if you leave this grassland and want to hunt enough prey for more than 200 people in the mountains, it will be very difficult.

Before crossing the mountain in front of us, the first thing we need to do is to bring enough food. We only need to dig gerbils every day to store enough meat. I am afraid that we will not be able to save enough raw meat until autumn. We have to hunt some large animals, preferably those docile one-horned bison, as long as one head can unload hundreds of catties of fresh meat, but the one-horned bison herd closest to us has also migrated to the side of the Wild Wolf Gorge. Those of us would never dare to snatch food from wolves.

The most common thing in the wasteland is not the large herds of one-horned bison, but the magic antelopes that come and go like the wind. They can even run faster than arrows. Ordinary hunters in the wasteland sometimes even avoid the magic antelopes when they see them. Otherwise, it is bad luck to meet a certain male antelope in heat. The antelope horns are so sharp that they can easily pierce through any ordinary leather armor.Only some powerful hunting groups can hunt those magic antelopes in the wilderness.

Raitu's idea is very simple, he still wants to stay in the wasteland to make a living, because after all, there are no such horrible swamp zombies and red-faced bats here, what can this small tribe do even if they return to their hometown, only these women and children are left, How could they have the ability to deal with those monsters from the depths of the swamp? Instead, they lived on the edge of the wilderness by hunting small animals and digging wild vegetables. It was a good place to live with the Yelian Mountain in the back and the Ulutu River.But why has no tribe migrated to live here in such a livable place surrounded by mountains and rivers for so many years?The answer is wind wolves. The wind wolves on the wasteland are extremely aggressive monsters. They live in groups or walk alone. Each wolf has a high IQ and rarely makes the same mistakes in its life. The northern foot wasteland is Their world.

If it weren't for the flood of zombies on the edge of the Death Swamp, and the orcs were in the chaos of a catastrophe, the large tribes would not be able to help a small tribe like Raitu. Otherwise, the rich products on the edge of the Death Swamp would not As for starving Raitu's tribe, at worst, they can rely on the sweet potatoes in the Death Swamp to tide over the difficulties.

Gribaschin and Kurtz don't think so. An old orc like Gribaschin has a feeling of being unable to leave his homeland. What he advocates is to return to the death swamp. Those who are defeated by the brave may suffer for a few months, or it may not take that long.The idea of ​​the old orc is that it is always boiled wherever it is?
And Kuz's idea is simpler, he wants to take these women and children in the tribe and return to Gludin Town first. The dripping water fell into the pond. According to Kuz's idea, he could stay in Gludin Town and wait for the swamp monsters to disperse by themselves, or invite some demon hunters who are willing to hunt the monsters. In short, all of this can be patiently waited.

A few days ago, the rash decision made by the leader of this small tribe, Raitu, led to the death of the last batch of young orc warriors in the tribe, and no one could escape safely. A group of women who could run rushed into the Wild Wolf Gap and snatched the seriously injured Raitu and the last few seriously injured soldiers from the pile of corpses. I'm afraid things will be more troublesome.

Whether staying at the mouth of the Ulutu River Valley in the northern wasteland, or going to Gludin Town, or returning to the Death Swamp, all of this needs to be based on sufficient food.

Raitu was silent for a long time, obviously he also regretted it a little. He originally brought the tribe to the northern foot wasteland because he thought of spring hunting. A large number of hunters came to hunt the magic antelope and followed them casually. There are countless devil antelope meat, as long as you can carry it back, you can have as much as you want, but this time, Laitu brought women and children, and luck is not very good, in this wasteland After staying for so many days, I didn't even see the shadow of the magic antelope hunting group.Only then did the soldiers make a risky move, leading the last young warriors into the wilderness to hunt the one-horned bison. Originally, luck was good, and they met a large group of one-horned bison, but the group of bison led them into the wild Wolf Gorge, really unlucky!
Raitu hesitated for a moment and said: "How about I can move in a few days, and I will take some strong women to walk in, maybe I can meet the adventure group hunting the devil antelope. Under normal circumstances, they will only Take away the magic antelope skin and the magic core in the skull, we can wait for them to leave, and bring back the mutton discarded by them as raw meat jerky, I remember that is what grandpa did in the past calamity years."

Gribaschin frowned, slowly shook his wrinkled head and said in a deep thought: "In the wilderness, there are not only hunters hunting demon antelopes, but also many robbers. Sometimes you can't even tell which ones are hunting monsters." Those are bandits, or some of them are both bandits and witchers. It’s too dangerous, and they still bring a group of women, Raitu, do you want to send fresh mutton into the tiger’s mouth?"

"But we are like this, how can we still have the ability to climb Yelian Mountain, we can only stay here and dig wild vegetables all day long to eat." Raitu said a little decadently, his pale face was even more ugly, as a tribal leader, It was his wrong decisions again and again that brought the tribe to the brink of destruction. If there is no good way to revive the tribe, the remaining women and children will be just a piece of delicious fat in the eyes of other tribe leaders, and they will never die. Swallow it without hesitation.

He would rather cross the Yelian Mountains to the North Foot Wasteland by himself than move into Gluding Town, because he was afraid that a small tribe like himself would be swallowed up by another big tribe in such a crisis.

"If we really haven't met the Demon Hunt Squad, then let's hunt some demon antelopes ourselves!" Kurtz said calmly.

Gribasqin's cloudy eyes were originally half-closed, but at this moment they suddenly opened wide and looked at Kurtz, and asked in surprise, "Can you catch up with those wind-like magic antelopes?"

"Not yet!" Kuz glanced at me, and then said affirmatively to Raitu and Gribaschin, "But we have our own way to hunt the magic antelope."

I interjected from the side: "If it's just for eating meat, maybe we can also try to attract the attention of those bison. The meat on a single-horned bison is worth at least twenty magic antelopes."

Along the way, we tried our best to control the number of our hunting. The reason is that the Yagui beast cannot carry unlimited loads. Its physical strength is limited. Originally, the four of us wanted to spend this trip on the grassland easily, so Equipped with comfortable leather saddles, the four of us rode Yaguimon together, and at the beginning of our trip, we brought a lot of luggage, even iron pans, some necessary cooking utensils and tents, which made Yaguimon have a It was a heavy burden, and later we hunted several magic antelopes on the edge of the saltwater pond, and even killed a wind wolf. Qige took Katerina to collect various herbs in the wasteland all day long, because we A lot of moonlight ink and milky white ink are needed. At this time, we gradually found that there are more and more luggage, and most of the luggage is something we can't give up. In the end, we can only reduce the amount of dry food we carry as much as possible.

But the situation is different now. I was still thinking about this question before, that is, why did Kurtz not catch the magic antelopes all over the mountains and plains, but why he took the women and children in the tribe to dig gerbils and catch wild rabbits on the sand hills? .I always couldn't let go of these questions, so I asked Kurz, and Kurz gave me only four words in the answer, that is: survival instinct.

Kurtz wants to teach these weak orcs some of the most basic survival instincts, how to survive in the wasteland by themselves.

(End of this chapter)