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Chapter 125 Giant Beast
The second wave of herds was led by two mammoths, and the mammoths were naturally Boss-level existences, attracting the attention of all hunters.

But the herds of cattle that come with them are also not to be underestimated, including woolly rhinoceros, buffalo and bison. These prehistoric cattle ancestors are generally several laps older than the descendants of later generations, and they have a hot temper and brute force. Also stay away.

Hearing that there were three woolly rhinos in the herd, the expressions of the hunters became serious.

Adult woolly rhinos are undoubtedly the elite monsters among the elite monsters. Their body length can reach three to four meters, and their weight can reach four to five tons. Their heads have sharp spear-like horns, which can easily pierce through tree trunks, and their flesh and blood can be hit , either dead or maimed!

To deal with such a destructive beast, melee combat is not advisable, and it is wise to use bows and arrows, javelins, and slings to scrape the skin from a distance.

Fortunately, woolly rhinos have a huge weakness: they are short-legged, bulky, and slow to move.

The hunters decided to fly a kite to kill these short legs.

Hutou quickly explained the hunting techniques for dealing with different beasts, mainly to the young hunters of the Yougu tribe, and Song Guo on the other side was doing the same thing.

The hunters took out a piece of red charcoal from the fire, put them into the horn products tied around their waists, and then picked up the unlit torches made the night before, and set up an ambush in the valley again.

Various tribes ambushes all over the valley, and the prey will belong to whoever enters the ambush circle.

Everyone is looking forward to it, and they all expect mammoths to enter their hunting range and provide "one-stop service" to solve their needs in cold weather at one time.

When the stalwart body covered with dark brown long hair, which was nearly two stories high, came into everyone's sight, the young hunters gasped at the same time.

They often heard the old hunters in the tribe mention this kind of giant beast, but there is no concept of "quantity" in this era, and the old hunters cannot describe it quantitatively. Whenever they describe a mammoth, they always call it very large in a very vague way. , or as large as a mountain.

It wasn't until this moment that they really understood what it means to be "as big as a mountain". Looking at the moving mountain, they all showed horror, wondering if it really existed?With their small arms and legs, can they really hunt and kill such a behemoth?
The "spectators" on the valley wall were not nervous, but extremely excited.

Xiao Xiao and Snake Berry have heard about this giant beast from countless stories, and imagined countless strange images in their minds. Today, they finally got their wish. They saw the true face of a mammoth in Lushan Mountain and saw the strong female elephant. Roll up the dry and hard turf with its thick and long trunk and put it in its mouth to chew. I saw young bull elephants digging up the ground with their sharp tusks and uprooting trees...

Mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, Wang buffalo, prairie bison... Lin Yu recognized various animals in the herd, animals that had long been extinct in her knowledge. This scene made her feel unreal, as if she had traveled to "Dwarf In the companion volume "Pleistocene Park" of Luo Ji Park.

After thinking about it, she could be more confident and remove the "as if".

Among all the prehistoric giants, she is most interested in the mammoth. This favor stems from her love for "Ice Age" when she was a child. Mammoth Manny is one of her favorite animated characters.

Later, she worked in this field. Although she mainly focuses on plant archaeology, she has more or less contact with paleontology. In 14, when the remains of mammoths were exhibited in Moscow, she also visited them. The remains of the young elephant were frozen in Siberia forever. The layer is as long as 4 years old, with complete limbs, hair, and complete brain tissue.

The living mammoth led its contemporary friends leisurely toward the depths of the river valley, unaware of the hidden murderous intentions around it.

Mammoths eat all the way. With their body size, even if they stand still every day, their consumption is quite amazing. In order to supplement their daily consumption, they have to eat continuously. They spend more than half of their lives eating, properly. the rice bucket.

The burly body of the woolly rhinoceros is almost as big as that of a baby elephant, and its limbs are short and weak, making it look like a stupid beast.

Wang's buffalo bowed its head by the river, enjoying the clear and cold water comfortably, and flicking its short tail excitedly.

The fossils of this kind of large buffalo are only found in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia. Lin Yu identified them through their unique horns: the horns of Wang's buffalo are short and thick, pointing upwards and gradually changing from the base to the tip. Thin, triangular in cross section.

They are all huge animals with rough skin and thick flesh, but they are not very agile. They usually eat and drink in summer, and turn the excess nutrition into fat, which is stored under the skin to supplement the consumption in winter.

In other words, this season is when they are at their fattest.

The hunters stared straight at them, and Zhang Tian roughly counted one adult mammoth, one baby elephant, three woolly rhinos, seven or eight buffaloes, and a dozen or so bison.

It is not easy to catch them all. It is difficult for hunters to stop the charge of buffalo and bison alone.

Hutou gestured to the people of the clan, telling them to give priority to hunting mammoths and woolly rhinos.

The herd gradually approached.

The hunters gripped their weapons tightly, their palms were slightly sweaty, and their hearts were beating like drums.

As they get closer, the young hunters have a more intuitive impression of the terrifying size of the mammoth. The previous calmness and self-confidence no longer exist, and fear arises in their hearts. They hope that the mammoth will come to their side. I really moved this way, and I felt uneasy again.

Zhang Tian was also nervous. The big-horned deer just now was the most majestic beast he had ever hunted in his life. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, this record would be greatly broken.

Unlike big horned deer, although mammoths and woolly rhinos are herbivores, but the tonnage is there, the hunter may have to shoot dozens or even hundreds of arrows to cause fatal injuries, but as long as it touches the hunter, the person is gone. Risk extremely high.

The mother elephant and her calf stepped into the ambush circle of the Great River Tribe, and a woolly rhinoceros entered the ambush circle at the same time.

Including the hunters from the Yougu Tribe and Zhang Tian, ​​the Dahe Tribe had a total of eleven hunters. According to the previous plan, the archers with the best archery skills would deal with the woolly rhinoceros, and the remaining hunters could deal with a mammoth together.

Zhang Tian stretched his bow and set his arrows to aim at the target. The hunters took out the fiery charcoal and prepared with torches.

The mother elephant strode forward, and the young elephant noticed a delicious bush, left the mother's protection, and walked briskly to the side, not knowing that it was the hiding place of Hutou and others.

The tiger's head sent out a signal, and the hunters immediately put the torches close to the charcoal that was still burning, blowing hard to ignite the torches, and then rushed out with shouts!

(End of this chapter)