Chapter 91 Changes in the rainy season
On the other side of Langga, several people were attracting attention.
Shao Xuan felt the gaze ahead and moved away after staring at him for about two minutes.
"A Xuan, run!" Langga shouted over there.
There was no need for Lang Ga to shout. Shao Xuan had already noticed that the other party was moving away from his sight, and his legs were charged with force bursting out in an instant, and his bent knees ejected.
Click!
A piece of stone pillar that was trampled under his feet suddenly cracked, and Shao Xuan's body shot out like a bow and arrow.
The next moment when Shao Xuan left the stone pillar, he glanced at a long shadow that was shot out and recovered from the corner of his eyes. If Shao Xuan was slower, he might be swept by the long shadow.
Shao Xuan knew what that long shadow was. When it touched it, he would be dragged directly into the water.
At the same time, Lang Ga and his men had already thrown the spear in their hands towards the creatures in the water. They didn't dare to shoot directly just now, because Shao Xuan was easily injured by accident. Now that Shao Xuan left, they no longer had to restrain their hands and feet. The tendons on their arms raised and threw the spear in their hands out.
As the stone spear passed through the rain curtain, Shao Xuan could still hear the "whizz" sound of the spear body slashing through the air at a rapid speed.
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Three spears pricked the creature in the water, and red blood flowed out. If the piranha were there, they would have come to snatch it up long ago, but now, there is nothing else except the movement of the creature being shot.
Whoosh!
Two more spears were cast.
There was also a long straw rope tied to the spear, which was obviously intended to drag the prey he had just shot back to the shore.
As the people on the shore took back the straw rope, Shao Xuan finally saw the figure of the creature.
It is a bit different from what I thought just now. The creature dragged ashore is indeed very similar to a frog, but what is more obvious is that it has a long tail behind it!
Tadpoles? Tadpoles with frogs and have their front and back limbs?
After hearing the scream just now, Shao Xuan never expected that he would see such a situation!
The long-tail frog that was shot was still struggling, but the struggle was a little smaller than before. The forelimbs and backwards were pedaling, leaving traces on the river beach.
After the long-tailed frog was slashed a few times and stopped struggling, Shao Xuan leaned closer and took a closer look.
In addition to the long tail, its limbs are also webbed, not toe-shaped. They are spread open and have some fangs in their mouths. In addition, other places look exactly like completely transformed frogs.
Not only that, the size of this long-tail frog also shocked Shao Xuan. Not to mention the long tail, its length is more than five meters! No wonder Lang Ga and the others are so nervous.
Shao Xuan saw this first time as a frog with teeth and a long tail.
"I almost died of scare just now!" Seeing that Shao Xuan was safe and sound, Lang Ga also breathed a long sigh and immediately warned Shao Xuan: "This thing is coming out. Be careful in the next time. It is best not to go to the Yuzha to see again in the next few days."
Whether fish can be caught is a small matter, but personal safety is a big matter.
Lang Ga was still scared. He didn't expect that the thing in the water would come out so soon. When he saw the two round eyes exposed on the water surface very close to Shao Xuan, Lang Ga only felt a basin of cold water pouring on his face.
Some of the patrolers were caught in the water, and no one who was pulled into the river had ever come back. Although everyone was wary of it later and could hunt a lot of this thing every year, if you are not careful, you will still be caught. Don't be careless in front of the prey.
Seeing the others slaughtering the long-tailed frog, Lang Ga told Shao Xuan some things to pay attention to, and also talked about some previous tragedies, which was also to attract Shao Xuan's attention.
"As for this thing, it tastes pretty good, and you can still hunt some now, but it will be difficult to start in two days." Lang Ga said.
On that day, Shao Xuan and Lang Ga and others hunted three long-tail frogs. In addition to the different patterns on the skin surface, these three were all unique varieties with large teeth and long tails.
The people who were in the same round of patrol divided their own points and took the frog meat back after the patrol. The food was pretty good. Although it was not as tender as the frog meat that Shao Xuan ate in his previous life, it contained more energy than snail meat.
The rainy season here is relatively shorter than winter, but it is not a matter of one or two days. It will take about thirty days. No one can tell the specific time, it will be different every year.
Two days later, due to the constant heavy rain, the river surface rose a lot.
Shao Xuan thought that with such a rise, it would take less than ten days to cross the stone line, but looking at the others, they didn't seem to be worried at all.
When Shao Xuan came to patrol the river bank, from shallow water to deeper places, he could see many exposed slightly triangular heads and round eyes, densely packed along the river bank.
No wonder Langga said it was difficult to get started. There were so many long-tail frogs, and before you could pull the hunted frogs ashore, the straw rope was pulled down from the river by them.
Sometimes when they are idle, Lang Ga will stuff mud into the empty snail shell and throw it over to see the long-tail frogs shoot out their long tongues and grab food. Like the frogs that Shao Xuan knows, those long-tail frogs are also catching things. Many times, the thrown snails are swept away by the long tongues that shoot out before they fall into the water.
Those long-tail frogs never go ashore. At most, they only lie in shallow water, revealing a triangular head and a pair of round eyes. They rarely scream, unlike the frog sounds that Shao Xuan thought. Only occasionally can they hear a small and short "gu" sound.
As the river rises, every day when Shao Xuan passes, the patrol sites will retreat because of the existence of those long-tailed frogs, they must maintain a safe distance from the river.
Until one day, when Shao Xuan came to the riverside, he found that the long-tailed frogs lying near the river bank had all disappeared, and the river surface, which had already risen to the seventh fish fence, began to retreat.
The rainy season has not passed. Lang Ga told Shao Xuan that this is just the first time the river surface has fallen in the rainy season, and there will be several more drops afterwards. After the first river surface, all the long-tailed frogs disappeared, so there is no need to worry about them appearing again.
At the same time, Shao Xuan also noticed that when the river surface fell, the river flow, which was originally gradually obvious due to the rising water in the rainy season, changed. Now, the river water does not flow in the direction that the overlords in the river, but flows to the upstream of the river that Shao Xuan guessed.
The changing direction of the river and the long-tailed frog that disappeared overnight all told Shao Xuan that something happened in the upper reaches of the river. According to Lang Ga, there will be several river surface drops during the rainy season. Every time the river surface drops, the direction of the river will change. Every rainy season, there are many things that they don’t know about happening.
It is precisely because of many strange phenomena that the tribe people feel that this river with invisible boundaries is even more mysterious, and they have always been reluctant to explore it, let alone explore it.
When the river surface fell for the first time, Shao Xuan saw the wood-eating insect in the seventh fish fence.
The seventh fish fence was set up by Shao Xuan. He put a few pieces of wood in the fish fence. Unexpectedly, the river surface fell and the river water receded, so he temporarily trapped the wood-eating worm inside.
Wood-eating insects are like a heavy ball of mucus. When they smell the existence of wood, they will absorb on the wood speed, or directly grow longer, and then pull down the wood blocks.
However, Shao Xuan found that there were many trees growing in the flooded place of the river, but those trees were not eaten much. He threw a small piece of wood into the river and waited for more than an hour before he could see the piece of wood being pulled down. If this were to be kept in normal times, it would take less than two minutes for the wooden pieces floating on the river to disappear.
Obviously, the activities of those wood-eating insects during the rainy season are also abnormal.
Therefore, when Shao Xuan patrols every day, he would put a wooden block in the water to see how long it would be pulled down from the river. A thin straw rope was tied to the wooden block, and the other end of the rope was tied to the stone pillar so that it would not float away. After returning, Shao Xuan would record the results of the day in his secret "laptop".
This rainy season is only twenty-seven days, a few days shorter than last year. This is normal. According to the old soldiers, the longest rainy season they experienced was forty days, but the shortest rainy season will not be less than twenty-five days.
When the rain stopped falling, the dark clouds that had been lingering in the sky dispersed, and the long-lost sun shone on this land again, everyone in the tribe became as clear as the weather.
The children who were stuck in the house for nearly thirty days ran out like a joyful look, laughing barefoot and running around. The children in the cave have also begun to prepare things, and the rainy season is over, so they can continue to fish. They don’t have to worry about being shocked by the screams from the river for the time being.
Why is it temporary?
Because those river-terror beasts who stop roaring will appear again after a while and will scream again.
"A Xuan, I'm back!"
Lang Ga and others had packed up their things and were about to leave.
"I'll go back soon, you guys go first!" Shao Xuan responded.
After the rainy season, as long as you don’t go into the water, there will be no danger, so Langga is not worried.
When Lang Ga and the others left, Shao Xuan took out a wooden boat from the animal skin bag. This was the last few days of patrol. After returning every day, he made a simple sailboat with the wood stocked in the house and some small stone nails.
The sail only uses the leaves of a plant, and the wooden boards are also ordinary wood. The hull of the small sailboat is only two palms long.
The wind blew from the river bank to the river. Shao Xuan placed the simple small sailboat on the river surface, and his fingers were slightly pressed, and the hull was pushed away and swayed. The wind was blown away from the shallows of the river bank and sailed to an invisible area. The green on the boat was particularly conspicuous.
There are many piranhas in the river. These guys with big heads and low IQ who have disappeared for one rainy season have begun to become active again, even more active than before the rainy season. Throwing a small piece of bloody flesh into the river can trigger their long-term melee and are very energetic. The good thing is that they are not interested in wood, while the wood-eating insects in the river seem to have disappeared.
After standing by the river for a while, Shao Xuan left with his things. When he was going up the mountain, he turned around and looked at the river surface and could see small dots gradually floating away in the sun.
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Chapter completed!