Qin Hao and Yun Ye walked along the stream for three consecutive days. The density of the forest gradually decreased, and the height of the grassland also continued to decrease. However, the city marked on Yun Ye's map was still missing.
This also made Yun Ye more convinced that he had really traveled through time.
At this time, Qin Hao and Yun Ye were on a hillside. In front of them was an endless basin. There was not a trace of human habitation in the entire basin. On the dense pasture, a group of wild horses were happily tasting the tender grass.
From time to time he snorted cheerfully.
"Brother, this place is more desolate than we imagined. It seems that there is still a long way to go to the nearby city." Yun Ye said weakly.
Since he decided to pretend to be a senior brother, Yun Ye has changed his title. According to him, he is not very good at lying. In order to prevent the secret from being revealed, it is best to practice it in advance.
Qin Hao nodded. In ancient times, the population was sparse. Especially at the end of a dynasty, wars and various natural and man-made disasters caused large-scale population deaths, making it impossible to expand to the surrounding areas.
However, there is a characteristic of farming peoples. Once a relatively stable political power is maintained, they will immediately explode with amazing fertility. With more people and insufficient land, they will naturally start to open up wasteland.
From the hillside to the basin, a few yellow sheep looked at the two outsiders stupidly, as if they were seeing humans for the first time and were not afraid at all.
Curiosity killed the cat, and the goat was no exception. As the sun was about to set, I happened to catch a goat for dinner.
The moment the yellow sheep screamed, all the herbivores around the basin ran away. Now they finally realized that this two-legged animal eats meat.
When Yun Ye was skinning the yellow sheep, several stallions in the horse group on the other side looked at him warily, digging their front hooves on the ground, as if to give him a warning.
"Brother, tell me, if we can catch a few horses, should we ride them faster?"
Qin Hao smiled playfully: "How is your riding skill?"
This kind of wild horse is wild and difficult to tame, and it has neither a saddle nor a bit. It is difficult for ordinary people to even ride on it, let alone ride it.
Yun Ye had a sad face and could only look at the ocean and sigh.
The yellow sheep on the bonfire exuded an alluring aroma. Just when Yun Ye was about to have a feast, there was a sudden wolf howl, which startled him so much that he almost dropped the knife in his hand into the fire.
"Brother, there are... there are wolves."
Qin Hao said calmly: "After walking for so many days, I haven't encountered any large predators. It's time to encounter them."
This is the magic of nature. The soil grows vegetation under the moisture of sunlight and rain. Herbivores eat the plants and reproduce. However, if there are too many herbivores, they will cause vegetation damage and cause soil erosion, while carnivores prey on them.
Herbivores are used to control the number of herbivores. Finally, the excrement of all these animals will nourish the land, thereby maintaining the integrity of the entire ecological chain.
"Senior brother, they won't have any plans for us, right?" Yun Ye looked at the green dots in the distance and said in a trembling voice.
Qin Hao took a knife and cut off a shiny piece of roasted lamb leg: "I can't say for sure, animals like wolves are very smart and will prey on all animals they think are weaker than themselves."
Yun Ye became even more nervous after hearing this, especially when he noticed that the green dots in the distance seemed to be increasing continuously. It was obvious that they were not encountering one or two wolves, but an entire pack of wolves.
In the darkness, there was suddenly a more rapid howl of wolves, followed by a loud hooting of a horse, and then, the ground began to shake.
Although he couldn't see clearly, Yun Ye knew that this was the sound of wolves on the other side preying on horses.
After almost twenty minutes, the movement on the other side gradually subsided, and a pack of wolves howled one after another, and the pairs of green dots were moving away from the river bank.
Just when Yun Ye secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he heard Qin Hao say in a serious tone.
"It seems we have to be careful tonight."
Yun Ye was stunned: "Why, didn't the wolves withdraw?"
"There is no smell of blood in the air, which means that the wolves did not succeed. Even the black bears dared to fight with the hungry red-eyed wolves."
Yun Ye suddenly realized that the wolves here were not artificially raised like those in the zoo, but wild wolves that grew up in a cruel natural environment. It was completely normal for them to attack humans in order to survive.
Seeing that Yun Ye was so frightened that he could hardly eat, Qin Hao couldn't help but joke: "If you don't eat enough, I'm afraid you won't even have the strength to swing a knife when facing a hungry wolf."
Yun Ye thought it made sense, so he quickly cut a large piece of yellow mutton into his mouth and started chewing it.
He wants to live, even if he cannot return to modern times, he does not want to die so cowardly at the mouth of a wolf.
"Senior brother, why don't you go to bed first, and I'll watch over you in the first half of the night."
After traveling all day, Yun Ye was already tired, but when he thought of a group of hungry wolves staring at them, he lost all sleep.
"Okay, I'll sleep for a while first." Qin Hao was not polite. Yun Ye should be able to survive the first half of the night, but in the second half of the night, he really didn't dare to let this kid keep watch in case he was accidentally attacked by a wolf.
But that's troublesome.
When Yun Ye saw Qin Hao get into the tent and fall asleep, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. He was a "fellow countryman" who was really mysterious. He had perfect survival ability in the wild and seemed to be good at martial arts. He had muscles that he could never develop even after ten lifetimes of training.
Moreover, he seems to know the legendary "Qigong" and meditates every night.
At first, Yun Ye thought he was asleep, but whenever he came near, the other person would immediately "wake up".
If Qin Hao hadn't spoken Mandarin, he would have even thought that this person was an ancient hidden master.
After thinking about it, Yun Ye felt so sleepy that he just sat there and closed his eyes.
I don't know how long it took, but there was a warm breath in his ears. Yun Ye turned around in a daze, and suddenly found that a wild wolf with a fierce look had opened its bloody mouth towards his neck.
At the critical moment of life and death, Yun Ye subconsciously picked up the knife in his hand and stabbed the wild wolf in the neck.
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"Brother, the wolf is coming!"
Yun Ye lost his balance and fell to the ground. He didn't have time to think about it and shouted.
The wild wolf took the opportunity to step on Yun Ye's back with two paws. Even though the wild wolf looked lean and lean, it weighed dozens of kilograms. Yun Ye could not stand up under the pressure and was about to bite off the prey's neck.
, savor the other's warm blood.
Yun Ye only felt a hot breath blowing on the back of his head, and the disgusting breath of the wild wolf almost made him suffocate, just when he thought he was going to be buried in the belly of the wolf.
Just hear a "plop".
Then there was a whining sound similar to that of a dog, and then I felt a lightness on my back.
When he came to his senses, he turned around and saw that the wild wolf had fallen three or four meters away from him, lying motionless on the ground. The bones in its ribs seemed to have been broken by some blunt instrument.
The whole thing collapsed in.
Yun Ye gasped for breath and was about to say thanks when he saw Qin Hao wink at him.
Following Qin Hao's gaze, Yun Ye was almost suffocated. Behind the fire, a row of green eyes, at least a dozen pairs, were staring at them.
There were so many wild wolves! Yun Ye almost fainted on the spot. This was a pack of wolves that could tear a black bear apart. Just the two of them, without thermal weapons or cover, would definitely die if they encountered each other in the wild.
However, the next second, Qin Hao unfolded his engineering shovel and pointed the sharp side of the shovel toward the wolves.
A larger wild wolf looked up to the sky and roared. Suddenly, a wild wolf rushed out from the shadows on the left and rushed towards Qin Hao.
"This beast can also sneak attack!" Yun Ye was horrified and was about to remind Qin Hao.
However, in an instant, Qin Hao turned sideways to let the wild wolf sneak attack, and at the same time, he had already grasped its gray tail with his left hand.
Then, Yun Ye saw a scene that shocked him extremely.
The wild wolf, which weighed at least dozens of kilograms, was picked up by Qin Hao and then slammed to the ground.
Left and right, left and right.
After being hit five times in a row, the wild wolf didn't even have time to make a move to struggle. It was smashed to death with all the bones in its body broken. Qin Hao threw him limply in front of the wolves.
Yun Ye knew that Qin Hao was demonstrating to the wolves.
He was telling the wolves that he was not someone to be trifled with and that they should get out of here.
However, Qin Hao's response was the Wolf King's angry roar.
Then, three wild wolves rushed towards Qin Hao from three directions.
"Brother, be careful!" Just as Yun Ye finished shouting, he suddenly discovered that the three wild wolves turned back midway and pounced towards him.
"What a bastard! How can you make such a fuss about things like this!"
At the critical moment of life and death, Yun Ye also risked his life, brandishing his sword wildly, intending to kill both of them, even if he could kill one of them, it wouldn't be a loss.
However, before he could come into contact with the wild wolf, he heard two muffled "bang bang" sounds.
Qin Hao had already picked up the engineering shovel and swatted away the wild wolf that was charging towards him from the right side.
Seeing the possibility of survival, Yun Ye became even more bloody. He raised his arm to block the wild wolf's blow to the neck. When he felt the pain in his right hand, he stabbed the wild wolf fiercely with the Yingisha knife in his right hand.
Wolf belly.
One sword, two swords, three swords...
It wasn't until an unwilling wolf howled that Yun Ye realized in surprise that the wolf that bit him was already dead, and the smelly wolf blood dyed his clothes crimson red.
"Okay, the wolves have retreated."
Qin Hao patted Yun Ye on the shoulder and said with admiration that ordinary people can resist wild wolves, which is already very powerful. This thing is not a pet that would be mistaken for a husky among civil servants, but a cruel hunter in nature.
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"Hiss, it hurts, it hurts me so much!" Yun Ye sat down on the ground, holding his arms and breathing heavily.
"Let me see."
Qin Hao pinched the bones of Yun Ye's left hand. Fortunately, there were no fractures or fractures. It was just that the wolf's teeth bit deeply, and blood was still oozing out from the three bloody holes.
He took out a medicine box from his backpack, found iodine and gauze, disinfected it, and then bandaged it.
While bandaging, Yun Ye kept yelling, and Qin Hao couldn't help but tease him.
"You were not afraid of fighting the wild wolf just now, but you can't bear this little pain?"
Yun Ye said with a bitter face: "So if I had been born during the Anti-Japanese War, I would have kept the last bullet for myself, otherwise I might not be able to withstand the torture and become a traitor."
"Okay, I'm still thinking of joking. It seems that the injury is not too serious." Qin Hao was happy.
After helping Yun Ye take care of his wounds, Qin Hao threw the carcasses of wild wolves around the tent to prevent other carnivores from smelling the blood and touching them. Although he was not afraid of jackals, tigers and leopards, Yun Ye was no longer afraid of them.
I can't stand the torture anymore.
"Senior brother, the wolves won't come back again, right?"
Perhaps because he had lost a lot of blood, Yun Ye's face was a little pale and his speech was weak.
Qin Hao nodded: "It's not impossible. You can rest in the tent first, and I'll keep watch."
"Then I'll trouble you." Yun Ye was not polite. He was dizzy now. If he held on, he would only add to Qin Hao's burden.
Since he couldn't sleep, Qin Hao simply sat up cross-legged and continued to try to control the vague "qi" in his body.
After a night of silence, when Yun Ye opened his eyes again, it was already bright.
He looked at his left hand holding the gauze and let out a sigh of relief. At the same time, he was glad that he had exchanged his backpack for Qin Hao's thigh, otherwise he might have become nourishment in the belly of the wild wolf.
Yun Ye unzipped the tent and climbed out.
"When you wake up, let's eat something first."
Before finishing last night's yellow sheep, Qin Hao grilled it again on the fire. Although it was a little hard and tasteless, it could replenish fat and protein, so Yun Ye still ate a big piece.
"Brother, let's get out of here quickly."
After eating and drinking, Yun Ye suggested.
Qin Hao shook his head and looked at the other side of the stream: "It's too slow to walk on two legs. It's better to have four legs."
"But senior brother, I can't ride a horse, and we don't have tools. We can't catch these wild horses at all." Yun Ye said with a bitter face.
"You can't learn it. As for the tools, who says you can't grasp them without tools?"
Yun Ye:..........
After putting the tent into his backpack, Qin Hao took Yun Ye across the stream to the other side.
Just when Qin Hao and Qin Hao were only thirty meters away from the horses, a tall maroon horse rushed out of the horses, raised its hooves high in a demonstration, and hit the ground hard. Yun Ye was shocked when he saw the ground.
Two bowls were smashed into big craters, and I couldn't help but shrink my neck. If I were kicked, my ribs would probably be broken.
However, Qin Hao walked straight over.
The maroon horse king seemed to feel that his majesty had been challenged, so he snorted hard and scratched the ground uneasily with his two hooves, warning the "two-legged beast" in front of him not to be shameless.
Qin Hao was unmoved. He had never seen many such handsome horses in the world. It would be a pity not to keep them for his own use.
Seeing that the "two-legged beast" didn't take him seriously at all, the horse king couldn't help it any longer. He let out a long roar and hit Qin Hao like lightning.
"Senior brother, be careful!" Yun Ye reminded loudly.
As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Wang had already rushed to Qin Hao, his explosive power was extremely shocking.