After everyone walked for more than ten minutes, they each chose a direction and separated.
They are here to hunt, some are here to play, and of course they cannot all get together.
I don't know if it was bad luck or some other reason, but Lin Xuan and Liu Dawu walked for half an hour without even catching a single prey.
It's not that I didn't encounter any prey, I still saw some rabbits, antelopes, etc., but before Lin Xuan could take aim with his bow, he ran away from a distance.
Lin Xuan took a look and realized that if this continued, he would return empty-handed.
"Liu Da, leave the horses here and leave one person to watch while we go up the mountain." Lin Xuan said.
Because of their horses, Lin Xuan and the others did not go up the mountain, but looked for prey at the foot of the hillside.
Lin Xuan felt that it must be the neighing of the horse that alerted the prey in advance.
Leaving one person to look after the horses, Lin Xuan took the four of them, Liu Da, up a relatively large mountain.
"Why can't I see any prey? Maybe they are all hibernating." Lin Xuan cursed secretly.
After half an hour of hiking up the mountain, I didn't even see a rabbit, let alone an antelope or a wild boar.
It's better to be down there, where at least you can see a few rabbits.
After walking for another half an hour, he still didn't see any animals. Lin Xuan had to give up. He was going back. If he walked further, he might not be able to make it back in the dark. It was so cold that he would freeze to death in the wild.
"Sir, look at that." Liu Da leaned into Lin Xuan's ear and whispered softly.
Liu Da's voice was trembling, as if he was afraid of disturbing something.
Lin Xuan looked in the direction Liu Da was pointing. When he saw it clearly, he was shocked.
"Hide quickly." Lin Xuan came to his senses and whispered quickly.
He didn't expect that what Liu Da discovered was actually a tiger.
What's the matter, I haven't encountered prey for a long time, but when I do, I encounter a big guy.
Lin Xuan even suspected that the reason why he hadn't encountered prey for so long was because there were tigers here.
It is estimated that the animals nearby either escaped or got into the tiger's belly. You must know that tigers are very territorial.
The other three soldiers were not stupid. They were also afraid of Tiger. After hearing Lin Xuan's words, they hurriedly hid.
Several people squatted there, hiding themselves, not daring to breathe for fear of attracting the tiger.
"By the way, why should I hide? I'm here to hunt. Is there any better prey than a tiger?" Lin Xuan reacted and cursed inwardly.
I was actually frightened by a tiger.
Well, Lin Xuan was actually quite scared. This was a tiger. It looked like a South China tiger.
The South China tiger has a round head, short ears, thick and powerful limbs, a long tail, a lot of milky white on the chest and abdomen, and an orange-yellow body covered with black horizontal stripes. The fur has short and narrow stripes, and the spacing between the stripes is larger than that of Bengal.
Tigers, such as Siberian tigers, are large and often have rhombus patterns on their sides.
The South China tiger is smaller and is one of the smallest subspecies among tigers. The male tiger is about 2.5 meters long from head to tail and weighs about 150 kilograms. The female tiger is about 2.3 meters long from head to tail, with a tail length of 80 meters.
-100 cm, weight about 120 kg.
And what Lin Xuan saw in front of him, judging from its size, should be an adult South China tiger.
"Isn't it just a tiger? I have merged with Zhao Yun Zhiyong, so what are you afraid of?" Lin Xuan encouraged himself in his heart.
After comforting himself, Lin Xuan took out an arrow, put it on the bowstring, and aimed with squinted eyes.
Although the South China tiger was a protected animal in later generations and was on the verge of extinction, the Tang Dynasty did not pay attention to protecting animals.
Whoosh!
After Lin Xuan let go, the arrow went straight towards the South China tiger.
I don’t know if it’s because Lin Xuan is afraid, or if the tiger has a premonition of danger.
After Lin Xuan's arrow shot out, the tiger actually moved.
He clearly aimed at the eyes, but in the end he shot the tiger's right front leg.
"Roar!"
The tiger was in pain and let out a pitiful cry.
"Roar!"
Another tiger roar came from the distance, causing Lin Xuan's expression to change.
There is actually a tiger?
Damn it, isn't it said that there is no room for two tigers in one mountain? These tigers are still in groups like this.
Could it be that the other one is a tigress?
Isn’t it said that there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, unless there is one male and one female?
"No matter what, we have to deal with this tiger before another tiger comes."
Although the tiger was injured, Lin Xuan had no intention of fighting.
Without any time to think, Lin Xuan took out an arrow and prepared to kill the injured tiger in front of him.
However, when Lin Xuan just took aim, the tiger roared at Lin Xuan, turned around and ran away.
Although it was injured, the instinct of the beast told it that if it continued to stay, its life would be lost.
Lin Xuan was hesitant, should he pursue her?
Perhaps it was the tiger he had just shot that gave him confidence, so he decided to chase after him. How could a cooked duck make him fly away?
Even if it joins another tiger, one of them is already injured, so what is there to be afraid of?
"Chase!" Lin Xuan shouted and rushed out.
Although Liu Da and the others were scared, they saw Lin Xuan chasing after him, so they had no choice but to follow him.
They are Lin Xuan's personal soldiers. If something happens to Lin Xuan, they will not survive.
Of course they couldn't outrun the tiger. By the time they reached the spot where the tiger had been hit by the arrow, the tiger had long since disappeared.
However, the tiger was hit by an arrow and was bleeding all the time. Lin Xuan chased after him looking for traces of blood.
Looking at the blood stains along the way, Lin Xuan became more confident. This tiger had shed so much blood, so what would happen if it merged with another tiger.
"Roar!"
Lin Xuan originally thought it would take a long time to chase, but he didn't expect to hear a tiger roar after chasing for several hundred meters.
This tiger roar was so powerful that you knew it was another tiger.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but Lin Xuan seemed to feel a sense of sadness in the roar of the tiger.
Lin Xuan crossed a bush and finally saw the tiger.
He didn't expect that in addition to the two big tigers, there were also two little tigers.
The male tiger bled a lot because of his injuries and fell to the ground.
The female tiger held her head against the male tiger's head and let out a mournful roar from time to time.
The two little tigers are not big, they look a little bigger than adult cats, and they don't have the aura of the king of beasts.
They didn't know that their father was injured, so they kept crawling into the female tiger's arms, hoping that her father would get up and play with them.
"Roar!"
When the tigress saw Lin Xuan, she roared, her voice full of anger.
But the tigress might be worried about her husband and children and did not rush towards Lin Xuan.
To be honest, the scene in front of him deeply touched Lin Xuan, and he couldn't bear it.
Lin Xuan put away any pity in his heart, took out an arrow, and prepared to shoot the tigress first.
The female tiger sensed danger and stood directly in front of the male tiger and the two cubs.
The tigress didn't know that Lin Xuan was her target. She just wanted to protect her husband and children.
This scene made Lin Xuan's heart tremble violently.
Husband and wife are originally like birds in the same forest, but when disaster strikes, they fly separately.
Many humans cannot share weal and woe, but beasts in the eyes of humans actually do it.