Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

Near noon, several people heard the sound of flowing water in the forest, which seemed to be near and far.

Several people followed the sound of flowing water and saw a stream hidden behind dense grass. The water level had obviously dropped and was only as wide as a palm. It looked like a sick, weak and powerless stream flowing through the cracks in the rocks.

Despite the drought, this place can still maintain a mountain stream that is about to stop flowing. This shows how abundant the water was in the past.

As expected, the endless mountains hide too many treasures waiting for people to dig. However, people these days do not have high enough martial arts skills and cannot protect themselves when encountering wild beasts, so few people would venture into the mountains.

Several girls looked around and after confirming it was safe, some washed mushrooms and some washed vegetables in the stream. Lin Xiaoyue squatted aside and butchered the morning's prey, while Chun Xing was also picking and cleaning the herbs picked on the way. They were all busy in an orderly manner.

Half an hour later, several people sat on the ground around the grill as if they were fleeing from famine, eating the fragrant barbecue sprinkled with various spices and drinking wild vegetable and mushroom soup, feeling so comfortable.

After dinner, several girls strung mushrooms together with needle and thread and hung them outside the baskets so that they could dry out the moisture while walking and reduce the weight.

Before leaving, he buried the animal entrails he had just cleaned and the unburned fire to prevent a forest fire from occurring during the hottest days of summer. He then simply washed his face with stream water, filled his water bag, and then carried on into the mountains with his bag on his back.

The forest was very deep, and the terrain became steeper as they went higher. However, they did not lead any animals this time, so when they encountered some steep and difficult terrain, they held hands and carefully walked along the mountain wall.

The further they went into the forest, the more rustling sounds would alert people, especially in the shaded areas where there was no light from the mountain and where there were overgrown weeds. They could only slow down their pace and carefully knock on the grass nests with long branches broken off from the road while moving forward carefully.

Fortunately, they were very lucky and did not encounter any creepy snakes on the road, but they did encounter pheasants and rabbits several times.

At first, Lin Xiaoyue hunted two, but found that they had not yet digested the morning's catch. If they continued hunting like this, they would not be able to eat all the prey, and they would not have time to process it, so it would be wasted.

Based on the principle of sustainable development, several people unanimously agreed on the next path. Unless they encountered large and ferocious wild beasts, they would not let Lin Xiaoyue take action. They could also practice with the crossbow more.

So, on the way.

"Oh my god, there's a hare over there."

"Hurry, quick, wow, just a little bit, just almost hit it."

"Stop shouting, you're running away again."

Lin Xiaoyue: ...

The distance is three or four meters, which is what they call almost... Well, just be happy.

This was the seventh time they had spotted prey. At first, the girls remembered to use branches to scare the snake away, but later on, their attention was slowly drawn to the prey and they just focused on shooting at it with their crossbows. When they missed, they would scream and run after it.

But how can a two-legged creature outrun a four-legged creature? Even if it can catch up with it, it can’t stop it from flying. In the end, it will be exhausted and unable to catch even a hair.

Lin Xiaoyue was too lazy to go through the trouble so she stood on a high ground nearby to keep watch over them, letting the three girls run like crazy after chasing after various pheasants and rabbits.

The most outrageous one is Chun Xing. Sometimes she can't shoot or catch up, and she gets dizzy and just uses a crossbow to hit...

Fortunately, she didn't skimp on materials when making it. It was made of pure iron, and even the crossbow didn't use cow tendons, but steel wire ropes from space. Otherwise, if she had used less materials, it wouldn't have been able to withstand the way she made it.

sweat!

I don't know if it was because they entered the mountains and there was no invisible restraint from the older elders around them, and they were all the same age, so the girls started to let loose without any scruples, almost scaring Lin Xiaoyue's eyes out of their sockets.

For example, Chun Xing threw the crossbow but missed the pheasant. She looked so disappointed. She stomped her feet to pick up the crossbow and grumbled, "If only I could catch it. The tail feathers on the chicken's butt are so beautiful. I could pluck them and make them into a shuttlecock for kicking."

Lin Xiaoyue couldn't help rolling her eyes. If the pheasant knew that you were going for the hair on its butt, it probably wouldn't be happy to be caught by you.

The grass in the direction Chun Xing was going was quite dense. I wanted to remind her, but I decided to find a branch to poke it, in case there were snakes in the grass and she got bit by accident.

As a result, before Chun Xing could do anything, Xiao Cao and Lin Zhaodi screamed. It turned out that Xiao Cao accidentally stepped on a big snake as thick as an arm. The snake suddenly stood up and spit out its bright red tongue at her, scaring her so much that she screamed.

Lin Xiaoyue suppressed the urge that made her scalp tingle and immediately ran towards them.

Before she got close, she saw that Lin Zhaodi, who was as afraid of snakes as she was, did not run away or retreat. Instead, she dropped the crossbow in her hand, drew the short knife from her waist, and rushed forward in front of Lin Xiaoyue's shocked eyes. Before the snake could react, she swung the knife and cut off the snake's head neatly.

Almost at the same time when Lin Zhaodi made her move, Xiaocao screamed out of control and waved the bone-cutting knife in her hand wildly.

In the blink of an eye, the snake, which had been stepped on for no reason and had no time to retaliate, was stomped into four pieces by Lin Zhaodi and Xiaocao.

When Lin Xiaoyue came over, he looked down at the snake segment that was still twitching on the ground and raised his eyebrows: What a poor snake! He didn't check the almanac before going out.

The snake that could not be deader: ... I finally swallowed the snake over here and occupied the territory, but before I could even start showing off, you reckless two-legged beasts killed me. It’s so unfair.

"Ah-ah-"

But the two girls who were still alive and well and not hurt at all were still screaming at the top of their lungs with their eyes tightly closed, slashing back and forth in the air with the knives in their hands, looking frightened.

Fearing that the two might hurt her, Lin Xiaoyue sighed and she and Chun Xing went over, each covering their mouths and dragging the snake back a few steps to avoid being bitten by the decapitated snake head.

The two frightened girls screamed for a long time before they recovered.

Lin Xiaoyue and Chun Xing opened the water bags for the two men to drink, let them calm down for a while, and then prepared to change place and continue walking.

But the two patted their chests, bent down to pick up the long branches on the ground, and ran to the snake, shouting: "Snake, the snake I killed, what a good pot of snake soup."

What the hell?

Are you going to pick up the chopped snake parts and eat them in the evening?

Chun Xing was busy shouting at the back to remind them, "Be careful of snakes, they may hold grudges. Don't touch the snake's head."

"Don't worry, don't worry."

"I know."

Seeing the two of them running without looking back, it seems that they are fine. Xiaocao was even so excited that he blurted out "I", obviously he was too excited.

Lin Xiaoyue felt like she didn’t recognize them anymore, especially Lin Zhaodi. Wasn’t she the most afraid of snakes?