Survival skills maxed out, I feed my wife and daughter by catching fish and shrimp

In the silent forest, the old and new hunters walked into the mountains with a dog and a horse, and the atmosphere gradually became lively.

"Brother Chen, look, this is rabbit droppings."

Qiao Liu pointed to the black, bean-sized feces on the ground and introduced them to Chen Changfan.

"And here are the footprints of a hare, and these are the footprints of a fox..."

Qiao Liu wanted to show off his hunting knowledge, and Chen Changfan was happy to get it for free. He learned a lot of knowledge about tracking and positioning along the way.

Experienced hunters can easily grasp the distribution of wild animals nearby just by looking at feces, footprints and even hair on the ground.

With this important information, it is easier to catch prey by setting up ambushes along the route the prey must take.

Wang Wang!

The hound's nose suddenly twitched and it ran towards a patch of grass. Three hares suddenly jumped out of the grass and fled in panic.

"It's a nest of hares! Heizi, chase them!"

Qiao Liu shouted, and Heizi rushed out like an arrow, but after running a few steps, the wound on his leg was affected and his speed suddenly slowed down.

"oops!"

Qiao Liu was so anxious that he slapped his thigh and quickly drew his bow and arrow.

But before he could take aim, he heard the sound of a bowstring being tightened beside him.

call out!call out!call out!

Three arrows whistled and hit the three hares with incredible precision. Chen Changfan walked forward calmly and picked up the three hare corpses.

Qiao Liu and Heizi were both stunned.

I thought this new Hunter just had good accuracy, but I didn't expect its shooting speed to be even more exaggerated.

In that brief moment just now, he could only barely shoot one arrow, and he couldn't even maintain accuracy.

But Chen Changfan was able to shoot three arrows in a row, and every arrow hit the target!

"Brother Chen is a great archer! He is simply a natural hunter!" Qiao Liu couldn't help but praise, but he saw the serious young man walking towards him and handing him a hare.

"According to the rules of the mountains, a new hunter's prey must be divided half with the old hunters. I can't bear to give half, so I'll give you one."

Chen Changfan curled up his lips into a smile and shook the hare in his hand.

Qiao Liu felt as if he had been hit on the head with a club and it took him a long time to recover.

He actually... took the initiative to share his prey with me?

The rules of the mountains.

The new hunter shares half of the prey with the old hunter. This is the official rule.

The strong can rob the prey of the weak, this is the rule in these mountains.

Seeing that Qiao Liu was hesitant to answer, Chen Changfan said angrily, "It was thanks to Heizi that he found this rabbit nest. If Heizi hadn't been injured, he would have caught at least one rabbit. So this rabbit is what you deserve. If you don't want it, I won't force you."

As Chen Changfan was about to take it back, Qiao Liu immediately reached out and took it, "Yes! Why not! Um, thank you!"

Looking at the middle-aged man with a fierce scar on his face, who actually had a slightly embarrassed expression on his face, Chen Changfan suddenly felt a little funny.

"Brother Chen, with your archery skills, it would be a shame not to participate in the Autumn Hunt. Even if you can't win first place, getting into the top ten shouldn't be a problem. The reward is at least one hundred taels of silver!"

Chen Changfan didn't take Qiao Liu's words seriously. He heard that the competition in the autumn hunt was extremely fierce, and only those who had killed prey like man-eaters and tigers could get a spot.

With the current attack power of his two-force bow, it is still not enough to challenge the beast.

"Old Joe, how much is this hare worth?"

"Wild game from the mountains is more valuable than pork! Rabbit meat and skin can both fetch a high price. This rabbit is worth 50 copper coins!"

Chen Changfan nodded.

It seems that hunting is quite profitable.

I only shot two wild rabbits and earned one string of coins, which was equivalent to a hundred or so small fish.

Of course, he ignored the difficulty of hunting rabbits. Not everyone can fire continuously and hit the target as quickly as he did.

Generally speaking, a hunter is lucky if he can shoot two hares a day.

Unless you are an experienced hunter who knows how to find the "rabbit trails" where hares forage and set traps in advance, you can often get something.

However, the success rate is not very high. Often, the prey has been eaten by other wild animals before the hunter can remove the snare.

Therefore, if a hunter can earn a hundred dollars a day, he is already above the average. It is no wonder that Qiao Liu praises Chen Changfan so much.

After trekking for half a day, both of them were a little thirsty, so Qiao Liu led Chen Changfan to a mountain stream to drink water.

Chen Changfan checked the map and found that this stream was not marked on the map at all.

"Haha, did you buy this map from the market? This thing is totally inaccurate!"

As Qiao Liu spoke, he took out a piece of parchment from his arms.

On it was a map of this mountain range. Not only was the content much richer, but the areas where wild beasts often appeared were also marked out.

Chen Changfan compared it carefully and found that the map he bought did have some errors and omissions. If he really followed this map to go deep into the mountains, it would be very difficult and dangerous.

"Take this and copy it down. This is a map I've compiled over the years, and I won't show it to anyone else. Hey...give me half of that shortbread!"

Chen Changfan smiled and handed over a pastry, carefully copying down Qiao Liu's map.

Among them was a cave, marked by Qiao Liu with a red pen and a few small words written next to it.

"Bottomless pit, dangerous!"

This bottomless pit immediately reminded him of the underground cave and immediately caught his attention.

There is no river around the bottomless pit, but that's normal.

Underground rivers are difficult for ordinary people to discover from the ground.

He marked the location of the cave in his memory, connected it with the bottomless pit in a straight line, and it happened to intersect with a river.

That underground cave is most likely connected to this bottomless pit.

Chen Changfan secretly rejoiced that he had found the clue so quickly.

"Old Joe, what's going on with this place marked as dangerous?"

Chen Changfan did not ask directly about the bottomless pit, but pointed to a forest marked in red and asked.

"Danger means don't get close. There are bears and humans in that woods. I advise you not to go there."

Old Joe said seriously.

"I see there are five or six dangerous places marked on your map. Are they all off-limits?"

"Of course! These were all earned at the cost of the hunters' blood. For example, that valley to the west is full of poisonous snakes. One bite from them is enough to kill you! And there's that bottomless pit. It looks like a layer of fallen leaves on the surface, but it's actually full of holes underneath. If you fall in, you can't get out!"

That's right. The underground cave is an obvious karst landform, formed by karst over the years. It's not surprising that the ground has been eroded into a large number of pits.

If the holes formed by erosion are connected to underground caves, the depth may be hundreds of meters. If someone falls in, they will definitely die.

Isn’t that a bottomless pit?

"Old Joe, I suddenly remembered that I have some things to deal with at home, so I'll take my leave now."

Chen Changfan planned to explore the bottomless pit and stood up to say goodbye to Lao Qiao.

"Well, Brother Chen hunted three rabbits, so that's enough for today. I still have to try my luck again, otherwise my wife will not give up."

Old Qiao smiled bitterly and looked at Chen Changfan's departing back with some envy.