Chapter 114: Tiger roars and kills bees, bears hide in their nests
Chen Jue did not shout out this seemingly teasing remark because he was afraid that a sudden sound might scare the silly and cute blind bear and make the only remaining honeycomb in its mouth fall out!
The other party had just taken down such a large piece of honeycomb with great effort, and in the end only a small half was left in his mouth, and the bulk of it was thrown in front of Chen Jue, just like picking up sesame seeds and throwing away watermelons, all of it went to Chen Jue.
After watching the black bear being chased into the forest by wild bees, Chen Jue crawled out of the grass and strolled to the large beehive where a group of wild bees were hovering.
After their nests were robbed, the wild bees began to indiscriminately attack nearby creatures. The hooded leaf monkeys that had been watching the show on several nearby trees had already jumped off to somewhere and hid.
When they noticed the human Chen Jue appear and approached the beehive that had fallen to the ground step by step, the swarm of wild bees hovering above swooped over!
Seeing this, Chen Jue did not dodge, but took a deep breath, his chest swelled, his larynx moved, and then he opened his mouth and roared, and the sound of the Tiger Roaring Golden Bell came out with his killing move [Tiger Roaring in the Mountains]!
A ball of white gas as big as a wheel spewed out of Chen Jue's mouth like a grenade exploding. With a "boom", the white gas created a fan-shaped shock wave, sweeping across the area several meters in front of Chen Jue. All the wild bees were killed wherever it passed, and all fell into the haystack.
The weeds and wild flowers around were blown all over the place by the aftermath, as if they were blown by a force 10 gale!
At this moment, all the larvae and eggs in the large beehive were wiped out by Chen Jue's killing move with a tiger roar, and not a single one survived.
Seeing how powerful and fierce his killing move was, Chen Jue nodded with satisfaction, walked over, picked up the large piece of honeycomb and shook it.
He shook out all the dead wild bees, eggs and larvae inside, then reached out and broke off a piece of honeycomb covered in sticky honey and licked it. It was indeed much sweeter than the honey made by domesticated bees.
No wonder the blind bear took the risk just now. Even though his face was covered with stings, he still wanted to steal some honey to eat.
In this primitive jungle, the only food that is so sweet is probably wild honey!
As for the wild bees that Chen Jue killed, they were not protected insects, so he didn't feel any psychological burden in killing them.
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Picking up a large piece of honeycomb, Chen Jue took out a knife from his schoolbag and an empty functional drink bottle to scrape and scoop up the crystal clear wild honey inside for fear that the honey inside would drip.
As for the beehives, Chen Jue was reluctant to throw them away. The waxy honeycombs inside had medicinal properties. He prepared a few plastic bags before coming. He had originally planned to pack the precious herbs he had picked to avoid having them crushed by stuffing them into his backpack.
I didn't expect it to be useful now. It is just right for wrapping this large piece of wild beehive!
After finishing the work and leaving the valley, Chen Jue followed the direction in which the black bear fled, following it slowly.
As a result of practicing Wudang Night Walking Kung Fu, Chen Jue's night vision ability has greatly improved, and he is not afraid of the darkness when walking in the mountains and forests on this dark night.
After walking about seven or eight miles over mountains and hills, they finally found the blind bear that had been chased so far by wild bees under the roots of a big tree in a ravine.
It was seen curled up in a small hole hollowed out at the bottom of a tree root, which could shelter it from wind and rain. There was a pile of weeds outside the hole. If Chen Jue had not had sharp vision and could not see the creases left by the black bear when it ran through the weeds, he probably would not have been able to reach here.
“Huff huff!”
The black bear hiding in the cave to recuperate probably smelled the scent of a stranger, so it stuck its head out and started sniffing.
Black bears have poor natural vision, and because it is night, they can basically only rely on their sense of smell and hearing to judge what is happening outside.
Its hearing is so strong that it can basically hear the sound of human footsteps at a distance of 300 meters.
However, since Chen Jue had practiced three types of light skills, with the bonuses of [As Light as a Swallow] and [Flying Through Flowers and Butterflies], every step he took was so light that it didn't seem like that of a human. Therefore, he was discovered by the black bear only when he reached the door of its home.
As soon as he approached the cave entrance, Chen Jue heard the breathing and heartbeats of two black bear cubs in addition to the adult black bear.
"It's Mama Bear!"
"No wonder he was so fierce just now and took the risk to collect honey." Chen Jue noticed something unusual and felt warmed in his heart by this protective behavior.
It is said that maternal love is the most gentle emotion in the world, and it is expressed with the same meticulousness even when applied to these wild beasts.
Since Chen Jue's mother passed away early, he has always longed for and missed maternal love.
Most people are like him . When they were young, they were ignorant and only knew how to play, ignoring the greatness of their mothers. They only regret it when they really lose them.
"Roar!" The adult female bear probably sensed Chen Jue's arrival. She leaned forward and roared at him a few times, trying to scare Chen Jue away.
Chen Jue put down his backpack, took out the large piece of honeycomb that he had wrapped earlier and threw it in front of the other party.
The mother bear sniffed the familiar sweet smell, looked at Chen Jue in confusion, listened to the cub's call behind her, and then went back into the cave with the beehive in her mouth.
As for Chen Jue, he leaped up to a height of six or seven meters using his wall-walking skills and stepped on the trunk of the huge tree.
Then he grabbed the bark with both hands, and his ten fingers clasped the bark like iron hooks. He nimbly climbed up to the fork of the main trunk that was more than ten meters high, found a concave position where he could stretch his legs and lean back, and sat down to rest.
He planned to spend the night in this tree, being neighbors with the black bear mother and cubs below, and taking care of and protecting them, as a reward for picking up half a bottle of wild honey for free.
The black bear that had crawled into the cave was probably worried, so it fed the two cubs the honeycomb it was holding in its mouth, and then came out again.
It sniffed its nose and moved its ears, and found that the strange human being seemed to have disappeared.
In fact, what it didn't know was that at this moment, Chen Jue was practicing the Great Circulation on the big tree above his head. His qi and blood were restrained throughout his body, and he entered the state of fetal breathing.
It was as if he had merged with the natural environment. Plus, he had climbed the tree quickly and swiftly, and did not leave any strong odor, so the blind bear thought he had left.
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After practicing the small and large circulations on the tree for an hour, the skill proficiency on the panel showed no sign of increasing by even 1 point.
Just like when Chen Jue first learned this Taoist inner alchemy technique at the beach, no matter how hard he practiced, this technique just wouldn't obey him.
Unlike other martial arts, once you practice it is like taking gunpowder and your proficiency increases rapidly.
"It seems that I need to improve on this inner alchemy technique!" Chen Jue sighed secretly, stretched out his legs, and began to sleep on his back.
All around was the silent pristine forest. As night fell, the temperature dropped sharply and wet fog began to spread in the forest. His body became wet, but fortunately, after Chen Jue entered into fetal breathing meditation, he was not afraid of dampness and cold like an animal in hibernation. In addition, the jacket and boots he was wearing were both newly bought high-quality products with good waterproof function. Therefore, he slept comfortably with the backpack in his arms that night.
What Chen Jue never expected was that in a pile of weeds not far from the bear cave at the bottom of the tree, there was an extremely concealed field scientific research camera!
This pinhole camera was planted by researchers from the Gongshan Nature Reserve several years ago. It is specifically used to monitor the animal habitats in this pristine dense forest.
This field scientific research camera has the characteristics of night vision and long battery life. In addition, the program is set in advance. In order to ensure sufficient power , it will automatically turn on at night from time to time to capture wild animals that have nocturnal habits.
Moreover, due to the lack of signals in the deep mountains and forests, this type of field scientific research cameras usually do not have network transmission capabilities, and must be manually replaced and stored regularly to take the captured images back for decoding.
In addition, it was buried deep and far enough away that even Chen Jue, a practitioner with extremely keen senses, failed to discover its existence, so that the whole process of feeding the beehive, climbing trees to live, and living next to the black bear family was captured on film!
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When the next day dawned, a few rays of morning light shone through the mist into the woods, and Chen Jue woke up automatically.
He wanted to go down and find a stream or river to wash his face and rinse his mouth, but he didn't expect that the neighbor under the tree got up earlier than him!
The mother black bear had just come out of her hole and was rubbing her back vigorously on the thick roots of the tree. She was probably stung by a wild bee yesterday and was still itching.
But the old bear's rubbing against the tree was actually interesting to Chen Jue, who had just gotten up on the top of the tree.
Bears are relatively special creatures in the animal kingdom. They are usually mild-tempered, but once provoked they become extremely furious. When they start fighting, even tigers are afraid of them!
Moreover, bears are one of the few mammals that hibernate. The fat accumulated in their bodies can help them withstand the cold winter and survive the long winter.
It was just like Chen Jue’s practice of inner alchemy and fetal breathing, where he could sleep without waking up and wake up at dawn.
The Bear Form is the most dull but extremely powerful of the twelve Xingyi Forms.
Many different martial arts schools have similar training and fighting methods to the bear form.
For example, the most famous Iron Mountain Leaning in Bajiquan borrows some of the essence of the old bear rubbing against the tree. Another example is the Hunyuan Posture in Taijiquan, which also contains the Taoist state of mind of "exhaling the old and inhaling the new, like the bear's classics and the bird's stretching".
Although the several horizontal and hard skills that Chen Jue has been practicing recently have nothing to do with the bear form, he uses the Golden Bell Cover and Iron Shirt to exert his strength, and the skin and muscles all over his body will tremble slightly, just like the "old bear shaking off lice".
This is when the muscles and bones of the whole body vibrate together when exerting force, causing the skin and muscles to tremble slightly. It can also have the effect of relieving force when applied to horizontal hard training.
Therefore, Chen Jue would naturally not miss the opportunity to observe the true meaning of the bear shape up close.
