Volume 1: Farming Chapter 2 There is no reference!
After a large part of the deer's head was deflated and its antlers were turned into rubble by the evil, the poor old antler deer finally died. Xiao Yun, who was almost exhausted, pulled the deer's body and saw that it was motionless, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Dog paws can never replace human hands. Damn, is it possible that the upright apes finally won the competition among species... Oh my god!"
Muttering to himself, Xiao Yun threw away the stone that had hurt his front paw. He glanced at the aching pad of his flesh and almost licked it instinctively - luckily he put his nose close and smelled the wonderful scent on the front paw, so he braked in time and turned his head away.
"Instinct is so fucking scary!" Xiao Yun got off the old horned deer. To be honest, the bloody mess on the ground was quite disgusting, but a hungry person had no room for pretentiousness. It was just... "Wait, damn, how do I eat it?!"
When modern people, including Xiao Yun himself, think of the term wilderness survival, the images that come to mind are either Robinson Crusoe or Bear Grylls. In any case, they are all about a sturdy man sitting alone in the wilderness, with a blazing bonfire in front of him, on which any edible animal fat or protein is roasted.
Now the question is, how can Xiao Yun, who is not very good at even picking up stones to smash a deer's head, use his dog paws to complete such a super difficult operation as making a fire and grilling meat?
Confused, Xiao Yun looked at his paws which were stained with blood and years of old dirt, and then looked at the old antler deer which was intact below the neck. His mind went blank.
A few hundred meters away, among a herd of deer munching on grass, a sturdy male deer twitched its ears and looked up vigilantly in the direction where its sacrificed compatriot had fallen.
It saw the hunter who had killed its compatriot put his head close to the neck of the victim, with his mouth half open, fixed in this position, motionless.
The stag shook his ears and chewed the grass in his mouth while silently staring at the strange predator who had completed the hunt but did not eat.
About five minutes later.
The strange predator suddenly fell backwards, making strange cries mixed with "woosh" sounds, and rolled madly on the ground:
"I can't do it, ah-ah-ah-ah~~~~"
"?!" The sturdy male deer looked at the crazy predator in shock. Although it could not understand what the beast was doing, it instinctively sensed the danger, so it stopped eating, called out a warning to its fellow deer, and led the herd to move deeper into the grassland without hesitation...
After the group of alert deer left, the surrounding area became quiet...
About half an hour later.
Xiao Yun, who was lying on the ground, stood up silently, put his mouth close to the old antler deer silently, closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and bit it bravely.
"Damn it, bah bah bah!" Xiao Yun almost vomited. He bit a mouthful of fur, which was covered with mud, gravel, grass leaves, suspicious excrement and other things. He opened his eyes and saw that he had bitten the place where he had sat to suppress the horned deer. His dirty butt had caused great damage to the old horned deer's shoulder.
"Calm down, calm down. You have to stay calm even if you are starving to death." Xiao Yun forced himself to sit down, staring at the horned deer that could save his life with bloodshot eyes. "Think about it carefully... In the animal world, leopards and hyenas seem to peel the skin of their prey before eating it, biting the skin first... Uh, wait, I think some documentary showed that leopards eat their prey from the stomach, eating the internal organs that are easy to spoil first... Ugh!"
Unable to hold back any longer, he went to the side and dry-heaved for more than ten seconds. After he recovered from the pain, Xiao Yun sat back firmly, staring at the horned deer with bloodshot eyes: "Forget about eating the internal organs raw... uh... the rest of the meat can be eaten as sashimi... eh? Wait, wait!"
Lifting his paws again and looking at his pads, Xiao Yun finally discovered a problem that he had overlooked before - his claws seemed to be longer than those of his neighbor's Samoyed, and the nails on his five paws were much longer and sharper than those of any dog he had seen before.
"...If a dog doesn't trim its nails, it will become like this?" Xiao Yun was shocked. "Eh... that doesn't seem right. I've only heard of stray dogs biting people, but never heard of stray dogs scratching people?"
"What the hell am I thinking? I'm almost starving to death!" Xiao Yun slapped himself in the face because of the strong feeling of hunger in his stomach. He tried to move the five claws on the dog's paw. The five fingers of a dog are indeed not as convenient as human fingers, but they can still be used. So he stopped forcing himself to eat and carefully stretched out his claws...
--Don't mention it, although his dog paws were extremely dirty and the claws were so black that you couldn't see their original color at all, they were still quite sharp. They pierced through the thick fur of the antler deer without much effort, and with a slight pull down, a cut was made.
"I can go! It's totally possible! Even though I don't have hands, I have my own knives!"
Xiao Yun was excited. He immediately stretched out his left paw to hold the body of the antler deer, and used his right sharp claw as if he was holding a kitchen knife to make a triangular incision on the deerskin. He tore off the deerskin with force, and after breaking the subcutaneous fascia, the red and white muscle layer was exposed.
Xiao Yun eagerly used his claws to cut off a finger-thick irregular slice of venison and hurriedly stuffed it into his mouth.
Uh… Raw meat without mustard, soy sauce, or salt. To be honest, the taste is… Xiao Yun didn’t taste the delicious game described in some novels. Only the weird and greasy taste made him feel like he was worse off than dead…
"I can't just starve to death without even getting my lunch box. That would be a huge loss for me!" The desire to survive made Xiao Yun swallow the piece of raw meat almost with tears in his eyes. He didn't know if it was a psychological effect. Although his whole mouth felt like it had encountered a disaster, the hunger in his stomach was indeed relieved a lot. So he plucked up his courage and determination again, and cut off another two-finger-wide slice of meat.
He cut about sixteen or seventeen pieces of meat and swallowed them whole. Although he still didn't feel full, Xiao Yun couldn't eat any more - the unbearable fishy and greasy taste of raw meat was unbearable for him unless he was forced into a desperate situation.
"I no longer complain about the heavy MSG in takeout, the bad taste of canned food, the small size of barbecued meat, the little coriander in mutton noodles, the dry fried noodles, the unauthentic dandan noodles, and the spicy hot pot skewers that easily make people get angry..."
Muttering to himself, Xiao Yun staggered away from the remaining horned deer. When he moved to a place several dozen meters away, he lost his strength and lay down in a spread-eagle position. Looking up at the sky, his dog-like face was as sad as a salted fish.
“After get off work, I sit in my room playing on the computer, with beer on the left and cigarettes on the right. The fat otaku happy water is just a few steps away, snacks are on the TV cabinet in the living room, and the delivery guy will deliver the food to my door after pressing the APP... woo woo woo... So I used to live such a happy life... woo woo..."
The more Xiao Yun thought about it, the sadder he became, and before he knew it, his face was covered in tears.
As if to match his state of mind, the sun hanging at the end of the western sky also set below the horizon at this time, and the whole earth was gradually shrouded in darkness.
Xiao Yun silently shed tears while looking at the starry sky. He recalled the delivery guys who often came to his neighborhood and company to deliver food, recalled the street snacks that he could eat by just walking downstairs, recalled the cabinet of snacks, coke and beer that he had just bought online... At this moment, he thought a lot. He found that it was reasonable for people to always feel sad about what they have lost. He now deeply realized how much people miss life in the cold steel jungle of the modern world ...
He smelled a faint stench and heard the slight friction of animals walking in the grass. Xiao Yun, who was immersed in the sadness of his loss, subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction of the noise.
Dogs can also see things in the dark. Xiao Yun's vision was not affected by the night at this moment, and he saw the uninvited guest very clearly... A fat and strong brown bear with a strong body and particularly well-developed shoulder and back muscles was sneaking up to the antlered deer he had left over, and was lurking within two meters of the antlered deer.
Xiao Yun sat up, and the brown bear immediately gave up the horned deer at its mouth, turned around and ran away. After running more than a hundred meters, it stopped again, squatted in the grass, and continued to stare at the horned deer.
Xiao Yun: “…”
Xiao Yun raised his dog paw, not caring whether it was awkward or not, and rubbed his eyes like a human, and looked at the brown bear.
Even if Xiao Yun was not a loyal audience of the animal world, he could still recognize brown bears. First, brown bears were indeed easy to recognize. Second, he had participated in a battle between lions, tigers and bears when he was bored... He remembered clearly that brown bears were one of the largest mammals in the order Carnivora on land, with a body length of between 1.5 and 3 meters, and the strongest male brown bears could weigh half a ton. No one doubted the fighting power of Maozi, because Maozi could raise brown bears as pets...
So now Xiao Yun was doubting whether there was something wrong with his eyes - the huge beast that looked like an adult male brown bear was actually... smaller than the giant elk that he had smashed to death with a rock? !
"There are actually such small brown bears in the world?!" Xiao Yun was so shocked that he stared in astonishment for a long time before his brain started to work. "Wait, if the giant deer that I smashed and ate was a real giant deer... then I remember that the width of the giant deer's horns alone was 2.5 meters, which is indeed larger than a brown bear - then how big am I?!"
After being inexplicably reborn as a dog, he has been wandering around in this hairless grassland. There is no human to refer to him, so Xiao Yun has always thought that he must have been reborn as some kind of large stray dog - but there is no large dog on earth that is bigger than an elk or a brown bear, right? !
Xiao Yun stood up unconsciously in shock, and then the brown bear that was squatting in the distance turned around and ran away...
"——Is there a brown bear in this world that was scared away by a dog?" Xiao Yun felt that his logical thinking was directly raped... He even forgot about the instinctive pursuit.
