Volume 1: Farming Chapter 21 Battle for Acorns
"Hmm?" Xiao Yun accidentally saw Da He and Qing Yan being intimate. After a moment of confusion, he suddenly had some strange ideas, "Wait... female snow werewolves have two estrus periods a year, which seem to be in spring and autumn... Da He won't fall for Qing Yan? Shit, reproductive isolation - no, it's so annoying if they are together. Even without reproductive isolation, it's still ugly!"
Although Qingyan, a dark-skinned man, has the same physique as Xiao Yun, a snow wolf cub, his streamlined lean muscular body is not in the same league, so he can barely be considered a handsome guy with alternative beauty; Dahe is a handsome man with fair skin and good looks. None of the adults in the snow wolf tribe are as handsome as her. If the two of them were to fall in love across races, Xiao Yun would want to poke his eyes out just by imagining the intimate scene...
Fortunately, Xiao Yun soon had no time to think about lowering his SAN value, because the Snow Wolf Tribe was all busy - the tribe had no time and no manpower to build a cattle pen that could accommodate more than 2,000 cattle and sheep. The cattle and sheep driven back could only be grazed outside the tribe. In order to ensure that the cattle and sheep were not stolen by wild beasts during the grazing period, the Snow Wolf people had to spread their own feces around the area where the cattle and sheep were raised... Well, it's a bit disgusting, but this is indeed the simplest and most effective way.
After defining the enclosure area, the next step was to drive the cattle and sheep grazing on the pasture back... After traveling to the tribe and living there for almost a month, Xiao Yun finally saw what the cattle and sheep in the tribe looked like:
The curved-horn ox is indeed a variant of some kind of yak. It has a pair of inward and long, thick, black hair that feels like steel needles. When you touch it with your hand, hmm... it feels similar to a thorny bush.
As for the long-wool sheep, they were very different from the Mianyang goats that Xiao Yun knew. They were similar in size to foals, thin at both ends and thick in the middle, with elbow-long horns on their rectangular heads. Their fur was thick, long, and particularly coarse, dragging on the ground. If you used your hands to turn over the thick wool, you could see a shorter, softer layer of fleece inside.
"Original sheep? Ancestor sheep?" Xiao Yun looked around the long-haired sheep for a long time but couldn't recognize what kind of sheep it was. First of all, the wool that felt particularly rough made Xiao Yun refuse to admit that it was a sheep - the wool was almost like pig bristles, right? ! This kind of wool can be used to weave a wool blanket that the grassland people sell? Who would want to use it!
"If only the inner layer of fur can be used, the output ratio will be too low?" Xiao Yun was extremely disappointed. He had originally hoped to be able to weave sweaters with wool, which would at least be more comfortable to wear than animal skins. But now... the reality is too harsh!
"The sheep raised by modern people should also be intentionally bred and domesticated... Well, it would be strange if I could see domesticated sheep in my lifetime." With a long sigh, Xiao Yun turned around and went back to what he could do now... which was to lead his tribesmen to start the great task of digging pits.
The tribe was surrounded by "familiar areas" where warriors had patrolled for a long time and driven away wild beasts. The task of looking after the cattle and sheep could be done by two adults with the cubs, and the liberated tribesmen could devote as much as possible to digging pits - excluding Qingcao River and Qingyan. Xiao Yun laid the floor tiles himself, and they could build the walls of the mobile house.
To deal with a herd of hundreds of wild boars, the pit must be deep and wide enough to prevent the wild boars from jumping out. After leading the tribesmen to survey the scene and walking twice along the route to lead the wild boars out of the oak forest, Xiao Yun decided to dig the pit on the slope of a mound:
This natural mound, which is about 20 to 30 meters high, has a certain effect of blocking the view from the rear. If a wild boar in front falls into the pit, the wild boars behind it cannot be seen for a while. The soldiers who lead the wild boars out can also use the curvature of the mound to distance themselves from the wild boar herd and slightly reduce the speed of the wild boar herd to avoid being injured by surprise... There are no orthopedic doctors on the grassland, and even snow werewolves cannot survive if they are injured during hunting.
"Just dig a width of about five meters. As for the length... the horizontal surface for a dozen wild boars to charge must be at least ten meters, and it cannot be less than this width." Xiao Yun measured the pit with his feet, squatted down and pinched the soil on the ground with his hands. "The soil contains relatively little sand and gravel, so it shouldn't be difficult to dig... dig about four meters deep, which is enough to catch a lot of wild boars."
The tribesmen nodded and took turns changing into wolf form to start digging... Without tools, the snow werewolves' claws were the best tools. However, this was not a river bank that had been soaked by flooded river water for a long time. In addition, the temperature had dropped recently and the soil had been frozen hard. It would be painful to dig with the wolf's big claws, so they had to take turns.
More than a dozen tribesmen worked hard for half a day to dig out a suitable pit. The team that cut wood stakes also brought the cut wood over. They used stones to carefully and tightly insert the pointed wooden stakes into the pit, and then laid a camouflage layer like covering a roof. The camouflage layer had to be able to allow a snow wolf warrior weighing about 100 kilograms to rush through without collapsing, and it needed to have a certain degree of pressure resistance.
After a day and a half of preparation, the hunting operation officially began. The chieftain was determined to bring all the people except those who were watching the house and the cattle and sheep, including Qingyan, the foreign aid. The speed of the cat tribe was still impressive. Qingyan, who wanted to integrate into the tribe, took the initiative to sign up to participate in attracting monsters, and the chieftain agreed after considering it.
Before the hunting operation began, Xiao Yun took out the super-large rattan net that he had asked Yangmao and his men to weave all night long. "The pits cannot trap all the wild boars. Some will definitely miss and charge at us. The people ambushing on the mounds can throw out the rattan net to cover the stronger wild boars before attacking. The threat of the wild boars' charge will be even lower."
In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the rattan net to the tribe members, Xiao Yun asked Yangmao and others to use the rattan net to catch the soldiers Hongye, his uncle Ashan and Niu Jiao... When they found that the soldiers caught by the cubs found it difficult to break free, the tribe leader immediately gave thirty-two likes... uh, gave Xiao Yun a thumbs up.
If the battle for acorns with wild boars is a war, then all the preparations Xiao Yun has made are to perfect the pre-war preparations as much as possible. Next, it depends on how effective these preparations can be in actual use.
Ashan, Qingyan, Hongye and others who were tasked with luring monsters tied freshly cut strips of meat that still smelled of blood on their bodies and headed towards the oak forest. Half of the other adult tribesmen squatted on the hill with rattan grass nets, and the other half ambushed in the grass around the pit. Xiao Yun, Yangmao and other cubs could not get close to the front line, so they squatted at a distance and watched with the prepared rattan grass trawl nets... The cubs could not help with hunting, but they would have to work hard to drag the prey later.
About five minutes after Ah Shan and his companions entered the jungle, they could hear the sound of the ground shaking...
"Here they come!" Xiao Yun emerged from behind the thorn bush where he was hiding, and looked nervously towards the direction of the jungle.
The first one to rush out of the jungle was Qingyan, who was the fastest. Although this guy was not as strong as the snow werewolves, he was worthy of being a warrior of the cat clan. He jumped out very nimbly and climbed up the tree. Hanging on the tree, he pointed the direction to the snow werewolf warriors who were one step behind: "This way, run this way!" Then he pulled off the fresh meat hanging on his body and threw it hard in the direction of the pit... It turned out that he had a talent for throwing and his upper limb strength was well developed. He threw the ten-pound strip of fresh meat above the pit which was slightly blocked by the hillock.
As the Snow Wolf Warriors rushed out of the jungle, from where Xiao Yun was squatting, he could see the trees being knocked down and the billowing dust created by the charging wild boars behind him...
"…Shit!" Xiao Yun finally understood why the phrase "wolves rushing and pigs charging" was used to describe a group charge. Damn, a group of wild boars charging was really scary!
The pit was dug about thirty meters southeast of the jungle. Such a short distance became extremely long in the emergency situation when he had to watch the snow werewolf warriors escape - Xiao Yun still underestimated the power of the wild boars when they charged. The grass knots he prepared as stumbling blocks were probably directly blown away by the powerful wild boars and did not play a slowing effect at all!
Fortunately, after rushing out of the jungle, the werewolf warriors were able to speed up again on the familiar grassland, and they opened up a distance of more than ten meters before being hit on the buttocks by the wild boar. They quickly rushed to the right side of the curved hill and ran past the pit!
The herd of wild boars followed closely behind, and the dozen or so huge wild boars in the front even drifted when turning around the hill...
“Ka-boom!!”
The pit camouflaged with twigs and hay was already shaky after the snow werewolf warriors rushed through. It was strange that it could still withstand the sudden step of several wild boars stepping on it, and it collapsed with a loud bang!
The leading wild boar fell into the pit without even making a sound, and the wild boars following closely behind also rolled down like dumplings - the location of the pit happened to be at the bend, and the chasing wild boars needed a buffer surface even if they wanted to stop, not to mention that these wild boars who were happily charging had no intention of stopping suddenly. After the leading dozen wild boars fell, the wild boars in the middle were completely pushed down by their companions behind...
The high-speed charging group of living tanks sank into the pit like an avalanche and were swallowed by the pit. In an instant, half of the huge charging army consisting of more than a hundred wild boars were gone... and then the pit was no longer effective because the wild boars that had been carried in had filled up the pit, and the wild boar at the rear stepped on the bodies of its companions.
The wild boars that fell behind didn't understand what was happening for a moment. They had no idea why their companions in the front were nowhere to be seen. Some of them stopped hesitantly and looked down at their companions who were groaning after falling down. Most of the wild boars rushed forward with red eyes, stepping on their companions' bodies.
Unfortunately... the wild boars whose numbers had been greatly reduced were no longer much of a threat to the Snow Werewolves. The Snow Werewolves squatting on the hill spread out their vine grass nets and spread them all over the place. The wild boars that were not trapped in the traps were immediately half-covered. The Snow Werewolf warriors who had escaped to the front no longer needed to flee and resolutely turned around to charge - in a one-on-one fight, the Snow Werewolf warriors were never at a disadvantage!
