☆、Preparation before the rainy season
Early in the morning, Maxine brought the seven or eight prey back to the platform, and then left in a hurry to carry wood in the forest. Lu Bing lit a fire and grilled meat, trying to have food soon after Maxine came back. By the time Lu Bing finished roasting half of a bull, Maxine had already gone back and forth several times. In addition to the wood, there were also some fruits that could be preserved for a long time and clear water in wooden barrels.
"The meat is done roasting, Maxine." Lu Bing raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his forehead and greeted Maxine who was about to go down with an empty bucket that was as tall as Lu Bing and continue to fetch water. Maxine nodded and looked outside at Lu Bing, who was preparing to roast his second prey, and then looked at the piles of wood and twelve barrels of water behind him. "I'm going to get a bucket."
Lu Bing nodded helplessly. "Okay, hurry up."
Maxine's second form came to the river under the cliff again to fetch water and flew back. The fast Lu Bing's second prey was already sitting opposite Lu Bing before it was put on the shelf. Maxine took over the job from Lu Bing, and quickly put wet branches on the prey and put them on the grill above the fire. While using Lu Bing's dagger, he cut out meat as big as two palms from the most tender part of the bull's body. hand it over. Lu Bing took a bite of the delicious salty and chili-flavored barbecue and swallowed contentedly. Maxine also lowered his head and quickly swallowed the other parts of the bull. When Lu Bing finally finished his portion, Maxine The bones of the bulls were thrown into the river.
Seeing that Maxine finished eating the beef and then set up a pile of work and roasted the third prey at the same time, Lu Bing got up very calmly and stuffed the backpack that was emptied last night into two sewn leather bags. Wrapped two bags on the outside of the backpack and tied them tightly, then emptied the large leaves that Maxine used to wrap fruit in the morning and returned to the grill and handed them to Maxine. After taking the leaf Maxine and putting it aside, Lu Bing returned to the cave which was already ten meters deep and about ten meters wide inside.
Coming to an open space behind the wood and close to the rock wall in the depths of the cave, Lu Bing rebuilt the tent that had been dismantled just this morning, and placed the random household items on the ground one by one in a suitable place. Bing straightened his waist, looked at it with satisfaction, clapped his hands, and turned back to the platform outside the cave. Maxine had already wrapped the roasted meat with leaves, which was his lunch at noon today.
"Lu, I'm leaving." Maxine nodded to Lu Bing who came out, and Lu Bing smiled and said, "Remember, I have to rely on you to support me here on the cliff."
"Yes." Maxine nodded and walked to the first place. Transformed into a beast shape on a platform, holding the barbecue and animal skin bag in its paws, it vacated and flew downstream to the beast cemetery and the salt lake, which took four days to go back and forth.
Standing blankly on the platform and watching Maxine go, Lu Bing didn't turn around sadly until he couldn't see it, and then cut the biggest prey into strips with a dagger and rubbed it with salt and chili powder until he felt the same. The meat is dried on strings. The remaining meaty bones are picked out and thrown into the turtle shell to remove the blood and prepare to be cooked into soup later. The bones of the remaining few were treated in the same way, and the bones were thrown by Lu Bing vigorously to the bottom of the cliff. The moment the lucky bones fell into the river, the water splashed and huge arrowtooth fish swarmed over and bit them.
When Maxine left, the sun was already unbearably hot, and the birds in the sky had already hid in shady places to rest. Maxine knew that it was safest to hurry on the road at this time. When the sun was setting in the west and the heat began to subside, Maxine rushed down to the forest to find a safe place, took out the roasted meat in the morning, and swallowed it whole with the water in the water bag.
After eating, Maxine sat quietly in the towering tree hole and listened to the sound of running and fighting wild beasts in the forest that came out to hunt in the cool of the night. After the fog in the forest and the silver moon in the sky rose, Maxine hesitated. Thinking about whether to go for a while now, when Maxine got up and was about to leave, he remembered what Lu Bing said before leaving: Remember, I still have to rely on you to support me on this side of the cliff.
road. Maxine sat quietly back to the original place, leaning on the animal skin and quietly closed her eyes. Before the sun came out the next day, Maxine turned into a beast and continued on his way after swallowing two wildebeests alive nearby. In the afternoon, Maxine went to a beast cemetery in a huge canyon downstream, and picked out intact pangolin paws and some At that time, Lu Bing liked the translucent, oval-shaped fish and bird skulls as long as Lu Bing's arm. After filling two animal skin bags, Maxine returned to the salt lake near the west. This time, Maxine flew until the sun went down, and hurriedly dug a soil hole in a high place in the salt lake to put the things down. Maxine flew into the nearby forest and swallowed a saber-toothed tiger that happened to be half eaten after hunting. After swallowing half of the leftover horn sheep together, Maxine returned to rest in the earth hole just dug after filling his stomach.
All kinds of deadly enemy animals in the salt lake under the night are quietly licking the snow-like salt blocks here, and these animals come and go busy until the sky is getting brighter. These animals leave. Maxine opened his eyes and slid out of the excavation hole to take a look at the already deserted salt lake. Then he turned around and took out his backpack outside the cave, changed into a second form and flew to the lake. After sweeping to the side, he squatted on the ground and filled the backpack and the animal skin bag half a person's height with all his strength. After fastening the last animal skin bag, Maxine put the salt on his shoulder and brought it back to the high ground by the lake. He took out two bags of bones and counted them. After that, Maxine transformed into a beast and flew into the forest to have a full meal. East and West flew along the road to Mishi Mountains.
Today is the fourth day. Lu Bing silently stroked the numbers carved on the stone wall in the morning. Silently looking outside the cave, Lu Bing put his hands on his knees and put his chin on his knees, watching the scorching sun gradually move west until the peripheral vision will disappear. Maxine. . . you there.
It was night, and Maxine was still struggling to fly towards the cave. On the way back, if he hadn't been vigilant and landed in the dense forest in time to avoid a group of moa hunting for food, he might be a pile of pieces of meat now. Maxine's icy golden pupils looked straight ahead, and the sharp tip of his tongue could distinguish dangerous auras all the time. When the silver moon was hanging high in the sky, Maxine finally saw the traces of the Mishi Mountains. The somewhat exhausted Maxine raised his spirits and accelerated his flight, got into the gaps in the mountains, and after a short movement from side to side, he landed safely on the first cave under the cave. on one platform.
The sound of flapping wings was particularly noticeable at night. Lu Bing, who had been sitting for almost a day, wanted to stand up in ecstasy after hearing the sound, but fell to the ground with a 'plop' because his feet had been paralyzed for a long time without moving. Just as Maxine was about to stretch his body after heaping things randomly on the steps, there was a crashing sound from the cave. Maxine was afraid that something would happen to Lu Bing and broke into the cave in three or two steps regardless of his tired body.
Lu Bing was worried about Maxine's safety and didn't light the fire in a daze. Fortunately, it was the hottest dry season so he didn't catch a cold. After entering the cave, Maxine's eyes quickly found Lu Bing lying on the ground grinning, and quickly stepped forward to hug Lu Bing. "Lu, what's the matter with you?"
Do you want to say that because you are worried that he will not come back, you are depressed and squatting on the ground for almost a day, and your feet are numb? Lu Bing would never say anything. "It's okay, I accidentally fell down in the dark."
Maxine's eyes were full of distress when he heard Lu Bing say this, he carefully picked up Lu Bing and sent him back to the tent to sit down, and carefully picked up Lu Bing's skin with his big and rough hands Trousers to see if there is any bruise. "Lu, let me take a look."
Maxine's heart ached with a big bruise on his knee, and he half-knelt on the ground to find some road ice that had been dried and ground into powder and packed in small beasts beside the tent. The wound medicine in the skin bag should be applied to Lu Bing. Lu Bing was moved but held Maxine's hand in a dark line, and said firmly: "It's okay. These are wound medicines for bleeding, and they are useless to anyone."
Maxine's hand stopped in mid-air, invisible to Lu Bing. Opening his mouth in the dark, he didn't know what to say, and it took a while before he put the animal skin bag back with an oh. Just when Maxine was embarrassed, Lu Bing's stomach that hadn't eaten for a day began to growl. Maxine also knew that the loud noise must be because he hadn't eaten food all day. He was worried about Lu Bing's body. A bonfire was lit in the open space, and the tortoise shell was hurriedly placed on the piled stones, and water was added to cook jerky for Lu Bing to eat.
Sitting in the tent and looking at Maxine who was busy cooking for himself, Lu Bing's eyes were red, and Lu Bing held back the moment before the tears flowed. Lu Bing, remember you are a man.
Maxine poured water into the turtle's shell, covered it with a wooden plank, got up and hurried to the first platform, and slipped back the three bags of salt and two bags of bones he had brought back to the cave. When Lu Bing saw the two irregular big bags inside, he knew that there were claws of mountain pangolins inside. At this time, his feet had returned to normal, so he couldn't wait to run to the side of the bag and take out a claw to dig into the rock by the campfire. After some effort, I finally dug out a large secret stone. Lu Bing waved his arms towards Maxine with his sharp claws in his arms and said, "In this way, I can help, and you don't have to work so hard. That
's great." Maxine looked at Lu Bing tenderly and said nothing, holding the The strips of dried meat were washed and shredded continuously and then poured into the turtle shell. Lu Bing was excited for a while, but he was hungry. He put his claws back into the leather bag and squatted beside the turtle shell to wait for something to eat. Maxine's soup was not enough for two people, so he took out some dried meat strips and put them in his mouth directly. Chewing, and occasionally holding a wooden handle to stir the pieces of meat in the turtle shell.
Lu Bing clutched his stomach, a little envious of Maxine's good teeth, his words would definitely not be able to chew through these stone-like jerky. After the soup was cooked and the meat was soft and rotten, Maxine took out a large wooden bowl and filled it up and handed it to Lu Bing, and he ate up the rest to feel full.
After eating, Lu Bing lay directly in the tent, refusing to move, and fell asleep after a while. Maxine was also very tired, but he insisted on washing his body with the water in the wooden bucket before lying down beside Lu Bing to rest. Maxine, who always gets up early the next day, rarely wakes up after a long time after the sun rises. The refreshed Maxine carefully removes Lu Bing's foot from his lap and gets up to hunt in the forest. .
Lu Bing, who has been worried about Maxine for four consecutive days, can rarely relax his tense nerves and have a good night's sleep. As soon as he walked to the entrance of the cave, he found that the virtuous and capable Maxine not only roasted the prey, but also cooked a pot of soup with the bones of the prey. At this time, he may be rubbing the excess meat with salt and pepper to prepare for drying when he gets up. Lu Bing looked at the busy Maxine and smiled silently. Before Maxine found out, he got up, brushed his teeth with a toothbrush without toothpaste, wiped his face and sat next to Maxine. "Let's go to the forest to find food together later."
"En."
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