Survive in the beast world

Chapter 11 A Mysterious Relationship

When he woke up again, he was so thirsty that he couldn't speak, the surroundings were in darkness, only a gleam of light came in from his right hand.It took him a long time to realize that he had followed the leopards back to the cave and met some humans.

He suddenly wanted to sit up to confirm whether what he saw yesterday was a hallucination, he was so eager to prove that he was not alone, but the wounds on his body hurt so much that he gasped and fell down. Only then did I realize how bad his condition was. From head to toe, there was no pain anywhere. The numbness in both legs disappeared for an unknown period of time, as if he had suddenly returned. The pain made him want to die. After undergoing treatment, my head is also swollen and painful, and my throat seems to be a little swollen, not to mention my lungs and left shoulder throbbing when I inhale.Lowering his head slightly, he realized that the wound on his left shoulder had been treated, covered with a layer of cool plants, but not bandaged, and his T-shirt, they didn't seem to know how to take it off, but for the convenience of applying medicine roughly The land is torn and hung on the body ==

After getting mentally prepared, he slowly adjusted his breathing, and then sat up with a little bit of struggle while propping up his lower body, and all the plants that were applied slipped down to his lap, and only then did he see clearly the four hideous spots on his shoulders. The paw prints were slightly swollen due to inflammation, each protruding as high as a finger, but the weird purple plant seemed to be effective, and his bleeding seemed to have stopped.

He found himself sitting on the fur of an unknown animal in the innermost part of the cave. It seemed that it was already evening outside, and the light was not so dazzling, and the light shooting into the cave was even weaker. There was no one in the cave, and he didn't know about those leopards. Where have you and those men gone.Looking back, he saw a piece of meat and water in a coconut shell-like container beside his "bed", he smiled slightly, and took a sip of the slightly cloudy water.

This cave is not very big, only about ten square meters, and it is also very low. The hole at the highest point is probably barely enough for him to stand upright, and it looks a little depressed.On a small stone platform on the left side of the cave entrance, there was a row of all kinds of simple and rough tools. He bowed and looked at them carefully. Most of them were half-polished wooden sticks and spearhead stone chips. He picked up a piece that seemed to be almost finished. The spearhead frowned deeply.This spearhead is much thicker than what he polished himself, and it only uses the sharp edge naturally formed by breaking the stone. It is not like he ground the stone into a sharp rhombus and opened the blood groove. The lethality is very average. The flat stone flakes were still stained with blood and may have been used to cut and process animal hides.Next to it is a shell shaped like a coconut, inside which are some small things like needles and pestles made of animal bones, and inside are scattered with unknown rattan threads.He put down the spearhead, picked up a dry wooden stick next to it, and looked at the remaining fire on the ground. This was probably the tool they used to start the fire.

Animal skins are also spread on the ground on the right side of the cave entrance, and some fruits, berries and other fruit roots are drying. There are several bundled animal skin bags in the corner, which are probably either sun-dried fruits or fur.

These should be all the property of these leopards and men.Li Shizhen sighed deeply.Yesterday he thought that this place might be a primitive society, but now judging from the tools they use, saying that it is a primitive society has overestimated the progress of their civilization. This place should still be in the Stone Age, corresponding to the ancestors of human beings on the earth or Homo sapiens .There are no agricultural tools among all the tools, so they must be hunting and gathering for a living.There are so many skin bags piled up in the corner, and their things are so few, except food is tools, which shows that they should be constantly migrating.

This is not good news. Migration means that they often do not have sufficient food sources, so they have to go from one place to another. Moreover, he thought carefully about the small group he saw yesterday, except for the few men. Leopard, what a strange combination.

Or these leopards have some kind of unspeakable preference for humans, so they raise humans like humans raise pets.If this is the case, Li Shizhen smiled wryly, then he can only say that the cycle of karma and retribution is not good. Humans on the earth slaughtered animals and occupied their habitats during their own development, resulting in the extinction of so many species. Predators are kept in cages for their own taming and viewing, trampling on their dignity wantonly.Why not do it the other way around now when these animals are so smart and so powerful?In this region where the weak prey on the strong and human beings are so weak, it seems that relying on the strong to live is also a way out for human beings.He will not choose this way to live, but he will not dictate other people's choices. Everyone has the right to choose. The innate growth environment sometimes makes people have such different values. He can only say that he insists on self-respect Nothing else.

Looking back and seeing the meat and water beside the animal hide, Li Shizhen smiled slightly. Such a considerate move was probably done by the man yesterday.There may be backwardness here, and there may be many things that he can't accept when he grew up in a civilized society, but he couldn't bear to refuse this kindness and warmth.

Sitting back on the animal skin silently, he drank a little water, not disliking it for being cloudy, and picked up the piece of roast meat and swallowed it bit by bit, not disliking it for being black.The situation here is so bad, presumably it is not easy for them to live, and the food must be very precious, otherwise the leopards last night would not have taken him so far for the dead Deinonychus.This piece of meat wasn't much, but he didn't finish it. After all, it was too difficult for a seriously injured patient to eat such raw food without salt.

He sat quietly on the ground, opened his backpack, carefully packed the leftovers in a bread bag and put them in the bag, and then began to organize his things.

The largest and heaviest thing inside is naturally the salt soil wrapped in the bag of animal skins.Li Shizhen untied the animal skin, licked his chapped lips, and smiled wryly. He used to find it embarrassing and funny when he read the short piece "Using a Rope to Live in XXX" on Weibo, but when he saw the This bag of soil was obtained almost by risking one's life, and only then did one realize that only people who live in a comfortable and happy environment, who have never seen the sorrow of having to fight to survive, can laugh at such words.

His weapon had been lost a long time ago, but his coat was placed in the bamboo house because of the hot weather, and he didn't know if he would have a chance to get it.Insignificant things like wallets and mobile phones have long been thrown in the bamboo house by him.Other important things like notepads, lighters, and bamboo tubes are all in the bag, so it seems that there is not much loss.

A few leopards basking leisurely in the sun outside the door turned their ears, and heard the people inside seem to wake up and walk around to clean up, but they just lay lazily on their stomachs to enjoy the last remaining warmth of the sun, without moving.One of them with a scratch on its face snorted fiercely, turned its head and looked in another direction.

The voice came quickly, and the men who went out to collect seemed to have returned. Li Shizhen saw them entering the cave in a file, followed by a few leopards.It seemed that these people were very happy to see that Li Shizhen could sit up by himself, but Li Shizhen found helplessly that he really couldn't understand their babbling language.He just smiled and watched from the sidelines without saying a word.

The men seemed to be very busy. The animal skin bags they carried back contained some unknown roots, a dead bird and a small animal like a rabbit.The oldest brown-eyed one started to handle the prey, but in fact it was just a simple removal of the fur, and the internal organs were not processed at all. The other brown-haired man who looked a little younger but was about thirty began to take advantage of the last daylight to kill the prey. The firewood brought back was put into the fire, and the last man had messy red hair. He was the youngest, about 25 or [-] years old. It seemed that because of his age, he looked very active, with curious blue eyes. He looked at Li Shizhen carefully, and made gestures to him.

Li Shizhen didn't quite understand what he meant, but he just nodded with a smile. He saw that these men were surprisingly tall, at a distance of 1.9 meters. They only wore simple leather skirts around their lower bodies, and their hands were dyed There was a lot of dust, and the hair was a bit messy. When the red-haired man was squatting opposite him and gesticulating, he could even see something he shouldn't have seen, so he couldn't help but slightly avert his embarrassing gaze.

The red-haired man seemed surprised by his "shyness", then he patted his head and pointed at himself: "Ran." He kept repeating: "Ran."

Li Shizhen only thought for a moment and realized that he was talking about his own name, so he also smiled slightly, seeing his red hair automatically understood his name as burning burning, and shouted: "Lan?" He felt It seems to be the pronunciation, and then pointed to himself: "Li Shizhen."

He was very happy, and felt that he had finally succeeded in communicating after working for a long time, but he seemed a little dissatisfied with Li Shizhen's complicated-sounding name, so he frowned for a long time before calling out: "Li!"

Li Shizhen didn't force it, just smiled and nodded in response, in exchange for a big smile.

The fire ignited, and the smell of food wafted from the cave. Although Li Shizhen felt that the smell of such treatment was too fishy, ​​everyone seemed very happy. The oldest man cut the baked food with stone flakes, although some The part was still stained with blood, but several people seemed to be eating with gusto. The man cut a piece and gave it to Li Shizhen, but he only drank some water and refused with a smile.

The man's brown eyes were full of doubts, but he just nodded and gave him some roasted roots. Li Shizhen did not refuse again. The taste of this kind of roots is very similar to that of sweet potatoes, full of starch, but with a It was bitter, but compared to the half-baked barbecue, this thing was easier to digest, so Li Shizhen finished it silently.

Strangely, the men did not share any food with the leopards, although some of them were growling.It's just that when everyone was barely half full, the parts that were difficult to swallow and the men couldn't eat were chewed and swallowed by a few leopards, and even one of them looked older and crushed them. The leopard, which was very difficult, also swallowed the food with difficulty.Li Shizhen observed silently, but he didn't recognize the few leopards eating the bones, probably they didn't go out yesterday.

The oldest man seemed to be very close to the leopard whose face was scratched by Li Shizhen. The man even left a small piece of meat in his portion to feed the leopard, but it pushed him back. After calling out a few times and licking his hand affectionately, he smiled and ate the piece of meat that was pushed back.

Li Shizhen retracted his gaze with a complicated expression, and silently overturned some of his previous judgments in his heart.