Carrying food, the three returned to the ice surface. At this time, there were two orcs guarding the first ice cave.
There were more than a dozen stunned wild animals lying on the ice surface far away from the ice cave.
Half of them were medium-sized beasts, so their capture efficiency was quite high.
The three of them walked over and took out two portions of food for them, and then Yang guarded the ice cave for them for a while while they ate the food.
Then the three of them delivered the food one by one according to their instructions, and took the opportunity to check on the hunting situation in other ice caves.
Lian and his men are digging the last ice hole, and the tribesmen in charge of this ice hole are also ready.
Meng Yuqing roughly counted the wild animals that had been caught, and the total number was close to a hundred. Although half of them were small beasts, the number was still considerable.
It's only been a few hours, and the river is so wide.
If Xuan hadn't said it was a river and he had tasted the water in the river and found it wasn't salty, he would have suspected it was the sea.
So there is no need to worry about the lack of wild animals in the river, nor is there any need to worry that the wild animals will not come here after catching them for a long time. At worst, we can just move to another place and continue.
After the last ice cave was dug, Xuan told them not to rush into hunting, but to try out the tools they had made first.
Yang changed into human form and took out a small piece of raw meat that had been reserved in advance and hung it on the hook. Then he asked his tribesmen to hold the fishing rod. He walked to the edge of the cave and put the hook with the meat on it into the ice cave.
The vines that enter the water are not long, which makes it easy to quickly control the beasts.
"When you feel the rod in your hand move, pull it up hard, and Uncle Yang will cooperate in catching the fish." Xuanhe explained the method of use to the tribesman holding the rod.
The tribesmen listened attentively.
Because of the raw meat, they heard the sound of the wild beast swimming towards them soon after.
Meng Yuqing stretched his neck to look at the ice cave. The beast was very alert. It was not in a hurry to eat the bait or to expose its head to breathe. Instead, it was wandering three meters underwater.
Yang stood five meters away from the ice cave and lowered his body to prevent the beast from seeing him.
The beast lingered underwater for about ten minutes before tentatively approaching the surface, poking its head out to breathe, and then quickly dived back into the water.
It tried to breathe several times before approaching the bait.
Here it comes. Meng Yuqing subconsciously held his breath. Whether he could defeat such a cautious beast depended on this one time.
The tribesman who was holding the pole suddenly pulled the pole and ran back a few steps. Because he was in human form, he almost fell down. Fortunately, he stood firm in time. Another flying orc also flew down and grabbed the vines and pulled back.
The originally calm water surface splashed with huge splashes, and the beast struggled underwater to dive deeper.
But he swallowed the meat and the hook in one gulp.
Because it was tied with vines, it couldn't swallow it completely and was stuck neither up nor down. As it struggled, the hook caught on the soft flesh in its mouth. It wanted to swim away, but it couldn't escape before breaking the vines.
Yang waited for his opportunity, circled around the beast's back and attacked with his front claws and teeth.
Before the beast could break through the vines, most of its body was pulled out of the water.
"Fuck, this one is so big!" As Meng Yuqing's voice rang out, the chain rushed down, and its claws dug into the beast's back, helping Yang drag the beast.
"It's a large beast cub. No wonder it's so smart." After pulling the beast out of the water, Xuan saw its full appearance and said to the tribesmen around him, "It looks no more than three years old. If it's bigger, you'd better give up on catching it."
He and Yang would definitely have no problem catching a bigger one, but that was not the case for their tribesmen.
Meng Yuqing also looked at the beast that was dragged up by Yang and Lian together. It was larger than the largest medium-sized beast they had caught before, and was almost six meters long.
What Xuan meant by this was basically setting a size limit for the aquatic beasts that the tribe could hunt this time.
Naturally, others were very convinced of him.
After Yang knocked the beast unconscious and pried open its mouth, Meng Yuqing finally understood why the beast hadn't been able to bite off the vines directly.
Because of its large size, the vines got stuck between its teeth and it was difficult to bite.
After taking the hook out of the beast's mouth, Xuan walked over with Meng Yuqing, "If the beasts we encounter are all of this strength, one vine should be able to be used three or four times."
"What if we encounter wild beasts with straight teeth? Can't they easily bite through the vines?" Meng Yuqing asked.
"There are not many aquatic beasts like this, and they like to eat grass in the water and are not very interested in meat." Yang answered Meng Yuqing directly.
Meng Yuqing nodded and opened the encyclopedia to look up information about aquatic beasts.
Seeing that herbivorous aquatic beasts like to live in places with dense aquatic plants, he thought that the oxygen in the water is also produced by photosynthesis of aquatic plants.
Wild animals living in areas with dense aquatic plants should not feel short of oxygen and run to ice holes to breathe, which greatly reduces the possibility of them running to destroy fishing gear.
The trial results of the fishing gear were quite satisfactory, so the three of them made several more fishing gear and distributed them to the caretakers of each ice cave.
It was not until the evening, when Yang asked them to finish their work, that they realized that they had caught so many wild animals without realizing it.
"We need to call some people from the tribe to transport the fish back." Xuan felt a headache when he looked at the results of today's fishing.
One day he actually had a headache because there was too much food in winter.
It was fun to catch them, but keeping them and transporting them back became a problem.
The weather is cold now, so there is no need to worry about the meat going bad. However, winter is almost half over now, and many wild animals are hungry, so they are inevitably attracted here.
It's okay if the number is small, they can handle it and even hunt them. But if the number is too large, it will be troublesome. Hungry beasts will become more ferocious than before.
Meng Yuqing's tent had been set up, covered with thick animal skins. He dug a groove on a stone and burned charcoal inside.
Xuan opened the tent door and walked in, looking around the environment inside the tent. "If you feel cold, come out and find me."
"Okay." Meng Yuqing nodded in agreement. He could actually curl up under Xuan's belly and sleep, but it would affect Xuan's rest.
Xuan had to keep him warm, and he also had to be careful not to crush him when he turned over. This made sleeping next to Xuan's beast form in winter not as convenient as in other seasons.
Outside the tent, after the orcs finished their meals, Yang and Xuan discussed it and decided to let the two flying orcs take some prey back and notify the tribe to send people to transport the food, while the others would continue to stay here and hunt.
They originally just came out to try it out, but they didn't expect this method to be so effective.
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