Chapter 202: Wolf Pack?
"Yu'er, you don't know. When we went there today, we saw a dark mass of water from afar. I was so scared that I thought there was some kind of natural disaster."
Sang Yongjing was showing off intentionally, speaking in an extremely exaggerated manner and gesturing from time to time.
"It's all pitch black?"
Sang Yu raised her eyebrows slightly. Generally speaking, snails do not gather in large areas. They will disperse due to food, water supply and other issues.
But there are exceptions. One of them is the breeding season, when snails gather together in large numbers waiting to mate.
The second situation is that the water body is polluted, and the snails living in the water crawl ashore and prepare to migrate.
The third situation is what Sang Yongjing mentioned, the impact of natural disasters.
However, Sang Yu looked at Sang Yongjing's expression. Although he pretended to be profound, he did not show any nervousness. She suddenly had a fourth guess.
"Did some large animal die in the water?"
Sang Yongjing, who had wanted to keep the secret a secret to improve his status at home, subconsciously looked at Sang Xingjia when he heard this: "Did you tell me in advance?"
But he quickly realized that they both came back together, and the only time they separated was when he went into the kitchen to get a basin.
Knowing that he wanted to show off, Sang Xingjia would not have said it deliberately. So there was only one possibility left - Sang Yu really guessed it himself!
As this thought arose, Sang Yongjing's eyes were unconsciously filled with admiration when he looked at Sang Yu.
The idea of showing off was gone, and instead he asked, "Yu'er, how did you know?"
"Snail's habit is to eat decaying organic matter. You were able to catch so many snails at once. It's likely that some animal died in the water and has rotted, right?"
Sang Yongjing nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes, when we got there and saw nothing unusual, we bravely went forward and found a sea of snails."
"And covered in snails was a long-dead male wild deer that had begun to rot."
If it weren't for the antlers on the deer's head, he wouldn't have dared to confirm that the half-rotten creature was a wild deer.
Things were very simple after that. They had gone there for the snails in the first place, so they didn't have to look for them slowly. They could just scoop up a bunch of them by digging a bamboo basket into the water.
Sang Xingjia added, "Little sister, I've observed the deer. There's no obvious damage to its neck, and the decay started from the back half of its body. It might have been attacked by some other beast."
There was no injury on the neck, but the rotting started from the back half of the body...
Sang Yu fell into deep thought. If it was a large beast like a tiger, its first choice when hunting would definitely be the prey's neck, striving for a fatal blow.
However, when faced with cautious, agile, and fast-running creatures like wild deer, they may also pounce on their prey from behind and then make a follow-up kill.
What's more, this is a male deer, and the front half of its body is naturally aggressive and defensive. Smaller predators will choose to avoid the front half and attack from behind.
"Brother, did you see the tooth marks? How big are they? Are they dense?" After thinking for a while, Sang Yu asked a series of questions.
She needed to use the answers to these questions to determine what kind of ferocious beasts were in that area and whether she could pass through it freely in the future.
"Tooth marks? I saw some, but I'm not sure of their size."
Sang Xingjia recalled carefully that the attack on the deer was mainly concentrated in the back half, and the decay also started from the back half.
He suppressed the stench and the urge to vomit and went forward to observe, but the clues he could obtain were still few.
"Some..." Hearing this word, Sang Yu's expression suddenly became serious, and he said seriously, "Dad, big brother, don't go to that area casually anymore."
"Why? These snails are easy to pick up. I was thinking of picking them up tomorrow..." Sang Yongjing's voice became smaller and smaller under Sang Yu's stare, and finally he kept silent.
Sang Yu sighed, "It's not that snails are bad, but my brother said there were some tooth marks. I suspect the deer was hunted by wolves. There are wolves in that area."
Wolves are a group of creatures that even experienced hunters with rich experience in mountain hunting will be terrified when they hear of them.
They have a strong sense of teamwork and will never give up easily once they have set their sights on their prey. They will launch sneak attacks from time to time, causing their prey to die from pain and exhaustion.
If Sang Yongjing and Sang Xingjia faced a group of wolves head-on, they would be eaten up by the wolves within two rounds.
"Wolf?!" Sang Yongjing was suddenly startled, and the hairs on his body stood up.
He thought he was lucky today as he easily caught so many snails, but he didn't expect that he had a close brush with death.
He felt scared when he thought that while he was happily putting snails into the bamboo basket, there was a pair or even several pairs of green eyes staring at him from somewhere nearby.
"I'm not really sure either. How about I go into the mountains tomorrow to have a look?" Sang Yu originally wanted to simply not go to that area in the future to avoid worrying.
But on second thought, the area is not only rich in resources, but also not too far from the outside world.
With the speed of the wolves, they might run to the mountains near the shed where they used to live at any time, which would be even more dangerous.
I still have to go into the mountains and see it for myself to feel at ease.
If it was really a pack of wolves, it would be a good idea to take some precautions in advance. If it wasn't a pack of wolves, or if the deer simply escaped from the mountains and died by the water, that would be even better.
Sang Yu had a good idea, but she didn't expect that as soon as she said she wanted to go into the mountains to take a look, she was greeted by the same words from the three people.
"no!"
"You can't go!"
"Don't go!"
"...I just want to take a look. Besides, I'm not going alone. Dad and elder brother are going with me." Sang Yu quickly changed his words.
"That won't do either!" Xie Qiujin still refused to give in. It would be fine to go into the mountains at other times, but how could he run in when he knew there were wolves inside?
Not to mention three people going in together, even if ten people went in together, they would not be able to withstand if they really encountered a wolf.
"Mom, if we don't go in and take a look, I won't feel safe walking on the official road anymore. You know how close it is to the official road. If it really is a wolf, we'll notify the authorities and go take a look and then come back."
Seeing that reasoning didn't work, Sang Yu began to pull Xie Qiujin's sleeve and act coquettishly, coaxing her with sweet words, and finally managed to soften her attitude.
Xie Qiujin thought about it carefully and realized that what she said made sense.
The government generally does not care about wolf packs in the deep mountains, but as long as a wolf pack is found near the official road, the government will definitely post a reward to recruit hunters to hunt the wolves.
Otherwise, if a group of wolves are allowed to roam in the mountains all the time, no one knows whether they will wander into the mountains and forests near Qingxi Village one day.
"Then go, and come back quickly." She finally agreed.
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