Chapter 902 What I fear is the fear of the unknown
After that, the group got back on the horse-drawn sleigh and headed for their destination. Half an hour later, they arrived at the bottom of Liansong Mountain as they had hoped.
"There are many plants here, and many animals survive. It's just that it's hard to find them in the middle of winter, so you have to observe carefully. This place is not too far from the city, and it is said that no large beasts appear. But this is only what was said before the end of the world."
"Things are different now. Who knows if the behavior of animals has changed, or if any dangerous groups have migrated from other places. So everyone needs to be vigilant at all times."
Qi Xili’s reminder made sense, so everyone nodded seriously.
"Pang Huanqing and Yu Chaobi stay to watch the horse sled, and the rest of you follow me and Captain Li. Divide into two teams and we will go into the mountains together."
After Qi Xili finished speaking, everyone stood behind the two men quickly. Shen Yanming and Ji Kangyong looked at the two empty seats behind Li Gangtie and stood over without saying anything.
"It seems that you are destined to be in the same team with me." Li Gangtie's eyebrows fluttered as he spoke, and he seemed very satisfied with the result.
He walked over and patted Shen Yanming on the shoulder: “Don’t worry, brother will definitely catch two more rabbits for you.”
Chen Yanming looked at the big hand on his chest and was speechless. He nodded with difficulty: "Okay!"
This unwilling look successfully made others laugh, and even Qi Xili said with a smile: "If you don't want to follow him, come over here, I'll take you."
Chen Yanming thought, that won't work, it hurts people's self-esteem. So he declined: "You have more people, I'll just follow Captain Li."
Qi Xili didn't force him. He just said, "Be careful." and led his men away.
"Okay, let's go in too." Li Gangtie looked at Qi Xili's receding back and said to the rest of the people.
"Okay, captain, you go first." One of them said with a smile.
Li Gangtie slapped the man on the head and said sternly, "We are going up the mountain. The mountain is different from the bottom of the mountain. Be alert."
The man immediately regained his composure, bowed, and then said, "Don't worry, I know. I will also protect my two new friends."
Shen Yanming and Ji Kangyong’s inner thoughts: Not really necessary, thank you!
But they didn't dare say it.
The group entered the mountain in the predetermined direction and walked for more than half an hour, but they only saw dead branches and white snow, without a trace of life.
Shen Yanming thought, can this really find prey?
But before he could doubt it, he saw Li Gangtie lying on the ground, digging in a hole, and pulled out a fat white rabbit. Its fur was so smooth that people couldn't help but touch it.
When the big rabbit was taken out, its four hooves were scrambling everywhere, and it was making a "squeak squeak" sound from its mouth. This was the first time Yanming heard a rabbit squeak. The rabbits he had seen before were all the kind that ate vegetables quietly.
"Great job, Lao Li. Your skills are really good!" Shen Yanming praised.
Li Gangtie raised his eyebrows proudly, and then, under the gaze of everyone, he mercilessly grabbed the rabbit's head and twisted it. The rabbit died just like that.
Not bloody, but a bit brutal.
Shen Yanming wanted to say that he had a rope, but after seeing Li Gangtie's neat movements, he couldn't say anything.
"Okay, there are a lot of rabbits in this forest, you can all look around."
After hearing what he said, Shen Yanming went to look for the rabbit hole exposed on the ground. But he was not a brave man, and every time he saw a hole, he was a little scared and didn't dare to put his hand in it, fearing that there was a snake inside.
Guo Tingshuo laughed at him when he saw it: "What are you afraid of? Even if there is a snake in there, it is a snake with no attack power. What's more, snakes hibernate in tree holes and rock crevices. Who would dig a hole underground?"
"If it's not a snake, it could be some other animal. What if it's a weasel?"
Guo Tingshuo was so angry at Shen Yanming's hesitation that he laughed. He asked directly: "Are you going to take it out or not? If not, get out of the way and I'll take it out!"
Shen Yanming took two deep breaths, looking ready to die, and nodded: "...I'll take it!"
He was not really afraid of these small animals, but he was afraid of unknown things.
Who knows what's hidden in that dark, lightless hole? What if it bites him?
Shen Yanming was thinking as he was digging, and he felt really upset. When he touched a small soft thing, he shivered before scaring the other person.
Chen Yanming pulled his hand back reflexively, and Guo Tingshuo watched anxiously from the side: "Did you feel it? What's inside?"
Shen Yanming calmed down and said, "It's furry and moves, so it's probably a rabbit."
Guo Tingshuo was speechless. "Why are you afraid of a rabbit? Can't you just pull it out?"
Shen Yanming turned away his eyes stiffly and argued: "Am I afraid of rabbits? I am afraid of the unknown!"
After saying that, he reached his hand into the hole, grabbed the furry thing and pulled it out with all his strength. As a result, the lively gray rabbit was caught.
He didn't want to face other unknown fears, so he said, "There's more in the hole, I'll dig some more."
Guo Tingshuo nodded: "Okay, then you have to clean it out cleanly." Then he left and went to find a hole by himself.
After Shen Yanming and the others left, he reached into the hole and released two big, furry, fat gray rabbits from the space. He happily took them out and regarded them as his trophies.
"Look, I'm really lucky today. I dug a hole and found three rabbits in it. They're all so fat!"
Li Gangtie was stunned when he saw the rabbits. He thought that he had dug so many rabbit holes but had never dug out three at the same time. Old Shen was really lucky.
So Li Gangtie made a decision. He looked at Shen Yanming and said solemnly, "The next job of digging the hole is left to you."
Shen Yanming was stunned as if struck by a bolt from the blue. He wanted to scream, "I don't want it!" But the person covered his mouth and ran away.
Comrade Lao Shen wanted to cry but had no tears, so he could only dig holes with grievance. After digging many times, he went from being terrified at the beginning to having a blank expression later.
Bi Qiaoan found out in her space that everyone was bullying her husband. Instead of getting angry, she started laughing.
Shen Yanming snorted coldly when he heard the gloating laughter.
I thought, what am I afraid of? It's just a hole. No matter what, I am still the man at the top of the food chain!
But he didn't know that he was about to be slapped in the face, with a loud slap.
The group stayed in the forest for more than an hour and searched everywhere, but couldn't find the animal's nest. So Li Gangtie decided to go deeper inside.
At this time, they caught a total of ten rabbits, two snakes, three pheasants, and two sparrows.
Shen Yanming and everyone else caught the rabbits, while Li Gangtie and several guards hunted the snakes and pheasants.
As for the sparrow, it was picked up from under the tree. It was frozen by the cold air, but it was not dead.
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I was splashed with oil while cooking today. At first I thought it was just a few oil spots, and I didn't care after washing it with water. But when I was typing, I found that there were two mosquito bites on my arm. It was so painful that I couldn't even get close to the table. So today I was holding a canned food bottle in the refrigerator, applying cold compresses while typing, which shows how dedicated I am.
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