Chapter 401 Wolf Tribe
The only medium to large carnivores that this safe zone can protect against are wolves.
The tigers we encountered before were undefendable. A tiger's vertical jump can reach three meters, and the same is true for jackals.
The elephant type is even more unstoppable.
Zhao Yeqing was really afraid of the leader wolf, who was obviously more intelligent this time. The threat was too great. If she really built the fence to more than three meters, the materials and work hours required would increase exponentially, and she was afraid it would be too late.
Anyway, the length of the wooden pillar in the middle is more than three meters, but the wooden board connecting it is only more than two meters high. It can be made higher when there is time later. After all, the main threat at present is still the wolf pack.
The animals cannot be grazed during this period because the silage at home is almost used up, and the corn stalks harvested and fermented last time have not yet been completely fermented. The fence is half-finished, and Zhao Yeqing has to take time to harvest the planted grass. He does not use it as feed, but throws it directly into the cattle and sheep pens to feed them.
Zhao Yeqing felt that among the animals that eat grass, Xiaohong at home was the least troublesome. Every day, it would go out to eat grass nearby. When it was full, it would come back to the outside of the yard and wait for Zhao Yeqing to take it back.
Nor will they run into grain fields to eat crops.
Mu Xi smiled and said, "It just doesn't like to eat sweet potato vines. Next time you plant corn or wheat, let it out and see if it eats them."
Yes, now there are only sweet potatoes left in the family’s grain field, and the grass has also been harvested, leaving only a short section waiting to grow the second crop. Xiaohong can’t eat it even if she wants to.
Every day Mu Xi built a fence around the nearby hill. Xiao Huang lay on the hill to keep watch. If he saw something wrong, he would stand up and bark to alert Mu Xi.
In just ten days, the wolves showed up in the vicinity twice.
Zhao Yeqing's uneasiness gradually grew.
Although the number of wolves this year is not large, there are still six wolves left, excluding the one that was bitten to death by Dahuang and his gang last time.
The number of wolf populations is basically not too large, with a minimum of five or six and a maximum of only a dozen. Only in extreme conditions such as in Northern Europe will there be a population of dozens of wolves. The dozens of wolves seen in film and television works in the past are pure nonsense.
A wolf pack consists of male and female wolves, their children and grandchildren, and occasionally some other lone wolves, but most of them are related.
It is an animal that pays great attention to family system.
Therefore, they are very united and also very vengeful, so they must be well protected.
Dahuang and the others were injured. Before the wall was built, if they encountered a pack of wolves outside their home, the two of them would not be able to defeat them even with guns.
The two of them built the wall as quickly as possible, starting from the direction of the meadow, one person in one direction, and finally preparing to finish outside the broad-leaved forest.
During this period, the area around my home was filled with the sounds of hammering nails and wooden stakes.
After a month of construction, there was finally only less than a hundred meters left.
Both of them were obviously a shade darker than they were a month ago. Fortunately, they now had plenty of electricity, otherwise they would have come home sweaty at night and would have had to boil water for a bath.
But I didn't expect that an accident would happen within this distance of 100 meters.
After successfully building the wall near the meadow, the two moved the camera to the top of the hill behind the wall and looked down at the meadow below.
On the night when the fence next to the hilltop was built, we saw wolves roaming outside the fence through the camera.
Zhao Yeqing had been worried for half a month, but the wolves never attacked. When she thought the wolves were going to give up, she suddenly saw their shining eyes in the broad-leaved forest again.
The two of them worked a little longer today as they thought they would soon be done, hoping to finish the work within two days.
The sky was already gray and dim, and those bright green eyes frightened Zhao Yeqing so much that his hands softened. The hammer fell to the ground and hit the wooden board, making a sudden sound outside the silent forest.
'Bang!'
The wolves stopped in their tracks but looked at the two men without any evasion in their eyes. The next second they moved away, allowing the leader wolf to slowly walk forward. Zhao Yeqing couldn't see clearly, but the look in the leader wolf's eyes clearly emerged in his mind.
Wild and indifferent, there is no fear of humans, creatures that have fallen from the top of the food chain, in its eyes, only the desire and determination to catch prey.
There was no murderous intent in his eyes, more like he was looking at dead prey.
The two men felt a chill involuntarily run down their backs. A long wolf howl sounded at the edge of the woods. Four dogs moved at the sound, grunting threateningly in their throats. In a few breaths, they jumped past the two men in the yard and stood in front, lowering their bodies, trying to intimidate the wolves and prevent them from moving forward.
There was a light bulb hanging next to the wall, which was temporarily pulled there by the two men for construction. The light on this side was bright, while the light in the woods opposite was dim. In contrast, their target was obviously like inviting the other side to come for dinner.
Zhao Yeqing slowly squatted down, picked up the hammer that fell on the ground, and calculated their chances of winning.
There were no hunting rifles at hand, only tools for building a fence, two people and four dogs, three of which had just recovered from injuries.
The chances of winning are not that great.
Zhao Yeqing's squatting action obviously stimulated the wolf pack. The wolves behind the wolf king raised their claws and put them down again, paced a few steps on the spot, and their attacking behavior was already very obvious.
At the moment when the wolves rushed up, the two of them climbed up the wall at the same time.
The wooden wall could not stand, but there were tall wooden pillars connecting the wooden boards. In order to facilitate the subsequent construction of the wall, the height of these wooden pillars was more than three meters. As long as the wolves climbed up, they could not touch the two people at all.
But in this case, there will only be four dogs left to fight against the wolf pack.
Zhao Yeqing did not climb up the wooden pillar, but just stood on the wooden wall, raised the hammer in his hand high, and hit the leaping wolf head hard.
The hammer hit the wolf right in the eye. The wolf howled in pain, fell to the ground, and shook its head back and forth. A stream of bright red blood flowed from its brow.
This was the first wolf that was injured as soon as it pounced. Its howling attracted the attention of the wolf king. The wolf king, who had been standing still, pounced towards Zhao Yeqing.
This leap was ten centimeters higher than the gray wolf just now, and it almost bit Zhao Yeqing's leg. She hurriedly hugged the wooden pillar and moved on the wooden wall to avoid the attack.
The weapon in Mu Xi's hand was a sledgehammer made of stone. The front hammer head, which was used to knock the wooden pillar into the ground, weighed dozens of pounds. The wooden handle was longer than his arm. He could catch the attacking wolf and knock it away the moment it pounced on him.
He turned his head to look at Zhao Yeqing who was being entangled by the Wolf King. Just as he was about to jump off the wall to help, five pairs of eyes flashing with faint light appeared in the woods next to him.
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