Ye Feng looked around for a while, but did not find the mother monkey's corpse.
"Could it be that he ran too fast and scared the children away?"
After thinking for a moment, he slowly walked forward, only then noticing that the two little monkeys were still bleeding…
The one that was completely black was injured in the leg, while the one with a tuft of white fur on its head was injured in the back.
Upon seeing Ye Feng, the two little monkeys immediately began to open their mouths wide and squeal incoherently.
However, her voice was trembling, clearly indicating fear...
Ye Feng squatted down, his expression somewhat complicated…
Perhaps out of guilt, he actually wanted to save the two little ones.
Now he is all alone. If his companion dies on the road, he will have to live alone from now on.
Humans are social animals; if no one speaks to you for a long time, your heart will gradually be consumed by loneliness.
Howler monkeys are easy to keep alive; their diet consists mostly of leaves. Of course, they can also survive on fruit.
You could keep it as a pet, and it can also serve as a food reserve if you run out of food. Just in case…
Thinking about it, he picked up the two little monkeys, examined them carefully, and then frowned...
He discovered that the two monkeys had identical wounds, shaped like a bloody hole.
There were also teeth marks around the wound, indicating that the skin had been bitten, but the wound was not deep and the blood had already dried...
Ye Feng then realized that their injuries must have been caused by bites from their own kind.
This is not uncommon among social animals.
Female monkeys typically act out of maternal instinct after giving birth.
They will raise the baby monkeys for a period of time, and then drive them away to fend for themselves.
During this period, the female monkey will not go into heat...
In order to mate, males will seize any opportunity to kill baby monkeys, thereby stimulating the female monkeys to enter estrus earlier.
"Alas...we are all pitiful animals."
Ye Feng gently touched the two monkeys. They were visibly weak, and even their cries had become much softer.
Seeing this, he quickly took out Yunnan Baiyao and sprayed some on the wounds of the two monkeys.
The pain made them want to escape...
Ye Feng grabbed it back and took out the tree pepper leaves he had picked on the road from his bag.
This plant is an herb found in tropical rainforests, from which essential oils can be extracted.
Those who frequently watch Japanese action movies know that the greasy substance used to massage the entire body is extracted from this plant.
However, it also has another function, which is antibacterial.
Ye Feng put two pieces in his mouth, chewed them haphazardly, and then applied the plant residue to the wound.
Then he went back to the grapevine and picked a grape from one vine…
I peeled off the skin and held it to their mouths...
At first, the two monkeys didn't trust him and would only make random "woo-woo-ha-ha" noises, even trying to avoid him...
However, when the sweet grape juice touched their lips, they slowly fell silent.
He started eating the grapes...
Ye Feng fed them more than a dozen pellets, and only after both monkeys were full did he feel relieved enough to put them into his backpack.
Then he turned and walked back…
Fortunately, he was only drawing a half bow, so most of the arrows hit the monkeys, and he didn't have to search for them anymore.
There were 19 arrows in total, and 17 monkeys died…
Half an hour later, looking at the mountain of monkey carcasses in front of him, Ye Feng fell into deep thought…
This is all food! If it's not dealt with quickly, the meat will attract flies and spoil in a few hours... eventually becoming inedible...
But it's already afternoon, and the shelter isn't finished yet; he's all alone...
If we smoke the meat first, we'll probably be busy until evening, and there won't be any time to build a shelter.
Without shelter at night, wouldn't that be tantamount to suicide? After all, this place is different from where we were last night…
Because in the wild, in resource-rich areas, there will certainly be no shortage of predators…
There are gains and losses in everything; that's common sense...
Besides, if I were to sleep in a tree again tonight, I think I'd completely break down...
Ye Feng stroked his chin, pacing back and forth around the pile of corpses, looking quite conflicted...
But after a moment, he decided that he should build a shelter first…
Food is plentiful here. With a compound bow in hand, how could I possibly not find it later?
Right now, safety is the top priority…
After thinking it over, he kept only one monkey for dinner, leaving the rest several hundred meters away...
After he finished, he simply disposed of the monkey's carcass by the spring.
No offal whatsoever, because there's simply no time to pick them out...
After finishing, he put it in his backpack for the time being, and then he was about to start preparing to saw the tree...
It's about 1:30 PM now. Before sunset today, his goal was to finish the roof, plus the floor...
This camphor tree is about two meters in diameter, so it can be considered an old tree.
The place with the most branches, which is most suitable for building a treehouse, is about six or seven meters above the ground.
You can cut down all the excess tree trunks there to make room for a treehouse.
Since he is now alone, he only needs to cut down a few tree trunks, so the workload shouldn't be too great.
However, he soon realized that he had overestimated his abilities.
If you want to work in trees for extended periods, then a ladder is an essential tool.
Ye Feng originally planned to cut down two trees to use as the main trunk of the ladder.
But after just two slashes, the pain in his palm forced him to stop.
At this moment, he sat solemnly on the ground, stroking his beard, deep in thought…
There was no way around it, it hurt too much. Every time I made a cut, the shock would hit my palm.
He slowly removed the gauze, and the wound, which had already stopped bleeding, began to bleed again after being shaken.
Although it's not much, if you keep cutting, the wound will never heal.
But if we don't cut down the tree, where will we sleep tonight?
A moment later, Ye Feng raised an eyebrow and immediately opened his backpack…
He almost forgot that he still had bubbles...
Simply unwrap the gauze from your hand, place two appropriately sized pieces of foam in your palm, and then wrap the gauze back around.
In this way, the foam can act as a good shock absorber, and as long as you don't apply too much force, the wound won't reopen...
He used 70% of his strength and swung the sword as fast as he could, and the pain was indeed much less.
About half an hour later, the main body of the ladder, about the thickness of a calf and about 7 meters long, was ready.
Next comes preparing the steps for the wooden ladder, and finally binding them together to form the final shape…
It must be said that a hand injury in the wild can be extremely fatal.
Before he was injured, he could have gotten the wooden ladder out in an hour at most.
But now, he actually spent nearly two hours…
After finishing the ladder, he rested for only a few minutes and drank some water before setting up the ladder and climbing the tree...
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