Ye Feng glanced at him and gestured for him to be quiet.
"Shut up! What's the rush? That snake is so small, how much meat could it possibly have?"
Tang Weiwei was slightly taken aback. Yes, snakes have very little meat; most of their meat is bone.
It's impossible for it to withstand being eaten by two fledglings.
He thought it made sense, so he didn't reply and continued to wait...
In less than ten minutes, the little snake was completely devoured.
The two eaglets were clearly still not satisfied, their beaks still open as they faced the male eagle.
"Hehe...not enough to eat, huh? Then hurry up and come on over."
Ye Feng subconsciously gripped the repeating bow. The feeling of waiting for the prey to take the bait was exactly the same as fishing.
It's already past 5 o'clock. If we can't kill this harpy eagle before dark, we might not have another chance.
Just then, the male eagle spread its wings and flew away from the cliff.
Everyone, who thought their chance had come, was preparing to draw their bows halfway.
As a result, the male eagle actually flew away...
Seeing this, Tang Weiwei and Zhan Pengwu deflated like punctured balloons, turning their heads to glare at Ye Feng with resentful eyes.
The situation became somewhat awkward for a moment…
Ye Feng also sensed something was wrong and muttered to himself.
"That doesn't make sense. It was obviously going out to find food."
How could it not eat the things placed right at its doorstep? Or did it genuinely not see them?
That's even more wrong. The book clearly states that harpy eagles have excellent eyesight.
Could it be... that they saw us? And that's why they didn't dare come?
Ye Feng had many questions in his mind. After all, this was the first time he had ever fished for eagles, and there were many things he didn't understand.
Qi Xiaoyan, who was standing nearby, seemed to notice his embarrassment and gently comforted him:
"It's alright, Brother Feng. Everyone makes mistakes, and even the best horses stumble."
Let's just use feathers from other birds instead. It's getting dark soon, let's go."
"call…"
Ye Feng let out a sigh of frustration; the feeling of a car crashing was never pleasant.
Most importantly, he had no idea which part of the process went wrong.
Although feathers from other birds could be used as substitutes, he was afraid of affecting the accuracy of his arrows.
And with forty-odd arrows, how many birds could you possibly shoot down?
After thinking it over, he was still very dissatisfied.
"You guys go first, I'll wait a little longer, maybe things will turn around."
Tang Weiwei and Zhan Pengwu had no desire to wait any longer, so they simply hung the bows back around their necks.
"Okay, then you can wait by yourself. I'm leaving now."
"Well... bro... I'm leaving too. I can't stand squatting like this all the time."
Ye Feng simply nodded slightly, then turned to look at Qi Xiaoyan…
Aren't you leaving?
"Alright, I'll wait with you a little longer. In case anything happens, I'll have someone to look after me."
Qi Xiaoyan was not comfortable leaving Ye Feng alone here.
Since following Ye Feng, she and her younger brother Qi Xiaojie had reached a consensus: she could get hurt, but Ye Feng absolutely could not be harmed.
Because they all knew very well that it was virtually impossible for them to survive to the end on their own merits.
Only if Ye Feng lives will they have a chance to survive to the end.
Trusting the big players is the only way to survive...
Ye Feng smiled and nodded, without stopping him.
But just a dozen seconds later, the male eagle reappeared in the air.
"Haha, I knew it! Look!"
Tang Weiwei and her companion, who were climbing the tree, looked up in the direction Ye Feng was pointing.
When they saw the male eagle fly back, the two immediately climbed back up.
The four of them stared intently at the sky and discovered that the male eagle neither returned to its nest nor made any attempt to come down and catch the snake.
It just kept circling in the air, looking very conflicted.
After waiting for a few more minutes, it remained the same.
Tang Weiwei couldn't help but pull her neck back, twisting it left and right, and asked with a face full of confusion:
"Ye Feng, do you think this beast discovered us, which is why it's too scared to come down?"
Ye Feng stretched his neck, which had been sore from looking up, but he couldn't quite figure out what the reason was.
He had never encountered this situation before.
Logically speaking, harpy eagles are the kings of the skies, and they'd even eat people if they were starving.
Even a bald eagle, smaller than him, dares to attack a brown bear, let alone a harpy eagle, which is larger than him.
Besides, the Amazonian harpy eagles have never seen a human...
How could someone be afraid of a few large monkeys when food is scarce?
"Wait! A monkey!?"
A terrifying thought immediately popped into Ye Feng's mind: the harpy eagle's nickname was the monkey-eating eagle.
So, it wasn't afraid of these four people, but rather it mistook them for large monkeys.
Hovering in the sky for a long time is a way of selecting suitable prey.
Just then, Zhan Pengwu suddenly spoke up:
"Huh? Where did that guy go again?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Feng's hair stood on end, and he quickly shouted a reminder:
"Watch out! That beast might be after us!"
"What!?"
The three people's incredulous exclamations had just begun when a fierce hawk's cry rang out from close by.
The sound was so close…
The male eagle had somehow swooped down and was now more than ten meters away from Ye Feng's back.
"careful!"
As soon as Qi Xiaoyan's warning rang out, Ye Feng realized the danger.
He was sitting very close to the branch where Qi Xiaoyan was sitting, so based on the direction Qi Xiaoyan was looking, it was not difficult to determine that the male eagle must be not far behind him.
He didn't have time to look back; instinctively, he buried his head in his chest, leaving his back to the eagle.
After all, it has fish scales, and its claws can't break through its defenses.
But Ye Feng never expected that the eagle's dive speed was so fast that it covered a distance of more than ten meters in the blink of an eye.
Most importantly, it seems that the male eagle's target was not him at all.
"Giggle!..."
The enormous wings, accompanied by the chilling cry of the eagle, stirred up a strange wind with considerable force.
It swept directly over the back of Ye Feng's head, then stretched out its claws towards Qi Xiaoyan.
"ah!……"
Qi Xiaoyan screamed as the male eagle's two claws pierced through her outer clothing and clamped tightly onto her left shoulder.
Fortunately, she had fish scale armor protecting her; otherwise, her shoulder would probably have been ripped through.
The immense impact of the swooping descent caused Qi Xiaoyan to lose her balance instantly.
Her recurve bow slipped from her grasp and fell to the ground beneath the tree, causing her to fall backward.
Just as she was about to fall headfirst into the tree, she immediately gripped the trunk with both feet to steady herself.
But the male eagle's goal was to hunt her, so how could it end so quickly?
The male eagle flapped its wings vigorously, trying to lift Qi Xiaoyan up directly.
This is a common hunting method used by harpy eagles when encountering large or dangerous prey...
They will first grab their prey and lift it into the air, then drop it.
Once the prey has fallen to its death, it can eat without any risk.
All of this happened so fast, in less than 3 seconds.
Seeing that Qi Xiaoyan was about to fall, Ye Feng didn't have time to think and instinctively reached out his hand.
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