Standing behind the tree, with half its face showing, looking at the moose not far away, Leaf asked:
"System, have you spotted any other moose around here?"
"No."
"Use a little of your vital energy to investigate from the direction the moose came from."
"Okay, host," the system responded, and soon the notification sounded again:
"Host, no other moose have been found."
Ye Zi nodded. There were no other moose around, which meant that the moose in front of her did not have its own herd.
Perhaps it's too young and hasn't had time to build its own herd, or perhaps it hasn't managed to snag a female moose to elope with.
It's also possible that it didn't have time to challenge a moose herd leader, so it's still traveling alone.
It doesn't look like a loser who was guarding the mother moose herd at all, because the antlers on this moose's head don't look like it has been in a battle.
But no matter what, this moose in front of her is destined to become Ye Zi's prey.
Finally, the moose was only about 30 meters away from where Yezi was hiding, and Yezi had a new assessment of the moose's size.
He is definitely less than two meters tall, but over one and a half meters. His body length is not as terrifying as three meters, but it is definitely over two and a half meters.
Finally, there's the weight, around 600 kilograms or more.
With such a large moose, Yezi and the other two should have no problem eating it until the end of the competition.
In terms of fur area, it should be enough to make two sets of warm clothes.
At a distance of less than thirty meters, Ye Zi was very confident that he could hit the moose on the head with a pebble.
Slowly raise your right hand, which is holding a pebble, and aim at the head of the moose that is eating with its head down.
Swoosh...
Click...
The flying stone flew out of his hand and struck the moose on the head, making a sound of its skull shattering.
The moose, which had been eating with its head down, suddenly froze and then collapsed.
The four long legs twitched a few times, and then stopped moving.
Ye Zi loosened his grip on the machete slightly, put the boulders he had just taken out into his pocket, and pulled out his axe to walk toward the fallen moose.
With a machete in her left hand and an axe in her right, Ye Zi was ready for close combat.
I walked up to the moose and kicked it, but the moose didn't move.
Ye Zi changed direction and walked to the front of the moose. She saw that there was a hole in the moose's head, and the pebble that had been thrown out was nowhere to be seen.
Seeing this result, Ye Zi relaxed, realizing there was no need for close combat.
After the moose was hit, no blood mist was seen splattering anywhere else, so it must have remained inside the moose's head.
Ye Zi didn't use her full strength when she threw the stone just now, but she used about 50% of her strength. She threw it with the standard of hitting a tree trunk.
One has to admire the remarkable bone structure of a moose's skull, which must be incredibly strong to support such massive antlers.
Looking at the dead moose, Ye Zi grinned, put away her machete and axe, and carried the moose back to where she had just been roasting meat.
The live stream chat exploded at this point. Just a pebble, and you could take down a moose in one go—the cost was incredibly cheap.
Moreover, the first impression this moose gave the audience was that their team would not lack food from today onwards, and that they would have no problem eating three meals a day.
"I always thought that Brother Mangfu was just throwing stones out of boredom and playing around with them. I never imagined they would have this purpose."
"Feel the same."
"Same feeling +1"
"Wu Song, the warrior skilled in close combat, suddenly became Zhang Qing, the featherless arrow skilled in ranged attacks?"
What did I miss these past three days?
"Holy crap, the description upstairs is spot on."
"Does brute force produce miracles?"
"Miracle my ass! Didn't you see that Brother Mangy has been throwing stones as he walks these past few days? He's a martial arts prodigy!"
"I have a manual for the Lightning Five-Whip Strike here. It's only 998. Anyone interested can contact me privately."
In the live broadcast studio, Bingbing said with a look of surprise:
"It seems that contestant Ye Zi will be able to hunt fast-moving prey without a bow and arrow in the future."
This is a huge help in their survival.
Zhuang Yan nodded and smiled:
"That's right. With this moose as a safety net, they don't need to worry about food. The next focus is on keeping warm."
However, given their existing shelters and fur reserves, this is not a problem.
Sparrow Sister laughed as well:
"As things stand, apart from natural disasters, nothing can stop the third livestream room from surviving."
Ye Zi didn't care about what was happening in the live stream; he was staring at the hundreds of kilograms of meat in front of him, looking worried.
Taking it back is not a problem; the weight is no problem for him. What he is worried about is spoilage.
If the meat isn't prepared beforehand, it will probably rot by the time we get back to camp after a three-day journey.
In wilderness survival, wasting food is a crime.
After thinking it over for a while, Ye Zi finally decided to butcher the meat on the spot and then smoke it. There was no shortage of food in the camp for the time being, so there was no need to rush back.
This is also the only way to preserve the meat to the greatest extent possible.
Without hesitation, Ye Zi reached for her waist and pulled out a small knife, ready to gut the moose.
Then he remembered that the smoked meat shed hadn't been set up yet, so he put away the knife, turned around, and picked up his son to chop down trees.
The smokehouse was made quickly, in less than two hours, which was quite easy for them.
The sun was already setting in the west, and Ye Zi used the leftover materials from building the smoky shed to make herself a temporary shelter.
After completing these steps, immediately begin the decomposition of the moose.
First, the deer is gutted and gutted. Except for the heart, all the other internal organs are discarded. The key is that the other internal organs don't taste good when roasted, and there's no other way to cook the leaves, so they have to be thrown away.
Squeeze the blood out of the moose's heart, wash it clean by the river, cut it in half, skewer it, and grill it on a rack—that's dinner.
Then start skinning the deer. Discard the four hooves, but don't throw away the skin; keep it to make leather ropes.
Ye Zi is very skilled at skinning animals. He has been processing all the wild rabbits he has hunted recently. Although it is the first time he has skinned such a large prey, it is only because of its large size.
As Ye Zi's knife flew through the air, strips of moose meat, each two fingers thick, palm-width, and two feet long, were hung in the smoking shed. But Ye Zi's work was only half done.
Besides the four moose legs being dismembered, there was nowhere left to put the remaining ribs.
Ultimately, they underestimated the meat yield of this moose.
There was simply no time to build another smokehouse, as it was already dark and visibility was too low.
After lighting a fire at the smokehouse, Yezi sat by the fire and began to eat dinner.
Roasted deer heart is definitely a delicacy, but since there are no seasonings, it can only be roasted dry. However, filling your stomach is the key, and everything else is secondary.
After finishing a moose heart, Ye Zi patted her belly contentedly. She was full, her mission was complete, and she had even developed a ranged attack capability.
This trip was well worth it.
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