With a construction team at home, the food consumption is quite high. The supplies we bought from the county town were almost used up in less than ten days.
Driving is actually quite tiring, so Ye Qingshan usually doesn't like to go shopping when his son is home, preferring to herd sheep instead.
Ye Zi didn't care; it was just a stroll, whether by car or horseback.
I drove my pickup truck to Sumu to buy some supplies. On the way home, when I saw an object that was almost a meter long, my eyes, which had been looking rather lazy, suddenly lit up.
Because the object he saw was the sculpture he had been longing for these past few days.
Slowing down, the engine noise also decreased significantly. Although we were still on the road, we were definitely getting closer.
Even without the assistance of the system, Ye Zi's hearing and vision are far superior to those of ordinary people.
After a long time, I sent a command to the system, requesting it to use the detection function to investigate the eagle that had landed.
"Host, that's a golden eagle. It has wounds on its chest, thick legs, back, and right wing," the system immediately reported.
"Is it serious?" Ye Zi asked casually.
"It's alright, but it will probably affect the flight."
Ye Zi nodded and slammed on the brakes, stopping in place. No wonder this golden eagle looked so big; it had injured its wing and its feathers weren't fully folded.
Looking at the golden eagle 300 meters away, Ye Zi immediately understood that this must be one of the participants in the aerial battle a few days ago, and he knew without asking how it got its wounds.
Ye Zi also guessed that the other two participants in the aerial battle a few days ago should be a pair of steppe eagles, and the golden eagle in front of her was ganged up on by the couple.
"System, is there a way to tame this golden eagle?" Ye Zi continued to ask.
"No, unless you can catch it and then defeat it by taming the eagle."
Hearing the system's response, Ye Zi felt a little helpless. The opportunity to have both Huang and Qingcang at his side was right in front of him, but he couldn't subdue them.
Ye Zi wasn't afraid of catching the eagle, but the problem was that catching the eagle required catching it first. Although the golden eagle in front of him was injured, it probably wouldn't give Ye Zi a chance to catch it.
"Is there any way to catch it?" Ye Zi asked again.
"Injure it with a flying stone to disable its ability to fly, then you can catch it."
Ye Zi's face darkened. Wasn't that obvious? Of course he knew that he could use flying stones to injure the golden eagle, or even shoot it dead.
But doing so is too dangerous. Not only is there the possibility of the golden eagle being killed, but there is also the risk of being reported by a group of workers for bringing the golden eagle back.
Keeping protected animals is also illegal.
After I expressed my concerns to the system, the system paused for a moment and then said:
"Then we can only wait, wait for its injuries to worsen, or wait until it gets too tired to fly."
Ye Zi pouted, then took out her phone and called her father.
An hour later, Ye Qingshan arrived on horseback, left the horse behind, and drove the car away. Before leaving, he told Ye Zi that if things didn't work out, she should give up and not break the law.
Ye Zi nodded and watched his father leave. He glanced at the water and dried meat in the horse's saddlebag, as well as the tent and bearskin coat behind the saddle. He finally decided to try and see if he could tame the golden eagle.
The golden eagle naturally noticed Ye Zi's movements, but it was confident that it could dodge Ye Zi's attack at a distance of 300 meters, so it just watched and did not intend to leave.
After Ye Qingshan left, Ye Zi and the golden eagle stared at each other from a distance of 300 meters, which could be considered as a way of training the eagle.
As darkness fell, Ye Zi, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, remained standing in the same spot, watching the golden eagle, which in turn stared back at him without moving.
Soon, it got dark. Ye Zizui sat on a bearskin coat, and the cigarette in his mouth was replaced with dried meat, but he still kept his eyes on the golden eagle.
Actually, after dark, Ye Zi could no longer see the golden eagle, but the distance of 300 meters was just within the system's detection range.
The system clearly told Ye Zi that the golden eagle was still staring at him, so Ye Zi's gaze did not move and remained fixed on the golden eagle's position.
In the middle of the night, Ye Zi sat there smoking, wearing a bearskin coat, showing no sign of resting.
With the bearskin coat keeping him warm, Ye Zi didn't feel cold, and even without the bearskin coat, he could withstand the current temperature.
Apart from being a little sleepy, everything else is fine. Now that we've started staring at each other, there's no reason to give up halfway. Maybe we can really tame this golden eagle.
Since the golden eagle was injured and showed no intention of leaving, Ye Zi naturally wouldn't give up.
Being injured and hungry, these two negative states, actually increased Ye Zi's chances of winning.
As dawn broke, Ye Zi's eyesight finally returned, and she immediately looked at the motionless golden eagle.
Their eyes met, and Ye Zi knew the competition had officially begun.
Last night's contest was just a test. The golden eagle was testing whether Ye Zi would give up halfway, and Ye Zi was testing whether the golden eagle would leave prematurely due to its own injuries.
Leaves can not only provide water, but also dried meat to replenish energy. Golden eagles don't have this privilege. To replenish their energy, they need to hunt, and hunting means leaving, which means losing.
Although losing doesn't mean it will submit to the leaf, losing does mean it will be inferior to the leaf, and the golden eagle's nature won't allow that to happen.
Therefore, it can only persevere.
At noon, Ye Zi received a phone call, but her eyes never left the golden eagle. She didn't even look at who was calling when she answered the phone.
Ye Qingshan asked Ye Zi where she was and whether she needed him to bring her hot water and food.
Ye Zi simply said that she was still in the same place, didn't need anything, and was training her eagle, and then hung up the phone.
As evening fell, the golden eagle swayed slightly. Ye Zi knew that this was a sign of the golden eagle's declining stamina due to the negative effects of the situation, and at the same time, he knew that his chances of winning the match had increased.
Nothing was said that night. Ye Zi persevered, and so did the golden eagle.
The leaves were tired, and the golden eagle was exhausted and increasingly weak.
On the morning of the third day, Ye Qingshan drove over, brought Ye Zi a large cup of hot water, some dried meat, and left two packs of cigarettes.
Judging from the appearance of the man and the eagle, it would probably take some time to determine a winner, so he turned and left.
In the evening, Ye Zi, having eaten and drunk her fill, still stared at the golden eagle with a cigarette in her mouth, surrounded by several cigarette butts.
With the cigarette to keep him alert, Ye Zi's chances of winning increased even further.
The golden eagle's body swayed more and more frequently, with the time intervals becoming shorter and shorter.
After dark, only a small red star, alternating between light and shadow, could be seen where the leaf was; that was the glow from the cigarette tip.
Ye Zi kept her eyes fixed on the golden eagle's location, but her mind was constantly chatting with the system, using this method to distract herself.
Meanwhile, the system kept reminding Ye Zi that the golden eagle's gaze never left his position.
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