Chapter 73 Tuogu Ridge (Please collect and recommend)
Hearing the roar of the thunder beast, Luo Chong turned his head and looked. The thunder beast was still using its limbs that were bitten and bloody to support its huge body. However, under the protection of the four rotten legs, there was not a single wound on its swollen abdomen.
Under Luo Chong's gaze, the thunder beast roared to the sky, as if it had used up all its strength, and its whole body was trembling slightly.
There was a sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, and the swollen abdomen of the thunder beast also deflated.
Luo Chong widened his eyes and looked at this scene in disbelief. The thunder beast was willing to protect its belly at the cost of its limbs being bitten, and it was actually for the child in its belly.
The cold wind blew, but Luo Chong felt warm in his heart, and the wounds on his body didn't seem to hurt so much, as if for this moment, it was worth it no matter how much blood was shed.
It wasn't raining, but Luo Chong's eyes were wet. In the blurred vision, the Thunder Beast slowly moved its body with all its strength, turned its head to the newly born cub, and with loving eyes, stretched out its tongue, licking the cub's afterbirth, wiping the dirt off the baby's body.
The little Thunder Beast closed its eyes, and its tender body twisted slightly, as if enjoying the comfort of its mother, and uttered a groan similar to a dream, not knowing that its mother would leave it forever.
But at the moment when the afterbirth was licked clean, the mother beast suddenly looked up at Luo Chong, her eyes full of pleading, and two lines of blood and tears suddenly oozed out of her bloodshot eyes, flowing down the corners of her eyes, and falling drop by drop on the cub's body. The tears were full of love and reluctance, but more of it was determination.
The mother beast lowered her head and gently pushed the cub toward Luo Chong with the big horns in front of her nose. Her legs that were bitten in front of her suddenly knelt down towards Luo Chong. Her red eyes looked at Luo Chong tightly, and her eyes were full of pleading and a bit of determination that could not be refused.
"Okay, I promise you, I will take it away and raise it, don't worry."
Luo Chong wiped the tears that had already formed into ice crystals in the corners of his eyes, took off his tattered animal skin robe, wrapped up the little thunder beast, took back his longbow and golden spear, picked up the little thunder beast, and turned to walk towards the cave.
The mother beast also closed her eyes forever at the moment Luo Chong picked up the little thunder beast.
On this hillside that Luo Chong later called "Tuogu Ridge", a young man with two bloodstains on his back staggered eastward on the snow, leaving a row of deep footprints on the hillside.
"Damn, it's so damn heavy. It must have weighed more than 100 pounds when it was just born. Can I return it? MMP."
Luo Chong held the little thunder beast and complained about the weight of the little guy in his heart while walking. Finally, 20 minutes later, he walked back to the cave with this little meatball weighing more than 100 pounds. He was exhausted. The fierce battle just now, coupled with the wounds on his body, made his body, which was not yet an adult, a little bit overwhelmed.
The open space at the entrance of the cave in front of him was also covered with fresh blood. Three gray wolves with many holes stabbed were lying there. The tribesmen of the Han tribe also raised their spears and looked around vigilantly.
The tribesmen who were watching the surroundings saw that the leader was actually shirtless and injured, so they hurried over to help.
"Chief, are you okay? Why are you still injured? Is there an enemy? We will go with you to take revenge." Feather was the first to run to Luo Chong's side and took off his animal skin robe and put it on Luo Chong.
"I'm fine. I just ran into the remaining group of gray wolves. I had a fight with those beasts, but unfortunately a few of them ran away.
By the way, you two, keep an eye on this little thing, don't kill it, it's the animal we want to raise."
Luo Chong waved his hand to Feather weakly, sat down on the ground, put the little thunder beast aside and handed it to the two women to take care of it, and grabbed a handful of clean snow on the ground and put it in his mouth.
"Chief, those wolves didn't run away. We heard the wolf howling over there just now, and three wolves came running over after a while. We killed them all and are bleeding them now."
Shitou also ran over at this time, took a snake skin water bag and handed it to Luo Chong, pointing at the three gray wolves over there and reporting to Luo Chong.
Luo Chong drank water and listened to Shitou's story. He realized that when he was alone to welcome the birth of the little thunder beast, the gray wolves that had escaped just now actually ran back to the cave and were killed by the tribesmen.
After understanding what happened, he breathed a sigh of relief. The wolf pack was finally wiped out. In the future, the tribesmen could have a larger range of activities. At least they didn't have to live in fear every day.
After drinking water and resting for a while, Luo Chong also told everyone what happened just now, especially the origin of the little thunder beast and the story of the mother beast lying on the ground to entrust her orphan.
The tribesmen were very silent after listening. The men seemed to have no reaction. They participated in hunting every day, facing life and death at all times, and seemed a little indifferent to things like feelings.
Some women sobbed quietly and kept wiping their tears. The love of the mother beast for her calf was easy for them to resonate, especially these adult women who had experienced life and death difficulties and had given birth to one or two children. Perhaps they could better understand the despair of a mother at that time.
Luo Chong immediately made a decision. He wanted to bury the female thunder beast on the hillside as a memorial for future generations.
The women all voted in favor of this decision. The men did not oppose Luo Chong's "wasting food" because there was enough food in the tribe. The female thunder beast was so big, how much meat would it take?
The next thing was simple. The purpose of this trip had been achieved, and the salt mine had been roughly explored. Luo Chong first filled a small bag of natural alkali crystals, and then asked people to seal the entrance of the cave with stones to prevent it from being occupied by wild animals.
Then he led ten people to Tuogu Ridge to bring back the wolf corpse on the ground, and asked people to pick up some branches and stones to hastily cover the body of the female thunder beast, preparing to come with a copper shovel the next day to dig a pit for it.
The group of 30 people finally met at the entrance of the cave, cut branches to make two simple wooden rafts, and dragged all the hundreds of gray wolves back to the tribe with meat and gray mountains.
With the return of the tribesmen, the story of the Thunder Beast being entrusted to others was also told by the women to their children. The children were very sympathetic to the little Thunder Beast who had lost its mother, and they all ran over to watch.
Most herbivores have strong vitality. For example, the cubs of cattle, horses, and sheep can stand up and walk by themselves after one hour or even more than ten minutes after they are born. They can also find their mothers to feed on their own, and can eat a small amount of grass in about one month.
The rhinoceros is in a similar situation, but the little Thunder Beast is special. It should be premature. According to the breeding habits of herbivores, they usually give birth collectively in spring and summer when plants grow lushly, because the weather is warm at that time, food is sufficient, and the survival rate of cubs is high.
But the little Thunder Beast was obviously born a month early. Now it has been born for half a day, but it still can't open its eyes. If it weren't for breathing and moving, everyone would think it was dead.
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