Chapter 160: Strength Improvement
Now he was too lazy to even catch the bison. The sudden situation made Zhou Xu make arrangements for splitting up the group.
He first assigned some people to transport the six hyena bodies back to the grassland camp, while he took the rest of the people to find the other four hyena bodies.
The hyena man's flesh and blood was extremely sour and smelly. Even the wild beasts on the grassland had no interest in the hyena man's corpse.
After a careful search by Zhou Xu and his team, they soon found the first body.
Before they even got close, the nauseating stench had already made their faces turn blue.
To some extent, the bodies of hyena people are relatively easy to find.
On the one hand, the weather is too hot now, and the flesh and blood of the hyena people already have a sour and smelly smell. After rotting, the disgusting smell is doubled.
As long as you can smell this stench, it means the corpse is not far away.
On the other hand, there is the problem of mosquitoes.
There are a lot of mosquitoes on this prairie, and more importantly, there are many poisonous insects.
If you get bitten or stung, it's considered good if a big abscess forms immediately. The worst thing is to get poisoned and fester.
At this moment, the hyena man's body was undoubtedly covered with dense mosquitoes. There were even large groups of mosquitoes flying above the body. Just looking at it made one's scalp tingle.
However, they had known for a while that there were many mosquitoes on the grassland, so they were prepared.
The small bamboo jar hanging on his waist is filled with insect repellent water made by Ye Yan using herbs.
When walking on the grassland, they would apply some on their bodies from time to time.
Now, looking at the hyena man's corpse that was full of insect bites, Zhou Xu simply poured some insect repellent on his hands and then sprinkled it over.
The effect of this insect repellent is quite good. Once the smell spreads, the surrounding mosquitoes immediately disperse in groups.
Zhou Xu and others seized the opportunity and moved forward.
"Sprinkle some insect repellent on the body to prevent it from attracting more bugs."
This insect repellent water is quite simple to make, and the raw materials are also common. After the summer, the medical department headed by Ye Yan, while researching herbs, also produced a lot of mosquito coils and insect repellent water.
Therefore, they don't feel bad about spilling it.
The successful discovery of the first hyena man corpse marked a good start for their operation this time. Soon, the remaining three hyena man corpses were also found by Zhou Xu one after another, and then sent back to the grassland camp one by one.
Although they didn't catch a single bison this time, the harvest was so great that Zhou Xu could laugh out loud in his dreams.
After the hyena people's bodies were sent back one by one, the veterans in the camp who were responsible for dealing with the flesh naturally hurried into action.
During this period, Zhou Xu and his team were not idle. They just rested for a simple night in the camp and then set out again.
While they captured four more buffaloes, they had basically dealt with the corpses of the hyena people in the camp.
[Controlled by Skeleton Soldiers! ]
At that moment, under the influence of the power of mantra, the remaining fibers and flesh on the skeletons quickly dissipated completely, and in the empty eye sockets, two will-o'-the-wisp fires ignited silently, accompanied by the sound of "crackling", and the hyena skeletons crawled up from the ground.
Including the six hyena skeletons they had collected before, at this moment, there were a total of sixteen burly hyena skeletons standing in front of Zhou Xu.
Among them, there was a hyena skeleton that was particularly large, even larger than the other hyena skeletons. It was the skeleton of the hyena queen! It was also called the queen skeleton!
Looking at these hyena skeletons, Zhou Xu was emotional.
He never thought that he could take advantage of this opportunity to obtain so many hyena skeletons in one go.
It is no exaggeration to say that if the dozen soldiers he had trained so hard before were to engage in a head-on battle, they would probably have no chance of winning against these sixteen hyena skeletons.
With this fighting power, ordinary tribes are basically like chickens and dogs in front of him.
Of course, even so, Zhou Xu did not think he was invincible.
Not to mention anything else, at least he couldn't get rid of the Centaurs with just these sixteen hyena skeletons.
Even from a tactical perspective, the opponent poses a deadly threat to him.
Because compared to the Centaurs, the speed of the Hyena Skeletons is too slow. Once the war between the two sides starts, the Centaurs will be able to bypass the Hyena Skeletons and attack his rear position directly.
This is also the core reason why Zhou Xu was willing to trade copper arrows with the Centaurs in order to obtain horses.
As long as he could get horses, he could start training cavalry.
As long as he had cavalry, if he had to fight with the Centaurs in the future and the enemy wanted to launch a roundabout attack, he could send cavalry to intercept and kill them.
At that time, even if their cavalry could not defeat the Centaurs, they would be able to delay the opponent's actions, which would give him room to maneuver.
With this in mind, Zhou Xu can be said to have high hopes for the Centaurs.
He hoped that the other party could find the wild horses as soon as possible and kidnap a few for him.
In this regard, as the leader of the Centaur tribe, Drogo's desire for bronze arrows is needless to say, but he is still a relatively clear-headed Centaur leader.
Even if he wanted to, he did not take all the tribe members with him and spend time searching for the herd of wild horses.
Because he knew very well that hunting hyenas was the most important thing at the moment. Anyway, Zhou Xu had not set any deadline, so capturing wild horses alive could be discussed later.
But in addition to this, there is another very important reason, which is that the wild horses move very efficiently and have a large range of activities, so they are not easy to find if they want to.
Zhou Xu had a basic idea about this. If the herd of wild horses was so easy to find, they would have found it long ago. There would be no need to wait until now.
In this way, during this period of time, Zhou Xu and his men were not idle. They continued to work hard to capture and tame wild buffaloes. After all, in the long run, the more cattle in their tribe, the better.
If he could do it, Zhou Xu would like to capture an entire herd of bison!
Of course, he also knew that this was impossible. Based on their current capture efficiency and the size of the bison herd, they would not be able to catch all of them even if they worked until autumn.
Just like that, the hottest days of summer passed quietly, the temperature began to drop gradually, and the climate slowly began to become comfortable, making Zhou Xu clearly realize that summer was passing and autumn was coming!
And it was on this day that they met Drogo and his men again while they were walking on the grassland.
Unlike the previous times when they were in a hurry and busy hunting hyenas on the grassland, this time, Drogo and his men walked slowly, and there were three wild horses that looked very strong in the team!
(End of this chapter)
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