The sword is the devil

Chapter 95 Wilderness Tracking 1
"Is there a more obvious place of origin for this thing?" Hou Tiao asked carefully observing the methods of the seniors.

Xiang Zhiwen shook his head, "There are no too fixed regional restrictions. As long as it is not that kind of extremely cold climate, the slender-waisted wasp can survive, and it especially likes a hot and humid environment, so it should not be a place where it appears in a relatively dry Yinling. The habit of the slender-waisted bee, but the habit of the beeswax."

This involves a problem that is difficult to explain clearly, why would a monster who doesn't like such a climate and environment come here?Is it an active behavior?Or was he called over?

It is necessary to find a basis, rather than whimsical and nonsense; the migration of monsters is still an unknown category for human beings, and no one can absolutely say that this beeswax should not come here. Humans have the right to move freely, and so do monsters.

There are not many clues left. After all, seven days have passed, and most of the remaining traces have been destroyed by past creatures. The so-called aura left by monsters can rarely be retained for seven days and still linger.

Dou Gong squatted on the ground and shook his head, "Ordinary beehives are fixed in one place, so the breath cannot be hidden; but beeswax is different, it is a mobile beehive, because the beehives are all built in the body of beeswax, so it is basically impossible There are cases where honey drops.

I think these footprints are a bit suspicious. Judging from the toes, they should be creatures with upright legs. They are not light and must be huge in size. Small, and the inner hive cannot hold too many bees. "

Having footprints does not solve the problem. There are too many complicated terrains in the wilderness. Small rivers, rocky beaches, mounds, and dense grass in farmland can perfectly cover up such footprints. If you can’t find them for a long distance, you will lose your clues. It is not meaningful.

Xiang Zhiwen walked around the scene a few times and gave Hou Tiao a somewhat baffling task.
"Dig some dung beetles, I'll make you a spicy dung beetle tonight!"

This was really a task that challenged the lower limit of the waiting group, he couldn't even figure out whether the parade was joking or serious?But seeing Dou Gong's execution without hesitation, he had no choice but to start this kind of disgusting digging.

Dung beetles are the most widely distributed crypt creatures in the Yinling Wasteland, and in fact they are also the same in the entire continent; they are the cleaners of nature, and they undertake an indispensable link in the biological chain: decomposing biological excrement.

In deep autumn, they will diligently prepare winter food for themselves. In order to survive the cold winter and cultivate the next generation, they will lay eggs on these food. When the spring is warm and flowers bloom, there will be a large group of small dung beetles again.

They have a variety of food sources, mainly feces, but they do not reject other temptations, such as dead insects?

The dung beetle's cave is easy to find. You can tell by looking at the floating soil the size of a copper coin on the ground. The cave is not deep, and the depth of a foot is the limit.

The simple brains of these silly creatures can't understand why humans came to destroy their homes?And put them in a bag?But when Waiting Tau dug several shallow holes and found a dead mantis in one of them, he finally understood the purpose of Xiang Zhi's question.

In the battle at that time, there would definitely be the death of the slender wasp, even if the brothers in Zhenya were trash, they couldn't even kill a slender wasp!While the attack power of this thing is astonishing, the defense power is not very good. It is just stronger than normal wasps. How can it withstand the anger of human monks and fight back?
There was not a single dead wasp at the scene. Some of them may have been eaten by passing animals looking for food, or some of them may have been moved back to the cave by hard-working dung beetles as a breeding ground for babies.

This is their weapon for tracking beeswax.

After fully understanding, Hou Tiao shook his head and smiled wryly, and poured out the dung beetle in the bag. He was still too tender to hear the stalk of the parade envoy's words; ,
"Why throw it away? That's food! In Yinling, it's shameful to waste food! It's important to find the carcass of the wasp, but so is the spicy dung beetle at night!"

Waiting, "..."

This area is not big, after a moment, all the dung beetles in the area were wiped out, and the three harvested besides twelve or incomplete or complete slender-waist corpses, there were also three big pockets of dung beetles.

Xiang Zhiwen gathered the corpses of the slender-waisted bees together, put them into a jade bottle, added several cultivation materials, melted them down, and soon, he could faintly smell a strong sweet fragrance through the bottle.

Then he took out a spirit animal bag, released a small dog from it, and let it smell the fragrance; the smell was very intoxicating, and when Xiang Zhiguang put the bottle into the gourd, the little dog walked around the ground dissatisfied Turned around, then ran out in one direction.

The three of them did not dare to neglect, and followed closely behind.

This is the Nose Dog, a very special creature, a dog breed, docile, and extremely sensitive to smells; all its abilities are in that nose, and it is the best helper for hunters.

The nose dog runs and stops, on the one hand, because its memory for smells is far less outstanding than its sensitivity, and on the other hand, certain special terrains will also stop the nose dog from tracking.

When the nose dog's memory of the smell becomes blurred, Xiang Zhiwen will take out the bottle and let him smell it again; but if the smell trace is lost, then the direction can only be judged by the experience of the three people. Try until the nose dog catches that breath again.

No matter how well a person's nose consciousness is practiced, at least when the realm is low, it is still not comparable to a dog; a person is short, and a dog is slender...

This kind of tracking is a waste of time. I didn't run [-] miles in one afternoon. Hou Tiao was a little dissatisfied, but for two experienced veterans, this result was already very good.

Although the nose dog is very effective, in practical applications, the probability of ultimately being futile is more than half; in this wilderness full of variables, nothing is guaranteed.

The sky was getting gloomy, and Xiang Zhiwen decided to camp, looking for too many variables in the dark, humans are better, after all, they are all true monks with means, but nose dogs are different, this thing is timid, and monsters will refuse to work when they come out ...

Hou Tiao didn't feel very well, because the two seniors started preparing the appetizers for dinner.

Xiang Zhi asked to make a fire, and Dou Gong began to process the ingredients. Of course, it is impossible to put it directly into the pot. Several procedures are needed to deal with the peculiar smell of dung beetles.
Soak in oil to force these little things to expel the gas in the body, mature vinegar to decontaminate, spirits to remove fishy smell, orange stalk water to enhance aroma... every move is methodical, and it can be seen that it has been done a lot.

Hou Niao asked dryly, "Senior brothers, I still have some cooked food here, so it doesn't need to be so troublesome..."

Xiang Zhiwen glanced at him, "Although it's a simple meal, can cooked food have a fresh aroma?"

......The talent is small and the foot is easy, the heart is wide and the body is long and comfortable.Fill the intestines with delicious food, and live in peace with your knees.

(End of this chapter)