Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 42 Hunting
While plowing the fields is Austin's big strategy for the new year, in real-world conditions, hunting and gathering is also an essential phase of getting food.

What's more, the ice and snow on the ground have just been unsealed, so it is not suitable for farming at such an early time.

Although the climate of the Great Kava Forest is roughly divided into two seasons: cold winter and hot summer, in fact, if it is further divided carefully, it can also be divided into spring and autumn similar to the earth.

It's just that the time between spring and autumn is very short, but ten or so days is dispensable. The people living in the Kava Forest are basically illiterate orc creatures, and they only use the ones that alternate between winter and summer. The short spring and autumn time is regarded as excessive, and there is no special name for them, so the Kava Forest generally only has two seasons in a year, winter and summer.

The climate is different, and the solar terms are also different. Naturally, Austin cannot use the knowledge of solar terms from his previous life to substitute into this world.

He doesn't know when to sow and when to plant, but this problem is easy to solve, just imitate the growth cycle of those wild rice, anyway, the so-called seeds are also those wild rice.

But at this time, the rice in the wild has not yet germinated, and the blue dragon will naturally not sow grain seeds at this time and start farming.

Taking advantage of the ten days of free time in spring, coupled with the fact that the ferocious beasts that had been hungry for a cold winter moved around, affecting the safety of the Dragon Nest Tribe, the hunting this time was a matter of course.

Between the mountains and forests, small animals are jumping around, gnawing on the fresh and tender grass. At the same time, a pair of big ears are constantly vibrating, listening to the sounds of danger around them.

At this time, everything was recovering, and the Kava Forest became active again.

Especially in the Dragon Nest Territory, due to Austin's deliberate attack and the deliberate killing of the orcs in winter, there are more herbivores in the territory, and there are many more rabbits, mountain deer, and bison jumping between the mountains and forests. , Even when the orcs were cutting down trees to open up wasteland, occasionally a gray rabbit jumped out of the grass from time to time, and was caught by the orcs and put on the fire to beat their teeth.

Of course, although these animals reproduce in large numbers in the Dragon Nest tribe due to the mass killing of beasts above the second level of the food chain by the Dragon Nest tribe, they are not to the extent of flooding, because there are no other natural enemy beasts, and these orcs hunt them, to a certain extent The above is just that the orcs of the Dragon Nest tribe replaced the beasts that had previously wandered in the Dragon Nest territory in the food chain.

In the dense forest, the ice and snow on the ground have not yet melted away, but buds have already emerged from the soil.

Suddenly, a shadow sprang out from the jungle, swiftly jumped over the stones on the ground, and quickly fled towards the distance, with eight or nine of the same kind closely following behind.

This is the hyena, the rogue of nature's food chain, the marauder.

In fact, hyenas do not only survive by snatching the prey of other wild beasts, but more often cooperate to encircle and suppress those herbivorous animals that live by water and grass. They are one of the bottom predators in this Kava forest.

Although it is only at the bottom, hyenas can snatch food from beasts such as lions and tigers by cooperating with each other.

It's just that on this day, these ferocious hyenas, who are not afraid of even ligers and tigers, fled in embarrassment in the forest, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

After a while, the forest was in a commotion. A dozen orcs with spears in their hands and two half-big blood wolves were chasing after them.

The two half-grown blood wolves kept their heads down, their noses constantly surging to sniff the residual smell in the air, and their speed was not chaotic at all, following closely behind the direction where the group of hyenas had fled.

After more than a month of feeding, coupled with the terrifying coercion of Austin's superior creatures, these blood cubs have also completely integrated into the Dragon Nest tribe.

Due to factors such as the immature blood cubs and the scarcity of the number, the wolf cavalry in Austin's mind has not yet half a shadow, but these half-grown blood wolves can also come in handy, such as tracking prey now.

Back in the cold winter, the orc patrols went out to strangle the nearby wild animals, thanks to the noses of these blood cubs.

"There, follow up!"

The leader of this team is the lizardman Rodney. After the tribe he established was defeated by the jackals, he led the remnants to flee to the Dragon Nest territory and attacked the kobold village at that time. What he did not expect was that when he took the lead in preparing When rushing up, he bumped into the kobold's gun array, and he was hit head-on.

When he was seriously injured by the fly, the orc subordinates who followed him broke up and were captured by the kobolds one by one, becoming the captive of the Dragon Nest tribe.

Afterwards, the lizard man Rodney who recovered was thrown into the army for military training.

Although it was a hard time, Rodney, after getting through it, had a great recognition for this Dragon Nest tribe.

Think about it, when I was alone, when I recruited this large group of waste to form a tribe, didn't I just want a safe place to live, hoping to have enough food every day, so that I wouldn't starve or suffer from cold?
But now, there is the blue young dragon Austin on the roof, surrounded by orc teammates, and there is enough food every day. This kind of life is not too much better than the precarious days. As a brain full of muscles, A lizardman without much ambition, Rodney completely surrendered to Austin's subordinates and became one of Austin's many dependents.

In the previous blood wolf hunting war and the cold winter hunting and suppression process, relying on the brute force that surpassed the orc team, he performed very well in the battle and was appointed as the team leader.

This time he led a team out to take charge of the cleanup mission in this area. Whether it was poisonous snakes, weasels, or all kinds of jackals, tigers and leopards, as long as they were carnivorous predators, they must be cleared up.

With the help of the blood wolf, the victories were fruitful soon, but they encountered trouble in front of a group of hyenas.

These hyenas are not like those jackals, tigers and leopards that blindly attack the orcs when they see the orcs, so they are turned into hedgehogs by the orcs' spears. After losing a few companions, these hyenas retreat immediately after a fight, and they don't give Rodney a chance at all. time of strength.

Although the orcs had good physical strength, they couldn't outrun these four-legged hyenas, but no matter what, Rodney had a reason to strangle them.

"Come on, we're already behind Team [-] and Team [-] in terms of speed. If you don't want to end up at the bottom of this training session, give me a desperate chase and catch those beasts!"

Rodney panted and yelled at the team members, and the orcs responded with a whimper, and quickly chased in the direction where the hyena group disappeared.

(End of this chapter)