Survival In the World of Beasts

When he woke up again, he was too thirsty to speak, and the surrounding area was dim, except for a gleam of light on his right hand. It took him a while to react, he had followed the leopards back to the cave, and he had also encountered a few humans.

He suddenly wanted to sit up and confirm whether what he saw yesterday was an illusion. He was so eager to prove that he was not alone. However, the pain that affected his body made him hiss and he fell down with a breath of pain. Only then did I realize how bad I was. From head to toe, there was no soreness. The numbness in his legs disappeared for some time. The sensation seemed to come back suddenly. The pain was so painful that he wanted to die, and the soles of his feet seemed to be worn away in a lot of places. After the treatment, my head was swollen and painful, and my throat seemed to be a little swollen, not to mention the painful lungs and left shoulder when I breathed in. When he lowered his head slightly, he realized that his left shoulder wound had been treated, covered with a layer of cool plants, but not bandaged, and his T-shirts, they didn’t seem to know how to take it off, but they didn’t seem to know how to take it off, but it was rough to apply the medicine The ground is torn and hung on the body ==

After he was mentally prepared, he slowly adjusted his breathing, and then sat up with a little bit of support under his body, and all the plants that were laying down fell on his lap. Only then did he clearly see the hideous four on his shoulders. Dao paw prints were slightly swollen due to inflammation, and each protrusion was as high as a finger, but the weird purple plant seemed to be effective, and his blood seemed to have stopped.

He found himself sitting on the fur of an unknown animal in the innermost part of the cave. It seemed that it was already evening outside, and the light was not so dazzling anymore. The cave was even weaker. There was no one in the cave, and he didn’t know the leopards. Where did we and those men go. Looking back, seeing that there was a piece of meat and water in a coconut shell-like container beside his "bed", he smiled slightly and took a sip of the slightly turbid water.

This cave is not very big, it is only ten square meters, and it is also very low. The highest point of the cave is probably just barely making him stand upright, looking a little depressed. On a small stone platform on the left side of the cave entrance, there were all kinds of simple and crude tools. He bowed his body and looked at it carefully. Most of them were some half-polished wooden sticks and spearheads. He picked up a piece that seemed almost finished. The spearhead frowned deeply. This spearhead is much thicker than the one he polished himself, and it is only a sharp mouth formed by the fracture of the stone. It is not like he finely grinds the stone into a sharp diamond and opened a blood trough. The lethality is very average. There are blood stains on the flat stones, which may have been used to cut animal skins. Next to it is a coconut-shaped nut shell, which contains some small things like needles and pestles made of animal bones, and there are also unknown rattan threads scattered inside. He put down his spearhead and picked up a dry stick with a wooden trough next to him, and looked at the remaining fire on the ground. This was probably their tool to start the fire.

The ground on the right side of the cave entrance is also covered with animal skins, and some fruit berries and other fruit rhizomes are dried. In the corners of the animal skin bags, it is estimated that either dried fruit or fur.

These should be the possessions of these leopards and men. Li Shizhao sighed deeply. Yesterday he thought that this is probably a primitive society. From the tools they use, it seems that primitive society has overestimated their civilization process. It should be still in the Stone Age, corresponding to the ancestors of humans on earth or Homo sapiens. . There are no farm tools in all the tools, so they must make a living by hunting and gathering. There are so many leather bags stacked in the corners, and they have so few things, except that food is a tool, indicating that they should be migrating frequently.

This is not good news. Migration means that they often do not have sufficient food sources, so they have to travel from one place to another. Moreover, he carefully recalled the small group he saw yesterday, except for the few men. Leopard, it's a very strange combination.

Or these leopards have a certain unspeakable preference for humans, so they raise humans like humans raise pets. If this is the case, Li Zhixun smiled bitterly, then he can only say that the cycle of cause and effect, retribution is unhappy, humans on the earth wantonly slaughter animals during their own development, occupying their habitats, leading to the extinction of so many species, they will once be the top Predators are locked in cages for their own play and visit, trampling on their dignity wantonly. So why not do it the other way around when these animals are so smart and possess such powerful strength? In this region where the weak eat the strong but the humans are so weak, relying on the strong to live seems to be a way out for humans. He would not choose to live in this way, but he would not criticize other people's choices. Everyone has the right to choose. The innate growth environment sometimes makes people's values ​​so different. He can only say that he insists on self-respect. No one else.

Looking back and seeing the meat and water on the side of the animal skin, Li Shizhao smiled slightly. This kind of thoughtful behavior was probably the man made yesterday. There may be backwards here and there may be many things that he could not accept when he grew up in a civilized society, but he could not bear to refuse this kindness and warmth.

Sitting back on the animal skin silently, he drank a little water, not disgusting that it was a bit muddy, picked up the roasted meat and swallowed it a little bit, and did not dislike that it was roasted darkly. The situation here is so bad, it must be difficult for them to live, and the food must be very precious, otherwise the leopards would not have taken him so far for the deinonychus that fell to death last night. This piece of meat was not much, but he did not finish it. After all, the raw food without salt was too difficult for a seriously injured patient to eat.

He sat quietly on the ground, opened his backpack, carefully packed the leftovers in his hand in a bread bag and put it in the bag, and then began to organize his own things.

The largest and heaviest thing inside is naturally the saline soil wrapped in the bag of animal skins. Li Shizhen untied the animal skins, licked his chapped lips, smiled wryly, he always thought he was embarrassed and funny when he read the short story "Life on a rope in XXX" on Weibo before, but he saw his hands This bag of soil was almost a life-threatening exchange. Only then did I realize that only people who live in a comfortable and happy environment have never seen the sorrow that has to fight for their lives to survive, so that they can laugh at such things.

His weapon had long been lost, but his coat was left in the bamboo house because the weather was too hot, and he didn't know if he had a chance to get it. Irrelevant things like wallets, mobile phones, etc. were also thrown in the bamboo house by him. Other important things like notepads, lighters, bamboo tubes, etc. are all in the bag, so it seems that there is not much loss.

The leopards outside the door leisurely basking in the sun turned their ears, and heard the people inside seemed to wake up and rustle walking around to clean up, but they only languidly enjoyed the last remaining warmth of the sun without moving. One of them sprayed his nose severely with a scratch on his face, and turned his head to look in the other direction.

The voice soon came, and the men who had gone out to gather seemed to have returned. Li Shizhen saw them filed into the cave, followed by a few leopards. It seems that seeing Li Shizun can already sit up by himself, these people are very happy, but Li Shizun has no choice but to find that he really can't understand their babbling language. He just smiled and looked at him without speaking.

The men seemed to be very busy. The skin bags they carried back contained some unknown rhizomes, a killed bird and a small animal like a rabbit. The one with the oldest brown eyes started to deal with the prey. In fact, it was just simple but removed the fur, and the internal organs were not dealt with. Another brown-haired man who looked a little bit younger but was in his thirties began to take advantage of the last daylight. The firewood brought back was put into the fire to make a fire. The last man had tousled red hair. He was the youngest man, probably only twenty-five or sixty years old. It seemed that it was because of his age. He looked very active, with curious blue eyes. He kept looking at Li Shizun, making gestures to him.

Li Zhizhen didn’t quite understand what he meant, but he just smiled and nodded. He saw that these men were surprisingly tall, always 1.9 meters away. They only wore a simple leather skirt around their lower body, and their hands were dyed. There was a lot of dust, and his hair was a bit tousled. When the red-haired man squatted across from him and gestured, he could even see something he shouldn't, and could not help but slightly adjust his awkward gaze.

The red-haired man seemed to be surprised by his "shyness", then he patted his head and pointed at himself: "Burn." Repeated: "Burn."

Li Shizhao only thought for a moment and knew that he was saying his name, and then smiled slightly, watching his red hair automatically understand his name as burning burning, and shouting: "Burn?" He thought It seems to be the pronunciation, and then pointed to himself: "Li Zhixun."

He was very happy. He felt that he had been busy for a long time and finally succeeded in communicating, but he seemed to be a little dissatisfied with the complicated-sounding name of Li Shizhao. After a long time frowned, he shouted, "Li!

Li Shizhen didn't force it, but smiled and nodded in response, in exchange for a big smile.

The fire ignited, and the scent of food wafted in the cave. Although Li Shizhao felt that the treatment was too fishy, ​​everyone seemed to be very happy. The oldest man cut the baked food with a piece of stone, although some The part was still stained with blood, but several people seemed to eat with gusto. The man cut a piece and gave it to Li Zhizheng, but he only drank some water and smiled and refused.

The man’s brown eyes were full of doubts, but he just nodded and gave him some roasted rhizomes. Li Shizhao did not refuse again. The taste of this rhizome is very similar to sweet potatoes, full of starch, but with a little bit of starch. This kind of bitterness, but compared to half-baked barbecue, this thing is better to digest, and Li Shizhao ate it silently.

Strangely, the men didn't give any food to the leopards, even though some of them were grunting. It’s just that when everyone was barely half-filled, a few leopards chewed and swallowed the parts that were hard to swallow and the men couldn’t eat. Even one of them seemed to be older and crunched. The leopard, who was having difficulty, also swallowed food with difficulty. Li Shizhao observed silently, the few leopards eating bones didn't recognize them. They probably didn't go out yesterday.

The relationship between the eldest man and the leopard whose face was scratched by Li Shizhen seemed very intimate. The man even left a small piece of meat in his weight to feed the leopard, but was arched back by it. After yelling softly and licking his hand affectionately, he smiled and ate the piece of meat that was pushed back.

Li Shizhao withdrew his gaze with a complicated expression, and silently overturned some of his previous judgments in his heart.