The Little Prince in the Ossuary

# Survivors (5)

Tak, Tak, Tak. The leg of the dead rabbit continues to hit the ground. It was postmortem convulsions.

Before touching the rabbit, winter sprayed a pest repellent. If you have fleas or bed bugs, go away. Bedbugs should be more particularly noted. It wouldn't normally be a problem if it spread within the company. It would be difficult to endure even in winter unless it became dull by "adapting the environment."

After a little observation, you put a deep knife through the artery passing through the rabbit's neck. Then he grabs the leg and lifts it. Fresh blood flows out. Drawing blood was to reduce Nurinnai. Of course, the blood itself can be heated, but there will be some soldiers who feel repulsed. It doesn't help with fraud. Unless you can cook properly.

‘I'm just getting started. If we don't get enough results, then we'll have to think about it. ’

Corporal Morales greets you when winter returns.

“That's a good start. At least I'm glad we're not going back empty-handed. ”

I wasn't really happy to say that yet. The weight of a rabbit is similar to a shotgun removed from a magazine. However, if you peel the skin and apply the parts to eat, it will decrease by less than half.

Winter hung a rabbit under Excel's saddle bag.

Trace was resumed. The further away from the path humans have wiped, the more traces of animals become. Some of them were unique. The horses that smelled poop felt uneasy. He tried to ignore it and pass it by, but it appeared to Private Schulz as well. Whether he thinks he missed, he calls for winter.

“Lieutenant, there's something here. That's an unusual footprint. It looks like it's been taken recently. ”

“I saw it, too. But I don't want to find it. ”

“Eh……. What kind of animal is that? ”

“A tiger.”

I thought you were joking. Morales and Harper smile together, but they don't stop looking at me.

“Is it real? Not a bear? ”

“Yes. The number of your toes makes you a cat. It's more likely to be a tiger than a lion. ”

Harper hesitates.

“I'm not from around here, but I've never heard of tigers living in this country. ”

“Of course. This isn't wild either. I don't know where he grew up, but I'm surprised he came all the way here. ”

The country with the most tigers in the world was the United States. That number reaches 10,000 waters. Even Nevada, which is immediately adjacent to California, has no restrictions on raising tigers as pets. It was illegal in California, but there are people who want to do it if they don't.

“Are you avoiding danger? ”

Winter shakes its head at the question of Corporal Morales.

“No way. We're low on ammo, but what's so scary about an automated weapon in the yard? ”

“Don't you think it's better to catch it, too? I don't know if it'll taste good, but I can't hide it from you. If we catch one of these, we'll have enough for the whole platoon to eat. ”

“Animals that are carnivorous or scavengers are not meant to be killed. In fact, there were other traces on the way here, like coyotes, so I didn't go after them on purpose. ”

“Why are you standing?”

“You don't know what you've been eating. ”

Morales, who was a little lost, soon realized the meaning of the word and became disgusted.

“Dammit. I didn't even think of that. Maybe he ate a human or a mutant. ”

“Mutants are not an easy prey. But there were infected bodies everywhere they were bombed. It means that even weaklings like coyotes could eat as much as they wanted. Wild tigers have the ability to hunt themselves. The same goes for bears. It's better not to catch them. Come at me and I'll kill you.”

Heterogeneous infections or carriers are not yet known. If there were, attention would have come down from the Ministry of Defense. However, there were many variables in this worldview. There's nothing to lose by being cautious.

Soldiers stop pretending.

I wonder how much further we've gone from that. There were many such traces, but few were made recently. The time of entry into the forest was before sunrise, but now the white and transparent sunlight pierces the recording like a ray. I was hesitant that winter would catch up with deer droppings.

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A new cry came from the branches of the wind. I feel a sense of distance.

Wild turkey. Shhh. Winter puts her finger on her lips. Corporal Morales, who was about to say something, shut up. But I'm curious. It was not a sound without calibration.

Winter's direction narrows the streets. Once again, the same pattern of crying repeats. It's clearer. It's what it means to bring people in. That's why some flutes used by hunters to attract flutes have similar tones. I think I can catch two at the same time if I do well.

Females weigh more than four kilos. It's worth using live ammunition as it's a decent hunt. Winter sits on the saddle and aims at the rifle. A aiming line through a narrow crevice of intertwined branches. The soldiers die of breath, but at the same time they reveal a mysterious aura. Because they don't have a target.

As soon as the leaves on the branches wobble, in a narrow line of sight less than an inch wide, turkey's hairless head thumps! It exploded.

Food!

A female surprised by the death of a male spreads her wings in an unseen place. Unlike domesticated relatives, they can fly. It's also very nimble. But it became more dangerous from the moment it flew in. Immediately gushed out over a dense canopy, the flying rifle tore its throat out.

The faint smell of gunpowder coming from the end of the silencer.

“Let's go.”

Winter, when the rifle is turned around, lightly thumps. Haha. The soldiers laugh. Looks like I'm feeling better this time. A pair of turkeys is a great achievement. Since we have some flour and spices from the villagers, you can boil them like stew and increase the amount.

Recovering the fallen females and the fractured males, you can see that they are quite heavy.

“Wow, this is huge. It's over a meter long. How much does it weigh? ”

Schultz compares males with their bodies with laughter. The size of the limp males was such that they covered the upper half of the muscular foot soldier. The brief handover of winter's head tilts and weighs.

“That's about 10 kilograms. I'll have to disassemble it, but I can eat more than half of it. ”

He was a lot bigger than the average. It may be bad meat when you get older. Here, more than four kilograms of females were added as expected. And...

“Morales, Schulz, Harper. I'll cover you. Find a nest around here. If you look at the rocks together, they're probably close by. It's spawning time. ”

In fact, winter already knows where the nest is. But I gave them soldiers. It was their mood problem.

Even less than a minute ago, Private Harper discovered a nest disguised as a pile of grass.

“Here it is! One, two, three, four... Oh, eleven! ”

He lets out a cool shout as he listens to the eggs he pulls out.

“You stone head, you're too loud. What if there's a mutant nearby? ”

Harper flinches at Morales' reprimand, but ends with a look around. Put the eggs carefully taken into the bag on the Winter Saddle in case you miss them. It was because other horses didn't have accessories like bags on their horses.

“You must be a better hunter than my father. ”

Winter leans in at Schulz's words.

“Did your father enjoy hunting, too? ”

“It was just a hobby. It was more of a family trip than a real hunt. But it was a rare year, and you only caught a turkey once. I heard this is a very hard thing to catch and how proud you are of it. My mother was annoyed. ”

The family story was a cautious world, but Shultz's expression never looked bad.

“You're right. We're lucky. ”

There are many hunters who can't catch a turkey even though they drive hard in the fall. It is also a story of winter when there were fewer or fewer times.

Winter has been on its way for some time. A key to tracking deer droppings back to the beginning.

But there are more animals than I expected. What's going on? ’

Significant traces appear to have been swept away by a mutant group. Yesterday's appearance was rare, but it was a few months old. It is impossible to leave traces older than that unless you scrape down a tree like a bear. There were limits to the skills of the genius realm.

It is strange considering that it is relatively close to the origin of North America's west coast infection.

The size of the mutant group that fell this way may have been surprisingly small.

“What do you think? ”

In the midst of this tedious quest over the slower ridge, Morales, the deputy commander, is also reminded of the bear.

“I'm sure there's not much reason to come this way. ”

Morales came to a conclusion. The winter arms are blurred before the next words. Wheelik, Park! The dagger in the ground trembles. A single turn of the day marks the spot where the scratch was passed, and red marks spread. Ground Squirrel died with his head down. It's because the blade was hit diagonally. Buried in the bush, I was about to listen to the man's approach.

“Huh.”

You turn your back on the awe-inspiring corporal, and the winter turns a slight detour to retrieve the dead bodies of swords and squirrels.

“Why do you think that is? ”

Winter sprinkles blood with a twist around the neck of a small animal. Ugh... A slight frown creaks his eyes to see if the bouncing brain was uncomfortable, and the corporal finishes the remaining words.

“It's not that great. At the time, the mutants were just as stupid as the others, so it was inevitable that they would move towards the visible. And then, of course, at the intersection of the intersection of the interstate and the intersection of the highway, whether you're going up or down, there's a big city nearby. The defensive forces would have been concentrated there. ”

It meant the battle would have drawn more mutants.

“That's what I heard. I'm glad to say that, but thanks to that, we're less likely to starve to death here. ”

The words of winter. I can still see a black bear peering at the doll from a distance through the trees. A flabby body. No matter how hard you look at it, there's no food. If the ecosystem had been devastated, it would have been normal for top predators like bears to go somewhere.

“He's fearless. Do we look all right?”

Like Morales said, the bear has narrowed it down. Although the black bear was still among the myopic species, it was basically a predator.

‘You must have smelled blood. ’

If not, it is less likely to encounter like this. Since the land squirrel, as well as the rabbit and turkey that I caught earlier, are bleeding from behind the seat, there was nothing strange about following the winter route after smelling it somewhere.

Separate from him, the bear's approach is a bit unnatural. It's rare for a black bear that doesn't starve to reveal hostility to Humankind first. Maybe it's a mutation or a bad habit of dealing with humans. Or had a bad experience.

Harper sighs.

“I don't want to waste ammunition on someone who can't even eat. ”

A single shot is enough anyway, but winter holds up its sword without a word. The soldiers' expressions are strange.

“Are you going to throw a knife at him, too? ”

“I can't help it. If we get close enough, we kill them. ”

“No, I was asking if it was possible……. ”

I pretended not to know. Winter swerves to block between the bears and the soldiers. Excel's fear was conveyed through high pitch. Suppress it with the power of horseback riding.

“It's reckless. It's better to just use a gun. ”

A slight tense warning. To Morales, who is willing to pull the trigger, you send a signal that winter is fine.

Even bears consider the threat to be greater in winter.

Staring quietly, the bear stops in a hazy position and looks at you. Sometimes it reveals its teeth, but it no longer narrows the distance. It'll be easier if you run away.I can't show my back, so I can't even go this way.

Should I just kill him? ’

We don't have much time, and it shouldn't be too bad to talk to the soldiers. If I sit still while resting, I can think of all kinds of things.

Winter's determination was stiff. As Excel plunges into the ground, the bear flinches. When the collision is imminent, one arm of winter is blurred. The Great Sword flew at an inevitable speed, but Tongue! Reflexively, the bear shoves its head halfway through its brow and bounces off.

A slight return of the head will suffice.

As you pass by, winter grips the crowbar.

Baaak!

A lever blade breaks the lock and burrows its thick head vertically. Winter, where you let go of the handle to avoid the camels. Run past the bear. The Great Sword was taken from the beginning.

The bear was already dying when he turned to pull the lever. The brain was partially destroyed and not immediately killed, but it was unable to maintain a healthy body. Savings were a matter of time.

There was no need to watch a confirmed death. If it's to ease the pain.

Winter drives horses to the bear. Dook, dook. When I pulled out the crowbar, I purposely twisted it. The reckless black bear trembles. The power disappears from the thick limbs. There was a slight stretch of sticky thread between the pierced head and the lever blade.

When I returned, the soldiers gave me a bewildered look. It was a bear, but it was too easy to kill.

“I won't let the lieutenant get angry in the future. ”

Shultz's admirable joke. I wiped the blood off my face, and the winter was briefly gone.

After that, during the hunt until noon, I was able to catch a pair of black-tailed deer and their cubs further.

It's a good hunting ground because it's a national park. Wouldn't it be okay to stay for a while and make some preserved food? There's plenty of salt. Winter I thought I'd offer Captain Langford a chance.

Artwork Reviews

# Turkey

In 1999, during the fall of California, there were about 27,000 hunters licensed to hunt by the Department of Fish and Wildlife. And the number of wild turkeys hunted throughout the state was 5,798. In other words, the hunter who acquired at least one turkey was only one in four.

Of course, many of those hunters come to a private farm hunting course on the weekends and play for a day or two, so professional hunters are a little bit different, but it's true that turkeys are quite a difficult prey.

# Tiger

As of 2016, the number of wild tigers in the world remains around 3890. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that there are at least 5,000 tigers and up to 10,000 tigers.

You can see that there's a big margin of error for formal statistics, but in fact, the U.S. government is not very interested in this. They only regulate Siberian and Bengal purebloods.

So the simpler ones estimate that there are at least 10,000, and there's a claim that there might be more than 20,000, but we've seen that this is an exaggeration of a radical animal organization, and so we've mentioned that there are about 10,000.

I'm going to put a piece of material on the setting.:)

# American Black Bear

North American black bears are small and gentle, so they don't attack people! There's a lot of rumors going around. Not necessarily. There are over 1,000 reported aggressive actions by black bears in North Carolina's national park. Many people who believe in the serenity of black bears often feed them and provoke them to anger, but some of them attack first.

Bears are bears.

# Announcement

We are going to have an event on the next painting.

# Edit

At the end of 12: 50, the animals that were hunted were transformed from pigs to black-tailed deer.

# Q&A

Q. Bug: How did @ helicopter run… If you learned control skills, you should know the basics… or did you control it with oil because you knew?

A. Even if you have a mechanic or a mechanic, it's a problem. Even if you try to maintain the field, you can't do it with your bare hands. Above all, there's no visual way to tell which parts of each gas are intact.

Q. Karpis: I would like to see @ Zacharim winter use special skills such as Тунгусский метеорит or Tunguska event for Chinese nuclear terrorists. How about Zakhanim for fuel? Is it too much?

A. Then the worldview is over, right?... If that's the way the novel ends, I'll probably get killed. Haha.