Chapter Forty-Seven: Advance to the Right

  There were only a few pouches on his body, all of which were small animal skin bags that couldn't hold so much food.

  Helplessly, they could only use the animal hide as cloth, stuff it into the wooden barrel, block the hole, and then start loading in large quantities.

  He gave up the idea of transporting them in batches to Baigulüng because it was too labor-intensive and time-consuming, and it wasn't worth digging and burying.

  So he temporarily used a wooden bucket instead and didn't set any more traps. Anyway, today's harvest was much bigger than the previous few days.

  After everything was done, the sun had unknowingly risen to the sky, and the temperature reached the hottest time of the day.

  Even if it's scorching hot, or minus dozens of degrees Celsius, there is no improvement for stiff hands and feet.

  Wang Yang did not dare to slack off and returned to set up traps near the tree hole.

  He decided to set up for another day; if there were any more squirrels that had missed the first trap, they would likely fall into it once they found their nest empty of food.

  If there were no squirrels, it wouldn't matter if a day was spent.

  Wang Yang's combat strategy has undergone a fundamental change once again. He is no longer like a headless fly, digging randomly everywhere.

  But after tasting the sweetness of storing small animals, they focused their attention on tree holes.

  He started looking everywhere for dead withered trees as a breakthrough.

  He mainly searched the area on the left side today.

  In the following days, he continued searching in the upper left and right areas and found another dead tree.

  In the hollow of a dead tree are as many as five fat groundhogs.

  These guys like to dig holes. In the summer, they often excavate burrows in the mud and then go on a crazy eating spree, getting themselves nice and plump.

  In winter, they especially like to hibernate in hollow tree holes. At this time, the fat they grew in summer plays an important role.

  They generally store enough fat to sustain them for up to seven months, so even if winter is prolonged they can cope.

  But some unlucky ones didn't store up that much fat and will have a hard time in the winter.

  These five groundhogs, still in the early stages of winter, have only consumed a little bit of fat, and each one has a chubby head and big ears, looking shiny and oily, making one's mouth water just by looking at them.

  The only thing that is a bit regrettable is that they basically don't store food in their tree holes during hibernation.

  But for them, it is a disguised storage device.

  Wang Yang did not let them off and killed all of them, then filled up another wooden bucket.

  Wang Yang, who had a taste of sweetness again, soon expanded his target. It was not just dead trees, but as long as there was a small hole in the tree, he would go and take a look to see if there were any tree holes inside.

  It has to be said that even living trees have hollows.

  The interior of these trees is almost all hollowed out by some kind of borer, the gaps on the surface are not large, but inside it's very spacious.

  Wang Yang succeeded many times and caught small animals such as pheasants and snakes.

  It's worth mentioning that many hibernating animals move especially slowly in winter, unless they receive strong stimulation, it is possible to speed up a little.

  Especially for ectothermic animals like snakes, they are completely still and silent. On such a cold day, it's just an ice stick. As long as you don't foolishly help warm it up, there won't be any danger.

  Wang Yang therefore caught many snakes, and his fear of them gradually decreased.

  A few days later, the eighteenth barrel was filled up.

  Wang Yang was delighted, but also added a few more worries.

  Fortunately, it's not too difficult to get food in winter.

  The worry is that the means of obtaining food are too single.

  He had searched all known areas except for a place on the right where bears were known to roam.

  To find food in this way, it is necessary to explore a wider area, and who knows that relying on him alone is almost impossible.

  Even if he is now the smartest person in the world, in terms of physical condition, he still lags far behind wild animals.

  He didn't think he could accomplish much on his own.

  Moreover, the outside world is too uncertain, he has always been worried that one day when traveling, he will encounter a tree leopard, and at that time, it will be true that heaven does not respond to calls, and earth does not respond to pleas.

  He'd better think of a good way out, after all, there's still plenty of food in this area, otherwise how could it supply so many large animals.

  Want to go back, but still have to go to the area on the right where there are bears. Bears can climb trees, just don't give them a chance.

  Wang Yang came up with a series of countermeasures for this and finally summed up an unmethodical method, climbing a lonely small tree.

  This little tree is not a modern one-meter-high, thin and weak small tree.

  In the Paleolithic era, small trees could be three or four meters high and have a thick trunk.

  After climbing up a small tree, with the help of a long spear, it can withstand the big black bear climbing the tree.

  Finding a secluded small tree can avoid big black bears climbing up nearby large trees and jumping over.

  As long as we can maintain this style of combat, the risk will be minimized.

  With a resolute expression, Wang Yang took his bone spur and long spear and slipped into the area on the right.

  In the forest, there are still many small trees. Among ten trees, there may be three or four small trees. The problem is that among twenty trees, it's unlikely to find a single secluded small tree.

  King Wang continued to move forward and look around, and finally found this small tree at a distance of forty meters.

  This small tree meets Wang Yang's requirements, with only one within a radius of ten meters around it. The branches of the large trees surrounding it are too thin to support the weight of a black bear.

  Wang Yang made a note of the small tree's location and continued on his way.

  Another 20 meters ahead, Wang Yang found another small tree like this.

  He stopped and didn't dare to move forward. His current location was already at the edge of the outer periphery close to the central area where he had encountered the black bear last time.

  He looked around for food and soon found a hollow tree.

  He set a trap here and hid aside to watch, not daring to leave, fearing that the small animal would be caught in the trap and taken advantage of by the black bear.

  It was strange that one day passed and there were no creatures entering or leaving the tree hole.

  Wang Yang didn't want to force an attack, so he could only retreat and come back tomorrow.

  By tomorrow, he came here again, carefully hiding aside and watching.

  He was speechless again, and after waiting in vain, there were no small animals coming out.

  Another day passed and after four hours had elapsed, Wang Yang decided not to wait any longer, or else he might waste another whole day.

  Since no living thing was seen, I might as well go and take a look at what's going on.

  He made his preparations, suddenly exerted force with his feet, and rushed forward like a strong wind. Without caring about anything, he picked up the wooden spear and bone needle and stabbed randomly.

  A rustling sound like scratching against thorns arose, without any animal's cry of pain.

  Wang Yang hastily stopped his actions and looked inside.

  "Huh?" He furrowed his brow in puzzlement.

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