Chapter 12 The hurdle that must be overcome
At this moment, Zhou Xu himself was extremely excited.
After all, when he grew up, he never did this again.
Pressing the basket, he could feel the rat rushing inside. After a brief excitement, he realized what he was going to do next, and Zhou Xu's body became visibly tense.
Exhaling a long breath, Zhou Xu opened the basket slightly.
Noticing the open mouse here, he naturally burrowed over here immediately and was caught by him!
During this process, he quickly grabbed the mouse's head with his thumb and index finger.
"Look, catch it like this to prevent the rat from getting too anxious and opening its mouth to bite someone, and then..."
Zhou Xu's voice paused at this point.
It is impossible for them to take a living rat with them. The best way is to catch it and kill it directly.
Under this premise, of course he would not feel pity for a mouse, but as a city man who had never killed anything except cockroaches and insects, now that he had such a living creature in his hands, he wanted to kill him , he really needs to do some mental construction for himself.
In fact, he could have had other choices.
That is to leave the mouse to the flying bird next to you, or any tribe member to deal with it.
I believe they will definitely act swiftly.
But Zhou Xu knew in his heart that doing so was, to put it bluntly, an escape.
Now in this primitive world, if he wants to survive, he must cross this hurdle!
【Don't hesitate, just snap its neck, it only takes a moment. 】
After thinking this, Zhou Xu's other hand had already grabbed the mouse's head and made a twisting motion.
During this period, the mouse, which seemed to realize what was about to happen, began to struggle violently and kept making "squeaking" sounds.
The mouse's fierce struggle made Zhou Xu involuntarily become nervous, and at the same time he realized that he could no longer hesitate.
Taking a deep breath, he raised his heart and exerted force with both hands!
At that moment, he clearly heard the sound of the rat's neck being broken by him. At the same time, the spasms and twitches of the rat's body were constantly reflected back to his hands.
In his previous life, as a perfectly normal citizen, he had never broken the neck of a living creature with his hands.
That feeling made his scalp numb, his stomach and intestines also felt uncomfortable, and he felt nauseated.
But he quickly suppressed this feeling.
Because he knew that he was now the leader of the Salt Lake Tribe, and his subordinates were all looking at him.
As a leader, he must maintain sufficient dignity.
“Okay, just twist its neck like this.”
While speaking, Zhou Xu, who had secretly adjusted his emotions, calmly opened his palms and broke the broken neck. The vitalized mouse appeared in front of the tribe members.
“This matter is very simple. All it requires is patience and timing. You should understand it, right?”
Faced with the question, the tribe members nodded.
"Now we have eight traps. If they are all concentrated in one place, the efficiency will be too low. Therefore, everyone needs to spread out around this area."
Zhou As Xu spoke, he handed the dead mouse in his hand to Feiqiao and asked him to hold it.
"Today I will confirm the location of the trap for everyone, and every day after that..."
At this point, Zhou Xu paused and his eyes fell on Fei Que.
"Fei Que, after you distribute the water to everyone in the morning, you can directly bring the hunting team here to set traps and hunt. You don't need to wait for me to come out to make arrangements one by one. If there are other arrangements later, I will tell you. ”
“Yes!”
After arranging the eight traps respectively, Zhou Xu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling like he had accomplished something big.
Looking up at the sky, it was completely bright at this moment.
Today is not as gloomy as yesterday. Through the clouds, you can vaguely see the sun hiding behind it. Calculating the time, I guess it should be around ninety o'clock in the morning.
After all, they got up early today, and the day has just begun.
But Zhou Xu has no plans to stay in the black forest anymore. According to his own plan, he still has a lot of things to do.
At this moment, he has to rush back to the tribe.
This is not far from the tribe. After walking for a while, we soon saw the outline of the tribe.
The tribe members who he arranged to patrol around the tribe quickly came up to salute after seeing him.
"You are here just in time. The other team continues patrolling. The three of you are coming with me to help."
"Yes!"
With a response, Zhou Xu He took them directly to the salt water lake.
[If there are fish in this lake, at least half of the food problem can be solved. 】
Looking at the lake in front of him, Zhou Xu thought in his heart.
Currently, he has two guesses about this saltwater lake.
The first guess is that the bottom of the saltwater lake is connected to the sea and was formed by the influx of seawater.
If this is the case, there will definitely be fish from the sea swimming in, and then they can smoothly increase their food supply.
As for the second guess...
That is, this saltwater lake was formed by the outflow of groundwater.
The reason why the lake is salty is because there are salt mines underground.
For Zhou Xu at this time, of course he prefers the former.
“Have you ever caught fish?”
Faced with the question, the three tribe members who came over all looked at each other in confusion.
Obviously didn't know what he was talking about.
“That’s what swims in this water.”
Zhou Xu said and gestured, trying to make them understand what he meant.
However, the three of them still shook their heads in unison, which basically confirmed to Zhou Xu that they had no concept of fishing.
【It seems I still have to do it myself. 】
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu walked to a place where the lake water was submerged up to his calves, and then reached out and dug up a handful of mud.
The pulpy texture had a bit of a sticky feel to it, which basically met his expectations.
"You three, dig up some of the mud. I'll go to the lake and have a look. I'll be up in a while."
When he was a child, he often went to the pond or river in the village in the summer. Swimming, now plunged into this lake, is not afraid at all, but it made the three tribe members standing aside confused.
At this moment, Zhou Xu obviously had no time to care about them. After holding his breath and diving for a while, he poked his head out from a position almost ten meters away from the lake.
"Huh——"
Wiping the lake water on his face, he quickly took a breath of fresh air, and then dived in again.
After two consecutive rounds of diving, Zhou Xu slowly swam back to the shore. Then he seemed to have lost all strength and collapsed on the shore, breathing heavily.
【Oh, it should be underground water. 】
(End of this chapter)