Chapter 119: Bow And Arrow
Su Ran felt fortunate that she couldn’t understand beast language.
Now, just guessing the content of what Xiao Ju said had already made her blush so hard she wanted to cover her face.
If she could understand, she probably would have to find a hole in the ground to crawl into!
Why could beastmen tell just by scent whether someone else had done that kind of thing!
This left no privacy at all!
Compared to her, Gray’s reaction was very calm.
He could even ruthlessly kick A Jin when A Jin curiously looked at Su Ran’s butt.
Su Ran felt A Jin’s gaze and reached her hand behind to touch her own butt.
It seemed that besides humans, indeed no other animals lacked a tail.
Bird-type beastmen didn’t have tails, but they had wings on their backs, and their animal features were still very obvious.
After Xiao Ju and A Jin arrived at the seaside, Gray had to go back to deliver blue worms under Su Ran’s urging.
After Gray left, Su Ran continued sitting under the rain shelter processing the remaining blue worms.
Xiao Ju and A Jin plucked the feathers from that gray bird, skewered it on a wooden stick, and put it over the fire to roast.
However, with this bird, their roasting seemed more like playing.
The bird meat was only sprinkled with a bit of salt powder. Xiao Ju held the wooden stick skewered with bird meat and roasted it by the fire, while A Jin ran to the seaside to find seafood.
Su Ran thought that with the size of this bird, even ten each for Xiao Ju and A Jin wouldn’t be enough to fill their teeth gaps.
However, when the aroma of the roasted bird meat wafted over leisurely from the side, Su Ran couldn’t help but swallow her saliva.
The smell of roasting bird meat like this was really so fragrant.
Su Ran suddenly remembered that when she was little in the countryside, some of Grandmother’s hatched chicks that didn’t survive would be directly wrapped in mud and roasted by Grandmother, then the meat picked out bit by bit for Su Ran to eat.
The smell of the bird Xiao Ju was roasting now was just like the smell of those roasted chicks in her memory.
Su Ran looked at the bird Xiao Ju was roasting and couldn’t help but speed up her hand movements.
While busy, suddenly a steaming aromatic roasted little bird was held in front of Su Ran.
Su Ran: “?”
She looked up in confusion and saw Xiao Ju innocently looking at her. Seeing her look over, Xiao Ju even pushed the roasted bird meat in her hand closer to Su Ran.
Su Ran: ……
She was touched.
But her greediness had been discovered……
So embarrassing……
“Thanks, you eat first. We’ll catch more later.”
Su Ran awkwardly pushed Xiao Ju’s hand back, feeling her face a bit hot. Her face must be red.
It was a shy blush!
“Meow~~”
Xiao Ju watched Su Ran’s rejecting action and tilted her head in confusion.
In the beastmen’s world, like is like, want is want, and there’s no embarrassment or beating around the bush.
So seeing Su Ran clearly craving it but not eating, her little head was filled with a lot of confusion.
Su Ran embarrassedly smiled and shook her head at it again, but in her heart, she was thinking about catching a few of these birds herself to have as a treat.
Moreover, she really wanted to learn to hunt herself.
She couldn’t handle large prey, but she could try small prey.
Actually, after the last wild beast attack, she had started considering whether she should learn to hunt herself.
Hunting was one aspect, and incidentally learning about the types and habits of animals in the forest was another.
Plus, while practicing hunting, she could improve her physical strength and body agility.
If one day she encountered a situation like that again, it would at least give her time to escape.
Even if just pulling the initial distance from the wild beast to beyond ten meters, giving Gray time to react and come to her side, instead of being devoured the moment she met the wild beast.
Thinking this way, Su Ran’s desire to hunt herself grew even stronger.
She quickly processed the blue worms in front of her cleanly, put them into the backpack neatly, and waited for Gray to return to put them into the bag.
Then she took a small wooden basin, put on her conical hat, stood up, and walked toward the reef group by the seaside.
Recently, the scallops and abalone by the seaside seemed much larger than before, and there were many more sand-buried clams and shellfish on the beach.
Su Ran casually picked a few cat’s eye snails and put them into the wooden basin, then found two large conches in the reef crevices, each heavy and clearly with a lot of conch meat inside.
Besides that, there was a type of shellfish on the beach with a shell like a snail but white in color.
This snail meat tasted like cat’s eye snails, but was a bit tougher, very chewy, and Gray really liked it roasted.
Su Ran also picked a few of these conches.
After that, she picked four or five palm-sized scallops from the reef group, put them into the wooden basin, then carried the wooden basin back to the rain shelter side.
And just as she returned here, Gray also flew back after delivering the blue worm meat home.
Su Ran simply processed all the seafood she picked, removing the internal organs where possible, washed them clean, and put them by the campfire to charcoal roast.
This time’s roasted seafood had no additional seasonings, not even sea salt.
When she brought back this basin of seafood, Xiao Ju was already staring at the various shellfish in the basin and swallowing saliva.
Su Ran found it amusing, took two oysters and handed them to it, and Xiao Ju ate them directly like sashimi.
Meanwhile, A Jin had already run to the seaside to find seafood himself, and dragged away Gray who had just returned before leaving.
After Su Ran put these seafood on the fire to roast, she took the broken scallop shells and pondered them.
If she wanted to learn hunting, she needed tools for hunting.
And currently, the hunting methods she could think of were only slingshot, bow and arrow, and trap.
But among these three, the slingshot had too little power.
For traps, it was fine near the home, but doing them in the forest felt a bit dangerous to Su Ran.
Not dangerous for the animals, but dangerous for herself.
Because she might not remember the positions of the traps she set, leading to her falling into the trap herself the second time near it after setting it and getting hung up.
Or the trap caught prey, but because she forgot the position, the prey rotted or was eaten by other animals without her finding it.
So after thinking it through, Su Ran felt that the only hunting tool suitable for her that she could make was the bow and arrow.
Su Ran had never touched real modern bow and arrow.
Her cognition of bow and arrow only came from the small toy bow and arrow Grandpa made for her as a child using branches from the fruit tree at home, and close-ups of bow and arrow in costume dramas on TV.
Su Ran thought that her self-made bow and arrow could just be like the one Grandpa made for her when she was little!
