Chapter 121: First Hunting Experience
Several beastmen were quite puzzled why, after clearly catching the red bird that Su Ran wanted, Su Ran didn’t look that happy.
Su Ran awkwardly lowered the bow and arrow she had already raised in her hand, looking at the red bird in the beastmen’s hands and speechless for a long time.
But as she looked, she noticed something wrong!
These red birds were all still alive!
So if she raised these red birds, she could have red bird eggs to eat every day!
Thinking this way, Su Ran suddenly became happy again.
She looked around, got a few strips of shrub with good flexibility, tied these red birds together like grasshoppers on a rope, then had Gray carry them in hand first.
Among these red birds, six were caught by Xiao Ju and A Jin, she definitely couldn’t take them for nothing.
So Su Ran told Gray that later she would make jellyfish salad and fish sausage for Xiao Ju and A Jin to eat, these were things they liked.
After tying up all these red birds, Su Ran turned her gaze to the surrounding shrubbery.
Since these red birds had all run here, they very likely had a bird’s nest here.
She grabbed the werewolf’s big tail beside her and tugged it, this was her recent new hobby.
“Gray, red bird.”
Su Ran pointed at the string of red birds already giving up struggling that Gray was holding, and said to Gray: “Let’s find a red bird nest, there are bird eggs in the bird’s nest!”
“Wu~ Okay!”
Hearing Su Ran say this, Gray immediately nodded, excitement showing in his eyes.
A beastman’s nose in this jungle was like the most precise radar.
After Su Ran spoke, the three beastmen searched the nearby shrubbery for a short while, then each came back holding several bird’s nests.
Even Su Ran herself found a bird’s nest containing two red eggs under a patch of shrubs.
However, in the end, only four bird’s nests had eggs.
Su Ran put all those eggs into one bird’s nest, then put the bird’s nest in Gray’s hand, while she continued walking deeper into the woods, hoping to get lucky and find two small animals.
But this time if they encountered any, she definitely had to stop these three energetic guys beside her.
“Gray, I’m going to find red birds, you don’t catch them.”
“Why, not catch?”
Gray was holding a bird’s nest in his arms, with the other hand carrying a string of red birds, looking at Su Ran doubtfully.
“Because I’m going to catch them!”
Su Ran confidently raised her eyebrows, shaking the bow and arrow in her hand at Gray.
And Gray looked at the bow and arrow in her hand, silent for a moment, then looked at Su Ran: “Wu…”
Su Ran: …
Why did she feel like she saw full doubt in this stinky wolf’s eyes?
Su Ran was provoked by that look from Gray, instantly igniting her fighting spirit.
She imitated Gray’s previous action, huffed heavily at him! Gripped the bow and arrow in her hand tightly, and quickly walked into the woods.
Thinking in her heart that when she really hunted prey, she would make this stinky wolf pay!
And at this moment, as she walked, she heard the beastmen behind her occasionally whispering “mi wu mi wu” “ao wu ao wu”.
Su Ran’s mouth pursed even higher.
These beastmen must be discussing her behind her back!
Soon, Su Ran encountered the second batch of prey.
This time it was two dwarf deer.
Probably because Gray, Xiao Ju, and A Jin had told them about the use of the bow and arrow Su Ran made, so this time when the beastmen saw that two-tailed beast, they all held back from acting and turned their gazes to Su Ran together.
Seeing that none of the beastmen wanted to rush over, Su Ran secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Betting with Gray was fake, she really wanted to learn to hunt by herself as soon as possible.
This way, later when Gray went hunting, she could go with him!
And in case something unexpected happened later, leaving her to live alone in the forest.
Learning to hunt would at least ensure she wouldn’t starve to death!
Thinking this way, Su Ran raised the curved bow in her hand, nocked a seashell arrow, and firmly aimed at the closer one of the two dwarf deer.
Although the dwarf deer’s movement speed was fast, it wasn’t as fast as the two-tailed beast, which could disappear from sight in the blink of an eye.
Moreover, these two were actually very close to Su Ran, she estimated only six or seven meters.
It was just that there was a withered tree as thick as a person lying on the ground in between, with weeds growing on the withered tree, which could slightly block both sides’ line of sight.
From visual estimation, the distance to this dwarf deer should still be good to shoot.
When Su Ran raised the bow and arrow, the three beastmen beside her simultaneously lightened their breathing.
This was the action they instinctively made before hunting.
Su Ran’s bow and arrow slowly drew full, and during the process of tightening the bowstring, she could faintly feel her two arms trembling slightly from the effort.
The dwarf deer in front was still lowering its head to chew grass leaves, completely unaware of the danger behind it.
Su Ran aligned her sight with the arrowhead, aimed at the targeted dwarf deer, and suddenly released the bowstring!
Only a “whoosh!” sound!!
The seashell arrow flew out in the blink of an eye!
The straight bowstring that instantly snapped back in Su Ran’s hand made a “twang!” sound, then left a lingering vibration.
The next second, a painful wail suddenly came from the open space in front, and Su Ran watched wide-eyed as the seashell arrow instantly embedded into the dwarf deer’s belly.
And the startled two dwarf deer, after reacting, immediately panicked and fled in different directions.
Seeing this, Su Ran hurriedly drew another seashell arrow from her side, lifted her foot, nocked the bow while chasing after the already injured dwarf deer.
But this arrow wasn’t so lucky this time.
By the time Su Ran chased over and pulled out the arrowhead embedded in the ground, that dwarf deer was already gone.
But a trail of bloodstains on the ground exposed the direction it fled.
Su Ran looked at the string of bloodstains on the ground, seemingly also ignited with competitive spirit.
She carried the bow and arrow, chasing in the direction the dwarf deer fled, even forgetting the three beastmen following her.
Until Gray grabbed her arm, she came back to her senses.
“Ran Ran, Gray go catch dwarf deer?”
“……No, I’ll go myself, it’s injured, can’t run far.”
Su Ran shook her head, refusing Gray’s help.
This was her first time trying to hunt by herself, she wanted to catch it herself.
Sure enough, after following the bloodstains for not long, Su Ran found that dwarf deer lying in a patch of grass, panting rapidly.
After hearing the sounds of Su Ran and the beastmen approaching, it struggled to get up and escape, but due to excessive blood loss, it could no longer stand.
Su Ran walked over, grabbed its two hind legs and lifted it, then pulled out the seashell arrow embedded in its body.
The depth the arrowhead had pierced into the dwarf deer’s body was very deep.
This arrow’s arrowhead was five or six centimeters deep, almost entirely embedded into the dwarf deer’s body.
When Su Ran pulled out the arrowhead, the dwarf deer, which had already given up struggling, suddenly trembled all over and began struggling violently again.
Su Ran was holding its two hind legs with one hand, and with this struggle, she almost couldn’t hold it, nearly letting the dwarf deer escape again.
In the end, Xiao Ju saw Su Ran was about to lose her grip, so she simply stepped forward and twisted the dwarf deer’s neck…
