Chapter 315 A Familiar yet Strange Smell
110th day after birth.
"Dabai! Good job! Keep going! Go outside for another round!"
Yi Chen gently patted the giant whale's back, then stood up and shouted.
It has been five days since we arrived at this beach.
This beach suitable for fishing and hunting is not very wide, only about four or five kilometers.
According to the experience of the previous coast, the probability of catching animals here is now shockingly low, and even the speed of hooking will be several times slower.
However, the giant whale named "Dabai" by Bai Jue is very smart.
After it saw that humans could not catch fish, it quickly realized that the fish around it had been caught.
So, relying on its huge body and absolute deterrence in the ocean, it drove the marine herd animals farther away to the offshore waters where Cang Nian and his team were.
In this way, there are constantly new fish schools to replenish, and the total amount of prey here is maintained at a relatively high level, and then attracted with fishing rods.
However, this method can only drive away large-scale fish and shrimp schools.
Those lone rangers in the ocean can avoid being driven away by Dabai.
That is why the total amount of prey has not decreased significantly, but the proportion of third-level prey has decreased.
However, this does not have much impact on Cang Nian.
After all, he can go hunting in the deep sea.
But it is not very friendly to the evolvers in the migrating team.
Even for third-level evolvers, the human body structure cannot be immersed in cold sea water for a long time, and it will quickly lose temperature and easily die suddenly.
And there is no way to go fishing in the deep sea area far away from the coast, and Qin Changyi is embarrassed to let Cang Nian's family share the third-level prey.
So, if nothing unexpected happens, they will have to continue migrating south in two days.
And Yi Chen proposed a way to let the migrating team share some third-level prey.
That is to let the third-level evolvers treat the giant whale Dabai as a big ship, everyone rides on it, and then is taken to the sea far away from the coastline by Dabai.
Then, everyone will cast a fishing rod together to attract evolved creatures.
However, Dabai's body is relatively smooth, and it is impossible to put the hunted prey on its back.
Of course, you can actually let Dabai hold the prey.
But the third-level prey is also the highest standard food for Dabai, so it swallows it unconsciously when it is put in its mouth.
This is an instinct that cannot be resisted.
You can resist not eating the fat meat on the mouth, but it is all in its mouth. It is a bit cruel to test the giant whale like this.
Therefore, the third-level prey harvested by fishing on Dabai’s back can only be put into the storage space by the little sable.
As for the first-level and second-level ones, as well as those edible marine plants, they must either be eaten by Dabai and the black king snake, or thrown away.
Therefore, fishing on Dabai requires abandoning ordinary prey.
Therefore, this way of fishing cannot become the mainstream hunting method on the human side.
After all, there are still a million mouths to feed, and it is impossible to only have third-level prey.
It is for this reason that only a few people go out to sea every time Dabai goes out to hunt.
In this way, the efficiency of Cangnian’s family hunting third-level prey can be greatly improved, and Cangnian is also willing to share a small part of the harvest with humans.
There is no reason to refuse something that is mutually beneficial.
Most of the fishing rods are still placed on the shore, mainly to obtain first- and second-level prey, as well as various edible marine plants, as food for the large army.
Although the harvest in the previous few days far exceeded everyone's consumption.
But people who have experienced hunger always feel that the stored food is not enough.
Now the temperature is cold, and seafood has its own salt. Everyone uses seawater to boil coarse salt and prepares it, which is easy to store and does not take up space.
When you need to eat, throw the dried fish into the pot, and it will be a pot of delicious hot soup when it is cooked. Soak the dried biscuits and eat them, and you can drive away the fatigue of the day.
In order to survive and live better, everyone is trying to do what they can.
After a day, the storage space of the little sable that was originally vacated was almost filled with third-level prey.
"Ah~!"
Seeing that it was getting late, Cang Nian yelled at Da Bai.
Ying~!
Hearing Cang Nian's cry, Da Bai made an ethereal and melodious cry and happily swam towards the shore where the main group was.
Da Bai has a strong learning ability. After just a few days of getting along, it can understand the language of Longguo, Cang Nian's family, and even the meaning of the cries of the little sable and the little snow ferret.
More than an hour later, Cang Nian and his party returned to the shore with a full load.
Whoosh...
But at this time, Cang Nian twitched his nose twice.
"Hmm... Why do I feel a familiar but unfamiliar smell... and it's very mixed..."
Cang Nian frowned and was a little confused.
Woo woo...
On the side, the tiger father and mother who had just come ashore with Cang Nian were extremely nervous. The hair that had just been shaken clean of water stains was all blown up, as if facing a great enemy.
"Ah~?"
Seeing that the tiger father and mother seemed to have smelled the meaning of the smell in the air, Cang Nian tilted his head and asked.
Ao ao ao~!
Seeing Cang Nian asking, the tiger father looked very serious and explained to Cang Nian while howling.
"What does this mean... the same species? Is it the same species as tiger?"
After listening to Tiger Dad's explanation, Cang Nian was slightly stunned.
It has been a long time since the last time I met a tiger.
I don’t know if it’s because tigers are too rare, or because of the poachers’ destruction before the spiritual energy was revived, but the number of tigers that Cang Nian has encountered so far, including his own family, is no more than two hands.
That’s why he is not sensitive to the smell of tigers.
But Tiger Dad is different. Tiger Dad, who has just become an adult, is already more than three years old and has seen many tigers.
Especially as an adult male Siberian tiger, he is extremely sensitive to other male Siberian tigers intruding into his territory.
So, after sensing the smell of the same kind, Tiger Dad will get angry like a conditioned reflex.
The same is true for Tiger Mom.
Sensing that there may be an outside male tiger, Tiger Mom conditionedly thinks that this is an outside tiger trying to snatch the right to mate and kill her children.
However, seeing Cang Nian and Tiger Brother, who are already bigger than herself, Tiger Mom is not so scared.
Her own cubs are so powerful, if other tigers want to snatch their mothers, they will just wait to be beaten into Muggles!
The tiger father, who was still on the alert, was completely unaware that the tiger mother had completely placed her sense of security on the cub.
At this time, Cang Nian suddenly turned his head to the northern cliffs!
Although the sea breeze was blowing towards the shore, the other party was in the downwind, making it difficult for him to judge by smell.
But now, he has locked the direction of those mixed smells of the same kind!
After a few seconds, a group of beasts covered with black, orange and white striped fur appeared from behind the cliffs, and their eyes looked down at Cang Nian's family.