On Lang Ga's side, a few people were trying to attract attention.
Shao Xuan felt the gaze in front of him stare at him for about two minutes before moving away.
"Xuan, run!" Lang Ga shouted from the side.
There was no need for Lang Ga to shout. Shao Xuan had already sensed that the other party had moved away from him. His legs gathered strength in an instant, and his bent knees shot out.
Crack!
The stone pillar under his feet suddenly cracked, and Shao Xuan's body shot out like an arrow.
The moment Shao Xuan left the stone pillar, he caught a glimpse of a long shadow shooting out and then retreating quickly from the corner of his eye. If Shao Xuan had been a little slower, he might have been swept by that long shadow.
Shao Xuan knew what that long shadow was. If he was touched by it, he would be directly dragged into the water.
At the same time, Lang Ga and the others had already thrown the spears in their hands at the creature in the water. They didn't dare to directly throw the spears earlier because Shao Xuan's position could easily injure him. Now that Shao Xuan had left, they didn't have to be restrained. The muscles on their arms bulged as they threw the spears in their hands.
The stone spears pierced through the curtain of rain. Shao Xuan could still hear the whooshing sound of the spears as they flew through the air.
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Three spears pierced the body of the creature in the water, and red blood flowed out. If the piranhas were here, they would have followed the smell and come over to snatch it. But now, other than the struggling of the creature that had been shot, there was nothing else.
Whooshing!
Another two spears were thrown.
Long straw ropes were tied to the spears. Obviously, they were used to drag the prey that had just been shot to the shore.
As the people on the shore retracted the straw ropes, Shao Xuan finally saw the figure of the creature.
It was a little different from what he had imagined. The creature that had been dragged to the shore did indeed look like a frog, but what was more obvious was that it had a long tail behind it!
A tadpole? A tadpole that had not yet developed into a frog but had grown both front and rear limbs?
Shao Xuan didn't expect to see something like this when he heard the screams just now!
The long-tailed frog that was shot was still struggling, but its struggle was a little weaker than before. Its forelimbs and back legs were kicking, leaving marks on the riverbank.
After the long-tailed frog was stabbed a few more times and stopped struggling, Shao Xuan took a closer look.
In addition to its long tail, its limbs were webbed instead of toes. Opening its mouth, there were some sharp teeth in its mouth. Other than that, it looked exactly like a fully transformed frog.
Not only that, but the size of this long-tailed frog also made Shao Xuan speechless. Not counting its long tail, its body length was already more than five meters long! No wonder Lang Ga and the others were so nervous.
It was Shao Xuan's first time seeing such a big frog with fangs and a long tail.
"I was almost scared to death just now!" Seeing that Shao Xuan was safe and sound, Lang Ga let out a long sigh of relief. Then, he warned Shao Xuan, "This thing came out. You have to be careful from now on. It's best not to go to the fish fence for the next few days."
Whether or not they could catch fish was a small matter. Their safety was the most important thing.
Lang Ga still had a lingering fear. He didn't expect the thing in the water to come out so soon. When he saw the two round eyes peeking out of the water very close to Shao Xuan, Lang Ga felt as if a basin of cold water had been splashed on his face.
Some of the people who had been on patrol had been swept into the water. Those who had been pulled into the river never came back. Although everyone had taken precautions and hunted many of these things every year, they still fell into the trap if they were not careful. In front of the prey, they couldn't be careless.
Watching the others slaughter the long-tailed frog, Lang Ga told Shao Xuan some things he needed to pay attention to. He also told Shao Xuan about some previous tragedies, in order to attract Shao Xuan's attention.
"As for this thing, it's not bad to eat. We can still hunt some now, but in two days, it will be difficult to do so," Lang Ga said.
On the same day, Shao Xuan hunted three long-tailed frogs with Lang Ga and the others. Except for the different patterns on the surface of the skin, these three frogs were all strange species with large fangs and long tails.
The people on patrol shared some of the frogs and brought them back after the patrol. It was not bad to eat. Although it was not as tender as the frog meat that Shao Xuan had eaten in his previous life, it contained more energy than snail meat.
The rainy season here was relatively short compared to winter, but it was not a matter of one or two days. It was about thirty days. No one could tell the exact time, because it was different every year.
Two days later, because of the incessant rain, the river level rose a lot.
Shao Xuan thought that at this rate, it would take less than ten days to cross the stone line, but the others didn't seem worried at all.
When Shao Xuan came to the riverbank to patrol, from the shallow water to the deeper areas, he could see a lot of slightly triangular heads and round eyes along the riverbank, densely packed.
No wonder Lang Ga said that it was difficult to hunt. There were so many long-tailed frogs. Before you could pull the frogs ashore, the straw rope would be pulled into the river by them.
Sometimes, when he had nothing to do, Lang Ga would stuff mud into the shell of a snail and then throw it over, watching the long-tailed frogs shoot out their long tongues to snatch the food. Like the frogs that Shao Xuan knew, the long-tailed frogs also caught moving things. Many times, the snails thrown over were swept away by their long tongues before they fell into the water.
Those long-tailed frogs never went ashore. At most, they would lie down in the shallow water, showing their triangular heads and a pair of round eyes. They also rarely croaked, unlike Shao Xuan's imagination. Occasionally, he would hear a small and short "Gua" sound.
As the river level rose, every day when Shao Xuan went over, the patrol would retreat. Because of the existence of the long-tailed frogs, they had to keep a safe distance from the river.
Until one day, when Shao Xuan came to the riverbank, he found that the long-tailed frogs lying near the riverbank had all disappeared, and the river level, which had risen to the seventh fish fence, had begun to recede.
The rainy season was not over. Lang Ga told Shao Xuan that this was only the first time the river level had receded in the rainy season, and there would be a few more times of receding. After the first receding, all the long-tailed frogs would disappear, and there would be no need to worry about them appearing again.
At the same time, Shao Xuan also noticed that when the river level receded, the river flow, which had gradually become obvious because of the rising water during the rainy season, had changed. Now, the river did not flow in the direction where the river overlords swam, but upstream, as Shao Xuan guessed.
The change in the river flow, and the disappearance of the long-tailed frogs overnight, all told Shao Xuan that something had happened upstream. According to Lang Ga, the river level would recede several times during the rainy season, and every time the river level receded, the river flow would change. Every year during the rainy season, there were many things that they did not know about.
Because of these strange phenomena, the people in the tribe felt that this boundless river was even more mysterious. They were not willing to explore it, and did not dare to explore it.
When the river level receded for the first time, Shao Xuan saw the wood-eating insect in the seventh fish fence.
The seventh fish fence was set up by Shao Xuan. He put a few pieces of wood in the fence, but he did not expect that the river level would recede, and the wood-eating insect would be trapped inside temporarily.
The wood-eating insect was like a mass of thick mucus. When it smelled the existence of wood, it would stick to the wood, or directly grow, and then pull the wood down.
However, Shao Xuan found that there were many trees in the flooded areas, and those trees were not eaten much. If a small piece of wood was thrown into the river, it would be pulled down after more than an hour. Normally, it would not take more than two minutes for the floating wood to disappear.
Obviously, the wood-eating insects' activities were also very abnormal during the rainy season.
Therefore, Shao Xuan would put a piece of wood in the water every day when he was patrolling, to see how long it would take for it to be pulled down. A thin straw rope was tied to the wood, and the other end of the rope was tied to the stone pillar, so that it would not float away. After returning, Shao Xuan would record the results of the day in his secret "notebook".
This rainy season only lasted for twenty-seven days, which was a few days shorter than last year. This was a normal phenomenon. According to the old warriors, the longest rainy season they had experienced was forty days, but the shortest rainy season was no less than twenty-five days.
When the rain stopped, the lingering dark clouds in the sky dispersed, and the long-awaited sun shone on the land once again. Everyone in the tribe felt as sunny as the weather.
The children who had been cooped up in the house for nearly thirty days ran out happily, and ran around barefoot, laughing loudly. The children in the cave also began to prepare things. The rainy season was over, and they could continue to fish. For the time being, they did not have to worry about being dazed by the roars from the river.
Why was it temporary?
Because the river monsters that had stopped roaring would appear again after a while, and roar again.
"Xuan, let's go back!"
Lang Ga and the others had already packed up and were ready to leave.
"I'll go back right away. You guys go first!" Shao Xuan responded.
After the rainy season, as long as they did not go into the water, they would not be in danger, so Lang Ga was not worried.
After Lang Ga and the others left, Shao Xuan took out a wooden boat from the animal skin bag. This was a simple sailboat he made in the last few days of patrolling, with the wood and some small stone nails he stored in the house every day after returning home.
The sail was only made of the leaves of a kind of plant, and the planks were also ordinary wood. The hull of the sailboat was only two palms long.
The wind blew from the river bank to the river. Shao Xuan put the simple sailboat on the river, and with a little force from his fingers, the hull was pushed away. It swayed and was blown away by the wind, away from the shoal of the river bank, to the place where the boundary could not be seen. The green on the boat was particularly conspicuous.
There were a lot of piranhas in the river. These big-headed, low-IQ guys that had disappeared for a rainy season began to be active again, even more active than before the rainy season. Throwing a small piece of bloody meat into the river could cause them to fight for a long time, and they were very energetic. The good thing was that they were not interested in wood, and the wood-eating insects in the river that were interested in wood seemed to have disappeared.
Standing by the river and watching for a while, Shao Xuan carried his things and left. When he went up the mountain, he looked back at the river, and could see the little dot below Yang Guang gradually drifting away.
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Well, that's it for tonight. I'll continue tomorrow. Good night, everyone.
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