Chronicles of Primordial Wars
Chapter 8: Strange Fish
That black hemisphere Shao Xuan treats it like a fish float. Shao Xuan has tried wooden blocks and such. No, as the tribes say, the dive area off shore is okay. A little bit deeper the wooden blocks were placed on the water and sank for a while. Something pulled it down. And since black blocks like this are a way to keep swamp bugs alive, they should also have a certain repelling effect on creatures in the river who like to catch floats.
Without the hook, we can't find a stone hook to replace the hook for the time being. There's no way. Shao Xuanshou strapped a stone worm directly, if there's carnivorous fish in the water and he's interested in the stone worm.
Fishing with earthworms in the last life, I have not seen earthworms in my life, instead of trying them with stoneworms, tribesmen say that the creatures in the water are fierce and should not count such a simple bait. There are no hooks, Shaoxuan doesn't plan to catch a fish now. If the fish in the water eat stoneworms, Shaoxuan will specially grind another hook tomorrow, not too late.
The stone worm was just dug by Caesar and fastened at the front end of the grass rope, but this is only temporary, and if the stone worm is water-resistant for a long time, it will still slip off the grass rope. We don't have enough tools, so we'll have to try this first. The stoneworm slipped away and digged another one.
The black hemisphere, which acts as a fish float, is tied about half a metre from the end of the rope, and Shao Xuan has no intention of exploring the deep water. Standing by the light beach, Shao Xuan threw bait and black hemisphere out. Bearing the weight of grass rope and stoneworms, the black hemisphere, although sinking a little, still floats steadily on the water, and Shao Xuan looks at what can happen under the water.
The grass rope on the body is not quite long, it fits less than five meters, and Shao Xuan is still very close to where the stone worms are thrown. Standing on the shore, Shao Xuanfoot did not touch the water, pay attention to the surface of the water, in case of any accidents, so as to escape in time. Not far away were guarded fighters, in danger he ran that way first.
While Shao Xuan was doing all this, the two warriors in charge of guarding the riverbank were also curious about Shao Xuan's purpose. He thought the child was going into the water and was going to throw the child back into the hole later. I didn't expect to see a series of strange behaviors. So, after a glance at them, they did not go to carry people, but stared closely at Shao Xuan.
“Caesar, pull the rope as soon as I get out of the way.” Shao Xuan put the other end of the rope in Caesar's mouth, and he held the middle section.
After a while, I didn't see any movement in the water. Shao Xuan thought: Is there no fish in the water near the shallow beach? Or is something in the water not interested in stoneworms?
Before I finished, the black hemisphere attached to the water sank sharply.
Got it!!
The rope in Shao Xuan's hand slides rapidly, and his palm hurts hot from the friction of the grass rope. Shao Xuan grabbed the rope and pulled it back, greeting Caesar standing behind him for help: "Caesar, pull! ”
Suddenly, Shao Xuan could feel that the force pulling into the water was not beyond his means, so Caesar helped him pull, trying to see what was in the water that bit the bait.
Caesar grazed the grass rope tightly, pulled it back hard, dragged people so many times, and pulled the rope not without it.
The two warriors who stood not far away watched were nervous, they never went down, even if they came to the bank of the river, it was just a little water on the edge to wash the skin of the beast, they would not take a step further into the water. In the summer they saw a giant river beast appearing on the far water, plus the bloody events about the river passed down from tribe to tribe, so they remained cautious and afraid of the river. Now suddenly they were surprised to see Shaoxuan pulling things from the river. The string in their heart was so tight that they feared something big coming out of the water.
“Past?” A soldier hit his companion with his elbow.
“Past... take a look…” The other hesitated, wondering what came to mind, said.
There was wind blowing from the river to shore, with the tide, and a slight smell, not knowing if it was the smell of an underwater creature or something, which made the two warriors more nervous.
Shao Xuan can feel what's in the water pulling through the grass rope in his hand. He wants to drag it into the water. He wants to pull it ashore, but Shao Xuan wins a little, step back and pull what's in the water out.
Something that bites the bait is almost out of shape, and the surface of the shallow water zone is sprayed with water as the creatures beneath the water struggle to pull and pull.
Shao Xuan gripped the rope and stared at the surface of the water and concentrated. When he pulled back, suddenly a picture appeared from afar and near, like a big mouth with countless fine teeth biting this way. The whole mouth almost covered Shao Xuan's head!
As soon as Shao Xuan was touched, the image quickly disappeared.
The scene flashed too fast, and Shao Xuan was gone before he could escape.
Shao Xuan shook his head and thought that he was probably too nervous and hallucinated.
By the time the two warriors came to Shao Xuan, what was in the water had revealed its full face.
It was a very strange fish, about half a metre long, and it took up two thirds of the fish body, and it was pulled out of the water, and the mouth of the fish bit the rope tied to the stoneworm, and it didn't mean to loosen up.
“Keep pulling, keep pulling!” Shao Xuan said to Caesar to continue when he saw the warrior who had rushed over and stood beside him.
For the first time, Caesar, apart from the surprise and vigilance initially caused by seeing an unknown creature, quickly bit the grass rope and pulled it back.
Shao Xuan let go after pulling the fish out of the water and pulling a distance back to make sure that the fish would never jump back into the water.
“Finally! Well done, Caesar! Relax, where the fuck are you dragging the fish? ”
Caesar pulled back with his butt biting the rope and shouted down his throat, apparently now pulling the fish out of the water made him wary, wary and so engaged that it continued after Shao Xuan let go.
After hearing Shao Xuan's words, Caesar was reluctant to loosen his mouth and cautiously approached the fish still clapping his tail, holding his teeth to bite.
From where Shao Xuan first stood to where the stoneworms were thrown, but a few steps away, the estimated depths of the bait were too deep, but I didn't expect such fierce fish activity in shallow water area, look at the large mouth, full of fine teeth, and don't let go of the bait, after being dragged ashore out of the water, beating his tail hard, struggling hard, a pair of bait without tearing off doesn't look dead.
A soldier who came over with a spear on his hand that didn't know if it was stone or his nephew's spear pierced it. He used a lot of force and speared quickly. The spear penetrated directly through the fish and nailed the fish to the shore.
It was only then that the pierced fish loosened the rope, with their mouths open and their heads swinging, that they seemed to bite what was around them.
And the grass rope that was loosened by the fish, the stone worm that had been tied up, had left only a piece of residue, and the grass rope was about to be bitten off.
Shao Xuan used a grass rope with great toughness and wear resistance. He knitted it himself. It was often used to pull things together. It was used for so long and very durable, but I didn't expect that the grass rope would be bitten off soon.
Shao Xuan glanced at the strange fish's wide mouth.
The most obvious thing about the head of the fish is the big mouth, the big mouth that the strange fish opened, and you can see an innumerable number of fine pointed teeth. Such proportions of teeth seem to be born to bite and kill. Without Caesar's help, Shao Xuan alone would not have dragged it out of the water so quickly.
If all the nearby diving areas are filled with such fish, it is estimated that the water will be eaten to the bone alone. It's just one of those fish, and there may be something even more terrible, and no wonder even the Totem warriors in the tribe don't want to go into the water.
Shao Xuan was not cold enough to think about what would happen if the children of the tribe went into the water.
Also, when I pulled the rope, the image flashed in front of me, it seemed to be this fish mouth filled with fine pointed teeth...
Shao Xuan stared at the fish mouth, and he thought about the last of his life, the illusions he saw in front of the stone wall in that remote mountain village.
The two warriors next to him saw Shao Xuan staring at the fish mouth and thought Shao Xuan was frightened and afraid to approach the creature.
Shao Xuan was the first to see such a fish, but one of the two fighters had seen it.
“Before I woke up to the power of totem, I followed my father to the river and saw this prey once, the witch said it was called a fish. There was danger in the water, when a woman in the tribe who washed the skin of a beast by the river was bitten off in the arm, and my father stabbed one with a spear. ”
Said the warrior looked at Shao Xuan. He didn't expect Shao Xuan to drag the fish up without going into the water. When his father risked his boss to go into the water, he rescued the woman who had been dragged into the water. Unfortunately, when he came up, half the woman's arm was gone. For some time thereafter, the women of the tribe did not come to the river to wash the hides of the animals, unless the streams on the mountains became narrow during the drought and had to come here to fetch water.
Shao Xuan returned to God, and the stuck fish was dead.
The fish fighters pulled out the spear, took the fish off the spear head and handed it to Shao Xuan with the fish tail.
“Here you go, it's your prey. You'll be a good soldier in the future!” Think about it, the warrior said again: “You better stay away from the water, there are many dangerous things in the river besides fish, not always so lucky. ”
But half an hour later, Shao Xuan, who was considered "not so lucky every time”, dragged a bigger fish out of the water using the same method.
The two warriors: "…”