Douluo: My Sand Sculpture Player

Chapter 72 Information

Traces of soul beasts grow in almost every corner of the soul hunting forest, but it is not so easy to see them from time to time, because each soul beast has its own way of surviving in the dangerous soul hunting forest. rules of survival.

As a well-known game anchor, Da Sima does not have A Yin's exquisite skills and superhuman intuition. He also understands this very well, but he can be one of the well-known game anchors like A Yin, so he naturally has his own unique abilities. One of them is to be careful, and the other is to be good at learning.

In the past few weeks, Da Sima formed a team with Zhang San and A Yin, going back and forth in the soul hunting forest. He had already learned to identify the traces left by the soul beasts and distinguish what type of soul beast they were. , especially the feces left by soul beasts, Da Sima can roughly tell whether it is a carnivorous soul beast or a vegetarian soul beast just by smelling it.

This point is often ignored by many people, but Da Sima has a different view.

Although the feces left by soul beasts are all equally smelly, the feces of carnivorous soul beasts have a pungent odor, while the feces of vegetarian soul beasts do not.

Learning to identify the traces left by soul beasts may seem like a useless skill, but it has helped Da Sima, Zhang San, and A Yin escape from dangerous situations many times.

Of course, before the beast tide is about to hit the player camp, this little knowledge will also help Da Sima choose appropriate strategies for hunting or setting traps, and know what kind of bait is most effective, and set up corresponding traps.

Most carnivorous soul beasts only go out at night. During the day, there are usually only vegetarian soul beasts running around. Vegetarian soul beasts need to forage throughout the day to fill their stomachs. Some small and low-cultivation spirit beasts need to eat frequently and will be active all day long. However, most small spirit beasts, such as cartilaginous rabbits, which are the same race as Xiao Wu, mainly eat during the day. Foraging, except when the weather changes. For carnivorous soul beasts, their prey can be captured when they are out and about.

If you want to make a trap to deal with soul beasts, you must first understand the habits of these soul beasts, and then you can use the trap to capture those soul beasts that you have never even seen.

The activities of most spirit beasts are very regular, with fixed routes between drinking water, foraging and returning to their nests. Pay attention to these trace signals. Animal tracks will be more obvious in wetlands, swamps and soft sand, and there will be other more obvious signals in dense forest areas. The size of the tracks is basically proportional to the size of the animal. By judging the clarity of the tracks and how much water they contain, the time of the animal's passage can be accurately determined.

Is water seeping in or rain filling it?

Are the stains gone?

The clearer the tracks, the shorter the time for animals to pass.

After waiting patiently for the soul beasts in the forest near the player's camp to retreat quietly, Da Sima winked at Zhang San and A Yin, lurked into the forest, and carefully observed and inspected the traces left by the soul beasts on the ground.

If the large bushes or spider webs were knocked down or destroyed, the time it took for the spirit beast to pass through might not be more than a few hours from now. Some spirit beasts, such as the needle-threading wild boar they had seen before, have a smaller radius of movement, and the corresponding footprints are likely to indicate that they are nearby.

Some spirit beasts will also open passages from dense bushes. Their size indicates the size of the spirit beast concerned. In this regard, we can take the cartilage rabbit as an example. The size and length of the cartilage rabbit are no different from those of ordinary white rabbits. The difference is that what is left will be a channel the size of a fist.

The degree of damage to the twigs on both sides of the footprints will also provide information about the spirit beast.

Da Sima carefully inspected the condition of the broken leaf section.

Have the trampled branches and leaves withered?

Are the damaged branches still there?

Is there any fresh green?

Make good marks between the trees. Soul beast feeding signals and abandoned plants are also useful indicators. Soul beast feces can also provide a lot of relevant information.

Among them, the two types of soul beasts, birds and beasts, will leave different messages here.

When a bird spirit beast lands on a branch, its sharp claws will scratch the skin on the branch, leaving scratch marks of varying sizes. From the size of these claw marks, you can roughly identify these birds. The size and strength of a soul-like beast.

Generally speaking, in the soul beast world, the stronger the soul beast, the larger the body. Therefore, the claw marks left by larger soul beasts on the branches will be deeper and more obvious.

Relatively speaking, the beast-like spirit beasts are relatively violent. When they are lurking, they will crush the surrounding branches, leaving a mess of destruction.

In addition, there are other ways to identify traces.

Da Sima used the method of peeling off tree bark, the nut shells left after the soul beasts gnawed them, the tooth marks on the berries and twigs left after eating, the carcasses of the prey left by the carnivorous soul beasts and the destruction of the prey's nest. Such situations can help him determine the types of spirit beasts living nearby and their living habits.

In places where food is abundant, abandoned fruits or nuts are often found. These may be left by vegetarian spirit beasts, because after they see another one, they will throw away what they are holding and pick another one. This not only shows that They exist, but also tell how to set bait to catch them.

You can often tell what kind of spirit beast it is by observing the teeth or mouth marks left on the nuts, or the way the pine nuts are peeled.

Bark, branches, and buds, especially delicate branches and shrubs, are important food sources for many vegetarian soul beasts, including colorful deer and bony sheep, cartilaginous rabbits, flying rats, and countless other vegetarian soul beasts. In most cases, the marks left by the spirit beast's teeth on the bark are very obvious.

Many plant stems that are eaten by large deer-like spirit beasts will leave corresponding tooth marks on the stems and bark, while the edges of the bark of small rabbit-like spirit beasts will be smooth. .

In summer, the bark gnawed by the five-colored deer is often torn into long strips, completely exposing the xylem of the tree. At the same time, the male five-colored deer often rubs its antlers against the tree trunk, leaving a gap between the worn bark and the xylem. Long scars.

Bone sheep also gnaw on tree bark, and the teeth marks they leave are usually skewed, while the teeth marks of colorful deer are vertical. The bite marks of some soul beasts are often found at the bottom of tree stems.

Stripping trees of their tender bark is often also the work of cartilaginous rabbits. The areas gnawed by the industrious and tireless Diretan look as if they had been struck with a small hand axe, with deep marks at the top of the cone.

Da Sima held a pen in one hand and paper in the other, constantly recording the information he found along the way.

(End of this chapter)