Douluo: My Sand Sculpture Player

Chapter 73 Worry

Flying Rats are a relatively common species of vegetarian soul beasts in the Soul Hunting Forest. They will climb to the top of tree trunks and eat away at the bark of young branches. Sawdust and bark fragments are usually scattered under the trunk.

When you see sawdust scattered on the ground, it is likely that there is a flying rat's nest in the tree. But if there are nuts or pine nuts scattered under the tree at the same time, it means that it may be the work of avian spirit beasts who like to steal nuts. Near a pile of empty fruit shells on the ground, there is probably a burrow where cartilaginous rabbits live.

If the branches of the saplings that are still growing seem to have been pruned horizontally, or if the lower branches of the tree have all the upper branches and leaves cut off at a certain height, it can be speculated that this is a vegetarian spirit beast that likes to eat twigs, such as the five-color deer left behind mark.

Da Sima frowned.

He looked at the traces left by a group of soul beasts around him and closed his eyes quietly. In his mind, he seemed to be able to recall that not long ago, there used to be a large number of soul beasts staying here.

Colorful deer, hard-boned sheep, soft-bone rabbits, flying rats and hundreds of vegetarian soul beasts.

Generally speaking, vegetarian soul beasts have a quiet personality and do not like fighting. Even when facing humans, although they do not have a favorable impression, they will not immediately become hostile, but will choose neutrality and alienation.

Da Sima felt a little tricky.

According to the officially announced activities of the game, it seems that the ignition point is the development of the western part of the main mission. Players cut down the woods to the west of the player camp and burned the shrubs and grass along the way to facilitate the laying of a road to the mine, which caused the habitat nearby. The soul beasts have greatly rebounded, and now even these vegetarian soul beasts, who usually have a quiet personality, are on the opposite side of the players.

Of course, Da Sima would not feel overly worried about these vegetarian soul beasts.

After all, most of these vegetarian soul beasts are at the bottom of the food chain in the soul beast world, and their strength is limited after all. Most of them have been lingering in their cultivation for a few or more than ten years and cannot achieve much success.

The only thing that worries them the most is the number of carnivorous soul beasts.

Da Sima came to another place and continued to record information.

Feces is also one of the best indicators for identifying the type of soul beasts. The size and number of soul beasts can also be seen from it.

The dryness of the spirit beast's feces is one of the indicators of when they passed through this place. As time goes by, the feces will become hard and the odor will gradually disappear. Fresh feces contains a certain proportion of water. Flying flies can draw attention to nearby spirit beast excrement.

If there are a large number of flies nearby, it will be easy for people to discover where the soul beast's feces are.

The feces of many powerful soul beasts have a strong odor, which is secreted by glands near the inside of certain parts of the body. They have important functions such as marking territory and sending sexual signals.

Regarding the use of soul beast excrement, players in the player camp have already developed very successful experience and usage.

When Yang Ming first came to Douluo Continent, he used the feces of Xiao Wu, a hundred thousand year old ferocious beast, to suppress the nearby coveted soul beasts, allowing him and the player camp to survive the most difficult initial years. .

Later, Da Sima formed a team of three with Zhang San and A Yin, and after frequenting the soul hunting forest, he even discovered that the feces of these soul beasts could be used as bait.

Of course, the excrement of this soul beast is also very dignified.

Vegetarian soul beasts, such as colorful deer and cartilaginous rabbits, will leave round straw-like excrement.

The excrement of carnivorous soul beasts, such as moon shadow cats and three-tailed foxes, is in the shape of long strips.

Some spirit beasts, including clone badgers and earth bears, are omnivorous spirit beasts. You need to break open a piece of dry feces and examine it to see if you can find any clues about the foraging habits of this kind of spirit beast, so that you can choose the bait that the spirit beast prefers when setting the trap.

Bird-type soul beasts, like animal-type soul beasts, can be roughly divided into carnivorous and vegetarian types. They can be distinguished by identifying bird droppings.

The feces of vegetarian birds that eat grains are smaller and in most cases fresh guano is liquid. Large carnivorous bird spirit beasts excrete spherical feces, which may contain incompletely digested meat residues, such as fish, birds, rats or other small spirit beasts.

Loose bird droppings indicate that there may be a water source within a certain range, because the vegetarian bird spirit beast will not fly too far away from the water source. But for carnivorous bird spirit beasts, the distance of water sources will not limit their living area. The accumulation of bird droppings on the ground usually indicates that there are nests of birds and spirit beasts nearby. Bird-like spirit beasts like to eat on dead trees because there are many insect-like spirit beasts there for prey.

Some spirit beasts dig holes in the ground in search of insect spirit beasts and root food. Pig spirit beasts, such as the needle-threading wild boar that once had a relationship with Da Sima, are especially capable of overturning large areas of the ground. If there is obviously new moist broken soil, it is likely that a spirit beast visited here not long ago. Large pieces of mud plus traces left by the soul beasts rolling around are usually left by pig-like soul beasts. When rat spirit beasts dig up plant roots, they will leave small traces on the surface.

Since the nearby soul beasts had just left not long ago, A Yin and Zhang San carefully protected Da Sima to avoid the presence of soul beasts disturbing him from recording information.

The three of them have been forming a team for a long time, so they have cooperated in similar tasks countless times. At the same time, they listen carefully to the sounds around them and pay attention to the smell left in the air, because they may indicate when the spirit beast will appear. What kind of soul beast.

Where there are carnivorous soul beasts, there may also be corresponding prey targets.

Many people often neglect their sense of smell. The smell of some spirit beasts is very strong, especially the three-tailed fox.

The three-tailed fox has a very strong body odor. This was originally an instinct that it evolved over the long years to avoid being hunted by powerful soul beasts, because no soul beast would like to eat a smelly body. Three-tailed fox, but this also means that as long as the three-tailed fox appears nearby, it will be easily noticed by others.

There are also many soul beasts such as three-tailed foxes in the Soul Hunting Forest, such as scythe weasels, mire bugs, marsh sloths, and big-headed badgers.

While maintaining vigilance, A Yin and Zhang San kept their eyes open at all times, because when the weather is cold, the exhalation of large soul beasts often condenses into visible mist. If they are in a favorable terrain, even if they are far apart, they can Noticed.

Fortunately, except for the occasional cartwheel rabbit and flying rat, no other powerful soul beasts returned.

A Yin and Zhang San breathed a sigh of relief and drove away the cartilaginous rabbits and flying rats.

(End of this chapter)