Traveling back to ancient times to determine the zodiac

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed and saw a brown muntjac nibbling on the leaves of a bush. While eating, it looked around vigilantly.

“Shh—” Dong opened his arms to stop everyone from moving forward and said, “Everyone stop moving forward. Don’t alarm it, or it will run away again.”

"Brother Dong, if we don't get closer, the bow and arrow's range won't be enough!" Xi said anxiously.

"Don't panic, just watch me!" Dong said.

Dong Zhang drew his bow and aimed at the deer and shot. With a "whoosh", the arrow hit the deer's heart and it fell to the ground and died.

"I hit it, haha!" Dong raised his bow and laughed excitedly.

"Brother Dong, you hit the target with one arrow from such a long distance. It's amazing." Xi was full of admiration.

"Brother Dong, your archery is far and accurate. You are truly an excellent archer." Dong's younger brother, Nan, followed suit and praised.

"I'm not bragging, Dong, in terms of archery and hunting skills, I am the best in the whole cave except for the cave master." Dong took the opportunity to show off proudly. It turned out that Qiu was old and would retire soon. Dong had coveted the position of cave master for a long time, so he wanted to establish more prestige.

Dong said, and then instructed another hunter, "Heizi, go down and pick up that deer."

Heizi was a man with a strong build, strong limbs and a simple mind. He responded to the order and headed for the valley.

Heizi came to the deer and bent down to carry it on his back. Suddenly, with a cry of "Ah--", a leopard jumped out from under the big tree behind and bit Heizi's neck.

Heizi was attacked by surprise. It was too late for him to run. He lowered his head hastily, and the leopard bit his arm and dragged him under the tree. Heizi screamed and struggled desperately.

Dong, Xi and the others were stunned by this sudden scene. Xi's eyes widened, and he kept shouting, "It's over, it's over, Heizi can't escape, he's dead now."

Dong roared "Wow Wow" and rushed forward like the wind, raising his stone axe.

Although Heizi weighed more than 180 kilograms, the leopard could easily drag him. Just as the leopard was about to climb up the tree, Dong had already run under the tree, raised the stone axe and chopped at the leopard. When the leopard saw someone coming to rescue him, he immediately dropped Heizi and took two steps back, perfectly dodging the axe. Then the leopard roared, opened its bloody mouth, and pounced on Dong's neck.

Dong was indeed an experienced hunter, and he was not afraid of the ferocious leopard. He remained calm and did not dodge, but swung his stone axe to chop at it again.

With a "snap", the axe hit the leopard's shoulder. The axe handle broke due to excessive force. Since the leopard didn't fall to the ground, it was knocked aside. The leopard then turned around and pounced on Dong's head again.

Dong lost his weapon and had no time to think. He stretched out his hand and pinched the leopard's neck to prevent it from biting. The leopard's mouth was about an inch away from Dong's face, but he was blocked and couldn't bite. A strong fishy smell rushed into Dong's nostrils, making him want to vomit. But at this moment, Dong didn't care about that anymore. He raised one foot and kicked the leopard hard in the belly. The leopard did not give up. It pushed its head down hard, intending to bite Dong's head. Dong pinched it hard to prevent it from biting, and continued to kick.

After about half a minute of stalemate, the leopard could no longer hold on and struggled to escape. But Dong held on tightly. Gradually, the leopard's strength became weaker and weaker, and finally its head tilted and it became motionless.

When Dong saw that the leopard was dead, he also became limp and fell to the ground with the leopard.

This life-and-death struggle, although it lasted only two or three minutes, was thrilling. By the time Xi, Nan, Bei, Zhong, Ye Zi, Xia and others rushed over, the battle was over.

Xi helped Dong up, only to see that his body and arms were covered with scratches. He quickly asked, "Brother Dong, how are you? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, I just suffered some minor injuries." Dong took a breath and said, "Go and see how Heizi is doing?"

Everyone turned to look at Heizi, only to see that his right arm was bitten with four holes, blood was constantly flowing out of the holes. Heizi screamed, his dark face turned pale with fear.

"Heizi, how are you?" Heizi was quickly helped up and asked.

"Next, next——" Heizi said tremblingly.

"Heizi, I'm here. If you have any last words, tell me quickly and I'll convey them to you." He was so sad that he almost cried.

"I'm so scared. Oh my god——" Heizi burst into tears.

"Heizi," Xia was both angry and amused, and comforted him, "Heizi, it's okay now. The leopard has been killed by Brother Dong."

Xia turned to Dong and said, "Brother Dong, Heizi is seriously injured. Let's call the cave master over."

"Yeah." Dong nodded, then took out a horn and blew "Woo——".

Soon, a horn sounded in response from the other side of the forest.

This horn was a secret signal for summoning, indicating that Qiu had heard it and rushed over.

"Brother Dong, you are so awesome! You strangled a ferocious leopard to death with your bare hands." Xi admired him even more.

"Brother Dong is so brave. Great job." People from the south, north, center, leaves, roots and others also admired him very much.

Xiao Xing was also stunned, and whispered to Chen: "Brother Dong is much stronger than me, his strength is at least 1,500."

Soon, Qiu Heling and a group of people came over. As soon as they met, Qiu asked in a stern voice: "Dong, what happened here?"

Dong pointed at Heizi, then at the leopard, and replied, "Reporting to the cave master, Heizi was just attacked and injured by this leopard. Please take a look at him."

"How could Heizi be attacked by a leopard? What on earth is going on?"

"Cave Master, I just shot a muntjac and asked Heizi to pick it up. But this leopard hid behind a tree and attacked him." General Dong recounted what happened.

"You are really reckless," Qiu scolded. "I told you from the beginning: never act alone. Why did you let him go alone to pick up prey?"

"This, this is just an accident." Dong knew he was to blame and said in panic.

"Dong, the old people always say: Don't climb high trees and don't go into deep water. Although accidents are everywhere, we must try our best to prevent them! As a hunter, you should be more cautious. You, alas--" Qiu sighed, and then hurried to collect herbs.

After a while, Qiu picked some herbs, mashed them, applied them to Heizi's wound and bandaged it.

After treating the injury, Qiu asked, "Heizi, are you okay?"

"Cave Master, I'm fine. Thank you, Cave Master." Heizi said as he struggled to stand up.

"Dong, how was your harvest this morning?" Qiu asked again.

"Reporting to the cave master, we have hunted two rabbits, a wild boar, a muntjac and a leopard." Dong answered and added: "There was also an elk, but Xiaoxing let it run away."

"Xiaoxing, why did you let the prey go?" Qiu asked Xiaoxing in confusion.

"Reporting to the cave master, because it was a doe about to give birth, I thought I could hunt it again in the future, so I let it go." Xiaoxing replied.

Qiu stroked his white beard and said thoughtfully: "Xiaoxing, you are a kind hunter."

Qiu Lingshugen and Shuye took care of Heizi, and then ordered everyone to continue hunting.

Dong was scolded in public and felt very embarrassed. After Qiu and his group left, he kicked the dead leopard hard and angrily cursed: "Damn you dead leopard, you dared to eat people, now you know that humans are not easy to mess with."

"Brother Dong, don't be angry. I will skin it and roast its meat when we get back. This leopard is very strong. It's enough for us to eat for two days!" Shugen's mouth was watering as he thought about the delicious roasted leopard meat.

"That's right. I heard that leopard kidneys are very nutritious. I want to eat more." Shuye followed.

“Tree roots and leaves, stop thinking about food all day, okay? Take good care of Heizi, and then we’ll go hunting.” After Dong finished speaking, he went with Xi, Nan, Bei... and the others.

Xiaoxing still followed Xia Hechen, Yue, Ri, Feng, Yun, Lei, Dian... and more than ten other people. They went along the valley, hunted a few rabbits and foxes along the way, and finally came to a dry riverbed.

It was noon, and the sun shone sparsely on the riverbed through the dense forest. Xiaoxing was suddenly attracted by a reflective stone, and ran over to pick it up. It turned out to be a piece of transparent jade.

"Wow, what beautiful jade. It's probably worth tens of thousands of dollars." Xiaoxing exclaimed in surprise. Then he dug among the stones and found more jade, each piece was transparent and round, making people fall in love with it at first sight. There were also emerald green jade and red chicken blood stone. Xiaoxing picked up a lot of them and shouted excitedly: "I'm rich, I'm rich."

"Xing, why are you picking up so many stones? How are you going to make money?" Chen asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"Fuck!" Xiao Xing slapped his forehead, and then he remembered that it was primitive society, money hadn't been invented yet, how could he make a fortune? No matter how beautiful these jades were, they were still useless stones.

"Nothing, nothing. I thought these stones were very beautiful, so I picked them up to play with." Xiaoxing smiled awkwardly and picked out a few of the most beautiful jade and bloodstone to take back.

Chen saw that the jade was indeed very beautiful, so he also picked up two pieces.

After they continued to move forward for a while, they looked up at the sun and realized it was getting late, so they said to everyone, "Chen, Xiaoxing, brothers, the sun is setting, let's go back!"

Everyone looked at the sky and nodded in agreement.

The group then returned the same way. At this time, Xiaoxing felt a little hungry, and remembered the bag of snacks Chun gave him, so he took it out to eat, and it turned out to be some fried beans.

Xiaoxing was eating as he walked, and the leaves of the packaging broke again, and the beans fell along the way.

A few mountain mice smelled the fragrance, squeaked, and followed behind, eating with relish.

When Xiaoxing and his group returned to the foot of the mountain with their prey, Qiu, Dong and the others had already gone down the mountain. They gathered at the foot of the mountain and counted the prey. They had a good harvest. The biggest one was the leopard that Dong had killed, and there were also wild boars, muntjacs, elks, rabbits, foxes, and so on.

Carrying their prey and singing songs, they returned to Hongmeng happily.