Traveling back to ancient times to determine the zodiac

"It's over, it's over, Yu has been caught by two tiger spirits." Qiu shouted in horror.

"Based on my hunting experience of over fifty years, Yu is dead this time." Zhi said with regret.

Ping, Yang and others saw this from the high platform and stamped their feet in anxiety, but there was nothing they could do.

"Awoo, after waiting for so many days, I finally caught someone today. Let me taste what a human tastes like." The yellow tiger demon who was holding down Yu's head was drooling, and was about to bite Yu's neck.

Suddenly, a tiger claw blocked the yellow tiger's bloody mouth and said, "Brother, I caught this man. I want to offer him to the king so that he can have a taste first."

When the yellow tiger spirit raised his head, it was the red tiger spirit that stopped it from eating. It could not help but angrily said, "Brother, I grabbed the head and you grabbed the feet, how can you say you grabbed it?"

"Brother, because I was the first one to discover this person."

"Hehe, this person has been my target for a long time. How can you say that you discovered him first?" The Yellow Tiger Demon expressed his dissatisfaction.

"I was the first one to discover this person. He should belong to me." The red tiger spirit said impatiently.

"Ah, brother, are you trying to compete with me for credit? I won't give it to you."

"If you don't give it to me, then let's settle it with our strength." The red tiger demon completely turned hostile and slapped him with his palm.

"Hey, am I afraid of you?" The yellow tiger demon was not to be outdone, waving its claws and rushing forward. The two tigers had a disagreement and started fighting directly. The two sides fought back and forth, and the fight was fierce and unreliable.

Yu began to think that he was going to die, but when he saw two tigers fighting each other from behind, he kept muttering, "God bless me, God bless me, don't let other tigers see me." Then he crawled desperately towards the cave entrance.

As for the cat spirits and other tiger spirits, they were all very excited when they saw the two tigers catch a man. Unexpectedly, the two tigers started fighting in a blink of an eye. They were all stunned for a moment, and no one dared to stop the fight, but just watched.

A white tiger spirit saw the exciting part and couldn't help but applaud: "Brother Yellow Tiger, try harder, try harder, brother Red Tiger can't do it anymore."

The other red tiger spirit heard it and hurriedly cheered for the red tiger spirit: "Brother Red Tiger, hold on, you will definitely win!"

Those little cat spirits were jumping up and down, cheering and cheering.

At this time, a raccoon cat spirit discovered the jade that had slipped away, and hurriedly shouted: "Brother Tiger, stop fighting, that man is about to escape."

The two tigers were fighting fiercely when they heard someone running away. They stopped fighting. The two tigers turned their heads and saw that Yu had already crawled to about ten feet away from the cave entrance. So they roared and pounced on him again.

Qiu and the others thought Yu would be killed by the tiger at first, but when they saw him escape, they were relieved and thought they would wait until he reached the cave entrance and then open the door to rescue him. But they were still discovered by the cat spirit when they were just a little bit away. Qiu saw the tiger spirit chasing him again and hurriedly shouted, "Dong, go down, open the door quickly and rescue Yu into the cave."

Dong Hexia, Xiaoxing, Xi and others were guarding the door. Upon hearing what was said, they hurriedly opened the cave door. Dong Hexia rushed to Yu's side, picked him up and ran back.

The tiger demon behind saw that the meat in its mouth was about to run away, and pounced on it like crazy. Xiaoxing, who was standing at the door, was afraid that the three people would be caught up by the tiger demon, so he pulled out a few burning sticks from the fire pile at the entrance of the cave and threw them at the two tiger demons.

The two tiger spirits Huang and Hong pounced on the fire stick, which immediately ignited a large area of ​​their chest hair. The two tiger spirits kept wailing and rolling, and they both rolled into the trap without paying attention. After a while, they smelled the stench of burnt fur. The two tiger spirits were burned to death in it. The tiger spirits and cat spirits behind them saw that they were burnt to a crisp, and they were so scared that they trembled and dared not chase them anymore.

Everyone rescued Yu Jin and quickly closed the cave door. Xiao Xing saw through the crack in the door that the tigers were still unwilling to retreat, so he threw a few burning sticks at them. The tigers and cats were immediately frightened and scattered, running to report to the tiger king.

When the tiger king and the cat king saw the animals running back in panic, they asked, "Little ones, you are running so fast, did you catch any humans?"

A civet cat replied: "Report to the king, when we were chasing near the cave entrance, one of the men fell and was caught by two tigers..."

"We've caught a human, that's great. Brother Tiger, we can finally have human flesh to eat." The King of Cats shouted excitedly before the raccoon cat could finish his words.

"Well, offer it to me quickly so that I can have a taste." Upon hearing this, the Tiger King was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling.

The cat king then asked the civet cat spirit: "Where is that person? Bring him up quickly."

"My lord, that man escaped again later." The raccoon cat replied dejectedly.

"Idiot, what an idiot. How could the duck in your mouth fly away?" Elvis stamped his feet in anger.

"My lord, at that time, the two tiger brothers were fighting for that man. That man took the opportunity to slip away. When I found out and reminded the tiger brothers, the man had already been rescued into the cave. The two tiger brothers chased after him, but they didn't expect that the humans kept throwing fire sticks, and the two tiger brothers' hair was burned. They kept rolling around, and finally fell into a trap and burned to death." After the raccoon cat spirit finished speaking, it quickly slipped away.

"Damn it, not only did I not get to eat human flesh, but my two tiger generals also died. I'm so pissed off." When the Tiger King heard this, he was so angry that his whiskers stood up.

"My king, humans are now staying in their caves again. They are such big liars, so hateful, so hateful." Elvis shouted.

"Brother Cat is right. These humans are too cunning. They say they want to fight a decisive battle on the surface, but they set traps secretly. You should go and question them for me." The Tiger King roared.

Cat King received the order, jumped to the front of the cave, and asked the people in the cave in a shrill voice: "Cunning human beings, you big liars, you have no integrity at all. You said you would come out to duel, but you secretly dug a trap, and we found out, and you hid back in the cave, why?"

Qiu, who was defending the cave entrance, heard this and pointed at the cat king and laughed, and replied: "Listen, you evil tigers and cats: this is not called cheating, this is called a trick. Do we still need to be honest when dealing with you beasts? I tell you, tiger king, get out of here and stop attacking, otherwise, I will burn you all to death."

After Qiu finished speaking, he took a fire stick, bent his bow and shot at Elvis. Elvis saw the rocket coming and turned around and ran away in a hurry.

Cat King ran to Tiger King breathlessly and reported: "Brother Tiger, the cunning humans said they are not liars, this is their trick. They also said that if we don't retreat back, they will burn us to death. What should we do?"

"Retreat! These cunning humans, with all their tricks, even burned to death or injured several of my people. They really deserve to die. Brother cat, I can only get rid of the hatred in my heart if you eat all the humans." The Tiger King said hatefully.

The other animals followed suit and cursed, but they had no choice but to continue guarding outside the cave. The rooster, who was watching from afar on the hilltop of the ancient pine forest, saw that the decisive battle between the tiger king and the human had ended, so he flew to the tiger king and congratulated him, saying, "Tiger king, you chased the human to a pulp in today's decisive battle, and you almost caught one. This shows that the human is vulnerable in front of you."

"Hmph!" The Tiger King shook his head and snorted disapprovingly.

"Brother Rooster, humans can only run away when they see us!" Elvis was flattered and said, "If they hadn't hidden in the cave again, we would have wiped them out."

"Last time, cunning humans used this trap to capture all the bison. This time you broke the trap, and humans are powerless to compete with us. The credit for subduing humans must go to you two big brothers." The rooster flapped its wings and congratulated.

"Of course." Tiger King nodded and said, "Except for Emperor Nian, I am the only one respected in this world."

"Brother Hu is right. If Emperor Nian dies, Brother Hu will be the emperor of this world." Elvis immediately shouted.

I won't mention how the three beast kings celebrated. Besides, the people were badly defeated in this battle and were in a very bad state. Fortunately, there were no casualties in the end, but two tiger spirits were burned to death. While the people were celebrating, they looked at the beasts outside the cave who were staring at them with eager eyes, and they all looked worried and sighed.

"I can't believe the cats broke the trap." Qiu sighed.

"What should we do now? Are we just going to be trapped to death by the tigers?" he asked anxiously.

"Let's just go out and fight them!" Lei raised his stone knife and shouted, ready to go out.

"No, there will be too many casualties if we fight a pack of tigers head-on. We should think of another way." Xiaoxing retorted immediately.

"It's better to have heavy casualties than to sit here and wait to die, right?" Lei argued unconvinced.

"Lei, based on my hunting experience of over fifty years, it takes two experienced hunters to barely defeat an ordinary tiger. And it takes at least twenty hunters to contend with a tiger spirit. If we fight hard, we will surely be defeated." Zhi followed and persuaded.

"Zhi's analysis is correct." Qiu refused flatly, "We must not fight unless it is absolutely necessary. You know, we humans have grown to more than 6,000 people after 20 generations of development. If we lose a lot of people in a fight with tigers, how can I face my ancestors after I die?"

"Cave Master, I was reckless. I will follow your instructions." Lei realized his mistake and put down the stone knife.

"As long as the fire is not extinguished, God's will will not end. Everyone, please be patient, there will definitely be a way." After saying this, Qiu turned and went into the bottom of the cave, knelt down facing the stone wall, and prayed to the statue of Nuwa: "Nuwa, the evil tiger has trapped us in the cave, and it is hard to predict whether we will live or die. Please tell me what to do, Nuwa!"

For some reason, after praying for a long time, Bai Ling did not show up. At this time, Xiaoxing, Xia and Chen came to the bottom of the cave and found Qiu.

"Cave Master, I just thought of a way to deal with the vicious tiger. Do you think it's feasible?" Xiaoxing asked with a happy look on his face.

"Oh, Xing, do you have another good idea? Tell me quickly." Qiu stood up quickly and asked anxiously.

It turned out that Zhigang's mention of fire reminded Xiaoxing of the scene of throwing fire sticks to burn two tigers to death. From this, he thought that although tigers are powerful, they are more afraid of fire, so he came up with a fire plan. At that moment, Xiaoxing said slowly: "Aren't evil tigers afraid of fire? We can make a fire plan to burn them to death. First, we quietly evacuate Tianju Cave, then fill the cave with dry firewood and other flammable materials, and then let some people lure the tigers into the cave. When all the tigers are in, immediately ignite all the firewood at the entrance of the cave. In this way, the tigers are trapped in the cave with nowhere to escape and can only be burned to death."

"According to this plan, won't those who lure the tigers be eaten or burned to death?" Qiu asked with his eyes wide open.

"I have thought about this. After leading the tigers into the cave, we will hide in the sub-cave and close the door. We will be safe and sound."

It turned out that there were five sub-caves inside the Tianju Cave. In addition to the two small ones used as sleeping places, the other three large ones were used to store sundries. Among them, there was a large cave, which was wide inside and narrow outside, and could accommodate more than a hundred people. It was very suitable for making doors and was airtight.

Qiu stroked his white beard, pondered for a while, nodded slightly, and said: "Although this plan is risky, it is worth a try. Let's discuss it with everyone."

After Qiu finished speaking, he led everyone to the meeting place and summoned many hunters from the east, west, north and center to gather together for a meeting.

Qiu repeated Xiaoxing's previous suggestion of the Fiery Plan to everyone, and then said to everyone solemnly: This mission of luring the tiger is even more dangerous than this morning's. Who dares to take on this task?"

After saying that, Qiu's eyes shot towards Dong. But Dong did not rush to express his opinion. Everyone knows that the task of luring a tiger is very dangerous, just like Yu just now, who almost died in the tiger's mouth. What's more, if you lead a tiger into a cave, if something unexpected happens, there is absolutely no way to escape, and you can only let the tiger eat you and let the fire burn you. Therefore, Dong pretended to ignore it.

"I'll take charge." Xiao Xing responded, "I came up with the idea, so I'll take on the task."

"I'll take the responsibility too!" Chen blurted out.

"I'll take the role too!" A group of young people including Sun, Moon, Wind, Thunder, etc. responded.

"Xing, let me take your place in Youhuzhi, and you just lead everyone to start the fire." Qiu looked at the resourceful Xiaoxing and said with reluctance.