It turns out that I have very good eyesight. It was indeed half a snow fox. Its belly was covered with dried dark red blood, which was shocking.
"What is this?"
"This is the bait used to kill wolves." Dallion turned around and stuffed the half of the fox into the snow. "The smell of blood will attract wolves."
"Is there a wolf in this damn place?"
"This is the last line of defense, to prevent the wolves from running out of the woods." As he said, he made a stop gesture towards me, "Don't move, Messiah, there may be a trap."
I saw him getting up and carefully approaching the big tree next to him that almost five people could hug, which was where we first saw the snow fox.
He dug carefully in the snow with his dagger, and soon he dug out a row of mottled animal traps, one of which had a torn leg hanging on it.
"Oh, my God..." I subconsciously covered my mouth, "Is that a wolf?"
"Looks like it."
"That's disgusting, get out of here." I picked up the bow and arrow and took a step back.
"Don't move!" he suddenly shouted.
do not move?
But it was too late, my back heel had already touched the ground. At that moment, I just felt that my feet were empty, and my whole body fell backwards in an instant, "Ouch!"
"Messiah!" If Dallion hadn't rushed over and grabbed my wrist tightly, I would have fallen into the snow cave behind me!
I glanced down and saw that there were sharp wooden stakes covered with dark red blood.
Oh my god...
"Come on, come on!" With a strong effort of his arm, Dallion pulled me up. At that moment, my heart was still beating fast.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." He touched my cheek forcefully and comforted me, "Come on, get up." As he said, he pulled me up from the cold snow. "See the mark on the tree. Is it done?" He asked, pointing to the big tree.
I immediately looked back and saw a circle on the tree trunk with two crossed sharp arrows, "Yeah."
"That's the mark of the hunters. The circle represents the pit, the crossed arrows are the trap, and the square is the trap. These patterns are usually drawn in a circle. The center is the tree, and the circle is on the left hand side, which means For the pit in the west, do you understand?”
I swallowed and nodded.
"If we see these things, let's stay away, okay?"
"Um."
*
As Dallion said, the woods in this hunting ground are very large. We kept walking forward, climbed over many hills, and crossed several glaciers, but we were always covered by the branches.
Swish, swish, swish--
The cold wind sang in the woods.
Swish, swish, swish--
The falling snowflakes are dancing on the treetops.
Swish, swish, swish--
We were moving briskly...well, difficultly through the snow.
The sun began to set in the west, and I only caught one snow goose and three snow hares. As for the wild boar and wild deer that Dalyan mentioned, I didn't even see a shadow.
"We have to go back, Messiah." Dallion looked around and said. Then, he looked at the rope on his back with great frustration, "I seem to have found nothing."
Before he finished speaking, a sound of light and rapid footsteps suddenly came closer from far away, and a snow-white rabbit ran towards him. Then, it suddenly twitched in front of his boots and fell to its feet in the air, and died with all its strength.
Dallion and I were both stunned, and then we couldn't help laughing.
"This is only yours!" I waved my hand generously.
"Thank you Holy Light, thank you for making me lose less miserably, my lady." Dallion picked it up with a smile and tied it to the rope. At this point, his rope was finally not empty, "Well... …I would be even more grateful to you if you would allow me to go…well, for your convenience.”
"Oh..." I held my forehead and took the rope holding the prey, "Go back quickly."
