celestial system of the solar system

Chapter 285 Wild Dogs

For, according to superstition, if a mother makes her child cry during a hunting sacrifice, bad luck will befall the men of the family while hunting.

Every child was running wildly everywhere, playing like a man possessed.

Each boy would wrestle with a similarly-aged kid, grabbing each other.Roll to the ground, make noise, wrestle into a ball, and then jump up and start again, dreaming of one day becoming the wrestling champion of Hydra Village in the future.

Among the children under the age of 12, only Luo Yi was indifferent to this.On the one hand, at the age of five, he had already become the well-deserved king of children in Nine-headed Bird Village.On the other hand, Luo Yi's mentality is far behind that of other children.He has long dismissed games that the children find amusing.Even putting aside these two considerations, Luo Yi is still unwilling to compete with children - even though Luo Yi has very precise control over his strength now and will not break his opponent's bones with one punch.But no matter what, it is boring to play a fighting game with ants alone, and you have to be careful not to hurt the ants - in Luo Yi's opinion, there is nothing more boring than this.

Luo Yi's incompatibility did not attract the special attention of the villagers of Jiutouniao Village.He has been like this for years.Every villager in Jiutouniao Village knows that the eldest son of Luo Dayou's family is very good at fighting, but they don't know how good he is.

After the hunting ceremony, when the sun rises the next day, women send their husbands or unmarried sons to hunt.

Those boys who had just passed adult training looked very excited, their hands holding weapons were covered with sweat, and their mouths were too dry to spit out a trace of saliva.In their view, in the hunting process, not only can they get the prey, but they can also get the coveted dowry.

When a man in the wilderness proposes marriage to the woman's parents, a necklace made of animal teeth must be included in the bride price.The most satisfying necklace for the woman's parents is the canine teeth of the Siberian tiger (the custom in the north near the coast is the canine teeth of the polar bear).At the very least, a complete pair of wolf teeth necklaces (representing having killed a wolf alone).Of course, every animal tooth on the necklace must come from prey killed by the man himself.If a man can't even produce a set of wolf tooth necklaces, then no woman will marry him.

Because of this strange custom, girls in the wilderness can get married at the age of thirteen or fourteen, while men are much later.Boys can enter the training camp to participate in adult training at the age of 12. After passing the test, they are regarded as men, but they usually start a family when they are around 30 years old-because before that, it is difficult for them to get animal teeth that satisfy the woman necklace.

It is also for this reason that those boys who have just passed adult training are always full of passion and fantasies about hunting.They dreamed of encountering enough ferocious beasts during the hunt, the more ferocious the better, and then killing them with their own hands.But in fact, no matter how earnestly warned by parents and elders before, the highest casualty rate is always those teenage children.

Luo Yi will participate in adult training next year, and will only be eligible to participate in hunting the year after, so Guan Huihui is not as anxious as some other mothers.As a wife, this year she is not as worried as in previous years, because Luo Dayou demonstrated the power of a pistol in front of Guan Huihui.Therefore, when sending Luo Dayou out of the village, Guan Huihui even had a smile on her face.

When I walked out of the camp, many eager wild dogs gathered at the gate of the camp.These wild dogs belonged to many different groups, each of which was grouped into its own small group.A grand hunting festival was held in the village yesterday, and the noisy noise informed the nearby wild dogs, so they all knew what was going to happen today, and rushed here before dawn.

Wild dogs and humans in settlements should be regarded as a very strange symbiotic relationship.

These wild dogs are not species like African wild dogs or Australian wild dogs. They are descendants of domestic dogs tamed by humans 200 years ago, but at the same time, the blood of wild dogs also contains the genes of Siberian sled dogs and even Siberian plain wolves. .

After the Disaster Day, human beings' living conditions became increasingly difficult and there was a serious lack of food.When cornered, people ate leather shoes and belts, in addition to grass roots and tree bark.Moreover, people eat dogs and dogs eat each other.The weakest and less valuable ones are eaten first, and slowly, the living dogs understand.As a result, a few of the smartest and bravest dogs left their owners and fled from human settlements.There are also a few lucky domestic dogs who are driven out of the camp by their tearful owners to fend for themselves.

In addition to interbreeding with each other, stray dogs that have left human shelters also mate with other local canines.In the end, this special group formed a new species in the wasteland.The social structure and behavioral patterns of these animals are very unique.They are good at cooperation and will take care of sick or injured companions-even like puppies, healthy members will give those who are sick and half-digested meat to eat, and the nannies who take care of children will be treated the same way.What's even more peculiar is that wild dogs, like humans, do not strictly follow the natural law of survival of the fittest, and they will even bring food to old wild dogs that are too old to keep up with the group.

Since dogs' loyalty to humans is deeply ingrained in their genes, these dogs generally have a good attitude toward humans.Although they don't always bring the hunted food back to the settlement like domestic dogs, when they encounter humans in the wilderness, instead of attacking them, they will help humans intentionally or unintentionally.

People quickly learned about this characteristic of wild dogs.Sometimes, a kind word, or a gentle touch of the hand, may touch a wild dog's inner nature, and bring it back to the settlement and make it a family dog ​​again.However, in the cruel wilderness environment, humans only hunt when they have to, so the demand for domestic dogs is not strong, and almost no one will domesticate wild dogs into domestic dogs.

After long-term interactive contact, the relationship between humans and wild dogs in the wilderness eventually evolved into this pattern:
Normally, wild dogs find food to feed themselves.When humans need to hunt, they form temporary alliances with wild dogs.In this temporary alliance, humans dominate.The wild dogs readily acknowledge the dominion of man, which is based on superior intelligence and savage violence.

Moreover, there is also an element in the nature of the wild dog that makes such domination necessary.

The running speed of wild dogs can reach up to 25 meters per second, but in the wilderness, this is not considered a first-class speed.They usually do not rely on concealment for sneak attacks, and rarely use sprinting to catch prey. Instead, they chase the prey closely after discovering it until the prey is exhausted.

(End of this chapter)