Ye An

Ice ships dock in the rain.

Jason and the others rushed up to meet them, and they couldn't help but smile when they saw the fishing net dragged at the stern.

"So many fish!"

Ye An and Xiao Yun jumped off the side of the boat from both sides, smashed the ice that fixed the fishing net, and told everyone to drag the fishing net ashore.

The mutated saury has tenacious vitality. Even if it is dragged all the way, crowded in the fishing net, and dragged to the ground, it is still alive and kicking, constantly shaking its tail.The sharp fins slash across, and the hunter may be injured if he is not careful.

"I come."

Iron Ax pushed away the hunter in front, moved his fingers a few times, grabbed the rope of the fishing net, avoided the attack, and dumped all the saury in the net to the ground.

After the saury fish landed, the hunters acted quickly, twisting tough mutated grass into ropes, and weaving them into bags as quickly as possible to hold the harvest.

"It can't hold all of them, and the ones that are still alive can be raised first." Ye An said.

It is impossible for them to eat two thousand catties of mutated fish at once, so it is better to raise some of them first, so that they can be used as food reserves when they set off.

"These fish cannot be kept." An experienced hunter said.

He had caught saury before, and knew that these fish had special habits, so he immediately suggested to Ye An that the best way is to clean up the fish as soon as possible and make it into dried fish, which is easier to preserve.

Ye An patted his head, realizing that he had taken it for granted, and immediately said: "Then do it this way."

After the matter was settled, the hunters worked together to deal with the saury directly by the river.Someone was returning to the cave to deliver the message, bringing more hands, hoping to do it faster.

Ye An was also not idle, pulled out his dagger, and cut open the belly of the fish neatly, leaving the edible part, and throwing the rest into the water.

The river was turbulent, and the internal organs thrown into the water were quickly washed away.

The smell of blood attracts creatures hidden at the bottom of the water. A large number of tiny jellyfish emerge from the water, waving their slender tentacles, and shuttle among the floating fish intestines. It is difficult to find without looking carefully.

The turtles noticed them right away.

The originally lazy behemoth suddenly became energetic, stretched its neck to observe the water surface, determined the range of prey, walked into the water one by one, and pounced on the jellyfish that appeared in groups.

The jellyfish originally wanted to have a full meal, but they didn't expect to encounter natural enemies suddenly.

They are small in size, neither poisonous nor aggressive, relying on numbers and strong hiding skills to reproduce.Hiding at the bottom of the river before, not to mention the people on the boat, even the turtles were not found.Now that the large group showed up, they were immediately targeted by the group of sea turtles, and became a delicious meal for the latter.

The hunters were too busy dealing with the knifefish to be of much interest to the turtles.

Ye An looked at it curiously for a while. The reason is that this group of jellyfish is too small and the number is too large. From the isolated island to the Hunter City, he has seen no less than dozens of jellyfish groups, and this is the first time he has encountered it.

Compared with their larger relatives, these small jellyfish look quite harmless, as if they are not aggressive at all.This kind of population can survive, and the number is huge, and the ability to save life is really extraordinary.

It's a pity that they encountered a group of sea turtles.

Ye An withdrew his gaze, threw the excavated viscera into the water, grabbed another saury, and struck the back of the fish with the handle of the knife, killing it, and cut open the belly of the fish neatly.

When Zijing and others arrived, the unfinished saury was still piled up into a hill.

After saying hello to Ye An and knowing that they were going to make dried fish, the women picked out suitable tools one after another. Some pulled out daggers, and some picked up a flake stone directly from the shore, which was easier to use than a knife.

"My lord, don't be surprised. We live on the water all year round, and we are very good at making dried fish." Bauhinia said while cleaning the saury in his hand, more than twice as fast as Ye An.

With the participation of the women, the saury brought back was quickly processed.The cave is not suitable for drying, so some of them are reserved for food, and the rest are sent back to the ship.

There is a spacious kitchen on the warship, and there is a stove for grilling fish, which is much more convenient than lighting a fire in a cave.

"I'll go with you." Xiao Yun walked to Ye An's side, holding two pieces of crushed ice in his hand, and was constantly wiping his fingers.

"it is good."

Ye An washed off the blood stains on his hands and found that the residual fishy smell was very strong, so he asked Xiao Yun for a piece of ice, held it in his palm for a while, and the smell really eased a lot.

Looking carefully, there were actually a few flower petals frozen in the ice, which were picked by Zijing and others from the vines.When the petal juice is stained on the body, it will leave a strong floral fragrance.Wrapped in ice cubes, as the ice cubes melt, it can remove the fishy smell very well.

"How did you think of it?" Ye An looked at Xiao Yun curiously.It is really hard to imagine that the ice-like City Lord Xiao would have such thoughts.

Xiao Yun didn't speak, and handed another piece of ice to Ye An, ignoring his question, and organized people to pack the processed saury into bags, ready to be transported back to the boat.

"Jason, take a group of people back to the cave and rest quickly," Xiao Yun said.

Jason nodded, bent down to pick up a bag, raised his arms and waved at several hunters. The latter picked up their weapons and gathered quickly, intending to return with Jason.

Zijing and the others are good at grilling dried fish, so they naturally went to the warship with Ye An and Xiao Yun.

Considering the captives on the ship and the hunters guarding them, Iron Ax did not go back to the cave to rest, but took a few people with him, preparing to go to the ship to change shifts.

Everyone separated by the river, and the turtles came ashore one after another.

There was constant thunder in the sky, heavy rain fell, the water level of the river kept rising, and the area of ​​the highland further shrunk, forcing more small beasts to leave their hiding places and climb to higher places.

On the way to the warship, Ye An encountered three hares, five or six shrews, and a group of brightly colored birds.The birds are in flocks, flying quite fast, and they look like hummingbirds that are one size bigger.

The team was in a hurry and had no time to capture these little beasts and let them pass by.

The closer to the warship, the higher the water level of the river.Where the anchor was lowered, the water level rose by at least half a meter.

There was no ladder, so the people came under the boat and threw the hook, dragging the rope to climb up.

After crossing the side of the ship and landing on the deck, Ye An suddenly felt something was wrong.

The homing pigeon that was supposed to fly out to meet him was nowhere to be seen.Can perceive their presence, but cannot accurately capture their location.To make matters worse, for some unknown reason, the little beasts on the boat collectively fell into a panic, conveying anxious emotions, as if they had encountered something terrible.

The hunter guarding the captives poked his head out from the side of the cabin with a very serious expression, waving his arms at the boarders, not daring to make a sound, and just pointed to the mast.

Following the direction he pointed, Ye An looked up, and in the rainstorm, a thick mutant python wrapped around it, with black scales like jade.

Seeing this mutated python, Ye An instantly understood why the strangeness on board came from.

The black python found Ye An, slowly slid down from the mast, walked along the deck to Ye An, raised his head, and spit out the letter in dissatisfaction.

Ye An was a little embarrassed.

The black python in front of him is not unfamiliar, even familiar.He found it under Hunter City, and after some communication, he was going to bring it back to Delta.

From the emotion conveyed by the black python, Ye An clearly felt the dissatisfaction of the other party.

Originally, he said he would return in a few days, but he didn't expect various accidents to stop him on the way.The black python got impatient, so he simply followed his contact with Ye An and searched all the way from Hunter City.

The black python found the warship, and suddenly encountered a heavy rain, so he decided to stay temporarily and wait for the rain to calm down before moving forward.

After it stayed, the people and little beasts on board tensed up.

Fortunately, Ye An showed up in time, otherwise, the hunters on the boat would have nothing to do with it, and if there was a misunderstanding, it might be a big battle.