Wilderness Survival with Druid System

Chapter 165: Chapter 51: Collaborative Hunting

Survival, Day 25.

Chen Wen used physical cooling, sweating, and drinking plenty of hot water.

To alleviate Roland’s symptoms.

Once Roland’s symptoms eased a bit, he immediately suggested eliminating the others.

Chen Wen did not agree.

He believed Roland needed to fully recover first.

After all, to eliminate others, the two needed to cross the plains.

And right now, no one knew what the situation was on the other side of the plains.

Roland was convinced by Chen Wen.

The two waited the entire day, and under Chen Wen’s care, Roland recovered rather quickly.

In the meantime, Chen Wen even used Roland for an experiment.

Testing whether the [Animal Doctor] was effective.

Regrettably, in the system’s view, humans seemed not to count as animals.

...

Survival, Day 26.

On this day, all the assistants were on high alert.

The contestants didn’t know each other’s positions, but the assistants were clear about them.

If nothing unexpected happened, today would be the day Adam and his three companions completely crossed the plains.

However, an accident did occur.

Adam and the other two misjudged the direction, leading them north of Chen Wen.

...

”Is it this way?”

Adam wiped his sweat, constantly looking around.

Gaston was also out of breath.

These past few days, the three of them had really suffered.

Crossing this Giant Pillar Great Plains made their already weak bodies even weaker.

Gina hadn’t caught up with them yet.

”Wait for Gina, let me check first.”

Gaston climbed up the ridge, looking around from there.

But soon, Gaston was dumbfounded.

The surrounding ridges looked almost identical.

All were Giant Pillars and mesquite trees, with some teddy bear chollas growing among them.

”I can’t tell...”

Gaston said helplessly.

”It’s getting late, maybe we should set up camp here for the night? At night, we can find them using the campfire.”

Hearing this, Adam felt a bit helpless.

This Gaston was truly unreliable!

He even got the directions wrong!

”Let’s camp.”

Reluctantly, Adam had to give the order.

Originally, according to his estimation, after meeting with Chen Wen or Roland today, they could at least eliminate one of them.

Then they could rest in the opponent’s shelter.

If they could eliminate both, that would be even better.

But he never expected Gaston to make a blunder, causing them not to find anyone.

They could only rest there for now.

But did Gaston really make a mistake?

Or did Gaston want to drain him and Gina?

Adam was a sensitive person.

Once it was confirmed that only five people were left, eliminating two would secure a top-three spot.

This couldn’t help but spark Adam’s imagination.

As Gaston came down, the loud call of a crested hawk in the sky caught Adam’s attention.

”There’s a crested hawk here, so there’s likely food nearby.”

Adam immediately made a judgment.

He glanced at the late-arriving Gina and the just descended Gaston: ”Gaston, you set up camp; Gina and I will go with the bow and arrows to search for prey nearby.”

However, before heading out, Adam had some doubts as he looked at the crested hawk circling in the sky.

Aren’t crested hawks usually in groups?

Why is there only one here?

And it seemed to have been circling for a long time.

...

Behind the scenes.

The assistants of Adam and the other two were already panicking.

”Damn it! Where did Gaston lead them?”

Gina’s plump assistant cursed: ”He led Gina and Adam to a dead end!”

”Damn! Why was Chen Wen able to tame a Harris?”

The big Hei was also distressed.

It was hard to imagine that this person now holding their head in pain was just dancing excitedly.

Gaston’s female assistant also looked unhappy.

She really didn’t expect Gaston to even lead them the wrong way!

Poor direction aside, he even led them to Chen Wen’s hunting ground!

What a lone crested hawk symbolized was already self-evident.

...

Just a few hours before Gaston and the other two reached this area, at noon.

Upon seeing Roland’s health improve a bit, Chen Wen decided to take Roland to explore northward.

In recent days, the bobcat had communicated with Chen Wen, telling him that there were big animals to the north—bighorn sheep, to be specific.

Therefore, Chen Wen had the idea of relying on Roland’s archery to hunt another bighorn sheep.

After all, such a large labor force would be wasted just staying at the camp.

Chen Wen took Roland and the crested hawk and began exploring northward.

According to the bobcat’s information.

Chen Wen passed through the valley where Gaston and the others were staying and went further north.

He discovered bighorn sheep on the mountain.

These bighorn sheep were different from the previous group; they were very harmonious.

After observing them, Chen Wen confirmed the number and genders of these bighorn sheep.

One male, six females.

”Is this sheep keeping a harem?”

Chen Wen muttered, making Roland feel quite frustrated.

Along the way, Chen Wen had been speaking in Chinese, only switching to English when communicating with him.

This made Roland feel like he’d missed out on a lot of information.

This feeling was quite unpleasant.

Therefore, Roland immediately asked, ”What did you just say?”

”I said, this sheep is...”

After thinking for a while, Chen Wen didn’t know how to say ”harem,” so he simply said, ”This sheep’s kidneys might be bad; it has six wives.”

Hearing this, Roland’s face turned dark.

Why are you thinking about this stuff right now?

”Do you have a plan?”

Roland asked.

If Roland wasn’t around, Chen Wen could use the bobcat for hunting.

But Chen Wen was cautious of Roland.

Currently, Roland had only seen the crested hawk and the wren on the beam.

He was unaware of the presence of the eastern screech owl and the bobcat.

Chen Wen said, ”The plan is simple, we’ll get closer, and you shoot the arrows.”

”...”

Roland felt that today was the most frustrating day of his survival experience.

No, the day he met Chen Wen was also pretty frustrating.

Seeing his prey already being eaten by Chen Wen, Roland’s heart felt cold.

”It’s not that simple; these bighorn sheep are very vigilant.”

Roland said helplessly: ”They can smell human scent, and for my arrows to reach them, I need to get very close.”

”They reside on bare rocks, with a clear view downward. Before we get close, they’ll spot us and then escape.”

Chen Wen couldn’t help but look at Roland: ”Is it that difficult? Weren’t you a hunting guide?”

Roland, stimulated by Chen Wen’s gaze, couldn’t help but puff out his chest and proudly said, ”I’m proficient in hunting in northern forests. If you come to my hometown, I would show you what being the king of the jungle means!”

Chen Wen clicked his tongue, somewhat dismissively saying, ”Aren’t you full of it? If you came with me to the coast, I could show you what being the king of the sea means. Say something useful, don’t start babbling.”

Roland was stumped.

But he couldn’t refute it either.

He had seen edited versions of Chen Wen’s videos on the island.

This kid isn’t wrong.

So, Roland stopped talking nonsense.

He said somewhat sullenly, ”In the past, when hunting bighorn sheep, I would use a lot of hunting dogs to drive them towards my ambush spot.”

”Besides that, I could also use some tools to mimic the mating or horn-clashing sounds of bighorn sheep to lure lone ones close for hunting.”

”Chasing them is the hardest; initially, hunting dogs were used to track them. Now, drones can replace them, and once tracked, scent-masking spray is needed to reduce human scent, allowing a slow approach.”

”But what I mentioned is related to northern conditions; Sonora Desert’s terrain isn’t suitable for these methods.”

Listening to Roland’s explanations, Chen Wen realized for the first time that Roland’s profession was a hunting guide.

He nodded slightly: ”Hmm, you make a good point; we do need to think of another way.”