43 First time in his life (1/2)

Of course, Ren Xiaosu had not dug up the termite nest because he wanted to eat them. He continued following the deer tracks and heard the sound of running water after just a few minutes.

The closer Ren Xiaosu got to the river, the warier he became. Although it was past the evening period when living creatures gathered to drink at the riverside, he still needed to be careful. If any of the wild animals arrived here late due to matters at home, Ren Xiaosu might just bump into them.

But to his relief, he was not that unlucky.

Ren Xiaosu unwrapped the leaf containing the piece of the termite nest and threw it into the river. As the current was not rapid at this time, he did not have to think of how to build a stone weir 1 in the river. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.

Right after, he used his bone knife to cut open the palm-sized termite queen and threw her into the river as well. Then he began to wait patiently while holding the sharpened branch.

The moonlight tonight was particularly bright. Otherwise, Ren Xiaosu would not have seen what was in the river.

As the termite queen and her nest drifted slowly downstream with the current, Ren Xiaosu followed it from the riverbank. All of a sudden, a silhouette appeared and swam under the floating termite nest. The surface of the water roiled, and a large fish appeared with its mouth wide open as it tried to swallow the termite queen and nest in one gulp.

But as it opened its mouth, Ren Xiaosu's sharpened branch struck it!

Ren Xiaosu had previously used this method to catch fish as well. As his speed and strength were much worse at the time, it took him many tries before he succeeded in catching one.

However, that was the past. His movements used to be slower than a fish's, but he had gotten much faster than them by now.

Ren Xiaosu retracted the branch with lightning speed, the large, black fish struggling nonstop on it to no avail. Ren Xiaosu cautiously moved away from the riverbank. It seemed that the blood of the black fish had attracted something bad. Below the river's surface, a dense mass of silhouettes swarmed together.

Ren Xiaosu was a little puzzled. 'Are these the silhouettes of fish?' He immediately cut open the large, black fish on the shore and threw all of its internal organs back into the river. He could not bring the fish back to the campsite and slice it open there because that would leave a bloody scent around the campsite.

If cracker crumbs could attract a huge deer, who knew what the scent of blood could attract? Although there shouldn't be any bears or the likes in the vicinity, there was no harm in being cautious. Moreover, the roasted fish meat and bones that were left over from a meal would have to be dumped as far away as possible.

A second later, a frenzy erupted in the river. Countless fish scrambled to feed on the bloody organs, and they were even biting one another.

Once a fish got bitten, it would immediately end up as food for the other fish.

What a brutal river. What would happen if a person had fallen in?

All of a sudden, Ren Xiaosu was stunned, because he noticed that all the fish had swam away in a hurry. Ren Xiaosu turned around and left without any hesitation. Anything that could frighten away such vicious fish was probably something that he should not mess with.

On the way back to the campsite, Ren Xiaosu kept thinking about what kinds of changes the current wilderness had gone through.

Why were the wild animals evolving, yet there didn't seem to be any changes in humans?

No, there were some changes!

For example, there was Zhang Baogen, who had demonstrated his superpower to him. Or Yan Liuyuan and himself? Weren't they all different from before?

When Ren Xiaosu returned to the campsite, the band and the soldiers were eating porridge and canned food.

When everyone saw the fish that Ren Xiaosu was holding, they were stunned. In the afternoon, they had thought they would see Ren Xiaosu make a fool of himself. This was because Ren Xiaosu was only wearing a loose jacket, and they knew at a glance that he had not brought along any dried food with him.

So when Liu Bu told Ren Xiaosu to handle his meals by himself, everyone gloated at him. They were all quite annoyed with Ren Xiaosu, this refugee kid who constantly gave them an inexplicable feeling of unease. However, they could not tell what it was that made them feel so.