Chronicles of Primordial Wars

Bölüm 53: Vahşi Kurtlar

Çeviren: Sunyancai

A herd of giant-antlered deers was wandering along a stream, while some predator’s movements nearby was making them anxious.

About a few hundred meters away from the herd, Shao Xuan hid himself behind some dense branches as he stood on a tall tree. He looked in the deers’ direction through the leaves.

Avlanmak için dışarı çıktıklarından bu yana beşinci gündü ve ilk konumlarının etrafında yeterince avlandıkları için Mai, av grubunu ikinci konuma götürmeyi planladı.

İkinci konum havzanın diğer tarafında bulunuyordu, bu nedenle havzadan geçmeleri ve oraya ulaşmak için başka bir dağın üzerinden tırmanmaları gerekiyordu. With Shao Xuan and Mao tagging along with the hunting group, Mai did not intend to move straight through the basin. Instead, Mai told the group to march along the basin’s edge. The distance was longer this way, but it was not as dangerous as walking straight through.

During their journey, the group encountered a large herd of giant-antlered deers, with a pack of wolves following them. Mai commanded the others to hide themselves first and then asked Shao Xuan to observe the wolves in the forest. Shao Xuan kept a wolf himself, and Mai was worried that he hadn’t seen a real wolf in the wild. Aslında Sezar çoğu savaşçının gözünde gerçek bir kurt olarak görülmüyordu, bu yüzden Shao Xuan'ın kurtlarla ilgili izleniminin Sezar'ın uysal davranışına dayanması halinde bundan nefret ederdi.

However, Mai and the others actually worried for nothing. Of course Shao Xuan knew what wolves were like in the wild, or else he wouldn’t be treating Caesar as a dog.

But the wolves here were much stronger than the wolves that Shao Xuan had seen in his last life. They had stronger muscles and were very destructive. Judging from their head and jaws, one could tell that they had much more force in their bites. In fact, they would hunt for giant preys that were much bigger than themselves in sizes.

Now those wolves were just lurking around, for before any action, they had to assess the risk first.

“They prefer to avoid the deers with bigger antlers, like those ones.” Mai, Shao Xuan'a biraz işaret etti.

Among the herd of the giant-antlered deer, there were a lot of male deer with big antlers, some of which had really unique antlers. Unlike other deer, their antlers were not like branches that stretched out, but forked out backwards several times covering their whole bodies. Bunlarla baş etmek son derece zordu.

Shao Xuan had seen similar antlers in the tribe, for some people were wearing those when attending the ritual ceremony.

"Olacak!" Lang Ga said in a low voice as he squatted on the tree beside them. Oldukça heyecanlıydı. In fact, Lang Ga became excited every time he saw a pack of wolves hunting together. He thought that he could learn a lot from their hunting skills and fighting.

“The best way to hunt down herd creatures like the giant-antlered deer is to make them run.” Mai fısıldadı.

Shao Xuan kurtlara baktı ve ilk başta kurtların gezintiye çıkmış gibi olduklarını fark etti, ancak daha sonra yavaş yavaş ayrılarak geyik sürüsüne yaklaştılar. Some of the wolves even tried to intimidate the deers on the edge.

Because of the approaching wolf pack, the deer herd began to panic, and quickly there was chaos in the herd from the wolves’ threat. The deers began to run, and some of them even headed in different directions.

The wolves separated as they chased after the giant-antlered deer herd, searching for suitable targets.

"Yavru geyikler sürünün ortasında, onları koruyan güçlü ve büyük bireylerle korunurdu. Normalde kurt sürüsü onları avlamaya çalışmazdı. Ancak farklı yönlere koşanlara gelince, kurtların yaralıları veya yaşlıları seçmesi oldukça kolaydı. Zayıf veya yaralı olanlar tespit edildikten sonra tüm kurtlar diğerlerini kovalamayı bırakıp daha az yetenekli olanlara odaklanırdı." Mai pointed at the running wolves and explained to Shao Xuan. Biraz tereddüt ettikten sonra ekledi: "Yani yaralansanız bile asla zayıf noktanızı onların önünde göstermemelisiniz. Ayrıca sürüye asla sırtınızı göstermemelisiniz ki bu çok tehlikelidir."
Shao Xuan geyiklerden hangisinin daha az yetenekli olduğunu bulamamıştı ama kurtlardan biri aniden hızlandı ve belirli bir geyiğin peşine düştü. Soon, six or seven wolves joined the chase, as the time went by, more and more wolves joined the chase.

The biggest and strongest wolf among the pack should be the leader, and it was the one that started the attack.

However, it was a shame that because of the help from some other deers, their prey finally slipped away.

“Bir av olmadan pes etmeyecekler.” Lang Ga pozitifti.

At that end, the wolves came back together soon after the failure. Perhaps they were in tumult because of the failure in hunting this time. However, the chaos soon calmed down by the leader. It howled at the sky and Shao Xuan felt that it must be increasing the morale.

Soon, the wolf pack started yet another attack towards the deer herd.

One wolf focused on an old deer, while the others quickly joined in.

With last time’s experience and the lesson that they learnt, this time they chased the deer to an empty ground and separated it from the herd. So it fell into a situation of isolation and helplessness.

Böylesine çılgın bir kovalamacayı görünce, oldukça uzaktan bakmasına ve zihinsel olarak zaten hazırlanmış olmasına rağmen Shao Xuan hâlâ derin bir şok içindeydi.

Avın belki de en büyük korkusu, bu kadar iyi organize olmuş, vahşi bakışlara sahip yırtıcı hayvanlarla karşılaşmak ve bir grup tarafından kovalanmaktı.

The leader was rushing in the front of the pack, and it suddenly pounced at the deer’s back when it got near. Keskin dişler geyiğin derisini deldi ve normal kurtların çoğundan bile daha büyük olan büyük gövdesi, bir çekiç gibi doğrudan geyiğe çarptı.

Yaşlı dev boynuzlu geyik, kurdun liderinden birkaç kat daha büyük olmasına rağmen, saldırıdan sendeledi ve neredeyse yere düşüyordu. Bu sadece bir başlangıçtı. After the leader wolf, soon other wolves in the pack began to attack as well. Their teeth went through its skin and pierced its muscles.

The giant-antlered deer that was besieged almost became a “wolf-hanger”. Finally, it slowed down and fell, but its body did not stop struggling until its last breath.

Maybe a wolf alone was not lethal at all, but dozens of the terrifying predators combined were a real danger. Because of such hunting tactics, they were able to scare off most of the predators in this region.

“Sometimes I would rather confront ferocious beasts like the Thorn Black Wind, than face a pack of wolves.” Av grubundaki bir savaşçı bunu söyledi.

“Luckily, Thorn Black Winds prefer to live alone. Even if they united temporarily, they wouldn’t be able to fight like that.”

Yalnız yaşamayı seviyorlardı ve takım çalışmasından nefret ediyorlardı. Bu iki Diken Kara Rüzgârın işbirliği yaparak yollarını kapatması nadir görülen bir durumdu ama asla savaşçılara karşı umutsuzca birlikte savaşmazlardı.

“But then, I have not figured out where they keep their baby wolves by now.” Lang Ga etrafına baktı ve şunları söyledi. It was totally a coincidence that they picked up Caesar when that little cub was alone.

Most of the social animals did a good job protecting their babies. For example, the giant-antlered deer or the wolf pack, which was about to start eating. Ancak Diken Kara Rüzgârlar gibi hayvanlar ne kadar güçlü ve kibirli olursa olsun, eğer bebeklerine iyi bakmazlarsa bebekleri diğer vahşi canavarların hedefi haline gelebilir. Even without Ah-Fei, there might have been other hunters like tigers, leopards and wolves.

“After all, the wounded, the old, and especially the babies are best hunting targets in the wilderness.” dedi Mai.

Ayrıca yavrusunu kaybeden Diken Kara Rüzgâr'ın yaşadığı gölün dibinde, yaşı ve büyüklüğü ne olursa olsun çok sayıda hayvanın kemikleri vardı.

The world in the forest was just as brutal as that, filled with killing and being killed.

“Öyleyse çabuk büyüyün!” Qiao, Shao Xuan ve Mao'ya gülümsedi.

After collecting their equipment, the hunting group headed to the second location.

As they were running and jumping on the boughs, Shao Xuan looked back at the wolf pack that had started eating.

The strong leader howled and brutally bit the others that approached to the prey. It used that way to defend its dominant position in the pack. Lider tarafından henüz ısırılmayan diğerleri ise dev boynuzlu geyiği hızla kemirirken, sanki av yavaşlarsa ayağa kalkıp kaçacakmış gibi.
Bununla karşılaştırıldığında, çocukluğundan beri köpek muamelesi gören ve bakılan Sezar'ın şimdi ne işi vardı? Güneşte banyo yaparken tembelce bir kemiği mi kemiriyordu?