Chapter 32 32. "Bangke Totem! The wolf is coming!"

Yifeng and I visited Tenzin's tent. Tenzin's four male dogs surrounded Jomo and made a big show of courtship. Suddenly, Jomo's dog turned his head and stared at Langshan. I looked up: "There are wolves!" There was a lot of dog noise.Everyone got out of the tent: "Where is it?" "On the mountain!" On the top of the old wolf cave on the index finger mountain, there is a lone wolf sitting upright, overlooking the cattle on the pasture. Four male dogs lined up and scratched the grass in front of the tent, roaring towards the mountain, making a cloud of smoke.Hearing that the owners had stepped out of the tent to support themselves, the dogs became more confident, their tails fluttering like battle flags. There is no suspense in the duel between the outnumbered and the outnumbered!Raise a dog for a thousand days, use a dog for a while, the opportunity to earn performance has come!

Go!The male dogs ran to the foot of the index finger mountain in an instant, and the echo of the valley amplified their roar of challenge. We know very well that dogs cannot catch up with wolves, not to mention such a time-consuming and labor-intensive long-distance raid, so we are not worried at all. Instead, we want to see how the sneaky dogs on weekdays can create work performance. The dogs sprinted to the middle of the mountain! The lone wolf stood up calmly and raised his tail. "Shua, Shua, Shua!" Three wolves stood up behind him! The dogs were startled, leaning up and braking. We seemed to see the smoke rising from the dogs' paws when they braked suddenly. The situation has changed. We have to think about it... The dogs are walking in place on the mountainside. Although they are still cursing, they are not confident enough. .

Four dogs against four wolves?No matter how you look at it, there is no chance of winning, otherwise, let's withdraw... Two dogs looked back hesitantly.No, the master is watching, he will definitely be punished if he retreats without a fight like this.What's more, their favorite dog, Qiao Mo, also ran up the mountain excitedly, and he will be a man's hand in front of the girl!The dogs thought about it for a while, and had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue climbing, but at a much slower pace than before, as if they were waiting for the master's order to withdraw troops, or hoping that the wolves would retreat impatiently, so that they could take advantage of the downhill donkey.The dogs barked and dawdled together, but their voices were more ambiguous, more like they were discussing a peace—brother wolves, let’s chase slowly, and you retreat quickly, save face, everyone is easy to mess with.

The four wolves didn't buy it, they stretched their backs and twisted their necks, ready to fight in groups, to deal with all kinds of arrogance and disobedience! Mother, this is the rhythm of courting death!The dogs grunted, almost being pushed to the front line by the owner's eyes.They ran slower and slower, and climbed the mountain in a zigzag in a straight line. They seemed to avoid obstacles to save energy, but they were actually trying to delay time. Tenzin sneered: "Look at these people who eat rice, as long as there is a Tibetan mastiff in it, they won't be so ugly."

Tibetan mastiff is the only fighter on the grassland who can face off against wolves. He is a single-minded brave man who would rather play with his life than turn back!Every herdsman dreams of owning a Tibetan mastiff, and Tenzin is no exception. Yifeng smiled and said, "Heroes cherish heroes, mastiffs and wolves sometimes become brothers..." Before the words were finished, I pointed with my hand: "Look at the mountain ridge!" At some point, four wolves appeared on the mountain ridge!And quietly sneaked down the mountainside, the wolves by the wolf cave quickly joined the team, the eight wolves pulled into a fan formation, and pressed down on the dogs.

There is an ambush!The male dogs clamped their tails, their legs went limp, and they ran down the mountain like shit, running for their lives.A dog that was running slowly was knocked over by a wolf and bitten.The escaped dogs turned to look at Jomo while running, unbelievable!Instead of running away, Qiao Mo faced the wolves, like a reef waiting to hit. The wolves rushed past her, but they didn't even bite her. She even joined the team chasing the dogs wagging her tail, like a cheerleader for the wolves. . I, Yifeng, Tenzin, Tenzin's wife, and Tenzin's son all opened their mouths.

"Didn't you say you haven't seen wolves for two months? Where did so many come from?" "Which side does your Jomo stand on?" After all, there were people there, and the eight wolves drove the four dogs back down the mountain, and it was fine for Xiao Shi to teach them a lesson. The wolves brushed the dust off their hind paws with their tails, and retreated gracefully.The male dogs came back from defeat, and they had no face to return to the camp. They found a corner of the fence and licked the wounds on the dogs' buttocks. Only Jomo was still at the foot of the mountain, wagging his tail affectionately at the wolves, as if saying "Come back when you are free".Afterwards, Qiao Mo happily went home and touched the noses of the dogs one by one. The girl was indeed not clear about her position.This time, the wolves clashed with each other, and the male dogs were so ashamed that they ignored Qiao Mo.Fortunately, male dogs don't beat female dogs, and Qiao Mo is still young.

"From the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in mid-August to the present, we have not seen wolves for more than two months. This is the first time we have seen eight wolves at the same time. This is considered a big wolf pack in today's grassland!" Yifeng Overjoyed to drill back into the tent. "The wolves followed the yaks. I brought you the pack of wolves!" Tenzin beamed, "Then you have to thank me and make me some hot and sour noodles! The spicier the better!" Tenzin's family moved here from Daiweiruo Village at the end of October.They drove more than 500 yaks around the Heihe River and the road, walked for more than seven hours to Langshan, and pitched tents near our small house.As soon as I inquired about the location of Tenzin Yuanmu, it was the "pan" pasture where wolves hunted down yaks on a large scale when we last met Green two years ago.Although Tenzin drove the yaks around for more than seven hours today, the straight-line distance between Tenzin Ranch and Langshan Mountain is only more than ten kilometers. Once the river is frozen in winter, just cross the river and turn over the fence to walk all the way, which can shorten the distance by half.In this way, Tenzin's pasture is also the territory of the wolf pack of Langshan.I also heard from Tenzin that his family's pasture is the closest to the core no-man's land, and further inside is the public pasture of the villagers. Everyone will regularly go to the public pasture to graze for a period of time so that their own pastures can breathe.Maybe the herdsmen's public pasture is also a public hunting ground surrounded by several wolf packs nearby?

I was cooking vermicelli, thinking about something: "Dan Zeng, in the winter of two years ago, there was a siege of wolves in Daiweiruo Village, which injured many cattle. Is it your family?" I roughly said. Let's look at the situation of the wolves besieged. "The place you mentioned is like a public pasture. Maybe every family has cattle," Tenzin said with a smile, "the wolves hunt every winter, but they don't point at the family's cattle to eat. Three cows are full and don’t offend anyone.” "How many times does it take for the wolves to fight on such a large scale in one winter?" Yifeng asked.

"That's not necessarily the case. It depends on how many dead cows are dragged away by the dead cow dealers. The more dead cows are taken away, the more wolves will beat them." Tenzin stroked his beard, "You know, our village We only raise yaks and not sheep. Our yaks are all grown up with wolves. They are definitely the best beef on the Ruoergai grassland. Even dealers of dead cattle love to come to our village." Tenzin wondered again. , "Why do you ask about what happened two years ago?" "We just saw the wolves besieging that time, and then the herdsmen came, so we withdrew."

"That said, I seem to have a little impression." Tenzin's eyes flashed. "I saw two Han people running away with a pack of wolves. It was you two? Why are you running away? Are you afraid of me?" Unexpectedly, the herdsman at that time was Tenzin! Seeing me biting my lip and bowing my head in embarrassment, Tenzin smiled: "I'm just a bit aggressive, but I can't let my mother go back to the stove. Let's see." I serve Tenzin with a bowl of hot and sour powder.Tenzin, who still terrified me when we first met, is becoming more and more pleasing to the eye now.With Indian browbones, light gray pupils and long, naturally curly hair, he looks like a Bodhidharma.It's true that people can't be judged by appearances, but such a strong man with five big and three thick is a vegetarian.Tenzin is a dutiful son. It is said that he used to be addicted to meat. Since his mother fell ill, the living Buddha said that he was too murderous, so Tenzin vowed to abstain from meat for six years to pray for his mother. Now it is the fourth year.Even if there was meat on the table, Tenzin would never stretch out his chopsticks.There are not many vegetarian dishes on the grassland, so the hot and sour noodles I cooked became his favorite. Tenzin's wife is a hardworking and kind woman. She loves to be neat and tidy. She always cleans the hearth of her house to a bright shine.Once she came to visit our house and saw two strands of hair caught in the gap of our stove, so she grabbed and pulled it, but it turned out to be a cockroach. "Bounced around the house several times.Although she was taken aback, it was not uncommon to have an insect or two in the dried cow dung.I thought she would beat "Xiaoqiang" to death, but after she was scared, she put the little thing on the grass outside the house and let it go. Tenzin's wife is considerate. She doesn't speak Chinese, but she will cater to our conversation expressions and laugh, and try her best to understand what we mean.I remember the first time the two of us ate at the Tenzin Tent. The hostess was very enthusiastic and filled me with a big bowl of rice.How can I eat so much, I hurriedly told her with pictures: "Just half a bowl, half a bowl." The hostess thought for a while, and understood, she pressed the rice hard with a spoon, and compressed the full bowl of rice into a bowl. Pass me half a bowl.The kindness is hard to give up, and the "half bowl of rice" made me burp all night. Tenzin's son didn't talk much, but he inherited his father's filial piety. When there was nothing to do on the ranch, he would stay in the settlement to take care of his sick grandmother. It is now November, early winter, dry and snowless. In the past few days, there has been a wolf looking at the pasture on the index finger mountain from time to time. The pack of dogs turned a blind eye to the wolf.Ever since the eight wolves gave the dogs a run for their money, Tenzin's Tibetan dogs never dared to go up the mountain.When the owner is present, the dogs roar, but when the owner is not there, the dogs are silent.The wound on the dog's butt is still hurting. God knows how many wolves are there on the mountain? As for Yifeng and I, we have been watching the changes, and never called Greene affectionately.After all, after ten months of hard work, the urge to recognize relatives at the sight of wolves has calmed down.Based on our understanding of the wolves, we know that the wolves will be harvesting winter food under our noses in the near future, so we can't ruin their big event. After winter, there were no more wild vegetables to eat, so I collected a large amount of wild sea buckthorn, wrapped it in gauze to squeeze out the juice, packed it in beverage bottles and hung it behind the house to freeze naturally.The sweet and sour natural sea buckthorn juice is our main vitamin supplement in winter. Yifeng sat in front of the window, focusing the binoculars: "Come on, today are two spies." I wiped my hands on the apron and squinted towards the lens barrel. On the ridge of Index Finger Mountain, a big wolf was sitting hidden behind the bushes, followed by a half-sized wolf, hiding in the bushes like a model, stretching its neck to look at us. "Come on, what are you waiting for, today is a good opportunity to hunt cattle. Tenzin's family is not here, and we promise not to report you. I will pay for you after eating." Yifeng set up the camera, pursing his lips and secretly laughing. When Tenzin and his wife went out in the morning, they greeted us: "Call me if you find a cow thief!" "The cattle thieves are coming, I promise to drive them away, but if the wolves come to hunt the cattle, we are traitors!" Tenzin laughed loudly: "The thieves sneak in a group, and the wolf kills one. It doesn't matter. Let the wolves eat it. Just help me guard against the thieves." More than 500 yaks were grazing slowly on the pasture, and the smoke from the chimney of Tenzin's tent gradually faded away, and everything was so peaceful and safe.After the two wolves watched from the top of the mountain for half a day, the big wolf got up and touched the little wolf's nose, and the two wolves climbed over the ridge together. The two of us adjusted the camera to the best condition and waited for the wolf spies to call the big team. Waiting left and right until it was dark, Tenzin returned to the camp to drive the cattle into the pen, but the wolves did not come.Such a good opportunity was blinded. Yifeng slapped his thigh: "What the hell! These wolves are really calm. It's been three or four days. Are you just watching and playing like this?" "Wolves don't inquire aimlessly, they must be thinking about some rules." I looked at the fire and pondered, "The problem may lie with us. Tibetan men love to play, and Tenzin would ride a motorcycle into the city every day, leaving early and late. After all, this is their law. Tibetans are afraid of the cold, so if they are in the house, they must heat up the fire, and this is also a law. But our house is still steaming with smoke. Although the wolf on the wolf mountain The pack has no defense against us, but what if the Tenzin family are guests in our house? Tomorrow, we will also put out our fire, so that the wolf pack can be completely at ease." The next morning, the sound of Tenzin's motorcycle came from behind the house in the east. I got out of bed, wiped off the fog on the windowpane and looked behind the house. Motorcycle ruts, they're in town!I got up and put on my clothes, and searched the index finger mountain to the west with the binoculars.With the sound of the motorcycle going away, a ginger "stone" on the mountainside of the index finger moved and stretched out. Sitting on the slope and looking around, it was the half-sized wolf from yesterday! Yifeng used the telephoto to trap the wolf tightly, and I burned enough hot water for a day at the fastest speed, and let the fire go out naturally. The last trace of smoke had cleared from the chimney of the hut, and the chimney of Tenzin's tent was freezing cold.The waiting little wolf shook his mane excitedly, and ran back to the mountain to report the news. As soon as the little wolf started to run, I was happy. The one-sided tail-flicking running posture is a scud. Although the little wolf girl has grown to seven months old, the virtue of her hind legs ahead of her front legs has not changed when she gets excited. Woolen cloth.Look at that vibe, this is her first time as a scout, right? Sure enough, not long after, the big troops came.The ten wolves crossed the mountain ridge and approached the cattle quietly, moving silently and quickly.Scud and another large wolf outflanked the cattle from the foot of the mountain. "A total of twelve wolves! The place where the siege is at most five hundred meters away from us!" The blood burned our cheeks. When a wolf enters a herd of cattle, it looks like a powerful magnet thrown into iron filings from a distance. The scattered cattle quickly gather together and fight against the wolves together.Twelve wolves against five hundred yaks, it will be a fierce battle! "Bunker! Bunker Totem!! Wolf—here—here!!!" Who?Who is shouting!I ran out a few steps to have a look.With her butt bare, Carrot held up her trousers while running, yelling, "Bangke! Auntie, Bangke Totem!!" Tenzin's wife got out of the tent, covered her eyes, and hurried to the pasture to lead the horses and drive away the wolves. "What? The hostess didn't leave today?" Carrot ran back to the tent and stood with his legs spread apart so that his trousers would not fall down.The little guy picked up a washbasin and knocked on it frantically: "Wolf—come——bangke—totem—" The Tibetan dogs yelled for their master, but the dog legs seemed to have taken root on the ground, and ten of them dared not rush forward. The big wolf that was outflanking with Scud saw someone, and quickly ran to the periphery of the herd, trying to warn the wolves. "Look at the scud!" Yifeng's camera caught the wild girl, and he couldn't help laughing. Scud followed behind the hostess, scratching his head and ears anxiously, not knowing where to put his claws!It's over, it's over, it's over... Why is there still someone here?She reported this letter today, and now that she's pissed off, she doesn't know whether she should send a signal to the organization, or should she run away first, or should she stop the hostess?Scud was in a hurry, her hind legs wanted to rush to report the message, but her front legs were still hesitating.She was urged by her hind legs several times to turn sideways, circle around and run forward. The hostess leading the horse also noticed something strange, and when she turned her head and saw a wolf circling behind her, she was startled, and waved her sleeve to drive away the scud.After driving off the scud, the hostess got on her horse and drove off the wolves.Scud was even more dumbfounded. "Aw—" Radish yelled softly, his nose glistening with snot, and his face flushed red.It is not uncommon for children on the steppe to encounter wolves sooner or later.The wolf pack intends to hunt without hurting people. Once the hunting action is discovered, the wolf pack will retreat in spite of the difficulty.Because beating cattle is not as easy as catching sheep, you can run away with the sheep in your mouth if you succeed.The yak cannot be taken away, and the wolves can only eat it on the spot. If someone interferes, even if the yak is brought down, there is no chance to enjoy it. In the end, all the vultures and wild dogs are cheaper.Wolves do not do this kind of public welfare. withdraw! The wolf army died down, and quickly withdrew from the mountain pass. Scud finally got the same pace, and ran away with the large army.The little wolf who just practiced this year was eager to show her abilities, but she didn't know that she didn't do a good job in the sentry work. She was stabbed on the first day of work, and it was inevitable that she would go back and be trained. Only then did the dogs heroically rush to the pasture to protect their homes and cattle.Jomo sat on the hillside and watched from the beginning to the end, without making a sound. Yifeng pressed the stop button of the camera in disappointment, and asked Luobo: "Little ghost, why are you here?" Turnip threw away the washbasin, tied up his trousers belt and smiled at us with his broken teeth: "He came on horseback." "I know, I'm asking why you are here at this time?" "I came to play with my mother in the morning, but my mother didn't wake up, so I went to shit behind the sheepfold, and I happened to see Bang Ke. I shouted, I have done something!" "Yes, you are really capable!" Yifeng and I had mixed feelings. "Did you wipe your ass?" "hey-hey……" the next day. The intelligence team changed wolves, and the senior old wolf took another half-sized wolf to practice reconnaissance.The newly appointed wolf soldier is thin and thin, with a slight limp on his hind legs, so he is a little bit small.The stomachs of the old and the young were drooping, as if the mountain wind could blow their stomachs up.The little one keeps his eyes on the pasture, and his hunger makes him extremely focused! On the third day, when Tenzin left in the morning, he asserted that the wolves made a mistake in the siege the day before yesterday, and they would definitely not dare to come again in the next two days.So he confidently and boldly sang the empty city plan.As a result, people are not as good as wolves, and Tenzin was wrong. At around ten o'clock in the morning, I inadvertently saw a large group of vultures circling in the mid-air in a "tree shape". When I looked down the "tree roots", I found eight or nine wolves gathered in the pasture.They have successfully brought down a half-sized yak and are sharing food.Tenzin's Tibetan dogs didn't report it. They sat on the hillside and watched the wolves drooling.We didn't notice when the wolves started hunting. By the time we found out, the wolves who had been hungry for five or six days had already eaten like red-faced Guan Gong. The wolves finally had a tooth sacrifice, except for Scud. Her negligence the day before yesterday caused the hunting operation to fall short and made the wolves hungry for two days.Scud swallowed his saliva and bowed his head to accept the punishment. At first, he was honest, but later, seeing the wolves and the vultures surrounded, there must be nothing left for her. Under the smell of blood, she couldn't hold back anymore, and she did it herself! Scud took aim at a calf not far away, and sneaked over with the cat's waist bent. Just as he was about to bite, a bull suddenly came out diagonally from behind, and a guy was on the belly of Scud. Yifeng and I cried out in surprise, and saw the scud flipping twice in the air, rolling over the back of the bull, and falling to the grass.The bull wanted to turn around and trample on the scud. Two big wolves rushed to the rescue. One wolf grabbed the ox's tail and pulled it, while the other bit the ox's nose.The cow's nose is the most fragile and sensitive part of the cow, and it is very afraid of pain, so people often seize this weakness and wear a nose ring on the cow's nose.The two big wolves were very experienced, and the bull was quickly brought under control.It took a while for the scud to get up, shaking the wolf fur to move its limbs, thank God!She is still alive. Surprised by the accident, the wolves who stopped eating silently made way for a table, and their scuds leaned closer to them, finally having a chance to eat. "I have to go and see." "No, I'll go!" Yifeng took out his manly side, "Stay here and watch, in case of emergencies, don't stop your camera." He picked up another camera, mustered up the courage to After walking a few steps, I looked back at me again: "No... there is no real emergency, right?" I hesitated: "Keep a distance and don't disturb them from eating." "Hey." Yifeng cautiously approached the hunting scene.I locked on the wolves with a telephoto, not daring to breathe, for fear of blurring the picture at critical moments and missing any expression of the wolves.This is incomparable to approaching wolves on the wolf mountain. The wolves who are provoked by the smell of blood are red-eyed. Coupled with the instinct of protecting food, the wolves will be extremely ferocious. Yifeng was 100 meters away from the wolves, but the wolves didn't go... 80 meters, the wolves looked up at Yifeng, and continued to eat... 50 meters!The wolves slowly chewed the remaining meat in their mouths, staring at Yifeng with a little defense, and the scuds were still eating Haisai crazily.My heart is in my throat. "Stop, this is the limit of the wolves." I held the walkie-talkie and thanked the wolves from the bottom of my heart.It should be noted that it is very dangerous to be close to a pack of wild wolves that are hunting for food. Only enough familiarity and trust will allow us to witness this wild gluttony up close.The courage and confidence we have at this moment are passed on to us by the wolves. Yifeng sat down on a mound fifty meters away from the wolves in the least threatening posture.Those wolves haven't let down their vigilance yet, and they look at Yifeng with complicated eyes. Yifeng sets up the camera with as little movement as possible and presses the shooting button. Look only through the reverse lens of the camera. The wolves were relieved and continued to devour. "Call Yifeng, does it matter if you have Scud?" "Don't worry, Hai is eating. She should be fine!" "Is there a white wolf?" For some reason, I paid special attention to that white wolf. "Where can it be seen that there are all red mouths now! The red heads are all arched together!" What died was a young yak that was less than one year old. With the dead cow as the center, wolves were in the inner circle, Yifeng and vultures were in the middle circle, me and the dogs were in the outer circle, and various carnivorous birds were densely circling in the sky.The wolves eat according to their ranks, and the vultures compare their wingspan with each other as soon as they land, and the stronger vultures can occupy a more favorable position.From time to time, a vulture couldn't help but want to peck at it, but was immediately slapped away by the wolf's paw. The wolf who had eaten leisurely paced back to the slope of the index finger, wiped his mouth and combed his fur, and waited for the members behind. When there were only one or two wolves left around the dead cow, the vultures couldn't wait any longer and flew up to loot it.The wolf symbolically pounced on the vulture for a while and then withdrew.All over the sky, vultures swooped down to cover the corpse in an instant, picking bones and scraping flesh. When the last wolf disappeared on the mountain ridge, the dogs immediately went to work.They scattered the vultures, ate the bones first, and then quickly dismantled the remains into parts and hid them in various places in the pasture. While destroying the corpses of the wolves, they also saved some gray income for themselves.The dogs checked very carefully, even the spine and the tail of the ox were stuffed into the hole of the rex. Finally, they licked the blood on the grass and shaved the grass bales.These aftermath work must be careful, if the owner finds any clues, it will discredit their careers.When the owner is not around, the dog will never fight the wolf. If there are no robbers, there is no need for security. Perhaps no one understands the truth of wolf dead dog better than them.In a sense, wolves are their parents and career guarantee. There was no Jomo among the busy dogs. She sat on the hillside of the hut and watched the male dogs hide their meat. She just had to remember where the food was hidden.When the male dogs were tied up by their owners at night, all the hidden meat would be her food, Qiao Mo.Qiao Mo, who knows how to close the window after breaking through the empty door, is definitely better than those dogs. A yak returned flesh and blood to the steppe, and he fed a large herd of animals. into the night. Under the moonlight, Tenzin stood alone by the fence of the cattle pen, closed his eyes and listened quietly.Sensing me approaching him, Tenzin asked, "Is there a calf gone?" "How do you know?" I said nothing.I once asked Tenzin how many yaks he had, but he never knew, that is, I counted his 500-odd yaks for him when I had nothing to do.Why did he notice immediately that a calf died and was handled so indistinctly by the dogs? Tenzin opened his eyes, and pointed to a grunting cow by the fence: "His mother is crying for him." My heart trembled.During the day, I was happy that the wolves finally had enough to fill their stomachs, but now I suddenly feel sad. On the one hand, there are the cows who have lost their beloved sons, and on the other, the wolves who are suffering from hunger and cold. It is difficult to take sides.Anyway, death itself is part of the natural cycle, and survival is life and death, without justice or sympathy. "I remember it was a calf with a white tail. The day before yesterday, he said that his illness could not be overcome, and he wanted to cure him." "What's wrong with him?" "The last foot-and-mouth disease cow." Tenzing said, "The wolves will definitely come tomorrow." "Why?" "One calf, the wolves can't get enough to eat." Tenzin was wrong again, the pack of wolves did not come, and no one could figure out what the wolves were doing. In mid-November, another old herdsman family moved in to the bare Wolf Mountain, and brought more than 400 head of cattle to graze in the Thumb Mountain Range.The camp of the old herdsmen is only about 200 meters away from our hut.Yifeng and I looked at each other in blank dismay. I didn't expect that such a remote place like Wolf Mountain Hut would become lively again even though it was already winter. Nearly a thousand yaks of Tenzin and the old herdsman's family sandwiched the hut.I don't know how long this old herdsman will be grazing here.Langshan is definitely not suitable for grazing. The withered grass on the ground here is less than one centimeter high. It has been shaved and chewed by cattle and sheep several times this year. Where is the remaining value? The cow teeth gnawed the ground until it creaked, and the cow dung and mud pulled out were more grass than grass. After drying, it would not burn when burned.Turning a herbivore into a soil eater alive, what do the herdsmen think? I used to chat with the old man. The old herdsman pointed to the direction they came from on the other side of the mountain, and shook his head helplessly: "Over there, the sand..."