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Chapter 155
Kyle Lee and the others couldn’t accept it. They’d finally found a buffalo this big. They could have stocked up on meat and taken a break from eating seagulls and rabbits every day. Now Joseph was telling them they couldn’t eat any of it.They wanted to know why.“The rot isn’t limited to the parts we can see,” Joseph explained. “It’s spread through the whole buffalo. If I had to guess, something like a Komodo dragon killed it. A giant lizard.”“A lizard can kill a buffalo?” Kyle Lee stared at him.Joseph nodded. “Not with the strength of its jaws. A Komodo dragon relies on its venom. It hides in dark places or along the paths its prey uses, then bites when the animal isn’t expecting it.”“The venom doesn’t take effect immediately. The wound slowly begins to rot, and the venom spreads through the blood to the heart, then through the rest of the body. The prey stays alive and suffers for a while.”He looked at the buffalo’s torn belly.“Eventually, the flesh around the wound breaks dow
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With all those seagulls stored away, Joseph no longer had to worry about finding enough food for the moment. He wanted to take advantage of the animals’ strange behavior and check the traps again while so many were out foraging.The more food they put away, the better prepared they’d be if something went wrong. At least they wouldn’t go hungry.Alice and the others could handle drying the seagulls. It wasn’t heavy work.Joseph brought out the fishing line he’d stripped from the abandoned net and showed them what to do. He tied a line around each seagull’s neck, then hung them from the drying racks they’d built earlier. Each length of line held four or five birds. More than twenty lines hung from the racks.Add the rabbits and pheasants from yesterday, and the racks were packed. It was an impressive sight in the middle of camp. Alice smiled at what they’d accomplished.After eating a wild fruit, Bruce Lee grabbed the alpha wolf by its hind legs and dragged it off for more training. The
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“Catching seagulls with a fishing net—Boss, you’re a genius!”As Joseph’s most devoted sidekick, Noah Diaz was already piling on the praise. This time, he meant every word. If anyone dared say Joseph wasn’t capable, Noah Diaz was ready to fight them over it.Joseph wore a smug grin.“Come on, keep it low-key.”He said that, but he looked happier than anyone else. There was nothing low-key about him.“Boss, how did you know the seagulls would gather in one spot?” Noah Diaz asked.Everyone wanted to know. Joseph had seemed to predict exactly where the flock would fly. The birds had gathered right where he needed them for the net, and he’d even chosen where Bruce Lee should stand to throw the bait.“The magnetic field, the wind, and the food supply,” Joseph said.“The sudden surge in seagulls upset the balance around here. There isn’t enough food for all of them, so when they saw the bait, they rushed in and fought over it. That’s also why you and the others were able to catch them so ea
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Joseph gathered the seagull entrails Alice and the others had left over and mixed them with the entrails from the birds they’d killed today. He wrapped the whole mess in a shirt too torn to wear.He’d cut slits all over it, wide enough to expose the entrails but too narrow for them to spill out. Blood and juices soaked through the fabric. The stench was enough to drive everyone away.To the seagulls, though, it was irresistible. Several had already spotted the bundle in Joseph’s hands and were eyeing it, ready to swoop down and steal it.“What are you doing with that?” Alice asked.“Just watch, Alice.” Joseph grinned. “I told you I’d catch them all in one sweep.”He still wouldn’t explain how, leaving Kyle Lee and the others baffled. But Joseph looked confident. All they could do was wait and see.The seagulls had gathered overhead, wheeling around aimlessly. This was the moment Joseph had been waiting for.He would only get one chance.“Bruce, come here!”Bruce Lee came over, puzzled
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By evening, a breeze had brought a welcome coolness to the sweltering island. Morning and evening were always the most comfortable times of day.The alpha wolf’s yelps finally stopped. Bruce Lee’s first day of training was over.While the air was cool, Joseph cleaned all the seagulls, rabbits, and pheasants they’d caught that day. Alice helped, and the work went much faster.But Joseph’s brow remained furrowed. Anyone could see something was bothering him.He set aside what they would eat that night and salted the rest as usual. Once the sun came up tomorrow, he’d leave it out to dry for the day. That would keep it from spoiling for a long time.They had enough food now, but there was no way to replenish their bear fat. Joseph couldn’t fry seagulls for every meal. They needed to save what was left for emergencies.He found some sturdy branches, lightly salted the seagulls, and skewered them. Everyone gathered around the fire at the center of camp.After so many days of Joseph teaching
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Alice had told Joseph what the alpha wolf had been through all morning. Bruce Lee had been a little too rough.“Training takes time,” Joseph said, trying to smooth things over. “Push him too hard and you could end up doing more harm than good.”“We don’t have time,” Bruce Lee insisted. “We could be rescued any day, and we can’t take him with us. If he isn’t ready to survive on his own by then, he’ll die.”Even as he spoke, Bruce Lee took a seagull from the bucket and tossed it in front of the wolf.“Eat up. Then we keep training until you manage to hurt me!”Joseph shook his head. Bruce Lee talked tough, but he cared more than he let on.And he had a point. They’d lost contact with the outside world, but they wouldn’t be stuck on this island forever. Sooner or later, they would leave. The alpha had grown used to living with them. Without training, it could lose its wild instincts, and once they were gone, it would have no one to protect it.Bruce Lee might pretend not to care, but eve
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