This time, the pit Li Long dug was not just meant to trap little wild boars. If possible, he wanted to catch some big ones too.
Having meat to eat was better than living on grain alone, wasn't it?
To be honest, Li Long had brought home much less than usual from his hunting trips here since spring began. He did not know whether the animals had fled deep into the mountains because there were more people in the woods, or whether his luck meter really had sprung a leak.
So this time, he planned to dig a big pit.
Counting on his greater strength and the meat he had eaten at noon, Li Long found a spot with a concentration of wild boar hoofprints when he arrived and started digging.
At first, he planned to make the pit two meters square, but as he dug, it began to feel wrong, so he scaled it down to a meter and a half square.
The first half meter was all black soil, with humus on top and hard earth beneath. Below half a meter, it turned to yellow earth, with fewer grass roots and the occasional tunnel made by insects. This yellow layer was also about half a meter thick, and clearing it out took Li Long nearly an hour.
Even with his greater strength, he was panting by then.
Farther down, he began finding sand and small stones. Li Long knew there would definitely be Gobi Stones farther below. Still, that was fine. This had probably once been an ancient riverbed or something similar, which explained the layers.
After resting a while, he kept digging. He wanted a narrow opening and a wide bottom, which took more work. The sun was already sinking in the west, but Li Long had