There is a light mist filling the sky above the hot spring valley. The farther you go in, the thicker the mist becomes, just like entering a fairyland.
But at this moment, Li Long had no time to appreciate the scenery that looked like a fairy in later generations. He hated the fog a little. Because of the existence of the fog, his field of vision was only about ten meters in front. Beyond this distance, he would Can't see anything clearly.
Li Long simply went up the hillside and entered the pine forest.
Sure enough, the fog in this pine forest is relatively light, so you can see farther.
It’s just that the pine trees in this area are relatively sparse, so the snow under the pine trees is relatively thick. The snow does not reach the knees every step of the way. It is very strenuous to pull up the legs and walk forward.
Hunting is not as easy and simple as imagined.
If you want to get, you have to give, and giving is not necessarily directly proportional to what you get. Although it is unfair, that is how things are. There is no way.
Walking in the pine forest and stepping on the snow will make a crisp sound. Although the sound is smaller than walking by the stream at the bottom of the valley, the sound can also easily arouse the alertness of those animals.
Li Long tried to be careful. The closer he got to the hot spring pool, the more vigilant his steps became.
When he was thirty or forty meters away from the hot spring pool, he heard a humming sound, and there were more than one!
Wild boar!
A bunch of wild boars!
Li Long became excited and finally encountered a group of decent prey. He held on to his intention of rushing out and continued to advance in the pine forest, planning to get closer so that he could see wild boars in the pine forest. Time to shoot again.
If you can hit one end, it’s one, if you can hit both ends, it’s even better!
While walking, Li Long opened the safety of his rifle, trying hard to see the situation ahead through the gap between the trees.
Unfortunately, the pine forest was so dense that it was impossible to see what was going on over there.
When he took a few steps forward, suddenly a wild boar roared loudly, and then he heard a group of wild boars running wildly, and the ground was still shaking. Li Long secretly screamed, and hurried toward the bottom of the valley. Rushed down!
I don’t know if it was me or something else that caused the wild boar riot. The wild boars all ran away!
When Li Long rushed down to the bottom of the valley, he found that the fog here was thicker. For some reason, the water in the hot spring seemed to have risen a little, and the temperature had also risen a little. He could vaguely see the shadow of a wild boar dozens of meters ahead. Fleeing in the mist, it was too late to take a closer look, Li Long raised his gun and fired!
“Bang bang bang bang!”
Four bullets were fired, and Li Long heard the wild boar scream. He quickly chased after him. When he rushed to the hot spring pool, he found that the hot spring pool had become turbid, and snow mixed with mud was thrown everywhere. , where I saw the wild boar just now, there were a few drops of blood in the snow, and some fainted in the water, but there was no wild boar.
Hit, injured, but not killed.
Li Long hurriedly chased the wild boars in the direction of the escape with his gun. The wild boars ran diagonally up the hillside and into the pine forest.
Li Long has not entered this area before. Every time he hunted here before, he always ambush. After hunting, he would just leave with the prey without entering the woods at all.
But this time because of the fog and other reasons, I was injured and if I didn’t succeed, I had to chase!
After Li Long entered the pine forest, he saw that the snow was trampled by wild boars, and hoof prints were everywhere, both fresh and old.
There were faint red blood drops in the slush. When the wild boar was running, the blood dripped from the wound, which just gave Li Long guidance.
Li Long followed the wild boar's hoof prints and blood stains diagonally along the hillside. When he chased five or six hundred meters away, the pine forest became sparse and the mountain became steeper, and the wild boar hoof prints became horizontal. Running forward, Li Long panted and ran a few dozen meters, and finally emerged from the pine forest. The altitude here was already much higher than that of the hot spring pool.
A bare stone mountain stands in the front left, with a gentle slope below, where wild boars run past.
Under this slope is where the hot spring water comes out.
At this height, the fog has disappeared. Looking down, you can see that the valley below is filled with a valley of fog.
Looking further ahead, the herd of wild boars had fled five to six hundred meters away. Li Long raised his gun and wanted to take aim, but finally put it down.
At such a distance, apart from gambling on luck, shooting is basically a waste of bullets.
The mountain road ahead became steeper. Li Long continued to chase forward, half hoping to see if the injured wild boar would stop bleeding halfway, and half hoping to go back to the wooden house from here. .
He couldn't run anymore, but he saw the wild boar in front of him running farther and farther, and it was still on the hillside. The wild boar in front of him had already run into the bushes nearly a kilometer away from here, and the one behind him was also running faster. .
Just when Li Long was about to give up, he suddenly saw a wild boar falling down the hillside!
He was overjoyed and quickly chased after me!
Maybe I was right in my bet. It was probably because the injured wild boar had difficulty moving and could not maintain its shape on the steep hillside, so it fell down.
The wild boar rolling down screamed strangely below the valley. The other wild boars turned a deaf ear and quickly disappeared into the bushes and woods.
After Li Long ran quickly for two or three hundred meters, he had to slow down - there were many rocks here, it was very steep, and the snow shell was slippery, so he had to be careful, otherwise He will also fall down.
After a lot of effort, I arrived in front of the wild boar and found that the unlucky guy's left front leg was broken. The white bones were exposed, and there was a piece of wood stuck in his abdomen. Apparently, he was killed when he fell down. The fallen tree was pricked.
There was a large pool of blood under the wild boar’s body. It was not dead yet, but it would not live long.
Li Long raised his gun and shot the wild boar in the head, thus sparing it pain. The wild boar is dead, Li Long takes a good rest, and his own affairs have just begun.
When wild boars were hunted before, they were usually brought back and then killed. This wild boar is not that big, weighing fifty or sixty kilograms. The meat should be relatively tender, but Li Long is not Plan to take it back.
After running for so long, the altitude was still relatively high. He felt that he was out of breath, so he thought about skinning the wild boar on the spot, removing some of the internal organs and throwing them here, and then go back.
Looking around, he didn't find any danger. Li Long put his gun on a stone, took out the knife he carried with him, and first dragged the wild boar out of the wood and dragged it to a relatively small place. On a flat place, open the chest first, take out the internal organs and put them aside, and then start peeling the skin.
Now that the wild boar's body is relatively soft, it is easier to handle. If you drag it to the cabin, it will take an hour or two anyway. By then, the wild boar will be frozen and hard to handle.
Li Long is now considered an old hunter - at least among the people he knows, he hunts or catches the most prey. Maybe Yushanjiang doesn't necessarily get more prey than him. , after all, Yushanjiang is not a full-time hunter, he only uses his gun to protect his cattle and sheep.
The skin of the wild boar is relatively easy to peel. After he finished peeling the skin, the meat on the wild boar's legs had begun to freeze.
The stomach must be kept in the internal organs. Other Li Long kept the liver and heart, and then discarded the rest.
I poked a hole in my stomach and squeezed out the undigested food with my hands on the snow next to me. This thing definitely couldn't be cleaned here. After a brief treatment, these internal organs were put into the wild boar's belly.
At this time, the body of the wild boar had also hardened. Li Long wrapped it in plastic cloth, then tied it with a rope, put the gun on his back, then picked up the wild boar and put it under his arm. Go down the mountain.
The main reason is that there are a lot of rocks here. He is worried that if he drags it, the plastic sheet will be scratched, which will make it difficult to use later.
Anyway, after peeling off the skin and throwing away some of the contents in the stomach, the remaining part of the whole wild boar was less than forty kilograms. With Li Long's current strength, it was not too strenuous to carry it.
After descending the mountain, Li Long walked towards the wooden house based on the direction in his memory.
There is a wild boar under his left armpit, and the rifle is hung on his right shoulder, with the muzzle pointing downward. As long as there is a situation, he can throw the wild boar away at any time, hold the gun in both hands and shoot at the target.
Half an hour after he left, a black-and-white animal emerged from the cracks in the rocks on the pile of abandoned wild boar viscera. He looked warily in the direction Li Long left. After finding no movement, he slowly He slowly came to the internal organs, smelled them, and started eating them.
It only ate less than half of the pile of internal organs, and then dragged the remaining parts into the cracks in the rocks.
Black and white have a natural camouflage effect in this environment. After entering the crevices of the rocks, this guy disappeared as if he had never appeared before.
Li Long took two breaks. After returning to the cabin with the wild boar, he put the wild boar down and went to look at the condom first.
Seeing from a distance that the condom had not been touched, Li Long was a little disappointed, but then he felt that he was a little too impatient. If the harvest can be obtained within half a day after setting the trap, then the wild animals in this mountain may be overrun.
Opening the door of the big room, Li Long carried the wild boar in, untied the rope, and spread out the plastic sheet.
The fire in the stove was almost burning. Li Long took charcoal and added it, and used a fire hook to spread the charcoal ash. The fire slowly started to burn, and he allowed the wild boar to transform here. , he opened the wild boar's belly, took it out, and went to the spring to start cleaning it.
Even when cleaning, Li Long did not relax his vigilance. He put the boning knife aside so that it could be accessed at any time.
But there were no wolves around, so his vigilance and arrangements were in vain.
After washing the wild boar's belly, Li Long's hands were red from the cold. He put the thing on the shelf in the small room, and when he returned to the big room, the wild boar's meat had thawed a little. Start picking the meat.
As usual, remove the legs and tenderloins. The wild boar is relatively thin, and its abdomen is said to be five-flowered, but in fact it has only three layers. It is cut off and placed aside separately. The remaining ribs and backbones are broken down piece by piece and stacked in categories.
There are some more gains on the wooden shelves in the small room.
After tidying up the wild boar meat, Li Long let out a sigh of relief and saw that it was already mid-afternoon. Although he was a little too lazy to cook, he was already hungry enough.
He took a steamed bun and threw it under the stove to bake. He brought the pot over here. There were not many pickles left, so he simply made a pot of water and planned to boil some more bones and gnaw them.
Wild boar is more delicious than wolf meat, especially since this wild boar is still half-grown, so it should taste good. I took a few pieces of spine and threw them into the pot to cook.
Soon, the steamed buns under the stove were browned. Li Long took it out, wiped off the charcoal ash on it, put it on the case to cool, and then went to the small room to find some dried chili peppers. Soak it in mixed water and plan to fry some pork offal to eat at night.
When the steamed buns were not so hot, Li Long opened them and slowly ate them. While eating, he looked out and saw that the wolf's head was still in its original position, with no change.
There were no animals visible in the distance, but Li Long felt that one or two or three of those wolves must be looking at him somewhere.
Then let’s compete patiently and see who can outlast the other in the end! (End of this chapter)