"Master Li, do you have to get up so early every time you hunt wild boars?"
The sky is still dark, Li Long takes the lead, followed by Qi Jingyue, followed by Yang Chen and Xie Ruifeng. There was no wind, and all that could be heard was the sound of feet crunching on the snow, which was quite dull.
Yang Chen found a topic to ask Li Long.
“If it is to ambush wild boars, then there is only this time. At this time, the wild boars will go down the mountain and go to the place where there is more food to feed. When it is almost dawn, they will go into the mountain. The wild boar’s habitat is not fixed. , and it’s quite far in the mountains, where people don’t go often, so it’s hard to find them. The best way is to ambush them when they are looking for food.”
“Then you haven’t hunted wild boars in other places. ?" Xie Ruifeng asked breathlessly. Among these three people, he has the weakest physical strength, and Qi Jingyue, who is shorter than him, looks stronger than him.
Probably to relieve his own embarrassment, Xie Ruifeng would ask questions from time to time, and they were quite sharp.
"I have hunted wild boars before. I once encountered a wild boar habitat in the mountains and killed two." Li Long said as he walked. "I also hunted wild boars and killed two. I also hunted wild boars in the hot spring valley. I have been to wild boars and I have also hunted them.”
Li Long’s words made Xie Ruifeng silent for a while. , he continued to ask:
"Master Li, have you ever hunted wolves, lynxes, or other large carnivores?"
"No." Li Long's words made Xie Ruifeng a little excited. He was just about to make a few jokes when he heard Li Long say again:
"I haven't encountered it before. There was a bear that I saw from a distance and then went into the forest. I couldn't catch up."
Well, it's not that I haven't encountered it before. The main reason is that I haven't encountered it very often.
Qi Jingyue was a little bothered by Xie Ruifeng's words. She could tell that Xie Ruifeng was a bit targeted at Li Long, but she wanted to hear about his hunting experience through Li Long's answers, so she moved forward amid the conflict.
The sky was not bright at all, and Yang Chen was a little doubtful about how Li Long found the road, but seeing that Li Long's steps were not small and firm, he should not get lost.
Xie Ruifeng was a little unable to keep up at first. From time to time, he had to pant and jog for a few steps before he could follow Yang Chen. It was still dark at this time, and there were large black shadows on both sides of the valley. Although he knew that this was a forest, Xie Ruifeng was still a little scared, fearing that he would not be able to keep up and would not be able to find the way out of the valley, so even though he was very tired , still following closely.
It feels like the submachine gun is getting heavier and heavier. Xie Ruifeng regrets carrying so many bullets. He just brings one magazine - he may not be able to finish one magazine!
This time not only Li Long brought a plastic sheet, but Yang Chen also brought a large piece of plastic sheet, which was originally in the big room. When he was taking them, he also specifically said that if he really encountered a herd of wild boars, just drag them back - just drag a few more!
After more than half an hour, not only was Jie Ruifeng extremely tired and already more than ten meters away from Yang Chen, Qi Jingyue was also panting from exhaustion, and Yang Chen was seven or eight meters away from her.
Qi Jingyue even suspected that Li Long walked so fast to take revenge on Xie Ruifeng.
Of course there is a reason for this. Another reason is that Li Long wants to get to that point as soon as possible. No one can say whether the wild boar will get there early. If there are really wild boars there, we will regret it if we arrive too late!
"Okay, behind the ridge in front is a point where the wild boars once gathered. Let's go up the ridge, and then I will look at the wind direction and find the leeward direction to ambush. Don't move yet. I'll go up and take a look. It's best if the wild boars haven't arrived yet. , then we will have enough time to ambush."
After Li Long said that, he quickened his pace and rushed towards the mountain ridge.
Watching Li Long go up, Qi Jingyue and the others had time to take a good rest.
“Master Li’s physical strength is really good!” Yang Chen lamented, “I think I won’t be able to walk another kilometer. I think he might be fine if he walks another ten kilometers.”< br>
“There are specialties in the art industry. "Xie Ruifeng finally caught up, holding his hands on his knees and panting heavily, and said while panting, "This is what he does, and it's normal for him to be able to walk. If you want to talk about history and do scientific research, it's not his. Strong point.”
Qi Jingyue rolled her eyes after listening to his words. She was really invincible, even if she had come to this point, she would not admit defeat.
Is it so difficult to recognize the merits of others?
Li Long went up to the mountain ridge, slowed down, and then slowly looked toward the valley.
There was no movement in the valley yet. He took off his gloves, licked his index finger, and then put it up in the air to feel the direction of the wind.
My side is at the disadvantage, but fortunately, I don’t need to move anymore.
Seeing that the place where the wild boar was arching was still more than two hundred meters away, he waved down the mountain.
Yang Chen and Xie Ruifeng were talking and didn't see it. Qi Jingyue kept observing and could barely see Li Long waving, and immediately said:
"Come on!"
"What?" Xie Ruifeng asked, Yang Chen reacted quickly, kept up with Qi Jingyue's pace, and said as he walked:
"Master Li, let us go!"
Xie Ruifeng hurriedly followed with his gun.
After Li Long led them for a while under the mountain ridge, he found a suitable place and whispered:
"Let's go up a little bit. Line up and build a target platform with snow to ambush the wild boar. If the wild boar comes today, then we will set up an ambush..."
"How about coming?" Xie Ruifeng asked. .
"Then go back." Li Long said seriously.
"Then it's all in vain?"
"You don't think that you can come back with a full harvest every time you go hunting, do you?" Li Long asked back, "No one can guarantee that every time you go hunting, you will get something."< br>
After that, he moved to the far right and used the snow to make a target platform.
I haven’t done this for a long time, and Li Long still misses it a little.
As for whether a herd of wild boars would come today, he was also looking forward to it. Hunting, sometimes the waiting time itself is quite exciting. With yesterday’s harvest as the foundation, whether the wild boars will come today or not is actually not particularly important. If you come, it will be the icing on the cake, if you don't come, it won't be any worse.
The repair of the gun platform is relatively simple, mainly due to the compaction of snow, so it won't affect it when shooting later.
Turning to look at Qi Jingyue and the others who were still repairing the gun, Li Long lay down, looked at the area below that had been occupied by wild boars, and calibrated the approximate shooting range.
He set a standard for himself. If he doesn’t fight the big wild boars, he will fight the small ones. The small ones are easier to deal with.
Of course, if it is Qi Jingyue and the others, they must like to make big ones, because if they take the big ones back and make specimens, they will definitely look good!
Suddenly, Li Long felt the ground shake.
Coming!
He immediately turned to Qi Jingyue and the others and said:
"Stop moving! Here we come!"
Qi Jingyue is on the left of Li Long, and on the further left is Yang Chen, on the far side Above is Jie Ruifeng, which is in the order of the previous advance. Except for Qi Jingyue, whose gun platform is almost ready, the other two people have only piled half of the snow.
But no matter what, now that I heard the noise, I didn’t dare to move anymore.
Li Long was not sure that he could really wait until these wild boars came. He could only say that the news provided by Harimu was really good, and he really waited!
He opened the safety, pulled the trigger to load the bullet, and then began to prepare for aiming.
Soon, a group of wild boars rushed over along the valley from a distance. At the front were three or four small wild boars, the kind that were two or three years old. These wild boars were the liveliest and the loudest. They would occasionally fight with each other while running.
It seems that the wild boar herd is not very big, Li Long guessed.
It doesn’t matter. Since there are wild boars coming, it means that we have not waited here in vain. The group of wild boars are now one or two hundred meters away from here. When they reach the shooting range, they can ambush them.
This mission is secured!
Li Long thought so and planned to do so. He held the gun steadily and aimed at the predetermined area, just waiting for the wild boar to come here.
“Bang!”
A sudden gunshot directly disrupted Li Long’s rhythm and brought an abrupt halt to the pace of those wild boars rushing over!
The wild boars that were alarmed by the gunfire suddenly became riotous. The semi-large wild boar at the front turned around and ran back. The sow in the middle did not stop the car and collided with each other. The male wild boar at the back roared. It turned around and ran away, and at the same time, it was calling its tribe to escape quickly!
Li Long no longer cared about who had fired, he turned his gun and fired at the wild boars!
There are still more than a hundred meters away. Even if the skylight is slightly bright, he can only see a group of black individuals fleeing there. At a distance of more than a hundred meters, in fact, this group of wild boars is relatively small. It's small, and since there's not much light in the sky, it's a bit blurry when playing.
Then Qi Jingyue's gun also went off, bang bang bang bang, a rhythmic sound. The girl could still hold her breath. "Yang Chen, what's the matter with you?" Xie Ruifeng asked angrily, "Did you lose your temper at such a critical time?"
Li Long didn't expect that the one who lost his temper was not Xie Ruifeng, who had a problem with him. , turned out to be Yang Chen?
But it doesn't matter, the most important thing now is to see if the shooting between himself and Qi Jingyue has any results.
The wild boars ran back very quickly. Within ten seconds, the shaking feeling on the ground had disappeared. They had already fled into the mountain forest. In a short time, it could even be said that it was unlikely that they would return in the entire winter. Back to this place.
Qi Jingyue stopped shooting after firing four bullets. Li Long turned off the safety and said to the others:
"Turn off the safety, let's go and see if we hit anything." "
He estimated that even if he hit, it would only be one or two at most. The vitality of these wild boars is strong enough. If they don't hit their vital points, even if they are injured, they will run desperately into the mountains with the wild boars, and they will not stop even if they run to death.
"Turn it off." Qi Jingyue said.
"I...my hand slipped..." Yang Chen's voice was full of self-blame, "I didn't expect it, so I was a little excited, thinking that I would definitely be able to hit a few... I didn’t expect the trigger of this gun to be so sensitive..."
Xie Ruifeng said dissatisfied:
"Didn’t you say that when you came? Well, I picked the most suitable gun and found someone to calibrate it. How could it be..."
"Turn off the safety first," Li Long reminded again, "I was dealing with wild boars just now. , if there is a misfire, we will not be able to fight it. Now let’s move forward together. If there is another misfire, you should know the result.”
Xie Ruifeng stopped talking and hurriedly turned off the safety of his gun. Yang Chen did the same.
"Put the gun on your back, let's go, follow me forward." Li Long picked up the gun and walked towards the valley.
Qi Jingyue followed, and Yang Chen hurriedly followed. Although Xie Ruifeng was still dissatisfied with Yang Chen, he had no choice but to follow.
Yesterday, he didn't hit the roe deer. Although he was a little resentful when he followed him today, he still had some enthusiasm and wanted to hit something to show his strength.
At first he suspected that Li Long brought them here just to try his luck. When the wild boars came, he no longer doubted Li Long. When he was about to fight, he didn't expect that Yang Chen made a mistake and drove the wild boars away. !
His submachine gun had a short barrel and could only shoot at short distances. The result was good. He didn't even fire a shot for more than a hundred meters - the wild boar had disappeared before he was ready!
It would be strange if there is no resentment!
But there was nothing he could do. The wild boar had already run away. Although he really wanted to kick Yang Chen who was walking in front of him, he still endured it.
Li Long strode to the place where the wild boar turned its head when it heard the noise, and then he was a little happy to see a half-sized wild boar lying on the ground.
If calculated as a domestic pig, it should be three or four months old, but a wild boar should be two or three years old.
The wild boar was shot once in the stomach and once in the head. He died very suddenly. He died while lying on the ground, and there was no blood.
There was blood dripping forward, and it seemed that other wild boars were injured, but Li Long looked over and saw that there was no sign of wild boars until the end of the valley a few hundred meters away.
Apparently, the injured wild boar ran away.
“I also hit one, who hit it?” Xie Ruifeng walked up to him and asked curiously.
Qi Jingyue squatted down and looked at the wild boar, Yang Chen was a little at a loss.
"I don't know." Li Long shook his head, "It's too dark to see clearly."
"I didn't hit him." Qi Jingyue shook his head, "Master Li hit him, I was not aiming at this end."< br>
Li Long smiled: "Not necessarily, the projectiles are scattered... It's hard to say. No matter. Whoever hit me will be fine."
"There are still injured people!" The sky became brighter, and Yang Chen saw the blood in front of him, and shouted excitedly, "Let's catch up! ”
Qi Jingyue and Xie Ruifeng both looked at Li Long, waiting for his decision.
"Can't catch up." Li Long waved his hand, "With this gunshot, these wild boars won't be able to stop until they run three or four kilometers. They are going up and down the mountain, can you keep up?"
A few people hesitated.
Actually, it’s still possible to chase after a while, but Li Long thinks it’s okay, and he doesn’t want to cause trouble. We have the wolf, we have the roe deer, and now we have the wild boar. Can we explain it?
"You can chase this wild boar if you want. Who can get this wild boar back? You have to skin it out now, take out the internal organs and drain out the blood." Li Long continued, "After we finish, if anyone still wants to chase, Then let’s go chase it.”
As he spoke, Li Long turned the wild boar over and said to Yang Chen:
"Hold on, I'll disembowel you!"
The wild boar's body was not hard yet, so he put the gun behind his back, pulled out the knife, bled it first, stepped on it hard, squeezed out as much blood as possible, and then disemboweled it.
Because Qi Jingyue wanted to transport the wild boar back, Li Long just opened the boar to bleed it and took out the internal organs. After asking for her opinion, he threw away the internal organs, leaving only a crocodile.
Of course, Li Long kept the wild boar’s belly. He squeezed out the shit inside, then wrapped it in plastic cloth and stuffed it into his satchel.
"Master Li, what's the use of that thing?" Xie Ruifeng asked.
"Wild boar belly is used in folk remedies to treat stomach problems." Li Long said casually, "That's it for this wild boar now. If you want to chase it, someone has to guard it, or drag it directly back to the cabin, and then I will take the others. Keep chasing it. After all, if you leave it here, the wolf will probably come and eat it, and then our fight will be in vain."
The three of Qi Jingyue are in trouble.
To pursue or not to pursue?
Li Long doesn't care. In fact, if he wants to chase, he might go a little further and he might be able to catch one or two more wild boars, and he can make more money.
But he was not sure that these young people could keep up. After all, they spent a lot of energy yesterday, and they woke up so early today. Can they keep up the rest of the way?
The next journey may be five or six kilometers, or it may be seven or eight kilometers. No one can guarantee it. Since he wants to chase, he has to catch up. It is not his style to give up halfway. If it is him, it is fine, but there are others.
That’s why he threw this problem to the three young people.
"Then...forget it." Qi Jingyue looked at the wild boar, and then at her two companions. She actually wanted to chase her, but it was not yet dawn. In this mountain, Yang Chen What if one person drags the wild boar away, or two of them drag the wild boar back, and they get lost?
Among the four, only Li Long can pass unimpeded. She can't, and neither can the remaining two. Even if there were footprints along the way, Qi Jingyue was worried. What if there were wolves?
When we came, our parents told us that we must be together, even if we can't fight, nothing will happen.
She was sure that it would be okay for her to follow Li Long, but it was hard to say for the other two.
After all, when I heard Uncle Li say it before, I knew that Li Long had encountered a pack of six wild wolves.
She didn’t know the specific situation, but she knew that if a pack of wolves surrounded Yang Chen and Xie Ruifeng and the others, it would be difficult for her two companions to escape—even if they had guns.
The hunting experience in the past two days made her know that even if she has a gun in her hand, it is not safe.
Although it is a bit frustrating, this is a reality that has to be faced.
Li Long could probably guess what Qi Jingyue was thinking. He admired this girl who took the overall situation into consideration. She obviously wanted to go, but she gave up for the sake of the overall situation.
Okay, responsible.
Then Yang Chen dragged the wild boar back.
The sky is getting brighter and brighter, and the way we came can be seen clearly.
But even so, Yang Chen and Xie Ruifeng still couldn't be sure whether the way Li Long took them forward was the same way they came.
After all, there are not only traces of their walking in the mountains, but also traces of cattle and sheep. The path they took will overlap with the path trodden by cattle and sheep. Sometimes, the road trodden by cattle and sheep will diverge. If If they were sent back alone, they weren't sure they would be able to find their way to the cabin.
It turns out that without the guide, they are actually quite insignificant in the mountains.
Finally, the wooden house is in sight, and smoke can be seen coming from the chimney on the wooden roof. It must have been the driver's fault, right? (End of this chapter)