Chapter 184 Yao Mozi
After another hour of busy driving, Yue Feng finally led the people to the boundary of Woniu Mountain.
The terrain here has a very conspicuous feature. From a distance, you can see that the originally smooth terrain transition above the mountain ridge suddenly became a large protruding stone peak.
Standing in the southeast direction and looking at the top of the mountain, the outline looks like a plowing ox lying on the mountain. The landmark is very obvious.
"We've arrived at Woniu Mountain! Brother, how far do we have to go?" Xiao Tao led Hei Lang. After a long journey, the eyelashes exposed outside the hat were covered with frost and snow.
In fact, everyone else is not doing well. The outdoor temperature is more than 20 degrees. It is not an exaggeration to say that dripping water turns into ice. The heat from the long journey can quickly freeze into frost on the hat and hair.
"We're here, let the black wolf go, let's go up the mountain and see if we can find any traces!" Yue Feng said, looking up at the mountain.
Xiao Tao loosened the hemp rope that tied the dog, and Yue Feng gave the command: "Heilang, search!"
Woof woof woof!
Heilang heard the order and immediately started searching around actively.
Along the way, we walked along the Chaiji Road. Occasionally, we would find small scent traces or something like that. Yue Feng wouldn't let the black wolf chase him, so he was stifled by the dog.
Now that it’s gone, it’s a joy.
Yue Feng raised his head and glanced at the big black eagle following in the sky, and then led the people to continue walking up the ridgeline.
Logically speaking, after leaving the Chaiji Road area of the forest farm and climbing over several hills, there should be more and more traces of wild animals.
After all, the place we are currently in has reached a level that is difficult for ordinary villagers to reach.
Without human activities, there will naturally be more wild animals.
But Hei Lang searched in the snow for more than half an hour. Yue Feng and the others crossed the ridge of Woniu Mountain and almost climbed up to the sunny slope of another mountain along the bottom of the ditch, but the dog was a little bit Found none.
Not only did the dog not notice it, but along the way, the snow on the ground did not even have any traces of a yellow-skinned mouse or a jumping cat.
The bottom of the entire ditch was covered with ice and snow, and there were no traces on the snow.
Not to mention animals, not even the birds that should be seen everywhere in sunny and windy places were not seen.
"Something's not right, brother. I feel like the woods around me are a bit evil. There's no animal life at all!" Xiaowen reminded him with a frown as he pulled the hem of Yue Feng's clothes.
Yue Feng nodded: "I feel it too! But the more this happens, the more it proves that Zhu Erhai is not lying!
With such a large group of wild boars gathered, whether they are feeding or staying overnight, the momentum must be far away It’s an extremely common scale. It’s not just the Tiger Roar that can scare all the beasts.
No matter what kind of animal it is, when it reaches the point of becoming king, the environment around it will definitely be significantly affected.”
“What about us?”
"Keep looking. I guess we haven't reached the core activity range of the pigs yet! Don't go down the ditch where you can see the bottom. Find the traces first!"
"Oh! Black Wolf , this way, go!" Xiao Tao called out. After hearing this, Hei Lang immediately turned around and chased in the direction directed by Xiao Tao.
The four brothers walked along the ridge of Woniu Mountain through Heixiazi Ridge, and then walked up the mountain road for about two or three miles, and soon discovered something suspicious.
The originally smooth and harmonious snowfield was trampled by unknown animals, leaving large black and gray traces.
Seeing what I said about the large black and gray traces of animal tracks, the audience may have thought it was nothing. There must be traces after stepping on them.
In fact, this is very abnormal. The snow on the mountain is heavier than that at the bottom of the mountain. If there is 30 centimeters of snow on the village level at the foot of the mountain, it will start at least 40 centimeters on the mountain, or even more.
With such thick snow, after the temperature alternates between cold and hot, it will easily freeze into a snow crust.
With the relatively hard snow shell, it is very difficult for conventional animals to trample the thick snow to pieces.
But now, under the Qiuzi woods on the sunny side, the snow has basically been trampled down, exposing the dark-gray deciduous humus permafrost layer at the bottom.
Woof woof woof!
The black wolf also smelled an unusual smell and barked several times underneath.
When Yue Feng saw this, he immediately rushed over with his people to check.
"It's the traces left by wild boars! A large group of pigs!" Yue Feng walked up to him and bowed his head a lot, and he made a preliminary judgment.
"Brother, come here and look at this! Damn it, these big footprints!" Xiao Tao shouted at this time.
Brothers Yue Feng and Xiaowen Xiaowu heard the shouting and walked over, and then saw a frightening scene.
There was a huge footprint on the ground as big as a cow's hoof!
From the hoof tips, foot flaps, and overall proportions, Yue Feng can definitely judge that these are the hoof prints of a wild boar, but the size of the footprints is larger than that of an ordinary pig.
The armored cannon egg that Yue Feng and the others killed last time had hooves that were one size larger than a regular wild boar. If the hooves of that 400-pound wild boar are used as a standard, the footprints on the ground now are at least Two more sizes to go.
It can be called the top model of Promax!
“This should be the hoof print left by the wild boar king that Zhu Erhai told us about! The broken snow has frozen into mud again, and it is covered with a lot of snow foam. Judging from the traces , these traces must have been left four or five days ago at least!”
Yue Feng said after carefully observing the details of the hoof prints.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s five days or eight days! Such a large herd of pigs will not make a sound wherever they go, so follow them and take a look!
It’s best to have a better view, from a distance It's a few hundred meters away, let's kill it with one shot each!" Xiao Wu also got a little excited when he saw the large wild boar footprints.
Each pig represents dozens to hundreds of kilograms of meat. If you drag it back and eat it yourself, you can still sell it for money. This is a big unity that exudes the fragrance of ink!
Yue Feng pursed his lips and smiled and shook his head: "It's not as easy as you think. Look at this forest, the visibility is even 100 meters!
Xiao Tao, call the black wolf back, let's Follow the trail and look for it!"
"Oh!" Xiao Tao responded and immediately called Hei Lang. Upon hearing the greeting, Hei Lang turned back and was tied up with the hemp rope again. .
With the traces of pig activity, the next search is simple. There is no need to blindly search the mountain, just follow the direction of the footprints.
In this way, the boys followed the footprints and walked for more than half an hour, almost walking around the gentle slope of Heixiazi Ridge.
Suddenly, Yue Feng, who was walking at the front, stopped and raised his hand to press down. The people behind him immediately held their breath.
“What’s wrong, brother?” Xiaowen lowered his voice and came closer.
Yue Feng turned slightly sideways: "Don't talk, listen carefully!"
In the air, there was only the whine of the branches blown by the wind, and nothing else could be heard.
“Didn’t hear any noise? What’s wrong?”
"The herd of wild boars in front should not be far away! I can vaguely hear the sound of grunting! Xiao Tao, watch the black wolf and don't let it bark! Don't scare the pigs!"
"Okay. "Hey!"
Yue Feng removed the gun from his shoulder and continued to follow forward quietly, his speed slowing down significantly.
After chasing another few hundred meters, the gentle slope in front of them suddenly turned, and a sunny slope terrain similar to a dustpan and gravel appeared in front of Yue Feng and the others.
The sunny slopes of this kind of terrain, nesting in the wind and facing the sun, are areas where mountain animals like to stay in winter.
Yue Feng adjusted his direction and walked around for several hundred meters, and soon several wild boars playing and playing under the dustpan appeared in front of them.
Because it occupies the advantage of the visual field from a high place, it can be seen relatively far away. It can be roughly two to three hundred meters by visual inspection.
There are dense pecan forests underneath. The trees are not thick. Most of them are only as thick as the mouth of a bowl, but they are very dense. You can vaguely see the outline of wild boars eating and having fun, but you want to take a shot at them. , the forest is too dense, most likely it needs to be vented.
Yue Feng brought people all the way to hunt, the purpose was to hunt down the wild boar king and the big wild boar herd, not just to hunt one or two scattered wild boars.
So, he didn't shoot.
The big black eagle had already spotted two lonely wild boars in the forest. However, it had just eaten about 70% to 80% full recently, and its desire for hunting seemed to have dropped a lot. It was still following its owner and circling overhead. , did not launch an attack on the two wild boars.
"Brother, do you want to fight? If you get closer, you should be able to get a chance to get a shot!" Xiaowu also raised the gun and asked Yue Feng.
“Don’t rush to fight now, let’s go over the shady slope and go around to look ahead! Something is definitely not right with me! If you shoot rashly, don’t startle the pigs!”
"Something's wrong? What's wrong?"
"If the pigs are around, it stands to reason that there won't be such straggler activities of two pigs! If they can move around casually, they can't become a large group, right?"
This analysis does make sense. There must be an opportunity or reason for the wild boars to form a large group.
If the opportunity is gone and the pigs disperse, there may be sporadic activities.
If there is still an opportunity, then this three-year-old wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms should also join the group.
At Yue Feng's insistence, the four of them bypassed the dustpan without firing and continued to chase ahead.
After following the footprints for more than half an hour, it was already 12:30 noon. The little food we had in the morning had already been consumed in the long journey. Everyone was hungry. Cooed.
But now is not the time to eat. Yue Feng looked around while walking, always feeling that he seemed to have overlooked something.
After chasing around the footprints again, at 1:30 in the afternoon, Yue Feng took everyone around the map and returned to the previous area.
Co-author, a large group of wild boars once circled this area, forming a closed-loop animal trail.
"What a shame! These wild boars are going around in circles in the mountains! We followed them in a big circle! Isn't this coming back again?" Yue Feng slapped his head and couldn't help complaining.
This problem is prone to occur when going to relatively unfamiliar places in the mountains. When the mountains are relatively steep, it is easier to judge. At least the surrounding area visible to the human eye will become larger, and there will be a sign. If you use objects as road signs, you won’t go wrong.
But in this relatively gentle forest area, looking around, there is almost no obvious difference, which is why Yao Mozi came up.
(End of this chapter)