Chapter 118 Overseas Inspection (5)
This caution is not unreasonable. Tom Wang seriously warned the members at the preparatory meeting before departure that the Indochina Peninsula where Vietnam is located has the existence of the Indochinese tiger, the king of the jungle. In addition to this extremely powerful beast, In addition to hunting animals such as deer, wild boars, and monkeys, they even hunt competitors such as leopards and bears. The male Indochinese tiger is nearly three meters long and can weigh about two hundred kilograms. It is born to be a very sharp killing machine. With the exception of the Asian elephant, there are few natural rivals in Indochina that can compete with it. There are also clouded leopards and black bears, which are also extremely aggressive beasts in this area. Therefore, no one is allowed to be alone during hunting operations, and no one is allowed to act without authorization. The hunting area can only be within a three-kilometer radius of the sailboat docking point, and no one is allowed to go deeper inland at will.
Finally, Tom Wang emphasized that if someone discovers an Asian elephant, they must immediately retreat to the starting point and must not provoke the Asian elephant in any other way. This is because Asian elephants are social animals. Once a conflict occurs with a herd of elephants, it will be a very scary thing. The limited number of firearms not only cannot stop the elephants, but may cause chaos among the elephants. Although the Asian elephant looks huge and slow in movement, in fact, this animal can run at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour. Most adults cannot outrun it. Once chased by an elephant, it will be really difficult. All I can do is pray to God for good luck.
After getting vaccinated, the three hunting groups set off together, advancing in parallel at a distance of about two hundred meters apart. Although the distance was not far, the visibility between the several groups was not very good due to the obstruction of a large amount of surface vegetation, so everyone turned on their walkie-talkies to keep in touch at all times.
In this area that is still in a primitive state, the number of wild animals is quite large, and since humans have not set foot here, most of the wild animals do not show much wariness to the appearance of the expedition team. After the hunt started, Wang Tom quickly shot a golden pheasant with a compound bow. Then he handed the bow and arrow to his teammates and acted as a coach. The other two groups soon also made gains. Roger and Shi Diwen's team captured a civet, while Qiao Zhiya's team captured a python more than two meters long.
After an hour of hunting, Wang Tom personally took action and shot an adult sambar deer over forty meters away with a compound bow. Then he announced that their group had ended the hunt for the day - the adult male The deer weighed a full two hundred kilograms, and only a team of five people could drag this guy back to where the boat was parked.
Soon Qiao Zhiya's group also announced the end of hunting. Although they did not hunt a target as big as sambar, they did catch five or six golden pheasants, and also picked up a lot of eggs.
Roger and Shi Diwen's team struggled for a long time because they didn't achieve much. It wasn't until the other two teams merged and they were already halfway back that Roger's helpless voice sounded on the walkie-talkie. : "Okay, we are ready to return. It seems that today is not a good time for hunting... Wait, we seem to have discovered something amazing..."
Then two gunshots were heard in the forest in the distance. The team members on the way back immediately stopped. Everyone's faces were full of surprise and uncertainty, and they all speculated about what happened to the other group. While calling Roger's group, Wang Tom quickly issued an order to the other team members: "The people from the Military and Police Department will return with me to pick them up, and the others will immediately return to the ship to be on guard!"
While the reinforcements led by Tom Wang were still on the way, Roger's excited voice sounded again on the walkie-talkie: "Oh my God! Tom, you will never guess what we hit!"
Tom Wang replied angrily: "I guess you must have killed the aliens that unfortunately landed on the earth!"
"Although they are not aliens, they are almost enough!" A few minutes later, a proud Roger showed the gains of his group to the reinforcements who arrived panting.
Lying on the ground was a big black guy with a fat body, short legs and a head as big as a bucket. At first glance, it looks a bit like a wild boar, but it is much larger than a wild boar, with a body length of more than two meters, and it does not have bristles like a wild boar.
"This is... a rhinoceros?" People with sharp eyes have already recognized the true identity of this prey lying on the ground.
"Isn't the rhinoceros an African animal? Where did the rhinoceros come from in Vietnam? Couldn't this thing have traveled through time?" someone asked.
Tom Wang didn't speak. He squatted down and looked carefully for a while before he came to the conclusion: "Yes, this is a rhinoceros. Everyone, you are very lucky to see an extinct animal - the Indochinese subspecies of Javan rhinoceros. .”
In fact, rhinos do not only exist in the African savannah. There are three species of rhinos in Asia, and the Javan rhinoceros is the only unlucky one on the verge of extinction. This kind of rhinoceros once existed in a large area of Southeast Asia, but most of them were extinct in the 20th century. A few years before the crossing, the last Javan rhinoceros of the Indochinese subspecies was killed by poachers in a Vietnamese national park. There are only less than fifty Javan rhinos left in the primeval forests of Java Island on earth.
"So we just killed a very precious animal?" After listening to Wang Tom's science talk, Roger was obviously not as happy as before.
Tom Wang patted him on the shoulder and said: "It will indeed be precious four hundred years later, but it shouldn't be considered valuable in this era." Just after Roger showed a pleased expression, Tom Wang said again: "But you killed this rhinoceros purely. It's just a waste of bullets. This is a female rhinoceros. It doesn't even have horns on its head. That's the most valuable part of it. Other than that, it's just a bunch of meat. Do you plan to eat a rhinoceros dinner? ”
Roger argued: "Rhinoceros skin can be peeled off to make armor!"
"Then you probably have to work hard for a long time. I think this rhinoceros is at least six to seven hundred kilograms." Wang Tom looked at his watch: "It's six o'clock in the afternoon, and it will get dark in about an hour. What are you going to do? Spend all night here to finish the skinning or get it back to the boat before dark? ”
Roger opened his mouth, but in the end nothing came out.
Naturally, no one would help Roger carry this behemoth back to the boat two kilometers away, and it was obviously impossible for Roger to stay in the wilderness overnight for a bloody rhinoceros skin. In the end, the hunters had no choice but to give up on the unlucky Javan rhinoceros and returned to the boat with some smaller prey.
Several excited members took off their clothes and prepared to go directly into the river to take a bath, but they were all stopped by Tom Wang: "This is not the Tian Du River. You have to remember one thing. You can't just go down to any river." ”
"Why can't we get off?" someone asked.
Tom Wang did not answer his question, but grabbed a bloody golden pheasant and threw it to the river bank. In just ten seconds, a black shadow emerged from the grass on the river bank, biting the golden pheasant, and then silently The ground sank into the water. The several shirtless young men on the deck who witnessed this shocking scene opened their mouths wide and were too frightened to say a word.
"That's a Siamese crocodile. An adult crocodile can grow up to four meters long. If it goes into the water with a body like yours, it can beat ten of you." Wang Tom attacked this group of daredevils mercilessly.
"Then I won't be able to take a shower these days?" someone asked unwillingly.
"That's not the case, we can just find a spring." Wang Tom naturally has a solution: "I remember there was a mountain spring near the campsite last night."
So the two sailboats set sail again and returned along the way they came today, returning to yesterday's campsite before dark. The barbecue dinner this night was obviously more sumptuous than the previous few days. There were not only seafood but also birds and animals. Xie Chun also made two beggar chickens with Vietnamese golden pheasants, allowing several ABCs to appreciate the power of Chinese cuisine. Tian Yeyou asked Wang Tom for the two antlers, saying that he wanted them for his collection.
Roger, who was excited after eating, took out two bottles of whiskey from his collection, which attracted cheers from everyone. Although many domestic time-travelers have brought tobacco, alcohol and other items among their personal belongings, due to the weight limit of personal belongings, these consumables are very limited, so few people will share them. Although there were only two bottles of wine, and each of the dozen or so people couldn't even share 100 milliliters, the group of men drifting overseas still drank happily, as if they were drinking nectar into their throats. At this time, no one would care that the taste of whiskey is not as refreshing as Lao Baigan. After swallowing it, there is actually no difference in the stimulation of the nerves by alcohol.
Obviously, this amount of wine was not enough to keep the men happy, so several members of the North American gang began to share their private collections one after another. Except for the two foreign doctors who never drank, everyone drank to their heart's content. Of course, given that others have begun to talk incoherently, tonight's night duty task will obviously have to be entrusted to the old military doctor team.
Alcohol is undoubtedly the best catalyst for building relationships. The men, who had been getting along for several days, soon began to call themselves brothers under the influence of alcohol. If everyone's relationship before was just that of companions in a large group, then this overseas voyage has undoubtedly greatly shortened the relationship between everyone. Some things that were inconvenient to say in the past can now be spoken more easily after drinking. come out.
Xie Chun shook his head and frankly admitted that he had had a rather extreme view of the North American gang, and believed that their arrival would most likely lead to some discordant voices within the organization. After all, in the impression of ordinary Chinese people, these foreigners were all People who are used to being free and loose will most likely not obey the management model of the Executive Committee. And once a serious conflict of opinion occurs, the North American gang, which has a large amount of arms in its hands, will obviously be a huge threat.
(End of chapter)