Chapter 172: Traces of the South China Tiger

Under Gao Mingcheng's intimidation and expulsion, the Ma brothers took Mr. Luo away.

Gao Mingcheng picked up the two throwing knives, and as for the army green baseball cap, he just threw it on the ground.

Then he followed them until he was sure they were indeed going down the mountain, and then he gave up.

After staying in the mountains for so long, it was already late, and Gao Mingcheng was ready to go back to the village. Even though he ran fast, it was almost dark when he got home.

Gao Mingcheng guessed that the group would have to stay in the mountains for another night. If they walked quickly, they would be able to get down the mountain and enter the village at the foot of the mountain before dark tomorrow.

During dinner, Xuanyue said at the table: "Mingcheng, some people in the village are buying fertilizers at the cooperative. Should we go there to buy fertilizers too? We don't have much fertilizer at home. If we don't use fertilizers, we're afraid that rice and vegetables won't grow well."

Gao Mingcheng remembered that it was almost time to apply fertilizer, so he said, "Yes, I'll go buy it tomorrow when I'm free!"

Xuanyuemei smiled and asked, "You have been going to the mountains every day recently. Are you done with the things in the mountains?"

When talking about things in the mountains, Gao Mingcheng couldn't laugh.

He drove away a group of people today, but who knows if anyone else will enter the mountain?

He actually considered setting a trap, but he was hesitant to make up his mind.

Setting traps in the mountains is actually very dangerous. If there is no companion to rescue you, you may fall into the trap and get injured, which may put your life in danger.

Gao Mingcheng wanted to protect his territory, but at the same time he didn't want to involve any lives.

He pondered for a long time and thought that maybe he could use vines to set up a barrier to create a tripping effect. This would add some trouble to hunters entering the mountains, but not enough to cause death.

If we just do this, the workload will be huge, after all, the mountains are too vast.

Gao Mingcheng woke up early the next morning. After a simple wash, he drank a glass of water, ate five French bread, and went into the mountains.

Hearing his movement, Black Tiger and the elf also woke up and came to his side.

However, Gao Mingcheng did not plan to take them with him. With these two dogs around, it would be very easy to expose his true identity.

"Get out of the way!" Gao Mingcheng patted Heihu's head. After Heihu understood, he took the elf back to the doghouse and watched Gao Mingcheng leave.

Recently, Gao Mingcheng has not taken them into the mountains.

After entering the mountain, Gao Mingcheng habitually practiced a set of boxing first, and then headed all the way to the place where he encountered the group of people yesterday. He speculated that they entered the mountain from Kengli Village, and then subtracted the distance they walked yesterday, and then came to a location.

But after searching for a long time, he saw no trace of that group of people.

Could it be that... they didn't go down the mountain?

Gao Mingcheng's expression remained unchanged, but he was also a little helpless. He did not have clairvoyance, nor could he monitor the mountain range in 360 degrees without blind spots. Therefore, he could only drive away and intimidate the enemies after encountering them.

Gao Mingcheng stood on a high slope and looked around. He did not see any traces of human activity, so he prepared to leave.

The weather in May is getting hotter, and the scorching sun is hanging high in the sky. If people walk in the shade of trees, it will be somewhat cool, but if they stand under the sun, they will feel the scorching sun.

Gao Mingcheng found several peach trees in the mountains. There were many green fruits hanging on the trees. Only on the side facing the sun, the tips of the fruits were a little red, which was a sign that they were about to mature.

There are a lot of hairs on the surface of the hairy peach, which must be cleaned before eating. Otherwise, the hairs will prick your mouth and tongue, making it taste very bad.

When Gao Mingcheng was a child, he heard from the elders in the village that when eating peaches, you should bite off the pointed part and not eat it. If you eat it, you will get red, pointed pimples on your body.

Gao Mingcheng later realized that there was no direct causal relationship between the two, but he still developed a habit of not eating the tips of peaches.

He carefully observed the peaches on the tree and estimated that they would not mature until June.

In addition to peach trees, there are also some wild hawthorn trees, wild chestnut trees, and wild persimmon trees in the mountains, but it is not yet time to pick the fruits of these trees.

As he walked along, he memorized all the products in the mountains.

In fact, he seldom comes here. After all, human time and energy are limited. The place where he often goes is where the beehives are placed and Poria cocos is planted. Only when he is hunting specifically, will he take the black tiger spirit into the mountains to look for prey and follow the prey all the way.

This place is a bit far from Gaojia Village, and even he has never been here before.

As Gao Mingcheng walked along, he actually saw a stream in front of him. The stream was relatively shallow and there were some large rocks in it, but the water was clear and there were tiny fish and shrimps swimming in it.

Following the source of the stream, I found that it was a spring. No wonder the water quality was so good.

Gao Mingcheng happened to be thirsty, so he washed his hands first, then drank the water. The spring water was sweet and cool, and very thirst-quenching.

Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly found some animal feces by the stream. After he carefully identified it, his expression instantly became solemn.

This turned out to be tiger feces!

Tigers are members of the feline family, but unlike cats, tigers do not bury their poop. Instead, they use feces and urine to mark their territory, allowing them to emit a scent to warn nearby beasts that this is their territory and they should not enter.

They did have South China tigers here in the past. In the 1950s, there were even tigers that came down the mountain and injured people. At that time, if someone was able to kill a tiger, they would be called a tiger-killing hero!

Gao Mingcheng heard from his grandmother that at that time three people in the village were eaten by tigers. One of them was turning over and drying rice in the village when a tiger entered the village and bit him to death when he was not prepared. Fortunately, when other people in the production team found out, they all came over with hoes, axes and machetes. With the help of many people, the tiger that bit the man to death was killed.

As for the other two who were bitten to death, they were ambushed and killed by the tiger when they went into the mountains to collect firewood. When they were found, their bodies were almost eaten.

Because it was in the mountains, the tiger that bit the man to death was naturally not killed.

But afterwards the production team organized a group of people to go into the mountains to hunt tigers. They didn't kill any tigers, but after that no tigers came down the mountains to eat people again.

Later, gradually, it seemed that people rarely heard about tigers in the mountains.

But until now, people in the village are still a little afraid when they mention tigers. Sometimes when children are disobedient and run around everywhere, especially into the mountains, their parents will say - there are tigers in the mountains and tigers will eat people!

Therefore, in the minds of children, tigers are ferocious beasts that eat people.

After the black bear, he actually discovered the South China tiger in the mountains?

Gao Mingcheng was a little confused and a little worried at the same time.

In fact, humans are not on the tiger's menu, but once a tiger has eaten humans, it will continue to eat humans, especially old tigers. It is difficult for them to hunt other animals and they are often hungry. But at this time, they will find that hunting humans is much easier than hunting wild boars, yellow muntjacs and other wild animals!

People cannot run fast. If they do not have advanced weapons to protect themselves, they have insufficient physical strength and the skin on their necks is thin, so they can be easily bitten to death.

Therefore, once people found a tiger eating a human, they had to kill the tiger, otherwise its offspring would pass on the information that humans are edible. From then on, humans became part of their diet.

(End of this chapter)