Chapter 352 Black Bear and Yellow Muntjac
On the way back to the shelter, Lin Yue still couldn't believe it: "Why is Xiongba so powerful today?"
Lin Heng smiled and shook his head: "I don't know either. Maybe the traces today are fresher."
“Ouch~”
Xiongba raised his head and looked at Lin Yue with a heroic and confident look.
Lin Yue sighed and said, "When Lai Fu gives birth to a cub this time, I will raise one no matter what."
"Haha, that's no problem." Lin Heng laughed and asked, "Brother, what prey did you catch?"
Lin Yue shook his head helplessly: "I shot two golden roosters and a grouse, and I wanted to show off to you, but I didn't expect you to bring back such a big thing."
"It seems that there are quite a lot of prey here. Let's look for them carefully tomorrow. I just saw bear footprints." Lin Heng said to himself.
"What? Bear footprints!!"
Lin Yue suddenly stopped and asked in a lost voice.
Lin Heng explained: "We're not sure if it's a black bear or a panda. We can track it tomorrow. It was dark when I came back, so I didn't check it carefully."
"Then you are really lucky today." Lin Yue didn't know what to say for a moment.
After a while, the two returned to the shelter. Seeing the roe deer that Lin Heng threw on the ground, Lin Yue shook his head again, still feeling that it was a bit too fake.
"Deal with it quickly, before it gets too cold."
Lin Heng said this, then picked up a Damascus dagger and started to skin the animal. He drew a line along the belly, and then used his fists to squeeze the skin off.
This method is much safer than using a knife directly, and it is effective and fast.
After peeling the skin, Lin Yue stretched the roe deer skin out and placed it at the door. It could block the wind and dry slowly.
Lin Heng chopped off the deer's head and hung it beside him before he began to gut it. He didn't want to give the deer's head to Xiongba, as it would taste good if he stewed it at home. He could give him the meat from the head.
"Hey, this is what you deserve." Lin Heng took out the roe deer's lungs and showed them to Xiongba, then threw them into the pot to cook.
The other internal organs were temporarily hung up, and the intestines and other things were temporarily put aside. Lin Heng first cut the roe deer meat into strips. When he was done, both sides of their six-square-meter shelter were filled with them.
"Why don't we take these outside and freeze them?" Lin Yue suggested.
Lin Heng nodded: "Let's get a rack at the door to hang the food on to freeze, so that if anyone steals food, we can find out right away."
The temperature in the shelter is too high to store roe deer meat.
Cut down three trees and tie one end together, then spread out the other end to form a triangular support. Two supports plus a horizontal bar will make it quite stable.
After hanging the meat, the two of them simply dealt with the feces in the roe deer's large and small intestines, and the rest would be dealt with tomorrow when they had time.
It was nearly ten o'clock when they finished. The two sat in front of the stove and roasted two large skewers of roe deer meat. They were too lazy to cook at this time.
Roe deer meat is the same as sika deer meat, with a rosy color. It is very chewy after being roasted, and it feels warm when you spread a little chili on it.
“The roe deer meat is good, not dry at all.” Lin Yue nodded and commented.
Lin Heng smiled: "It would taste better if you make a stir-fry."
While the two were eating meat, Xiongba was also eating the cooked roe deer lungs. The five-black dog could only eat a small pancreas. Naturally, the incompetent one could not eat as much as the capable one.
"This trip into the mountains is a good start. I hope we can gain something tomorrow." After eating, Lin Yue said with emotion.
"It shouldn't be a problem." Lin Heng lay down comfortably on the ground. There was a lot of dry moss on the ground. Although it was not as comfortable as sleeping at home, it was quite comfortable.
After a tiring day, the two fell asleep soon after lying down. In the middle of the night, they held the dog in their arms and added some firewood to the stove, and only then did they barely get through the cold early morning.
The next morning, they woke up at dawn. When they looked at the sky outside, they both felt a little regretful. They got up late and couldn't have breakfast.
"I can't have breakfast now." Lin Yue said helplessly.
"It's okay. I have some milk powder here. Let's make some and then go hunting."
Lin Heng took out a can of milk powder from his backpack and said, boil some water and mix the milk powder in it. After the two drank it, they went out hunting.
At this moment, the sky in the east was just turning light, and the view in the forest was not very clear. There was white frost everywhere, and the biting cold washed over the nerves of the two men.
There was nothing to be seen in the woods, only the sounds of birds and the occasional movement of squirrels.
After walking a few steps, Lin Heng saw a red squirrel climbing up from under a tree, holding a chestnut.
Considering that he had killed a roe deer yesterday, he did not attack it. He walked to the tree and found the place where the chestnuts were.
Then, under the watchful eyes of the squirrel, he took out all the chestnuts and pine nuts.
The red squirrel stayed on the tree for a long time until Lin Heng left.
"These pine nuts are very fragrant." Lin Heng gave his eldest brother a small handful and said with a smile.
"It smells pretty good." Lin Yue ate one and nodded.
The two of them went together today to look for the bear footprints they found last night.
On the way, Lin Heng looked at the clamps and noose traps he had set up yesterday, but unfortunately he found nothing.
After walking another kilometer, Lin Yue suddenly stopped and said, "Listen, that's the yellow muntjac calling."
Lin Heng nodded and said, "It's on the opposite hill. It doesn't sound too far away. Do you want to give it a try?"
"Go ahead, maybe you can hit him." Lin Yue said after thinking for a while.
Lin Heng did not refuse and walked over with his elder brother, listening for the direction of the muntjac as they walked.
By the time they reached the top of the mountain, it was completely light, but what surprised the two was that the muntjac had stopped barking.
"Could this thing have discovered us?" Lin Yue said in a low voice.
"Xiongba, let's look for it." Lin Heng touched Xiongba's head. Since they were here, they had to look for it again.
Xiongba searched everywhere for the scent trail, chasing the yellow muntjac.
“Ahhh!!”
As they were tracking, they suddenly heard shouting again from the opposite ridge.
"This dog runs so fast that it jumped onto the opposite mountain in an instant." Lin Heng was shocked.
"Oh, it seems there is no hope. Let's go find bear footprints."
Lin Yue shook his head and said.
The two went down the mountain, and Lin Heng used a compass to look for the location they were at yesterday.
Not long after going down the mountain, the yellow muntjac returned to the top of the hill and howled again.
"This guy is so despicable. I should have set a trap earlier." Lin Yue said angrily while looking at the top of the hill.
"It's useless, just like those cheap fish that jump around on the water when you're fishing but don't bite."
Lin Heng shook his head. He felt this feeling deeply, but there was nothing he could do about it.
After walking for more than ten minutes, they finally saw the two birch trees that Lin Heng had cut down last night.
After taking a closer look, Lin Heng confirmed: "Yes, it is a bear footprint."
"Let's follow it and if there is feces, we can find out what kind of bear it is." Lin Yue said and walked forward along the footprints.
After walking a few hundred meters, they saw birch trees that were hit by the bear. The birch trees, which were thirty or forty meters in diameter, were left with deep claw marks, which was enough to show the terrifying power of this guy.
As they chased, they came to the side of a ditch and saw a large pile of bear feces from a distance.
I walked closer and saw that both of them had happy smiles on their faces.
This feces has very little bamboo fiber, is in the shape of long black strips, and contains some animal hair.
"It's definitely black bear feces." Lin Heng nodded.
Lin Yue smiled and said, "I didn't expect to find traces of a black bear here."
"I can't be happy yet. This feces is at least one month old. God knows where the black bear is now."
Lin Heng shook his head slightly and said, Even if it is confirmed to be a black bear, it is not an easy task to track it down.
"Let's chase it and see. The bear's footprints are very heavy, so it might be easy to find." Lin Yue was very optimistic.
The two men walked about two kilometers with Xiongba, and the footprint clues were cut off.
The two men searched separately for a long time and found that the person had turned back, and then they found several sets of footprints in different directions.
Since they were all left over from the past, it is impossible to tell where they ended up.
"How do I find this black bear? Where is it?" Lin Yue was confused. Compared to not being able to find any traces, this scene where traces were everywhere was even more confusing.
Lin Heng spread his hands and said, "We can only try to look for it. If we can't find it, we can come back next spring. By then, the black bear will have finished hibernation and we will definitely be able to find it."
"This is all we can do for now." Lin Yue said bitterly. He thought he had a chance to kill a black bear, but now it seems that hope is slim.
"Let's look around to see if there's a nest."
Lin Heng took Xiong Ba and explored around.
Black bear caves are usually tree holes or rock caves. You may find something if you search nearby.
However, the result disappointed the two men. They searched nearby until four o'clock in the afternoon but still couldn't find it. They had some roasted roe deer meat for lunch.
"Give up, go shoot the Golden Rooster, and look for the Black Bear next year." Lin Yue shook his head and gave up completely.
Lin Heng did not insist, and the two of them walked towards the shelter, setting traps and looking for prey.
Soon it was dark. Lin Heng found a blood pheasant on a hillside halfway up the mountain and shot it to death with one arrow.
His eldest brother found a grouse in the ravine, but other than that, the two of them didn't gain anything else.
"The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment."
After returning to the camp, Lin Yue shook his head and sighed. He thought he would gain something today, but in the end he found nothing.
"Let's eat first." Lin Heng said with a smile, and boiled some water and cooked some noodles.
There is not much change in roe deer meat, and it will not go bad even if it is left outside for five or six days in sub-zero temperatures.
After dinner, the two lay down without saying anything and fell asleep quickly.
On the third day, they got up early, had breakfast and went out hunting.
We can only play in the morning today, and then we have to go back at noon.
Lin Heng first checked his clips and noose, collecting them one by one. Before he knew it, the sun was high in the sky and it was already past nine in the morning.
Lin Heng collected all the traps and noose he had set, and none of them caught any prey. Of course, this was also related to the fact that the traps he set were all for large prey.
"Bang!!"
Suddenly, a gunshot was heard not far away.
"Brother, what did you find?"
Lin Heng turned his head and shouted loudly.
"Yes, it's a muntjac, a yellow muntjac, I injured it!!" Lin Yue responded and chased after it with his gun, and his five black dogs also chased after it.
Without saying a word, Lin Heng took Xiongba to chase after it. Bloodstains could be seen on the ground, but the muntjac ran very fast and it was obvious that the bullet did not hit its vital parts.
The yellow muntjac was running at full speed, and Xiongba couldn't catch up with it at all. After chasing it for half an hour, the muntjac lost too much blood, and Xiongba finally accelerated and caught up with it and bit it.
"I found him behind a tree at that time, and luckily I hit him with a shot from a distance," Lin Yue said excitedly.
"It's a little muntjac, probably only about 20 kilograms, but it's not bad." Lin Heng took out a dagger and killed it with one strike, giving it a quick death.
Xiongba and the five black dogs scrambled to drink the flowing blood.
"It's no loss if I can beat him." Lin Yue grinned. Now he is satisfied.
"It's almost eleven o'clock, let's go back directly." Lin Heng said, looking at his watch.
"Walk."
Lin Yue picked up the yellow muntjac and walked towards the shelter.
Not long after walking, Lin Heng suddenly stopped because he found another set of bear footprints. Following the footprints, he saw a stone cliff covered with birch trees.
"We haven't been to this place before, brother?" Lin Heng turned his head and asked.
"No." Lin Yue said uncertainly.
"Then let's go ahead and take a look."
Lin Heng looked at the cliff in front of him and walked forward with Xiongba. As soon as they reached the bottom of the cliff, Xiongba stopped, as if he was afraid of what was ahead.
"This place looks like where black bears hibernate." Lin Yue said excitedly.
Lin Heng didn't say anything. He put the bow and arrow on the string and said hurriedly, "Hurry up and change the lead bullet. The black bear may have woken up."
"This is unlikely..." Lin Yue was a little unconvinced, but he still slowly changed to lead-tipped bullets.
"Change it quickly, big brother!" Lin Heng shouted, because a black figure had emerged from the cracks in the rocks under the cliff in the distance.
When black bears hibernate, they do not fall into a deep sleep like humans. They are still aware of their surroundings and will quickly wake up from hibernation if there is any danger.
“Roar!!”
Having its good sleep disturbed, the black bear angrily ran towards Lin Heng and the others.
"Oh my god." Lin Yue was so scared when he saw this scene that he quickly stepped back and quickly felt for the bullet at his waist, but he was so nervous that he couldn't find it for a long time.
“Woof woof woof!!”
Faced with such a huge monster, Xiongba and the five black dogs did not dare to rush forward.
"Xiongba, don't go."
While speaking, Lin Heng shot an arrow.
With a dull sound, the arrow hit the black bear's left shoulder and went straight through it.
"roar!!"
Not only did this fail to kill the black bear, but it made its eyes bloodshot, and it charged even faster.
The distance between the two sides was originally only over a hundred meters and now was only over forty meters. However, Lin Heng did not run away. He stood calmly in place, quickly took an arrow from his waist and shot it out instantly.
This arrow was shot more accurately, entering the black bear's chest at an angle and coming out from the belly on the other side.
"roar!!"
Then, incredibly, the black bear was still not dead and it rushed directly to Lin Heng.
"Damn, he's not dead yet!"
Lin Heng was shocked. He couldn't shoot the third arrow, so he turned around and ran.
"Brother, get down quickly." At this time Lin Yue rushed up from behind and fired a shot at the black bear which was only seven or eight meters long.
"Bang!!"
With a deafening gunshot, the black bear turned and ran towards the woods nearby.
"What happened? I clearly hit it."
Lin Yue looked at this scene in confusion.
(End of this chapter)
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