Chapter 275 There is something in the sky

“Okay, okay! I won’t feed you anymore! I’ll feed you the meat myself!”

Yue Feng repeatedly stroked the big black eagle’s head, chest and back. The big black eagle, who couldn’t accept Xiao Tao’s constant feeding, finally calmed down a little.

After all, they are birds of prey, and their personalities are more sensitive and fragile than dogs.

In long-term training and actual combat life, the big black eagle has recognized the control and dominant position of its master.

But it felt that it was just its master’s younger brother, and that others were at most on the same level and could not have a higher status than it, not even members of its master’s hunting team.

Now that Yue Feng asked Xiao Tao to feed meat to the big black eagle, it was equivalent to telling the big black eagle that its status in the team was lower than that of Xiao Tao and other team members. It took a bite to show its obedience to the master’s arrangement, but then it turned its head away and jumped into Yue Feng’s hand to express its dissatisfaction.

Yue Feng, a scumbag who is proficient in PUA, understood the other party’s intention through a series of reactions of the big black eagle. Anyway, his idea is to tell the eagle that Xiao Tao’s status is not lower than its.

“Hey, Brother Feng, it seems like you, the big black eagle, can still act like a spoiled child!”

Xiao Tao, a carefree guy, wiped the blood off his hands in the snow and said jokingly.

Yue Feng nodded: “This guy is indeed smart. It won’t work if we just use force to suppress him. We still need some strategy! Let’s coax him to come!”

Now that we have the big black eagle, it will be easy for us to catch sables every year!”

After simply comforting it for a while, Yue Feng personally fed the big black eagle a few pieces of meat. The little guy then took off again contentedly and resumed his normal flying state.

With the harvest of the albino sable, everyone felt more confident today. Holding the dogs and carrying guns, we searched forward step by step along the rocky beach at the bottom of the ditch.

I don’t know if it’s because we haven’t reached the core activity area, but there aren’t many signs of sable activities in the area two or three ditches and ponds away from Jindingzi. Dahuang and a few others searched a long circle, almost searching all the ditches and ponds they started with, but they didn’t find any trace of a second sable.

After searching this area, my second uncle and everyone else climbed over a sheltered ridge and came to another unfamiliar ditch.

The terrain of this ravine is much more complicated than the previous one.

At a glance, at the end of the vision, there is a huge jumping stone pond. Large stones several meters high stand there silently, and I don’t know how many years they have experienced.

“If I remember correctly, this is the Tiaoshi Pond where Old Sun caught two lynxes during a whole winter! We have to be careful when we walk over here, so as not to run into any tiger cubs or anything that might hurt the dog!” Second Uncle pointed at the Tiaoshi Pond in the distance and reminded.

Yue Feng nodded and consoled him, “It’s okay. We’re not letting our dogs run wild. There are so many of us here. Not to mention the tiger cubs, even if a real tiger comes, it has no motive to attack a hunting team as large as ours without any hatred or grudge!”

What Yue Feng said is true. The higher the ecological niche of an organism, the smarter it is.

With such a loud noise and the presence of both humans and dogs, even if there were tigers in the area, they would have left early after hearing the noise. No beast would be stupid enough to provoke fully armed hunters for no reason.

After chatting for a while, they continued to lead Dahuang to search for clues of sable in the snow. As they got closer to the core area of ​​Jindingzi Mountain, the traces of sable gradually increased.

“Brother Feng, look, this should be the trace left a few days ago!” Xiaowen, who was standing next to him, discovered the trace of a sable and immediately greeted him.

When everyone got closer to take a look, they saw that they were indeed footprints left by a sable, but they were at least two or three days old, and the edges were mostly blurred by the snow foam blown up by the north wind.

“Keep looking! I don’t believe it. With such a sharp nose, how can a dog find the sable’s lair?”

The search continued. The straight-line search distance of the huge ditch and pond was at least more than one kilometer, but traces were found in several places, and no sable’s nest was found.

This situation made those who had been waiting to come to Jindingzi for a big fight feel a little uncomfortable, as if a powerful punch had hit cotton.

“Something’s wrong! Why isn’t there a sable nest here?”

Yue Feng scratched his head, vaguely feeling that something was wrong.

“Could it be that the habits of the sables here are different from those in Blind Camel Mountain?
When we caught the albino sable, it was just hiding at the base of the low stone wall, relying on the camouflage effect of its white fur! We didn’t find its nest either!” Xiaowen also shared his analysis.

Hearing what Xiaowen said, Yue Feng immediately slapped his head and suddenly realized.

“I know something’s wrong!”

“What’s the matter?”

“We took it for granted that we caught the sables that hibernated in the caves at Blind Camel Mountain!

Is it possible that the sables on the Jindingzi side do not stay dormant in their nests most of the time?
There are so many of us, making a lot of noise, and there are so many dogs. Even if there are sables in the ditch, they will hide far away when they hear the noise!
Tracking with Da Huang is not fast, and we naturally limit the search area to this relatively fixed ditch and pond. Da Huang will be stopped if he wants to follow the scent to other places, so it is naturally difficult to get any results! “

Empiricism is a deadly thing. Fortunately, Yue Feng realized his mistake after communicating with his friends. If he had continued to try to catch the sable using the search and tracking method he used in Xiatuozi Mountain, it would probably have been in vain.

“Then what should we do? Continue to disperse the people, get ready, and resume driving the stick?” The second uncle also asked after listening to Yue Feng’s analysis.

Yue Feng frowned and nodded: “Let the dogs go! The people also returned to their previous state of driving the sticks, Ji Mi and others, ready to fight!

Da Huang, Heilang, if a sable comes out later, I want it alive, you are not allowed to bite it to death!”

Yue Feng estimated that Black Wolf would at most understand the order not to bite to death, but the objective situation had changed, so he had to give it a try.

Soon, everyone distanced themselves from each other, and several dogs also spread out, moving relatively freely around the hunting team. Only Dahuang would occasionally lower his head to search for the scent of sable.

It should be said that many times a change in approach can produce immediate results.

After resuming the posture of searching the mountain at a distance, they had only driven less than 500 meters when one of the team members made a discovery.

“Over there, it seems like a sable just ran into the woods!” Xiaowu was holding a driving stick in his hand, with the tip of the stick pointing in the direction where the sable escaped.

Yue Feng’s analysis was correct. People gathered together to follow Da Huang in search of prey. The sables here didn’t have caves to live in, so they would run away immediately after hearing the noise. People’s vision range was not large, so it was definitely better to travel in groups than to gather together. At least if there were sables around, there would be a greater chance of spotting them when they were running away.

After finally chasing one out, Yue Feng didn’t care about anything else and chased after it with the support of a walking stick.

The route chosen by this escaping little fellow was to run along the shady side of the slope towards the low larch forest. Although the distance was a bit far, the black and white contrast in the snow was still quite conspicuous.

After chasing for dozens of meters, Yue Feng saw the sable running away in panic, and then blew a whistle.

The whistle was an order. The big black eagle in the sky swooped down immediately. The loose black wolf, after hearing the whistle of its master, also chased straight towards Yue Feng.

In a snowy environment with a snow crust, a dog’s running speed is definitely faster than a human’s. Yue Feng didn’t expect to catch the sable by himself, so he had to rely on the eagle as the main force.

But this time, the sables had entered the larch forest, and the Black Hawk’s dive attack was obviously hindered.

Without the big trees to block out the sun, the large number of small pine trees also became troublesome. The eagle tried to dive down several times, but was blocked by branches. It could only chase from above the treetops, calling “ga ga” as it chased.

Hearing the call of the falcon leader, the black wolf became even more excited and chased in the direction of the sable’s escape.

Soon, Yue Feng saw a scene that made his blood boil.

A dark gray sable kept circling around some larch trees to avoid the attack of the big black eagle, but the black wolf heard the call and chased after it swiftly.

An eagle and a dog fought a three-dimensional battle in the air and on the ground. The big black eagle maintained its deterrence and dived to feint, while the black wolf at the back saw the opportunity and bit the sable.

Seeing this scene, Yue Feng’s heart sank. It was over. The leather would most likely be bitten by the dog!
But the next second, the squeaking sound of the sable brought Yue Feng back to his nervous thoughts.

The black wolf bit its prey with one blow and ran back happily with the sable in its mouth. When it returned to Yue Feng, its tail was shaking like a fan.

The sable was not dead. If the black wolf really wanted to kill it, it could have been bitten in half with one bite!
Not to mention whether the skin is intact or not, even the flesh, blood, tendons and bones can be chewed up.

“Caught it alive? The black wolf is really powerful! Be careful not to bite the sable!”

While praising, Yue Feng reached out to grab the sable that was still squeaking from the dog’s mouth.

Yue Feng heaved a sigh of relief only after his fingers pinched the sable’s neck skin. He picked up the second sable and looked it up and down.

Fortunately, the black wolf understood the orders Yue Feng had given to the dogs, and did not use force with his teeth when he held the sable in his mouth.

Apart from being a bit dirty due to the dog’s saliva, the sable had no external injuries, and judging by the strength of its struggle, it should not have any broken bones or the like!
“Not bad, not bad! Big Black Hawk is not bad, Black Wolf is not bad too! You two know how to cooperate! Big Black Hawk, come here!”

Yue Feng praised it repeatedly and took out a few more slices of meat from the bag.

Although the big black eagle did not catch the prey by itself this time, this guy did not compete with the dog for the credit. After hearing the call from his master, he quickly folded his wings and landed again, squatting on Yue Feng’s arm and making a cackling sound.

After patting its fur, feeding it some meat, and satisfying its emotional value, the little guy took off contentedly and started working seriously as a working eagle.

The sable caught by Black Wolf was an adult male mink. After Yue Feng put the prey into his bag, he quickly reunited with his team members and continued to search forward by forming a human wall.

With Black Wolf’s performance in catching live people during his patrol, Yue Feng and the others were obviously much more relaxed afterwards.

If I had encountered the albino sable when I first arrived, I would have known that the black wolf was capable of capturing it alive and patrolling it, and there would have been no need for Xiao Tao to chase it.

The crowd readjusted their hunting methods and swept the bottom of the ditch with the jumping stone pond from one end to the other.

Yue Feng didn’t encounter the expected tiger cub, and he even went to Tiaoshitang to take a look at the pile of stones where prey was most likely to be hidden.

There was indeed an old hole in the pile of rocks, but it was covered with snow and a lot of leaves, weeds and other debris. No animals had been active around the hole for at least one or two years.

After searching Tiaoshitang, it was already close to noon unknowingly. The feeling on the first day was that the harvest here was far less than that on Xiatuozi Mountain. A lot of energy was spent, but the harvest was greatly reduced.

But with the precious albino sable as the background, everyone can accept it.

The terrain of Tiaoshitang was relatively sheltered from the wind and facing the sun, and it was quite warm. Yue Feng, his second uncle and other team members had a simple discussion and decided to make a fire here for lunch.

The lunch we brought up the mountain was wild boar and onion pies baked by my aunt. We collected some branches from everywhere, built a fire, strung the pies on the branches and roasted them by the fire, then ate with the boiled snow water on the fire.

As the family conditions improved, the living standards of the dogs that followed the dogs up the mountain also improved. Each dog was given a quota of two large corn pancakes baked with bear fat. They could just heat them up over a fire and the dogs could eat them. Although it was not as good as the meat eaten by the hunting animals, it was still a good meal.

“Brother, we are almost done. If we don’t call the big black eagle down, how can we feed him?”

Xiao Tao asked casually while eating a meat pie.

“Oh, that’s fine!”

Yue Feng nodded, blew a long whistle, and called down the big black eagle in the sky.

Two sables were caught in the morning. The big black eagle was fed five or six pieces of meat. However, this guy had a much bigger appetite than an ordinary eagle. At this moment, his crop was flat and the food he had eaten had long been digested.

In fact, when Yue Feng was preparing to make a fire and cook, he started preparing food for the big black eagle. After the eagle came down, Yue Feng took out a ball of meat wrapped in cabbage leaves from the armpit of his sheepskin coat.

Half a portion of bear heart and half a portion of bear lung were melted by Yue Feng’s body temperature.

“Come on, it’s time for dinner! Work harder this afternoon, go wander around the main peak of Jindingzi, and catch a few more sables, and then this mission will be completed!”

Yue Feng held the leg stick and cut the meat into small pieces. The big black eagle squatted in front of him and obediently took the pieces and swallowed them down. It ate slowly and quietly. Occasionally, it shook its head to preen its feathers, making them fluffy. Its huge body became a round black ball.

The lunch prepared for the eagle was not even half eaten when the big black eagle, which had been acting very calm, suddenly tensed up. Instead of taking the piece of meat handed over by its owner, it slightly turned its head and stared at the sky!
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