“Hey, hey! Don’t sleep anymore, get up and eat, breakfast is ready!!”

When Yue Feng heard Uncle Wu’s call, it seemed as if he just closed his eyes and opened them again, and more than half an hour had passed.

Everyone in the tent was awakened by Uncle Wu, and the breakfast in the pot was already ready, a classic big pot meal of roe deer meat, compressed biscuits and military canned food.

“Uncle, did you hear the wolf howling in the middle of the night last night?”

Ma Liang asked this question while holding his bowl while eating.

Uncle Wu waved his hands and said, “I heard it, the dog didn’t bark, and the wolf was quite far away, at least a few mountain ridges away!

We have many people and we all have weapons in our hands, so we are not afraid of this thing! If they dare to take us as prey, we will buy a few more wolfskin mattresses when we return!”

Xiao Tao also echoed, “That’s right! The last time Brother Feng and Uncle Zhao fought the wolf, Xiaowu and I didn’t see it with our own eyes.

If they dare to come this time, hehe, I don’t mind feeding them a few more bullets to give them a taste!! “

Uncle Wu nodded and looked at Yue Feng and Xiao Wu: “How are the blisters on your feet? Do they still hurt?”

The old man hadn’t asked, and Yue Feng really hadn’t noticed his blistered feet. He put down his lunch box, took off his new socks and took a look.

The wound on one side where the skin was pierced is no longer visible.

The punctured blister skin did not produce tissue fluid again, but instead stuck to the sole of the foot again, as if it had never existed.

“It’s healed!”

“My wound has healed as well! Uncle, your medicine is really amazing!” Xiaowu also checked and said.

“Eat first, then wrap your feet with cotton strips. Although the newly formed blisters cannot be seen with the naked eye, they are not completely healed yet. If you rub them again, blisters will appear again!”

“Yeah, okay, Xiao Tao is good at it, let him help!”

The brothers chatted in low voices and quickly filled their stomachs. Then they tore spare cotton strips to wrap their feet and started to pack up their things and tidy up the tent.

Taking advantage of this time, Yue Feng used the wolf’s heart, liver and lungs to feed the two eagles. Then he helped to tie the supplies to the plow and continued on his journey.

During the entire day of the third day on the mountain, the hunting team’s condition became even worse. They had to travel intensively during the day, and the mountain paths they walked on were barely passable by people and horses, which was extremely physically demanding.

In addition, they had already walked more than 100 kilometers of mountain roads in the previous day and a half. During the day on the third day, everyone walked and stopped, and even Grandpa Wu slowed down his pace.

Not to mention the trivialities of rest and meals in between, Uncle Wu made an extra arrangement for rest at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Throughout the day, Yue Feng kept an eye out for the wolf that howled in the middle of the night while he was on his way, but he didn’t see any trace of it during the day.

Even the big black eagle and the little white eagle were released to circle in the sky for a whole day, but they did not find any abnormal signs of wolves tracking them.

Gradually, Yue Feng relaxed his vigilance in this regard. Just as Uncle Wu said, if they dare to come, just deal with them. Anyway, we have enough firepower and no one is afraid of wolves.

Everything was going according to the established plan. On the third day, we traveled about 40 kilometers along the mountain roads.

At this moment, according to the itinerary plan, they are less than 50 kilometers away from the Holy Maiden Lake.

Walk 20 to 30 kilometers tomorrow to adapt to the change in altitude, and then walk the last 10 to 20 kilometers the day after tomorrow, and you will arrive as planned.

However, on the third night, at midnight, the Yuefeng hunting team heard the howling of wolves from the distant valley.

On a bald ridge about seven or eight kilometers away from the Yuefeng hunting team’s camp, a wolf king with silver-gray fur and a body size larger than that of an ordinary Northeastern wolf was howling to the sky.

Not far from it, two wolf packs, one large and one small, had reunited.

The larger wolf pack had eight wolves. Except for two sub-adult individuals, the other six were all adult wolves with shiny fur, and it was obvious that they were living a very good life.

The other wolf pack was the one that was shot away by Uncle Wu with three shots. It consisted of only four wolves.

The left hind leg of one of the wolves did not dare to touch the ground. The bullet made a bloody hole in its leg, and it would be difficult to recover in a short time.

Even if he relies on the team’s strength to obtain food and survive, there is a high probability that this leg will be lame.

The two wolf packs had a total of 12 wolves, which was definitely not a small group among the local wolf packs, but the wolf king with silver-gray fur was not satisfied with this “troop strength”.

It howled again and again, and its sounds were carried far away by the howling north wind.

About ten kilometers away from the Silver Wolf King, another wolf pack of seven wolves successfully cooperated to hunt down a two-year-old wild boar weighing 150 to 160 kilograms just after dark. At this moment, the young members of the wolf pack were feasting on the food.

The leader and the two strongest adult wolves in the pack had already filled their stomachs, and the remaining four relatively weaker wolves were still gnawing on the remaining flesh and blood of the remaining wild boar remains.

The leader wolf was slightly stunned when he heard the call from afar, but he still couldn’t suppress the excitement in his blood.

I saw it struggling to climb up the nearest ridge, raising its head and howling like a wolf.

A moment later, the young wolf pack of seven wolves, at the urging of the leader wolf, gave up on the wild boar remains that they had not yet completely eaten, and ran quickly in the direction of the silver wolf king’s cry.

Under the faint moonlight, seven agile gray dots ran wildly on the snow crust, heading towards the main force.

At this time, the members of the Yuefeng hunting team were already lying in the arranged tents, and had no idea what was happening in the forest.

That night, the brothers of Yuefeng Hunting Team slept well.

They were all exhausted after several days of high-intensity travel, and with Uncle Wu keeping an eye on everyone, everyone developed a deep sense of trust in the old man’s superb skills.

After eating and drinking to their heart’s content, everyone, except the one on night duty, quickly fell asleep. The tent was filled with the smell of smelly feet and the sound of snoring.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, Wu Keji got dressed and got up early. After cleaning up the breakfast stove, he said hello to Wang Chao, who was on the last night shift, and walked out of the tent with his gun.

I saw Uncle Wu moving swiftly in the forest, and soon he climbed up the ridge along the sunny slope. After walking around for a while, he returned to the tent with a calm expression.

When it was time for breakfast, Uncle Wu said, “I got up this morning and took a walk around the two nearby mountain ridges. Yesterday’s guess came true.

The scattered wolves howled over the mountains and called the nearby wolf packs!

I saw footprints left by at least a dozen wolves gathered on the leeward slope of the next mountain ridge!”

“A dozen wolves? I did hear the wolf howling at night, but there were so many of them, why didn’t they harass our camp at night?” Yue Feng asked while eating with his lunch box.

Uncle Wu shook his head: “It’s hard to say, but it’s true that these wolves have been following us around!
I guess, either they are looking for an opportunity, or they are waiting for other companions!
This thing doesn’t pose much of a threat to us, but the large number of wolves still poses a threat to the dogs and horses outside the tent!
Tonight, we who are on duty can’t just focus on the stove and ignore the outside of the tent!
A horse needs to pull a sled, and a dog is hard to raise, so it can’t be easily damaged! “

Yue Feng nodded: “Okay, at worst I’ll just stand guard at night and wake everyone up when I hear any noise and shoot those weeds with guns!”

“That’s right, they’ll all be beaten and stripped of their skins! Such a good thing that comes to your doorstep should not be missed!” Xiaowu also echoed.

The fact that the wolves were still active nearby was briefly communicated to everyone while they were having breakfast. After eating and drinking their fill and packing up their tents and other supplies, everyone continued on their journey.

As we got closer to the Holy Maiden Lake, the mountain road became rugged, steep and difficult to walk on. The mountain wind became stronger and the temperature dropped a lot.

The tall trees on the mountain ridges that were originally covered with plants are becoming increasingly scarce, and many wind vents even have bare rocks exposed.

After three and a half hours of travel in the morning, at around ten o’clock, Uncle Wu stopped to let everyone rest and recover their strength.

Yue Feng stood where he had stopped, looking down in the direction he had come from, and could vaguely see the relatively low mountains in the distance.

Looking further up, large areas of white block the view; those are higher mountains and ice and snow.

As the altitude increased, everyone began to have difficulty breathing, walking became more tiring, and even the horses pulling the sleds slowed down a lot.

Everyone rested for a while, drank some water boiled with Astragalus, and continued on their journey. At 11:30 in the morning, they cooked and continued to rest.

A very strong mountain wind blew in the morning, so Yue Feng brought the two eagles back.

While taking a break for lunch, Yue Feng took out a piece of meat and soaked it in warm water, then took off the hats of the two eagles and released them into the air.

One meal was a bit long, so Yue Feng planned to let the eagle move around and then prepare a small meal for it at noon.

With the help of the mountain wind, the big black eagle spread its wings and quickly climbed to a height of about 100 meters in the air. The little white spear followed closely behind it, flapping its wings vigorously to keep up with his wife’s pace.

The gyrfalcon is a bird of prey that lives in high latitudes. It is actually not afraid of the cold if it has enough physical reserves. After flying into the air, it uses the air currents to continuously climb in altitude, fully expressing the wild throbbing in its blood.

Just after flying to a height of more than 100 meters, the big black eagle suddenly noticed that below the forest, in the snowy forest on the sunny side, a large group of wolves had gathered and were hiding in a leeward hillside.

Big Black Hawk had seen wolves shot to death by his master, and had also eaten wolf hearts and flesh. So when he saw this large wolf pack, he immediately became alert.

Quack, quack, quack!
The next second, the big black eagle screamed loudly in the sky to warn people, then folded its wings and rushed towards the wolf pack below. (End of this chapter)