Chapter 185 Yao Mozi

After more than an hour of hard journey, Yue Feng and his men finally arrived at the territory of Woniu Mountain.

The terrain here has a very obvious feature. You can see from a distance that the originally smooth terrain transition above the ridge suddenly has a large protruding stone peak.

Standing in the southeast direction and looking towards the top of the mountain, the outline looks like a yellow ox plowing the land lying on the mountain, and the landmark is very obvious.

“We’re at Woniu Mountain! Brother, how far do we have to go?” Xiao Tao was leading the black wolf. After a long walk, his eyelashes that were exposed outside the hat were covered with frost and snow.

In fact, the situation of other people was not much better. The temperature outside was over 20 degrees Celsius, and it was no exaggeration to say that water would freeze into ice. The hot air exhaled after a long journey would quickly freeze into frost on the hat and hair.

“We’re here. Let’s let the black wolf go. Let’s go up the mountain and see if we can find any trace!” Yue Feng said as he looked up at the mountain.

Xiao Tao untied the hemp rope that tied the dog, and Yue Feng gave the order: “Black Wolf, search!”

Wang Wang Wang!
When the black wolf heard the order, he immediately started searching around actively.

The whole way was covered with firewood, and occasionally they would find some small traces of smells or something, but Yue Feng would not let Black Wolf chase them, so the dog was very frustrated.

Now that they are let go, they are so happy.

Yue Feng looked up at the big black eagle following him in the sky, and then led his men to continue walking up along the ridge.

Logically speaking, after leaving the Chaijidao area of ​​the forest farm and crossing a few hills, there should be more and more traces of wild animals.

After all, the current place is difficult for ordinary villagers to reach.

Without human activity, there will naturally be more wild animals.

But Black Wolf searched in the snow for more than half an hour. Yue Feng and his companions crossed the ridge of Woniu Mountain and were almost climbing up the sunny slope of another mountain along the bottom of the ditch, but they found nothing about the dog.

Not only did the dog not notice it, but along the way, there was not even a trace of footprints of a mouse or a cat on the snow.

The entire bottom of the ditch was covered with ice and snow, and there were no traces on the snow.

Not to mention animals, even the birds that should be seen everywhere in sunny and windproof places were nowhere to be seen.

“Something’s not right, brother. Why do I feel like the forest around here is a bit weird? There’s not a single animal sign!” Xiaowen pulled the hem of Yue Feng’s clothes and reminded him with a frown.

Yue Feng nodded: “I realized it too! But the more this is the case, the more it proves that Zhu Erhai is not lying!
Such a large group of wild boars gathering together, whether to feed or to spend the night, would certainly make a noise far beyond the usual scale. It is not only the tiger’s roar that would scare all other animals.

No matter what kind of animal it is, once it reaches the point of being king, the environment around its territory will definitely be significantly affected!”

“What about us?”

“Keep looking. I guess we haven’t reached the core activity area of ​​the pigs yet! Don’t go down the ditch that you can see the bottom of at a glance. Let’s find the traces first!”

“Oh! Black Wolf, this way, go!” Xiao Tao called out. After hearing it, Black Wolf immediately turned around and chased in the direction Xiao Tao was directing.

The four brothers walked along the ridge of Woniu Mountain, crossed Heixiazi Ridge, and went up the mountain road for about two or three miles. They soon discovered something suspicious.

The originally smooth and harmonious snow was trampled by unknown animals, leaving large black and gray traces.

When you see me talking about large black and gray animal tracks, the audience may think that it is nothing, because there will definitely be traces left after footprints step on them.

In fact, this is very abnormal. The snow on the mountain is heavier than that at the foot of the mountain. If there is 30 centimeters of snow on the ground at the village head at the foot of the mountain, then there must be at least 40 centimeters of snow on the mountain, or even more.

Such thick snow will easily freeze into a snow crust after the temperature fluctuates between cold and hot.

With the relatively hard snow shell, it is very difficult for conventional animals to collapse and crush the thick snow.

But now, the snow under the autumn grove on the sunny side of the slope has been basically trampled into pieces, revealing the dark gray fallen leaf humus permafrost layer underneath.

Wang Wang Wang!
The black wolf also smelled the unusual odor and barked several times towards the ground below.

Upon seeing this, Yue Feng immediately took people to check it out.

“These are traces left by wild boars! A huge group of them!” Yue Feng walked up to them, lowered his head and took a look, then made a preliminary judgment.

“Brother, come and look at this! Damn, this is a big footprint!” Xiao Tao shouted at this time.

Yue Feng and the three brothers Xiaowen and Xiaowu heard the shouting and walked over, then they saw a terrifying scene.

There was a huge footprint on the ground, as big as a cow’s hoof!

Judging from the tip of the hoof, the paw, the overall proportions, etc., Yue Feng could determine with certainty that this was a wild boar’s hoof print, but the size of the print was slightly larger than that of an ordinary pig.

The armored wild boar that Yue Feng and his team killed last time had hooves that were one size larger than those of ordinary wild boars. If the hooves of that 400-pound wild boar were used as a standard, the footprints on the ground now would be at least two sizes larger.

It can be called the top configuration of Pro max!

“This should be the hoof print left by the wild boar king that Zhu Erhai told us about! The crushed snow has frozen into mud again, and there is a lot of snow foam on it. Judging from the traces, this should have been left four or five days ago!”

Yue Feng carefully observed the details of the hoof prints and said.

“Who cares if it’s five days or eight days! Such a large herd of pigs will definitely go anywhere quietly. Let’s follow them and take a look!
It would be better if we had a better view, so that we can kill it with one shot each at a distance of several hundred meters!” Xiaowu was a little excited when he saw the large number of wild boar footprints.

Each pig represents dozens to hundreds of kilograms of meat. If you can’t finish eating the pigs yourself, you can sell them for money. This is a great unity that exudes the fragrance of ink!
Yue Feng smiled and shook his head: “It’s not as easy as you think, look at this forest, the visibility is not even a hundred meters!
Xiao Tao, call Black Wolf back, let’s follow the trail and look for him!”

“Oh!” Xiao Tao responded and immediately called Heilang. Heilang heard the call and turned back obediently, and was tied up with a hemp rope again by Xiao Tao.

With the traces of the pigs’ activities, the subsequent search became simple. There was no need to search the mountain blindly, just follow the direction of the footprints.

In this way, the brothers followed the footprints for more than half an hour and almost walked around the gentle slope of Heixiazi Ridge.

Suddenly, Yue Feng, who was walking in the front, stopped, raised his hand and pressed down, and the people behind him immediately held their breath.

“What’s wrong, brother?” Xiaowen lowered his voice and came closer.

Yue Feng leaned slightly to the side and said, “Don’t talk, just listen carefully!”

The only sound in the air was the rustling of branches as the wind blew through them; nothing else could be heard.

“Didn’t you hear anything? What happened?”

“The herd of wild boars ahead should be not far away! I can vaguely hear the sound of them digging for food! Xiao Tao, watch the black wolf and don’t let it bark! Don’t scare the pigs!”

“okay!”

Yue Feng took the gun off his shoulder, then continued to move forward on tiptoe, his pace slowing down significantly.

After chasing for a few hundred meters, the gentle slope in front of them suddenly turned, and a sunny slope similar to a winnowing basket appeared in front of Yue Feng and his companions.

The sunny slopes of this type of terrain are windproof and sunny, and are a favorite place for mountain livestock to stay in winter.

Yue Feng adjusted the direction and circled for a few hundred meters. Soon, several wild boars that were playing and fighting under the Bojiweizi appeared in front of them.

Because of the advantage of high visibility, we can see relatively far, about two to three hundred meters away.

Below was a dense forest of hickory nuts. The trees were not very thick, most of them were only as thick as a bowl, but they were so dense that you could vaguely see the outlines of wild boars frolicking around in the food, but if you wanted to aim and shoot suddenly, the forest was too dense and you would most likely miss.

Yue Feng brought his men to hunt from afar with the purpose of hunting the wild boar king and the big wild boar group, not to hunt one or two wild boars.

So, he didn’t shoot.

The big black eagle had already spotted two lone wild boars in the woods in the sky, but it had just eaten about 70% to 80% full not long ago, and its desire to hunt seemed to have decreased a lot. It still circled over its owner’s head obediently and did not attack the two wild boars.

“Brother, do you want to fight? If we get closer, we should have a chance to shoot each other!” Xiaowu also raised his gun and asked Yue Feng.

“Don’t rush to shoot yet, let’s go around the shady slope and take a look ahead! I think something is definitely not right! Don’t shoot rashly or you’ll scare the pigs!”

“Something’s wrong? What’s wrong?”

“If there were a group of pigs around, there wouldn’t be these two pigs moving around randomly! If they could move around freely, they wouldn’t be able to form a large group, right?”

This analysis does make sense. There must be an opportunity or reason for the wild boars to form large groups.

If the opportunity is gone and the pigs have dispersed, they may move sporadically.

If there is still an opportunity, this three-year-old wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms should also rejoin the group.

With Yue Feng’s insistence, the four of them bypassed the Bojiweizi without firing a shot and continued to chase forward.

After following the footprints for more than half an hour, it was already half past twelve in the afternoon. The little food they had eaten in the morning had long been consumed during the long journey, and everyone’s stomachs were growling with hunger.

But now is not the time to eat. Yue Feng walked and looked around, always feeling that he seemed to have overlooked something.

After following the footprints for another circle, at 1:30 in the afternoon, Yue Feng led everyone around the map and returned to the previous area.

It turns out that a large group of wild boars once circled this area, forming a closed-loop trail.

“Damn! This group of wild boars are circling in the mountains! We followed them around in circles! Aren’t we back here again?” Yue Feng slapped his head and couldn’t help but complain.

This kind of problem is likely to occur when you go out to a relatively unfamiliar place deep in the mountains. It is easier to judge when the mountain is relatively steep, because at least the surrounding area visible to the human eye will become larger, and with a landmark as a signpost, you basically won’t go wrong.

However, in this relatively flat forest area, there is almost no obvious difference when looking around, which is why the problem arises.

(End of this chapter)