Chapter 166: Losing
Yue Feng rubbed his numb face and spat on the ground: “Now that we have finished searching this area, let’s search the next one!!
If it were so easy to find, it wouldn’t be our turn to do it!
To save time, we will split into two groups. Black Wolf and Big Black Hawk will follow me as one group, and you three brothers will take the other three dogs as the other group! Let’s check all the suspicious areas around first!”

Xiao Tao immediately became anxious when he heard this: “Can you do it by yourself? Otherwise, I will go with you? At least I can take care of you!”

Yue Feng shook his head: “I have a gun, Black Wolf and Big Black Hawk. As long as you stay alert, you will have no problem protecting yourself! You only have knives and spears, so you must stick together and bring dogs to strengthen your force to ensure safety!

Just listen to me. I have been to several gully bottoms and hilltops here, so I have some impression of them!
Taking our current stop as the boundary, you search toward the northwest and I will search toward the southeast. After searching each ditch or pond, I will stand on the ridge and fire a shot. If I have searched the surrounding area, I will fire three shots in a row. Let’s come back here and gather!
If I’m in any danger, I’ll empty my magazine, and if you hear any gunfire, come find me!”

After listening to Yue Feng’s arrangement, Xiao Wen asked, “What if we find the trace of the blind bear? How can we let you know?”

Yue Feng lowered his head and rummaged through his bag, pulling out a bunch of white-skinned bombs as thick as thumbs from the bottom.

“If you find any traces of a blind bear, just make sure your own people are safe. Use this bomb to scare the bear away. I will come and join you when I hear any noise!
As long as we find the trail, the rest will be easy. We have plenty of time, so we can play with it slowly!
This isn’t a bear that hibernates in a warehouse. It has a record of injuring and even eating people more than once! Xiaowen, you must be calm and restrain Xiaowu and Xiaotao, especially Xiaotao, don’t rush forward when your head is hot! Safety is the first priority in all actions, be cautious, and don’t show off blindly! “

“Okay, you are the captain, then I will follow your arrangements! The terrain in the ditch is complicated, so you must pay attention to safety!” Xiaowen took the Ma Leizi from Yue Feng’s hand and nodded.

Yue Feng grinned and said, “Don’t worry. I estimate that it will take about two hours to go around these hills. We can gather here for dinner around one o’clock!”

“Brother, be careful when you are alone! I’ll give you this knife for self-defense!” Xiao Tao handed over the knife he was using.

“No need, I have this!” Yue Feng smiled and shook his head, and directly hung the triangular bayonet on the 56 half gun on the barrel.

This triangular bayonet has almost zero function in terms of chopping and hacking, but in actual combat, its lethality is no less than that of a knife. One poke will create a triangular hole, and the blood will gushed out unstoppably.

After explaining the plan of splitting up, the four members of Yue Feng’s team headed in two directions and began searching the mountain with their dogs.

Yue Feng left his teammates and immediately took off the big black eagle hat he had been holding.

The wind was a bit strong today, so Yue Feng was not in a hurry to let the Black Hawk fly when he was going up the mountain. Now the two previous plans had been tested and neither of them met expectations, so he could not care less and had to let the Black Hawk participate. If this guy could still use his height advantage and advantage to discover the black bear’s tracks in advance and inform Yue Feng, then Yue Feng would at least be much safer.

The big black eagle took off its hat, and its pupils quickly adapted to the light on the mountain. It had squawked several times along the way, but Yue Feng had never taken off its hat. Now that it had regained its vision, it meant that its owner was going to let it take off, and the little guy was particularly excited.

I saw the big black eagle standing on Yue Feng’s arm, with its two wings spread and flashed twice, then it raised its tail and pooped a small piece of poop, then its feathers fluffed up for two seconds, shook its head, and immediately tightened again, then it kicked hard, left Yue Feng’s arm and flew into the sky.

The big black eagle flew into the sky, and Yue Feng untied the rope of Black Wolf.

“Black Wolf, follow me, let’s search this place!”

Yue Feng called out and Black Wolf immediately followed. The man, the dog and the eagle continued to search the selected area.

Searching the mountain alone, Yue Feng’s nerves were on edge. After walking a distance, he would look around to make sure there was nothing unusual, then walk a little further. If he encountered suspicious terrain, fallen trees, bushes, snow piles, etc., Yue Feng would consciously avoid getting too close, and would rather take a few detours and change direction to observe to make sure there was no risk before continuing on his way.

Searching the mountain in a ravine close to Chaiji Road is not an easy task. Animals such as wild boars and deer do not like to move around in this area, so naturally there are very few traces left behind.

Occasionally, some footprints were found on the ground, which were all traces left by small animals. Black Wolf locked onto the suspected trail several times, and after following it for a while, Yue Feng ruled it out. Judging from the footprints, it was either a rabbit or a weasel. These small things were not Yue Feng’s target.

After searching the hilltop attentively, Yue Feng stood on the ridge as agreed, turned on the safety and fired a shot.

The big black eagle that had been circling in the sky thought that Yue Feng had found his prey when he heard the gunshot. It circled twice anxiously and was about to land.

Seeing this, Yue Feng stretched out his arm and let the eagle land on his hand to recover some strength. Then he took out a roll of meat from his backpack and fed it to the eagle.

The big black eagle ate a little meat, and when it found that its owner had not caught any prey, it loosened its feathers a little in Yue Feng’s hand, and after a while it took off again and circled overhead.

In this way, after climbing three consecutive hills, Yue Feng found no trace of the blind bear, either smell or footprints, except for catching a glimpse of two yellow-throated martens in the distance.

After searching the three hills here, they basically reached the boundary of Forest Area No. 27. Yue Feng changed a route and went back, and met up with the other three members of the team as agreed.

While Yue Feng was searching the mountain patiently and nervously but found nothing, the three brothers Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Xiaotao made a new discovery after climbing over a ridge.

Dahuang, who is very steady on the road, suddenly smelled a suspicious odor and started barking first. At the urging of Xiaotao and Xiaowen, the three dogs immediately ran after the scent.

There were three people and three dogs. Dahuang took the lead and led the rest of the companions over a ridge and then stopped halfway.

He seemed to have lost his temper. He sniffed here and there, hesitant and completely unsure of where to go.

“Xiao Wen, what’s going on? Is the big yellow dog getting angry?”

Before Xiao Tao went up the mountain, he was very confident in Da Huang. When Da Huang was in Chen Pao’s hands, he was a well-known head dog in the surrounding villages. After going up the mountain several times, Da Huang’s performance was also very solid.

Xiaowen frowned and observed Dahuang’s performance for a while, somewhat undecided.

“A bit like it, but not quite! Logically speaking, a dog that has lost its temper will at most come back to people and wag its tail, but look at Da Huang, this guy is sniffing here and there, as if he is quite afraid of this area!”

Xiaowen had some hunting experience as he followed the hunting team up the mountain to do odd jobs. Although he was not very proficient, he was quite meticulous, had a steady personality, and was good at noticing some details.

After hearing what he said, Xiao Tao and Xiao Wu also felt that there was something wrong with the dog.

“Is the Diusao mentioned by the forest rangers also in this area? Are there any other ferocious beasts here?

I heard my uncle say once before that if a dog goes to the territory of some other wild animals and smells the scent mark, it will also lose its temper if it lacks confidence!
It judged that the owner of the smell was someone it couldn’t afford to offend, so it didn’t dare to move forward! “At this time, Xiaowu frowned and muttered.

When Xiaowu said this casually, Xiaowen, who was thinking hard, immediately slapped his head and said, “How could I have forgotten this? It’s possible!”

Hearing what Xiaowu said, Xiao Tao was not afraid at all. Instead, he clenched the handle of the knife in his hand and became excited: “You think there won’t be any big claws in this area?”

Big claws, also known as tigers, scientifically known as Siberian tigers, Siberian tigers, are the largest tiger subspecies in the world. If it moves around and marks its territory with urine, all animals will avoid it. When dogs smell the smell, the timid ones may even urinate in fear.

“To be on the safe side, let’s go back to the gathering point first! There’s something wrong with the dog, which is also a sign. We don’t have guns and can’t take risks!” Xiaowen, who wanted to be safe, decided not to advance any further.

“If I don’t look forward anymore, what if the bear is right in front of me?” Xiao Tao still hadn’t given up hope.

“Listen to me, go back first, and come back after you meet up with the captain! I just heard him fire three shots in succession. The several ridges in the search direction should have been searched almost completely!” Xiaowen emphasized again.

“Okay, let’s gather together later and come back! Go back the same way? Or take a detour and see if we can find something else in those inconspicuous small terrains!”

“Let’s take a detour and follow me!” Xiaowen waved his hand and took his two younger brothers to take a detour back.

After leaving that area, Xiaowen consciously observed the three dogs. Dahuang was obviously more comfortable and relaxed. He sniffed here and there. Although he didn’t find anything new, he seemed much more excited than before.

The dog’s behavior further confirmed Xiaowen’s previous guess that there must be some ferocious beast in this area, which was why the dog was acting so arrogant.

As we were walking back, we heard Yue Feng’s rally gunfire.

Several people immediately sped up and went to the gathering point first.

However, when they were at the bottom of a ditch that was broken into two parts by a ridge at a distance from the gathering point, they unexpectedly discovered a suspicious situation.

After sniffing around, Da Huang suddenly started to bark, and then he started to run in circles in the snow, barking as he ran, which was obviously different from his usual behavior when he found prey.

“What’s going on? What did Dahuang discover?” Xiao Tao asked again.

Xiaowen called Dahuang over to him and said, “Dahuang, have you found anything? Find it!!”

Upon hearing the command to find, Dahuang immediately walked towards the center of the circle, wagging his tail. After sniffing around, he chose a spot and began to dig the snow on the ground with his two paws.

As more and more snow was dug away, the few people soon discovered something unusual.

The snow shell underneath turned dark red.

As they dug deeper, a large amount of minced meat, fragments of blue cotton cloth, blood stains, etc. were revealed.

After seeing a broken finger on the ground, Xiaowen frowned and quickly climbed up the ridge. He decisively took out the bombs given by Yue Feng from his pocket, then took out three of them and lit them with matches.

Bang, bang, bang. The sound of three bombs exploding rang out on the ridge above Banjiegou. The sound spread in the air and soon reached Yue Feng’s ears.

There were three consecutive sounds of mines exploding. This was the signal agreed upon beforehand. Yue Feng knew that Xiao Tao had made a new discovery. After hearing the sound signal, he immediately rushed towards the direction where the sound came from.

More than half an hour later, Yue Feng arrived at the ridge where Xiaowen had set off the blast, and the four of them quickly reunited.

“What happened? What happened?” Yue Feng looked at the three brothers with concern. Seeing that they were all safe and sound, he temporarily put his heart at ease.

“There is a crime scene at the bottom of Banjiezigou, where someone must have been bitten to death.

Just now when we were walking back, we took a detour and walked to Banjiezigou. As a result, Dahuang found a lot of blood and clothing fragments covered by the snow. In addition, I also found a piece of finger!” Xiaowen said in a very logical manner.

Hearing about someone’s fingers and a large amount of blood, Yue Feng immediately tensed up. Could it be that something had happened to someone else but was not discovered by others?
“Come on, take me down to have a look!”

Yue Feng followed Xiaowen back to the bottom of the ditch quickly and saw various traces revealed under the snow by the dog.

The low temperature in winter also has its advantages. Blood, meat, and body parts are not easy to rot, and more traces can be preserved intact.

After carefully checking the surroundings, Yue Feng peeled off the snow crust in several different directions to observe, then pointed to the direction where Xiaowen and his companions had returned not long ago and said, “The body was bitten to death here, but it did not stay there. If I am not mistaken, it should have been dragged away from this side!

There are traces of blood on the ground! Judging from the location of the traces in the snow, this happened after a heavy snowfall!”

“That’s not right, brother. It happened after the heavy snow, shouldn’t the bloodstain be on the top?” Xiao Tao scratched his head, not quite understanding.

“It was originally at the top, but then a strong wind blew and the snow fell on the low part of the bottom of this half of the ditch, covering the surface!” Yue Feng said as he looked around.

At the bottom of this half-ditch, there were a few sturdy wind-fallen trees further away. Yue Feng strode towards the fallen trees with his gun in hand.

Soon, when he was more than ten meters away, Yue Feng made a new discovery.

Next to the fallen tree, there was a wicker backpack. Yue Feng picked up the basket with his spear, dug through the snow and took a look. There was a small amount of dried black fungus and two gray iron clamps at the bottom of the basket.

Through these traces, Yue Feng made a preliminary judgment.

If my guess is correct, the victim should be a villager living in a nearby mountain. He was carrying a basket up the mountain to try to catch fish. He happened to find some wood ears on a fallen tree and picked some.

At this time, it was targeted by some kind of predator and was quickly attacked.

In the panic escape, the basket was lost and the man was soon caught up. At the location where there was a lot of blood, the man must have been killed.

Yue Feng returned to the place where there was a lot of blood, and carefully dug away the snow around it. After working for a while, he made a new discovery!
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