Chapter 167 Black Hawk vs. Evil Bear

Yue Feng found a large, incomplete footprint under the snow.

This is the footprint of a black bear’s front paw. The overall shape is flat and round, and the outlines of the paw pad and claw can be vaguely distinguished. Judging from the size of the bear’s paw, this blind bear should weigh at least 400 kilograms, which is relatively large among black bears.

Could it be that the owner of these footprints is the culprit who attacked passing workers at Chaiji Road in Forest Area No. 27?
Yue Feng reasoned about all the existing information in his head and finally got a more reliable answer.

“This footprint was left by a black bear! Judging from the evidence at the scene, the bear must have attacked the miners and dragged the body away! It was dragged in that direction, and the traces on the ground were covered by the snow foam blown by the wind!”

“Over there? Over there, Dahuang led us. After searching halfway, he lost Sao. Gouzi was a little scared and didn’t dare to continue looking!” Xiaowen said.

“Lost? That should be the area where the forest ranger team lost their target before! Let’s find a quiet place to eat and take a short rest. After we’re full, we can go back and take a look!”

“Row!”

“Don’t move this part of the ditch for now. When we get down the mountain, report this to the village office. Maybe it’s someone from another village. When the time comes, we can send government officials to ensure that we don’t destroy other traces!”

“it is good!”

Soon, Yue Feng and the rest of the team climbed over the ridge of Banjiezigou and found a gentle slope on the sunny side of the hillside that was sheltered from the wind. Then, they picked up branches everywhere and quickly built a fire.

It was too tiring to search the mountain aimlessly. More than five hours had passed since we got up the mountain early in the morning. Except for stuffing a handful of snow into our mouths because we were thirsty, the guys had not eaten a single grain of rice.

At this time, the dry food prepared on the mountain came in handy. Yue Feng used a leg stick to cut a few pine branches and poked them on the meat patties. He placed them outside the fire to slowly heat them up, then filled an aluminum lunch box with half a box of snow and placed it on the fire to heat it up.

After a while, the meat patties were heated, giving off a fragrant smell and starting to drip oil, and the snow water in the lunch box also boiled.

The brothers gathered around the fire to share the food, then drank a few sips of snow water and slowly recovered their strength.

After taking two simple bites, Yue Feng took out the bait and blew the whistle, calling down the big black eagle in the sky.

The eagle food in the bag was frozen hard, so it had been placed away from the fire to melt slowly. Just then, the big eagle called down, and Yue Feng took out about half of the food and fed it to the big black eagle.

It was windy today, and the big black eagle circling in the sky consumed a lot of energy. After seeing Yue Feng taking out the melted eagle food, the big black eagle flapped its wings and called for food. After Yue Feng fed it until it was five-tenths full, the big black eagle became much quieter, squatted on Yue Feng’s knees, slowly fluffed up its feathers, and shook its neck to press the food into its crop while recovering its strength.

When the people had almost finished eating, they fed the eagles, and then the dogs.

The food for the dogs was relatively simple, just cornmeal pancakes, heated up next to the fire and then broken into pieces to feed the dogs.

Before going up the mountain in the morning, the dogs were only fed half full as usual. They didn’t catch any prey in the whole morning, but they were very active. They were already starving. When they saw Xiao Tao sharing the cakes, the dogs wagged their tails and groaned anxiously.

After resting for about an hour, the dog, the man, and the eagle all had enough to eat and drink and recovered from their fatigue.

Yue Feng released the eagle into the air again, and led his team members and the dog toward the area that the big yellow dog was very afraid of.

Because he had already been there once in the morning, he hurried back to the familiar route. When he reached the spot where he had been last time, Dahuang stopped working again. He sniffed here and there and refused to move forward.

“Right here! The dog is being naughty again!” Xiaowen said.

Yue Feng nodded, then looked around.

Soon, he found traces on the trunk of a larch tree.

At a height of about 1.5 meters near the north side of the shady side, deep claw marks were left on the bark of the larch.

Yue Feng could recognize it at a glance. These were the marks left by an adult male bear.

Male bears also have territories. In the non-hibernation season, they will patrol the area and leave their scent, paw prints, feces, etc. as territory marks.

Judging from the height, it can be judged that this bear is an adult male bear. Judging from the age of the marks on the tree trunk, it is not too old. It should have been scratched after the winter, otherwise the marks would not be so fresh.

Thinking of the bear footprints left at the bottom of Banjiezigou not long ago, Yue Feng initially judged that they were probably done by the same bear.

“We found the right place! The bear should be around this area!

Black Wolf, come and smell it!”

Yue Feng shouted and Black Wolf immediately came over.

After sniffing for a while, Yue Feng continued to give the order: “Search!”

After receiving the order, the black wolf immediately searched diligently, smelling the nearby trees one by one, and after circling half a circle, it came to the place where Da Huang had stopped before. This was a linden tree that was as thick as a man’s arms. The black wolf spent the longest time smelling under this tree, and then it opened its mouth and chased in the northwest direction.

This is a show!
“Black Wolf is not embarrassed, he is admitting it!!” Xiaowen was quite excited when he saw this. He thought Black Wolf would be embarrassed like Da Huang and not dare to come forward.

Yue Feng took the gun off his shoulder and said, “This Da Huang has a lot of experience in climbing mountains, so he is more cautious in his response to scent markings! He may think that the smell is unusual and there is a risk, so he is showing off!
But Black Wolf has little experience in climbing mountains, and he is smarter, so he doesn’t seem to be too afraid of these scent marks! If I’m not mistaken, a black bear must have urinated under this linden tree just now!”

“Don’t worry about it, as long as we can chase him! Let’s catch up quickly, because that bear is not hiding in the warehouse, the dog must not suffer any loss!” Xiao Tao grabbed the knife on the pole on the pier and became excited.

“Walk!”

The four people followed the black wolf and continued to move deeper into the dense forest.

Seeing their owners walking forward, the three dogs, Big Yellow, Big Black and Little Flower, also followed. However, these three dogs behaved more cautiously and stayed close to their owners. They did not do as usual, where the lead dog would find the trail and start barking, and the helper dogs would follow a beat later.

Yue Feng knew that the goal this time was to find the black bear, so it would be safer if the dog stayed by his side. So he did not urge or scold the dog, but chased forward slowly.

The black wolf, leading the way, was running excitedly in the forest. The traces of the special smell in the air were very obvious, and as the distance got closer, the concentration of the smell became stronger and stronger.

In this way, the black wolf took the lead and ran in the front, calling as he ran, indicating the location to the people behind him.

After crossing two more ridges, Black Wolf was the first to arrive at a jumping stone pond with very obvious terrain features.

In the environment of Tiaoshitang, it is difficult for trees that are too thick to grow. Without big trees to block the sky and take away the sunlight, a large number of low shrubs, miscellaneous woods, vines, etc. will grow on the ground.

Therefore, the terrain of this Tiaoshitang is much more chaotic than that of the previous mountain areas visible to the naked eye. Even though most of the low shrubs are covered with ice and snow in winter, there are still a lot of visual blind spots at the bottom of the ditch.

Following the scent mark, Dahei was the first to rush down the stone jumping pond. Soon, he started shouting loudly at the crack of the bottom of a huge rock that was more than three meters high.

The brothers chased to the top of the mountain ridge breathlessly. After seeing the jumping stone pond below the shady slope and the black wolf howling at the bottom of the ditch from afar, Yue Feng made a preliminary judgment.

“The terrain below is quite complicated, everyone be careful! I think the black wolf has found the blind bear’s lair!”

Just as the word “old nest” came out of his mouth, a low bear roar was heard suddenly from the blind spot below Tiaoshitang.

The bear roared in the forest, and everyone felt a tingling sensation as if an electric shock enveloped their entire body. For a moment, their entire thinking seemed to stop for half a second.

The sound of this bear’s roar was even deeper than the one Yue Feng had heard before, and it seemed as if there was an extreme anger in the tone.

At this time, the black wolf howled, blood flowed from its mouth, and it turned around and ran back.

The next second, the big black eagle fell from the sky, screaming.

In the eyes of Big Black Hawk, Black Wolf is his younger brother. If his younger brother is bullied, then he, as the big brother, cannot just stand by and do nothing.

A huge black bear with tangled black hair all over its body came out from under the rocks, growled at the black wolf that had been scratched by its claws, and rushed forward.

In the blink of an eye, a black lightning bolt fell from the sky and kicked the blind bear behind the ear.

The black bear was suddenly attacked by the air force. He was slightly stunned and immediately stopped chasing and stood up.

I saw it drooling from its mouth and its cloudy eyes staring at the sky, trying to find the target position to attack it.

The black eagle swoops down to attack at such a fast speed that not only a bear but even a cat with a shorter reflex wouldn’t be able to react in time.

When he was about to lower his head after failing to find the target, suddenly another black shadow swooped down towards the sun above his head and kicked the black bear in the face with its claws.

This time, the eagle’s dive successfully broke the blind bear’s defense. When the eagle flapped its wings to continue to rise into the air after the attack, blood dripped from the blood groove at the tip of its right claw.

Looking at the blind black bear who stood up, he roared again after being injured.

This time the tone of the bear’s roar was a little higher. Just by listening to the sound, you could tell that the blind bear was extremely angry.

The big black eagle, which succeeded in its attack, finally found the weakness of the blind bear below.

This bear has thick skin everywhere, but the face, eyes, nose, these areas are not so well protected. The kick just now hit the bear’s face, and the side claw also scratched the bear’s left eyelid, causing blood to dry out.

(End of this chapter)