Chapter 213 Old Fox

The two shots just now were used for bluffing, in order to prevent the lynx from coming out again. Now they deliberately startled the tiger cubs in the cave and made them nervous, so they would not dare to come out easily. This way, Yue Feng would have time to collect firewood and fire attack.

The heavy snow had buried the broken branches on the ground quite deeply, so it was difficult for one person to quickly pick up some firewood. However, Yue Feng had a lot of experience in activities in the mountains. He looked around a few times and soon found a larch that had died from a fungus infection.

The circumference of this larch tree is slightly thinner than the mouth of a rice bowl at home. It should be a small tree that has not grown for many years. However, the top of the tree has been broken off by the wind, and the broken treetops are placed on another tree to temporarily maintain a fragile balance.

Yue Feng pulled out a small hatchet from his waist and started chopping at the bottom of the dead tree.

Soon, the dead tree was felled. Yue Feng quickly cut the thin parts into sections and dragged it to the cave entrance.

Now that we have the main materials for starting the fire, the rest is simple. Just break off some fresh pine branches and throw them in when the fire is lit. It will immediately start smoking. Although it is not as easy to use as pine torches, it is definitely effective enough.

Soon, a fire was lit. Yue Feng threw green pine needles onto the fire. Sure enough, smoke came out immediately, and thick smoke billowed for a while.

Pushing the fire toward the entrance of the cave, Yue Feng retreated to about seven or eight meters away with the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, keeping an eye out for the lynx that might rush out in case it couldn’t stand the smoke.

Yue Feng’s idea was good, and the fire started quickly and well. After adding fresh pine branches, there was quite a bit of smoke, but there was no reaction.

After more than ten minutes, the fire was almost burned out, but the owner was still nowhere to be seen.

Just when Yue Feng was wondering whether he should get some more firewood, shouts came from the ridge above.

“Stop burning it, there’s smoke coming out from behind!!”

Yue Feng raised his head and looked in the direction of the sound, and found two people dressed like hunters, wearing white overalls and carrying guns, looking down from the ridge.

The distance was too far, and Yue Feng couldn’t see the face clearly, but the other party was definitely shouting at him, so Yue Feng immediately climbed up towards the ridge along the sunny slope.

When we were about thirty or forty meters away, we heard a familiar greeting from the ridge.

“Xiao Feng? What a coincidence! You’re here!!”

Yue Feng took a closer look and reacted instantly.

Zhang Junhong and Zhou Yuanchao, aren’t they both captains of the hunting teams in their own village?

So, today’s game is called “Gathering of Heroes”!
“Uncle Zhang, Brother Zhou! Were you the ones who fired the shots over at Tiaoshitang just now?” Yue Feng immediately took the initiative to greet them.

“Don’t even mention it. You usually brag about how accurate your shooting is, but when it comes to using it, your shooting skills are terrible!

Xiao Zhou and I made a bet and came here to play a game. Just now we saw a mountain catfish, so we each fired a shot, but in the end, neither of us hit it!” Zhang Junhong said with some self-mockery.

“What are you lighting on fire? The hole below is connected to the other end. I came here with my uncle when I was a child. You lit a fire in the front and smoke is coming out from the back!” Zhou Yuanchao asked.

The words “tiger cub” were on Yue Feng’s lips, but he swallowed them. The other party lied, so there was no need for him to tell the truth.

“It just snowed, and I came to the mountain to hunt. Just now, I saw a creature that looked like a mountain raccoon or something. It was quite big! I raised my gun and fired a few shots, but that guy was very fast, so I missed him. He hid in a hole in the rocks!” Yue Feng said half-truthfully.

“Oh! No wonder!”

Zhang Junhong and Zhou Yuanchao looked at each other, and both of them tacitly did not continue the conversation.

In their eyes, Yue Feng was just a young hunter with little experience but some luck. Yue Feng himself was not sure whether the prey was a lynx, a civet cat, or some other wild beast, and the other two people would definitely not take the initiative to say it was a lynx.

One more person means one more competitor. They are all old foxes and they think this through very clearly.

“I’ll go take a look at the back first! I’ll come back later!” Yue Feng said hello, then walked around half a circle and strolled towards the area behind the pile of rocks.

When we got to the bottom of the ditch, we found that Zhang Junhong and Zhou Yuanchao were right. There was a hole with a diameter of at least 40 to 50 centimeters, and the smoke from the fire in front was coming out of this hole.

Such a big hole was enough for the lynx to get out and escape. Yue Feng looked around for traces of Xue Mozi and soon found the lynx’s footprints and a small amount of blood.

If Yue Feng brought the dog with him now, he could chase the three-legged lynx and maybe get a chance to shoot it again. However, the purpose of today’s visit was to set an ambush. Yue Feng didn’t bring any eagle or dog with him. It would be a bit difficult for him to chase the lynx alone without any help.

Lynx is a cat that can jump, climb trees, and hide in bushes and snow piles. It will lose its track in slightly complicated places. Yue Feng does not have a dog’s nose, so the success rate of tracking it by footprints is not optimistic.

Yue Feng would definitely not be willing to give up such a valuable and rare thing. The best way now is to go home, call for help, take the dog, and then follow the blood trail with the dog to track the lynx.

With the dog, Yue Feng would have a guard and a tracking guide, and he could ensure his absolute safety.

Zhou Yuanchao and Zhang Junhong must have heard the news and come to ambush us. There is no need to think about this. Now we just need to play dumb and fool these two guys away.

These two old foxes don’t know yet that the lynx had one of its hind paws broken by Yue Feng’s bullet, so they certainly wouldn’t think of going home and getting the dog to track down and shoot the escaped lynx.

The normal logic is to wait for a few days for the lynx to think it is safe, and then suddenly come to ambush. Thinking of this, Yue Feng quietly used his feet to lift up the snow to cover up the traces of bloody snow foam, and then leisurely climbed up the ridge again.

“Did he run away?” Zhou Yuanchao asked.

Yue Feng, the actor, pretended to be very depressed and nodded: “He ran away! He ran along the back door of the cave. I saw footprints!
Damn it, I wasted all that time chopping wood and making a fire, and got nothing!”

“Haha, that’s how it is when you go out hunting. If you’re lucky, whatever you want will come true and you’ll hit the target every time. If you’re unlucky, it’s useless to wander around the mountains all day!

Well, do you have any other plans? Why don’t we go together today? We can have someone to look after us when we go hunting in the mountains!” Zhang Junhong asked with a smile.

Yue Feng shook his head decisively and said modestly: “Others may not know my two tricks, but you guys know them! I won’t take advantage of you! I’ll just go for a walk by myself!”

“That’s fine. If anything happens, fire two short shots and one long shot into the sky. If we’re nearby and hear the gunshots, we’ll definitely go over there!”

“Okay! Then you guys go ahead and get busy. My stuff is still downstairs. Let’s clean up and move to another place!”

“it is good!”

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After watching Yue Feng walk away on his skis, Zhou Yuanchao turned to Zhang Junhong and asked, “Old Zhang, do you think the two guys from the Yue family happened to run into him, or did they get the news and come here to fight the tiger cub just like us?”

Zhang Junhong curled his lips and said, “Of course he came here to beat up the tiger cub! Didn’t you see there’s a bear skin mat in the snow?

But there must be something wrong with his information. He was young and inexperienced, so he burned paper and cried at the wrong grave!
We fired but missed at Tiaoshitang, and the tiger cub escaped over here, which happened to be a chance encounter for the second kid from the Yue family. But he wasn’t a good shooter, so the tiger cub hid in a stone hole and ran away!”

Zhang Junhong’s analysis makes a lot of sense. There are no such coincidences in the world. In such a large forest, three hunters from the same village came to the same place to hunt with the same mind. The probability of this is even lower than winning a 500 million lottery ticket with two dollars.

The three groups of people are not in harmony with each other and each has his own stance.

From Zhou and Zhang’s point of view, it was enough for them to know what was going on, and there was no need to tell Yue Feng more information.

“Shall we go down and take a look?” Zhou Yuanchao continued to ask.

Zhang Junhong shook his head: “It’s nothing, what’s there to see? At most there are a few footprints!
If you want to go, go ahead. I won’t go down. There is only one stone jumping pond around. Wait a few days here and come back. There should be another chance! Then it will all depend on our ability!”

Zhou Yuanchao nodded: “Then I won’t go down either. I’ve been freezing all morning and my stomach is still cold. I might have diarrhea if I go home. Do you want to go down the mountain together?”

“Let’s go! There’s no point in wasting time today, let’s go back!” The two men whispered a few words, then put on their guns and went down the mountain.

On the other side, Yue Feng packed up his things and went down the mountain. With skis, he could go down the mountain much faster than walking.

Yue Feng walked along the ridge, turned two corners, and finally got on the Chaiji Road, and then went straight down the mountain along the Chaiji Road.

When I got home, it was only 8:40 in the morning.

Yue Feng didn’t even have time to eat breakfast, and hurried to call the brothers Xiaowen and Xiaowu, as well as his neighbor Xiaotao.

When setting an ambush knowing the target’s lair, you definitely cannot bring anyone else with you. Too many people will easily expose you, so it is better to act alone.

This has nothing to do with whether or not they eat alone. Although Yue Feng will not share profits with them if he hunts prey in the mountains, the team development fund must be handed over according to the agreed proportion.

Now that the tiger cub has three legs, it makes sense to send people and dogs to track it.

The speed and explosive power of a three-legged lynx would definitely be greatly reduced. As long as the dog was a little smarter, even in a head-on collision, it would not be killed instantly in one round like the fat tabby dog ​​before.

Today was a day off, Xiao Tao and the Zhang brothers were all at home, and when they heard Yue Feng calling for people to go hunting in the mountains, the three brothers immediately became excited. They quickly got fully armed and gathered at Yue Feng’s house.

“Brother! Why didn’t you tell us in advance that we were going hunting in the mountains today? It would have been much better to set off early in the morning. If we go up the mountain now, it will be almost noon when we get there!” Xiao Tao asked curiously.

Yue Feng took a big gulp of the warm water on the windowsill and said, “I got up in the middle of the night and went up the mountain alone with a gun to ambush the tiger cub, but I missed the vital part and broke one of its hind claws! That’s why I went down the mountain to call for help!”

“Tiger cub? Lynx?” Xiaowen immediately became interested after hearing this. This thing is a valuable treasure.

“Yes, it’s quite big, it should be a big male lynx!

Last night, I was lying down when Wang Xiaonian and Wang Junqiang were smashing the wall behind my house and selling me some ice cream! I borrowed a pair of skis and set off to the mountain at around 3 a.m.!”

“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s hurry up! Since there are traces of blood, the black wolf will definitely be able to catch up. Then we can beat down this tiger cub. That will be so awesome!” Xiaowu was also eager to try.

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