Chapter 245 The Second Sable

Then the flat blue kite in Yue Feng’s hand flew straight towards the sable that was running in the snow like a flash of black lightning.

Da Fei accelerated, approached the sable, and slashed out with his claws.

Although this sable is small in size, its reaction speed is very fast. It immediately fell on its back and stretched out its claws.

The Great Blue Kitten flew past the sable’s scalp and gave up the attack. It rushed forward more than ten meters, turned back at a height of less than three meters, and dived down for the second time.

This time, the sable had just turned over and was about to escape, but before it could show its claws, its neck was suddenly grabbed by the blue kite.

The left claw pinched the neck, and then the other claw went straight to the head. After the two claws fell, the left claw turned over again to complete the classic grappling action of the tiger holding the head. The sable was immediately pinched in place and could not move.

Squeak!
The strangled sable struggled frantically, scratching with its two front paws and trying to jump and roll with its hind legs, trying to break free from the eagle hanging on its body.

However, the Great Green Harrier is already a top-level falcon that has experienced many battles. In this situation, it knows how to react to protect itself to the greatest extent while controlling its prey.

The Great Green Kitten’s wings and tail feathers were fully spread out, stretching its body into a shape similar to an open fan. No matter how the sable struggled, the Great Green Kitten still kept its claws around its head.

From the time the hawk was released to the time the Great Green Kitty embraced the sable’s head, the distance was less than twenty meters. Upon seeing this, Yue Feng immediately rushed forward, holding a stick and leaning on the ground step by step.

The first ten steps were fine, as the ground was all hard. When he was still four or five meters away from the first scene of the battle, Yue Feng habitually used a stick to support himself on the ground while stepping forward with his right leg.

Seeing the falcon approaching and challenging its prey, Yue Feng became a little anxious. The ground under the stick was a little soft, and Yue Feng’s body center of gravity was already pressed on it.

Fortunately, the snow and ice shells played a certain buffering role. Yue Feng just felt his feet go soft, and then he stepped into the stream water under the ice shell.

The stream was very shallow, and the water barely covered the soles of shoes. Yue Feng didn’t care about that. The worst that could happen was that he would just make a fire and warm his shoes later.

He took two more steps above the ice on the stream, and the shoe on his other foot also got wet.

Yue Feng also walked up to the Big Green Harrier.

Bending down and leaning forward, Yue Feng pressed the stick in his hand directly on the sable’s neck.

With just a little pressure, the big male mink immediately had difficulty breathing and stopped struggling.

Yue Feng increased his strength again, and soon the big mink began to gasp with its mouth wide open.

Seeing that the male mink was on the verge of death, Yue Feng finally breathed a sigh of relief. He reached out and grabbed the skin on the back of the male mink’s neck, and carried both the mink and the eagle back to the area with solid ground under his feet.

When it got back, the big blue kite loosened its claws and gasped for breath with its mouth open.

Yue Feng grabbed the big mink and threw it into the snow. The mink immediately died with its last breath gone.

After executing the big mink, Yue Feng finally had time to check the body of the big blue harrier.

Although the Great Green Kites had been maintaining comprehensive suppression just now, the Sable also showed a certain resistance. This creature has very sharp teeth, beak and claws. If you are not careful, you may get injured.

I checked the Great Green Kitten with trepidation. The more I fear something, the more likely it is to happen. The Great Green Kitten, which had never been injured before when catching yellow foxes and roosters, had a scratch about one centimeter long on the outside of its right leg.

The cut was not deep, but blood was seeping out. Yue Feng judged that this should be the wound left by the sable’s front paws scratching when it was struggling at the beginning.

The Blue Kitten did succeed in hunting the sable, but it was a bit too extreme, like walking on a tightrope in mid-air. If you are not careful, you will get injured.

This wound made Yue Feng feel very sad.

“Damn! This little thing is quite troublesome! Don’t move, I’ll use tobacco foam to stop the bleeding for you!” While speaking, Yue Feng took out tobacco foam from his bag and applied it on the legs of the Great Green Harrier.

The wound itself was relatively shallow and the amount of bleeding was not heavy. After simple treatment, the bleeding stopped immediately.

Yue Feng took out a few slices of meat from his bag and fed them to the big green kite. After eating three rolls of meat in a row, the big green kite finally recovered a little, jumped onto Yue Feng’s arm, and its fur all over its body relaxed.

After simply treating the falcon’s wound, the next step is to skin the sable. As I have said more than once before, the best way to deal with fur is to skin it while it is hot. Sable fur is precious, so this is especially important.

Yue Feng immediately took a wide-bladed skinning knife from his calf, and in no time he made a horizontal cut on the hind leg of the big male mink, and then made a circumferential cut on the forelimbs near the claws. Using his thumb to guide the blade, he simply separated the fur and flesh at the hip area below the thigh, and after stretching it a few centimeters deep, he pushed his fingertips in, and then pinched the flesh and fur with his fingertips and exerted force together, and very smoothly peeled off a complete tube of sable skin.

It must be said that although Yue Feng had close contact and a clear understanding of the softness, smoothness and warmth of sable fur in his previous life, when he touched the fur of the first sable in this life, he couldn’t help but sigh, “It feels so good.”

Just as Yue Feng peeled off the skin completely and was waiting to go home to fine-tune the grease on the back, the big blue kite squatting on Yue Feng’s arm suddenly drooped its wings, opened its mouth, and looked above its head with horror.

The next second, the big black eagle, which had been circling in the sky following its master, witnessed with its own eyes the big blue kite assisting the director in capturing and killing the small sable. Then the big black eagle folded its wings and fell from the sky.

The Big Green Kitten stood on the Big Black Hawk’s arm, so the Big Black Hawk could not stand. This domineering guy fell down directly, and the scared Big Green Kitten jumped off Yue Feng’s arm and stood on the snow.

The big black eagle roughly snatched the right to stand on its owner’s arm, then spread its wings and screamed loudly.

Yue Feng has raised the eagle for such a long time, but he still doesn’t know what the big black eagle thinks.

It’s very simple. This is both a display of strength and a declaration of sovereignty. The Great Blue Harrier doesn’t dare to confront it at all.

The Black Hawk won.

“Alright, alright, stop bullying the Great Green Harrier! It just grabbed the sable and got scratched on the thigh, so it’s injured! Now I’ll give you some meat to eat!”

Yue Feng touched the black eagle’s back fur, then picked up the skinned sable meat, easily cut open the chest and took out the heart, liver and lungs.

The mink is small and these internal organs are few and far between, but Yue Feng still prefers this big black eagle even though it didn’t work today.

The first time, the big black eagle was very satisfied with the internal organs given by the master and swallowed them in big mouthfuls. When Yue Feng gave it the second piece of meat, the big black eagle did not open its mouth to receive it, but jumped off Yue Feng’s arm, took a snow bath in the snow next to it, and cleaned its feathers. Seeing this scene, Yue Feng knew that the big black eagle was asking the master to feed the big blue kite. As the head of the hawks and dogs in the family, the big black eagle wanted the attitude of a master, and his attitude towards his subordinates was quite relaxed.

“Come on, come on! Your elder brother wants you to eat his blood and flesh!”

Yue Feng called out to the big green kite next to him. The big green kite, which had been eyeing him with envy but not daring to get close, immediately hopped back to Yue Feng, stood on his arm, obediently took the flesh and blood that Yue Feng fed him, and swallowed it in big mouthfuls.

Yue Feng was very satisfied that he could catch this big male mink and get a perfect mink skin today. This thing is not something you can just pull as many carrots as you want from the field.

So, when Yue Feng was feeding the Great Green Kitten, he didn’t just give it a full crop without any pretense.

Although this little eagle was slightly injured today, it did not suffer any serious damage. After being fed and well cared for for three to five days, the blood scab will disappear and it will be able to continue climbing the mountain.

When the Big Green Kitten had eaten its fill and its crop had puffed up, Yue Feng called the Big Black Hawk again. The Big Black Hawk looked down at the remaining sable meat and did not eat it with disgust.

When going out in the morning, the big black eagle had a big crop. Although it had been flying in the sky for a long time, the food in the crop had not been digested yet. This guy also knew that he would not have to worry about food if he followed his owner, so he started to be picky.

After taking care of the two eagles, Yue Feng had time to take care of himself.

The shoes I put into the mountain just stepped into the stream water under the ice cap. Although they are not completely wet, they need to be dried before I can set out again. Otherwise, I will get colder and colder, my body temperature will drop rapidly, and my feet will be frozen.

Thinking of this, Yue Feng set his sights on the fallen tree that was blown down and tilted. He took out a small hand axe and chopped at it from underneath. Soon, he had cut down several large branches closest to the ground.

They gathered firewood and lit it. Soon the fire was rising. Yue Feng took off his shoes and roasted them by the fire. Soon the heat began to rise.

During this process, the two well-fed eagles behaved very calmly. Yue Feng roughly cut up the remaining meat of the sable with a knife, and then put it on with a sharpened stick. While roasting the shoes, he roasted the meat on the upwind side. Although the taste was a bit strange, it was impeccable in the snow and ice.

By the time the shoes were dried, the meat on the stick was almost done. It didn’t have much fat, but after sprinkling a little salt on it, it tasted pretty good. A simple bite of it was a fresh meal to replenish your energy.

After eating and drinking, it was only around 1pm. It was a bit awkward at this point. Should I continue searching? Or should I end the mission early and go home?
Going home early was a little early. It took more than four hours to go back and forth, and it felt a little inappropriate to go back so early.

But don’t leave, the eagle is already full, and the Great Green Kites with their big crop definitely can’t be released.

After a little hesitation, Yue Feng decided to continue strolling in the mountain valley to check out the area.

Since sables could still live in this area every year in the 90s in his previous life, there must be objective reasons. After his rebirth, Yue Feng came here ten years earlier than in his previous life. Maybe at this moment, there are more sables living in this mountain valley than the one caught today.

Thinking of this, Yue Feng put the big black eagle into the air again, used his left hand to lean on the stick to explore the way, and held the big blue kite in his right hand, and continued to move towards the unexplored area in front.

This walk lasted more than half an hour, and Yue Feng really guessed it right. Judging from the footprints in the snow, there were quite a few small animals active around the bottom of the valley.

Yue Feng found footprints of hares, weasels, and roe deer one after another. These footprints were very fresh and should have been left within three or two days.

Just when Yue Feng thought it would be difficult to encounter a sable again, the Great Green Kites that he had been holding in his hand suddenly seemed to have discovered something and struggled to rush out.

When Yue Feng was mounting a falcon, he was used to holding Liang Kai in his arms all the time. The Great Blue Kitten made a big rush forward (the way a falcon stands on the hunter’s arm and takes the initiative to attack after catching its prey is called a big rush. This term is relative to the flat release, and is generally used for small and medium-sized birds of prey that are out of enclosure). He let go and hung his head, but was held back by Liang Kai and could not make a move.

Yue Feng followed the direction where the Great Green Kitten was struggling and saw a sable about forty or fifty meters away, which was slightly smaller than the first one but darker in color, running wildly towards the distant woods.

Damn! We were less than a kilometer away, but we actually encountered a second sable. It was the Great Green Kites that first spotted it!

Just now, Yue Feng had already made up his mind to focus on reconnaissance and understanding the surrounding situation, but when he saw the living prey running away right in front of him, Yue Feng still felt unwilling to give up.

Continue to release the kite? That is absolutely impossible. If the eagle’s crop is injured in the fight, the kite may die.

Shoot? Forget about whether you can hit it from such a distance. Even if you can hit it, a 7.62 medium-power bullet will only produce a pile of fragments when hitting a sable weighing less than two kilograms. Not to mention the fur, it is hard to even pick up a large piece of meat.

The terrifying kinetic energy of the bullet will directly tear the prey into pieces.

Otherwise, let Black Hawk try?

As if possessed by some mysterious force, Yue Feng whistled as he chased along the downstream side of the stream.

The big black eagle heard the whistle of its master and immediately discovered the trace of the fleeing sable from high above.

I saw it making a few creaking sounds in the air, and then it immediately swooped down from a high altitude.

The forest below the river valley is not dense, mostly empty snow, with occasional scattered shrubs half a person tall.

The big black hawk swooped down at an extremely fast speed and rushed towards the sable.

With a swoop from mid-air, Yue Feng did not even hear the dull sound after the black eagle kicked the sable. It felt as if the black eagle swooped down and fanned the sable with its wings, directly flipping the little guy over.

The big black eagle seemed to know that the sable had sharp teeth and beak, so it did not get close to the prey and use its claws and beak to end the fight. Instead, it swooped down from low altitudes again and again, and each time it landed, it would knock the opponent over.

Seeing this scene, Yue Feng’s tense nerves relaxed a lot. As long as the sable was not torn into pieces, the fur could be sold at a high price.

The big black hawk, who had just witnessed the great blue hawk fighting desperately with the sable, seemed to be showing off its force, just like a cat teasing a mouse, and repeatedly flipped the sable over with its wings but did not end its life.

By the time Yue Feng walked over with his stick, the poor sable had been beaten dizzy by the big black eagle. It lay on the ground trembling, not daring to struggle or even escape.

It was not until Yue Feng approached within two meters that the little sable realized that a hunter was approaching, but its legs were so weak with fear that it struggled a few times and fell twice in succession, unable to run at all.

The big black eagle landed on the snow, making a few loud cackling sounds. The meaning was quite simple: I’m the one who’ll catch the prey. There’s no need to risk my life for such a small creature. Big brother, I’ll take action and I’ll do whatever I want.

Yue Feng looked at the shivering sable, moved closer, and swiftly pinched the skin on the back of its neck with his right hand.

(End of this chapter)