Chapter 264: One Shot, Four Explosions

The next morning, Yue Feng got up from the kang early as usual when he heard his aunt getting up to cook.

It’s good to be young. No matter how tired you are the day before, you just need to lie down on the kang and have a good sleep. You will wake up full of energy and recharged the next morning.

Leaving aside the usual busy schedule of eating and feeding the dog after getting up in the morning, after the hunting team members had eaten and drunk their fill, they set out on today’s journey again with my second uncle.

We had a huge harvest yesterday, and our friends were in high spirits. On the way up the mountain today, they were all humming little songs.

Especially Xiao Tao, who accidentally discovered a bear barn yesterday. Whenever he saw a decent big tree, he would look up. As a result, he looked up a lot along the way, but he was not as lucky as yesterday to discover another bear barn or something like that.

“Brother, why don’t we let Uncle take us to the large ditches and ponds at the top of Dalongjian today?
If we don’t go, those thieves out there will definitely go there to show off. If we catch them, they won’t be able to catch us, so they will stop!”

Halfway through the walk, Xiao Tao, who was walking the dog, suddenly had an idea and made a suggestion.

Yue Feng thought about it and it seemed to be the case.

Currently, the method of catching sables by using the top-level big yellow, the blasting team and the air force black hawk is probably the only one in Xiatuozi Mountain.

Even if others understood it in a short period of time, it would be an almost impossible task to arrange both the eagle and the dog in place.

For the entire day yesterday, Yue Feng’s team followed the second uncle as their guide in the back mountain, and basically searched the corners and ditches.

The crowd did not go to the core area where the subcutaneous clamps were relatively densely packed.

“Second uncle, what do you think?”

Yue Feng did not make a decision in a hurry, but turned around and asked his second uncle who was walking in front and leading the way.

The reason why my second uncle took them to start the search from the corners yesterday was mainly because at that time they had not yet cracked the secret of sables spending the winter in Blind Camel Mountain, and they were still thinking about the problem with traditional hunter thinking.

I always feel that there are always people setting traps in the core area, so the density of sables must be much lower. Even if they go there, it will be difficult to get anything.

However, through Yue Feng and his team’s one day of practical experience, the success rate of setting traps to catch sables can be said to be about the same as trying to win the lottery, which is a completely passive act of waiting and relying on luck.

Isn’t there a saying that goes, in the face of absolute strength, luck has to take a back seat?

Now Yue Feng and his team have mastered the 2.0 advanced version of the sable capture method that uses dogs and eagles to work. Naturally, they will be more efficient when working in core areas with higher relative density.

Yue Feng and his team were not greedy. They would consider it a success as long as they could capture eight adult breeding female minks with cubs in their bellies.

It would be great to wait until they have scraped all the ditches and ponds in the core area below Dalongjian and caught most of the fish, and then let the Qian family and other big hunters stare in amazement. It’s a wonderful thought.

The second uncle held the spear he brought from home in his right hand. After hesitating for a second, he said, “Okay, let’s go directly to the ditches and ponds below Dalongjian today!”
Xiao Tao is right. It doesn’t matter who catches him. If we catch him, they can’t. After a long time, they will give up!

Finish the planned work as soon as possible and rest at home for a few days. There is no shortage of meat at home now, so ask your aunt and others to make more delicious food to nourish your spirits.

Going up the mountain in this freezing cold weather is not a good job!”

“Then it’s settled! Let’s go to the core area!! But let me make it clear first, if you run into the Qian family or other hunters looking for trouble, you have to be more cautious. Since we are a hunting team, we have to be of one mind!”

Yue Feng noticed that his second uncle clenched his spear while speaking, so he took precautions in advance and made three rules.

“You lead the team, and we will all listen to you!” said my second uncle without hesitation.

“That’s it!”

……

After more than three hours of traveling on the mountain road, everyone hurried on their way. At around 9:30 in the morning, they arrived at the largest ditch with warm springs below Dalongjian.

It’s a bit inaccurate to call it a ditch. When we got to this valley, we found that it was very large! It even gave us the illusion that we had followed Uncle Zhao to Luming Valley.

Because of the existence of the warm spring above, the valley was filled with mist early in the morning. After entering the canyon, it felt like the temperature had risen by several degrees.

Wherever you go in other areas, it’s all covered in ice and snow, with everything desolate and lifeless, but in this Grand Canyon, it’s a completely different world.

The unfrozen spring water flowing down from the upstream forms a mountain stream. The stream gurgles, and the snow melts in the area it passes through, revealing the grass and trees underneath. On both sides of the stream, you can even see a lot of green plant buds and branches.

Although the adjacent mountains are only a few kilometers apart in a straight line, they give people two completely different feelings. The wonders of nature are astonishing.

“Second uncle, is this the earth dragon’s tail that you mentioned?”

“Yes! Look below, there is a stone hill that stretches for at least several kilometers. It is not so clear when covered with snow in winter. After the snow melts, the winding earth-yellow hill looks like a severed dragon’s tail, so it got this name!” My second uncle pointed to the southeast and explained slowly.

Everyone followed the direction and observed for a while. It’s true that people from Northeast China are definitely the best at naming places.

Just like the nicknames of the villagers, there are wrong names but no wrong nicknames.

Even though it is covered with winter snow, the winding bare ridge still looks like a dragon’s tail, which is indeed vivid.

“They come to Tulongwei to set traps, usually on both sides of the mountain stream. When we walk, we should be a little careful and avoid them as much as possible!” The second uncle reminded again.

“Okay, let’s get started! I feel the environment here is much better than the places we searched yesterday, how about giving it a try! Da Huang, come here!”

Yue Feng called out, and the head dog, Dahuang, came over happily.

Yue Feng took out a small piece of sable’s paw skin (when skinning, the skin will be cut from the limbs above the paws, this paw skin is equivalent to useless waste skin, the protagonist uses it as a source of smell for the bitch) and let Dahuang smell it.

Dahuang had already spent the whole day looking for “big rats” yesterday. After smelling it, he immediately lowered his head and started searching on the snow cover.

Yue Feng and his companions descended into the valley from the gentle slope of the high ridge on the northwest side of Tulongweiba. Not long after they walked down the sunny slope, they were smelled by Dahuang. Dahuang didn’t care about the clamps or not, he just went where there was a smell.

After searching for less than a hundred meters, Dahuang started barking early.

Wang Wang Wang!
Everyone followed immediately, and Dahuang dug the snow frantically with his front paws, and soon the entrance to the cave below was revealed.

“Hey! This isn’t a dirt cave. Look, it looks like a rock cave!!”

Yue Feng used the back of the knife to knock on the gray-yellow material at the entrance of the cave, which looked a bit like stone, and there really was a sound of metal hitting stone.

“It is indeed a cave. These small caves should have been formed under special geological conditions! If I am not mistaken, the material of this stone is the same as the ridge on which no plants grow on the earth dragon’s tail!” said my second uncle.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a stone hole or a mud hole! As long as there’s the scent of sable, it means there’s something here. Watch me give it a shot first!”

Xiao Tao swiftly picked up two firecrackers and, following the operation demonstrated by Yue Feng yesterday, used one to knock open the sealing soil and connected the other to the fuse at the rear. He then lit the combination firecracker and threw it into the hole!

puff! !

A muffled explosion sounded at my feet, and soon yellow-white smoke came out from at least three places on the slope about ten meters away. For a moment, the smell of burning gunpowder filled the air.

Squeak!
Just after the explosion, a squeaking sound was heard coming from the cave below.

Soon, a sable that was a shade lighter in color emerged from its snow shell on the gentle slope and fled along the nearby mountain stream.

Before Yue Feng blew the whistle to call the big black eagle to work, three slightly smaller sables came out from under two inconspicuous snow covers nearby.

One after another, four sables were blown out of the cave. The scene was a little chaotic for a while. The dogs that had been following the people with ropes began to struggle and bark, trying to catch the prey that had escaped.

Including my second uncle, no one was mentally prepared for four prey to come out of a cave. When they saw them huddled together to escape, they were all dazed for a moment.

Fortunately, Yue Feng was a man with quick wits. It didn’t matter what happened. Now that he had killed four sables, he would first ask Black Hawk to finish the job.

Tweet!

Yue Feng blew a long whistle, then ran after the largest sable that ran out first.

Upon hearing the master’s order to attack, the big black hawk immediately entered combat mode, still using its signature dive move, and in one round it knocked the sable running in the front to the ground.

I don’t know if it was because it used too much strength, but the sable rolled over, and when it stood up again, the walkway had already started to shake.

The other three sables following behind it immediately gathered together after discovering that the captain in front was attacked by the big black hawk.

When the three little guys saw the big black eagle blow their companion to the ground, they even forgot to run away. They squatted together, raised their front paws and made shrill squeaking sounds, which was very threatening.

However, this level of threat can only affect small falcons like the Great Green Harrier. For a Black Hawk to deal with them is like an adult beating a child. They are not on the same level at all.

If these little guys fled in all directions, maybe they would hide under the snow or in the bushes, and one or two of them would escape. But now they are gathered together in a threatening and defensive posture. Isn’t that giving the big black eagle a chance?

After knocking down the leader, the big black eagle quickly climbed back to a height of more than 30 meters. When it swooped down again, it shifted its attack target to the three little guys.

With one dive, the three guys with bared fangs and claws were fanned around by the big black eagle’s tough wings.

(End of this chapter)