Chapter 392 Black Gun
After tracking for a long time, Zhou Yuanchao quietly followed several members of Qiao San’s hunting team and rushed to Duantoupo, which was two ridges away from Shilazigou.

The long ridge here suddenly broke, revealing a cliff with a height difference of at least 20 to 30 meters. It was difficult for the people below to determine the attacker’s position by shooting from the top of the cliff.

Even if he found the person who fired the shooter, it would take some time to catch up with him because of the cliff. Zhou Yuanchao had enough time to leave calmly.

“Fuck! Did this tiger escape far from this forest? We have been wandering around the mountain for a long time, but there is no useful trace!!”

While complaining, Qiao San took out a box of Ginseng brand cigarettes with mouthpieces from his pocket, and casually dismissed his companions. The one next to him named Erqiang immediately came over to help him light the cigarette.

“Third Master, it only took up one day yesterday. There were no villagers chasing after this tiger, so how could it run away in such a short time?
I think the direction we chose is wrong. Let’s change our position and try again! We might run into a tiger that big! “

Erqiang squinted his eyes, took a puff of cigarette, and then blew out smoke rings with satisfaction.

“Since yesterday, things haven’t been going well for us, so everyone be careful!

We have been walking in the mountains for the whole morning. Let’s find a sheltered place to make a fire and heat up some food. I am hungry!”

“Okay! Let’s go to the lower half of the Broken Head Slope. It’s protected from the wind and there are a lot of dead pine trees there. There’s firewood ready. We can start a fire in five minutes!”

“go!”

……

A fire was soon lit under Yangpowaizi, and Qiao Saner and his companions took out the lunch boxes from their hunting bags.

Big white steamed buns are served with sauerkraut and pork ribs, and the other aluminum boxes contain pickled vegetables with meat oil and braised pork. It must be said that the standard of the food brought up the mountain is quite serious.

The people here quickly opened their lunch boxes and put them next to the fire to warm them up without Qiao Saner having to do anything. Qiao Saner then took out a small silver flat kettle from his bag.

The water in the kettle freezes easily, but the high-proof liquor in the flat pot will not freeze. It is cold on the mountain, and taking a sip while eating can warm you up a lot.

Zhou Yuanchao took a rough look at the terrain on the Duantou Slope and quietly made all preparations.

Then, regardless of the coldness of the ground, he lay down in the snow and set up his No. 16 barreled gun.

“Fuck it! They killed my dog! Four dogs in exchange for a bullet, no one should blame anyone else!!”

Zhou Yuanchao muttered something to himself as he calmly loaded the gun and aimed the crosshairs at Qiao San, who was leading the group.

The straight-line distance from the ambush point to Qiao San and others is about 150 meters, with a height difference of about to meters. The surrounding vegetation is sparse and there is no obvious obstruction, so the shooting conditions are good.

With Zhou Yuanchao’s usual shooting skills, if he shoots at a human-shaped fixed target at this distance, he can have at least a 70% chance of hitting the target if he performs normally.

Zhou Yuanchao aimed his gun at Mr. Qiao Sanye who was in the crowd and pulled the trigger.

I don’t know if it was Mr. Qiao’s destiny, but just one second before Zhou Yuanchao pulled the trigger, the aluminum lunch box placed next to the fire suddenly tilted a little, and Mr. Qiao, who was closest to it, reached out to support it as if by reflex.

At this moment, his body posture changed slightly and his center of gravity leaned forward. The torso that Zhou Yuanchao originally aimed at missed, and the bullet passed directly by his right arm.

Bang! A gunshot rang out through the woods.

The bullet passed through the gap of Mr. Qiao Sanye and hit Erqiang’s thigh directly next to the fire.

Erqiang felt as if his thigh was hit hard by a sledgehammer, and instantly his entire thigh lost all feeling.

“who??”

Qiao Saner and others reacted and immediately looked in the direction of the gunshot.

Zhou Yuanchao, who had fired a shot, had already shrunk back to the ground. After crouching and retreating a dozen steps, he quickly tied up his skis and evacuated quickly in the direction he had chosen before.

“Third Master, Erqiang was shot in the thigh! Quick, get a bandage to stop the bleeding!”

Another companion nearby soon discovered the bloody hole on Erqiang’s leg.

The destructive power of the 7.62mm medium-power bullet is far from what is shown in ordinary film and television works.

The bullet hit Erqiang’s thigh. The hole was the size of a wine glass when it entered, and was as big as the mouth of a small bowl when it came out. The gushing blood immediately soaked his cotton pants.

Fortunately, among the four members of Qiao San’s hunting team, one had served in the army and knew the first aid procedures for gunshot wounds. He immediately took out a hemostatic bandage from his hunting bag, and several people worked together to stop the bleeding from the gunshot wound on Erqiang’s leg.

“Fuck it! Who dares to shoot us? We are tired of living like this! Erqiang, how do you feel? Hang on! The brothers will carry you down the mountain right now!”

Mr. Qiao was both scared and angry because the bullet just flew past him.

If the lunch box had not been unstable and he had not reached out to hold it, the bullet would have most likely hit him. If he was unlucky, it might have hit two people.

Erqiang’s face was obviously paler due to the gunshot and blood loss, but he was still conscious.

“I can hold on, it doesn’t hurt!!”

“We can think about other things later. Let’s carry Erqiang down the mountain first! We can’t wait to treat this gunshot wound! Old Ji, cut down some small trees to make a stretcher!”

“I’ll get the stretcher. Don’t panic. Third Master, don’t be idle either. Put your gun on the stand. Don’t give the black gunman a second chance to shoot!”

The man called Lao Ji immediately pulled out a knife from his waist, swiftly cut down two small trees, and quickly took off his leggings to make a makeshift stretcher. Qiao Saner directly held the 56 and a half and fired a burst of bullets at Duantoupo.

The continuous sound of gunfire could be heard far away in the forest, but Zhou Yuanchao, who fired the gun, had already left on his skis through another road.

This time, because of a sneak bullet, the four members of Qiao Saner’s hunting team didn’t even have time to eat lunch. They wrapped the stretcher, helped Erqiang lie down on it, and two people carried the stretcher and walked down the mountain.

……

On the other side, Yue Feng and his three other brothers from the hunting team had been wandering in the forest for the entire morning.

Our luck today is not as good as yesterday. Of the three fishing spots we set up yesterday, the first two showed no signs of being triggered by the target tiger.

The brothers kept going to the third place, and only then did they see traces of the wild boar that was placed on the tree having gone into the water and been eaten.

“Brother! It’s moving! Yesterday’s nest has been disturbed!!”

Xiao Tao started shouting in advance even though he was far away.

After climbing the mountain for several days in a row, the brothers were all tired. Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Yuefeng were strolling on the mountain in the morning. They were obviously less energetic than in the previous two days.

But Xiao Tao is a guy with exceptionally good physical fitness. He has been strolling for the whole morning and is still full of energy.

“Open the safety of the gun! Xiao Tao, you go and take a look, we’ll wait here! When you come back, clean up the footprints with a broom!” Yue Feng arranged.

“Okay! Don’t worry, I’ll go and see! If that big tiger dares to show off to me, I’ll shoot it dead!”

Xiao Tao opened the safety of the gun, held the gun and carried a broom, and walked over in a swagger.

When we got close and checked around, we could clearly see the signs of eating and the tiger’s footprints, as well as a small amount of bloody meat on the ground.

Xiao Tao observed the surrounding situation and finally confirmed the direction of the tiger’s footprints. Then he walked back while cleaning up his footprints with a broom.

Soon returned to the middle of the team.

“The tiger walked towards the northwest! It was the same tiger from yesterday, and its footprints are the same. This time it should have eaten in the same place, and did not drag itself to another place to eat!” Xiao Tao said what he had seen after the inspection.

Yue Feng nodded: “Not bad, not bad! The tiger is slowly starting to let down its guard!”

“Hmm? How do you know it’s slowly letting down its guard?”

Xiao Tao scratched his head and looked at Xiaowen and Xiaowu. The three brothers all looked confused.

Yue Feng explained with a smile: “Although this tiger is big, it is very alert and cautious. It will only eat when it feels safe!

The tiger dragged away the food from the den we dug yesterday, looking for another place to eat!
Today, the wild boar went into the water again, but they started eating right there! This is a very obvious signal!

I estimate that it will only take a few days for us to close the net!”

Xiao Tao scratched his head: “There is such a saying! It seems to make sense!”

“Then what should we do next?” Xiaowen asked Xu Wen with concern.

Yue Feng grinned and said, “If we go northwest from here, we will be not far from Shizigou and Hutiaoya!

Before coming here, Uncle Zhao and Chen Pao reminded me that if the direction was correct, the tiger would most likely return to the more familiar territory ahead!

Let’s bear some hardship today and release wild boars directly into the water at Shizigou and Hutiaoya.

If everything goes well, we can go up the mountain with the musk deer early tomorrow morning and then spend another day ambushing the tiger. We should be able to take it down!”

“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go! The sooner we go, the sooner we can go home and rest after we’re done!”

“go!”

……

After a brief exchange, the four brothers did not want to waste even the time for lunch and rest, and while they were on their way, they took out a few cold bean buns from their lunch boxes, ate them to fill their stomachs, and dragged their sleds straight to Shizigou.

The brothers had been to this Shizigou not long ago for a fight, so they were very familiar with the route.

After crossing several mountain ridges, we climbed up the Chaiji Road. After walking along the Chaiji Road for a while, we soon arrived at Shizigou.

It was obviously not enough to set up the bait for the wild boars that Yue Feng and his companions brought up the mountain to set up the bait for the two mountain areas at once.

However, there should be no one here who can track the tiger here now, so the significance of this nest has changed compared to the previous two days.

Previously, we secretly built nests to gain a disguised understanding of the tiger’s activity range and to judge the tiger’s condition from the side.

Now the tiger dares to eat directly in its den, and there is no trace of other competitors tracking the tiger. The three sheep dung eggs spread yesterday are likely to have worked.

(End of this chapter)