Chapter 62: No Fate?

In his opinion, the size of the bird of prey just now was about the same as a large eagle catching rabbits, and it should not have such big claws.

In order to verify his guess, Yue Feng took out the top-quality iron-backed red eagle from his backpack, and used the big red eagle’s claws to mark the location of the wound on the pigeon’s back.

This gesture confirmed Yue Feng’s judgment.

This iron-backed red eagle weighs about 2.4 jin and has such strong and well-developed claws, but it is actually half a size smaller than the black strange eagle.

In a split second, Yue Feng, a guy who gets bored easily, felt that his top-grade Iron-backed Red Eagle was no longer attractive.

Let’s talk about the feather color first. Yue Feng is sure that there should not be any pure black eagles on Changbai Mountain.

Among naturally existing birds of prey, the one that is closest in size to the eagle just mentioned is the goshawk, which also has black-gray feathers on its back and grayish-white belly.

As for the strange eagle just now, the first impression it gave was that it looked like an oversized crow, its body shiny black without a single stray hair.

It can take off vertically from a net that is 1.5 meters long and 1.3 meters high without touching the net, which shows that the physical hardware of this big black eagle is extremely terrifying.

This is also verified by the eagle’s performance of climbing to high altitude after taking off. In almost the blink of an eye, it flew to a height of dozens of meters without any effort at all.

In addition, it had just eaten a whole pigeon in the morning, and it came to eat pigeons again in the evening, just one day. The appetite of this big black eagle is a bit exaggerated. For an ordinary big eagle, feeding a pigeon a day will cause a lot of harm. This strange black eagle eats two pigeons a day, and its appetite is more than twice that of an ordinary rabbit eagle.

That’s not all. What makes Yue Feng like it even more is that the intelligence and eyesight of this big black eagle are far superior to those of its peers.

The self-falling net that Yue Feng used to hunt eagles had a mesh opening that was five fingers wide. Ordinary sub-adult eagles would not even notice such a large opening, let alone associate it with danger. Only a very small number of old eagles who had suffered losses and managed to escape by chance had the survival experience in this regard.

The IQ of a bird of prey like the goshawk is not that high, otherwise it would not be trained and left alone for a few days, then it would not recognize people and turn violent after a while.

On the other hand, this big black hawk harmed three pigeons of Yuefeng successively. The first time, it rubbed off the net and failed to catch the pigeon, so the pigeon was eaten. The second and third time, it avoided the net perfectly and escaped from the net.

No, no, no! If we can get this big black eagle and train it, won’t it be able to fly to the sky and stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun?

Not long ago, Yue Feng was still thinking about starting to train the Big Ironback from tomorrow after coming down the mountain to increase its strength. Now Yue Feng decisively changed his plan.

We will continue to go up the mountain tomorrow. As long as that big black eagle dares to come, I will catch you even if it means harming ten or eight more pigeons.

With full of longing in his heart, Yue Feng put away the trap and went down the mountain.

After returning home, Yue Lei mentioned the strange black eagle he encountered on the mountain to his father when he was putting foots on the iron-backed red eagle. Yue Lei was amazed and supported his son to go up the mountain for a few more days.

As for the chicken hawk and rabbit hawk brought back from home, Yue Lei was responsible for the initial raising and fattening of the rabbit hawk, while the chicken hawk would be tied up in the warehouse first and a decision would be made after that was done.

In the following week, Yue Feng still went up the mountain on time every day. He successively shot a purple hawk with a peach-tipped tail that weighed 2.3 kilograms and a small goshawk that weighed 1.9 kilograms (female goshawks that are slightly smaller than the average are called small goshawks. This kind of eagle can also catch rabbits. Because of their smaller size, they can fly faster, but their physical reserves are slightly poorer, and they are easily at a disadvantage when facing large prey).

There were three more eagles in the house, but the big black eagle that Yue Feng had been thinking about was never seen again.

Many times, the most frightening thing about doing something is not having no results, but working hard for a long time without seeing any hope at all.

After Yue Feng witnessed the big black eagle up close, even after he set up a new trap and released pigeons, the big black eagle never came back to harm the decoys. A week later, Yue Feng completely gave up the idea of ​​​​staying on the mountain to catch the eagle. On the last day, when he packed up the net and prepared to go down the mountain, Yue Feng looked up to the sky and screamed.

Damn it, I’m not willing to accept this!

No matter how unwilling he was, he couldn’t waste endless time here gambling on that illusory chance. Yesterday, when Xiao Tao went to deliver the goods, Master Niu urged him once and gave Yue Feng a message. According to the date Yue Feng promised Master Niu, it would be too late to stay in the mountain any longer.

After packing up his things, Yue Feng returned to the village.

Father Yue Lei was setting up a hawk under a big tree outside the house. He could hear the clear sound of the hawk bell on the hawk’s tail from a long distance away.

The village children who gathered around to watch the eagle provided a natural advantage for the big eagle to get in, saving it the trouble of carrying the eagle to the market.

“Dad! I’m back!” Yue Feng greeted him from a distance of dozens of meters.

“How was your day? Any progress?” Yue Lei was also very concerned about the black eagle in his son’s mouth, and the first thing he asked every day when he got home was this.

Yue Feng shook his head: “I didn’t see the shadow, forget it, maybe it’s not fate! I brought back the net and the bait, I won’t go up the mountain tomorrow!”

Yue Lei nodded and consoled him: “It’s okay if you don’t go! This red ironback is enough to catch rabbits and pheasants!”

“How heavy is the eagle today?”

Yue Lei brushed the eagle’s tail with his left hand and replied, “I weighed it this morning and there was still 2.25 kg!

This eagle is really stubborn. Apart from drinking some water every day, it still doesn’t eat. It hasn’t eaten for a week and has only lost 2.5 taels!”

Yue Feng looked around the eagle from front to back and left to right. Now the red iron-backed eagle was standing on Yue Lei’s right arm sleeve. It was very stable, unlike the previous few days when it had its wings drooping and its mouth open, looking very scared.

Yue Feng observed that the hair around the eye sockets of the big red eagle showed signs of stretching out, and the pupils of the eagle were no longer in the extremely frightened state as when it was just out of the net. This showed that the daytime lifting of the eagle by his father in the past week had achieved initial results, and the wildness of the new eagle after it was out of the net had also been somewhat reduced.

Yue Feng judged that it would not be long before he could start eating at the hands of others.

Yue Feng said, “It’s not ready to eat because we didn’t keep it warm in the second half of the night! Tonight, the two of us will keep it warm all night, you in the first half and I in the second half. It should be ready to eat tomorrow!”

“Okay! Let’s endure it overnight!”

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The father and son chatted for a while at the door, and the Li family’s father and son and the Zhang family’s brothers Xiaowen and Xiaowu also came back one after another.

During the nine days that they climbed Yuefeng Mountain, the harvest of the four people who went up the mountain every day became more and more stable. On average, each person with an eagle could catch about 25-30 chicks. When it was the turn to use the great blue kite, the harvest was significantly more, stabilizing at more than chicks.

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