There was a canyon between the ridge and the forest, about four miles or so. The road is covered with weeds more than one person high, and when you walk in it, you can't see anyone in sight.

The big white eagle had been hovering in mid-air, sometimes high and sometimes low, as if looking for an opportunity to attack.

When he came to the edge of the forest, Ling Zikai did not rush in, but let go of his consciousness and investigated the situation in the forest.

The trees in the forest are not luxuriant, they are all artificially planted, and they are all birch forests.

However, on the east side of the forest, there are more than a dozen large oak trees with a height of thirty or forty meters. The oak trees must have been hundreds of years old, and their long branches flourished, forming a separate forest within a forest.

Ling Zikai didn't have time to guess how he could survive these dozen hundred-year-old trees in this mountain forest that had been indiscriminately cut down by humans for a long time, and his consciousness was focused on the two humans who appeared under the oak trees.

The two men were both men in their thirties, one tall and one short, and although they were wearing camouflage uniforms, they could be judged from their demeanor that they were definitely not active soldiers.

One of them, a tall man with an old-fashioned earthen double-barreled shotgun in his hand, kept aiming at the big white eagle hovering overhead.

However, the tall man obviously also understood that the old shotgun in his hand could not knock down the white eagle in mid-air, and the reason why he aimed the gun was nothing more than to threaten the big white eagle who was waiting for an opportunity to attack him, as long as you dared to come down, Lao Tzu would shoot you to death.

In addition, the short man took out a bundle of rope from one of the bags he was carrying, took a refined iron claw tied to the rope, and threw it at a branch of the oak tree.

The short man obviously used this tool a lot, and he mastered it with great precision, both in terms of eyesight, control of power, and throwing skills. The iron claw flew out with the rope, grabbing a tree branch about ten meters above the ground.

The short man tugged at the rope, and when he felt that the iron claws had firmly grasped the branch, he tied the remaining two bundles of rope to his body, and then grabbed the rope that hung from the branch, and began to climb up.

Ling Zikai looked up in the direction the short man had climbed, and suddenly found a bird's nest built on the top of the oak tree. On the edge of the nest was a small white figure, but it was a young eagle that could not fly shortly after hatching.

Ling Zikai immediately came to his senses, these two poachers probably didn't want to hunt the big white eagle, after all, it was a national first-class protected animal, and if they were caught by the public security department, they would be sentenced.

Their target should be the young eagle, and they want to catch the young eagle and buy it to those falconry enthusiasts for a huge profit.

Previously, Ling Zikai had also seen some reports on some news, saying that there are many kinds of pet owners in society now, in addition to petting traditional animals such as cats, dogs, and turtles, there are also people who keep snakes, mice, and crocodiles as pets. There are even people who have their eyes on some rare wild animals.

In some areas of the north, many people play falconry, which is also called to protect traditional cultural heritage.

To say that this falconry is really a long-standing traditional cultural heritage.

As early as thousands of years ago, there were records of falconry in China, just like those who lived by hunting, and falconry was an important part of their daily life.

Ling Zikai once heard the cuckoo say that their Durenke tribe has a tradition of falconry, and the captured mountain eagle is carefully domesticated to become a falcon.

Because the falcon has strong eyesight, it can also find hidden animals on the ground when flying high in the air, plus it is fast when diving, and the attack power of a pair of sharp claws is strong. Animals like mountain hares, pheasants, squirrels, roe deer, goats, etc., once spotted, are difficult to escape.

When hunting, with the help of falcons, you can increase your harvest a lot.

Of course, domesticating falcons is not an easy task. Among the Durenque, there are falconers who specialize in falconry. Back then, Cuckoo's grandfather was a well-known falconer, and the falcons he tamed once captured more than a dozen wild wolves, causing a sensation in the entire Xing'an Mountains.

With the promulgation of the national hunting ban policy, many hunting peoples like the Durenke have ended their traditional way of life for thousands of years, and there are no longer professional falconers.

The falconry craze that is now emerging is entirely a casual recreation. As more and more people join, the survival environment of falcons is seriously threatened, and although the government has issued a law prohibiting the capture of falcons, there will always be some people who ignore the existence of the law in order to seek excitement.

On the contrary, with the promulgation of the ban, the value of the falcon has doubled, and in some underground trading markets, an ordinary falcon costs tens of thousands, and if it is in good condition, it can reach tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

The high stakes have driven some to take risks and hunt falcons on a large scale. Because it is difficult to catch adult eagles, and it is difficult to domesticate them, these people have set their minds on those young eagles that have just hatched.

But I don't know that in this way, the harm to the reproduction of the falcon population will be even greater!

Of course, these are not the poachers' considerations, and they are thinking about doing everything they can to catch the eaglets in exchange for stacks of bills.

Take the two poachers in front of you, for example, who had apparently set their sights on the eagle's nest in the oak tree a long time ago, and were fully prepared, as can be seen from the fact that the short man had brought so many bundles of ropes.

The eagle's nest was built on the top of the oak tree, more than 30 meters above the ground. When the short man climbed the branch along the rope, he was still more than 20 meters away from the eagle's nest.

After standing firm on the branch, the short man took out a bundle of rope again, grabbed the iron claw tied to it, and threw it at a branch above.

After the iron claws grabbed another branch more than ten meters above his head, the short man continued to climb up the rope.

By the time he climbed the branch, he was only four or five meters away from the eagle's nest.

The short man had no intention of continuing to climb up, and after standing firm, he pulled out a one-meter-long plastic pole from his back. I saw that after he held the pole for a while, the plastic rod slowly became longer, and it turned out to be modified from a fishing rod, and the inside could be freely retracted.

In the blink of an eye, the plastic pole was stretched to more than four meters long, and it was able to step on the position of the eagle's nest.

The short man took out another holster made of mesh and tied it to the top of the plastic pole, as if trying to put the young eagle in the net.

The big white eagle in mid-air obviously realized that the danger was getting closer and closer to his child, and became a little anxious, hovering at a lower and lower height, and the circle was getting smaller and smaller.

Suddenly, the white eagle let out a sharp chirp, swooped down and pounced on the short man standing on the branch.

Oh no, the big white eagle is in danger!

Ling Zikai secretly screamed in his heart, ignoring that the other party had a gun in his hand, so he rushed into the forest with his legs.

However, before Ling Zikai could rush to the bottom of the oak tree, there was a "bang" of gunfire in his ears.

The tall man had been paying attention to the movement of the big white eagle in mid-air, and when he saw it swooping down, he decisively pulled the trigger when it was about to descend into the forest.

At this time, the big white eagle was only more than fifty meters above the ground, and even if the range of the old-fashioned earthen shotgun was poor, it still emitted a lot of power at such a distance.

Fortunately, this kind of shotgun uses some sand bullets, although the shooting area is large, but the lethality is much smaller.

In addition, the speed of the big white eagle's dive was very fast, and the accuracy of the shot was a little off target, and it failed to hit the body of the big white eagle head-on.

However, the wings of the great white eagle are more than two meters wide, and such a large area cannot avoid the marbles that scatter, and it is immediately beaten into feathers.

The great white eagle let out a wail, and when its outstretched wings were broken, it immediately lost its balance and fell from mid-air into the grass outside the oak forest.

"Damn, I've been staring at you for a long time, and now I've finally beaten you down!"

After the thin and tall man cursed in his mouth, he did not rush to check the life and death of the big white eagle, but took out a bullet from his pocket, and while loading the bullet into the chamber of the gun, he shouted at the short man in the tree: "Sun Shorty, you move quickly, don't wait for the other white eagle to come back, it's not over yet!"

"It's going to be right away!"

The short man responded, carefully covering the flapping but flightless chick in the nest with a net, and pulled it out of the nest, slowly retracting the pole.

After grabbing the net cover with his hand, the short man gently patted the young eagle inside, and said excitedly: "Liu Da, I've done it! Come down immediately." ”

Then he hung the net sleeve on his waist, grabbed the rope and slipped down, and the speed was very fast, and in a blink of an eye, he fell down the ground from a tree more than 30 meters high. As soon as his feet landed, he didn't even want the rope hanging on the branches, and said, "Liu Da, let's go quickly!"

"Do you think you'll be able to escape now?"

An unfamiliar, furious voice suddenly sounded behind him.