Chapter 398: Intent
When Zheng Si followed the mountain and left in the distance, Ermao's mobile phone began to call the police. Due to the special device on Zheng Si's cat card, as long as Zheng Si leaves a certain distance, there will be an alarm sound on Ermao's mobile phone.
Therefore, for Zheng Si's outing, Ermao was clear, but the master and his old man said that there was a big mountain, and it was okay, so Ermao didn't move.
It wasn't until the afternoon, when they saw Dashan and Zheng Si coming back, that Ermao and Wei Ling were relieved. Others don't know, but the two of them know quite well in their hearts that this black cat is not just a cat, and he has a great ability to cause trouble, and they have promised the Jiao family before they come, and they are not easy to explain what happened.
Therefore, after Zheng Si returned to the courtyard, he listened to Ermao's opinion for more than twenty minutes.
Dashan goes out once or twice a week, and if it is twice, it is rarely two consecutive days, so even the old master did not expect that Dashan would continue to take Zheng Si out the next day, and this time compared to the previous day, it was much farther away, and he went out in the morning.
Zheng Si followed behind the mountain, with yesterday's experience, and now Zheng Si is a little more adaptable.
Today's road is the same as most of the itinerary yesterday, except that in the later part of the road, Daiyama chose to go from some places that are more difficult for people to walk. Whether it is a narrow and steep mountain and rock road, or a dense forest area that is difficult for humans to walk in, it is not too difficult for cats, and all Zheng Si needs to do is to be alert to the possible dangers around him.
Zheng Si will not pin all his hopes on Dashan, even Dashan, an experienced mountain predator, may not be able to perceive all the potential threats around him, so Zheng Si still has to hang his heart and be vigilant around.
Once Zheng Si also followed the Jiao family to the field for internships. The time he found the red mouse, Zheng Si survived in the wild for a while, and after a few years, the nervous mood that seemed to be tense rose again.
That's wild life. There is no mercy. There is only survival, and the slightest negligence can lead to fatal results.
Nervous tension. Zheng Si followed the mountain all the way. He knew there would be danger here, but he wanted to know what the purpose of the mountain was, and he didn't know what it was. Zheng Si always felt that there was something hanging in his heart.
Although it is already mid to late October, if it is in Chuhua City, there must already be an obvious autumn mood, the temperature will drop, mosquitoes or something, and the wild will gradually become less, but not here.
Winter temperatures here are a bit warmer than in the central belt. Unless it's in some high mountains, it's hard to see a single snowflake throughout the winter. Probably because of the temperature, when Zheng Si walked in the woods. I can hear the sound of a lot of mosquitoes, and sometimes those mosquitoes are dangling in front of me, which makes people want to slap them to death immediately, but Zheng Si still endures it. The action of swatting mosquitoes is too large, and it is easy to alarm some dangerous species.
It was close to noon, Dashan caught a bird to eat, Zheng Si only found a few fruits, and as a last resort, Zheng Si really didn't want to touch raw food in the wild.
Dashan was quite curious when he saw Zheng Si eating the fruit, went over and sniffed it, and then walked away in disgust and continued to eat its meat.
Ate something and feel less hungry. Zheng Si squatted on the branch to rest, thinking, there is no one in this area, and after walking for so long, no traces of human activity have been found, how far does the mountain have to go?
There is a lesson from the trip of the red rat back then, and once he left, it took a few days or even longer, and Zheng Si didn't want to do it again.
Why don't you go home later?
Just thinking about it, Zheng Si's ears moved, and he looked in one direction sharply.
If he heard him correctly, it was like, over there, someone was talking.
Looking sideways at the mountain on another branch, the mountain is also looking over there at this moment, his face is a little serious, similar to usual, but his eyes are a little cold, Zheng Si has seen similar eyes many times, when cats hunt and play with dead prey, they are similar eyes, but compared to those cats who hunt with interest, the eyes in the eyes of the mountain are more cold, just like the real cold killer produced by nature, Zheng Si felt cold in his heart.
Could it be that the purpose of the mountain is the people over there?
Looking at the mountain like this, you should know that there are people over there.
In a place so far away from the village and town, which is almost entirely wild, there are people living in it, and Zheng Si thought that there would be no human activities in this kind of place.
Hearing the movement over there, the mountain moved. The movement was light, but fast, quietly approaching that side.
Zheng Si followed, recognizing what might be happening over there from the voices he heard.
Listening to the voice, there was more than one person over there, as if looking for something.
Glancing at the big cat in front of him, Zheng sighed and thought, won't he be looking for this guy again?
It doesn't seem right. Dashan usually lives on the other side of the yard, and even if he comes here, he doesn't come here frequently, and he didn't come here yesterday, and these people should be looking for something that has just been lost.
But what exactly do these people do?
The mountain was not too close, but when it was still a certain distance, it stopped, hiding in a large tree, and its figure was obscured by dense branches.
Zheng Si also hid and looked at the people who were getting closer and closer.
Those people spoke with a dialect tone, and Zheng Si didn't understand it, but he knew what he was really looking for by looking at their movements. Moreover, Zheng Si felt that these people smelled of blood.
These people are dangerous and belong to the type that should be kept away. This is Zheng Si's intuition.
There were three people on the other side, who looked to be in their thirties, probably active outside, and had dark skin. They whispered, their eyes occasionally sweeping over the surrounding bushes and meadows.
Zheng Si hid behind the bushes, and as the three people got closer and closer, Zheng Si was also nervous, and his breathing became cautious.
The good thing is that when they were about ten meters away, they probably felt that there were too many bushes on this side, and it was difficult to walk, and they didn't find any suspicious traces, so they changed directions and left.
When those people walked away, Zheng Si took a long breath.
And the mountain jumped down from the tree, and the branches made a grinding sound with the movement of the mountain, but fortunately the people had already walked away and could not be heard.
After jumping down, Dashan looked in the direction the three people had left, and his ears moved, making sure that the three people had not returned, before he started walking again.
Zheng Si followed the mountain, he didn't know what this person wanted to do, it was certain that it was definitely related to these people who were active in the depths of the dense forest.
What's next?
Just two cats, even if there is a feud, what can they do to those people?
Even if Zheng Si became a human, he couldn't fight against any of those three people. Of course, if it is borrowed by other means, then it is another story.
The mountain didn't seem to follow the three men and went in the other direction.
Half an hour later, Zheng Si saw a simple shed made of cloth and wood, and from some sounds from inside, it was known that there were some animals locked in the wooden house.
Poacher?
No, although there is indeed a large wild mountain forest belt here, there are many wild dogs, wolves, wild boars, etc., but there are not many rare animals, this is what Zheng Si heard Ermao say.
If you really want to poach, what are you going to hunt here? Wolf skin?
At this time, two people came out of the tent, one of them yawned, and with a sense of wine, walked into a tent next to it, while the other went around and sat down against a tree, lit a cigarette and smoked, and when he heard something, the man suddenly looked over.
Whoosh –
The brown figure flashed through the grass and quickly disappeared.
The man's eyes that had been vigilant just now suddenly disappeared. As long as it's not a human, they don't care about other animals.
Zheng Si hid behind the cloth shed, watched the man find the mountain, and sat down slowly against the tree again, not at all worried.
The man was alert.
Dashan's movements just now were actually very slight, but when he approached the cloth shed, he probably paused because of the smell of the animals inside, and his footsteps moved on a very thin branch.
When the man sat down again, Zheng Si gently lifted the thick curtain that had fallen from the cloth shed. didn't go in directly, Zheng Si just lifted it up a little and looked inside.
There are vents on the sides of the cloth shed, and light comes in from the outside. Therefore, even though the inside of the cloth shed is relatively dark, Zheng Si can still use the little bright light to see the situation inside the cloth shed.
There are five cages, two for monkeys and three for red pandas, not small pandas, but the kind of animal with a lot of reddish-brown on its body, also known as red pandas.
Whether it was the two monkeys or the three red pandas, they didn't seem to be in good shape, they didn't have energy, and they didn't move much when they stayed in the cage.
Zheng Si once again doubted whether these people were really poachers. Keeping them alive without paying much attention to their health, is this poacher?
Looking at it, Zheng Si suddenly felt a pang in his heart, quickly put down the curtain, and then quickly left the original place.
After Zheng Si left, the person who was originally sitting against the tree appeared next to the cloth tent.
"What's wrong?" The man who had entered the tent before came out and asked.
"Nothing, other animals approaching." The man next to the cloth shed said.
"Oh, as long as it's not human, it doesn't matter." The tension on the man's face suddenly dissipated, he yawned, and walked into the tent again, "I'll sleep for a while, and wake up to take over your shift." ”
Zheng Si, who was hiding behind a tree not far away, looked at the two people over there. Compared with the three people he met before, Zheng Si could still hear a few words in the words of these two people, and guessed the meaning of the words.
Zheng Si didn't go over to investigate, and Dashan seemed to know that he couldn't get close there, so he planned to go back, but Zheng Si felt that this guy was actually a little unwilling.
If you are unwilling, you can't help it, those people, Zheng Si doesn't want to mess with them.
When he walked back, Zheng Si also pondered the two people just now, as well as the monkey and the red panda in the cage in the cloth shed, only paying attention to whether there was danger around but not paying attention to his feet, and suddenly felt that he had stepped on something, Zheng sighed and looked down.
Zheng sighed that there was something slimy on his feet, I don't know what it was, it felt disgusting. And the mountain was very jealous of this, and looked around nervously, as if there was some dangerous object.