Final Volume Mystery of the First Emperor Chapter 546 Searching for Cloud Mountain
Nothing happened that night, and the next morning, after a group of people got up and carefully studied the map, they bypassed the poisonous python stream and walked due east to a big mountain.
Because according to the map, the next step should be to go in the direction of a place called Half Moon Mountain in the southeast, but Chen Qiming has never heard of the place name Half Moon Mountain, and in the southeast of several mountains, there is no mountain landform at all, which can be related to "Half Moon".
After discussing for a long time, they finally decided to go to the highest mountain due south first, and then wait until they reached the foot of the mountain to see if the terrain could match the map show.
The mountain didn't look too far, but there was no direct road to go there, so the group could only choose a place where there were not too many thorns and weeds. When encountering a particularly steep place where the donkey cannot pass, you have to take a detour.
As a result, I walked straight for more than two hours before I reached the foot of the mountain.
When I took out the map and compared it, it was obvious that the surrounding mountains were very different from the line patterns on the map.
A few people had to walk back again, and when they reached the direction that matched the map, it was already close to noon, so they could only sit down and rest for a while before discussing where to go next.
According to the topography at the foot of the big mountain that he had just walked over, Bai Yang and Ding Lingling thought that they should go to the right, but Chen Xiaopang and Chen Qiming said that they should go to the left.
Hongxing couldn't make up her mind, Tie Niu had no reason to stand on the side of Poplar, and in the end several people decided to go to the right.
Fortunately, after spending two hours at the foot of another mountain, and after taking out the map and comparing it carefully, everyone determined that this direction was correct, so they bypassed the mountain according to the map and continued to move southeast.
Walking and stopping like this, sometimes I find that the scenery that goes further forward does not match the map at all, and I have to go back and find the right direction again, and when the sun sets, I still don't know where Yunwu Mountain is.
Strangely, for the whole day, Poplar didn't notice that anyone was following.
According to Ding Lingling's words, the people who followed behind probably noticed that Poplar's vigilance was raised, so they didn't dare to follow too closely. Moreover, in such a rarely visited mountain, they often need to overcome obstacles to continue to move forward, and if there are really people following behind, it is easy to find their tracks, and there is no need to follow too closely.
That night, I found a flat leeward place to rest, and the poplars were naturally full of vigilance at night, but perhaps Ding Lingling was right, in this inaccessible mountain, it was easy to track their tracks, and there was no need to follow them too closely, let alone come to investigate their campsite at night.
So it went smoothly all night, and nothing happened.
The next day, the group continued to rush forward against the map, but it was still the same as yesterday, not only stopping and stopping, but also often going out for a while, and if it didn't feel right, they had to go back.
At noon, a gunshot rang out, followed by a deafening roar.
Chen Qiming immediately said: "It's not good, someone is poaching tigers in this mountain!"
"Do you still have tigers in the mountains?" Iron Bull blurted out.
"Yes! There used to be quite a lot, but because there are so many people poaching, now you can only find tigers in this inaccessible mountain!" Chen Qiming said.
"Then let's hurry over and take a look, it's best to save this tiger!" Chen Xiaopang said.
Bai Yang actually wanted to save the tiger, and as soon as he heard Chen Xiaopang say, he no longer hesitated, and said: "Listening to the sound should not be far away, I'll go over and take a look first, and you will follow later!"
Before he could speak, another tiger roar came into his ears, and he looked even sharper and angry.
Fearing that it would be too late, the tiger had already been killed by poachers, Poplar immediately unfolded his body and hurried towards the place where the sound came from.
Fearing that the others would not be able to keep up, Poplar drew his black sword in one hand and slashed at the weeds and trees beside him as he hurried forward.
Rao was like this, but in an instant, he ran forward without a shadow.
The other people were used to seeing it, but Chen Qiming was dumbfounded, and it took a long time before he sighed like a moan: "My God, this and this...... Is it the legendary kung fu that flies on the grass?"
A few people laughed.
Tie Niu said: "What is this, you haven't seen my brother fighting against the man in black! I said before that the man in black can't kill Brother Chen with a gun, but in fact, my brother can't shoot him with one or two guns!"
Chen Qiming swallowed his saliva, although he still didn't believe it, he didn't dare to show a disapproving look like he did yesterday.
Poplar sped forward alone, and as another tiger roar entered his ears, the shouts of several men also came into his ears.
Bai Yang was afraid that if these people fired a few more shots, the tiger would have no chance to live, so he immediately shouted: "Who is poaching here?"
In the blink of an eye, they came to a sparsely wooded meadow, and on the grass stood four men, two armed with red tassel guns, one with a shotgun, and the other with a bow and arrow.
There was indeed a colorful tiger under the grass, the tiger had two feathered arrows on its body, and the left half of its body was even more bloodstained, and it seemed that the injury was not light.
But the tiger refused to fall to the ground, but staggered from side to side, a pair of tiger eyes glaring at the four men with all their might.
The four men seemed to be about to circle the tiger, but when they heard the poplar roar, the four of them had to turn around and make a vigilant gesture in the direction that the poplar was running from.
Bai Yang slowed down his pace and shouted coldly to the four people: "The tiger is a national protected animal, don't you four know it?"
The eldest of the four raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Isn't your kid a ranger here?"
"I'm not a forest ranger, but I can't sit idly by if you dare to hunt rare animals!" replied Poplar coldly.
"Just you?"
The other, stout-looking man, asked with a sneer, causing the four of them to laugh together.
Bai Yang just wanted to hurry up to see how the tiger was injured, but he was too lazy to talk to them too much, so he simply didn't say anything more, and rushed directly towards the four of them with all his strength.
Those four people were just ordinary hunters, although they were strong and strong, they had not practiced martial arts much, and they were only fighting with swords and guns in their hands.
So much so that Poplar rushed suddenly, and the man with the shotgun didn't have time to re-load the gun, and was stunned by Poplar's palm.
Immediately after Poplar turned around, he easily knocked the other three strong men unconscious.
After that, I approached the tiger to check. The tiger stumbled and refused to fall, but glared with two eyes at the aspen who had approached.
Poplar hurriedly threw away the black sword, stretched out his hands and slowly approached the tiger soothingly.
The tiger glanced at the four men who had fallen to the ground, and then glared at the poplar. I don't know if it was because of the exhaustion of strength, or if it realized that the aspen had no intention of harming it, the tiger finally let out a low roar and fell to the ground.
Poplar hurriedly approached the tiger's side, but saw that the left half of the tiger's body was full of scars, which should have been injured by a shotgun.
The civilian shotgun is different from the military rifle and pistol, the rifle pistol is a bullet, but the shotgun is a shotgun. Its lethality is not as great as that of rifle pistols, but its damage surface is much wider than that of rifle pistols. A shot is fired, and there is no need to aim at all, and the scattered shrapnel can hit the prey.
But these shrapnel generally don't shoot very deeply, and unless they are fired continuously, it is difficult for a large prey like a tiger to fall down with one or two shots.
But the purpose of these people poaching tigers is mainly for tiger skins and tiger bones, so they don't want too much damage on the tiger skin, and they will try not to use shotguns when they can.
This time, it was probably the tiger that was too close, so they had to fire a shot.
And the reason why the tiger is crumbling should be that there is a very strong anesthetic on the tip of the arrow gun of these people.
In fact, the tiger struggled to open its eyes, and it did look like it was drowsy, not like it was seriously injured.
But in this way, Poplar breathed a sigh of relief. After a closer examination of the left half of the tiger's body, it was determined that the tiger's injuries were indeed not serious, and although there were many wounds, fragments of shrapnel could be seen in most of the wounds.
Poplar carefully pinched the shrapnel with his fingers and pulled them out one by one.
The tiger was already asleep, but every time Poplar pulled out a shrapnel, he could hear the tiger let out a low moan.
Just as he was thinking that the shrapnel that had been deeply wounded needed to be pulled out with tools, he happened to hear Tie Niu shouting "Old White Old White", and Bai Yang hurriedly agreed and stood up.
Soon, I saw Tie Niu and the others coming out of the woods.
Bai Yang briefly explained the tiger's injury, Hong Xing and Ding Lingling immediately walked up, one used a knife to pick up the remaining deep shrapnel for the tiger, and the other used the wound medicine he brought with him to apply the tiger to the tiger.
After that, the two feather arrows also came out of the tiger's body, and the tiger couldn't wake up for a while.
The iron bull was the most soft-hearted, and seeing the miserable appearance of the tiger, he couldn't help but raise his foot and kick each of the poachers who were knocked out by the poplars.
(See Chapter 547 "Cloud Cover")