Chapter 207, Hunting Techniques
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And from 0:00 to 4:00 every night, Lu Pingchuan will get 4 hours of precious rest: 3 hours of which are used for sleeping and eating, and the remaining 1 hour, Victor will explain to him and analyze the troubles and mistakes he encountered that day:
“…… Yesterday you walked against the edges of those rocks several times on your way to escape, which is actually very death-seeking behavior in the wild, and those places seem to be hidden and shady, which is suitable for both rest and run. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but have you ever thought about it, where you feel comfortable, those poisonous creatures in the desert feel the same way - those crevices under the rocks are their main habitat, if you hadn't had time to change your clothes just a few days ago from the battlefield, the smell of gunpowder all over your body has become an invisible barrier. If you just rub the stone cracks all the way on weekdays, you can't die more thoroughly! ”
"You didn't tell me these ...... before" Lu Pingchuan muttered and wanted to take the grilled sausage skewered with poplar branches from Victor's hand, but was beaten by the other party with a piping hot sausage: "I didn't tell you that this is for you!" ”
"Why are you so stingy......" Lu Pingchuan covered the back of his burned hand, moved towards the fire with a weak heart, and took advantage of Victor's inattention, picked up a branch with grilled sausages from the ground and stuffed it into his mouth, panting while being hot, and protested vaguely, "You didn't say I couldn't eat it, so this one is mine!" ”
"Ho-ho, you bunny." Victor didn't mind Lu Pingchuan's more and more presumptuous attitude, on the contrary, he looked a little happy, today is the third day of special training in the range of their supply station, Lu Pingchuan ran for a full 16 hours today, during which he was only caught twice, from a technical point of view, there has been a breakthrough from quantity to quality. Through the bonfire, although it can be seen that the young man in front of him who is clutching the roast sausage and gobbling it has lost some shape, the contours of his face show the lines of his muscles unusually clearly, and his body has been further tightened from his previous state of vanity, and it can be seen from his bare wrists and body language that the agility of his movements has not been what it used to be.
"Tomorrow you won't have to run anymore. I've given you permission to sleep eight hours tonight, and starting tomorrow morning, I'll teach you how to conduct individual infiltration operations and squad command. Victor pulled out the remaining five grilled sausages that were inserted in the sand and handed two of them to Lu Pingchuan. Lu Pingchuan was flattered, and forgot to put the sausage in his mouth for a while: "Really? ”
"No way, in fact, I really want to beat you up for a few more days, but the test is about to end in three days, and there is no point in sending you back to the main city in between." Victor said with a smile while rubbing the butt of the rifle on his knee, and Lu Pingchuan couldn't help but tremble when he saw the smile. Seeing that the intimidation had already taken effect, Victor didn't continue, but just poked the desert road in front of the two of them with the gnawed kebab branch, "You know, what is the best way to learn to hunt?" ”
“…… Learn from someone like you who has practical experience? Lu Pingchuan thought for a while and blurted out.
"Those are just scratches and personal experience, and for a rookie like you, there is not much difference between hearing and not listening." Victor sneered, holding the branch and pointing to the rocky darkness away from the campfire, "Learn to hunt, they are the best teachers." ”
Lu Pingchuan turned his head when he heard this, only to see two small "ghost fires" flickering there, and when he looked closely, he found that it was a slender desert jackal, watching the reaction of the two of them.
"Don't be nervous, it's not aimed at us." Victor pointed in the other direction with the branch, Lu Pingchuan squinted his eyes and looked carefully for a while, only to find that there was a groundhog squatting there - attracted by the smell of roasted sausages, the little guy cowered in the corner of the sand and poked his head, but did not dare to approach.
"Look carefully, this is the best teaching material for hunting." Victor said as he quietly chewed on the grilled sausage. The groundhog was very agile and vigilant, and if it was a little louder, it would retreat into its burrow in the sand, never to be seen again. However, the jackal was clearly more willing to hunt and patient, and it carefully moved to the downwind on the periphery to ensure that its scent would not reveal its whereabouts in advance, and then "moved" little by little to the position of the groundhog at a speed that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye.
This process may seem trivial to say, but it is an unusually long process to witness: the prey is unaware of it, and the hunter has to strain all his nerves and attention to observe, analyze, and coordinate the movements and rhythms of the whole body, so as to integrate himself into the environment without being noticed...... The groundhog seemed to have some sense of foreboding that was born of a beast, and it suddenly stood up and looked around. Lu Pingchuan was surprised to find that the moment the groundhog raised his head, the jackal seemed to have a good heart, and then closed his glowing eyes.
With its eyes closed and its ears down, the jackal was completely protected by darkness and became an inconspicuous bulge in the dunes. The marmot looked around and found no movement, so he crouched down again, and then crawled towards the roast materials scattered around the fire...... And just as it was about to touch Victor's backpack, the jackal suddenly burst out of the sand dunes with lightning speed and pounced on its prey, while the groundhog was close enough to the fire that it had no way forward but to turn back and escape...... It was this hesitation that cost it its life, and the jackal knocked the fledgling marmot to the ground with his paws, and immediately bit the throat of his prey, glanced at the two men by the fire, and turned and walked away quickly.
"These creatures are very intelligent, they know that they can eat with people, so they are not very afraid of people." "It's okay here, but on the edge of the desert in the Middle East and Southern Africa, small predators like wolves and wild dogs have become accustomed to cannibalism – they will follow the local militia from afar, waiting to eat the corpses after the battle, and sometimes the dying refugees and the dying wounded...... So in the future, if you have the opportunity to go to such a place, you must be wary of these creatures - they will not only try to collect your corpse, but may also reveal your whereabouts to other experienced 'hunters'. ”
"But......" Lu Pingchuan scratched his head a little puzzled, "Those ...... just now What does it have to do with the situation we have to deal with? (To be continued.) )