Chapter 118: Overseas Investigation (5)
This caution was not unreasonable, and Tom Wang sternly warned the members at the pre-departure meeting that the Indochina Tiger, the king of the jungle, was the Indochina tiger in the Indochina Peninsula region, and that in addition to preying on animals such as deer, wild boars, and monkeys, Wang Tom even hunted competitors such as leopards and bears. The male Indochinese tiger is nearly three meters long and can weigh about 200 kilograms, and is born a very sharp killing machine. With the exception of Asian elephants, there are few rivals in nature throughout Indochina. In addition, there are clouded leopards and black bears, which are also super aggressive beasts in this area. Therefore, no one is allowed to be left alone or moved without permission during the hunting operation, and the hunting area can only be within a three-kilometer radius of the sailing dock, and it is not allowed to go deeper inland at will.
Finally, Tom stressed that if anyone finds an Asian elephant, they must immediately retreat to the starting point, and there must be no other provocation to the Asian elephant. This is because Asian elephants are social animals, and it can be a very scary thing to have a conflict with an elephant herd. Far from stopping the herd, a limited number of firearms may cause a riot. Although the Asian elephant looks large and slow, in fact, this animal can run at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour, and most adults cannot outrun it.
After receiving the vaccination, the three hunting teams set off together and moved forward in parallel at a distance of about 200 meters. Although this distance is not far, due to the large amount of surface vegetation, the visibility between the teams is not very good, so everyone turns on the walkie-talkie and keeps in touch at all times.
In this untouched area, there are quite a lot of wild animals, and since humans have not set foot here, most of them are not too wary of the presence of the expedition. Soon after the hunt began, Tom Wang shot a golden rooster with a compound bow, and then he handed the bow to his teammates and acted as a coach himself. The other two groups of centaurs were soon captured, Roger and Shi Diwen's team hit a civet cat, and Qiao Zhiya caught a python more than two meters long.
After an hour of hunting, Tom Wang took matters into his own hands and shot an adult sambar deer with a compound bow forty meters away, and then announced that their group had ended the hunt for the day, and the adult stag weighed two hundred kilograms, and only the strength of the whole group of five people could drag this guy back to the place where the boat was parked.
Soon Qiao Zhiya's group also announced the end of the hunt, although they did not hunt a target as big as the sambar, but they did hit five or six golden pheasants, and also took out a lot of eggs.
Roger and Shi Diwen's group struggled for a long time because of the small gain, until the other two teams merged and were already halfway on the way back, Roger's helpless voice sounded on the walkie-talkie: "Okay, we are ready to return, it seems that today is not a good time to hunt...... Wait, we seem to have found something amazing......"
Then two gunshots rang out in the forest in the distance, and the team members on the return trip immediately stopped, and everyone looked shocked and uncertain, speculating about what happened to the other group. While calling Roger's group, Tom Wang quickly gave an order to the other team members: "The people from the military police department will return with me to meet them, and the others will immediately return to the ship to be on guard!"
When the reinforcements led by Tom Wang were still on the way, Roger's excited voice had already sounded again on the walkie-talkie: "My God, Tom, you would never have imagined that we hit something!"
Tom Wang replied angrily, "I guess you must have killed the aliens who unfortunately landed on Earth!"
"It's not an alien, but it's almost!" A few minutes later, a triumphant Roger showed the panting reinforcements what their group had gained.
On the ground lay a big black guy, with a fat body, short legs, and a head as big as a bucket. At first glance, it looks like a wild boar, but it is much larger than a wild boar, more than two meters long, and does not have a mane like a wild boar.
"It's ...... Rhinos?" the sharp-eyed man had already recognized the true face of the prey lying on the ground.
"Isn't the rhino an African animal? Where did the rhinoceros come from Vietnam? Isn't this thing also a cross-over thing?" someone asked.
Tom Wang didn't speak, squatted down to look at it carefully for a while, and then came to a conclusion: "That's right, this is a rhinoceros." Ladies and gentlemen, you have had the privilege of meeting the Indochinese subspecies of an extinct animal, the Javan rhinoceros. ”
In fact, the rhinoceros is not only found in the African savannah, there are three species of rhinoceros in Asia, and the Javan rhinoceros is the only unlucky ghost on the verge of extinction. The rhinoceros once existed in vast areas of Southeast Asia, but the vast majority became extinct in the 20th century. A few years before the crossing operation, the last Javan rhinoceros of the Indochinese subspecies was killed by poachers in a national park in Vietnam, leaving fewer than fifty of the Javan rhinos left on the planet in the primeval forests of the island of Java.
"So we just killed a very precious animal?" "After listening to Tom Wang's popular science, Roger was obviously not as happy as he was just now.
Tom Wang patted him on the shoulder and said, "Four hundred years later, it is indeed very precious, but it should not be considered in this era. ”
Roger had just shown a relieved expression, and Tom Wang said, "But you killed this rhinoceros purely to waste bullets." This is a female rhinoceros with no horns on her head, which is the most valuable part of their body. Other than that, it's just a bunch of meat, are you going to have a rhinoceros meal?"
Roger argued: "Rhino skin can be peeled off to make armor!"
"Then you have to toss for a long time, I think this rhinoceros is at least six or seven hundred kilograms. Tom looked at his watch: "It's six o'clock in the afternoon, and it's going to get dark in a little more than an hour, do you plan to spend the whole night here to finish peeling it or move it back to the ship before dark?"
Roger opened his mouth, but in the end nothing came out.
Naturally, no one would help Roger carry the behemoth back to the ship two kilometers away, and Roger obviously couldn't stay overnight in the wilderness for a bloody rhinoceros skin. In the end, the hunters had no choice but to abandon the hapless Javan rhinoceros and return to the ship with some relatively small prey.
A few excited members took off their clothes and prepared to go directly to the river to bathe, but they were all stopped by Wang Tom: "This is not the Tiandu River, you have to remember one thing, not any river can go down anywhere." ”
"Why can't you go down?" someone asked.
Tom Wang did not answer his question, but grabbed a bloody golden pheasant and threw it to the riverbank, and in just ten seconds, a black shadow appeared in the grass on the riverbank, and bit the golden chicken, and then sank into the water silently. Several shirtless youths on deck who witnessed this astonishing scene opened their mouths wide and were so frightened that they couldn't say a word.
"That's a Siamese crocodile, an adult crocodile can grow up to four meters long, and if you go down into the water with a body like yours, it can beat you ten by one. King Tom fought the daredevils mercilessly.
"Isn't it that I haven't been able to take a shower these days?" someone asked reluctantly.
"Not really, let's just find a spring. Wang Tom naturally had a solution: "I remember that there was a mountain spring near the campsite last night. ”
So the two sailing ships pulled anchor again and returned the way they had come today, returning to the camp they had had been yesterday before dark. This night's barbecue dinner is obviously more sumptuous than the previous days, not only seafood but also birds and animals, Xie Chun also made two called Hua chickens with Vietnamese brocade chicken, so that a few ABCs have a taste of the power of Chinese food. And Tian Yeyou asked Wang Tom for the two antlers, saying that they were to be collected.
Roger, who was a good eater, took out two bottles of whiskey from his treasured collection, which drew a lot of applause from the crowd. Although there are many people in China who bring things such as cigarettes and alcohol in their personal belongings, because of the weight limit of personal items, these consumables are very limited, so very few people will take them out and share them. Although there were only two bottles of wine, and more than a dozen people couldn't even share 100 milliliters each, the men who were wandering overseas were still drinking happily, as if they had drunk the elixir in their throats. At this time, no one will care that the taste of whisky is not as refreshing as that of Lao Baigan, and after swallowing it, the stimulation of the nerves by alcohol is actually no different.
Obviously, this little wine could not make the men enjoy it at all, so several people from the North American Gang began to share their private collections one after another, except for the two foreign doctors who had never drunk alcohol, everyone else drank very happily. Of course, given that the others have begun to speak incoherently, tonight's night duty mission obviously has to be entrusted to the old medic again.
Alcohol is undoubtedly the best catalyst for human relationships, and after a few days of running-in, these men soon began to call each other brothers under the influence of alcohol. If the relationship between everyone was only that of companions in a large collective, then this overseas voyage has undoubtedly greatly narrowed the relationship between everyone, and some words that were inconvenient to say in the past seem to be able to be poured out relatively easily after drinking.
Xie Chun shook his head and frankly admitted that he had a more extreme view of the North American Gang, thinking that their arrival was very likely to cause some discordant voices within the group, after all, in the impression of ordinary Chinese people, these foreigners are free and casual people, and it is very likely that they will not obey the management mode of the executive committee at all. And once there is a more strict conflict of opinions, the North American gang, which has a large amount of arms in its hands, will obviously be a huge threat.