Chapter Twenty-Seven: Sudden Humanity

Early the next morning, Wang Badao went to hunt early.

The temperature at noon is too high, and Wang Badao does not like to be active at that time, so he hunts once in the morning and again in the evening. Hunting twice a day is enough to support the energy that the body has to absorb.

After killing the brindled tiger, Wang Badao was in a happy mood, and he did not have the consciousness that he might be the last wild South China tiger to be extinct. In the morning, my appetite is still good, and after a big meal, I am ready to find a cave to rest, and I can also bask in the sun when I have fun......

At noon, Wang Badao suddenly smelled a strange breath, which was the smell of human beings.

"Huh? Has a human entered my territory? No one dares to come to the depths of this forest? Go out and see ......."

Wang Badao thought in his heart, this mountain forest is a national first-class protected area, there are many towering trees in the forest, and there are almost no roads feasible, and some people come here Wang Badao is of course curious.

Three miles away.

I saw a group of more than a dozen people walking in the dense jungle and the forest full of weeds. Except for two young men in front of them with machetes to open the way, an old man in his fifties walked in the front, followed by more than a dozen young people, both men and women.

One of them, with her hair covered with black hair and wavy over her shoulders, was wearing a tight-fitting ox car, and her plump body was tilted forward and backward, making people think that the girl suddenly walked to the old man's side.

"Professor, I'll help you with your luggage!"

The old man smiled kindly, the old professor was still very pleased that this student was so sensible, and there are few young people nowadays who have this kind of character. Ordinary people only think about how to take advantage of themselves, and how many people know the meaning of the word "dedication".

"Xiao Li, my old bones are still moving, and I don't want you to carry this luggage."

The girl known as Xiao Li is named Li Yuan, twenty-one years old, a student at XX University. Because half a month ago, someone reported that there were wild Siberian tigers in this forest, so the school organized an expedition team, and she also signed up. And the school invited Wang Zheming, a senior expert from the G Provincial Wildlife Research Institute, to participate, that is, the old man just now.

Wang Zheming, who has been studying the protection of endangered animals for more than 20 years, heard that the Siberian tiger, which is almost extinct in the wild, has appeared here, so he immediately rushed to prepare for the investigation. For him, a veteran wildlife expert, tigers are more able to attract his attention than any other wild animal.

"Professor, is there really a Siberian tiger here?" Li Yue asked.

"Yes, didn't we just find those traces? It was definitely left by the tiger, but I don't know if it's a Siberian tiger. However, according to the person who reported it, the tiger is nearly three meters long, and it is really impossible to think of any other tiger species except the Siberian tiger. No other tiger species can grow that big. Wang Zheming said with certainty.

At this time, another man approached and said, "Professor, it may be the Bengal tiger, after all, it is the most extant tiger." ”

Professor Wang Zheming smiled slightly: "Little God, although the Bengal tiger is the most surviving tiger, the Bengal tiger generally lives in Indian forests, Nepal, Bangladesh and other places. Although there are also in China, it is almost impossible for mountains of this climate to appear. ”

"Okay, let's not talk about this for the time being, and when we find a tiger, we will naturally know what kind of tiger it is." Seeing that the man called Xiaotian was still in contrast, Wang Zheming sighed slightly in his heart: "The young people now are too young and vigorous......

Suddenly.

Another woman walking behind shouted, "Professor Wang, there seem to be traces of tigers moving here." ”

When Wang Zheming heard this, he hurriedly walked over. Just now, I was so focused on talking that I forgot to observe the surrounding environment, so I didn't notice any trace of tiger activity. I was a little glad in my heart: "Fortunately, it was discovered by Xiao Zhu, otherwise I might have missed the opportunity and kept looking for it in the wrong direction." ”

"Where, where?"

"In this place!"

Wang Zheming walked over to take a look, and sure enough, it was the traces of hanging claws.

As a nocturnal animal, the tiger, although it is tall and mighty, and it is lonely all its life, and can only spend its life in wandering and running, and it is common to be hungry and full. One of the most important evidence of tiger habits for the expedition team is that the tiger, like all cats, likes to mark "information" on the ground or trees, pee or hang its paws on the road.

"Sure enough, it's a hanging claw, this time it didn't come in vain. Looking at the footprints of this hanging claw, it can be judged that this wild tiger is nearly three meters in size. Wang Zheming was very excited, because a tiger's activity area usually reaches tens to hundreds of miles, but it never stays in one place for a long time, regardless of whether there is prey or whether it has caught prey. At the same time, it likes to forage along a fixed route, and likes to walk on the paths in the forest, on ridges, between shrubs and grassy slopes, and once it finds its prey, it likes to sneak up on it, waiting for an opportunity to sneak up on the prey and kill it.

One of the most important evidence for the expedition team is that the tiger, like all cats, likes to mark "information" on the ground or trees, pee or hang its paws on the road, like all felines.

In the face of the vast mountains, a scientific expedition team of more than ten people still seems too small. The scientific expedition team generally determines the key areas and key routes in advance, and then decides to set up 24-hour infrared automatic shooting cameras at key intersections or areas where tigers must pass through according to the actual investigation of front-line scientific expedition members, so as to improve the probability of finding tigers or other rare animal resources. In the hurry that Wang Zheming and the others came, they basically didn't have these tools, and it was almost impossible to find the tiger. At this moment, the discovery of the hanging claw confirms that there is indeed a tiger, and the correct direction can be found according to the hanging claw.

How does this not excite Wang Zheming?

In the face of the near-extinction of wild tigers, the research value of a wild tiger cannot be estimated.

After discovering the hanging claw, Wang Zheming observed around again, and soon found information about the tiger peeing not far away. Wang Zheming was already excited and difficult to control himself, which shows that the tiger is going in this direction, and the smell of tiger urine is still very strong, calculating the time, it can be determined and proved that the tiger was still active in this area yesterday.

"Let's go, let's look in this direction, I believe the tiger won't go far."

Wang Zheming excitedly said to the dozens. There were seven students in these dozen people, five protection officers with rifles, plus Wang Zheming himself, exactly fourteen people. And without the protection of guns, I believe that no one dares to go deep into this kind of forest.

Wang Badao had already come, and when they found the hanging claws, he hid not far away to listen. Hearing that they were here to look for the Great Tiger, he didn't look any further and went straight back to his cave.

Wang Badao also didn't want to contact them, and he didn't want to expose his existence.

Just returned to his cave, and after resting for a few minutes, Wang Badao remembered one thing, that is, the corpse of the spotted tiger. Because the direction in which those people were walking was obviously the direction where the body of the striped tiger was located, if they found the corpse, they would definitely be able to deduce their existence. The body of the striped tiger was entangled, as long as anyone with a little knowledge knew that it was hanged by a giant python.

"Do you want to kill people and kill ......?"

"Forget it...... Lao Tzu is revenge and revenge, and kindness is repaid. They didn't provoke me, and I'm not a murderer, so let them go...... I won't be in this place for long anyway......" Wang Badao thought to himself, and continued to rest on the ground.

An hour later, Wang Zheming and the others finally walked to the place where the body of the spotted tiger was.

But the scene in front of them was lying and they were shocked! They were simply stunned!

"It's ...... This is the South China Tiger ......"

Wang Zheming's heart trembled, and after trembling, his heart was dripping blood again. Except for 1964, when a mountain folk in Foping Mountain, Shaanxi Province hunted a wild South China tiger, no one has ever seen an adult South China tiger. This may be the last South China tiger, and just like that, can Wang Zheming not drop blood.