Zhang Qixun answered this question for the fat man, "The creatures on the snowy mountains all have their own instinctive ways of coexisting inherited from their ancestors. Wolves need food for the winter and have to hunt herbivores, and young deer and doe are undoubtedly their first choice. ”

"But if a group wants to thrive, it can't do without new life, and if the wolves are allowed to hunt it, the only deer that are left to be the prime of life will soon perish."

"In order to survive for a long time, the deer herd must make sacrifices, so whenever the cold comes, there will be more than a dozen strong deer in the deer herd that have been injured or sick, leading the old and frail deer to attract the attention of the wolves and buy time for the migration of the whole herd. When wolves have prey that can fill their stomachs, they will naturally not go after the next year's food. ”

"This canyon is the default buffer zone between carnivores and herbivores."

Animals also have their own laws of survival balance, which are the laws formed by the natural evolution of biological chains.

Wu Xie was still a little puzzled, "But in this way, wouldn't it be very easy for wolves to get food, so if this continues, there will only be more and more wolves living on this snowfield, and the number of herbivores to be sacrificed in the coming year will also increase, and in the end, it will not be the end of extinction." ”

"In order to survive and reproduce, the competition between the same species is more intense."

Zhang Qixun led the way in front with a fog lamp, and his voice seemed ethereal and gloomy in the cold wind.

"Such a piece of feng shui treasure, how can there be only one wolf pack who wants to occupy this place, and the only one who is qualified to distribute food is the wolf king who broke out of the siege from the fight, killing and killing, and the more people die, the more food there is."

A chill rose in Wu Xie's heart, ants are still stealing life, and in the face of catastrophe, humans can kill each other in order to survive, not to mention wolves who are ferocious by nature.

Once food is scarce, under the threat of death, they will not hesitate to attack the lone of their kind, natural selection, adaptation to the environment can better survive.

"That's the front."

Zhang Qixun pointed out to them a place sunken into the steep cliff wall in front of them, which was still a temporary shelter that Dan had specially mentioned to him when he had gone out hunting with Dan and the others.

A few people hurried over and found that there was a simple groove that had been dug by hand, and the hole was as high as a three-story building above the ground, and with the help of the rough stone wall on the side, it was just enough for people to climb up.

"This ......" Wu Xie looked at Zhang Qixun, "This is specially built by the Kangbalo people?" ”

Zhang Qixun nodded, "Walking in the vast snowfield, no matter how experienced a hunter is, it is inevitable that there will be a fork in the road, this canyon is an iconic landform, if it is not for this time of winter, this is a special place for the Kangbaluo people to rest." ”

"You and the fat man go up there, I've got to lay something up down there." Zhang Qixun urged.

"Are you going to bury mines?" The fat man volunteered, "The fat man is a top professional in burying detonators, and now that it's going to be dark, let's act faster together." ”

Zhang Qixun waved his hand at Zhang Haixing, "That's okay, you take the two of them up first, get some food to replenish your strength, and you have to leave two people to keep vigil tonight." ”

Zhang Haixing is a professional in rock climbing, she put down her backpack, changed into gloves for rock climbing, tied a rope around her waist, and then moved her hands and feet, and climbed up very easily, as flexible as a monkey.

She also deliberately slowed down her movements, so that Wu Xie and Feng below could see clearly where it was suitable to climb with their hands.

After Zhang Haixing climbed up, he saw that there were many traces of artificially chiseled out of this cave, which may have been a recessed gap here, and later expanded this place into a stone cave for the convenience of entering.

The hole is five or six meters deep, like a vase with a small mouth and belly, with a small mouth and a large belly, like a bell lying flat.

She turned on the light and looked inside, and found that there was something else inside.

There is a small stone platform at the bottom of the cave, on which a stone statue of a black crow is enshrined, it is an unknown strange god, like a quail scorched by lightning, standing stiffly there, the small horns on the left and right sides do not know if it is wings, the ugly can really be.

In front of the stone statue was a copper bowl the size of a child's fist, which contained a gray-black paste at the bottom of the bowl, exuding a strange fishy fragrance, which had all dried up and stuck to the bottom of the bowl, and I don't know what it was.

Zhang Haixing picked up a small stone, reached into the bowl and scraped a little powder, looked at it carefully under the light, and sniffed it under her nose, but she didn't know what she found, and her face suddenly changed.

She looked back and saw that Wu Xie and the others hadn't come up yet, so she immediately wrapped the copper bowl tightly with the gauze she carried with her, and put it on her body and hid it.

Then he looked around, and found nothing else, so he turned around and walked out of the cave, hung down the rope he had just brought up, and shook it, and motioned for Wu Xie and the others to tie their backpacks to it and she dragged it up.

On the other side, Zhang Qixun took the fat man to set traps at both ends of the canyon, a hundred meters away from where they were resting.

The fat man originally proposed to act separately, but Zhang Qixun did not agree, he knew that the wolves had appeared at both ends of the canyon, and if he acted alone, he was afraid of accidents if he ran into the pioneers who came to explore the way.

The two dug up the carcasses of a dozen animals from the snow, buried the detonators in front of the corpses, and then reburied the corpses, and then placed a whistle bomb on them, and lightly sprinkled a thin snow to hide them.

The two of them had a detonator and a sentry bomb, staggered the minefield that had been buried for fifteen meters, and they did not even let go of the height that the wolves could jump on the stone walls on both sides, and they were also tied to the transparent trigger fuse.

The power of the whistle bomb is not great, but it is better than the sharp and piercing sound, which can directly blow up the person's eardrum at close range, and the trigger is sensitive, and the weight above it will explode if it changes slightly.

When the whistle bomb explodes, the lead wire connected to the detonator below will be pulled, and the detonator will explode regardless of whether the wolf's claws are pressed to the position where the mine is buried.

The fat man grinned and said with a thief smile: "Don't say anything else about the Zhang family, it's a real mother's pleasure in getting equipment, a whole two backpacks of detonators, a lot of money, this job is really the most refreshing blow up since the fat man entered this industry." ”

Zhang Qixun took out an explosive bomb from his backpack, installed it about five meters behind the minefield, pulled a few transparent trigger wires and buried them lightly in the snow, and softly beckoned the fat man to flash people.

The wolves are now entrenched at the mouth of the canyon, and if they want to sneak attack, they will have to wait until the second half of the night when they are sleeping deeply.

Wolves have a very sensitive sense of smell, and even with dead animal carcasses as cover, they can still smell the scent of Zhang Qixun and the fat man wandering around the area.

If they smell danger and choose to give up, it's fine, but if they are stubborn, then don't blame them for being polite for self-preservation.

Zhang Qixun and the fat man used the same method to arrange a minefield at a position of about 60 meters.

By this time it was completely dark, and the two of them returned to the bottom of the crater of the cliff.

Zhang Qixun put his fingers on his mouth and whistled at the top, and there were immediately fog lights shining down on it.

"You two come up!" Wu Xie poked his head out and beckoned, hanging down a rope.

"You go up first, leave the backpack, and I'll carry it later." Zhang Qixun said to the fat man.

"Thank you." The fat man didn't shirk either, with his size and heavy clothes, it was indeed a little difficult to climb such a steep cliff.

The fat man tied the rope around his waist, put his feet into the groove on the stone wall and kicked it steadily, grasping the protruding mountain wall with both hands, and Wu Xie and Feng pulled it up together.

Seeing that the fat man had climbed up five or six meters with a drag, Zhang Qixun stuffed the fat man's backpack and the rest of the detonators into his backpack, threw it on his back, and then stepped on the pit, his body was as light as a swallow, and he caught up with the fat man in front of him with almost no effort.

The fat man heard the movement and looked down, happy, "Hey, your kid is climbing quite fast, don't you smell the smell of rice on it." ”

Saying that, he raised his head and asked Wu Xie, "Innocent, what delicious food do you get, the fat man smells of meat, he has been in a hurry for the past two days, eating biscuits every day, and the fat man is about to become sandwich biscuits." ”

Wu Xie scolded with an angry smile: "Your nose is the smartest, shut up and climb up, it's so windy here, beware of pouring cold air into your stomach." ”

The fat man snorted and sped up, and quickly climbed to the mouth of the pit, where he was dragged up by Wu Xie and the others.

Zhang Qixun followed closely and turned up, took the telescope to look into the distance, and heard Wu Xie call him, so he turned around and entered the cave.

"Give." Wu Xie handed him an aluminum lunch box with large pieces of pork ribs in it, "The craftsmanship is average, just get a little, make do with it, and drink some ginger soup to warm up after eating." ”

The fat man came over with a smile, took a sip of broth with the lunch box, and smacked his lips, "Well, it tastes good, our innocent child has really grown up, and he can cook by himself, which is worthy of praise and encouragement." ”

Wu Xie threw him two pieces of roasted glutinous loquat and glared at him, "Dead fat man, don't ruin my image outside, I seem to be very lazy to eat, when you used to cook, I often helped me on the side." ”

The fat man teased him, "Yo yo yo, I don't know which one it is, cut a carrot, and as a result, the rabbit cub who gnawed all the carrots on the board, who is it, the fat man can't remember it clearly, it seems to be called Wu Xiaotu, right, naïve." ”

Feng, who was joining in the excitement on the side, couldn't hold back his laughter, and immediately turned around, covering his mouth and shaking his shoulders.

Zhang Haixing took a bite of the glutinous loquat and also puffed out her face and laughed, as if she was happy to see Wu Xie eat deflated.

Wu Xie was annoyed and ashamed, and scolded angrily, "Dead fat man, you expose my shortcomings again, believe it or not, when I go back, I will go to Yuncai to sue you, and let her punish you for being a Manchu full seat." ”

"Whatever Sister wants to eat, the fat man is happy to make it for her." The fat man shook his head and squinted with a smile.

Wu was angry and blurted out, "Believe it or not, I let Mu ...... Ahem, Panzi clean you up! ”

"Lao Pan, he has a fire at the city gate, where can he take care of the children." The fat man disagreed.

If it weren't for the fact that the location in the cave was really not spacious, Wu Xie could jump up directly and give the fat man a kick.

The two of them were fighting in elementary school, Zhang Qixun shook his head on the side, and sighed silently, and no one noticed the smile that flashed in his eyes.

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At midnight, a long, loud wolf howl was heard in the lonely canyon.

A few monotonous howls were heard in response, as if mourning and complaining, one after another, from far to near, which was the signal that the wolves were beginning to act.

Zhang Qixun opened his eyes suddenly, picked up the M16 that was placed on his lap, and lay down behind the backpack that was used as a cover on the right side of the cave entrance, staggered his elbows back and forth, and looked at the bottom of the canyon on the left from the scope.

Fifty meters from the bottom of the cliff to the distance was his sniper range, in case a wolf that had escaped the net slipped in.

Zhang Haixing was lying on his left in the same posture, aiming at the area on the right side of the canyon, which could well avoid blind spots and form crossfire.

In the cave, the fat man's snoring sounded soundly, and it made people feel very comfortable listening to it.

Wu Xie pretended to have something in his heart, he didn't sleep deeply, he was awakened by the howl of the wolf, and he also came out with a gun, and saw that Zhang Qixun and the two were already waiting for him.

"How's it going?" He asked softly.

Only Zhang Qixun and Zhang Haixing's guns are equipped with infrared night vision devices, and Wu Xie has to wait for the flare guns to light up the nearby canyon before they can see clearly.

Zhang Qixun pinched the time in his heart and whispered back to him, "It is estimated that we have arrived at the first minefield, and the vanguard of the wolf pack has found the trap and is waiting for the wolf king's instructions." ”

The moon was not round tonight, as if a large piece of the round jade disk had been broken, but the cold moonlight still avoided the clouds and sprinkled on the snow, illuminating the entire canyon with clouds and mist.

The white snow is clearly separated from the gray-blue shadows, and there are more than a dozen gray-black shadows on the rocks at the bottom of the valley.

This is the vanguard of the wolf pack, they are in the middle of the pack and are responsible for the most dangerous hunting.

In the vanguard, there is actually a difference between the striker and the backing, the striker level is slightly higher than the backing, facing danger head-on, and is the primary force for hunting.

They are strong and swift, and are responsible for driving away their prey in the first place, driving them out into the range of the backing encirclement and killing, thus assisting in the completion of the hunt.

The backing includes the substitute members of the striker and the babysitter of the wolf cubs, and if a wolf is injured or killed in the striker, a member will immediately fill in the membership, and the nanny is the mid-level she-wolf, responsible for protecting the cubs in the group.

There is a very strict and cruel hierarchy among the wolves, and the highest position is the male and female leaders of the wolf pack.

They are the spiritual wisdom and the strongest combat power of the entire wolf pack, and they are also the defenders and decision-makers in the wolf pack, dominating the mating and food distribution of the wolf pack, and are the greatest dependence on the survival of the entire wolf pack.

In the second rank is the deputy leader of the wolf pack, also a female and a male.

They are the Wolf King's most loyal subordinates, responsible for conveying the Wolf King's orders to the members of the clan, similar to the existence of the Great Eunuch and the Great Palace Maiden next to the Emperor.

However, they belong to the kind of personal and powerful bodyguards, and can sometimes bypass the wolf king to directly punish the members who make mistakes. (End of chapter)