This is the time when all things are at their most prosperous.

In the forest, the canopy of tall trees shades the clouds and the sun, and vines climb and implicate.

Even though the sun had risen high, the forest was still groggy.

In such an inaccessible place, it is really difficult to move an inch without a mountain knife.

As the youngest two, Liu Li and Wang Mingyuan took turns, following the route agreed by Zhang Shouzhong and Li Tong, and overcoming obstacles all the way in front.

The rest of the group followed, cautiously observing the movements around them and the traces left by the animals.

"Look, five-legged beast!"

On a fairly empty slope with craggy rocks scattered for miles, several people stopped to help each other check and slap the locusts that were sticking to their bodies and sucking their blood.

When he sat down to rest, Zhang Shouzhong was the first to make a discovery.

The five-legged beast, also known as the civet bear, is one of the animals required by the zoo.

At this time, the civet was holding its body steady with its thick tail curling around the branches, and walked slowly on the dangling branches.

Its target is a bird's nest built on a branch.

This kind of animal with a strong smell of popcorn in urine, Lu Lu has seen it a long time ago, and knows that they are arboreal animals, rarely go to the ground, live in trees all year round, and even sleep with their tails rolling up the thick branches, and they can sleep very lazily when they climb down.

To be precise, civets are vegetarians and usually feed on all kinds of berries, but if they can get their hands on eggs and other young animals, they don't mind tooth sacrifices, so their favorite thing to do is to turn over birds' nests or squirrel nests in trees.

"I've seen this thing a few times, but until now, I still can't figure out how to tell the difference between male and female." Li Tong looked at the bear civet who had crawled to the edge of the bird's nest, picked up the bird's eggs in the nest and stuffed them into his mouth.

"I'm also very lake-like!" Zhang Shouzhong shook his head.

"The big one is a female, and the small one is a male."

Wang Mingyuan smiled: "This is the biggest difference between them. ”

The information he had consulted before was not in vain, and he had these questions at his fingertips.

"This season, it is the time when they give birth to cubs, one can give birth to three to five, but they have a characteristic, when they are alarmed, when they run away, they will bite their cubs to death, don't look big, it is also very fierce to provoke." When Wang Mingyuan said this, he suddenly laughed: "Actually, we don't need to start with adult animals at all, the people in the zoo only said that they want to live, okay, and they didn't say the size, we can start with the cubs." ”

Huang Weijun and others will pit, and so will Wang Mingyuan.

The point is, it's safer to get the cubs.

As soon as he said this, Zhang Shouzhong and the others immediately laughed.

They all know very well that for bears like raccoons, they can also set traps to catch them, and they can easily handle them.

However, Bengal tigers, elephants, etc., are not easy to do.

Even if the capture is successful, it is extremely difficult to transport it from the mountains to the outside.

For example, elephants, which often weigh tons of species, can't be killed and decomposed directly like hunting, how much manpower and material resources do you have to spend to get it?

But if it's a cub, it's simple, and a newborn elephant can be carried by one or two people.

"That's it!" Zhang Shouzhong nodded immediately, paused, he looked at the tree and finished eating the bird's eggs, turned around and followed the branches, jumped to the bear civet on another tree and asked, "Then you say, is this civet a male or a female?" ”

Wang Mingyuan looked at it, and compared with the one he had seen before, this bear civet was obviously much smaller: "The preliminary estimate is that it is male, but it is not certain, it may be half a size, you can only know when you see it." ”

This thing, it's hard to distinguish between male and female, it's a nuisance.

Zhang Shouzhong nodded, and took a deep look at the civet fox lying on the branch basking in the sun: "Let's go, let's continue to go around." ”

Along the way, I climbed two more ridges, and a depression appeared in front of me.

In the middle, a small river runs through the middle of the depression and is covered with weeds.

At this time, several bison were gnawing on the weeds in the meadow, and a few more were rolling in the mud by the river.

In the scorching summer months, there are many mosquitoes, and bison, which has rough skin and thick meat, also have to rely on mud baths to prevent mosquito bites and skin cracking.

Look for bison, go along the place where there is water and grass, it will definitely be fine.

Looking at the calves in the herd, several people looked at each other and smiled, did not disturb them, and quietly pushed into the forest.

"Where next?" Wang Mingyuan asked.

In order to find out the range of activities of various animals, it is good to organize people to hunt them purposefully, and now we can determine the approximate location of the buffalo, of course, we will look for the next one.

Zhang Shouzhong They are the most familiar with these wild things, and they can't look at them with professional eyes, but the experience is there, and they can tell where the terrain and the traces left by various underground, as well as the animals they encounter along the way, and they can distinguish what types of animals survive in what places.

That's the kind of question they should ask them right.

"Continue down the river and head inside. Where aquatic plants are abundant, there are also many herbivores, and when there are many of these animals, it is natural to eat meat. Zhang Shouyi said: "Let's look for takin, guinea deer." Tigers like to eat takin, and clouded leopards will catch guinea deer, and where there are takins and guinea deer, clouded leopards and tigers are often seen. ”

Is there such a connection?

Wang Mingyuan was overjoyed, in this way, if he is lucky, if he finds one, he can find a second one, which is also convenient.

The group searched along the riverbank towards the mountains, but there was no sign of takin or guinea deer.

Seeing that the time was close to noon, several people tossed over the mountains and mountains in the morning, especially Wang Mingyuan and Liu Li, who were in charge of opening the road, both of whom were already a little unbearable.

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On the shallows on the bank of the river, Wang Mingyuan and Liu Li sat down to rest.

Zhang Shouyi and Zhang Shouli picked up a lot of firewood and built a big fire.

Zhang Shouzhong and Li Tong went into the forest to hunt.

There are many wild things in this mountain, and they are all food for a few hunting veterans, so when they come, they don't bring anything to eat, so they carry guns and carry mountain knives and leave.

Based on the experience of Zhang Shouzhong and Li Tong, it won't take long for the two to gain something.

Just burn a large pile of charcoal over the fire and wait for the roast.

Unexpectedly, not long after the firewood was lit, Li Tong hurriedly ran back.

"Uncle Li, so fast?"

Wang Mingyuan looked at Li Tong who came over with some surprise.

I only went out for more than ten minutes and came back, and the efficiency was too fast.

Li Tong ran in front of him, his face full of excitement: "We haven't fought yet, but we have seen the tiger." ”

"If you see it, you can see it, and now you can't catch it."

Liu Li stretched out his hand and patted the lone wolf lying on the side, and said with a smile.

"Who said that you can't fight, we have decided to fight this tiger today. Tiger bones and tiger skins are all good things, not to mention, the key is that it also leads two cubs, which is a great opportunity. ”

Li Tong said excitedly: "Tigers are different from other animals, often dozens of horses may not be able to find one on the mountain, the territory is very large, and they do not have a fixed nest, and only when they give birth to cubs, they will choose a place to live temporarily for a period of time, and when the tiger cubs can run and jump, they will start to wander around again, this thing is not easy to encounter."

Hearing Li Tong say this, the four of them were all interested all of a sudden.

It's not bad to take advantage of this opportunity to get back two tiger cubs.

One by one, they put up their guns and kept up with Li Tong.

The five of them went into the woods, climbed over the ridge, and came under a large tree.

Zhang Shouzhong stood behind the tree, peeking down.

At the bottom of the hillside is a large meadow dotted with a few stunted shrubs.

In this meadow, more than fifty takin roamed inside.

Several people came to Zhang Shouzhong's side lightly and looked condescendingly at the grass below, but there was no shadow of a tiger in the waist-deep wild meadow.

"Third uncle, where is the tiger?" Wang Mingyuan asked.

Zhang Shouzhong smiled and stretched out his hand and pointed to the left side of the takin herd: "Next to the takin herd, to the left, about a hundred meters away from the herd, there is lying under that small tree." ”

A few people looked at the place for a long time, and they could vaguely see a head moving from time to time.

"From this big tree to that meadow, the distance must be at least five or six hundred meters, if you don't look carefully, you can't see it at all, third uncle, you really can't do it." Wang Mingyuan sighed.

"It was just a chance encounter. Li and I went into the forest to hunt, and the forest was surprisingly quiet, except for some birds on the branches, nothing else could be seen, and I thought it was strange at the time.

As a rule of thumb, there must be some kind of beast here. Unexpectedly, after walking not far away, I saw a serow that had been bitten to death, most of it was eaten by it, and the rest was stinky, it should have been a few days ago.

Li and I went up to take a look, and from the claw marks on the fur and the feces and paw prints left on the ground, we could see that it was a tiger's work. It scared the two of us out of the way.

It's in the woods, silently, and you don't know where it's going to come out.

The two of them are on guard, and want to go back to you and leave this place for a while.

Unexpectedly, when passing by here, I happened to see this large area of grass and takin, as well as the tiger.

It was just at the edge of the meadow at the bottom of the mountain, leading two tiger cubs across.

Those were two tiger cubs, and I thought, aren't we just going to catch the tiger cubs, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So let Li Tong go over and find you.

It was only then that it swam under the tree and lay still on its stomach. ”

Zhang Shouzhong was also very excited.

Among the several lists issued by the zoo, the most difficult object to catch is undoubtedly the tiger, this thing, erratic, unusually keen, extremely fast, and super powerful, the level of danger is not inferior to that of wild elephants.

In fact, Wang Mingyuan has also questioned before that wild elephants do not necessarily have to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to capture.

In Hongzhou and Banna, there are mahouts who raise them, and spending money to buy one is not a problem at all, and after domestication, the temper is more docile.

It's perfectly fine to be in a zoo as a visitor.

However, when he learned that it was the idea of fighting the white elephant, he understood.

Huang Weijun is purely deliberately raising the difficulty, the purpose is to let Wang Mingyuan and others not get the money.

As for a few simple herbivores, as long as you get your hands on the white elephant, the money you spend is completely secure.

It's a good calculation.

The next step is to see who counts whom.

Looking at the place where the tigers were, Wang Mingyuan looked at the takins again.

I haven't seen it for so long along the river before, but I didn't expect that there are so many heads in this place.

Takins are not cattle, more precisely, they are a species that belongs to sheep.

It's just like a cow.

This thing is not simple, the body is thick, more than one meter high, and those larger bulls are even more sturdy, I am afraid that they have to have seven or eight hundred catties.

Don't look like a herbivore, but the temperament is quite fierce.

A single individual is not the opponent of the tiger, but in a group, the tiger has to avoid its edge when it collides and tramples.

Relying on the advantage of the group, even if there are tigers not far away, they are all leisurely and leisurely, and they are not taken seriously at all.

Of course, when hunting, tigers also have their own strategies.

Either launch a surprise attack, or disturb and drive, expose the old and weak in the takin herd, and then hunt and kill.

This is the most popular species of tiger hunting.

The tiger lying on the side is more like a herder.

It's just that there are more Wang Mingyuan and others today, and there is a feeling that some yellow finches are behind.

At this time, several people were looking at Wang Mingyuan, waiting for him to make a decision.

This made Wang Mingyuan a little embarrassed, everyone present, just one came out, and the hunting experience was a hundred times stronger than that of him.

"Are you sure?" Wang Mingyuan coughed lightly and asked.

"Then there must be certainty, we are all five or six and a half, a gun can hold ten bullets, can be single, can also shoot continuously, marksmanship is okay, feel closer, shoot together, no matter how you say it, you can also open dozens of holes in it, it is difficult not to die, not to mention that you have five or six punches in your hand."

Li Tong said it easily, as if it was playing.

Wang Mingyuan looked at Zhang Shouzhong and Liu Li, and both of them nodded, obviously agreeing with Li Tong's statement.

However, the tiger was alert, and was afraid that it would be spotted before it could touch the vicinity. This is the one leading the cub, once we appear, we will inevitably be attacked, with its speed, if you want to hit, I'm afraid it will be very difficult.

More bullets is an advantage, but the tiger's vitality is tenacious, if it doesn't hit the vital point, it will be troublesome.

Moreover, the effective range of five and a half is about 400 meters, which is not easy to hit......"

Although he lacked experience, it did not prevent him from expressing his worries, and when he said this, he paused and turned his head to look at Liu Li: "Liu Li, among several of us, your marksmanship is the best, four hundred meters, can you guarantee that in the tiger movement, one shot hits?" ”

Liu Li didn't seem to expect Wang Mingyuan to suddenly ask him this question, he thought about it slightly: "I have a certain certainty, but I don't dare to completely guarantee it." To be honest, this is the second time I've seen a tiger, and the last time I saw it, you killed it. ”

Wang Mingyuan's expression became solemn: "If we can't kill it, it will be us." This tiger cub, if we want to catch it, we must have a foolproof strategy, I can't joke with your life, if I can't guarantee a one-hit kill, I'd rather not kill it. ”

Hearing this, several people nodded silently.

Everyone here, no matter who has an accident, is a family nightmare.

It doesn't matter if you're timid or not.

After all, there are a lot of ways to earn money.

"Let's talk about our opinions, let's sum it up." Zhang Shouzhong's face became solemn.