Chapter 258: Hunting Bay Crocodile (I)
Noah knew where Lycia's home was, so he sent her home.
Chu Mingcheng returned to the hotel alone, made a video call with Jiang Luoluo, and then went to sleep.
At eight o'clock the next morning, Noah came and knocked on the door and told him something about the distribution of profits after the crocodile was sold.
With Lechia, he has no money.
And Noah himself can only get 10% of the total profits, mainly because he does not participate in direct hunting, and usually works as an assistant.
According to his own words, he is more afraid of death, and he is already very satisfied with doing something simple and sharing some money.
But Chu Mingcheng is a newcomer, and Noah has asked several friends, but they are reluctant to bring newcomers.
In the end, it was Lecia who was easier to talk to and was willing to take him in, but she didn't have the money.
Chu Mingcheng frowned, but he didn't expect this situation Noah to say it now.
But it doesn't make a difference if you say it early or late, after all, if there is no one to bring such a dangerous creature as the bay crocodile, he will not venture to hunt himself, and his life will be lost if he is not careful.
Noah saw that Chu Mingcheng had no opinion, so he took him to Lechia's house.
It's just that on the way, he hesitated for a long time, as if he had something to say.
Seeing this, Chu Mingcheng couldn't help but say, "Noah, if you have anything to say, just say it!" ”
Noah shrugged his shoulders when he heard this, and said bluntly, "Okay, then I said it." Cheng, in fact, you shouldn't refuse Lechia, as long as she was happy last night, she might give you a 10% profit. ”
"But now she obviously won't give it to her, so you can only accumulate some experience, and then I can introduce individual crocodile hunters, and you can shoot a video for him, and by the way, you can do it."
Chu Mingcheng was a little speechless: "Uh, Noah, I don't care if I have money or not, the important thing is that I need some bay crocodile hunting and experience in the wild, so that I can go alone." ”
"The profit is more than $2,000, and it's not worth the time for me at that price."
"You're going it alone?" Noah suddenly braked sharply and pulled the car to the side of the road, looking stunned.
Chu Mingcheng smiled and nodded: "Of course, if Noah is willing to be my photographer and do me a little favor by the way, I don't mind giving you an extra profit." ”
But Noah didn't have the heart to laugh: "You're crazy, there are so many hunters who die at the hands of bay crocodiles every year, you'd better dismiss this idea." ”
"It's okay, you can see how I do first." Chu Mingcheng didn't discuss this issue too much.
Some things will only be trusted enough if they are seen by the other party.
If Noah hadn't helped him a lot, and he really needed someone to help shoot by the way, otherwise he would definitely have done it alone.
Seeing Chu Mingcheng say this, Noah also stopped talking about this topic and continued to drive to Lehia's house.
Walking into the house, I saw that she had a headache and was not in good spirits, apparently she was really drunk last night.
Lexia didn't get angry when she saw Chu Mingcheng, some things can be understood with a drink, and there is no need to embarrass everyone.
But her attitude couldn't help but be cold, and she lost the enthusiasm of last night.
Chu Mingcheng didn't care about this, he just wanted to learn some hunting skills and experience.
And don't give a penny, who wants to follow all the time.
After a short while, a young man came to Lechia's house.
Through introduction, this man is her own brother, named Victor, who has just graduated from college.
But he has been hunting crocodiles with Lechia for three years, and he has always been the logistics staff who started and helped with the filming by the way.
A hunter team also needs at least two people, usually around three.
After all, bay crocodiles that are more than four meters tall, in some places, if the car can't drive in, people need to lift the crocodile out first, and there is no way to lift it if there are fewer people.
After getting to know each other, Victor took out his laptop and said to Lechia, "The target has been approved and can hunt." ”
Later, he told Noah and Chu Mingcheng the specific situation of the mission target, and took out a picture of the Bay crocodile on the computer where he had lived.
The target is an adult male bay crocodile of about three meters, living in a bay, and there is no second bay crocodile found around him, which is a relatively easy task to handle.
Then the group was ready to go, and Lehya pulled out a semi-automatic shotgun.
According to Victor Gu, this shotgun has killed more than 1,000 adult bay crocodiles.
Secondly, there are iron-clad sticks, long-handled lassoes, etc.
Some bounties are issued by zoos and they need some live crocodiles, so crocodile hunters will find a way to catch them alive.
These sticks, lassoes, ropes, fishing nets, etc., are tools for catching crocodiles alive.
Crocodiles are mostly in the water, and they need to be caught with a trap before killing them with a single hit.
When you can use a shotgun directly, it's just when the crocodile is basking on the shore.
All the tools were moved to a large pickup truck with a crane behind it, apparently to facilitate the movement of the prey inside the trunk.
Victor drove the pickup truck first, while Chu Mingcheng and Noah followed.
The car was a rented SUV and drove all the way in that direction to the suburbs.
There was quite a bit of food in the car, and apparently it would take a lot of time to hunt a crocodile.
"Noah, do you know where to buy a shotgun? And what kind of shotgun does Lehia have, and how much does it cost? ”
Lehia's shotgun aroused Chu Mingcheng's great interest, and there was no man who didn't love this.
It's just that it's banned in China, and he hasn't gone to those clubs to play shooting, so he hasn't touched it.
"Lechia's Lady Timber, suitable for women, costs about 2,000 Australian dollars."
"City, don't think about shotguns, Australia prohibits other people from possessing these weapons, you can't buy them through regular channels."
Chu Mingcheng was stunned: "Didn't this hunting license say that you can hold a hunting rifle?" ”
Noah smiled and took out his hunting license, flipped it over and pointed to the small print on it and said, "Look at this again." ”
Chu Mingcheng took a look, and found speechlessly that it was written that only local Australians were eligible to buy hunting rifles.
Even if a foreigner has a hunting permit, he can only hunt the crocodile by other means.
Overall, 1,200 bay crocodiles are just for local hunters.
Moreover, there is an exemption on the hunting license, and if you hold this license and go to the wild and are killed by wild animals, the Australian city government does not need to compensate at all.
Chu Mingcheng couldn't help but sigh lightly when he heard that he couldn't buy a shotgun.
The older generation of people in the country are too powerful, and the vast majority of animals are extremely scarce, so that these young people have no hunting to hunt.
However, China's rapid development is inseparable from the demographic dividend, and it is understandable that there are many people who stutter, resulting in a decrease in wild animals.
I don't expect a shotgun Chu Mingcheng anymore, there are many ways to hunt crocodiles, and a shotgun is just the simplest one.
This time the journey was a bit long, and I came straight to the wilderness.
After more than six hours, Chu Mingcheng saw a small wooden house.
Noah pointed to the cabin and said, "In order to facilitate the hunting of crocodiles, crocodile hunters have built a lot of these cabins in the wild, so that everyone can rest in the wild. ”
"After all, sometimes if you want to hunt a ferocious adult bay crocodile, hunters need to make a lot of preparation."
"If it's late in the hunt today, we'll probably rest in this cabin for the night."
Chu Mingcheng nodded clearly, this is similar to hunting in the Far East of the Fighting Nation, where a log cabin will be prepared in the wild.
The only difference is that the cabins in the Far East are built by individuals themselves, which are personal property, and have a cellar for storing game.
But this is the public version, just a temporary resting place.
From this point, it can be seen that compared with Australia, the fighting nation is the real hunting paradise.
The car didn't stop, driving all the way to the bay, and another hour passed, Chu Mingcheng heard the sound of the waves, obviously they were about to reach their destination.
It was about nine o'clock in the morning, and after more than seven hours of travel, it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived at our destination.
The bay is very open and overgrown with weeds, but it is not high enough to be seen at a glance.
Everyone first observed the car and made sure that there was no danger around them before getting out of the car.
With a shotgun in her hand, Lecia took the lead towards the sea.
Victor followed behind, the camera in his hand and already filmed, if the bay crocodile appeared on land, it could be solved at any time with one shot, so it was necessary to be prepared in advance.
Unfortunately, a few people came to the beach and found nothing, and it seemed that the crocodile was not nearby.
Seeing this, Lehya frowned and said to Noah, "Maybe we need to fish out the bay crocodile, let's prepare it first!" ”
“OK!” Noah nodded, went to the pickup truck and turned it upside down.
Then he took out a quick-frozen white chopping chicken, a white rope, and a large sharp hook.
The white rope had a large roll, flat, and Chu Mingcheng stepped forward and pulled it, and found that it was still a little elastic.
Seeing that he was curious, Noah introduced, "The crocodile likes to roll over to death, and if it is a round thick rope, it will carry a rope when it rolls. ”
"It's easy to hurt our hands if we pull it, and it's not good to keep holding on to the rope to consume the crocodile's physical strength."
"But this kind of rope doesn't, it will roll with it, but it will only roll the position between the crocodile and us, and it will not affect us."
Chu Mingcheng understood as soon as he thought about it, and knew that this kind of rope was indeed better to use.
And he's also interested in crocodile fishing, which is his old job!
At present, it seems that Noah has a lot of auxiliary experience in killing crocodiles in the wild.
Chu Mingcheng felt that if he could hunt crocodiles alone, then he didn't need to work for free, and he could take Noah to take on the task alone tomorrow.
But now that it's over, we can try to catch it alive later.
There was a spear in the car that could stab the crocodile to death.
The premise is that the crocodile's mouth must be tied first, but there is a noose in the car, maybe he can handle the three-meter crocodile.
Noah moved quickly, and in just a few moments, he tied the thick hook and rope that he used to catch crocodiles, hung the white chicken, and he carefully came to the beach and threw the white chicken here.
Then he hurried back, took out another bag of minced chicken nuggets, went to the beach and threw them directly into the water.
Chu Mingcheng followed him to help, and this bag of chicken nuggets seemed to be a nest to attract the bay crocodile back.
In his opinion, fishing for bay crocodiles seems to be no different from fishing, and there are some differences in tools.
(End of chapter)