Chapter 380: To tell the truth, hunting is not easy, but very exciting

It was very disappointing, there were no animals that could be hit here.

To say there were, there were, when they walked over quietly, a fox heard the movement first, jumped up from the side of the water pool, ran into the forest next to it, the guns in the four people's hands were all raised, but didn't fire.

Li Long felt it wasn't worth it to hit, the other three were purely not reacting.

When almost reaching the pool, Li Long stood in a line with the three people, let them hold the guns and not shake around, half-finger on the ground, even if ready to aim and fire, must ensure there was no one in the field of vision.

The three people were very obedient, and should have received training in this regard, so Li Long said so and they understood.

It's just that the mountain valley was quite narrow, plus there was water, four people lined up, inevitably someone had to get close to the bushes and forest, making some noise.

That fox didn't soak in the hot spring, but was looking for something and eating something nearby, heard the movement in advance and ran away.

"I... discovered it late." Yang Chen said with some embarrassment, "The mist is too big, didn't see clearly."

"My glasses are blurred." Xie Ruifeng also defended himself, "Besides, I was afraid that if a point-shot went over, that fox would be shattered."

"You can adjust that to single-fire." Qi Jingyue reminded, "I didn't see clearly."

"Go, go take a look in front." Li Long carried the gun and walked to the pool there.

The ground was full of blood, there were some skin and meat fragments, there was also some red in the water by the pool slowly being washed away.

"Something was eaten here." Li Long pointed to the ground and said.

"I also saw it." Xie Ruifeng rushed to say, "Looking at the pelt, it should be a mountain goat or something."

"This morning." Li Long looked at him and continued, "Should have come over to drink water or keep warm, and then was ambushed by the wild beast here. That fox just now was eating leftovers here."

"Yo, Master Li, not bad, you even know the word 'leftovers'?" Yang Chen asked with some surprise.

"Occasionally read books, so used it." Li Long didn't care, didn't care if he was really surprised or teasing, explained, "So there are animals here morning and evening, if we haven't hit anything this afternoon, we can come over and take a look early tomorrow morning."

"Good." Qi Jingyue was the first to express agreement.

"Go back." Li Long looked around, there was nothing of value here anymore.

"This is the hot spring?" Qi Jingyue suddenly opened her mouth, "These few pools..."

"If it's summer, can soak in the hot spring here. These few pools... this one, the temperature of this one is just right, the bottom is also stone bottom, not deep, soaking is not bad." Li Long explained, "Of course, I don't know what effect it has, this is a wild hot spring after all."

"In the future if... if it can be developed, build a road over, building a hot spring resort or hotel here is definitely possible." Qi Jingyue murmured.

Li Long didn't expect this Qi Jingyue to have business acumen. However, wanting to realize this matter, at least it would be more than twenty years later, and even at that time, the hot spring hotel wouldn't make much money at the beginning.

After all, the dividend of tourism, in the few hottest years, this place was only affected by s101, and couldn't become the center.

However, if it was just to let their own people or family enjoy it, it was also quite good. After all, this place is located in the depths of the layered Northern Tianshan Mountains, ordinary people to tell the truth basically couldn't find this place, just from Hami in the east to Jinghe in the west, countless southern mountains of the same mountain range but different areas, could make outsiders confused.

This thought was pressed down first, this matter couldn't be handled for a while, Li Long led these people to walk back.

"Where to next?" Out of the hot spring valley, Qi Jingyue couldn't help but ask.

"I will take you to another main place. If there is a harvest there, then this trip of ours can be considered not in vain.

On the way I will visit an old friend, ask him if there are any wild boar groups or wolf groups appearing nearby recently. If there are, then we can also ambush and hit them."

"Good!" Qi Jingyue agreed readily.

Continued to walk forward, Li Long started to approach the mountain valley where Halimu and the others were.

Almost reaching Halimu's winter nest, Li Long stopped. He told Qi Jingyue:

"You three wait here for a while, I will go ask my friend. In about half an hour I will be back."

"Can't we go together?" Obviously Qi Jingyue was a bit curious about what kind of people Li Long's friends were.

"My friend is a minority, their winter nest is not spacious, I am not sure if they can accept you there. I feel it is necessary to ask first." Li Long gave a clear refusal attitude.

Qi Jingyue pursed her lips and didn't speak.

"Just right, we also rest for a while." Yang Chen heard, immediately relieved, "Walked for so long, I am also quite tired, fortunately ate at that time, otherwise estimate I would be back-to-back now."

Xie Ruifeng also didn't care about the image, sat on the ground with a butt, put the assault rifle aside, sighed and said:

"This hunting, really not easy... look at Master Li, that physique is really different from ours!"

Li Long didn't care about them, walked straight towards Halimu's winter nest.

Smoke was coming out of the chimney on the winter nest, the sheep in the open pen outside were eating grass, Halimu was clearing the remaining grass stalks in the sheep pen. These grass stalks had to be cleared from the pen regularly, otherwise mixing with the scattered feed grass later would waste a lot of new feed grass.

The barking of dogs alarmed Halimu, he stopped the action in his hand, turned his head to look over, and just happened to see Li Long.

Seeing Li Long, a smile appeared on Halimu's face, put down the wooden fork, climbed over the fence of the sheep pen, and walked towards Li Long.

"Li Long, did you go home? Is this coming to hunt? Go, go into the house and drink milk tea!"

"No, no." Li Long hurriedly waved his hand, "I brought others over this time, so I won't go into the house. I just want to ask, have you seen any wolf groups or wild boar groups appearing anywhere recently. I brought some people over to hunt, earn some money."

"Wolf groups and wild boar groups..." Halimu didn't even need to think, directly pointed to the north and said:

"That side of entering the mountains, at the mouth, I saw a group of Mongolian gazelles the day before yesterday. Ran very fast, don't know where they ran. Wild boars, Xiaobaiyang ditch, you know it, right? I saw traces of wild boars digging there, but it was also several days ago, don't know if they are still there now."

"Alright, having a place is fine." Li Long nodded, "Then I won't disturb you, go take a look at those places, if not, take a look early tomorrow morning."

"No, no, you make me feel too impolite. Your friends, are my friends! Call your friends over, since they are here, we must treat them well..." Halimu felt it was still not possible to let Li Long leave just like this, he pulled Li Long's arm, wanting to keep him.

"Halimu, I know your good intentions. However, these people are different from previous friends. Once there are many people, it's not easy for you to execute here, I am just leading them to hunt, just like customers buying things. Tomorrow, the day after, if hitting things, they will leave."

Li Long explained, and then insisted on leaving, Halimu couldn't keep him, in the end still let Li Long leave.

When Li Long walked back to Qi Jingyue and the others, it hadn't been half an hour. Qi Jingyue was playing with the jade in her hand. The jade had been in her hand, so although it was very cold outside, the jade was warm. She felt being able to get this jade, this trip could be considered worth it, unfortunately it wasn't picked up by herself.

Must come over and take a look next summer, see if she can pick up jade in the stream.

Seeing Li Long appear, the three young people all stood up.

"My friend said, recently there is a group of Mongolian gazelles passing by the mountain pass where we enter the mountains, the range of habitat shouldn't be far, we can take a look when we go out of the mountains.

Besides, there are areas where wild boars appear nearby, we can go take a look early tomorrow morning. However, wanting to hit wild boars, have to get up before dawn, can you get up?"

"That definitely can!" Xie Ruifeng was the first to raise his hand, "We are here to hunt, how can we not get up?"

Qi Jingyue and Yang Chen also immediately expressed they could get up.

"Alright, go, let's go find a place to see if there is prey, if there is, we will hit, if not, then return, and then prepare for hunting early tomorrow morning."

Li Long led these people to the salt cave.

He wasn't worried at all about exposing the location of these two places—this is the cold winter, although the topography didn't have much change, but wait until summer, grass and trees grow, these three people wanting to touch here themselves, that would really be a genius.

Just him leading them can come, others don't even think about it. The salt cave is located between the mountain valley where Halimu and the others are and Xiaobaiyang ditch, on the topographic map, every fold is a mountain valley, just the difference between the size of the mountain valley. The mountain valley where the salt cave is located is a small mountain valley, a feeling of a branch. When Li Long led the three people to the valley mouth, it was obvious that the footprints of wild animals here were more than other places.

"Here... look at the grass not much, why are there so many wild animal prints? Look big and small all have, don't know what they are." Yang Chen's observation was very careful, asked after looking.

Li Long knew the reason, but didn't say, just led them to walk inside, walking and whispering:

"There is a high probability of running into things inside, you all be quiet, observe the left mountain carefully, see what appears..."

Said so, Li Long himself also carried the gun and walked up slowly. His target was mainly the salt cave, but Qi Jingyue and they didn't know, Li Long didn't talk either, so their target thought it was the stone pile above, so they looked quite scattered.

Walking to the middle of the mountain valley, Li Long saw that the fork road there really had quite a few footprints going up, and some footprints were still quite fresh, hoof prints and plum blossom prints all had, looks like this time really had things!

"Up, scatter!" Li Long whispered, at the same time he also carried the gun and walked up slowly.

"I fuck! Have wolves!" Yang Chen was the first to discover the target, he shouted excitedly, and then Li Long also saw that target—it was at the stone pile twenty or thirty meters to the right

"Damn! There's a wolf!" Yang Chen was the first to spot the target. He shouted excitedly, and then Li Long saw it too—it was at the stone pile twenty or thirty meters to the right of the salt cave. Hearing the commotion, it bolted upright, and upon seeing Li Long and the others, it turned and ran toward the ridge!

"Shoot!" Li Long shouted, raising his rifle to aim!

"Bang, bang, bang!" A series of gunshots rang out in the valley. The first to fire was Xie Ruifeng with his submachine gun!

The bullets hitting the loose rocks caused ricochets; the sound of them bouncing was quite strange and rather frightening!

But it posed no threat to the wolf at all!

Qi Jingyue and Yang Chen also fired one after another, but perhaps due to their excitement, they both missed.

Their bullets were still far from the wolf; it looked like a lively scene, but the wolf was running further and further away.

!.

"Bang!" Li Long waited until they had all stopped, then fired the final shot, and the wolf collapsed into the snow at the sound.

"Who hit it? Who hit it?" Xie Ruifeng shouted. He had stopped when he felt his burst fire was too scattered to reach the wolf.

"Master Li hit it." There was envy and surprise in Yang Chen's tone.

He had fired three or four shots, Qi Jingyue had fired even more than him, and Xie Ruifeng had fired at least two or three bursts—nearly ten bullets had gone out.

They hadn't even grazed a hair!

But Li Long had knocked the wolf down with a single bullet!

"Don't be impatient, there should be more!" Li Long pointed upward. "This wolf was waiting for food here; let's go up and take a look..."

As he was speaking, a roe deer suddenly darted out from the direction of the salt cave above. It was a male, not very big. It jumped directly over the rocks, took a few steps downward, and upon seeing Li Long and the others, it stepped on the stones, turned, and ran toward the left.

"Shoot!" Li Long spoke again.

Since he was taking others hunting, he wasn't in a hurry, waiting to be the last one to provide cover fire.

He was confident he could keep the animal there at this distance.

The roe deer ran and jumped, its speed very fast. The group had originally been lined up, with Xie Ruifeng on the far right, then Li Long, then Qi Jingyue, and Yang Chen on the far left. Yang Chen fired first because he had the positional advantage.

Xie Ruifeng also wanted to fire, but when he raised his gun, the muzzle was less than half a meter in front of Li Long. Li Long immediately stepped back and shouted at him:

"Xie Ruifeng! Watch your muzzle!"

Xie Ruifeng was startled by the shout and only then realized that waving his gun around like that was too dangerous. Not only was he putting Li Long near the muzzle, but Qi Jingyue, who had turned to the left, was actually also under the threat of his gun!

If he had actually fired and something went wrong, he would be in big trouble!

"Sorry, sorry!" Xie Ruifeng immediately ran a few steps to the front left before aiming at the roe deer.

This time he switched to single-shot mode, but the five-six submachine gun had a short barrel, and hitting prey in such an exciting situation was truly difficult.

Watching the roe deer remain unscathed and run further away despite the three of them firing shot after shot, Li Long helplessly aimed again and fired a "bang" into the roe deer's leg.

The roe deer fell down instantly, then climbed back up, continuing to struggle forward with a limp.

Its speed was much slower.

"Bang!" This time, Yang Chen's first shot hit the roe deer's back. The roe deer fell to the ground, and then Qi Jingyue hit it in the neck with a shot, and it completely lost its breath.

"Alright, you three go get this roe deer down the mountain, I'll go check on that wolf."

"I'll go check on the wolf too!" Although Qi Jingyue had hit the roe deer, she still wanted to follow Li to see the wolf.

The three young people all understood that if it weren't for that shot from Li Long, they wouldn't have hit the roe deer either. Now, they truly admired Li Long.

A young man around their own age with such good marksmanship—he was truly a veteran at hunting!

"Then let's go together," Li Long reminded them. "Put your safeties on." He didn't lecture Xie Ruifeng again; the young man had just been careless, not intentional.

It was their first time out hunting with guns, and they weren't alone, so mistakes were inevitable.

The group immediately engaged their safeties and followed Li Long over to check on the wolf first.

The wolf wasn't very big, about the same size as the scout wolf in Li Long's pack. Its fur looked sleek and shiny; it must have been eating well lately.

For a lone wolf to be this well-fed, this salt cave deserved much of the credit.

The bullet had hit its chest and abdomen, damaging the internal organs. It shouldn't have died instantly; one could tell from the nearby snow that the wolf had struggled for a moment after falling.

But now it was completely dead.

The three young people curiously stepped forward to touch the fur on the wolf, and Xie Ruifeng suddenly spoke up:

"Master Li, wolf teeth and wolf gallstones both have the effect of warding off evil, right?"

"Hmm, there is that saying." Li Long nodded.

"Then I want one of these wolf teeth!" he said immediately.

"I want one too!" Yang Chen added, then looked at Qi Jingyue. Qi Jingyue didn't speak.

Li Long dragged the wolf leg toward the roe deer. Passing by the salt cave, Qi Jingyue suddenly spoke:

"There are still bloodstains here!"

"We hunted here before, and we skinned and gutted the prey right on the spot."

Li Long dragged the wolf to the roe deer and checked the roe deer's teeth—it was a two-year-old.

He placed the two pieces of prey to one side and said to Qi Jingyue and the others:

"Do you want to haul them back whole, or should we gut them here?"

"We want to haul them back whole." Qi Jingyue was indeed the one in charge, and she said so.

"Then you have to be prepared for the meat to spoil," Li Long said, then explained the issue of spoilage.

"It can happen like that?" Qi Jingyue was a bit surprised. "I even wanted to make a specimen..."

"Make a specimen?" Li Long looked at Yang Chen and Xie Ruifeng. These two wanted wolf teeth and gallstones—if they really took those, how would they make a specimen?

"Hehe, if Jingyue wants to make a specimen, then we definitely won't take the wolf teeth. We should help others achieve their goals," Xie Ruifeng said with a dry laugh.

Since that was the case, Li Long thought for a moment and said:

"If you really want to make a specimen, you have to remove the things inside the belly and fill it with other things later. Making a specimen is mainly about the skin. If it spoils, then making a specimen probably won't work."

As a half-baked hunter, he knew too little about this aspect.

"Then... let's gut it." Qi Jingyue lost her resolve, thought for a moment, and said, "I'll listen to you."

Li Long gutted it right there. Naturally, the things inside the belly were discarded.

The roe deer naturally couldn't be made into a specimen, but per their request, Li Long still only gutted it without skinning it, and in the end, he would let them haul it back. (End of chapter)