"Old Zhao, thank you so much this time. I'll take them down the mountain now!" Wu Yuan cupped his hands, feeling a bit awkward.
"Hey, no need for thanks. The snow is heavy, be careful on the road!" Zhao Kaishan waved his hand. He didn't want to see these educated youths anymore either.
Rescuing someone only to become enemies, what kind of situation is this?
It's a joke if you tell anyone!
Zhao Kaishan shook his head. Seeing Wu Yuan and his group enter the woods and their figures gradually disappear, with the flashlight beam flickering in the forest, it was time for them to return as well.
"Fugui, these wolves..." Zhao Kaishan looked at Zhou Cang and asked.
The other villagers also looked at Zhou Cang eagerly, their eyes full of anticipation.
"Captain, everyone contributed. How about this? I counted, we'll each take one wolf, and the remaining one will be given to the Great Brigade. How's that?"
Zhou Cang said while poking the bonfire.
"We're from the same village, it's different from others!"
Upon hearing this, everyone beamed with joy, especially Zhang Quanfu, whose face was all smiles, showing a mouth full of teeth!
Zhou Cang gave him a thumbs-up and said,
"You cursed well just now!" He remembered this person; he had seen him when he crawled out of the coffin.
"Hehe." Zhang Quanfu grinned. He was a few years older than Fugui, ugly, but simple-minded. Fu Gui's father had saved him in the mountains once.
Some mountain people are cunning, while others are very simple and honest. Zhang Quanfu was the latter; he would forever remember owing Fu Gui's father a life.
So when those educated youths were hostile towards Fugui, he was filled with righteous anger and wanted to curse them.
If Fugui had just given a signal earlier, he would have dared to fight!
"Alright, Fugui handled this generously. Let's go down the mountain tonight. When we get back, don't chatter nonsense, got it?"
Everyone quickly nodded in agreement.
Each person cut two long branches about two meters long with a slight curve and smoothed them. Then, they tied a few short branches horizontally as crossbeams, similar in shape to a stretcher, and a simple sled was made. After securing the wolves onto it, they could slide by dragging it with rattan ropes.
This was much easier than carrying them and less likely to cause them to lose balance and fall.
After figuring out the direction they came from, everyone dragged the wolf corpses and slowly moved forward.
Thinking about bringing meat back home to eat, everyone was filled with strength.
Zhao Kaishan dragged two wolves, watching Fugui lead the way in front. He felt delighted, never expecting to gain so much by bringing this young man along.
"Indeed, I didn't misjudge him!"
Suddenly, Fugui stopped. Seeing this, Zhao Kaishan and the few people behind him also stopped.
"What's wrong, Fugui? Are you tired? Want to rest?" Zhao Kaishan asked.
"Something's there!" Zhou Cang said coldly, looking around.
"What?" The few of them looked around nervously. It was completely dark around them. In these deep mountains and old forests, anything was quite frightening.
Zhao Kaishan shined his flashlight around but found nothing.
"Over there!" Zhou Cang said, pointing to the right. Zhao Kaishan twisted the front of his flashlight, adjusted the beam, and shined it in the direction of his finger.
In the darkness, a pair of green eyes appeared before everyone.
"Oh my god! It's a Tiger!" Zhang Quanfu's legs went weak with fright, and he plopped onto the ground.
"This beast has been following us for a while!" Zhou Cang said.
Raising his hunting rifle, Zhou Cang felt his pockets.
"I have plenty of buckshot, but only three single-shot rounds left," Zhou Cang thought to himself.
"Tigers like to ambush. We can't all be dragging these. Those with guns, give the wolves to those without."
Everyone immediately understood Zhou Cang's meaning. Those with guns would act as guards at this moment.
"Tigers like to ambush from behind, Captain, you lead the way in front, I'll guard the rear!" Zhou Cang said.
"No, I'll go to the back!"
"No matter how you say it, I'm a cadre. How can I let a child like you go to the most dangerous place!"
"Alright then, we have four guns in total. Two people go to the back, one in the middle, and I'll be in the front!"
"Remember, if the Tiger comes, shoot first! Don't worry about whether you hit it or not!"
After reassigning and tying up the wolf corpses, the group continued forward.
Zhou Cang quietly took out a cloth bag from his Arms. After opening it, it was a lump of something that looked neither like meat nor tendon.
He poked the lump a few times, then scraped some blood clots from the wolf corpse, melted them with his hand, smeared them on top, and then gently placed it under a nearby tree.
After doing this, he held his hunting rifle and continued walking forward.
"Fugui, what did you make?" Zhang Quanfu couldn't help but ask curiously after Fugui finished.
"Hehe, good stuff!"
"You might find out later!"
That was dynamite Zhou Cang got from Old Sun, which he made into a 'blasting pellet'.
A 'blasting pellet' is a hunting weapon commonly used by Northeast hunters. Dynamite is wrapped in two pieces of broken bowl shards, along with some broken nails, then tied tightly with thin hemp rope, roughly the size of a duck egg.
Finally, it's wrapped in meat chunks or animal fat. As long as a wild beast smells it and takes a bite, it will be directly blown to death!
The pair of green, eerie eyes in the distance saw all of this.
That was a Northeast Tiger weighing over two hundred and fifty kilograms.
This Northeast Tiger's belly was sunken. Attracted by the smell of blood, it had watched the entire battle between the humans and the Wolf Pack from the shadows.
Zhou Cang and the others continued walking for less than a kilometer when suddenly a blast came from behind!
Boom!
"Holy crap! Where did that grenade come from?" The other villagers shivered with fright, only Zhao Kaishan immediately hit the ground and lay flat in the snow.
After all, he was someone who had received militia training.
"It worked!" Zhou Cang shot out like an arrow,
"Wait for me here, be careful of your surroundings, I'm going to take a look!"
By the time he ran to the previous spot, he found nothing!
Only a small tree that had been blown apart!
Just then, gunshots suddenly came from the direction of the group!
"Damn it!"
"Goddammit, we fell for the Tiger's trick of luring the tiger away from the mountain!"
Holding his hunting rifle, he quickly ran back.
Time went back to five minutes ago.
The Northeast Tiger that was tracking the group was suddenly attracted by a smell.
The Fishy smell smell, mixed with roe deer and wolf blood, was exceptionally attractive to the Tiger!
That was something Zhou Cang used when making the 'blasting pellet' because he didn't want to waste meat. He saw the intestines were good and had a strong smell, so he used them.
The Tiger sniffed the lump of stuff under the tree. It was a very familiar smell. After all, it had often ripped open roe deer bellies to eat, and it had eaten plenty of wolves too.
But the appearance of this thing made him very suspicious.
Its paw, as big as a palm fan, scooped it up and flung it over ten meters away, where it hit a small tree.
The 'blasting pellet' exploded with a boom!
The Tiger was startled and quickly darted into the woods nearby. It decided to continue trying to snatch a wolf corpse from the humans.
The enraged Tiger suddenly attacked, pouncing towards Zhao Kaishan at the back of the group.
"Oh my god!" Zhao Kaishan was so scared he picked up his gun and shot, but he missed.
His rifle was swatted away by the Tiger's paw, leaving him no choice but to turn and run. The others quickly raised their guns to shoot, but at such close range, their muzzles couldn't keep up with the Tiger's speed.
So they all ran around trees in a panic.
Zhou Cang's eye twitched when he rushed back and saw this: a bunch of people, three guns, being chased by the Tiger like that!
Seeing that Zhang Quanfu was about to be grabbed by the Tiger's paw, once caught by the Tiger, the next second would be a crushed throat!
Without time to think, Zhou Cang, from fifty meters away, swung up his hunting rifle while running and fired a shot!
Bang!