1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 118 Overseas Investigation ([-])

This kind of caution is not unreasonable. Tom Wang seriously warned the members at the preparation meeting before departure that the Indochinese Peninsula where Vietnam is located has the Indochinese tiger, the king of the jungle. In addition to preying on animals such as deer, wild boar, and monkeys, it will even hunt competitors such as leopards and bears.The male Indochinese tiger is nearly three meters long and weighs about [-] kilograms. It is a very sharp killing machine by nature.Except for the Asian elephant, there are almost no opponents in the natural world on the entire Indochina Peninsula that can fight against it.In addition, there are clouded leopards and black bears, which are also super aggressive beasts in this area.Therefore, no one is allowed to be alone or act without authorization during the hunting operation, and the hunting area can only be within a radius of three kilometers from the docking point of the sailboat, and no one is allowed to go deeper inland at will.

Finally, Tom Wang emphasized that if someone finds an Asian elephant, they must immediately retreat to the starting point, and must not engage in any other behavior that provokes the Asian elephant.This is because Asian elephants live in groups. Once there is a conflict with the elephant group, it will be a very scary thing.The limited number of firearms not only cannot stop the elephant herd, but may cause the elephant herd to riot.Although the Asian elephant looks huge and slow to move, in fact, this kind of animal can run at a speed of more than [-] kilometers per hour. Most adults cannot run it. Once it is chased by an elephant, it will really I can only pray to God for good luck.

After the vaccination, the three hunting teams set off together and advanced in parallel at a distance of about 200 meters.Although this distance is not far, due to the occlusion of a large amount of surface vegetation, the visibility between several teams is not very good, so everyone turned on the walkie-talkie and kept in touch at any time.

In this primitive area, there are quite a lot of wild animals, and because humans have not set foot here, most of the wild animals did not show much alertness to the presence of the expedition team.Soon after the hunting started, Wang Tom shot a golden pheasant with a compound bow, and then he handed over the bow and arrow to his teammates and acted as a coach himself.And the other two groups of men and horses also made gains soon. Roger and Shi Diwen's team caught a civet cat, and Qiao Zhiya's side caught a two-meter-long python.

After an hour of hunting, Wang Tom himself shot an arrow 40 meters away with a compound bow and overturned an adult sambar, and then announced that their group had ended today's hunting—the adult stag The weight of the boat is a full two hundred kilograms, and only the strength of the whole group of five people can drag this guy back to the place where the boat is parked.

Soon Qiao Zhiya's team also announced the end of the hunt. Although they didn't hunt a target as big as the sambar, they managed to catch five or six golden pheasants and a lot of eggs.

Roger and Shi Diwen's team dawdled for a long time because they didn't gain much, until the other two teams merged and were already halfway on the way back, when Roger's helpless voice sounded from the walkie-talkie : "Okay, we are ready to return, it seems that today is not a good time for hunting... Wait, we seem to have found something amazing..."

Then there were two gunshots in the forest in the distance, and the team members on the return journey stopped immediately. Everyone's faces were full of surprise, and they all guessed what happened to the other group.While calling Roger's group, Tom Wang quickly issued an order to the other team members: "People from the military and police department will return with me to meet them, and the others will return to the ship immediately to be alert!"

While the reinforcements led by Wang Tom were still on their way, Roger's excited voice sounded again through the walkie-talkie: "My God! Tom, you would never have guessed what we hit!"

Tom Wang replied angrily: "I guess you must have killed the aliens who unfortunately landed on the earth!"

"Although it's not an alien, it's almost there!" A few minutes later, a triumphant Roger showed his group's harvest to the reinforcements who arrived panting.

Lying on the ground was a big black guy with a fat body, short and thick legs, and a head as big as a bucket.At first glance, it looked a bit like a wild boar, but it was much bigger than a wild boar. It was more than two meters long, and it didn't have a mane like a wild boar.

"This is... a rhinoceros?" The sharp-eyed person has already recognized the true face of the prey lying on the ground.

"Isn't the rhinoceros an African animal? Where did the rhinoceros come from in Vietnam? Didn't this thing also come from time travel?" Someone asked.

Wang Tom didn't speak. After squatting down to examine carefully for a while, he came to a conclusion: "Yes, this is a rhinoceros. Ladies and gentlemen, you are very fortunate to have seen an extinct animal—the Indochinese subspecies of the Javan rhinoceros. .”

In fact, rhinos do not only exist in the African savannah. There are three kinds of rhinos in Asia, and the Javan rhinoceros is the only unlucky ghost that is on the verge of extinction.This rhino once existed in a vast area of ​​​​Southeast Asia, but most of it has become extinct by the [-]th century.A few years before the crossing operation, the last Javan rhinoceros of the Indochinese subspecies was killed by poachers in a Vietnamese national park. There are only less than [-] Javan rhinoceros left in the virgin forests of Java Island on the earth.

"So we killed a very precious animal just now?" After listening to Wang Tom Cop, Roger was obviously not as happy as before.

Wang Tom patted him on the shoulder and said, "It is indeed very precious after 400 years, but it should not be considered so in this era."

Roger just showed a gratified expression, and Tom Wang said again: "But you are just wasting bullets by killing this rhinoceros. This is a female rhinoceros. It doesn't even have horns on its head, which is the most valuable part of them. Other than that it's just a bunch of meat, are you going to have a rhino meal?"

Roger argues: "Rhino skin can be peeled off to make armor!"

"Then you must have been struggling for a long time. I think this rhino weighs at least six or seven hundred kilograms." Wang Tom looked at his watch: "It's six o'clock in the afternoon, and it will be dark in about an hour. Are you going to Spend the whole night here to finish the skinning or move it back to the boat before dark?"

Roger opened his mouth, but in the end nothing came out.

Naturally, no one would help Roger move this behemoth back to the boat two kilometers away, and it was obviously impossible for Roger to stay in this wilderness overnight for a piece of bloody rhino hide.In the end, the hunters had no choice but to abandon the unlucky Javan rhinoceros and return to the boat with some smaller prey.

A few excited members took off their clothes and prepared to go directly to the river to take a bath, but they were all stopped by Wang Tom: "This is not Tiandu River, you have to remember one thing, not just any river can go down of."

"Why can't it go down?" someone asked.

Wang Tom didn't answer his question, but grabbed a bloody golden pheasant and threw it to the river bank. In just ten seconds or so, a black shadow sprang out from the grass on the river bank, bit the golden pheasant with one bite, and then fell silent. sunk into the water.The few shirtless youths on the deck who witnessed this astonishing scene all opened their mouths, too frightened to speak a word.

"That's a Siamese crocodile. An adult crocodile can grow up to four meters long. If it goes into the water like yours, it can hit ten of you with one." Tom Wang beat the group of daredevils mercilessly.

"Isn't it impossible to take a shower these days?" Someone asked unwillingly.

"That's not enough, we just need to find a spring." Wang Tom naturally has a solution: "I remember that there is a mountain spring near the campsite last night."

So the two sailboats set sail again, and returned along the way they came from today, and returned to yesterday's camp before dark.The barbecue dinner this night was obviously more plentiful than the previous few days. Not only seafood but also birds and animals were included. Xie Chun also made two beggar chickens with Vietnamese golden pheasants, allowing several ABCs to appreciate the power of Chinese cuisine.And Tian Yeyou asked Tom Wang for the two antlers, saying that they would keep them for collection.

Eager to eat, Roger took out two bottles of whiskey from his collection, which drew applause from the crowd.Although there are quite a few people who travel through the country with cigarettes and alcohol in their personal supplies, these consumables are very limited due to the weight limit of personal supplies, so very few people will take them out to share.Although there were only two bottles of wine, each of the dozens of people could not even share 100 milliliters, but this group of men wandering overseas still drank happily, as if they drank fine wine into their throats.At this time, no one will care that the taste of whiskey is not as refreshing as Laobaigan. After swallowing it, the stimulation of alcohol to the nerves is actually no different.

Apparently this little wine was not enough to satisfy the men, so several members of the North American gang began to share their private collections one after another. Except for the two foreign doctors who had never drunk alcohol, everyone drank to their heart's content.Of course, in view of the fact that other people have begun to speak incoherently, tonight's night duty task obviously has to be entrusted to the old military doctor team again.

Alcohol is undoubtedly the best catalyst to win over human relationships. After a few days of running-in, this group of men quickly began to call each other brothers under the influence of alcohol.If the relationship between everyone was just companions in the same big group before, then this overseas voyage has undoubtedly greatly shortened the relationship between everyone. Some things that were inconvenient to say in the past seem to be easier to pour out after drinking come out.

Xie Chun shook his head and frankly admitted that he once had a rather extreme view of the North American Gang, thinking that their arrival would most likely cause some disharmonious voices inside. After all, in the impression of ordinary Chinese, these foreigners are People who are used to being free and undisciplined may not obey the management model of the Executive Committee at all.Once there is a serious conflict of opinions, the North American Gang, which has a large amount of arms in its hands, will obviously be a huge threat.

(End of this chapter)