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Chapter 646: Hunting the Black Blind with a Half-Broken Driving Stick

Xu Ning looked down at Xiao Zhou and saw that his face was pale and his crotch was a little wet. Although his leg was broken, it was only a fracture and the bone break was not serious.

Little Zhou should not be very old, and looked even younger than Wang Hu. Old Fan, who was lying on the ground, was helped up by two people. Old Fan's face was covered in blood, and he had a thick beard on his chin. He must be over 50 years old.

Xu Ning felt that Lao Wei had a really bad life. Picking pine cones was originally a job that could make money, but due to frequent mistakes for various reasons, Lao Wei felt it was quite difficult.

Old Wei could only vent his anger by destroying Hei Xia Zi. What else could he do? He couldn't beat or scold these people. After all, they were all familiar to him. For example, Li Zi and Xiao Zhou were relatives from his wife's family, and Old Fan was his eldest brother-in-law's cousin...

Xu Ning noticed that Lao Wei's face looked strange, so he reminded him, "Send him directly to 17 Lengchang, and have Yang Jun take him to Taipingtun to find Lao Deng."

"Hey! Erning, go chase that black bear. We must kill it today."

"Okay, after we kill Hei Xiazi, I'll give you two pieces of meat, and they'll have a share too."

A middle-aged man at the side gave a thumbs up: "Very nice!"

Xu Ning waved his hand, and ran towards the direction where Hei Xia Zi disappeared with Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu.

Old Wei looked at the three people who were leaving, then saw Xiao Zhou's miserable appearance and Old Fan's unconscious appearance, and a feeling of resentment suddenly rose in his heart.

"Come down quickly, where are you? The black bear has already run away, what are you waiting for?"

The four people who were standing on the tree canopy picking pine cones slowly climbed down the tree after hearing this. They had no experience in picking pine cones before, so their movements were very slow. This made Lao Wei extremely anxious. Fortunately, the three people who had run far away came back and did not cause him any more trouble.

"Is Lao Fan awake?"

"I just woke up, and fainted again when I saw the blood."

Lao Wei touched his face and said helplessly: "Oh my god, why don't you wipe the blood off him! Hurry up and wake him up, go directly to the 17th field, it's nearby..."

Then, the two men woke up Lao Fan. This time he did not faint again because the blood on his face had been wiped clean. The middle-aged man carried Xiao Zhou on his back, and everyone ran towards the 17th field.

They were speechless all the way, and they were very confused about what had just happened. Why? In this day and age, people who can stay idle at home, and they are residents of Qing'an Family Village, since they did not go to the forest farm to work, nor did they find other jobs, it means that they have some physical and mental problems.

In other words, the Songta-beating team organized by Lao Wei can be described in four words - a mob!

It may sound a bit hurtful to say this, but it is the fact. If they were strong and healthy, they would have been arranged to work in the field long ago.

For example, the people in Qing'an Village, the two brothers of the Niu family didn't have proper jobs, but they had been doing odd jobs. That is, the Xu family opened a card game and arranged them to work at the No. 25-2 card game. There was also an idle person named Wang Changhai, who was not idle at home either. He organized card games and took a cut. Every day, he would take or cents, right?
Chang Danian, Yu Kaihe and others were idle at home, but they were both very old. If they hadn't had problems with their legs and feet, they would have gone for a stroll in the mountains all day long.

When the group ran to a mile outside the 17leng field, they happened to run into Yang Jun, Old Man Yang, Ma Liu, Zhao Shengmin, and the leader Li Zi.

"Oh my god, Uncle Wei, how did you run into a black bear? Where did you run into it? Are you going to ask my brother to kill it?"

When they just met, Yang Jun said without any awkwardness that he and Lao Wei had had a drink together and now lived in the old house of the Wang family. The old house of the Xu family was just across from Lao Wei's house, so they were acquaintances.

Lao Wei said, "I don't know how I bumped into him, I just saw him! Oh, this guy made my heart beat fast... No need to look for Er Ning, I just bumped into the three of them, and now they have gone to chase him."

Ma Liu nodded and said, "What's wrong with him?"

Lao Wei said, "I fell from a tree and broke my leg. Erning asked Jun'er to drive us to Taipingtun to find Lao Deng."

"Then let's go quickly and don't delay the child." Ma Liu waved his hand.

Ma Liu and Zhao Shengmin would get together to drink when they had nothing to do. Later, they learned that Yang Jun had an old man who was lonely and helpless, so the two old brothers often came to chat with old man Yang. Then they started cooking in the 17th yard, prepared meals and asked Yang Jun to drive them to the 28th yard and the 25-2nd yard.

The three of them cooked quickly and finished in a short while. They waited until the evening to return to Gelengchang with Yang Jun's car for night patrol.

With 17 Lengchang as the center point, it extends seven miles to the southeast. It is located in the northeast of Shizuigou. On the left side there is a mountain with an altitude of meters called Yingzuizi, and on the right side is a red pine forest. Mountain runners call this area Huabanlingzi.

As mentioned in the preface, the terrain of Shizuigou is steep and extremely uneven, with potholes and ditches everywhere. There is also a patch of red pine forest that grows well. This is why the forest farm did not develop this mountain, because it is inconvenient for transportation...

As the name suggests, Petal Ridge looks like a petal when viewed from a high place. There are eight ridges in total, so it is also called Badaoliang!

Xu Ning, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu followed the black bear's shallow footprints and came to the lower section of Badaoliang. There were steep slopes on both sides with oak trees and numerous shrubs, making it difficult to walk. However, for the sake of bear bile, the three had to take the risk.

"Brother, the bear tracks have stopped here. Should we go in further?"

"We've come this far, can we still go back? Just do it, let's go into the mountain slowly, there's no rush to fight."

Wang Hu said, "Brother, if we go in, we won't be able to get out for a while. Even if we catch a black bear, it won't be easy to pull it out."

"Stupid! Can't we just chase the black bear out of Badaoliang and let it run to the north? Then we can kill it directly and call Yang Jun to drive over to pick it up. Wouldn't that be convenient?"

"Oh, that's not so great! I can't move a dead black blind, but I can move a living one."

Li Fuqiang grinned and said, "What else is there to say? Just go in, I'll lead the way!"

After saying that, Li Fuqiang was about to go into the mountain, but Xu Ning grabbed him and said, "Put on your face towel and protect your neck, otherwise the branches will easily scratch your skin."

"Eh……"

After the three of them finished their preparations on the spot, they headed into the mountain. The mountain was very steep, and they had to be extra careful while climbing, otherwise they would roll down the hillside if they were not careful, and the consequences would be disastrous.

"It's here! The trace is here!" Li Fuqiang said, pointing to the shallow trace on the wet ground.

Xu Ning caught up with him, took a quick look, and nodded, "That's it! It went to the top of the mountain. It might have a nest in the ditch."

"Brother, I have a bomb here. If you see him, can you set it off twice?"

Xu Ning said, "Give us five of them. When we see it later, the three of us will chase it from the southeast to the north."

"Okay!" Li Fuqiang took out a bomb from his cloth bag.

Wang Hu took it and took out a kerosene lighter from his hip pocket, handed it to Xu Ning and said, "Second brother, you use this lighter."

"Hey, when did you buy it?"

Wang Hu grinned and said, "Hua'er bought it for me last time in the city. I don't smoke, so I just came into the mountains to make a fire and use it."

"Then you can use it yourself. I'll just light a cigarette and that'll be it."

Li Fuqiang took out Yingchun from his pocket and said, "It's easier to light a cigarette than to strike a match."

The two took the cigarettes without hesitation and put them in their chest pockets. Then Xu Ning walked towards the top of the mountain while admonishing, "If the black bear comes towards us, don't hesitate, just kill it directly."

"Okay! Just save your life first."

"That's for sure! Our lives are precious." After reaching the top of the mountain, the terrain became flatter, but there were still many small slopes.

"Is there a spring here? Does the Little Stone River flow out from here?"

Xu Ning shook his head: "No, this spring flows towards the east and directly flows into the Hailang River."

At this moment, Wang Hu suddenly grabbed Xu Ning's arm, bent down, lowered his head, and pointed to the fallen tree in front of him, saying, "Second brother, look at the fallen tree..."

Xu Ning and Li Fuqiang looked in the direction and saw a black-haired bear lying next to a fallen tree halfway up the hill about 60 meters away!
This bear was similar to what Lao Wei described. Judging from its size, it should weigh more than 450 pounds. Perhaps it was tired from running, or perhaps it was in a sheltered place, so it did not smell the scent of Xu Ning and his two companions.

"Brother, what are you doing?"

"Our current position is not very good. The sound of gunfire will easily scare the black bear. If we want to chase it to the north, we have to go around to the south."

Li Fuqiang said: "The road conditions here are not very good. The three of us may not be able to catch up with it."

"Why don't we just do it here?" Wang Hu said hesitantly.

"No, this black bear weighs more than 400 kilograms. How can the three of us pull it? Let's do this...you two go around to the south, and I'll go directly to the east along the mountain ridge. You two throw the fire bombs first to scare it to the east, and then I'll fire the cannon. Do you know how to intercept it? You two are the ones driving the sticks, and I'm the cannon leader. I'll go to the northeast to intercept it. Do you understand?"

"I see. Then shouldn't we three set a time?"

Xu Ning raised his wrist and said, "It's 3:21 now. It will take me five or six minutes to walk from here to the east, and it will take you four or five minutes to walk to the south. When you two are in position, count to 100 silently in your mind, and then fire! If Hei Xiazi wakes up early, just fire the gun to give a signal."

"okay."

Just as Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu were about to leave, Xu Ning suddenly warned them: "Don't throw the machete as a hand grenade in front of the black bear. Throw it in front of you or to the east. Otherwise, it won't know which direction the movement is coming from and will be frightened and run around randomly."

"Hey, if you hadn't told me, I would have really thrown it at its face. Didn't we just throw it directly into the warehouse when we blew up the bear warehouse last year?"

"How can this be the same? Remember, recite 100 numbers silently when you get there!"

"know."

Fortunately Xu Ning gave me the instructions, otherwise something bad would have happened easily.

Because Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu followed him mostly to fight dog battles, and secondly to fight sneak battles, this kind of interception battle was the first time they had ever fought one.

Last year, Li Fuqiang followed Xu Ning up the mountain to rescue his father. He did catch up with a battle, but something had already happened, so Li Fuqiang had no experience.

The most important thing in an interception battle is the route and timing. Xu Ning was not fully prepared just now, so why did he dare to do it? Obviously, he, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu have a good understanding of each other. Even if they are not familiar with the road conditions in this mountain, with the experience of the three of them, nothing serious will happen. At most, the black bear will run away.

At this moment, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu had already tiptoed to the eastern hillside, about 70 meters away from the black bear. The reason they didn't dare to get too close was that they were afraid that the valley wind would blow and the black bear would smell the scent.

The two were more than 40 meters apart, but they didn't dare to light their cigarettes first. When they counted to 90 in their hearts, they took out cigarettes and matches, lit them behind a tree, and then took out the bombs...

In the distance, the mountain top.

Xu Ning hid behind a tree. There was a steep slope behind him. If the black bear pounced on him, he could hide behind the tree on the left, and the black bear would not be able to stop and would fall down the slope.

He was already prepared, just waiting for Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu to fire the bombs. Not long after, Xu Ning heard two explosions of firecrackers.

The sound was so loud that it echoed in the valley, and the black blind man heard the noise and suddenly jumped up, stood up on his front legs and opened his mouth to let out a deafening roar!

After the bear roared, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu threw two more bombs. The locations where the two bombs exploded were more than 40 meters away from Hei Xia Zi. When Hei Xia Zi heard the source of the sound and smelled the smell of gunpowder, he immediately felt something was wrong and ran in the opposite direction of the explosion!
The black bear was on all fours and was very agile in the mountains where the road conditions were difficult. In just a short while, it rushed to the top of the mountain. Just as it was about to run down the mountain towards the east, Xu Ning suddenly flashed out from behind a tree and threw a bomb in front of it.

Hei Xia Zi was startled by the explosion of the bomb, and he quickly ran towards the north, roaring as he ran, trying to scare it away.

After Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu caught up, they did not see Xu Ning. They heard the sound of mines exploding from the north and followed the source of the sound.

Xu Ning had already fired all the five bombs in his hip pocket. He had been following Hei Xia Zi, about 70 meters away, but Hei Xia Zi was running farther and farther, and Xu Ning could not catch up with him at all. He could only find a higher place to watch.

"brother!"

Xu Ning stretched his neck to look, but didn't see any trace of the black bear, so he shouted: "Chase it quickly! This black bear runs too fast..."

"Run slower. We are not familiar with this mountain. It is normal that we cannot catch up. Don't sprain your ankle!"

Wang Hu said, "Second brother, if you can't catch up, don't chase me. Just be more careful!"

Xu Ning squatted and slid down the hillside, then stood up and ran as fast as he could, rolling and crawling all the way down the mountain. By this time, Hei Xia Zi had already run two miles away from the fallen tree.

Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu gradually caught up with him from behind and said, "Brother, did you see it?"

Xu Ning waved his hand and said in a low voice: "Just leave it in this forest. Is the gun loaded?"

"On it, you ring first."

Wang Hu muttered, "Why is this black bear so quiet? Can't he ambush the three of us here?"

"Can't be prepared..."

Li Fuqiang pointed to the mountain ahead and said, "Is this mountain in front connected to the 14th Lengchang?"

Xu Ning was about to nod when he noticed a black patch in the bushes in front of him on the right. Then the black patch gradually expanded, revealing the white crescent pattern on its chest!
"Oh, fuck me!"

Xu Ning reacted very quickly, and immediately held out his gun. Before Hei Xiazi could even let out a piercing roar, he fired two shots in quick succession...

Bang bang!

Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu reacted slower, but they also pointed their guns. However, by then Xu Ning had already smashed Hei Xia Zi's head into pieces.

The two shots hit Hei Xia Zi's head accurately. The bullets penetrated from his forehead and face and sprayed out from the back of his head, bringing out some white tissue...

The black bear fell forward, crushing a piece of bush. With a plop, the gust of wind lifted the fallen leaves half a meter high.

"It's so accurate!"

"My second brother's shooting skills are amazing, haha..."

Xu Ning said, "Pay attention to your surroundings. I'll go over and take a look."

"Brother, go ahead! If it's not dead yet, I'll shoot it again."

"Be more careful."

(End of this chapter)