You were asked to repeat your senior year of high school, and you took advantage of the opportunity

Chapter 801 Enjoy the Jungle Game

Red Cannon
Do not!
It should be a bird-scare cannon, about one meter high.

What puzzled Jiang Chen was that the muzzle of this thing was aimed at the airport wall, not at the bushes inside or outside the airport.

It stands to reason.

The grass is where birds like to stay.

Why are the cannons pointed at our own city instead of at the 'enemy'?

Squad Leader Niu explained with a smile, "The bird-scare cannon is mainly for scaring birds, not for shooting them."

Listen to him.

Jiang Chen finally understood.

Its main purpose is to create a loud noise to scare away the surrounding birds.

When the cannon is aimed at the wall, it can create a larger echo when it is fired.

When the surrounding birds hear this sound, they are frightened and fly away.

Jiang Chen examined the bird-scare cannon carefully.

It was discovered that the bird-scare cannon was actually electrically powered.

Powering an electric ignition device with solar energy.

Huh?
It's quite embracing.

"Watch out, I'm activating the ignition device to scare the birds out, then you aim and fire," Squad Leader Niu said to Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen nodded.

He immediately released the safety from the shotgun in his hand, and then looked seriously at the surrounding bushes.

After Squad Leader Niu finished speaking, he put on a pair of ear protectors.

He then turned over and jumped out of the carriage.

Then they found a rope that looked like an electric wire in the grass.

Press it down hard.

Thud~~~~
A loud, echoing bang suddenly exploded in my ears.

The sound was extremely loud.

Jiang Chen even felt his eardrums vibrate.

However, as soon as the loud noise subsided, as many as a dozen or twenty birds immediately fluttered their wings and flew out from the surrounding grass.

Jiang Chen was quick-witted and agile.

He quickly locked onto a hamster and pulled the trigger.

Bang!
A gunshot rang out.

The sand grouse had barely flown a meter off the ground when it crashed heavily back down.

Jiang Chen saw this.

I was immediately overjoyed.

He jumped off the train carriage and went over to pick up the sand pheasant.

哬！
It's quite fat.

It must weigh about a pound.

When Sergeant Niu saw him return carrying a pheasant, he immediately exclaimed with admiration, "I didn't expect you to be such a sharpshooter! You're the best pilot I've ever seen with a gun."

Jiang Chen boasted, "Using a shotgun to shoot birds doesn't show off my marksmanship. If I have time tomorrow or the day after, I'll bring a pistol and shoot for you. My unit is a bit special; even the pilots have to receive special forces-style training for a period of time."

Squad Leader Niu clicked his tongue in amazement.

He couldn't imagine which air force unit would allow its pilots to receive special forces-style training.

But he didn't ask any more questions.

Because he knows.

These are things he couldn't possibly know.

The two got into the car.

The two pickup trucks started circling around the airport again.

Airports have many "miracle devices" used to scare away birds.

Take this military airfield for example.

They are equipped with seven or eight different bird-repelling devices.

For example, these two oddly shaped pickup trucks are the famous 'bird-repelling vehicles'.

Bird-scare vehicles are usually modified pickup trucks. Large speakers are mounted on the roof, and long-range fireworks are installed in the cargo bed.

Sometimes, the soldiers from the bird control team would sit in the truck and use sprayers to physically drive away the birds.

Therefore, fully armed bird-scaring vehicles can be considered the birds' 'natural enemies'.

The strangely shaped patterns on the vehicle body are the eyes of eagles, striking and awe-inspiring when viewed from the sky.

But a pattern is still just a pattern.

After seeing flocks of birds so many times, I'm no longer afraid.

What truly terrified the flock of birds were the sonic attacks from the loudspeakers, the fireworks with a range of over one or two hundred meters, and the shotguns in the hands of the soldiers.

However, bird-repelling vehicles cannot patrol and deploy around the airport 24 hours a day.

Therefore, the bird control team also makes moving lifelike figures, scarecrows, and other similar objects and places them around the airport.

However, this method only showed results at the beginning.

It’s been a long time.

The flock of birds knew that these humanoid figures posed no threat.

They were no longer afraid.

Besides humanoid models.

The bird control team also creates some realistic birds of prey.

Since birds of prey are the natural enemies of these flocks, using these predators to scare them off can be quite effective.

As for windmills and delayed-firecrackers, etc.

These are all innovative creations of the bird control team.

As for the airport's last line of defense, it is the bird-catching nets on both sides of the runway.

The bird-catching nets and fish-catching runways are parallel.

It is about the length of a public hospital.

The main purpose is to act as the last line of defense, preventing flocks of birds from rushing onto the runway and colliding with aircraft during takeoff or landing.

This last line of defense is quite effective.

However, it can only protect aircraft during takeoff and landing.

Therefore, it is still necessary for the bird control team to manually drive away birds on a regular basis.

After listening to Squad Leader Niu's explanation.

Jiang Chen sighed, “It really is true that every profession has its own secrets. Although I’m at the airport almost every day, this is the first time I’ve heard that there are so many intricacies involved in bird control.”

Squad Leader Niu laughed and said, "That's normal. You guys are busy flying planes every day, you don't have time to worry about these little things."

Jiang Chen shook his head and retorted, "These are not trivial matters; they are matters of life and death. I once hit a bird and almost died."

"I've not only hit birds, but I've also been struck by lightning."

"So I'm actually pretty unlucky too."

Squad Leader Niu was astonished. "Struck by lightning? This is the first time I've ever heard of an airplane being struck by lightning. Tell me, did you mess with some girl, and that's why you got struck by lightning?"

"Hehe." Jiang Chen chuckled dryly, "When you're always flying in the sky, how can you avoid getting struck by lightning? It's normal, it's normal."

“I used to think this was a desolate wasteland where birds wouldn’t lay their eggs, but I didn’t expect there to be so many birds. We must have driven away at least a hundred birds on this trip.” He changed the subject.

Squad Leader Niu nodded and said, "The desert may look barren, or rather, barren to us humans, but it is actually quite rich in species."

"But because the desert ecosystem is so fragile, we usually focus on scare away birds and rarely shoot them."

Jiang Chen looked at the dead birds and rabbits in the carriage.

Her face turned slightly red.

However, he is known for his thick skin.

Moreover, he knew that Squad Leader Niu wasn't making veiled criticisms.

So he asked again, "Do you usually bring the game you hunt back to the canteen to eat?"

Squad Leader Niu shook his head. "The army is very strict about logistics procurement and management, especially your aircrew mess. So the game we hunt, we either roast and eat it ourselves outside, or we throw it away or give it to the herders or locals we encounter. We don't take it back to eat."

Jiang Chen was somewhat disappointed.

He also plans to try the taste of wild game.

Squad Leader Niu seemed to have read his mind.

He immediately said, "Especially you, even if we want to eat barbecue later, you can't eat it. Your bodies as pilots are precious, and I don't want to go to solitary confinement with you."

Jiang Chen sighed and said, "Well, it seems we can't have any wild game. Let's go hunting then and enjoy the thrill of hunting first."

(End of this chapter)