Reborn in the 1980s: I made my fortune hunting wild game in Changbai Mountain

Upon hearing the commotion, Lei Laohu immediately got up from his seat and hurried out to greet him.

The messenger did not enter the house, but stood outside the door waiting for Lei Laohu to show up.

"I was just talking to my brothers about this. You're not just making things up, are you? There's hot pot going on inside. Want to come in and have a drink?" Lei Laohu opened the door and saw the messenger, inviting him familiarly.

"I have other things to do! We can talk about drinking another day! Listen carefully to the news..."

"you say!"

"News just came from the Forestry Bureau that the mutated tiger injured some loggers in the dead pine forest. The head of the Forestry Bureau secretly gave the task of hunting down the mutated tiger to his nephew!"
"If you want to find that mutated tiger, you need to start with this crucial information!"

"What's the name of that leader's nephew you're talking about? This isn't something you can get done just by talking or using connections! Have those leaders who sit in their offices gone mad?"

Upon hearing this, Lei Laohu was immediately displeased, feeling that his identity as a professional hunter had been offended.

"This is a long story, I'll just tell you the key points! The person who accepted the commission is named Yue Feng, and he's from Xing'an Village, Lianhua Township!"
If nothing unexpected happens, their hunting team will lead people into the mountains early tomorrow morning. If you want to find traces of that mutated animal, it's best to go into the mountains with them!
The location is quite far, and there are no readily available maps marking its location! Instead of searching blindly, it's better to follow them!

However, I must warn you of one thing: the Yuefeng Hunting Team is not to be trifled with. They are notoriously arrogant and unreasonable. If you encounter them, be careful when dealing with them!

Upon hearing this, Lei Laohu immediately raised an eyebrow: "Hey, that's strange! How arrogant can you be!"
I, Lei Laohu, have spent most of my life in the mountains and forests. I've seen plenty of ruthless people, but I've never met anyone who would try to be as domineering and tyrannical as me!

Xing'an Village, Yuefeng, right? Which pass did they start from to enter the mountains?

"It's that pass outside the town that leads to the forest farm. My older brother asked me to specifically warn you that the other side is not to be trifled with; they have powerful connections! Don't take it lightly!"

"Okay! Tomorrow we'll follow his trail into the mountains and see what's going on! Aren't you coming inside?"

"No, I'm leaving now! Be careful to keep this a secret. This information is for your own use only; don't tell anyone else where it came from!"

"Damn it, look at the guts of you! You got it!"

……

The messenger didn't even enter the gate; after explaining the intelligence to Lei Laohu, he turned and left.

Lei Laohu closed the door and sauntered back into the house.

"Big brother, who was that just now? Is there news about the mutated tiger?" Pan Xiaoshan asked.

Lei Laohu nodded: "Tonight, everyone, don't drink too much! Eat your fill and get some rest. Tomorrow morning, I'll take you into the mountains to chase that mutated tiger!"

"Where is that mutated tiger now? We've been searching around the back mountain for so many days and haven't found any trace of it! Could it have moved to another area?" Pan Xiaoshui asked.

"You don't need to worry about this. I'll take you all with me tomorrow! But don't drink too much. With your alcohol tolerance, if you can't get up in the morning, you know the rules!"

"Okay, we got it, boss!"

……

On the other side, Yue Feng, Xiao Tao, Xiao Wen, and Xiao Wu had already held a meeting to announce the situation.

The four guys made preparations for going into the mountains and went home early to rest, just waiting to set off the next day.

Silent all night.

The next morning, Yue Feng got up on time, fed the hunting dogs, and then had breakfast with the hunting team. They then drove their military sidecar and snowmobile, carrying supplies for the mountain trip, out of the village.

Yue Feng and his hunting team had been to the Dead Pine Forest many times before, so they knew the way very well. They had a clear direction when they set off, driving their vehicle straight to the back of the mountain.

When they arrived at the pass leading into the mountains, Lei Laohu and his hunting team were already waiting there.

The five men lit a fire beside the pass and waited patiently while warming themselves by the fire.

The motorcycle drew closer in the distance, its engine roar particularly jarring in the morning.

Lei Laohu raised his head, frowned slightly, and glanced at the approaching convoy.

Two military sidecar motorcycles, one snowmobile, four people, and four dogs, all young men, each carrying a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle and wearing a military overcoat, they could be described as fully armed.

"Damn! This hunting team's equipment is pretty advanced!" Lei Laohu muttered to himself.

"Brother, is this the colleague who led us into the mountains?" the fourth assistant asked in a low voice.

Lei Laohu gave the other party a "don't make a sound" look, and Lao Si immediately fell silent.

Yue Feng, riding his motorcycle, also spotted Lei Laohu's hunting team warming themselves by a fire at the pass, but he wasn't too surprised.

Recently, there have been many hunting teams coming from outside the mountains, and it's common to see people warming themselves by the fire while waiting for others.

The car passed the fire where the Lei Laohu hunting team was warming themselves, then entered the pass and quickly proceeded along the Chaiji Road.

After the three cars had driven away, Lei Laohu spat out a thick wad of phlegm in a vicious manner.

"Damn! No wonder the messenger yesterday said this Yuefeng hunting team is very Yangba! Motorcycles with military license plates, and snowmobiles too!" Lei Laohu muttered to himself.

"Brother, what do we do next?"

"Put out the fire! Follow the cart tracks into the mountains!"

They know the location of their target prey; if we follow them into the mountains, we can find our destination!

"go!"

At Lei Laohu's call, the five people who were warming themselves by the fire immediately set off. After extinguishing the fire, they dragged their sleds and followed behind with their hunting dogs into the mountains.

At this point, the difference in vehicle type leads to a noticeable difference in efficiency when venturing into the mountains.

The three-wheeled motorcycles and snowmobiles sped along the Chaiji Road, while the Lei Laohu hunting team, relying on their bare feet, moved much slower, leaving only tire tracks on the ground; the team members had long since disappeared from sight.

The Yuefeng hunting team hurried along the road towards the Dead Pine Forest and arrived at the end of the road at nine o'clock in the morning.

The previous times we came here to hunt, we would walk halfway along the wood-lined road, and then stop to unload our vehicles and have people drag the sleds loaded with supplies forward.

Today was different. I wonder if the workers in the dead pine forest had specially cleared a mountain path less than two meters wide for the convenience of passage and transporting supplies.

All the trees, large and small, along the way have been cut down. Although the mountain road is not wide, three-wheeled motorcycles can still pass if they drive slowly.

Yue Feng looked around at the landmarks to make sure he was in the right direction before boldly continuing to ride his motorcycle forward.

I cycled along the newly built mountain road for another hour or so until it ended near a deep ravine.

The ravines ahead were too deep, and the terrain was like this for several mountain ridges in a row. To build a road, we would have to move mountains and fill seas, using large equipment. So the mountain road construction had stopped. Yue Feng stopped the car and looked around. "There's no more mountain road ahead. Push the car into the woods by the roadside and cover it with the smears made of snakeskin bags! We'll have to walk the rest of the way!"

"Damn, I thought I could ride straight to my destination! I'll have to get off here, and it'll still be more than an hour of mountain road to get there!" Xiao Tao got off his bike, turned off the engine, and scanned the surroundings.

Yue Feng waved his hand: "Stop dawdling. There are footprints left by other people on the ground. The ridges and gullies here are too deep to build a road. If we take a detour, we'll have to walk more than ten miles!"

"Disguise the cars properly. Things haven't been peaceful in the back mountains lately; lots of hunting teams from out of town are out there. We don't want any dared to steal our cars!"

Xiao Tao responded while getting to work: "Yeah! Don't worry, I'd be bold enough to steal a car with military license plates!"

Soon, the group of guys skillfully organized the supplies, then pushed the vehicle into the woods and camouflaged the motorcycle with smocks.

Having done all that, the group dragged their sleds into the mountains and strode off towards the dead pine forest area.

When Yue Feng and his three brothers arrived near the Dead Pine Forest, it was already past eleven o'clock. Compared to their usual travel efficiency, they had saved less than an hour today.

When I last came here, it was a huge pine forest, but many of the pine trees had died.

Today, revisiting the place, I felt a completely different experience.

From a distance, you can see military green tents set up on the sunny slope, with various odds and ends for people to live in hanging outside.

However, the huge tent area was deserted, appearing rather eerie and desolate at first glance.

Further outside the camp, large swathes of pine forest were felled, piled up, and set on fire, leaving only black ash.

Yue Feng stared blankly at the scorched mountain ridge in the distance for a few seconds before he came to his senses.

"Xiao Tao, keep the dog on a leash! Let's go to the crime scene over at the camp and see what happened! Everyone else, be careful not to step on the target's footprints!"

Xiao Tao responded, "Damn, there are tents over here! I wish we hadn't dragged them over! This campsite is so big, why isn't anyone here?"

"Something must have happened. All the workers have run away! I heard from Grandpa Du that the worker who was bitten to death had half his face, brain, and internal organs ripped out by that strange creature!" Yue Feng said.

"Huh? That's so mysterious! They eat living people's brains?" Xiao Tao swallowed hard, not scared at all, but his eyes shone even brighter.

"Who cares? Let's eat whatever we want, let's go take a look first!"

Yue Feng led his men at a jog and soon arrived at the camp entrance.

After circling half of the camp, we quickly found the scene of the crime.

The bloodstains on the ground had been covered with wood ash, but a dark mark remained in the snow.

Yue Feng squatted down and observed carefully for a while, then his eyes darted around in the snow, searching for key information.

The worker who was bitten to death appeared to be lying on the ground, less than three meters from the entrance of the camp tent. There were several unclear prey footprints nearby.

Similar to the situation at Shidingzi a few days ago, this mutated animal was extremely bold, almost reaching the tent entrance to wait for its prey.

Then, recalling the case file's record that the victim's neck was bitten off and caused death, Yue Feng mentally reconstructed the process of the prey's ambush and injury.

The worker got up and went outside to urinate. Then, the mutated animal suddenly sprang up from one side of the door, pounced from behind, bit off his neck bone, and killed him. Then it ate on the spot.

Based on this information, this mutated animal is extremely bold and possesses remarkably high hunting skills.

There wasn't just one worker in the tent; if there was even the slightest commotion, someone else would definitely come out to check.

The fact that it was discovered the next morning indicates that there was no struggle when the attack was carried out; it was a one-hit kill.

With its super-fast running and jumping speed, immense courage, and the ability to kill an adult with a single blow, this creature, in Yue Feng's professional assessment, is even more threatening than an adult Siberian tiger, despite being somewhat thinner.

After observing for a while, Yue Feng called Canglong over.

"Azure Dragon, sniff! Find the direction and footprints that animal came from!" Yue Feng commanded the dog.

The Azure Dragon lowered its head and sniffed for a short while before chasing after it in the northeast direction.

The footprints of the workers fleeing the camp were too numerous to see clearly, but the smell had not disappeared.

Following the scent, Canglong chased for more than ten meters and soon spotted clear prey footprints on the snow.

Following the footprints, Yue Feng walked for nearly a mile around the camp before returning the way he came.

Judging from the footprints left by the other party, it must have discovered the workers working in the dead pine forest a long time ago.

The footprints were always found in the area outside the camp and the work area. Yue Feng had a deep impression of several of the footprints that went back and forth.

Using the method his master taught him, Yue Feng put himself in the hunter's shoes and observed the mutated animal's footprints moving back and forth several times, trying to understand its motives.

For a long time, Yue Feng couldn't figure out why he did this. Suddenly, the Azure Dragon roared, and Yue Feng instantly remembered an inconspicuous description he had seen in the case file yesterday.

The barking dogs at the camp were disturbing the workers' rest. One worker, fed up with it, untied the dog's leash, and the dog went missing the next day.

Thinking of this, Yue Feng immediately turned back to the campsite and searched around. Near the center of the tent area, he found a wooden stake where a guard dog had been tethered. Only the dog chain was on the stake; the dog was nowhere to be seen.

The location where the prey zigzagged on the footprints should be the guard dog's perimeter.

If you get too close, the dog will bark, and then the mutated animal will turn back and run away. After crying wolf a few times, the accommodation worker lost his guard and untied the dog and left it alone.

Having figured this out, Yue Feng frowned even more deeply.

"Azure Dragon, sniff! Find out where that dog went!" Yue Feng gave Azure Dragon another command.

Canglong sniffed around the dog leash a few times, then turned and chased after it towards the back mountain.

Yue Feng followed and caught up with the dog. About two hundred meters from the camp, he found the body of the big yellow dog buried in a snowdrift in a ditch.

Yue Feng surveyed the surroundings and noticed numerous footprints of the mutated animal around the big yellow dog. Needless to say, it was its doing.

Yue Feng painstakingly dug the big yellow dog out and found that its internal organs had been removed, but the other parts of its flesh remained untouched.

The cause of death was also the neck and spine, two holes, a single blow that killed him.

Judging from the existing traces, it seems that the yellow dog broke free from the pursuit, was lured out of the camp area, was bitten to death, and then buried here to prevent it from being discovered.

After reviewing these details, Yue Feng added another point to his assessment of the mutated animal.

Intelligent, extremely intelligent!
They could even use tactics to lure and kill the guard dogs, and they even knew how to bury and hide the dogs' bodies! (End of Chapter)