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

Faced with Xiao Tao's question, Yue Feng clicked his teeth and thought for a few seconds before shaking his head: "It's hard to say exactly what's going on! This mutated beast is extremely cunning. Even if we use a series of traps, we can't guarantee that it will definitely fall for them!"
Catching this thing isn't something that can be done easily in a day or two! Let's have dinner as usual first! After it gets completely dark, we'll stay up all night and observe it!

To find out if it's hiding outside secretly observing or has already gone far away, tomorrow morning we'll go to an area further away from that roe deer and look for footprints!

"Uh... alright then! I'll keep watch for one more night!"

After listening to the plan, Xiao Tao nodded, but the hope that had just risen was buried again by the conversation.

The group ate on time, and then, using the same plan from the previous night, the two groups took turns observing and keeping watch.

For the first half of the night, the mutated tiger rested and hid in a sheltered spot a kilometer away, until the wind picked up in the second half of the night, at which point it emerged from its snowdrift.

A wind rose on the mountain, bringing with it clouds. The moon, which had been hanging high in the sky, was obscured by the clouds, and the entire mountain forest became even darker.

Xiao Tao and Xiao Wu each held a gun and kept watch from the observation post. After the wind picked up and the visibility outside dropped again, Xiao Tao gave up the observation.

The light outside was too dim; even Xiao Tao could barely make out the outlines of objects. So, there was no point in continuing to wait.

"Xiaowu, what time is it?" Xiao Tao yawned and asked in a low voice.

Xiaowu glanced at his watch near the stove: "1:30 in the morning!"

"Are you sleepy? We can't see anything outside at all!" Xiao Tao muttered.

"You can barely keep your eyes open. You were making a fuss all day and couldn't sleep! What do you want to do?" Xiaowu asked.

"Wake up Brother Feng and let him take over the shift. Shall we go to sleep?"

"I don't think that beast of a mountain will come. Maybe it knew we were coming to deal with it and ran away long ago!" Xiao Tao said dejectedly.

Xiaowen rubbed his slightly sore eyes: "Are you sleepy? Then you should take a nap first. I'll keep an eye on things and wake Feng-ge up at two o'clock!"

"I'm sleepy now, so don't be lazy and turn off the fire again!"

"Don't worry!"

Xiao Tao whispered a few words to his companion, put down his gun, then shrank to the side, covered himself with the roe deer skin blanket, closed his eyes, and soon began to snore.

Xiaowu stuffed a few pieces of pine firewood into the stove, then returned to the observation window to continue observing.

There are advantages to darkness; if a wild beast approaches, the light in its pupils will be more noticeable.

Xiaowu was quite interested in keeping watch over this big guy at night, his eyes fixed on the roe deer lying on the spot outside.

Before I knew it, another hour had passed.

Xiaowu glanced at the time, then gently nudged Yuefeng, who was lying down fully clothed.

"Brother Feng, get up and it's time to change shifts!" Xiao Wu called out.

Yue Feng spent the night on the mountain. He was a light sleeper, and when he heard someone call him, he immediately opened his eyes.

"what time is it?"

"It's past 2:20! It's getting windy outside, and the clouds are blocking the moon, so the visibility is poor. Xiao Tao went to sleep around 1:00!" Xiao Wu said, his mind clear.

Yue Feng replied, "Okay, I got it! Go to sleep! Be careful not to wake Xiaowen! The visibility is poor, and he can't see anything useful from his observation post!"

The handover was completed in a few words between the two. Yue Feng moved to Xiao Wu's observation post and took the still-warm rifle butt that Xiao Wu had been holding.

I habitually glanced at the spot where the blind roe deer was lying. It was still within the observation area. Because of its relatively high temperature, the snowflakes had melted and created a shallow pit where it was lying.

Outside, the mountain wind howled, and the blind roe deer huddled together, using their fur to withstand the biting wind and low temperature.

With the roe deer serving as bait working fine, Yue Feng relaxed, set up his gun, and occasionally glanced at the hazy surroundings outside while pondering other possibilities.

Laymen often think that going into the mountains to hunt with a gun is a simple matter: find the prey, shoot it, and take it home.

Only someone like Yue Feng, who has entered the field, knows how ineffective conventional hunter methods are in dealing with these cunning apex predators.

Yue Feng secretly fantasized: If only we had drones now, we could just take them into the air, use thermal imaging to scan around, and see everything clearly.

My thoughts wandered for more than half an hour, and before I knew it, it was already three in the morning. The mountain wind gradually stopped, but the clouds above my head still hadn't dispersed.

One second Yue Feng glanced at the observation port and found nothing unusual, but the next second, when he did his routine scan, an inconspicuous dark patch close to the ground caught his attention.

Why do these dark patches seem to be moving? Could it be that the mutated animal has mistaken the blind roe deer that was used as bait?

Yue Feng instantly held his breath and quietly observed and waited.

After observing it carefully for a long time, the dark patch seemed to have stopped moving, becoming like a background panel that remained stationary.

Just as Yue Feng habitually yawned, the dark-spotted creature suddenly stood up and rushed towards the roe deer, leaving a trail of afterimages.

With almost no pause, it snatched the mother roe deer by the neck, as lightly and effortlessly as if picking up a fallen leaf, and then turned and ran.

Yue Feng was stunned. By the time he came to his senses, the roe deer and the dark-spotted animal had already gone at least seven or eight meters away.

"Holy crap!" Yue Feng couldn't hold back any longer and let out a low growl as he pulled the trigger in the direction the roe deer and predator had fled.

boom!
Bang bang bang!

……

With a full thirty-round magazine, Yue Feng steadily pressed down on the butt of the AK47 and fired a burst of shots.

The bullet streaked across the night sky like a meteor, landing on the snow beside the mutated animal, scattering snowflakes everywhere.

By the time the mutated creature, carrying a roe deer and dragging a stick, escaped from the observation post's field of vision, Yue Feng only had eight bullets left in his gun.

Twenty-two bullets were fired, but none were caught.

The three teammates who were already asleep in the tent sat up instantly upon hearing the gunshot, and their first reaction was to grab the guns next to them.

"Brother, what happened?" Xiaowen asked in a deep voice.

Yue Feng gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it, that mutated animal just now snatched our roe deer! I only blinked and it leaped three or four meters away with the roe deer in its mouth!"

"Did you hit it?" Xiao Tao asked, his eyes shining as he held the gun in one hand.

Yue Feng shook his head: "I'm not sure, but it's most likely that it didn't hit a vital spot!"

"Let's go, grab a flashlight, and go take a look?" Xiao Tao crouched down, got up, and took the flashlight from the beam next to the campfire.

"Let's go! Everyone take your guns, lead the Azure Dragon, and put the remaining three dogs in the tent!" Yue Feng gave a clear and concise order. The four men got up, wrapped themselves in their cotton-padded coats, grabbed their guns, and shone flashlights as they left the tent.

The group walked on foot, their footsteps crunching crisply on the snow. Yue Feng, carrying a flashlight, led the way, slowly approaching the spot where the blind roe deer lay.

The straight-line distance was a little over two hundred meters. After getting closer, Yue Feng carefully looked down and examined the area.

The stick and rope were dragged away together, leaving a drag mark on the snow.

Yue Feng saw seven or eight craters on the ground where no shots had been fired.

There's blood here!

Xiao Tao spread out a few spaces nearby, then pointed to the snow and shouted.

Yue Feng and the others immediately surrounded it. Yue Feng glanced at it and shook his head: "No! This is roe deer blood! If it were a bullet graze, there wouldn't be only one or two drops!"

"I'm having some bad luck. I fired so many shots, but I missed!" Xiao Tao muttered dejectedly.

Yue Feng sighed: "If I stay focused and fire instantly the moment it charges forward to launch a sneak attack, I still have a chance to get the first shot!"
With poor lighting, accuracy is questionable even at a range of over 200 meters! If we wait until it starts moving before firing, we'll have lost the initiative!

That beast runs incredibly fast, it's like it's leaving a trail of afterimages!

"What do we do next? Keep chasing? Our dog can definitely catch up with the roe deer's blood trail!" Xiaowen asked.

Yue Feng hesitated for a moment, then shook his head helplessly: "Go back to sleep! It's no use even if the dog recognizes the slut!"

Even if we manage to track it down, we won't be able to catch it! At best, we'll just manage to retrieve the roe deer it snatched away!

Xiao Tao said somewhat unwillingly, "We could at least chase after the roe deer that it took! If the wild animals eat it, it will be even harder for us to catch it again! If we bring back the prey, at least it won't have anything to eat!"

Upon hearing this, Yue Feng thought about it again and realized that it made sense!

People have come out. That mutated animal carrying the roe deer can have a short burst of power, but it certainly can't run at high speed over long distances.

If a person chases after it for a distance, the prey will have to give up its prey or hide it if it wants to escape!

"Then let's keep chasing! Find that roe deer!" Yue Feng responded and continued the chase.

"Azure Dragon, sniff!"

At his command, the lead dog, Azure Dragon, immediately wagged its tail, sniffed the air, and chased after the direction in which the mutated tiger had fled.

Then look at the mutated tiger; after escaping the hail of bullets unscathed, it was terrified.

It carried the roe deer in its mouth and dragged a short stick, running wildly along the edge of the forest for a full mile before slowing down slightly.

The seemingly insignificant stick it was dragging caused a great deal of obstruction to its movement.

Even a small bush or tree can momentarily block your path and slow down your running speed.

After several obstacles, the short stick got stuck between two thick, miscellaneous trees, and the running mutated tiger instantly taut the rope.

Pong!
With a muffled thud, the rope, as thick as a little finger, snapped instantly with the tiger's brute force. The tiger then accelerated its run and fled into the distant mountains.

Yue Feng and his three companions, with dogs on their leashes and flashlights in hand, relentlessly chased after their prey in the dead of night.

They chased each other for over an hour before finally stopping.

Hearing the footsteps and voices of the pursuers behind it, the mutated tiger hesitated for a few seconds, then, carrying the roe deer in its mouth, nimbly climbed a large tree, hid the meat in a branch, and then leaped into the air to another tree, like an agile leopard, quickly concealing its tracks before disappearing into the dense forest.

Following the scent, the Azure Dragon arrived at the base of a giant ironwood tree.

Wang Wang Wang!
The Azure Dragon is a celestial beast with an exceptionally high ability to distinguish scents, and it kept howling at the trees.

The members of Yuefeng's hunting team immediately tensed up, shining two flashlights at the same time towards the tree.

Soon, the roe deer stuck in the tree branch was discovered. Yue Feng and the others circled the tree several times to make sure there were no predators before signaling Xiao Tao to climb the tree.

Xiao Tao rubbed his hands together, took a rope from his lower back, tied it around his waist, and then looped it around the trunk of a large tree. Before climbing the tree, he asked, "Brother, do you think we should try to trick this roe deer?"

Yue Feng shook his head: "We've been here, there are footprints and scent! It's unlikely to fall for it! Let's get the roe deer down first!"

"Then I'll climb the tree!"

Xiao Tao nodded, and with the help of a rope, he bent over and began to nimbly climb the tree.

In less than five minutes, Xiao Tao threw the roe deer, which had already been killed, down from the tree branch. Yue Feng checked the rope around its neck and the wounds that caused the prey's death and made a judgment in his mind.

It was indeed the blind roe deer. Its internal organs were intact, but the rope around its neck and the drag bar had been broken by the mutated tiger.

"Xiaowu, you and Xiaowen take the roe deer, let's go back!" Yue Feng called out and led the way back.

……

Just as Yue Feng was firing continuously and pursuing them under the cover of night, the intense gunfire from the camp also woke up Lei Laohu from his sleep.

"Xiaoshan, they've opened fire from Yuefeng camp!" Lei Laohu sat up abruptly and asked Xiaoshan, who was on night watch.

"Hmm! It doesn't sound like just a gun! Could it be that beast went to Yuefeng camp?" Xiaoshan said, somewhat uncertainly.

"No! It's the sound of a gun! This isn't the sound of a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle; it sounds more like an AK-47 fully automatic!" Lei Laohu keenly distinguished the sounds of different firearms.

"With such a dense barrage of gunfire, even a herd of wild boars wouldn't survive after being mowed down like that!" Xiaoshan muttered dejectedly.

They went into the mountains to suffer for that mutated tiger, but now they've been hit by a barrage of gunfire in the middle of the night, and their prey has probably been taken by someone else.

Lei Laohu disagreed: "You can't say that. If it was one person who fired the gun, so many bullets would mean that none of them hit the target!"
If he takes her down with one shot, he definitely won't fire randomly afterwards!

That makes sense! Fur animals become worthless once they're damaged.

Xiaoshan scratched his head: "So what do we do next? Should we go out for a walk? What if we find something cheap?"

Lei Laohu sighed: "It's pitch black, how can we possibly find anything worthwhile! If the returning hunting party runs into us and they kill us like prey, we'll have nowhere to complain!"
Go back to sleep! Dawn is almost here!

With that gunshot, there's definitely no danger until dawn! Get the firewood ready, and go to sleep soundly! We'll check again first thing tomorrow morning!

"it is good!"

After whispering a few words to each other and fixing the fire, the two quickly went to sleep fully clothed.

...(End of chapter)