The Wolf of Los Angeles.

Chapter 286 Third Brother and Third Sister-in-law

Kissimmee is a small town south of Orlando.

A not very wide waterway leads to the Land Lake in the suburbs. The houses on both sides are far away from the waterway and will not affect each other.

Two motorboats, each nearly ten meters long, were parked on the small wooden dock.

In addition to the driver, there is also a hunting guide on each motorboat.

Three cars drove over at this time. Hawke and Erica, dressed in hunting suits, got out of the cars, each carrying a bag, and walked onto the dock.

The rest of them all carried long bags containing weapons.

On the motorboat in front, there were two retrievers, one yellow and one black. When they saw Hawke and Erica approaching, they unconsciously crouched down as if they had encountered a natural enemy.

The bearded guide Duran was slightly surprised and quickly calmed the two hounds. His eyes swept across the group of people and finally stopped on Hawke and Erica.

He quickly got off the boat and greeted them warmly: "Welcome to Kissimmee, the Circuit Hunters Club, the best urban hunter team in Kissimmee."

Hawke shook his hand and said, "That's why we found you."

Duran quickly stepped aside: "Please get on board."

Hawke and Erica were the first to board, followed by Raul and Guti.

The rest went to the boat behind.

Duran then brought over an air gun with a gas tank and said, "It is forbidden to use live ammunition to hunt green-maned lizards here..."

Hawke opened the bag, took out a slingshot, handed it to Erica, and said, "We brought hunting weapons."

Erica opened her bag, pulled out a box of steel balls, handed it to Hawke, and said, "I asked and it's OK to use the steel balls."

Duran asked the driver to steer the boat, then turned around and said, "If you use a slingshot, you should aim at the head of the green-maned lizard. Their bodies are thick and tough, so the damage will be limited if you hit them."

The speedboat was moving very slowly. Hawke looked around and asked, "Are there any restrictions on hunting?"

"There is no size limit," Duran said of the green-maned lizards with obvious disgust. "These damn things often get into our homes and steal our food. They even dig up the roots of crops and eat them."

He pointed to both sides of the waterway: "They are everywhere, in the trees, in the grass, on the flat ground, and in the water."

Erica suddenly looked toward a tree on the shore and said, "I saw it."

Hawke also saw a green figure lying on a horizontal branch, which should be more than fifty centimeters long.

Erica pulled out the slingshot, took aim slightly, and with a bang, the slingshot fired a steel ball that passed through the gaps between branches and leaves and hit the triangular head.

A green lizard fell from a tree and landed on the grass with a plop.

The well-trained black retriever immediately jumped out of the window, swam to the shore, bit the green-maned lizard, swam back, and climbed back to the boat from the side stairs.

Duran took the green-maned lizard, handed it over, and said, "It's dead."

Hawke grabbed the tail and held it upside down in his hand: "It should weigh ten pounds. It's too lean and there's not enough meat."

Erica squeezed the lizard's back with her gloved hand and asked, "Is this delicious?"

Duran smiled and said, "This thing tastes very much like chicken, with almost no fishy smell. It is high-quality protein."

Hawke threw the green-maned lizard into the fresh-game box, leaned against the side of the boat, and soon saw a triangular head as big as a child's fist on the water near the shore.

He put on the steel ball, crossed the slingshot, pulled the rubber band, aimed slightly, and released the bullet bag.

After a bang, the water splashed.

Erica looked sharp and said, "Hit it!"

The yellow retriever immediately jumped off the boat and brought back a large green-maned lizard.

Hawke pointed over there and started pulling, "Dear, see? The one I caught is much bigger than yours?"

"You want to compete with me?" Erica raised her eyebrows and challenged.

Hawke said, "I am an expert with a slingshot."

Erica moved closer and said, "The loser will be down there for the next month."

"I'll compete." Hawke said as he put on the steel ball and pulled the slingshot's rubber band: "Number or weight?"

Erica responded: "Dubi."

After a bang, the black retriever jumped into the water again and quickly brought back a green-maned lizard with a broken head.

Before the dog here could climb out, the yellow retriever jumped into the water again, and Erica hit another one with her slingshot.

Hawke looked for a new target and said, "Catch a few more, and we can use a few different methods to try different flavors."

Erica said, "Keep some and ship it back to Los Angeles through cold chain. I think Brian will like it."

Hawke didn't know whether Brian liked it or not, but Frank loved barbecue and seemed to be good at grilled lizards.

The boat was moving very slowly, not much faster than everyday walking.

They were near a bridge with a flat ground under it. Hawke could see many lizards on the ground from a distance.

A retriever barked over there: "Woof! Woof——"

Hawke had already grabbed several steel balls in his hand, held the slingshot horizontally, and continuously fired the steel balls towards that direction.

Erica is no less impressive.

Bearded Duran originally wanted to shoot a few with his air gun, but when he saw Hawke and Erica's hands were so fast that they almost left afterimages, he quickly put down his gun.

He kept hearing the sound of rubber bands popping in his ears. The largest lizard on the flat ground fell down first, and the rest ran into the water.

These long tails kept falling to the ground while running, and some of their heads were oozing green liquid. In less than a minute, more than a dozen green-maned lizards were lying flat.

Duran looked at the bodies of the green mane lizards, then at Hawke and Erica, and said, "You can make a fortune by staying here and hunting these bad guys."

Hawke said honestly: "Fighting these lizards is just for fun. If it really becomes a job, it will not be fun anymore."

Duran patted the driver's seat and asked him to drive the boat over. He said, "In the beginning, I raised retrievers to hunt lizards for fun. Later, I organized a club and a hunting team, and I no longer enjoyed the initial fun."

Erica said: "So, you are a senior hunter here?"

"Of course." Duran was very confident: "In the whole Kissimmee, there is no better hunter than me, otherwise the agency would not push me in front of clients like you."

Hawke asked directly: "Have you ever hunted an American alligator?"

Duran laughed: "Although American alligators are not as rampant as these lizards, they still need to be dealt with regularly. If you have never hunted American alligators, how can you dare to say that you are the best hunter in Kissimmee?"

He understood what the two meant: "Hunting crocodiles is dangerous. You must be prepared."

Erica said, "We brought hunting rifles that can kill elephants."

Duran thought about the reward he could get this time and said, "If you think I'm okay, I will apply to the company to continue being your hunting guide."

He added: "It's not difficult to kill crocodiles with a gun, but I have another way to hunt them, fishing for them."

With their marksmanship, it would be a piece of cake to shoot an alligator. Erica became interested and asked, "Like fishing?"

Duran nodded and pointed to the front of the waterway and said, "Go straight ahead from here and you will reach Lander Lake. There is a large uninhabited area to the south of the lake. There are woods and water areas, and many American alligators live there. It is a good place for hunting."

Hawke didn't rush to agree, but instead looked at Raul.

The latter nodded to Hawke, having already conducted a background check on Duran beforehand.

Hawke said, "You can try it." He then asked, "Are there any Florida black bears over there?"

Erica continued, "We have applied for three hunting quotas."

Although it is different from the national parks in Africa that sell hunting quotas to maintain the basic operation of the parks, in North America, legal hunting quotas can always be purchased as long as you are willing to spend money.

Duran said: "I'm lucky to meet you there."

The motorboat was now docked at the shore, and two patrol dogs ran ashore and brought back the body of the green-maned lizard.

Hawke and Erica had just killed a dozen of them, and Duran also got off the boat to pick them up.

He immediately saw the first one that fell over here, picked up its tail and returned to the boat, saying, "Hey guys, you killed a monster, the leader of a tribe!"

Hawke took two steps forward, grabbed the tail and held it upside down in his hand.

Other green-maned lizards are basically green, but this one is brown and huge. Including the tail, its length is over 1.5 meters.

Not only is it long, it's also very fat.

Erica took the large lizard from Hawke: "This one has more meat."

Hawke said, "Eat it for lunch!"

Duran interrupted at this time: "This one is at least ten years old. The green ones are all females. This brown one is a male. There is only one male in a group of green-maned lizards in an area, and he is also the leader of the group."

Erica threw it into the prey box, and thinking of the video games her partner often played, she said to Hawke, "You killed a leader-level Boss."

Hawke was thinking about other things.

In the prey box, the green one is the third sister-in-law, and the brown one is the third brother?

Eat lunch with my third sister-in-law and my third brother? It seems a bit abstract.

The motorboat passed through the bridge hole, and Hawke and Erica shot seven or eight more, but the novelty gradually wore off.

The difficulty was too low for the two of them.

Any green-maned lizard that they target will not survive more than a few seconds in front of the slingshot.

Hawke and Erica simply put away their slingshots and sat back in their seats, allowing the others who were traveling with them to also satisfy their hunting urges.

Before noon, the group returned.

Duran took Hawke and the others into Kissimmee, found a Chinese restaurant, and said, "This restaurant is the best for green mane lizards in town."

Hawke thinks it's reliable.

As we all know, if you want to make game delicious, you can't just roast or fry it.

After entering the restaurant, Duran went to negotiate with the restaurant staff and Raul followed him.

Everyone waited for more than half an hour, and the prepared green-maned lizard was soon served.

Braised, beer-braised, roasted, stewed in sauce, and even hot pot.

Erica is not an ordinary woman. She took a sip and said, "It tastes better than I thought. It tastes better than chicken. It's fresh and not greasy. It's not dry or oily."

Hawke bit a piece of braised tail and said, "Is there a possibility that the chef did a good job?"

Erica agrees: “If it tastes good and is easy to process, it’s unlikely to become a problem.”

Hawke ate a lot because he remembered the taste of his childhood, it was so much like frog.

The group ate less than ten of them, and the rest were gutted, frozen, and prepared to be shipped back to Los Angeles.

There are also some larger ones that will be made into specimens.

(End of this chapter)