Hunting 81: Gathering Goods in the Mountains, I Spoil My Ex-Wife to the Extreme

"Aww..."

The deafening roar of the tiger echoed through the mountains and forests, making the mountains seem to tremble.

"It's a tiger, over in Xishun."

Zhou Dazhu and Ma Daqing were searching for Li Yunshan's whereabouts when a tiger's roar came from behind them, startling Zhou Dazhu.

According to Zhou Xishun, the forest farm had marked so many areas where tigers had been spotted that it was unlikely that one would appear in their area. However, reality proved them wrong; they had only been separated for a short time when Zhou Xishun encountered a tiger.

"My son, you must never get into trouble."

Thinking of his son Zhou Xishun's fearless nature, which had now encountered a man-eating tiger, Zhou Dazhu was extremely anxious. He said to Ma Daqing, "Daqing, let's hurry over there and help Xishun and Erqing."

"Okay, Uncle Dazhu."

With that, the two of them ran wildly toward the direction from which the tiger's roar came.

"The tiger has appeared."

At this moment, Li Yunshan emerged from his hiding place.

Actually, the two hunters were not far from him, but luckily the man-eating tiger appeared and lured them away.

Taking a deep breath to calm his nerves, Li Yunshan gripped his Mosin-Nagant tightly and chased after the direction from which the whistling sound came from.

At this moment, the striped tiger spread its four hooves, its huge, mountain-like body like a tank. Wherever it passed, the snow on the ground was blown away, and the bare, withered branches and grass along the way all broke as if a defeated army had collapsed.

Zhou Xishun was initially excited to encounter this magnificent tiger, but when it pounced on them, he realized that things were quite different from what he had imagined.

The oppressive aura emanating from the tiger, the king of beasts and a top predator, finally made Zhou Xishun realize how foolish his heroic ambition to fight the tiger had been.

"Gurgle!"

He swallowed hard, his hands trembling as he picked up the 工字牌 hunting rifle, took a quick aim, and pulled the trigger.

With a "bang," the bullet flew out, but it didn't hit the spotted tiger that was pouncing on it at all; it flew off somewhere unknown.

Panicked, Zhou Xishun quickly pulled the bolt and fired, but the bullet missed the tiger again.

After missing both shots, Zhou Xishun quickly pulled the bolt and pulled the trigger, but the gun didn't fire a single shot.

"Load the bullets! Load the bullets!" Ma Erqing shouted anxiously from the side.

This shotgun can only hold two bullets at a time, and you have to reload it after you've fired them.

Zhou Xishun fired two shots just now, and the gun was already out of bullets.

Upon hearing Ma Erqing's shout, Zhou Xishun suddenly realized that he had been too nervous and had forgotten to reload after firing all his bullets. So he immediately took out his bullets and reloaded them.

However, due to his nervousness, Zhou Xishun dropped both bullets on the ground while loading them.

As the striped tiger drew closer, Ma Erqing gritted his teeth and shouted to Zhou Xishun, "Brother Xishun, run! If we don't run now, it will be too late!"

After saying that, Ma Erqing abandoned Zhou Xishun and turned to run. When Zhou Xishun saw Ma Erqing running away, he also turned to run, shouting, "Erqing, wait for me!"

Upon hearing this, Ma Erqing, who had escaped, thought to himself, "What the hell am I waiting for? If I had known you couldn't even shoot accurately, I wouldn't have dared to go into the mountains with a piece of trash like you to hunt tigers, even if I had the guts of a bear and the gall of a leopard."

But it was too late now; the tiger had already pounced. Ma Daqing could only pray in his heart that his great-grandparents would bless him so that he could escape alive. He vowed that if he ever went hunting in the mountains again, he would be treated like a dog.

Seeing Ma Erqing running faster than a rabbit, while the striped tiger was getting closer and closer, and the gun was not loaded with bullets, Zhou Xishun suddenly felt a chill run through his body—a sign that death was imminent.

Sure enough, the tiger roared and charged at Zhou Xishun, its thick, sharp claws slapping him on the back.

The strength of an adult tiger is immense, not to mention that this man-eating tiger was unusually large, with an astonishingly large size. With a single swipe of its paw, Zhou Xishun, who weighed over a hundred pounds, was sent flying like a chick, crashing directly into a large tree and spitting out blood.

As Ma Erqing was running away, he heard the tiger's roar. He turned around and saw the striped tiger had bitten Zhou Xishun's neck and was pouncing on him.

Ma Erqing was terrified by the bloody scene, his face changed drastically, and his legs went weak, but the will to survive still drove him to run wildly.

But how could two human legs outrun four tiger legs? The striped tiger caught up with Ma Erqing in just a few steps, and before Ma Erqing could react, he was knocked to the ground by the tiger.

The immense force nearly shattered Ma Erqing's spine.

"what!"

Ma Erqing screamed and fell to the ground. Intense pain instantly spread throughout his body, and he broke out in a cold sweat despite the freezing winter.

"No...don't eat me..."

Driven by the will to survive, he tried to escape, but his spine had been shattered by the tiger, and he could no longer feel his lower limbs. Meanwhile, the tiger's blood-stained face drew ever closer.

"Erqing..."

At this moment, Zhou Dazhu and Ma Daqing finally arrived, only to find a striped tiger less than two meters away from Ma Erqing, and Zhou Xishun lying in the snow not far away, his life hanging in the balance.

Seeing his younger brother about to die in the tiger's jaws, Ma Daqing was so frightened that he quickly drew his bow and shot an arrow at the tiger.

Just as the arrow was about to hit the tiger squarely, Ma Daqing was overjoyed, but Zhou Dazhu cursed, "Fool."

Having been a hunter for so many years, he knew the power of the bow in Ma Daqing's hand. It was fine for dealing with small and medium-sized prey, such as roe deer and rabbits, but it would only provoke a tiger even more when it came to such a large beast.

Sure enough, although the arrow struck the tiger, the force was like a mere tickle, only breaking a small part of its skin.

Enraged, the tiger suddenly turned around and pounced on Zhou Dazhu and Ma Daqing.

Seeing the tiger pounce, Zhou Dazhu raised his gun and fired a shot at it.

With a "bang," the shot hit the tiger, but the bullet only grazed it, leaving a bloody gash on its rump before flying off somewhere else.

"roar"

With a roar, the tiger was completely enraged, its speed suddenly increased, and it pounced on Zhou Dazhu, bypassing Ma Daqing.

Zhou Dazhu quickly pulled the bolt, but the tiger was too fast. He didn't have time to load the bullet before the tiger opened its bloody mouth and bit his neck.

"what!"

Zhou Dazhu let out a scream, and with a "crack" sound, his neck was bitten off by the tiger, and he died.

Ma Daqing turned around and saw this bloody scene. He was so frightened that he almost jumped out of his skin. He tried to run away by scrambling and rolling, but the tiger gave him no chance to escape. It pounced on him, slapped him with its claws, and bit him with its blood-red mouth. Ma Daqing also went to his death.

Having killed four people in succession, the murderous aura emanating from this striped tiger had reached its peak, and its tiger eyes were blazing with a terrifying light.

It looked around at its spoils, unsure which to eat first.

Just then, Li Yunshan, who had been hiding in the distance, raised his gun and fired a shot directly at the head of the striped tiger.

He used a Mosin-Nagant rifle for this shot, and he aimed at it for a long time.

The 7.62 caliber bullet pierced directly into the eye of the striped tiger. The tiger only felt a cloud of blood mist explode before its eyes, and it lost sight in one of its eyes.

It roared in pain, its voice echoing through the mountains. With its only remaining eye, it quickly scanned its surroundings but couldn't find the person who had shot it. The tiger's animal instincts told it that the person who had shot it was dangerous, and since it had already lost an eye, it had to leave as soon as possible.

So it abandoned its prize and turned to flee into the depths of the forest.

Seeing the tiger escape, Li Yunshan chambered a bullet and loaded another bullet into the magazine, so that he would always have one bullet in the chamber and five bullets in the magazine, allowing him to fire six shots in a row.

Although firing six shots and firing five shots may seem like just one extra bullet, it can be a lifesaver in a critical moment. Especially since Li Yunshan was facing a large, striped tiger that was twice the size of an average adult male tiger, he was even more cautious.

After loading his bullets, Li Yunshan saw that the tiger had already run far away, so he quickly started walking and chased after it.

However, he did not get too close.

Fortunately, it was the dead of winter, when most of the leaves had fallen and the weeds had been flattened by the snow, allowing Li Yunshan to accurately track the tiger's trail.

"Help...help...me..."

As Li Yunshan passed under a large tree, he saw Ma Erqing, whose spine had been broken by a tiger and whose lower limbs were paralyzed.

At this moment, Ma Erqing was barely breathing, and his whole body exuded an aura of impending death. Clearly, the tiger's slap had not only broken his spine, but may have even caused internal injuries such as internal bleeding.

But Li Yunshan only gave Ma Erqing a cold look before chasing after the tiger that was blind in one eye.

Seeing Li Yunshan leave without a word, Ma Erqing's last breath, which he had been holding onto with the will to survive, vanished instantly. His head lolled to the side, and he died.

Two minutes earlier, on a mountain less than three miles from where the Zhou father and son and the Ma brothers encountered the tiger, six hunters, each with a shotgun and accompanied by nine hunting dogs, were cautiously searching the area where the tiger had been spotted.

This group of hunters were clearly seasoned veterans who often made a living in the deep mountains and forests; they were well-equipped and had extensive hunting experience.

"Bang!"

The hunters first heard a gunshot, followed by a tiger's roar, and immediately knew that other hunters who had gone into the mountains to hunt tigers had encountered the man-eating tiger.

The lead hunter spoke up: "Brothers, judging from the gunshots and the tiger's roar, the tiger shouldn't be far from us. Our chance to hunt this man-eating tiger has come."

"As long as you kill this tiger, as previously agreed, I, Huang Yong, will only want my job at Hongxing Forest Farm. The bonus, the bicycle, and the tiger I killed will all be split equally among you."

"Brother Yong, stop talking nonsense and hurry up and chase after them. Don't let the tiger get away."