Chapter 158: Grabbing the tiger by the neck is useless
Dahua squatted on the ground and stuck out her tongue. Uncle Xiong handed the noose in his hand to Du Ruo, and also gave Du Ruo a bag.
"Here is some fresh meat. Feed it some and then lead it up the mountain. Once you're up the mountain, if it tries to break free from the noose, it means there is prey. Then just loosen the noose and let it chase after it."
Uncle Xiong gave Du Ruo a lot of instructions, and it was no wonder that he was patient. In the mountains, the importance of hunting dogs was self-evident. They could be said to be like the hunter's family. In the past, the hunter's annual harvest depended on the hunting dogs.
One taught seriously, the other learned seriously. Uncle Xiong finished teaching and left soon. Of course, it is impossible to learn everything in a short time. Uncle Xiong just talked about the important things.
"Come, eat meat."
Du Ruo touched Dahua's neck, then took out the meat from the bag and let Dahua eat it.
Dahua was not polite either. She finished the meat, which was less than a pound, in a short while. It could be said that she was just in the mood for eating, but not full.
In this way, the hound will not be too hungry for food, nor will it be unable to run due to being too full. It can also stimulate the hound's hunting instinct.
"Let's go up the mountain."
Du Ruo led a noose, carried a backpack, and took Dahua into the mountains. Normally, one should not bring a noose when going into the mountains, but there was no way, because Du Ruo was not Dahua's owner. If the noose was loosened, Dahua would not recognize Du Ruo.
The noose was put on by Dahua's owner, who then handed it over to Uncle Xiong personally, and then passed it to Du Ruo. If it weren't for this relationship, Dahua would not eat the meat that Du Ruo fed her.
“Woof woof~~”
The big flower is very big and its call is very powerful. It becomes particularly excited when it enters the forest, sniffing everywhere and even urinating under the trees when it is excited.
Du Ruo held the rope and followed Dahua inside. Du Ruo walked very fast. It looked like he was strolling, but in fact each step was very large. So no matter how Dahua ran, Du Ruo could easily keep up.
Here we have to talk about the difference between the mountains in the north and Huangshan Mountain.
Huangshan has many strange rocks and steep mountains, and there are many strange pines in the forest. When the mountains are flat, there are dense thorns under the trees and few weeds. When the mountains are steep, the trees are sparse and climbing is very difficult.
On the northern side, the road into the forest is relatively flat, with tall trees and sparse grass. Except for the occasional dead branches or fallen trees, it is relatively flat and easy to walk on.
Dahua is in good physical condition and it seems that he hasn't been into the woods to hunt for a long time, so he is having a lot of fun.
Du Ruo didn't have any clear direction, so he just followed without being in a hurry.
“Woof~Woof woof woof~”
Dahua ran and sniffed, suddenly looked up and shouted loudly in one direction.
"Dahua, go~"
Seeing this, Du Ruo loosened the noose in his hand and then said something.
Hearing Du Ruo's shout, Dahua suddenly accelerated and rushed in one direction. At this time, Dahua stopped shouting and headed forward. Du Ruo followed closely behind, not overtaking Dahua. They just followed behind. The man and the dog ran quickly in the woods.
"Woof woof!!"
After running about two hundred meters, Dahua screamed and sped up again, then pounced into a bush. After a while, Dahua ran towards Du Ruo, biting its tail and holding a small animal in its mouth.
"Dahua, well done."
Du Ruo looked and saw Dahua coming back with a hare in its mouth. The fat hare had been bitten to death, and Dahua was wagging its tail at Du Ruo while biting the hare. Du Ruo was not discouraged, as he knew that he would not encounter bears and tigers so soon. He touched Dahua's head, praised him, and then took the hare from Dahua's mouth.
Looking at the time, Du Ruo realized that they had been wandering in the mountain for a whole morning. He decided to rest there for a while. Besides, Dahua had caught prey, so according to what Uncle Xiong had taught him, he should reward him.
He found a piece of open space, cleared away the dead leaves and weeds, and then started a fire. Du Ruo took out a small knife he had bought yesterday and gutted the rabbit on the spot.
The internal organs and the rabbit head were given to Dahua, and Du Ruo directly found a wooden stick and roasted the rabbit body over the fire.
This is the advantage of having a hunting license. Otherwise, you can’t even catch a wild rabbit.
Wild rabbits are at their fattest in autumn. When roasted, the fat drips onto the charcoal fire, and the aroma is everywhere.
Du Ruo sprinkled salt on the meat, and after it was cooked, she was not stingy and gave half to Dahua, and ate the other half herself with medicinal wine. After she was full, she put out the fire and then continued on her journey.
Du Ruo took Da Hua with him and did not go back. He just ran around the mountains and fields, hunting wild boars or rabbits for meals. At night, there was no need to make a fire. Du Ruo would meditate by himself or find a tree to lean against to rest, while Da Hua would lie down beside Du Ruo and sleep.
It is relatively cold at night in the mountains, which has little effect on the duruo and dahua. The only annoying thing is that there are many flies during the day and many mosquitoes at night.
Of course, Du Ruo has reached his current level of cultivation where mosquitoes can no longer bite his skin, but it is still very annoying to have them circling around his head.
A man and a dog were wandering in the mountains for two days and two nights, but they did not walk in a straight line, and Du Ruo did not walk particularly fast, so it seemed that they did not walk too far.
"Big flower~"
Early in the morning, Dahua was chasing a butterfly in the forest. Now the man and the dog have become familiar with each other, and Dahua can understand some of Du Ruo's instructions, so Du Ruo simply took the noose. Du Ruo shouted after waking up.
"Woof~"
When Dahua heard Du Ruo's call, he ran over with his tail wagging.
"It's not a good idea to look for them like this. These are all wild rabbits and wild boars. How long will it take to find them? I eat barbecue every day, and my mouth is almost dry. Besides, I've almost finished this bottle of wine. If we can't find them today, we'll go back."
Du Ruo touched Dahua's head with a frown. He had already searched the surrounding area for two days, but hadn't seen any tigers or even any cats. This made Du Ruo a little worried.
If you don't go into the mountains, you have no idea how big the Lesser Khingan Mountains are. Once you enter the mountains, you will realize how difficult it is to find less than a hundred wild bears and tigers in this vast land.
Moreover, Du Ruo didn't know much about animal traces, so he could only follow Dahua and wander around.
You should know that the size of Lesser Khingan Mountains is not much different from the area of South Korea.
"Let's go, let's keep going."
After packing up, Du Ruo decided to take Dahua with him and search for another day. He now discovered a problem. Taking Dahua with him might help him find tigers and bears, but there were also great limitations. Dahua could only run a limited distance every day, and her legs were far inferior to his.
Plus, Dahua would hunt any prey she saw, and wasn't specifically looking for bears or tigers, so her efficiency was actually not very high. Du Ruo had already decided that if she couldn't find it today, she would go back, return Dahua, and then go look for it by herself.
"Hey, Dahua, wait a minute."
After walking for a while, Du Ruo saw a nest of bumblebees in a pile of earth nearby. Du Ruo called out to Dahua who was running in front of him.
Looking at the wild bees flying in and out, Du Ruo licked his lips. After eating barbecue with only salt for two days, Du Ruo felt like eating sweets.
Take Dahua out about a hundred meters and let it squat under a tree. Du Ruo came not far from the earth beehive, about three meters away.
"Ouch~~"
Du Ruo stood there with his back to the big flower in the distance, his abdomen bulging, his throat surging, and a tiger roar came out of his mouth. The tiger roar mixed with the word "God" burst out with sound waves, and the grass on the beehive was blown by Du Ruo's roar, and the active bumblebees on it were like rain, all killed in one blow and fell to the ground.
"Ouch!!!"
Du Ruo was about to approach the earth beehive when his ears suddenly twitched and a faint tiger roar sounded from a long distance away.
"Ok?"
Hearing the sound, Du Ruo didn't bother to look for honey. After confirming the direction, he was about to walk over, but after taking only two steps, he turned back and looked at Dahua, who was lying on the ground with her tail between her legs and shivering not far away. Du Ruo had to stop.
"You can't throw the big flower here."
Du Ruo thought about it and came to Dahua, and took out his mobile phone from his backpack. After turning it on, he looked up the location on the phone. The straight-line distance from here to Gangzi Village was only 40 kilometers.
"Let's go, I'll take you back now."
Du Ruo picked up Dahua, then identified the direction and ran quickly towards Gangzi Village.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to look for the tiger, but it’s too inconvenient to bring Dahua with him. Now that the tiger’s location has been confirmed and it’s not too far from Gangzi Village, Du Ruo decided to send Dahua back and then go up the mountain again.
Although Dahua didn't help much in the process of finding the tiger, this was not a reason to give up or abandon Dahua. If Du Ruo hadn't shouted like that just now, I believe that with Dahua around, as long as they found the place where the tiger had been, they would be able to find the tiger.
Moreover, Du Ruo also needs to replenish supplies now. In the past two days, the tiger bone wine he brought has been consumed. He doesn’t know how long he will have to stay in the mountain. Without the replenishment of tiger bone wine, he must eat a lot of meat to make up for the consumption.
In less than an hour, Du Ruo had returned to Gangzi Village and ran straight to Uncle Xiong's house.
"Uncle Xiong, Uncle Xiong??"
Arriving at Uncle Xiong’s courtyard, Du Ruo shouted loudly.
"I'm here, it's you, what's wrong? Is something wrong with Dahua? Are you hurt?"
Uncle Xiong was startled when he saw Du Ruo holding a big flower in one hand. He hurried over to ask, and did not forget to look Du Ruo up.
"Oh, we're fine. We encountered a tiger and Dahua was a little frightened. Uncle Xiong, Dahua is in your care. I have to go up the mountain again and I'll reward Dahua when I come back."
Only then did Du Ruo remember that Dahua was still held in one hand, so he quickly put it down. Without saying anything more to Uncle Xiong, he turned around and ran back up the mountain. It would take too long, and Du Ruo was afraid that the tiger would leave by then.
"Be careful!!! This kid is so impetuous."
Uncle Xiong looked at Du Ruo's back and shouted something, then squatted down and began to comfort Dahua.
When Du Ruo passed by the wooden house, he took a power bank and all the remaining tiger bone wine with him. He followed the way back and ran straight to the place on the mountain where he heard the tiger roar.
This time, there was no need to hold Dahua. Du Ruo quickened his pace and walked through the mountains as if they were flat ground. Half an hour later, Du Ruo had arrived at the place where the beehive was just found.
Du Ruo attached the energy to his ears and eyes, carefully checked the surroundings, and discovered that there were more footprints on the ground.
"Ouch~~"
Du Ruo shouted again, and there was silence all around. Everyone immediately realized that the tiger came to check after Du Ruo left, and then left directly after not smelling any scent of its own kind.
So Du Ruo began to track the tiger's footprints.
This should be an adult tiger. Its body is very heavy and it leaves obvious footprints on the grass, which makes it very easy for Du Ruo to chase it.
Du Ruo's pursuit lasted for more than twenty minutes. He had a hunch that the tiger should be not far away.
"Ouch!!!"
Du Ruo stood in an open space, opened his mouth, and roared like a tiger again. After the roar, Du Ruo stood still, but his ears were highly concentrated, listening carefully to the movements around him.
"Shasha~"
Not long after, about twenty meters away from Du Ruo, the sound of rustling grass was heard.
Du Ruo knew that it was a tiger coming, because Du Ruo, who had attached the air to his ears, had already heard the chest resonance breathing sound unique to cats.
Sure enough, a huge tiger walked out from behind the big tree. It was more than one meter tall, and its body length including its tail should be nearly three meters long. Judging from its size, it probably weighed five or six hundred kilograms.
The moment he saw this tiger, Du Ruo understood the difference between wild tigers and tigers in zoos. The wildness and oppressive feeling of this tiger completely crushed the tigers seen in the zoo.
"Ouch~"
The tiger was also stunned when it saw Du Ruo. It stopped, sniffed, opened its mouth and roared at Du Ruo threateningly, then shook its tail and turned around to walk behind it.
"You're still yelling at me?"
When Du Ruo saw the tiger trying to run away, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he was not surprised.
In fact, humans are not within the hunting range of tigers. Unless they are threatened, frightened, or too hungry, tigers generally will not pounce on humans. The tiger in front of him had a bulging belly and was obviously not very hungry, so after seeing Du Ruo, it just roared and prepared to leave.
But looking at the tiger that Du Ruo had found with great difficulty, how could he let it leave just like that?
With a stomp of his foot, Du Ruo lowered his body, spread out his tiger shape, and used his hips to rush forward. The distance was about twenty meters. With a burst of all his strength, Du Ruo was behind the tiger in the blink of an eye.
"Drink~"
Du Ruo grabbed the tiger's tail from behind, then jumped onto its back as the tiger turned around, then made his hands into claws and grabbed the fur on the tiger's neck.
"Roar!!!"
The tiger turned its head and felt its neck fur being grabbed. It immediately became furious and rolled sideways to the ground, flipping Du Ruo over and kicking Du Ruo's abdomen with its lower limbs.
"bump!"
The tiger moved too fast and reacted extremely quickly. Du Ruo didn't react in time and was kicked hard in the abdomen by the tiger. His body flew out and stopped only after hitting a tree.
"Fuck! There's no use grabbing a tiger's fur by the scruff of its neck. At least grabbing a male tiger by the scruff of its neck will only irritate it."
Du Ruo had underestimated the tiger's reaction speed just now. He could only use his breath to protect his abdomen at the critical moment. Although the tiger kicked with great force, it did not cause any substantial damage. Only two large holes were torn in his clothes on the abdomen, which were scratched by the sharp tiger claws.
"Roar~~"
Before Du Ruo could get up, the tiger opened its mouth wide, showing its sharp teeth, and pounced towards Du Ruo.
(End of this chapter)
