bookrebus Chapter 196 A clever dog settles down in its kennel.
Chapter 196 A clever dog settles down in its kennel.
When Li Ju'an led Song Desheng and Lu Zhiqiang to arrive quickly, they first heard the hunting dogs barking loudly.
When Iron Hammer saw his son, Little Steel Cannon, he was so excited, like a mother's love had overwhelmed him. He hugged Little Steel Cannon and licked his fur vigorously.
If they hadn't known all along how slippery Hammer was and how playful it was, they would have thought it had been forcibly separated from Little Cannon.
Big Tiger, leading the white mastiff, barked loudly towards a point 200 meters ahead. Flower Ears, not daring to bark too loudly, cleverly followed Li Ju'an, holding his pants in its mouth, and started to move forward.
Lu Zhiqiang aimed his gun from a distance, but couldn't see anything clearly. He said, "This is bad. There's fire, but no human voices."
The group had heard the vibrations of a detonator exploding from afar, knowing someone was lighting the fuse and firing gunpowder. But after the vibrations, there was silence, followed by sporadic gunfire. Now that the gunfire had abruptly stopped, a sense of unease crept over them.
Li Ju'an shoved the two pistols out of Lu Zhiqiang's hand and said disdainfully, "With the accuracy of these two, you can't even hit anything closer than 200 meters, let alone 200 meters."
Lu Zhiqiang wanted to argue with him, but he found the Mosin-Nagant in Li Ju'an's hand to be incredibly cool. With the 3.5x scope, he could see clearly even from a distance, which made him extremely envious: "After we split the profits and shares, I'll get a rifle too."
Li Ju'an raised his gun and looked through the scope into the distance. He could just see the rocky beach, and there seemed to be something going on ahead. A figure stood motionless in the snowdrift. He recognized the dog-skin hat; it was Sun Weimin's hat.
He looked again and found a panicked Old Qin running frantically around two campfires, followed closely by a large brown bear that was over 2.2 meters tall.
The bullets Old Qin used were made by replacing the spent cartridge cases with new flintlock caps. Hunters in the mountains refilled their bullets with gunpowder and didn't spend a lot of money to buy them from the hardware section of the supply and marketing cooperative.
The bullet he just fired was probably used so many times that the copper cartridge case burst. Simply put, the cartridge case got stuck in the chamber after the first shot, preventing the next bullet from being loaded.
Old Qin still held a bullet in his hand, watching with fear and rage as the brown bear let out a low roar and fiercely pounced on him.
He could smell the stench emanating from the brown bear's mouth; it was right next to his neck, and he could only symbolically raise the barrel of his gun to meet it. The bear's large paw slammed down, knocking the entire barrel away.
His heart sank, and he thought to himself, "I'm doomed!" He thought of his elderly mother, father, and wife back home—his family members were forever etched in his mind—and suddenly he felt a sense of disorientation.
At that moment, a bullet, like a beast's roar cutting through waves and a tempestuous storm, carried the sharpest attack power and struck with lightning speed. It fired rapidly towards the brown bear's ear. The whistling sound of the bullet cutting through the air and its lightning-fast momentum were terrifying.
call out--!
Li Ju'an's bullet, fired from 200 meters away, struck the large brown bear squarely in the head.
The pained brown bear suddenly stood upright on its hind legs, opened its blood-red mouth and roared angrily, its eyes turning as red as blood, and it was filled with murderous intent.
Small-caliber bullets at long range cannot penetrate the hard skull of a bear, but they can still cause pain.
The bear, writhing in pain, was filled with ferocity. Its eyes were bloodshot and its sharp, piercing gaze flew towards the direction Li Ju'an had fired, shattering one's mind into pieces.
Qin Pao was so startled at close range that he took a step back. The powerful predator's aura frightened him so much that he dared not utter a sound, for fear that any movement would attract the bear's attention.
He was unarmed and prayed silently: Li Ju'an, please lure the bear away, lure it away!
If Xiong Pi really leaves, he will definitely call Li Ju'an his brother and savior, and he will treat him to as many drinks and banquets as he wants.
Suddenly, Sun Weimin, who was on the rocky cliff, slowly woke up.
Sun Weimin had hit the back of his head on a rock and passed out from the pain. He groggily raised his hand to wipe his head, and when he opened his eyes, he found his hand covered in blood. He was so frightened that he yelled, "Damn it! I'm going to die!"
Originally, Xiong Pi was looking in Li Ju'an's direction. When he shouted, Xiong Pi turned its huge head and stared at the rocky cliff with its dark eyes. It also saw Qin Pao by the campfire not far below.
Both of them were upwind, and their subtle scents were tickling the bear's nose. Even though the bear's eyesight wasn't good, it could tell there were two people just by smell.
Large beads of cold sweat rolled down Old Qin's forehead. He cursed Sun Weimin inwardly, "You son of a bitch, if I die, it'll be because of you. You're even dragging me down with you to your death."
Sun Weimin looked up, still half asleep, and saw a huge brown bear's head turning and staring in his direction.
The bear was all muscle and tendons, like an armored vehicle, and its powerful and agile aura was unstoppable. It let out a low "hmph" roar at him, and spewed out a foul-smelling white breath.
He was so frightened that his eyelids rolled back, and he fell straight backward, his head hitting the rocky cliff hard. This time, he fainted from the pain again.
Once he was down and motionless, the bear lost interest in him and turned its gaze back to Old Qin.
Old Qin was internally cursing Sun Weimin, calling him a terrible jerk and a useless teammate.
How could he be so blind as to trust Sun Weimin and follow him into the mountains to hunt bears? Even if he went alone, with his wolf's eyes, it would have been better than being betrayed by a useless teammate.
Cough, cough!
While the bear hesitated, Li Ju'an led the three men to fire fiercely into the distance.
Song Desheng's pump-action shotgun used a medium-caliber, large-capacity cartridge, making it stable at close range. Lu Zhiqiang switched to a cheap revolver, fixing the large barrel to a large bluestone for support and aiming.
boom! boom! boom!
Li Ju'an aimed his gun at the brown bear's head and fired a shot. The brown bear then charged forward, lunging towards the three of them.
The bear ran with great momentum, leaping several meters in a single bound. It covered the 200-meter distance in no time, and a few seconds later, it could swing its paw and slap Li Ju'an in the face.
A good dog protects its master. As soon as Tiger saw its master arrive, it bared its teeth angrily and led its pack of dogs to charge at the brown bear.
Hua'er has experience fighting bears and knows that you can't charge at a bear directly. Otherwise, even a dozen dogs wouldn't be able to withstand a single blow from a bear's paw. Even worse, if you get caught by a bear's paw, your spine can be crushed. If you're forced to sit on its hindquarters, your intestines will burst.
White Egg and Flower Girl followed Flower Ears around the bear, cautiously biting at the bear's hind legs to distract it.
Big Tiger's original hunting style was to charge straight in, leading White Mastiff and Little Cannon, and just go for it. But after experiencing Tiger King's hunting and witnessing the tragic deaths of Red Wolf and Black Panther, Big Tiger became more cautious and would first observe the actions of its predecessor, Flower Ear. A good alpha dog knows how to learn.
The spotted bear began to nimbly harass the large brown bear. The tiger saw this and realized it was working; otherwise, it wouldn't be able to bite the 2.2-meter-tall brown bear—it was too tall to pounce on. Even if it did manage to leap up, its agile and powerful paws could instantly grab and tear it apart.
The tiger started barking around the brown bear to attract its attention and then led the dogs to harass the bear's legs.
The hounds were agile, and the terrain they chose was jungle, with weeds and bushes on the side, and they were positioned downwind, which was very disadvantageous for the bears' visibility.
The bear reached out its paws two or three times to grab the hounds, but each time it came up empty-handed. It hadn't caught a single dog, and in anger, it raised its head and roared. The roar shook the earth and startled the birds into flight.
Lu Zhiqiang's eyes lit up, and he shouted, "We've decided on this place!"