sjar Chapter 332 The Cunning Wolf's Eyes
Chapter 332 The Cunning Wolf's Eyes
Sun Weimin was so angry that he cursed loudly: "Pah! Don't think I didn't hear you talking. This is the dress that ruined me. Song Desheng, you heartless bastard, you deliberately plotted to harm me by making me wear this dress."
Song Desheng was also surprised to hear this and said, "You asked me for it yourself, and I didn't even want to give it to you. Who would give up their good clothes to have your tattered, muddy clothes?"
Sun Weimin was speechless and could only grit his teeth and shout, "Quickly drop the rope down! Aren't you looking for Li Ju'an? These wolves are so slippery, Li Ju'an has definitely already been dragged in, and might even have been bitten beyond recognition."
Upon hearing this, Lu Zhiqiang tossed the rope high up into the tree, preferring to throw it up rather than give it to him.
Sun Weimin was so shocked by these sudden words that his eyes widened, but he was speechless for a moment and could only stare blankly at the other person.
"What are you up to? Are you deliberately trying to pick a fight?" His tone was tinged with displeasure and doubt.
"What you mean is what I mean." The other party countered sharply, refusing to back down.
"Hey! You, are you being funny or what?" Sun Weimin was furious, and his voice rose several decibels.
Just as the two groups were arguing, a ring of green eyes suddenly lit up in the surrounding darkness, watching them eerily like ghosts.
Song Desheng glanced at the wolf pack casually, but the leader's eyes sent chills down his spine. There were over twenty wolves in the pack, their dense array of green eyes gleaming coldly in the night. His gaze inadvertently fell on a slightly smaller wolf, beside which seemed to be three blurry black shadows, adding to the mystery and eeriness.
He pointed at the three dark shapes and said, "These look like bears!"
Night fell, and visibility became blurred and hazy in the darkness. Old Qian squinted, his fingers slowly resting on the bolt of his gun, his gaze sharp as he locked onto the shimmering green light flickering in the darkness, calculating the opportune moment for his first probing. His deep voice rang out in the quiet night: "There can't be a bear among wolves."
Deep within the Xing'an Mountains, wolves and bears are both solitary hunters roaming the forests; in their world, there is no rule of fighting side-by-side.
Wolves and bears, the two dominant species in the Greater Khingan Mountains, live independently, hunting for survival, and their paths almost never intersect. Even seasoned hunters who have spent decades traversing the mountains and forests have never witnessed the extraordinary sight of adult bears and wolves hunting together; such a scene seems to exist only on the edge of imagination.
Song Desheng squinted for a while, then suddenly said to Lu Zhiqiang, "Lu Zhiqiang, do you remember the bet Li Ju'an made with Old Qin, the 'Trap King,' before the New Year? Was it a bet on a wolf's eye?"
Lu Zhiqiang thought back carefully. The King of Taozi in Changbai Mountain did raise a wolf named Wolf Eyes. When Lao Qin captured Wolf Eyes, Lao Tao and the villagers were very unhappy and advised him to kill it, not to keep it. Wolf Eyes refers to a wolf cub that grew up with a bear cub, raised in the bear enclosure by its mother—a very rare occurrence.
But Lao Qin ignored the advice of his fellow villagers and did as he pleased, wanting to raise Wolf Eyes into an alpha wolf. Later, Wolf Eyes was successfully tamed, but when he fought Li Ju'an's dog, he lost to Da Hu, broke his teeth, and was abandoned by Lao Qin in the bear enclosure, where he stayed with three little black bear cubs who had lost their mother.
Surprisingly, they can still see the wolf's eyes and the three sub-adult bears.
Lu Zhiqiang asked Song Desheng, "The wolf that turned its head back, is this the wolf's eye?"
Song Desheng couldn't recognize it in the darkness, but he was still shaken and said, "Who knows if it is. But the alpha wolf last time was very cunning, so I think it's probably this wolf's eyes."
Old Qian and Old Zhang secretly thought that if Li Ju'an were targeted by Wolf Eyes, his chances of survival would be slim. Wolf Eyes was vengeful and had already led his pack to surround Li Ju'an. Li Ju'an, alone with his gang of dogs, was no match for him.
More than twenty wolves, seeing that there were only five hunters and no hunting dogs, could no longer bear it and surrounded them, trying to wear down the hunters' willpower.
In his desperation, Song Desheng fired his gun.
The Lu brothers followed him and fired the gun. Bang bang bang, quite a few bullets were fired, but not a single wolf fell.
Old Qian cursed, "Don't waste your time. Conserve your bullets and wait until dawn to fire. These Zhang Sans are cunning; they're deliberately wasting bullets."
Song Desheng thought to himself: No way, can a wolf be that smart? Then it can't be called a wolf.
He then realized that the reason everyone in the village was wary of Wolf Eyes was because Wolf Eyes was cunning and intelligent. Wolf Eyes, who had grown up alongside bears and survived alongside a mother bear, was no ordinary wolf.
The group began to wait out the time, sitting back to back, gathering firewood in front of them, lighting a small campfire with a lighter, and then enduring the heat until dawn.
Below them in the grotto, Sun Weimin cursed and laughed at them, but they ignored him. Lu Zhiqiang couldn't take it anymore and turned around to shout, "You better not beg me to pull you up later."
Sun Weimin had no choice but to shut up.
A hazy glimmer of light finally appeared on the horizon. Within human nature lies an indomitable fire; the suppressed bloodlust within Old Qian boiled over, no longer restrained. His finger tightened, the muzzle of his gun trembled slightly, and then a tongue of fire shot out, aimed directly at the majestic male wolf fifty meters away!
The alpha wolf froze, as if struck by an invisible hammer, staggering and falling to the ground. Amidst the rising dust, it struggled for a long time before finally getting to its feet, one leg clearly injured. It could only limp towards the deep, dark stone pool at the bottom of the ravine. At this moment, the bald old wolf, seeing this, flashed a hint of fear in its eyes. Without hesitation, it tucked its tail between its legs and followed closely behind, disappearing into the darkness together.
"Hit!" Old Qian was overjoyed. Witnessing the power of his bullet firsthand filled him with immense happiness and a profound sense of accomplishment. Without hesitation, he picked up his gun and, following the wolf's trail, strode after it.
At this moment, the two wolves appeared particularly unsteady in the morning light, the alpha wolf's steps especially heavy, each step seemingly exhausting all its strength. But they always remained outside Old Qian's effective firing range.
Old Qian was unwilling to give up and was determined to speed up the chase. Two cunning wolves led him to another hidden cave, which they leaped over without hesitation. In his haste, Old Qian did not notice the cave entrance's disguise in the dim light, which was exactly the same as the previous trap, yet it escaped his vigilant eyes.
He chased after it with great strides, but with a "plop," he lost his footing and fell into the abyss of the cave. Grass blades above the cave fluttered down, covering his face and body.
The moment he plunged into the abyss, Old Qian suddenly realized what had happened, but it was too late for regrets. Once he regained his footing, he peered down and saw that the cave was at least five meters deep, isolating him from the outside world. This cave trap looked like it had been set by other hunters years ago.
"Damn bastard!" Old Qian cursed under his breath, his anger barely contained.
He was about to raise his gun and shout to his companions not to follow when the sounds of people falling into the caves filled the air. Old Zhang and Song Desheng had landed in the same cave as him. Lu Jinyang and Lu Zhiqiang had fallen into a different cave.
The scene was a bit quiet.
Not far away, Sun Weimin was still shouting, "Are you done fighting?! If you're done, pull me up here! Grandpa! Grandpa!"
Lu Zhiqiang looked up and shouted, "Damn it, calling me great-grandfather won't help, your great-grandfather can't move now either."