Forest Farm 1985: Raise a bear cub to climb the mountain

Chapter 221: The Rise of the Snow Pig (Two in One)

The way back was much easier to walk. The group walked very fast, and with the help of Erhan and Huagu, who were good at smelling the fragrance, they found another team in less than half an hour, just before the sun set.

Jiang Haohan is indeed a former leader. When he saw the wounded, he immediately organized manpower.

With Xiao Erhan's help, a group of people quickly dug out a snow pit with a diameter of nearly two and a half meters in the snow.
A small area next to the snow pit was dug to expose the bottom layer of soil, which was used for making fire.

Another team took out flashlights from their bags, shone them, and chopped down several small trees.
With the help of pine branches, it took more than ten minutes to build a simple roof that could cover three-quarters of the snow nest. The roof structure was very simple, made of branches interwoven with each other, barely forming a fan shape. The two empty spaces were just right for the smoke from the campfire below to escape.

Although it is called a shack, it is not much better than the pig shed in the village.

How come the pig shed is not supposed to leak air? But this snow nest dug on the spot is letting in air.
Not to mention the empty area, which is used for smoke exhaust.

Even the area on top of my head covered with pine branches was whistling with wind.
Fortunately, Li Qinghai had a trick, which barely ensured that the group of people inside could keep warm by the campfire.

While paying attention to the melting of the snow around him, Li Qinghai scooped up a handful of wet snow from time to time and sprinkled it on the roof of the shack.

The roof of the shack was made of pine branches stacked one on top of the other. Although it was a bit windy, it was like a raincoat, water could not get in.

The inside was illuminated by the fire and the temperature rose quickly. When the wet snow was poured on it, it immediately turned into snow water and began to flow down. However, it was often frozen into ice by the whistling cold wind before it flowed to the surrounding snow.

Li Qinghai's technique was very experienced. The snow he scattered was of even thickness. After a few sprinkles, under the influence of the cold outside and the heat inside, a layer of extremely cold and constantly melting "snow shell" was formed outside the shack.

"You need to scoop a handful of snow onto the top of this cover every once in a while. The more intense the fire, the more frequently you need to add snow.

Although the fire and heat will continue to melt the frozen ice shell,

But the newly melted snow will soon fill up those areas.

When everyone's body temperature has recovered,

As for the fire, you can let it get smaller slowly, as long as it doesn't go out. Then squeeze in, don't be pretentious, after all, you are outside.

The roof of the shack was repeatedly soaked with snow water. If the fire was small, it would quickly freeze solid. Even if you got up in the middle of the night to add firewood, it would not be easily melted by the fire. Basically, no snow needed to be added all night.

It is most comfortable to sleep next to the fire. You are responsible for adding firewood, and the rest of you just sleep on your own.

I'm afraid this pillar is not very strong enough. I'll cut a thicker piece of wood to support it later.

But be careful not to let the shack collapse while you are sleeping.

By that time, the firewood would be soaked with water and the body would be wet, so basically we could just wait for the team behind us to find us the next day, and then drag us back and bury us.”

Li Qinghai's words were extremely straightforward, and not only the other team's players, but even Jiang Haohan and Dai Bai were shocked.

Dai Song saw that everyone was nervous, so he hugged the little boy lying next to him and let him rest his head on his thigh. While stroking his fur, he asked the other team members,
"Have you encountered a cannon egg?"

"Cannon Egg?" Dai Bo glanced at the man's injured leg that was still bleeding, "No way! Cannon Egg is so powerful?"

Dai Song did not explain, and soon he saw a man with a scar on his face sighing in the crowd opposite him.
“It’s really a wild boar.

You are the one wearing a gun, right? "

Seeing Dai Song nodded, the other party continued,
"We were following your tracks through the woods.

Everything was going well. According to the rules we set before we set out, we would set up camp every evening when the sun was only four fingers above the horizon. Seeing that it was almost dark, we thought about walking a little further and then resting for the night.

I didn't expect to enter this snow hill.

Visibility around the snow hills was poor. We were busy following the footprints and preparing to spend the night, so our vigilance decreased. The distance between team members was small, and we did not take precautions. As a result, we climbed over a small snow hill and ran into a cannon egg. "

"Why don't we just shoot it to death?!" Dai Bo was a little excited.

He was a thick-skinned person to begin with, and he had followed Dai Song to kill wolves several times, so he was very brave. Although a cannon egg did not sound as scary as a pack of wolves, it was bigger in size.

Just ask yourself, which man can remain unmoved when faced with something big?
Upon hearing this, Li Qinghai said to Dai Bo,
"Kid, if you suddenly run into a wild animal in the wild, the animal may not give you a chance to shoot."

"Well, Baizi, don't interrupt." Jiang Haohan also added.

After being scolded by the two old people, Dai Bo knew that he had said too much, so he pursed his lips and took out a plate of sticky bean dumplings made by his mother from his luggage.
After removing the thin gauze covering the outside, we stuck the whole board directly next to the fire. When the top was melted, we tore off a few pieces and shared them with everyone.

Everyone could see that Dai Bo was just a bit nervous and didn't mean to be weird.

Now seeing him happily distributing sticky rice dumplings to everyone, I took one with thanks.

After eating the hot food, everyone was refreshed. The man who had spoken before continued,

"The one walking in front at that time was Little Grasshopper. Little Grasshopper, are you feeling better?

If you feel better, please tell me what happened at that time."

The man moved his buttocks and squeezed to the side. The little Grasshopper took a few deep breaths, as if to temporarily suppress the pain. Then he said in a trembling voice,
"I...I...I...was walking...at the front of the team."

As soon as Little Grasshopper opened his mouth, Dai Song's mouth twitched. Why is this guy a stutterer?
It's not that he discriminates against stutterers. This is a serious mission and stuttering at a critical moment could cause trouble!
Not only Dai Song, but everyone else had similar thoughts, but Little Grasshopper was unaware of this. He recalled and said,
“As soon as I turned over…over the snow hill, I found a…big egg in front of me, rolling…in the snow.

That thing is so big… so… so big!
I've seen wild boars sneaking into the village before, but I've never seen one that big.

That wild boar, so old... Boss!"

The little Grasshopper opened his arms and gestured as he spoke, but the space in the snow nest was small, and his arms were restricted before he could fully stretch them out.

He had no choice but to retract his arm in disappointment, "I estimate that the cannon egg... the egg must weigh at least... about six hundred pounds!

That height is almost as long as a motorcycle!
Then my first reaction was not to shoot, but to turn around and look for my teammates. "

As he spoke, he forced a smile that was uglier than crying, and Dai Song comforted him,

"Don't be embarrassed, this should be your first time meeting that bastard face to face, right?

It's normal to be scared of something this big when you see it for the first time. Please continue."

"Oh~" The little Grasshopper's expression became much more natural after being comforted, "But just as I took a step...down the slope, the wild boar seemed to hear...the noise, and all of a sudden, it stood up...from the snow!

Then, it just arched its nose towards the sky and twitched vigorously. I was so scared that I dared not move.

But my teammates behind me didn’t know. Seeing me lying motionless on the snow hill, they were very worried and wanted to come over to help…”

The little Grasshopper was so excited and in pain from his wound that he spoke incoherently. Dai Song had to listen to him repeat himself twice before he could recall the situation.

From what he said, it seemed that the big egg had just finished its work and was preparing to find a place to sleep, but it unexpectedly ran into a stranger.

At another time, the cannon egg would have run away without saying a word.
But as luck would have it, the timing was perfect, and it happened to be the time for the eggs to be laid.

It was the dead of winter, and this little bird had to climb at least two hills to fill its stomach. It had been tossing around in the mountains for a whole day and was exhausted. It finally found a place to rest when it got dark. How could it be in a good mood when it met people looking for trouble? And from the sound, it was a gang of people.
That bastard shouldn't take the initiative and strike first before they are ready, right?
And the little Grasshopper was indeed very unlucky.

He had already retreated quietly at that time. As long as he retreated behind the snow hill and quickly moved to the sides, he would not be hit by the wild boar.

After all, wild boars are not good at turning when they charge. Even Xiao Erhan can use his hip brakes and turn sharply to create distance between himself and a wild boar, not to mention people with nimble feet.

But the teammates behind him saw him like that and rushed over like a swarm.

He was surrounded in place, like a bowling ball waiting to hit a pin.
Here comes the key point. The child is a stutterer. Being surrounded makes him even more anxious. He got stuck immediately.

Normally, I can control myself and speak word by word, but when I get anxious, I can only repeat myself.
"big big big……"

Others also found it funny. It had only been such a short time since they came out, and they were already thinking about shooting?
The leader suggested that they go deeper inside and if they saw anything, they could shoot the little grasshopper a couple of times to satisfy their desire.

Before that person had even finished speaking, the top of the snow hill next to everyone exploded.

The 600-pound cannon rushed out like a cannonball.

The car of a group of people behind the snow hill flipped over, and the unlucky little Grasshopper was hit in the leg by the cannon egg and flew into the sky.

This directly tore open the little Grasshopper's cotton pants and thigh, leaving a bloody wound two fingers deep, and the large blood vessels inside almost burst.

Dai Song looked at the wound and deduced that the egg should be only four or five years old.

At first, everyone didn't understand, but after listening to Li Qinghai's explanation, everyone suddenly understood.

It turns out that after a wild boar reaches adulthood, its tusks will continue to grow.

At first, it looks like a tender bud on a tree, with just a tip revealed. It is usually covered by the lip skin and will not be exposed except when fighting.

The wild boars at this time have generally just shed their yellow hair, and are not very big in size. However, it is precisely because of their deceptive appearance, and because they have just reached sexual maturity and have left their sows not long ago, they have not witnessed the ferocity of the wild beasts in the mountains. They have just arrived in the mountains, are fearless, and will fight if they are not satisfied, so wild boars at this stage are actually the ones that hurt the most people.

Later, as it grows older, its fangs will continue to grow longer, slowly protruding from the lips, shining brightly like two sharp daggers. At this time, the wild boar is most lethal to both humans and dogs, but it has often experienced the beatings of nature and will not be so impulsive, so it will come into conflict with the targets who intend to hunt it.

And when this wild boar grows for another two years, its size will still increase and it will be similar to that pig, but its lethality will actually be less.

The reason is that its pair of fangs will continue to grow. The more they grow, the more curved the fangs become, and in the end they will even poke towards themselves.

In his previous life, when Dai Song was browsing his phone, he saw a kind of wild boar from the African black uncle's place.
The fangs twisted and stabbed back into his head.
It is said that if this old pig is not bitten to death by a lion or a cheetah, the final result is that the pig's teeth will pierce into its brain and it will stab itself to death. It is really cowardly.

In fact, at this point, as long as this group of people cooperate, there is still a chance to control the damage.

After all, there was fluffy snow all around, and the cannon egg running on it was like sailing a boat, and it would take a lot of time to turn around.

As long as two of them quickly fork the grasshopper that has fallen to the ground, and the other one takes the opportunity to shoot, with the Type 56 assault rifles in the hands of these helpers, how can the pig escape?
But these people were inexperienced. When they saw the little grasshopper flying up into the sky like a broken pillow, and then falling into the snow with a thud, they all thought the little grasshopper was gone. They were aroused and pulled out their guns, pulling the bolts, and started shooting without saying a word.

If the little Grasshopper had pretended to be dead and lay motionless in the snow, there would have been no further consequences. However, his thigh was broken and painful, and it was his first time facing wild animals. He was extremely nervous and started crying and struggling in the snow.

Now no one dared to fire. The power of the stray bullet was no joke. The comrades were so close to the mountain animals. What if they got hurt?

The cannon egg that turned its head back didn't care about that. It looked at so many people and saw that they didn't dare to do anything to it, and it became even more excited.
He immediately rushed towards the most enthusiastically fluttering katydid, and swung his mouth like a mace at the blood-stained leg of the katydid.
With a snap, his thigh bone was folded.

Then he changed his target and rushed towards other people.

It can be said that these guys are a bit of a letdown to their teammates. When little Grasshopper was just sent flying, no one went to rescue him, and his legs were broken. Instead, their IQ took the upper hand again.

They scattered, and the cannon eggs circled around and protected the little katydid,

I also got a chance to shoot five or six times at the cannon's egg.

However, because they were not familiar with the weaknesses of the mountain animals, those wounds did not seem fatal.

Eventually, the Cannon Egg took advantage of the snow hill to escape.

(End of this chapter)