The mother bear was momentarily stunned, then put on a憨厚 (honest and simple) expression, as if she were just passing by.

It swayed its huge body, looked around, and then, taking advantage of the two-legged beast's inattention, turned and ran.

*Clang!*

Without paying attention, it crashed into the trunk of a large tree behind it. It shook its head and was about to continue running away.

At that moment, a shot rang out.

"Bang!"

The mother bear felt as if a door had been opened in her head; in the midst of the excruciating pain, she seemed to see her great-grandmother.

Its massive body trembled on the ground a few times, then came to a stop. Chang Kun walked up and kicked its fat belly.

Those two people from Anmintun who were eaten by the mother bear are probably turned into bear poop by now, right?

Chang Kun cut open the bear's throat and removed the bile.

Although this bear gallbladder wasn't as big as the brown bear gallbladder from yesterday, it was a brassy color.

Chang Kun had heard that bear bile is divided into grass bile and copper bile. Grass bile is green, while copper bile is naturally brassy in color. Copper bile is far more valuable than grass bile.

There is even a legendary type of bear gallbladder called "golden gallbladder," which is entirely golden in color, and the bile powder inside is also golden after being dried in the shade. Even local hunters like Li Lei have only heard of this type of bear gallbladder and have never seen it before.

Just as he was putting away the bear gall and preparing to cut off the bear's head to send to Li Lei as a sacrifice, the tiger from yesterday suddenly reappeared in his senses.

This tiger smelled the blood from the black bear being gutted and wanted to eat what was already there!

Before Chang Kun could come up with a solution, in just twenty seconds, the tiger had already traversed nearly two thousand meters and arrived in front of him.

This tiger had orange and black stripes all over its body, and its amber vertical pupils stared at Chang Kun like knives. Its tail flicked slightly, and its huge body was lowered slightly, ready to leap up and attack at any moment.

"Roar—"

The low growl emanating from his throat alone made the hairs on the back of Chang Kun's neck stand on end.

The fear ingrained in his genes made Chang Kun freeze for a moment, then he held his spear level, preparing for the worst.

If a tiger attacks you, then you have no choice but to deliver a fatal blow!

As if sensing the murderous aura emanating from Chang Kun's spear, the tiger simply stared at Chang Kun and walked step by step toward the disemboweled mother bear.

The tiger stretched out its barbed tongue to lick the blood flowing from the mother bear, making a gurgling sound in its throat, with a satisfied expression.

"Hey, this is my black bear. You're going to eat it without even saying hello?" Chang Kun shouted at the tiger. With a gun in hand, he wasn't afraid at all.

The tiger looked up and glanced at Chang Kun with a hint of displeasure. What was wrong with this little brat? This king was enjoying his meal, and he dared to chatter on the side!

"roar--!"

It raised its head, opened its mouth, revealing huge tiger teeth, and let out a roar.

"Please try this chili bear meat!"

Seeing that the tiger was not afraid of the spear in his hand, Chang Kun directly used capsaicin and sprayed a small amount of it at the tiger's nose from a distance.

The tiger's roar suddenly caught in its throat. The tiger arched its body, frantically pawing at its mouth and nose with its front paws, its orange-black cheeks twitching incessantly.

The threatening roar from the tiger's throat was gone, replaced by whimpers, as aggrieved as a dog whose chicken leg had been stolen.

With teary eyes, Tiger turned to look at Chang Kun, sensing that this man was not to be trifled with, and turned to back away.

"Tsk tsk, look at your pitiful little face..." Chang Kun pulled out his wolf-tooth dagger and cut a strip of fat off the bear's belly.

"Hi! Come and eat!"

The fat meat was thrown in front of the tiger, startling it.

Looking back at Chang Kun, and then down at the meat at his feet, the tiger was a little confused. His nose was still stinging and uncomfortable, but the meat on the ground looked pretty good.

It pressed its forepaws against the bear's flesh, its vertical pupils staring at Chang Kun, a low whimper rumbling in its throat.

After a long while, the tiger finally couldn't resist the temptation of the bear meat's sweet and pungent taste. It lowered its head, picked up a piece of meat, tilted its head back, and swallowed it whole.

"Another piece!" Chang Kun cut off another large piece of bear meat and threw it to the tiger.

At home, I often feed Xiao Changxiu, and when I go to the mountains, I feed the tigers. These two completely different ways of feeding each other are both very comforting.

After eating a few pieces of meat, the tiger no longer resisted Chang Kun's feeding and ate happily. Before long, half of the black bear was eaten.

I wanted to go up and touch the tiger's head, but in the end I was too scared to do so. Don't be fooled by the tiger's harmless appearance now; if you get too close, it might turn on you immediately.

Chang Kun clapped his hands, said goodbye to the tiger, and said, "I'm leaving, Big Yellow. See you again someday."

The remaining black bear was left for it to eat at its own pace. In any case, Chang Kun didn't plan to take the man-eating bear back to eat; he was just too disgusted by it.

"Awoo—"

The tiger let out a soft growl at Chang Kun's back, as if bidding him farewell.

We entered Anmin Village and found Li Lei's house.

"Li Lei, this is the head of that man-eating bear. Take it as a sacrifice for the villagers." Chang Kun handed the sack containing the bear's head to Li Lei.

"Brother Chang, you...you killed that man-eating bear all by yourself?!"

Grabbing the sack, Li Lei pulled out the grotesque head of a mother bear, his eyes turning red.

His aunt has not been found yet and is believed to have died in the bear's jaws. His cousin, Zhang Erdang, was eaten by the bear and only his head and leg remain. His two dogs were also killed by the mother bear.

He dared not forget these deep-seated hatreds for even a moment.

After failing to kill the mother bear last time, Li Lei realized that it would be difficult for him to kill it on his own.

There was nothing we could do; that mother bear was too cunning. She even knew how to hide behind a tree to avoid bullets.

These past few days, Li Lei has been looking for hunters in various villages around the area, hoping to find more people to go up the mountain together to hunt the mother bear.

Unexpectedly, Chang Kun killed the mother bear all by himself today.

"Brother Chang, how did you kill this mother bear?"

Li Lei couldn't understand how Chang Kun could succeed on his own when he and his brother-in-law went up the mountain together to hunt the mother bear without success.

"Nothing special, it came at me and I killed it with one shot."

Li Lei opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

Yes, that's how you normally shoot black bears. If one shot doesn't kill them, you take two.

But isn't this mother bear supposed to be very clever? She would hide when she smelled gunpowder. Did she become stupid when she met Chang Kun?

"This is the bile from the mother bear. Can you help me process it?" Chang Kun took out the bear bile and handed it to Li Lei.

"It's actually a copper bladder; though small, it's of very good quality."

Li Lei thought for a moment, then moved a ladder and climbed up to the roof beam. After a short while, he came down carrying a small wooden box.

Open the wooden box, and inside is an object wrapped in cotton paper. Unwrap the cotton paper, and you'll see a corner that looks like a piece of wood.

The branches are grayish-brown with reddish tinges, and the cut surfaces are covered with tiny pores, with a slightly fishy smell.

Chang Kun's heart skipped a beat. Could this be deer antler?

The three treasures of Northeast China are ginseng, deer antler, and ula grass.

Last night, Li Lei gave him a different ginseng, and today he'll give him a deer antler. Now he'll have almost all three of the Northeast's treasures.

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