Wild 1979: From Fishing and Hunting to Becoming a Literary Master

Chapter 111 A False Alarm

When Chen Tuo returned with a flustered Wu Laowai and Hu Yuling.

The howling white wind that was just now is gradually weakening.

By the time Hu Yuling boarded the train and arrived in front of Sun Changkui, visibility in the carriage had returned.

"Old Sun, where are you hurt?"

"The bullet hit my leg, but I feel there's not much blood. It shouldn't have damaged any blood vessels. Da Lingzi, go check on them first. No one can die!"

Barely mustering the strength to speak, Sun Changkui, disregarding his own injuries, insisted that Hu Yuling check on the other passengers in the carriage.

The team consisted of sixteen people from the Forestry Bureau's Security Section, four drivers, and three doctors from the medical team.

It would be a disgrace to Songling Forestry Bureau to whichever of them is hit by a stray bullet.

Whether you are dead, seriously injured, or physically disabled, it is all a disgrace.

The reason is simply because the forestry officers at Songling Forestry Bureau are former military personnel, while Sun Changkui is a soldier who came from the battlefield!

Sun Changkui said he was fine. Hu Yuling glanced at the faint bloodstains on his cotton pants and didn't insist any further. She turned around and went to check on the others.

"Master Wu, I'll need you and Xiao Chen to take some men and keep an eye on both vehicles..."

Checking on the wounded and guarding against the wolf pack were Sun Changkui's primary tasks.

If the wolf pack takes the opportunity to launch a surprise attack, resulting in further casualties, it will be a disgrace to the Songling Forestry Bureau.

"Hey, you cripple, your face's all blue. Did a stray bullet hit you?"

As Sun Changkui was arranging defense tasks, Wu Laowai looked at Sun the Cripple, who was slumped in the carriage, with ill intent.

This guy is a tough guy in the Songling Forest Area. Back then, he had his lower leg broken by a falling tree while saving someone. This cripple performed the amputation himself with a bayonet.

Although it was a desperate measure to save his life at the time, who would do something so ruthless to themselves?

In Wu Laowai's eyes, Sun Changkui was not afraid of pain at all. The fact that he was in so much pain meant that a stray bullet might have injured his genitals.

If that's the case, wouldn't he be able to set up a trap for Sun the Cripple?

"Uncle Wu, business is more important!"

Looking at Sun Changkui's ashen face and glancing at his pants, Chen Tuo blocked Wu Laowai before taking out a piece of ginseng root from his pocket.

"Brother-in-law Sun, you hold the fort for now, Uncle Wu and I will take care of things below!"

Pulling Wu Laowai, who had a curious look on his face, out of the car, Chen Tuo took the Tula monotube off his shoulder and was about to be on guard when he was shocked by what he saw.

The two six-wheeled trucks, located near the side of the hillside, turned a dark red color that even the night couldn't conceal.

At the junction of the slope and the mountain path, there was a large, dark pile of wild boar carcasses.

The blood-red hillside was stained red by the blood of wild boars that charged down the hill and were hit by light machine gun fire.

"Uncle Wu, should we take the light machine gun off the vehicle? That thing's pretty powerful!"

"That's reckless! Even our own people are doing it recklessly. This mountain is full of big rocks; if you can't see what's in front of you and just sweep randomly, isn't that just courting death?"

Neither Chen Tuo nor Wu Laowai felt any pain because the bullets didn't hit them.

The horrific scene on the vehicle is why the Forestry Bureau wants to control the flow of high-powered rifles like the Water-type and Berek.

In the winter forests, not only can stones bounce off bullets, but frozen tree trunks can also sometimes bounce off bullets in a ridiculously unpredictable way.

Don't assume that lead bullets won't bounce; their bounce power is even greater than that of copper and steel-core bullets.

Because the guns need to be fired at close range, most gunshot wounds in the mountains are caused by ricochets.

While it does happen that mountain runners beat each other up, it's not a common occurrence.

In Wu Laowai's view, Sun Changkui's arrangements were already quite prudent.

At this point, park the two high-sided six-wheeled trucks, back to back, on the mountain road.

Even if bullets ricochet off trees and rocks, they will be stopped by the truck's sidewalls.

The forestry bureau's six-wheeled trucks are all military trucks, and the guardrails are made of steel plates.

A chest-high barrier might not be enough to stop a bullet, but it's very likely to stop a stray bullet from ricocheting off.

Wu Laowai had witnessed the horrific scene on the bus. No one had been hit in the head by a stray bullet; the people on the bus were swaying and staggering, mostly from fright.

But he couldn't get along with Chen Tuo and the town's militia.

Standing under the car, if a bullet fired up the hillside were to ricochet back, there would be absolutely no cover.

"Listen up, all of you! Don't just fire randomly, aim carefully before you shoot! Guan Dunzi, you two take care of one side, and we men will take care of the other!"

The white whirlwind in the mountains stopped, and Wu Laowai's tense nerves relaxed. Judging from the wolf pack's behavior several times, they probably wouldn't make a move tonight.

But such wolf packs are even more frightening. In the Great Northern Wilderness at the foot of the mountains and the grasslands to the west, there are too many cases of people being harmed instead of being able to hunt wolves.

Although humans are always the ultimate victors, the losses incurred in the process of hunting wolves always fall on the hunters.

After arranging the manpower, Wu Laowai stood by the front of the car with Chen Tuo, muttering to himself.

"Kid, if we don't win this time, the wolf pack will most likely split up and set up camp. Then, we men won't be able to come to this mountain area so easily anymore..."

Wu Laowai's words effectively dampened Chen Tuo's enthusiasm for going hunting in the mountains.

If he had known this would be the outcome, he shouldn't have let the wolf king escape in the ditch in Beishan.

"Uncle Wu, look at what you're saying. We've always had guns and cannons, and we've never suffered a loss. Why would we be afraid of them?"

Chen Tuo spoke lightly, but Wu Laowai said with a solemn expression:

"You're not afraid during the day, you're not afraid at night, but are you afraid when the white blizzard blows? These wolves are too sharp, and the wolf king is too slippery; it won't come unless there's wind or snow!"

The situation on the mountain is different from that at the foot of the mountain. According to the forestry bureau's weather forecast, it is always the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains that block the Siberian cold air.

The cold front from Russia made the weather in the mountains unpredictable.

Down the mountain it might be sunny, but up in the mountains it might be blizzards and smoky haze.

A gust of wind comes and goes quickly, but the fate of those caught in it is uncertain...

With wind and snow raging, and a pack of treacherous wolves lurking around, this mountain area could become a death trap.

A pack of wolves that has a grudge is far more dangerous than any tiger, brown bear, or large pig.

In the mountains, whether it's bears, tigers, or wild boars, their first reaction upon seeing humans is to flee, and the same goes for wolf packs.

But bears, tigers, wild boars, and wolf packs that have clashed with humans are a different story.

Of these, the most dangerous are the wolf packs.

No matter how fierce bears, tigers, or wild boars are, they won't drive away other wild animals to ram people. Wolves, on the other hand, are not only capable of doing this, but they are also very good at it.

"Uncle Wu, we won't go up the mountain if it's windy and snowy! Besides, we're human, we can build hunting lodges on the mountain..."

Chen Tuo's move was good, but Wu Laowai did not nod in approval, displaying a wolf-like tenacity.

If you can dodge it once, do you think you can get away with it every time?

"Xiao Chen, your brother-in-law said to pack up and head down the mountain quickly. Can you and Brother Lao Wai cover our retreat?"

Chen Tuo was struggling with how to go hunting in the mountains when Hu Yuling, who was in the car, conveyed Sun Changkui's arrangements in a deep voice.

"Sis, how badly is your husband injured?"

"Nothing serious! I just got hit by a stray bullet, which grazed my inner thigh!"

Hu Yuling, who said this in the car, looked gloomy, and Wu Laowai's guess was correct.

The stray bullet, which was partially blocked by the shield, unfortunately struck Sun Changkui in a vital spot; otherwise, he wouldn't be in so much pain that he couldn't speak.

Although the injury wasn't in a specific area, given the limited medical resources available at the time and the lack of obvious external injuries, Hu Yuling could only say that it was a scratch.

"Where are the others?"

"These are all splinter wounds from stone fragments. The wounds are frozen, so we need to get them stitched and bandaged as soon as possible."

The people in the car were relieved, but Wu Laowai felt a little regretful when he heard that Sun Changkui had not been seriously injured.

What a fine, handsome doctor! Who knows how many years that cripple Sun has been taking advantage of him…