Reborn in 1985: Starting from Contracting a Ranch

Chapter 30 Lone Wolf Night Raid

The two men immediately drew their guns and scanned their surroundings, but found nothing unusual.

If it weren't for the half-eaten rabbit carcass still on the ground, the two of them would have thought they were seeing things.

"What's going on?"

Shan Yaowen frowned, waved his flashlight around, but didn't find any animals, not even a single movement.

Just as Gou Dan thought the rabbit-eating creature had escaped and relaxed his guard, Shan Yaowen silently cocked his gun.

Just now, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine and his hair stood on end. He had experienced this feeling a few times in his past life, but back then it was because he was being targeted by large wild animals such as bears and wild boars.

Are they available now?

Surely there can't be a bear here, right?

But that figure looked so agile, it shouldn't be a bear or a wild boar, but there was definitely danger involved.

Dan Yaowen carefully pulled Gou Dan back, after all, there were too many bushes here, and that thing was so sensitive that it was easy to be ambushed.

Dog Egg didn't know what had happened, but seeing Shan Yaowen's tense expression, he tacitly kept quiet and loaded his shotgun.

The two stood back to back, each holding a gun and a flashlight, constantly scanning the surrounding bushes for any potential dangers, while slowly retreating.

Not far from the two, in a patch of grass, an injured wolf was taking advantage of the darkness and the cover of the grass, crouching low and slowly approaching its target.

Dan Yaowen dared not blink or turn off his flashlight. In this environment, if there was any real danger, the wild beasts in the shadows would probably have already locked onto them. Turning off the flashlight would only make him lose sight of them.

Unfortunately, he didn't want to turn it off, but the flashlight was about to break down.

"Damn it, hang in there!" Shan Yaowen looked at the flashlight in his hand that had suddenly gone dark, and a bad feeling rose in his heart.

The outcome did not change due to Shan Yaowen's will; the flashlight beam began to flicker.

Shan Yaowen was so angry that he kept hitting the flashlight, but unfortunately the flashlight no longer stayed on, and continued to flash.

Just as the flashlight beam flickered, Shan Yaowen suddenly saw a pair of bright green eyes staring intently at him from not far ahead.

"not good."

By the time he realized what was happening, the owner of those eyes had already leaped up and pounced towards their location.

Shan Yaowen immediately turned off the flashlight and raised the muzzle of his gun.

boom!

A gunshot rang out.

Dog Egg turned around abruptly, and by the time he had his flashlight and gun aimed at the wolf on the ground, Shan Yaowen had already cocked the trigger and reloaded the gun.

"Damn, a wolf!" Dog Egg broke out in a cold sweat from the shock.

If this thing were to pounce on you, who knows what the consequences would be?

"Is this wolf starving?" Shan Yaowen frowned as he looked at the wolf convulsing on the ground.

Wolves usually don't bother adults, especially lone wolves, but this one was different; it was clear just now that it was after the two of them.

"I don't know, but is this the only one?" Gou Dan didn't dare to put down the gun he was holding, and continued to cautiously scan his surroundings.

"Most likely." Shan Yaowen simply put away the unlit flashlight. "If there were a pack of wolves, it wouldn't be just one wolf attacking us."

"What do you mean now?"

"Pick up the wolf and let's go."

"Not looking at the lasso anymore?"

"Damn, something's weird tonight. A lone wolf is attacking people, and the flashlights aren't working. Let's go, we'll come back tomorrow morning."

Shan Yaowen wasn't the type to be sentimental about his prey. Once he realized something was wrong in the woods, he would leave immediately and never take any risks.

For him, his own safety and that of Gou Dan were more important than the safety of a few prey.

With the light on, Gou Dan fired another shot at the wolf on the ground, and only after confirming it was dead did he use the barrel of his gun to lift the wolf up.

"Wow, this wolf is quite big. It turns out it's injured."

When Shan Yaowen picked up the wolf and held it in his hand, he discovered that the wolf's hind leg had been bitten in a large area, and the wolf was rather light, weighing only about 60 or 70 pounds.

The average weight of a normal adult wolf is 80 to 90 pounds. When food is plentiful, it can reach over 100 pounds. Any larger than that is beyond the weight that this type of wolf can achieve.

After leaving the woods, Shan Yaowen decisively bled and skinned the wolf in his hands.

"Phew, it's out." Gou Dan glanced at the wolf in Shan Yaowen's hand with lingering fear.

Hunting is really dangerous.

Even though I wasn't injured today, the physical and mental exhaustion I've endured is immense.

After skinning the wolf, Shan Yaowen took a knife and chopped half of the wolf meat for Gou Dan: "Take the meat home and eat it. I'll sell the wolf pelt later."

Shan Yaowen's family has no shortage of food, at least they always have wild game from the snare, but he is short of money.

The ranch was on track and everything else was fine, but my brother-in-law's straw harvesting had been ongoing, and the hundred yuan was already used up. He had to raise money by selling game to pay for it.

This wolf pelt came just in time to solve his immediate problem.

"Okay." Gou Dan didn't stand on ceremony. Anyway, the two of them were close enough, and he felt that Shan Yaowen was definitely going to be his brother-in-law, so he didn't follow the example of others who declined first.

As for the wolf skin, he was already quite satisfied with the meat; it originally belonged to Shan Yaowen.

Shan Yaowen did not go back, but spent the night in a small room on the ranch. The next day, when his mother brought him food, he asked her to take the wolf meat and wolf skin back with her.

"Are there wolves in the ranch?" Mother Shan exclaimed in surprise upon seeing it.

"It's not from the ranch, I caught it last night at the lasso." Shan Yaowen washed his face and then focused on the noodles in front of him.

Shan Yaowen didn't say that the wolf was a sneak attack; he only said that he killed it when he was checking the lasso. He didn't want his mother to worry. He was already making her worry about living alone on the ranch, and if there was a wolf, his mother probably wouldn't be able to sleep.

"By the way, Mom, do we have any flashlight batteries at home?"

"Yes, yours is out of power?"

"Yes, it went dark on the mountain last night, but luckily Gou Dan was there."

"I'll bring it to you tonight," said Mother Shan as she helped her son tidy up the house. "By the way, the Shi family from the Fifth Team came last night to thank you and brought a lot of things. You didn't tell them you were coming today."

"Again?"

"After all, you saved their whole family. They said they had to thank you in person and even planned to invite you to their house for a meal."

Just as he was speaking, Shan Yaowen saw Lin Nian leading the Shi family over.

The one in the lead was Shi Zhang, the son of Shi Tingyue whom they had rescued yesterday.

"Brother Yaowen." Lin Nian ran happily to Shan Yaowen's side, "They went to my house to thank me, and then they wanted to find you, so I brought you here."

"My benefactor." Shi Zhang almost knelt down and kowtowed again when he saw Shan Yaowen, but Shan Yaowen pulled him down to sit first.

This time, it was Shi Zhang and his wife who came.

"Sit down, sit down. Don't kowtow so easily. My place is a bit simple, and I apologize for not being a good host."

There's only one small wooden cabin on the ranch, built right next to the sheep pen, so it might have a bit of a smell.

However, none of the people present could stand the smell. Shi Zhang kept expressing his gratitude. After learning that it was the silly bird who led them there and that's how they found his father, he even thanked the silly bird.

Of course, the silly bird couldn't understand, and it even flew away in fright when the stone camphor tree bowed to him.

Looking at the silly bird soaring in the sky, Shi Zhang said enviously, "Brother Shan is really amazing; he can even tame an eagle."

The silly bird is a steppe eagle, which is different from a common eagle.

However, most people rarely make detailed distinctions between eagles and hawks.

Shi Zhang sat for a while, chatted with Shan Yaowen for a long time, and even took a look around the sheep pen before leaving. Before leaving, he told Shan Yaowen to come to his house for dinner that night.

After everyone left, Shan Yaowen saw that there was nothing to do in the sheep pen, so he decided to tidy up and take all the game he had recently hunted to town to sell, since he wouldn't be able to eat until the evening anyway.

Of course, before that, we need to retrieve the noose that was confiscated last night.