Reborn in 80: Starting with hunting in the mountains to get rich

Chapter 426 The Strange Smell in the Tree Hole

The hunting dogs pounced and began to bite wildly, which terrified Old Jiang, who shouted, "Stop biting! If you keep biting, you'll really kill someone!"

The hunting dogs are all seasoned hunters who have fought their way through countless battles; they are not comparable to ordinary guard dogs.

Li Ju'an shouted, and Da Hu actually stopped and obediently squatted down, looking at him with some resentment. He whimpered twice at the tomb raider.

Li Ju'an stepped forward first and confiscated the guns from the tomb raiding gang. The two rifles were taken from Xiao Jiang and Xiao Cheng. After handing the two rifles to Lao Jiang, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine. His hunter's instincts told him to pull out his APS Stechkin from his pocket, turn around, aim at his back, and fire.

There was no one behind him, just a dense forest. He pulled the trigger, sparks flew from the muzzle of the APS Stechkin, and the bullet shot out, hitting a man squarely in the abdomen.

The man's body trembled violently, yet he could still fire the homemade pistol at Li Ju'an. Seeing this, Da Hu lunged in fury, biting down on the man's wrist. His sharp canine teeth pierced through the man's wrist and continued biting downwards, crushing the entire wrist.

A scream rang out, as shrill as a pig being slaughtered.

Old Jiang cursed and rushed over, shouting, "I was wondering why one of the kids was missing. You little brat, you were hiding here!"

The man who fired the gun was Kui San. As a hunter from a nearby village, Kui San kept a homemade pistol at home. He had been lying in ambush nearby with the pistol hidden, just waiting for this opportunity to fire and then escape quickly. He originally thought that hunters would be at a disadvantage in close combat, and that it would be too much trouble to draw the large knife from his waist. Little did he expect that Li Ju'an had an APS Stechkin pistol that he carried with him.

The APS Stechkin has a fast attack speed but a short range. Li Ju'an fired three shots in a short time, all hitting Kui San in the abdomen.

Kui San had three holes in his abdomen, from which blood gushed out, so much so that even his sheepskin coat couldn't stop it. He yelled, "Someone's dead! Someone's been beaten to death!"

Li Ju'an kicked him, stomped on his face and cursed, "You deserve to be beaten to death."

Kui San shouted even louder: "You little brat, aren't you afraid of going to jail?"

Li Ju'an had already turned to leave, but when he heard that the man was still being defiant, he kicked him hard in the chest and stomped on him, saying, "Self-defense. If you pull out a gun, we'll pull out a gun too. You got hit, that's just bad luck. Go home and move your ancestral graves."

He thought for a moment and said, "You won't even have a chance to move your ancestral graves. After this happened, you still want to come out? Go back and cry in front of the jail."

The sky was now fully bright. Only then could everyone see the true face of the Wild Monkey Forest.

This area has a large coniferous and broad-leaved forest, and unlike the oil-bearing forests elsewhere, there are many wild fruit trees here. It just so happens that there was a snowfall after the start of winter, and some frozen fruits are still hanging on the branches of the wild fruit trees, not yet fallen.

Chen Xiangqian's whistle rang out behind them. Li Ju'an shouted, "Little Chen has found the person!"

Several men tied Kui San and the tomb raiders up tightly with wire ropes. Xiao Xu tightened the ropes, gritting his teeth and using all his strength, saying, "You got off easy. We have to use these wire ropes. You're all so cunning. Ropes can't hold you back."

Kui San was already in abdominal pain, and with his wrist twisted by the wire, he screamed like a pig being slaughtered: "Grandpa, please spare me! My hand is about to break!"

"Forgive me my foot! I'm already being lenient by not letting you get a bullet. I really want to let you get a bullet too."

"stop fighting."

Kui San's voice gradually weakened; he had lost too much blood, and his lips had turned pale. Hearing his barely audible breath, Xiao Xu panicked and quickly patted Lao Jiang, shouting, "Jiang Pao, what do we do if he's about to die?"

Old Jiang, being the shrewd old fox he is, had already seen through the act. He realized that the previous group had put on a show to deceive Xiao Jiang and his men, leading to their robbery, murder, and other schemes. He raised his foot and kicked even harder and more solidly than Li Ju'an had, saying, "Do whatever you want with it. Bury them on the spot, and no one will know."

Upon hearing this, Kui San was terrified and quickly opened his eyes, saying, "Don't bury him! Don't bury him! He's still breathing!"

The hunters grinned. "Look at you, you sly little devil, trying to fool us like we're three-year-olds."

Li Ju'an led the hunting dogs at breakneck speed, following them to the position where the falcon was circling in the air, which was also the direction from which Chen Xiangqian had shouted.

Chen Xiangqian kept whistling, his heart filled with fear. He found a tree hole to hide in and cautiously watched the wild beasts and predators around him.

He prayed in his heart, "Please don't let me shout out a black bear. If it doesn't stay in the barn in winter, may it be struck by lightning!"

He was even more afraid that his whistle would summon a tiger king or a green-skinned beast. Qin Pao had told him that Wolf Eyes was still in the mountains. If he were to encounter Wolf Eyes and the two black bears, he wouldn't just lose his life, he might not even survive to be reincarnated.

He crouched in the tree hollow, sensing a strange smell. This smell made him even more terrified, and his legs trembled with fear.

"What is this thing? It's so weird. What is it doing?"

He looked left and right, when suddenly something moved in the treetops, startling him. A titmouse began to perch on Xiao Cheng and peck at him.

Instantly, Chen Xiangqian felt a chill run down his spine, his scalp tingling. A titmouse is a carnivorous bird that eats both meat and carrion; this meant that Xiao Jiang and Xiao Cheng, hanging upside down in the tree, were already dead.

The thought of being with two upside-down corpses made his heart pound, his whole body feel uneasy, and he couldn't even close his eyes. Plus, the smell in his nose was very strange; he thought it smelled like corpses.

Chen Xiangqian clasped his hands together in front of his chest and kept chanting "Amitabha." "Brother Li, you guys better come quickly, or I really can't take it anymore. Why did I have to go into the mountains, Dad? I should have listened to you and stayed in the city. The mountains are really too scary, and people have even died there."

Li Ju'an has arrived.

Before Li Ju'an even got close, Chen Xiangqian heard the hunting dogs barking.

The barking of the hunting dogs sounded incredibly familiar to him, even more so than to his own family. He excitedly poked one leg out, only to find himself stuck in the tree hollow. He wiggled that leg and whispered to Li Ju'an, "Brother Li, I'm here, I'm fucking here."

Before Li Ju'an could get close, Da Hu grabbed his trouser leg and pulled him out of the tree hole.

White Mastiff and Little Cannon followed the lead dog, watching it pull on Chen Xiangqian's pants, and then they also grabbed the pant legs and started pulling. In just a few tugs, Chen Xiangqian's fashionable jeans were riddled with holes. Luckily, the jeans were made of sturdy material, otherwise he would be wearing tattered pant legs, dangling in the cold wind.

"Brother Li! Why are you so late? Look at this mess."