This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Uncle Artyom will definitely not blame us," said Yuri, who poked his head at the door of the cellar, "as long as we set off earlier."

Hearing this, Wei Ran, who also didn't want to waste his energy on logging work, just hesitated for a moment and nodded happily, "In that case, let's eat first. We will set off immediately after eating."

Hearing this, a sweet smile appeared on Regina's face, which still had some scratches and scars. She happily took the small enamel pot from Wei Ran's hand and took the initiative to prepare the meal.

After filling their stomachs with broth that contained an astonishing amount of meat but was not very tasty, Wei Ran and Yuri loaded several sacks into their sleighs and piled them outside to use dried lichen and litmus as reindeer feed.

And cover it with a piece of dirty canvas and tie it tightly.

At the same time, Regina also folded the wolf skin blanket and the dried reindeer skin that she had sewn before the meal into two large bundles and placed them on her sleigh.

Finally, two iron buckets and an enamel pot were placed on the sleigh. Yuri took out a wine bottle from his bag, filled it with the remaining broth, sealed it with a wooden stopper, and stuffed it directly into himself

's arms.

As soon as the siblings put their respective canvas bags on their backs, the idle trio immediately drove the sleigh and rushed to the frozen lake again in the night.

Less than half an hour after they left, Artyom, who came back in a sleigh, looked at the empty den, then at the missing enamel pot and the siblings' luggage.

, but in the end he just smiled nonchalantly, threw a pack of rifle bullets onto Regina's bed, then lay down on his bed, pulled a blanket over him and fell asleep.

"Regica, how many rounds of ammunition do you have?"

When there was less than one kilometer left from the frozen lake, Wei Ran shouted to Regina, who was running abreast.

It was Yuri on the other side who answered this question, "Before we left home, my father left more than 50 bullets for my sister, and we took them all with us. Brother Victor, what about you? How many bullets do you have?"

"More than 20 rounds"

Wei Ran replied loudly, and at the same time, he was secretly thinking whether the bullets would be enough for them - he had a hunch that if he sneaked out to hunt this time, he might encounter prey from the air.

Rushing to the frozen lake in secret vigilance, the three sleighs stopped and put the remaining entrails into a bag and threw them into the sleds. They followed the wolf pack's footprints and ran towards the other side of the lake - which was exactly the same direction.

Before Wei Ran entered this historical segment, it was the direction of the mountain where the body was found.

Of course, the only difference is that they followed the wolves' footprints to the south of the foot of the mountain, and the location where they found the body was on the north of the low mountain.

When the sleigh left the lake and entered the forest, the three of them slowed down in unison. It was only at this time that the young man named Yuri actually took out the wooden gun he had seen in later generations from his canvas pocket.

box!

This young man did not shy away from guarding the fire. He took out the cannon from the wooden gun case. He skillfully installed the gun case on the handle to serve as a gun butt. He raised the muzzle and pointed it at the night sky filled with aurora, guarding his left and right sides vigilantly.

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Wisely, he didn't ask any more questions. Wei Ran continued to keep quiet, and at the same time, he silently took out the stove and put it in his arms.

They advanced in silence all the way. When they reached the foot of the mountain, Regina, who was driving the dog sled, was the first to stop and pointed to a location not far ahead.

Looking in the direction of the other person's finger, Wei Ran could vaguely see the surging aurora and the glimmer of light reflected from the snow on the ground. There were two trees there, perhaps because of the strong wind, or because the permafrost thawed in the summer.

A large pine tree with unstable roots and collapsed.

The two pine trees seemed to still have vitality, but most of their root systems had been torn away, and their thick trunks were almost side by side at both ends of a depression.

Just looking at those messy footprints, one can tell that under these two big trees, there should be the lair of the wolf pack.

It can also be seen from the messy footprints that they seemed to have arrived a step too late. The wolf pack had indeed given up here as Regina had expected.

I have to admit that wolves are indeed smart creatures, because those footprints are not running in one direction at all, but are scattered in different directions, but the general trend is to run up the mountain.

"Leave the sleigh here"

Regina expressed her thoughts in sign language, "Let's catch up. Their new nest will definitely not be too far from here."

Wei Ran and Yuri naturally had no objection to this, and each quickly unloaded the things on the sled, tied them up with ropes, and placed them on the four reindeer.

Finally, they untied the reins of the sled dogs, and the three of them pushed the nearly empty sled into the abandoned wolf den and hid it.

Each led one or two reindeer, and surrounded by more than a dozen sled dogs, the three of them randomly selected a series of footprints, and under the leadership of Regina, quietly walked towards the top of the mountain.

The leading girl obviously had a lot of hunting experience. She would stop from time to time, take the binoculars handed over by Yuri and look around before moving on.

As they approached the halfway point of the mountain, the originally solitary footprints suddenly became denser, and they even saw a snow pit where a wolf had lain down and urine stains for marking.

After lightly patting Yuri on the shoulder, the latter immediately handed his telescope to Regina. He held up the telescope and looked around, then grabbed a handful of snowflakes and threw them up to test the wind direction.

Ka returned the telescope to his brother, raised his finger and pointed at the bare mountain top, and gestured with his hand, "The wolves have marked here. Their den will not be too far away. Let's go to the top of the mountain. The view there is good."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Hearing this, Yuri immediately took off a bag from a deer. Not only did it contain the half-cooked half moose head that he had cooked last night, but also the half of a moose head that he had just picked up on the lake.

Come the entrails.

Hanging the bag on a thigh-thick pine tree branch with a rope, Yuri took out the wine bottle filled with broth from his arms, pulled out the stopper, and poured the broth inside.

In the cold air around him, and on the sack full of food.

After setting up the bait, Regina immediately led them, the dogs, and the reindeer towards the top of the mountain step by step.

At the end of the team, Yuri dragged a bunch of pine branches and smoothed out the footprints they left while walking.

It took more than half an hour to climb to a position only sixty or seventy meters away from the top of the mountain. After raising the gun and looking up, Regina finally nodded with satisfaction.

The terrain here is not much different from the rocky land on the back of the mountain that Wei Ran has been to, but the area is much smaller and the stones are one size smaller. However, the pine trees growing here may be because of the leeward wind, and they can get more or less sunlight in the summer.

Because of the sunshine, the growth is better.

After some observation, Regina chose a huge stone about one and a half meters high and waved her hand towards Yuri.

Without further explanation, Wei Ran and Yuri saw off the branches at the bottom of a pine tree growing next to the boulder, dug out the surrounding snow, and built a tent with the canvas they brought, which was barely enough for them.

Tent for three people.

While Wei Ran was laying pine needles in the tent, the two sisters cleared out the bottom of another pine tree growing next to the boulder, also laid pine needles on it, and placed the four reindeer and a salt brick together.

Tie it to a tree trunk and dump a sack of dry moss lichen.

As for the dogs that have to serve as hunting dogs at any time, it is even easier. Just spread a layer of pine needles on the snow for them, and then throw the wolf internal organs and meaty skeletons left over to them from yesterday, and it will be enough for these furry children to while away the fun.

It's time.

After everything was arranged, Wei Ran took out his ax and knocked hard on the tree trunk with the back of the ax. Suddenly, the snow on the tree crown fell with crackling crackles and was spread on the tent they had just set up, making this temporary camp perfect with the surroundings.

fused together.

After inviting the siblings to get into the tent, the three of them spread the animal skins they had sewn before breakfast on top of the pine needles they had just laid out and the sacks filled with dry moss.

Finally, he placed the iron bucket he brought in a depression next to the stone root, lit the bonfire with the dead branches he had just sawed off, and poured the charcoal collected in the fireplace. Yuri also immediately took out a

An iron lid with holes covered the barrel, simply blocking out the conspicuous firelight.

"Brother Victor, do you often hunt?" Yuri, who was sitting on a sack, asked in a low voice while putting away the box cannon spray-painted with white paint in his hand.

"I could have joined the hunting team."

Wei Ran responded in a low voice, and then asked curiously, "Where did you get this gun?"

"My father left it for me to use for self-defense."

Yuri said, but he had already stuffed the wooden gun case into his bag, obviously not planning to show it to Wei Ran.

Seeing this, Wei Ran stopped asking any more questions, turned to look at Regina and asked in a low voice, "Are we going to wait all the time?"

Regina, who was sitting on the wolf-skin blanket, put down the shotgun wrapped in animal skin in her hand, and gestured in the faint firelight exposed on the edge of the iron bucket, "Yuri will be responsible for keeping watch for us later. When he finds out there is someone,

We won't shoot until the prey appears, but now you can take a rest."

With that said, the girl lay down, patted the remaining half of the bed next to her, then shook off the moose skin that had only been initially tanned and covered her body.

After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran finally took off the rifle he was carrying, lay down on the animal skin blanket, and let the other party help him cover his body with the slightly fishy smell of reindeer skin.

This may be considered sleeping together in the literal sense, but the temperature in the tent is not very warm, and the thick deerskin robes on their bodies, and even the smell of mooseskin covering the two of them - and them

The weapons each held in their arms made it impossible for this scene to be ambiguous.

Of course, not only did Wei Ran have no thoughts about this, but Regina also didn't think anything of it. After tightening the leather cord on her hood, the girl held her shotgun and closed her eyes in relief.

In contrast, Yuri, a young man, sat on a sack filled with dry moss, stuck his telescope out of the gap in the tent door, and carefully observed the bait arranged halfway up the mountain. From time to time, he even

I would temporarily put down the telescope and throw a few sticks of firewood into the red-hot iron bucket.

After an unknown amount of time, Wei Ran and Rebecca, who had fallen asleep, were pushed awake by Yuri, "Wake up quickly, a wolf has passed by!"

Hearing this, Regina quickly turned over and climbed up, shook off the animal skin she had been holding in her arms, took out the rifle, and loaded the bullet with a "click".

At the same time, Wei Ran also got up, but he didn't rush to load the ammunition, and just followed him out of the tent.

After such a sleep, the wind outside the tent seemed to have become stronger, so that from time to time, snow blown by the wind would hit the tent.

Lying at the door of the tent, he placed the barrel of the gun on the deformed sack. When Wei Ran put his eyes to the scope, he immediately saw several wolves carefully crawling on the snow halfway up the mountain.

With his body, he cautiously approached the sack that was two or three meters away from the ground, but still smelled like a man and a wolf.

However, before Regica, who was lying next to Wei Ran, could decide whether to shoot now, and before Yuri could calm down the vigilant sled dogs, the three of them heard something unexpected in the sound of the biting wind.

The same low roar!

"It's a plane!"

Yuri was the first to let out an exclamation, raising his hand and pointing to the night sky above his head.

Subconsciously he got up and looked up. Wei Ran couldn't help but widen his eyes. Against the backdrop of the aurora, he could clearly see that several planes were flying from the northeast, dropping a series of more than a dozen umbrella flowers.

After that, it began to climb near their heads and rushed straight towards the direction of the railway!
Chapter completed!