In the warm room, Wei Ran had already pulled out the two balls of cotton from his nostrils as he spoke, "Let's go together."
Hearing this, Regina immediately gestured in dumb language, "Find an excuse to let him stay. How can we go after that wolf pack with him?"
Seeing this, Yuri looked around, pointed at the animal skin that had just been poured with hot water to soften it and stretched with wooden poles, and said, "Brother Victor, please stay.
This animal hide needs to be dried as soon as possible, and someone must watch it, in case it is attracted by the fireplace..."
“I can understand sign language”
Wei Ran gestured with his hands in front of the two of them, and then he saw the siblings' mouths wide open in astonishment.
"Pa!" Wei Ran snapped his fingers and said, "So either take me with you, or I go to Uncle Artyom and ask him to confiscate your shotgun and binoculars."
"Sister, what should I do?" Yuri looked at Regina with a sad face.
Obviously, the latter did not expect Wei Ran to actually know sign language. The girl gritted her teeth, wrapped herself in the white fur scarf again and gestured, "How come you know sign language?"
"I have a friend, and he can't speak either." Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, pointed to his throat and asked, "Was he bitten by a wolf?"
Hearing this, Regina nodded, and then gestured, "Then let's go together, those wolves may go back soon."
"Don't worry about this deerskin?" Wei Ran asked, pointing to the huge deerskin.
Hearing this, Yuri patted his forehead, and Regina covered her mouth and smiled, but she did not answer the question.
Now that they had reached a consensus, the three of them were ready to leave. Wei Ran, who was walking at the end, didn't say much. He just added more firewood to the fireplace before leaving, and put the stretched animal skin between the two
In the middle of the bed, he carefully closed the wooden door, shouted at the sleigh and followed the siblings.
A group of three sled carts returned to the lake again. The two sled brothers and sisters tacitly led the reindeer and sled dogs pulling the cart farther away, then cut some pine branches from the surrounding area and spread them on the ground.
A salt brick was dug out of the wooden box on the side of the sleigh and tied to the tree.
Without any further greeting, Wei Ran led his two reindeer over and also dug out a salt brick and tied it to the tree.
When the four reindeer lay on the pine branches and began to lick the salt bricks, the dogs also curled up on an animal skin blanket that Regina pulled off the sleigh, and obediently let Yuri
A canvas was placed over them.
After arranging these little animals, Yuri quickly climbed up a pine tree, sat on the branch and raised his latest telescope.
Under the tree, Regina also sat on the dog sled, put away the extinguished oil lamp, placed the dragoon rifle with a scope on the baffle in front of the sled, and then placed the
The hood of the Marizza leather robe that was almost at the same level as his feet was tied tightly.
Seeing that this snow girl-like Regina had blended into the surroundings, Wei Ran also extinguished the oil lamp, dragged the sleigh alone two steps further away, and hid in the crown of another tree.
inside.
He also tightened the hood of his leather robe, and pretended to reach under the sleigh as a cover. He slowly took out his SVT40 semi-automatic rifle, and gently lifted the muzzle of the pine branch tied with cloth.
He rested lightly on a tree branch.
He moved his eyes to the edge of the scope and gently moved the muzzle. Finally, the T-shaped crosshair in the scope was aimed at the pile of internal organs on the lake. Unfortunately, there were no prey around the internal organs.
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After glancing at the siblings hiding up and down the tree not far away, Wei Ran leaned the gun in his hand against the front fender of the sleigh, then took out his binoculars and looked at the frozen lake.
Compared with the sight on the gun, this telescope can undoubtedly see a wider field of view. However, Wei Ran's attention is not entirely focused on the lake. Instead, it is aimed at the night sky filled with auroras, looking forward to it.
You can see the parachute blooming.
As the three people above and below the tree waited patiently, time passed by and the sky became symbolically brighter. It was at this time that a pack of wolves finally came running from the other side of the lake.
"Snapped"
A snowball was thrown from the treetops and hit accurately near the sled where Regina was, followed immediately by a second snowball flying out and hitting Wei Ran.
After receiving the signal, Weiran calmly put away the telescope and replaced it with the SVT40 sniper rifle.
The distance between the two is less than 300 meters, but with the help of the sight, it can't be said to be too far.
However, the snowflakes flying on the lake with the cold wind and the dark sky from time to time added some unpredictable difficulties to the hunting activity.
Throwing off the bearskin three-fingered glove on his right hand, Wei Ran gently pushed the safety to load the bullet, put the scope on the wolf pack and was ready to fire.
As he waited and watched, the wolves quickly surrounded the pile of frozen internal organs and began to feast.
Just from the order of eating, whether Wei Ran, Regina or Yuri hiding in the tree, they all easily found the new wolf king. However, Wei Ran made up his mind that as long as Regina
If you don't shoot, he won't shoot either.
Soon, the wolf king seemed to have filled his stomach, and the rest of the wolves also surrounded him. But Regina was still in no hurry to shoot.
After more than half an hour, the squatting wolf king raised its neck and started howling.
It's a pity that the wolf's howl didn't have time to reach the ears of the three of them with the wind, before Regina suddenly pulled the trigger!
"boom!"
"boom!"
Almost at the same time that Regina fired the shot, Wei Ran also pulled the trigger. Less than half a second later, the newly promoted wolf king fell to the ground, and another wolf not far away from it was also shot.
Wei Ran hit the shoulder blade.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After these two shots, the members of the wolf pack who had just eaten turned around and ran in the direction they came from, but Regina took advantage of this moment to complete the push.
The action of loading a bullet.
"boom!"
In this second round of shooting, Wei Ran was the first to fire, and as expected, this shot killed a wolf again.
"Bang!" The second shot fired by Regina also hit a fleeing wolf.
After that, neither she nor Wei Ran stopped shooting. Instead, they dragged their own sleighs and ran to the resting animals not far away. Yuri, who was hiding in the tree, also climbed down quickly.
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The three of them each installed an "engine" on their respective sleighs, but they did not dare to waste time. They shook the reins and rushed over as quickly as possible.
Without any communication at all, the three of them picked up the four wolf carcasses one by one, deftly skinned and disembowelled them, leaving only a bunch of intestines, and then rushed to the area where they had logged trees before.
"What gun did you use?" Just as Wei Ran was about to load the logs into the car, Regina came up and asked in sign language.
Hearing this, Wei Ran once again pretended to put his hand under the sleigh as a cover, took out his weapon and handed it to the opponent with confidence.
After taking the gun and just glancing at it, Regina handed it back to Wei Ran, then called to Yuri who wanted to take a look, and started busy carrying log poles as thick as a calf.
Using the cover of the sleigh to put the weapons in his hands back into the metal book again, Wei Ran was also busy with his job as a lumberjack again, carrying wooden poles that could be more than two meters long onto the sled, from time to time.
, and will also let the two reindeer that have rested enough to take a few steps to avoid overloading.
After a lot of work, the three sleds dragged the logs that had been cut down a few hours ago, slowly returned to the field beside the railway, unloaded the logs, and returned to the "dormitory" with their prey.
After more than two hours of going back and forth, the moose skin stretched with a wooden frame was still not dry, and the cellar was inevitably filled with a fishy smell that could not be ignored.
However, looking at the looks of the two siblings, it seemed that they had long been accustomed to the smell. So after taking off their thick leather robes, they soaked the newly hunted animal skins in hot water until soft.
, prepared for the next tanning work.
They were busy, and Wei Ran was not idle either. After he was busy adding enough firewood to the fireplace, he immediately went outside to find a sack of dried litmus and lichen and fed them to the four reindeer, and then fed the four wolves'
The legs were removed, and the remaining trunk was chopped into pieces and fed to the sled dogs.
By the time he cut up the three wolf legs, sprinkled them with crushed coarse salt, and grilled them on the edge of the fireplace, the two sisters had already skillfully chopped open the wolf heads with an ax, took out the brains and made a
With a bucket of stinky brain fluid, he began to tan the four latest wolf skins.
Wei Ran couldn't participate in such work, so he simply put all his thoughts on roasting wolf legs. At the same time, he also secretly wondered how many more peaceful days like this could last.
Almost an hour later, the three wolf legs were roasted to a crisp on the outside and tender on the inside, and the four roughly tanned wolf skins were stretched tightly by the makeshift wooden frame beside the fireplace.
Let Regina move the fire a little outside the fireplace with her own hands and add a few extra firewood, and the three of them sat around the only wooden table.
Wei Ran poured a cup of hot water with pine branches into each of the siblings, and then gave the roasted wolf legs to them.
Perhaps because she learned that Wei Ran could understand sign language, Regina, who had rarely participated in the conversation before, became more lively. From time to time, she would put down the roasted wolf leg in her hand and ask various questions with gestures.
It was through small talk that Wei Ran also learned from Yuri that the siblings had not seen their mother since they could remember, and that Regina went to the forest with Yuri when she was 11 years old.
While collecting firewood, he was bitten through the throat by a lone wolf.
If it hadn't been for the political commissar of the forestry farm who almost risked his life to save her and drove her sleigh in a blizzard to Murmansk for treatment, she might not have survived at all.
It was precisely because of that experience that even though Regina became mute after recovering from her injury, she still worked hard to become an excellent hunter - she especially liked hunting wolves.
After they had eaten and drank enough to add enough firewood to the fireplace, the three of them lay on their own beds, quietly listening to the crackling sound of the burning firewood, smelling the fishy smell of the animal skins, and finally closed their doors.
I closed my eyes and fell into sleep.
When he woke up, the kerosene lamp hanging above his head had been extinguished, and there were only scarlet embers left in the bonfire in the fireplace. It was inevitably much colder in the cellar.
He got up and put on his boots and deerskin robe again. Wei Ran reached out and touched some of the dried animal skins, stretched himself to the edge of the fireplace, pulled away the ashes and added firewood, and then put the lamp
The wick of the kerosene lamp was twisted out and lit again.
When he made a move, the two sisters, Regina and her brother, also woke up one after another.
"Snapped!"
Regina snapped her fingers at Yuri who was rubbing his eyes. When the other party looked over sleepily, she immediately gestured in sign language and said, "Today we will sew the animal skins together."
"I know," Yuri said and immediately started to get dressed.
When the siblings came down, Wei Ran also used the leftover roasted wolf legs from last night to make a pot of broth. The siblings skillfully removed the dried wolf skins from the wooden frame.
After some simple cutting, they were sewn together into a blanket almost the size of a double bed using two steel needles as long as chopsticks and a leather rope that was obviously made by himself.
"Shall we just go after the wolf pack later?"
Regina patted Wei Ran's arm and gestured in a mute language, "We have killed two wolf kings. That wolf pack will definitely migrate far away today. Let's bring more food to catch up. The harvest will definitely be better than cutting down.
There need to be more trees.”
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!
"What the hell... the airdrop was thrown over the head..." Wei Ran muttered to himself in fear, but he didn't think this was a good thing at all!
