Wang Ping failed to catch any prey in the end and had to return empty-handed, and in the process, the last bit of battery on the drone was used up.
Of course, if you are willing to spend time searching on the hills, you can always find wild rabbits and the like. After all, it doesn't make sense that all the protected animals on the entire hillside rely on eating each other to survive, right? Wherever there are rare species, there are always some less rare guys.
However, Wang Ping was still worried about letting Yuan Xiaoxiao and Gu Laosan be alone together. Although Yuan Xiaoxiao had not done anything radical or shown any obvious hostility except for the suspected car robbery that night, the doubt about his identity still made the badger not take it lightly. He was afraid that if he returned too late, he would see the anchor and Wolf Xiaosi turned into a mess.
Although the badger went and returned empty-handed, Yuan Xiaoxiao found a patch of wild strawberries in the woods while collecting firewood. She used the hood of her jacket as a bag and picked a bunch of them back home. She just took it as a vitamin supplement.
Nothing happened that night, and the next day, everyone got up early and set off as usual.
After a day of adaptation, Gu Lao San was not so reluctant to get up this time. However, the pain in his thighs was not so easy to relieve, and he would always subconsciously take a wide step when walking.
However, just like yesterday, when everyone walked only 500 meters, another animal that had been bitten to death fell quietly on the road that everyone had to pass. This time, even the thick-skinned Gu Lao San felt that something was wrong.
This time, the animal looked very familiar to Wang Ping. He had just encountered it on that hill yesterday. It was the musk deer that he had let go because it was a protected animal. Unfortunately, its status as a protected animal still did not save it from being killed. After going around in circles, it returned to the badger again.
The placement was exactly the same, the wound shape was exactly the same. The weirdest thing was that the ground where the musk deer was placed seemed to have been cleaned, without even a scrap of grass.
Yuan Xiaoxiao squatted down as usual and checked the wound. This time she didn't describe anything. She just frowned and looked at the badger.
Behind her, Gu Lang suddenly took out his mobile phone with an angry look on his face, turned it on, opened WeChat, and sent a voice invitation to Chen Bai.
The notification sounded for a long time before the other party picked up the phone. Chen Bai's slightly tired voice came from the phone: "Hello? Gu Lang? You're so early in the morning..."
"The surname is Chen!"
Gu Lao San was so angry that he said, "You've gone too far!"
"What?"
Chen Bai took a long time to react. Then there was a sound from his phone. It seemed that someone had just woken up. After a long time, he replied, "What do you mean?"
"What do I mean?" Gu Lao San said angrily, "Do you look down on me? Is my brother the kind of person who can't endure hardship? You actually arranged for someone to fake it!"
Someone's anger didn't seem to be fake, but what he said was confusing.
"Are you sick?" Chen Bai said impatiently, "What are you talking about? What did I lie to you?"
"Then tell me, if you didn't fake it, why are there animals being killed one after another along the road I walk on?" Gu Lao San said unconvincedly, "Do you think I'm an idiot?"
This time, Chen Bai took a little longer to react. Under the surprised gaze of Yuan Xiaoxiao and Wang Ping, someone's voice suddenly increased in volume when he heard it on the phone.
"I'm not treating you like an idiot, you're the fucking idiot!" Chen Bai finally got angry and shouted angrily at the other side: "Do you fucking think you're Bear Grylls? You want me to fake it for you? Who would fake it for you with protected animals? Get the hell out of here!"
Chen Bai still didn't know what Gu Laosan had encountered today, but he had checked the Tibetan antelope yesterday. He cursed someone in his heart. If he was accused of killing protected animals for no reason, the boss would have to kill him.
In the live broadcast room, netizens who came to watch the live broadcast early in the morning were speechless. In addition to sighing at the host's strange thinking, they were even more curious about the sudden appearance of the animal corpse. The first time could be said to be a coincidence, but the second time was absolutely impossible to be a coincidence.
But at this moment, Yuan Xiaoxiao suddenly said with a look of enlightenment: "I understand!"
"Um?"
Gu Laosan and Wang Ping both looked over subconsciously, and Chen Bai on the other side of the phone also paused and listened attentively to the voice on the phone. At the same time, the tablet placed on someone's chest was silent, and everyone in the live broadcast room was also waiting for the young lady to explain.
"Here~"
Yuan Xiaoxiao took off her gloves, picked up a few strands of animal hair from the soil that had obviously been swept away, and said with certainty, "I guessed right!"
"Hey, don't keep me in suspense!"
Gu Lang pointed at Yuan Xiaoxiao impatiently and said, "What's going on?"
"Humph!" Yuan Xiaoxiao snorted coldly, pointing at the animal hair on her hand and said, "Look, one end is sharp, the thickness is uneven, and there are color gaps. This is wolf hair."
"Oh, you mean, this deer was killed by a wolf?" Gu Lang asked in surprise, "But if the wolf killed it, why didn't it eat it?"
Yuan Xiaoxiao curled her lips, put down the wolf hair in her hand, frowned and said: "This is a musk deer, not a deer... Forget it, do you remember the wolf pack you met a few days ago?"
Perhaps fearing that someone would talk nonsense again, Yuan Xiaoxiao continued without waiting for Gu Lang to answer: "Because of your trouble, the wolf that was supposed to be killed by the brown bear escaped, so you can be considered its savior. This is probably its way of repaying you!"
"66666"
In the live broadcast room, the comments suddenly blossomed. Chen Bai on the other end of the phone was also stunned, and hurriedly stood up and put on his clothes in a hurry.
“It’s a great learning experience!”
"So it's a way to repay a favor, awesome!"
"Third brother is so awesome!"
"If a wolf turns back, there must be a reason! It's either to repay a favor or to seek revenge!"
"This is the first time I've heard of this. I'm not well educated, so please don't lie to me, little sister."
"The anchors are getting more and more lazy, and I have to rely on the little sister to answer everything"
"You know so much, little sister. What do you do in real life?"
“What a legendary story!”
Gu Laosan originally wanted to show off, after all, this was a rare opportunity to show off. However, this was the first time in his life that an animal had returned a favor, and he couldn't suppress his emotions. His mouth was about to crack from ear to ear, and he touched the back of his head with a silly smile on his face.
"Hehe... it's, it's quite polite... hahahaha!!"
“Uh…” Yuan Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes and turned her head away to avoid looking at that person’s smug face.
Wang Ping suddenly understood, and it also confirmed why he had encountered a pack of wolves hunting Tibetan antelopes before, and why he saw the corpse of a Tibetan antelope on the road the next day.
"Hey," Yuan Xiaoxiao continued without turning her head, "Should we take this musk deer with us? I guess if you don't take it, it will continue to follow us and bring us more prey."
“No, no… Haha…” Gu Lao San still had a silly smile on his face as if he had eaten bee shit, and waved his hands and said, “No, no! I’m not the kind of person who repays favors! Haha…”
"Are you sick?"
Yuan Xiaoxiao and Chen Bai on the other end of the phone said this in unison. After they finished speaking, they were both stunned, and immediately felt a sense of sympathy for the person on the other end of the phone.
"A bosom friend!"