An hour later, the large army was ready to go.
The mercenaries were all loaded with live ammunition, and even the two scholars, He Zihong and Yang Tuo, had initially mastered the skills of using guns under Liu Qing's guidance, and each was equipped with a pistol on his waist.
More than ten people stood in the yard, waiting for Lin Shuo to come down.
A few minutes ago, Lin Shuo asked Anne for the names of all the staff and went back to his room.
Wei Xingshan stared at the door of the hotel with an increasingly impatient expression on his face.
Just when he was about to have a fit, Lin Shuo slowly walked out of the hotel door with the ebony box on his shoulders.
"Wait for me for a while." Lin Shuo confessed to the beauty Anne, then turned around and supported him, and stood the huge ebony box behind him.
He rested his forehead lightly on the ebony box, and stood with his eyes closed for a while.
Then he opened his coat pocket, took out a pack of shriveled cigarettes, took out the remaining three cigarettes and lit them, with the butts facing upwards, sticking them in the mud in front of the ebony box.
After finishing these, Lin Shuo stepped back slightly, and said in a low voice:
"To enter the mountain today, I have to borrow the help of Master Zhui. Disciple Lin Shuo offered incense and prayed."
While speaking, Lin Shuo took out a piece of folded letter paper from the pocket of his Chinese tunic, and slowly spread it out, with handwritten characters on it.
Anne had sharp eyes, and found that the names written on it were the names she had told Lin Shuo just now.
"Master Zhui, this is the list of people who entered the mountain. Lord Zhui, bless you, nineteen people entered the mountain, and nineteen people left the mountain, not one more, and one less. If everything is done, the disciple will reward and fulfill his wish."
Lin Shuo murmured, struck another match to light the letter paper, drew a few circles on his chest, and waited until the letter paper was about to burn out before throwing it away.
Yang Tuo, a doctor of biology, looked at Lin Shuo's actions with a slight disdain on his face, as if he wanted to say something.
He Zihong hastily tugged at the corner of his student's clothes, Yang Tuo shut up and turned his face away slightly.
"Pretending to be a ghost." Wei Xingshan said softly.
None of these surrounding movements escaped Lin Shuo's eyes and ears, but he didn't care about them. Instead, he took a step forward and slowly put down the ebony box.
"Master Chaser, I've offended you!" Lin Shuo looked at the horizontally placed ebony box, gave a soft drink, and stretched out his hand to pat it. The lid slipped silently to the side, revealing the contents inside.
"What is this?"
Everyone stretched their necks and looked at the contents of the box with a burst of surprise.
It was a crescent-shaped utensil, the whole body was pitch black, more than two meters long, and it was impossible to tell what material it was made of. The trunk starts from the middle, and has a graceful recurve arc to both sides. There is a bayonet at each end, stretched with a translucent tendon line thick as a finger.
"Looking at the shape, it's a recurve bow, right?" A mercenary said hesitantly, as if he was a little uncertain.
"You are stupid. Have you ever seen such a big recurve bow?" Another mercenary said, "It's more than two meters long. Look at the bow body, it's as thick as your thigh! This is a human-drawn bow." bow?"
"But what if he is the one who draws the bow?"
As soon as this sentence came out, everyone was silent for a few seconds.
Everyone has seen Lin Shuo's power initially.
"That's impossible, isn't it? It has nothing to do with strength. You can see that the bow is so thick that it's almost enough to hold it with two hands. It's impossible to hold it with one hand, let alone pull it."
"But it's always useful for him to invite this thing out?"
"Who knows?"
Amidst the discussion, Lin Shuo half-kneeled on the ground, took out this giant recurve bow with both hands, and leaned back on his body. He also took out a quiver the size of a schoolbag from the box, which contained only three arrows as thick as arms.
Seeing that Lin Shuo had finally invited the chasing master, the beauty Anne looked around at the people who were discussing, and said:
"That's right, it is indeed a recurve bow, an ancestral item of the Lin family. In the hunter business, everyone respectfully calls it "Zhou Ye". Zhu Ye has a bad temper, so I advise you to talk less about it."
After Anne finished speaking, the surroundings were quiet, but Lin Shuo narrowed his eyes and looked at her with unfriendly eyes.
Anne quickly covered her mouth with her hands, and gave Lin Shuo an apologetic look, signaling that she was talking too much.
Lin Shuo ignored Anne, put his fingers to his mouth and blew a loud whistle. The starling bird flapped its wings and flew back from the forest and landed on his shoulder.
The bird's belly was full, but it seemed to be in a bad mood, with its head drooping.
"Let's go." Lin Shuo said lightly, and headed for the forest first.
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Xing'an Mountains, the largest virgin forest in East Asia, consists of the Lesser Xing'an Mountains, the Greater Xing'an Mountains and the Outer Xing'an Mountains.
Among them, the Greater and Lesser Xing'an Mountains are all within the territory of China, and to the north of Heilongjiang is the Outer Xing'an Mountains, which is the Stanov Mountains in the Russian population.
It is sparsely populated and is one of the restricted areas of life in the human world.
The destination of Lin Shuo's trip was a small mountain village deep in the Outer Xing'an Mountains, more than 20 kilometers away from the starting point.
That small mountain village was where one hundred and eighty-two people were found missing. The specific situation can only be known at the scene.
The Russian police force in the Far East is very limited. The only local policeman is an alcoholic in his fifties, and he cannot provide any support. For Lin Shuo and his party, this is actually not harmful, on the contrary, they can do whatever they want.
Lin Shuo's team of hunters started trekking in deep mountains and old forests.
When they first entered the mountain forest, everyone looked dignified, but they didn't go far. The beautiful natural scenery around them and the excellent weapons and equipment in their hands made everyone's tense hearts slowly relax.
The scenery in Waixing'an Mountains in summer is very pleasant, especially in the morning when the temperature has not yet risen.
Lin Shuo took the lead to open the way, Wei Xingshan did not object to this.
Wei Xingshan even wanted to see Lin Shuo making jokes.
Wei Xingshan held the map provided by Russia and the compass in his hand. The route was clear at a glance, so he didn't have to worry about getting lost.
But Lin Shuo didn't have these things in his hand.
Wei Xingshan is no stranger to this kind of deep mountain old forest. At the beginning, the scenery is beautiful, and it looks very fresh. But in less than an hour, you will find that it is the same everywhere, and there are no markers for identifying the way at all.
There is a dense canopy above the head, a thick layer of leaf decay under the feet, and there are almost identical trunks in front of the eyes, and people quickly become numb. There is only constant uphill and downhill, endlessly draining energy.
If you don't live here for ten or eight years, it is impossible to know the way.
As a result, two hours passed, and Wei Xingshan looked at Lin Shuo's back, feeling a little more confused.
Lin Shuo led the route, but he himself used a compass and a map to judge the best route, which was exactly the same.
This kid just glanced at the map during the morning meeting!
He used to live in Guangxi, right? Almost half a world away from here.
How could he not get lost in this completely unfamiliar forest
"Wait a minute!" Just when Wei Xingshan was confused, Yang Tuo stopped everyone.
"My teacher is tired." Yang Tuo said calmly, meeting everyone's gaze.
Only then did everyone start to look at He Zihong. Sure enough, the old man's face turned blue and he was a little out of breath.
"Oh, I have been exercising for a while before I came here, but I still can't compare with you young people." He Zihong leaned on a trekking pole, leaned on a tree slowly, and said with a wry smile, "I'm sorry, I want to rest a little while."
"I should say I'm sorry, I was too negligent." Anne said apologetically, and said to Lin Shuo, "Mr. Lin, can we take a break?"
"Not here." Lin Shuo stopped and said without looking back.
"Why?" Yang Tuo adjusted his glasses, his tone revealing dissatisfaction.
Lin Shuo glanced back at him, and pointed to a pine tree five meters away: "You are also an expert, see for yourself."
Looking in the direction of Lin Shuo's finger, Yang Tuo took a closer look, his expression became serious immediately, and he walked towards the pine tree.
Wei Xingshan immediately waved his hands, and two mercenaries protected Yang Tuo in the middle.
After observing for a while, Yang Tuo came back, glanced at Lin Shuo, and said to He Zihong, "Teacher, this is the habitat of Siberian tigers. I found footprints under the tree. There are more than two."
"Isn't it a tiger?" Wei Xingshan said disdainfully, "With our group of people here, the tiger will also give us extra meals when he comes."
"Go." He Zihong changed his mind, "Let's go a little further, I can still persist."
Seeing He Zihong's insistence, everyone continued to walk uphill.
When crossing a mountain stream, Lin Shuo suddenly raised his hand, stopping everyone from moving forward.
He reached out and broke off a branch, picked out something from the mountain stream with the branch, and threw it in front of everyone.
Seeing the thing in front of them clearly, everyone stepped back in horror.
It was half a huge tiger's head, and the cross section of the wound was very irregular. It was obviously eaten by something, and it was very fresh, dripping with blood.
In this deep mountain and old forest, is there anything that can kill a tiger and gnaw off only half of its head
The faces of several mercenaries began to turn pale.
If some monster rushed to this group of mercenaries, these guys would definitely fuck what they had in hand without saying a word.
But the unknown creates fear. Everything can't stand scrutiny, and the more you think about it, the more afraid you become.
On the other hand, Yang Tuo, a scholar with no strength to restrain a chicken, looked as usual, instead of retreating, he stepped forward two steps.
He took out a pair of latex gloves from his travel bag, put them on his hands, and then picked up the half of the tiger's head and observed it carefully.
"Sub-adult individual." Yang Tuo said, and then he seemed afraid that others would not understand, and added, "Although this tiger is not small, judging from its teeth, it is not yet an adult."
"But even if it is an immature tiger, since its head is so big, its fighting power should be very strong, and it is invincible here." One of the mercenaries said, "This... Could it be that guy who did it?"
"Impossible." Yang Tuo shook his head, "According to our research..."
"Okay, Xiao Yang." He Zihong said at this time, "It's useless to talk too much. Tigers don't hurt people, and people have the heart to hunt tigers. One of them has already died. Let's leave this place of right and wrong quickly."
"Okay, teacher." Yang Tuo nodded, wrapped the small half of the tiger's head in a plastic bag, put it in his backpack, and stood up.
Everyone was about to continue walking, but Lin Shuo raised his hand again:
"Everyone, don't move!"
Lin Shuo twitched his nostrils and looked to the northwest.
"There's a big guy, just around the corner."