Li Pu explained some precautions for hunting bears at night.
If only he and Little Broly were hunting this time, these words would actually be nonsense.
When you can fly into the forest at just over two years old, fly back fifteen minutes later with a bear tucked under one arm, and then take the blame for your own "house demolition" behavior... then no matter how cunning or vicious a bear is, it's nothing more than an Alaskan hamster in front of you.
Of course, Li Pu emphasized the danger of bear hunting because he wanted to "raise the difficulty" for Nikolai and his group.
If the hunting trip were too simple and safe, how could Li Pu charge the rich man from New York such a high guide fee?
By the time he finished explaining the bear hunting precautions, the sky was completely dark. After everyone quickly packed up the temporary camp, they embarked on the real bear hunting journey.
Having hunted extensively, Li Pu summarized a mnemonic: bears follow the Black Trough, pigs follow the Y-shape, and goats love to jump rocks.
It's easy to understand why goats love to jump rocks.
The "Y-shape" refers to the saddle between two mountains, or the ravines in the mountains, which wild boars often use to pass through.
But because it is summer, the stream flow in the Alaskan ravines can sometimes surge suddenly, and a moment of carelessness might lead to a flash flood, so experienced hunters generally avoid hunting wild boars during this season.
Taking a team of "hunting enthusiasts," Li Pu certainly wouldn't wander aimlessly in the ravine areas at night; if someone fell into the water, he would have to fish them out.
The "Black Trough" favored by bears is also called a "Mountain Spur" on a contour map, which is the shortest, prominent path from the mountaintop to the base.
Because this path is often washed by rainwater, it generally lacks tall trees and is always covered in berry plants.
Both Black Bears and Brown Bears in the wild always prefer to cross mountains using this "Black Trough," finding food along the way to fill their stomachs.
Since he was very familiar with this hunting ground, Li Pu acted like a living map, leading the group until they quickly found a "Black Trough."
"From now on, everyone quiet down! Also, tell them to turn off the lights they're wearing on their heads for now."
Li Pu lowered his voice and spoke to Nikolai, who was following behind him, simultaneously gesturing for them to pass the message quietly from person to person.
"I've already spotted the wild berry bushes that a bear has eaten from. The remaining fruits that were bitten into still have very fresh pulp; a bear must have eaten around here not long ago."
He then pointed to a clump of fur caught on the berry bush; just like dogs shed in the summer, bears also shed a lot of hair.
When Li Pu and Little Broly go hunting, they actually don't need to go through all this trouble.
They only need to release their senses and use "Qi" to lock onto the prey, and that prey will definitely end up on the father and son's dinner table.
In fact, the moment he stepped out the door, Li Pu had already locked onto a Black Bear several dozen miles away.
The stops and starts while leading Nikolai's group through the forest were actually part of tracking this Black Bear; the hunt had begun long ago.
The clever Little Broly understood that his father was earning money for the family, so the child not only didn't expose his father's act but even provided an "assist"—
"A Fu!"
He gently patted the head of his sled dog, nudging the year-and-a-half-old canine toward a nearby bush, and then, while the dog wasn't paying attention, he preemptively "drew" a conclusion for it.
"Follow this small path upward, cross the ridge line, and that bear should be wandering near the road over there."
Nikolai was impressed without understanding why, and the sense of Little Broly being an "ideal child" was undoubtedly amplified in the eyes of this crime boss who was desperate for his own sons to succeed.
"My two kids still need more discipline."
Li Pu patted Little Broly's head; he was extremely satisfied with his good son's quick thinking in the moment.
As expected of a freshly manufactured brain, it works great.
After praising Little Broly, Li Pu immediately led Nikolai to track the Black Bear.
Although there were two ordinary children in the team, with the help of Nikolai's bodyguards, those two young masters successfully reached the ridge line.
Sure enough, after crossing the ridge line, the group saw a highway.
This road extended from the Yukon Territory, connecting Canada and the United States' Alaska. Except for a period of closure in winter, large trucks use this road year-round.
"Both Black Bears and Brown Bears are opportunists; they prefer easy gains over hunting themselves," Li Pu explained. "Because there are often animals killed by cars on this road, Black Bears and Brown Bears do like to come here at night for a free buffet."
In fact, Li Pu had already sensed the bear's presence; it was eating near the road embankment over a thousand meters away.
The reason he dared to speak now was mainly that the wind near the ridge line was considerable, and he had deliberately chosen a spot upwind.
Without illumination, an ordinary person certainly couldn't see the bear in the dark with the naked eye, but Nikolai fully demonstrated the meaning of "the rich rely on gear."
To make hunting easier at night, this guy had somehow acquired military-grade low-light night vision goggles.
He searched vigorously with the night vision device and actually spotted the Black Bear feasting on the carcass of a Black-tailed Deer, and the device even displayed the distance between them and the bear.
"1443.6 meters."
"How close can we get to that bear? I mean, what's the closest we can get?" He showed the night vision device to Li Pu and asked.
Li Pu thought for a moment and gave a moderate answer: "About four hundred meters. Since there are many of us, if we don't want to be discovered, four hundred meters is the closest we can get. However, if we're lucky and a vehicle passes by soon, we can close the distance a bit more under the cover of the engine noise. But you mustn't shoot indiscriminately when vehicles are passing, or it could easily cause a traffic accident."
Nikolai called over a bodyguard and took a stack of cash from the bag the latter was carrying.
"I'll add twenty thousand U.S. dollars. I'll only take my two sons closer, but the three of us must kill that bear within a hundred meters."
Oh, look, an unexpected bonus!
Li Pu pretended to consider it for a moment, then accepted the stack of money—it had to be admitted that when rich people acted recklessly, earning money from them was incredibly easy.
"Deal!"
"One hundred meters it is, but you must follow my and Little Broly's command. Aim properly before shooting once we reach the spot."
Next, Li Pu and Little Broly led the way, slowly guiding Nikolai and his two sons toward the Black Bear.
When they were over two hundred meters away from the bear, Nikolai and his two sons made some noise by brushing against the bushes.
However, Li Pu immediately defused the crisis with a special skill: he cupped his hands around his mouth and made a sound similar to a reindeer's call.
The Black Bear, which had become alert, didn't flee upon hearing the sound. Instead, its hunting interest was piqued, and it began slowly approaching Li Pu and the three others.
When the Black Bear was estimated to be less than a hundred meters away, Li Pu quietly reminded Nikolai's group: "Kneel and prepare. That Black Bear will take a final look before hunting. It's about to stand up like a human, and that is the best chance to shoot it."
Upon hearing this, Nikolai and his two sons quickly knelt on one knee and assumed shooting positions. Sure enough, a few seconds later, the Black Bear suddenly stood upright in the bushes.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Whoosh!"
Nikolai and Sergei both used hunting rifles, and two bullets struck the bear's chest directly, while Dimitri used an air gun, whose pellet lodged in the bear's soft abdominal fat layer.
Struck simultaneously by three bullets, the bear, being a normal carbon-based life form, was instantly knocked to the ground without even a chance to turn and flee.
"I hit it!"
Dimitri excitedly jumped up from the ground and looked provocatively at Broly, who was standing nearby watching the show with his arms crossed.
Hearing the gunshots, Nikolai's bodyguards immediately started sprinting toward them. Since they were running along the highway, they quickly covered several hundred meters.
But just then, a large truck approaching from far down the road suddenly switched on its high beams, shining them toward the group.