Chapter 99 Unlucky Bear
My heart was pounding so hard that it seemed like it was going to jump out of my chest. Each beat was so strong and so rapid that it was almost impossible to breathe.
The heartbeat sounded particularly loud in the silent snowy night.
Walking on the snow, the feet made a "crunch, crunch..." sound, which stimulated everyone's eardrums.
Lin Youcai tightly grasped his homemade "spear" and listened attentively to the movements outside the courtyard wall.
Except for the sound of everyone's breathing, there was silence everywhere.
Butcher Zhao patted Lin Youcai on the shoulder and asked in a low voice: "Is there really something outside?"
Lin Youcai nodded, thinking that he couldn't see it, and whispered back: "Uncle Zhao, it's true! In the middle of the night, I woke everyone up, what did I want? I am standing here too."
"It's not that I don't believe you. Should we just stand in the yard and wait?" Butcher Zhao said as he moved closer.
"It's so cold! Brother Youcai..." Lin Youxing exhaled white breath, hugged his chest with his arms, hunched his neck and shoulders, and rubbed his toes together in his shoes.
Lin Youfu: "How about... we go out and take a look?"
"No, I won't move until the enemy moves. There's a wall blocking the yard. If I go out, I'll be like a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth." Tao Mingyuan firmly objected.
Lin Youcai: "Mingyuan is right. If the enemy doesn't move, we shouldn't move first. We don't know what's out there."
Lin Youxiang: "Fourth brother, didn't you see clearly what it was?"
Lin Youcai shook his head: "I can't see clearly, I just saw it coming this way."
"It's not a good idea to just wait like this..." Lin Youxiang tucked the hatchet under his armpit, breathed hot air onto his hands, and rubbed them together.
"Then... how about we go back and rest first? Those on night duty, be alert and ring the gong if anything happens?!"
"I think it's okay. It's so cold, everyone should not get frozen." Butcher Zhao said as he walked back.
Lin Youcai: "Let's go, let's go, everyone, don't sleep too deeply."
Everyone walked back with their shoulders hunched. It was really cold at night, so they quickly lay back on the wooden kang to warm themselves up.
Lin Zisu sat in the driver's seat, staring at the red triangle on the 3D map.
The red triangle on the 3D map moved around and lingered nearby.
"Knock, knock, knock! It's me, open the door." Lin Youcai stood outside the RV, rubbing his hands and stamping his feet.
Shen Xianglan opened the car door. "How is it? What is it?"
"We were all in the yard, we didn't go out, and we didn't hear any noise." Lin Youcai picked up the thermos and quickly poured himself some hot water to drink.
"It's still nearby! Go here, go there!" Lin Zisu pointed at the moving red triangle on the 3D map and gave up the driving seat.
Lin Youcai was sitting in the driver's seat and could immediately see the three-dimensional map projection on the windshield in front of him.
Sure enough, there was a red triangle moving nearby. Lin Youcai looked at the 3D map carefully and said with some disappointment: "It didn't even give me a hint of what it was..."
"The display screen says 'Danger', it must not be a good thing! It must be something that threatens our lives!" Lin Zisu thought for a moment: "We are red dots, and it is a red triangle. It must be different from us. If it is not a human, it must be an animal."
Shen Xianglan: "There are mountains and water here, and the resources are rich. There must be wild carnivores!"
"It could also be a ghost~" Lin Xianwen yawned, lying in the tent on the roof, leaning out, stretching his neck, and speaking to the car window.
Shen Xianglan turned around and saw the face hanging upside down on the car window, and she shuddered with fear!
She patted her chest and saw that it was her son, "Lin, Xian, Wen!!!"
Lin Xianwen said innocently: "I'm scared up there alone..."
Lin Zisu rolled her eyes at the people outside the car window and was about to say, "It can't be a wild tiger... We don't have Wu Song here!"
"Ah!!! Ahhh! Ahhhh!!! Ahhh..." A series of animal screams broke the silence of the snowy night.
Lin Xianwen was frightened by the sudden roar and almost fell from the rooftop tent. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and held on to the tent ladder.
The group had just fallen asleep and were just beginning to warm up when they were frightened by the sudden roar and quickly got up and put on their clothes.
Everyone opened the door, put on their shoes, picked up their tools and rushed into the yard.
Lin Youcai only saw the red triangle on the 3D map, standing still... This location looked familiar...
He suddenly had an idea, no way...
Lin Youcai quickly picked up his "spear" and put the cup on the table, "You guys lock the car door, I'll go take a look."
Lin Youcai got off the car and bumped into his elder brother Lin Youfu who came to look for him, "Let's go, let's go..."
Everyone came to the yard of the second row, intending to stand higher and see what was happening outside.
Butcher Zhao looked at the roof of the thatched shed and shook his head. "This roof is not solid. Let's stand on the wall and take a look!"
Lin Youcai placed the "spear" on the courtyard wall, stepped on the ladder, and sat on the top of the courtyard wall in two steps. He looked through the telescope and saw that the surface of the trap a few meters away had collapsed.
The roar came from the location of the trap. Lin Youcai became excited, "The trap collapsed, something fell in!!!"
The guys below were instantly excited.
Butcher Zhao walked towards the backyard door impatiently: "Let's go out and see what it is!"
"Wait a minute, let me see if there is any danger around." Lin Youcai simply turned on the high-intensity flashlight, and wherever the strong white light shone, it was bright and clear.
Butcher Zhao: "Beasts always walk alone, so there shouldn't be any."
Zhao Wang followed behind his father and asked, "Dad, how do you know it's a beast?"
Butcher Zhao turned around and looked at his second son with a complicated expression, "You didn't see this ear-piercing cry at all?"
Lin Youxing patted Zhao Wang on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Have you ever seen an animal eating grass that makes a sound like this? Do the mules and cows in the yard make sounds like this?"
Zhao Wang slapped his head, "Oh, yeah! My brain is still asleep! Hehehe..."
Everyone went out of the back door of the yard and walked a few steps to the trap.
Lin Youcai turned the flashlight down to the lowest setting and shone it into the trap.
A large black furry creature was lying at the bottom of the pit. When it saw the people coming, it howled madly at them, scratching the stick beside it with its sharp claws, struggling to get up and attack.
Lin Youcai looked at the animal in the pit in surprise, "This thing shouldn't be... hibernating at this time! How could it be..."
Outside the yard facing the mountain, they dug four large earth pits, 4 meters and 5 meters deep. Sharpened wooden sticks were buried at the bottom of the pits, specifically to protect against wild beasts.
Under the flashlight, a large adult black bear was clearly visible, lying at the bottom of the pit, its body impaled on several wooden spikes, its blood staining the sticks and the soil underneath red.
The seriously injured black bear looked fiercely at the people in the pit, and its roar became weaker and weaker.
Lin Youcai: "...It's a windfall in the middle of the night!"
Lin Youfu smacked his lips and said, "How much money does this... bear cost?"
Lin Youxing looked at the bottom of the pit with excitement: "How can we get it out? The pit is so deep and the bear is so big!"
"Don't worry, wait a while, wait until it's dead! A wounded beast will be very ferocious. If it's just pretending, we'll be finished if we go down!" Butcher Zhao stopped everyone who wanted to take action.