He didn't know why the black bear suddenly disappeared out of thin air, and he was not interested in finding out. After all, he had more important things to do now.
But if he left, he would face a thorny problem: because he had thrown the torch on the other side when he was crossing the river in a panic, and the lighter could not light up after swimming over, he had to go back to the other side to get the torch before he could continue moving forward. If there is no torch, not only is there no guarantee that Lao Bai will be found, but it will also increase his own danger.
But returning to the other side is easier said than done. Dong Qiangqiang's top priority became to find out where the bear had gone.
He walked back and forth several times along this side of the river, but found no trace of the bear. He even hid himself and threw several snowballs towards the other side, but still got no response.
However, although he could not see the bear, he could vaguely hear its cry. At first he thought it was the roar of a revived cub, but later he discovered that there was another bear.
Is there a third bear nearby? Dong Qiangqiang was extremely frightened after thinking carefully, but he immediately calmed down: Bears are not elephants and do not like group activities. It is rare to hear that bears hunt or live in groups, and it is even rarer for male bears to live with their cubs. The mother bear takes the cub away from the male bear. If you look at it this way, there should be no male bear nearby.
But analysis is analysis, Dong Qiangqiang still did not dare to cross the river easily. As time passed by, the cubs on the other side kept shouting but the mother bear never showed up. Dong Qiangqiang could only bite the bullet and go around a long way. Passed by the river.
He made up his mind to jump back into the river as soon as the female bear appeared. If a bear appears from the front and he doesn't have time to jump into the river, he should yell at the bear and slowly back away facing the bear. He can neither turn around and run nor turn his back to the female bear, otherwise the bear will attack. He secretly prayed that he wouldn't have the opportunity to use these skills.
After cautiously making a large circle, Dong Qiangqiang finally retrieved his torch, but the female bear still did not show up. He could hear the sounds of the two bears but could never see the mother bear, and the cubs seemed to keep circling in one place.
Curiosity drove him to boldly walk towards the cub, but the cub didn't seem to care about his approach at all, still lowering his head and growling like a baby in one direction.
When Dong Qiangqiang finally approached the cub, he drew a circle in the air with firelight, and a bottomless pit appeared in front of him.
There was almost no snow in the pit and it looked like the trap had been dug before the heavy snowfall. By the light of the fire, Dong Qiangqiang noticed that the depth of the pit was between 3 and 4 meters. Although many adult bears were 2 meters or higher in height, bears would definitely not be able to climb out of this depth.
There was no trap set up in the trap, and the female bear did not appear to be injured. She looked angry and anxious, raising her head and neighing. Especially when she saw Dong Qiangqiang standing next to the cub, she even stood directly holding on to the wall of the pit. He stood up and kept tapping the wall of the pit with his broad and thick bear paws, smashing a hole directly into the wall.
Dong Qiangqiang thought that since the female bear was not injured, it would be a matter of time before it left the pit. He tightened his backpack, raised the torch, and strode towards the way he came from.
He was getting further and further away from the river, but the cry of the cub became more and more miserable, like the cry of a child. Dong Qiangqiang wanted to leave, but as he walked, he felt compassion for some reason and hesitated. After a while, he walked back again.
The cub was desperately pushing earth into the pit, and the mother bear was snarling and encouraging in the pit. Seeing Dong Qiang Qiang go and come back, the mother bear's face suddenly turned ferocious. She roared loudly at Dong Qiang Qiang, as if protesting that he didn't have permission. Just approach its baby without permission.
Dong Qiangqiang originally wanted to push some big rocks from the shore into the pit, so as to reduce the depth of the pit. But the stones on the shore were either too small to be effective, or too big to push. It was easy to find a few of moderate size, but after pushing five stones, they lost their strength. The stones pushed in did not raise the bottom of the pit too much. Even if there are too many, the bear still can’t crawl out.
He leaned on the rocks on the shore to catch his breath, and when he caught a glimpse of the tree next to him, he realized what he was doing.
The dagger Du Lan gave him was extremely sharp. Thirty minutes later, he knocked down seven trees by cutting, kicking and pushing them. He put one end of the tree on the bottom of the pit and the other end on the edge of the pit to form a slope. When he started to place the first tree in this way, the mother bear thought that Dong Qiangqiang was going to hit it with the tree, and roared angrily at Dong Qiangqiang. The cub also jumped up and down beside it, and it was very lively for a while.
After the two trees were placed, Dong Qiangqiang knew in his mind: there would be no problem for the female bear to come out of the pit. But he was worried that he would be in danger if the female bear came out, so he put his backpack and torch far enough away in advance. After confirming that there was no problem, he piled all the wood into the pit.
Before the female bear could react what was going on, Dong Qiangqiang had already rushed to the torch. He looked in the direction of the pit with all his attention, and saw the cub sliding into the pit hurriedly along the slope made of trees. After more than 20 minutes, he saw the mother bear slowly following the cub from the bottom of the pit. Three shakes came out.
The little bear climbed out of the pit and happily circled around the escaped mother bear. The mother bear first looked around for Dong Qiangqiang's traces warily, and finally fixed its gaze on the place where Dong Qiangqiang was hiding and stared at it for a long time.
Dong Qiangqiang's palms were sweaty, ready to run away at any moment. But the mother bear did not run toward him. Instead, she lowered her head and kissed the cub's head and back, as if describing the danger just now. The two bears were intimate for a few minutes, and then walked upstream of the river together.
Dong Qiangqiang did a good deed and felt very satisfied. He held the torch and walked towards the lower reaches of the river.
He walked and searched for about twenty minutes. He turned around a forest and saw what seemed to be the shadow of a building among the branches and leaves of a high slope in the distance. He quickly walked over quickly and carefully.
He pulled a piece of cloth, tied the dagger tightly to his hand, and as he approached, he waved the torch and shouted loudly: "Bai Zhouyu, I am Dong Qiangqiang, are you there?"
When he walked closer along the snow slope, he discovered that the building was a ranger's hut. The door of the hut had long since disappeared, and there was nothing inside. The only furniture was a rusty iron frame.
Dong Qiangqiang reluctantly checked inside the house for a long time, and looked back and forth outside the house several times. He was surprised to find traces of something walking in the snow four or five meters behind the hut.
Following the traces, he walked another few hundred meters and unexpectedly discovered the location of another small wooden house in a dense forest.
From a distance, he saw that the second wooden house not only had a door, but also a branch stuck in the door bolt as a door lock. He saw that it was a man-made move. He couldn't help but feel ecstatic in his heart. He shouted Lao Bai's name and rushed towards the cabin. Run away.
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