Eriksson got the night vision goggles and became addicted just like a high school student who had just been exposed to computer games.
Even when it was time for him to go to bed during the changing of the guard in the middle of the night, he was unwilling to leave.
In this way, the trial team walked for another two days and arrived at the border of the wasteland. Beyond that, there were towering snow-capped mountains.
At this time, the snow on the mountains has not yet melted, and food is scarce. The snow wolves were so numerous that they would not go up the mountain. Now they only had to slowly search for traces of the snow wolves.
At this time, Eriksson still looked like a Viking. He was wearing Tang Dynasty combat boots, with a telescope hanging on his chest and a night vision goggle on his head, just like a special forces soldier.
After kneeling on the ground and identifying it, he stood up excitedly and said, "Found it!"
"What is this?" Tang Ping asked, "Wolf excrement?"
Eriksson has been searching on the ground for the past two days, presumably looking for this.
"Yes, it's snow wolf feces. This should be from two days ago, which means we are not far from them. If we look around, we can roughly determine the direction they are heading."
Tang Ping called everyone over. They looked at the feces on the ground, then started to work separately, and soon made new discoveries.
After walking in the direction of the newly discovered feces for about half a day, Eriksson pinched some more from the ground and put it on his fingers.
"That's right. These are feces from a day ago and are softer. Although the wolves are heading in this direction, they still have to hunt, and judging from the current events, there should be a female wolf about to give birth."
Wolves in low-altitude areas usually mate around January and February, and the gestation time is 61 days, or two months, which is quite recent.
If there are pregnant female wolves or female wolves that have just given birth to pups in the group, they are destined not to move forward too fast.
Now that they had discovered the traces of the wolves, Tang Ping and the others decided to speed up and be more careful.
Moving towards the direction of the wolves, they kept walking to high places with better visibility. They first used binoculars to observe. If no wolves were found, they went to the next high place.
Along the way they found prey that had been eaten by wolves, and even the carcasses of small half-brown bears.
Eriksson looked at it and said, "This is an old and lonely brown bear. Otherwise, the wolves would not easily provoke such a large animal. However, it also shows that their food is not very abundant, so they take risks." Attacking this large prey species."
There are not many small animals in this wasteland, but since each animal can survive, it has a way to escape from their natural enemies.
No matter how powerful the wolves are, they have to rush to hunt, but they can't shoot the animals from a distance like Xue Rengui did before the animals find him.
Plus there are so many of them, it's not that easy to find enough food.
"Then can we use food to lure them into our ambush or trap?" Tang Ping asked.
"Ambush?" Eriksson thought for a while and said, "Wolves are naturally suspicious. Sometimes they are even willing to starve for a day or two in order to hunt, so I am not sure whether our bait can attract them."
"But now I can feel that they are moving slower and slower. I think the female wolf in the pack may be about to give birth. This should be our opportunity!"
After continuing to track for a day, Tang Ping and the others finally found traces of the wolf pack. Through the telescope, they could clearly see that there were not only forty wolves in the information, but fifty-one, but there were seven of them. The female wolf's belly is very big and she should give birth soon.
After observing for a while, I found that these wolves really planned to stay here. There were even carcasses of other animals in their team, which should be their stored food.
"It is estimated that they will not move again for more than ten days." Eriksson judged: "It will take more than ten days for the wolf pups to open their eyes and walk after they are born." "So, do they have enough food?"
"It's definitely not enough!" Eriksson said: "These snow wolves can sometimes eat dozens of kilograms of meat in one meal. This food is mainly given to the female wolf and wolves with higher status. The other wolves will still hunt nearby. "
"What if we drive away the nearby prey?" Tang Ping asked: "The range within which they can detect us is about two kilometers. Let us clear out their prey within two kilometers."
Wolves are nocturnal animals, and they hunt at night, so Tang Ping and the others have enough time during the day to shoot or drive away peripheral prey.
In this way, these wolves will not gain much when hunting at night.
Only hunger can make it easier for them to enter Tang Ping's trap.
Tang Ping and a few people stayed on the high ground to observe the wolves, while the others dispersed. Although not everyone had the superb archery skills of Xue Rengui, it was enough to drive the prey away.
By the time night fell, everyone was back.
They were also very patient. The wolves went out to hunt this night and still got some harvest, but it was much less than usual. However, with the intelligence of the wolves, it was impossible to suspect that humans were responsible.
The next day Tang Ping and the others repeated their old tricks, and this time they met much less prey when they went out.
At night, the harvest of the wolves was even less, and a few wolves even approached Tang Ping's temporary camp. Unfortunately, the distance was still a little far away. Only Xue Rengui was confident that he could kill one with one arrow at this distance, and the others Might run away.
On the third day, the time was ripe. Tang Ping and the others put some of the animals they had captured in advance on the way to their ambush circle.
The animals were all still alive, but had been knocked unconscious and tied up with ropes.
When the wolves came over, they didn't think that these prey, which were obviously dumber than usual, were human traps.
The wolves that came out to hunt stepped closer to the circle surrounded by Tang Ping and others.
The landscape of Northern Europe is "fjordland", a glacial erosion landform.
One of the most striking features is that there are many U-shaped valleys, which is quite advantageous for Tang Ping and the others to ambush.
When the wolves entered the U-shaped valley, Tang Ping directly ordered a fire.
The dry firewood that had been placed at the entrance of the U-shaped valley was ignited by rockets. The sudden fire shocked these snow wolves.
The biological instinct makes them afraid of flames. If they can't get out of the entrance, they can only start a mad escape to other places in the U-shaped valley.
It's just that Tang Ping's people have already laid ambush in the surrounding highlands.
Using bows and arrows to attack from a high position, even these giant Nordic wolves cannot escape the fate of being shot.
Soon more than a dozen giant wolves fell down wailing.
However, there were still more than a dozen giant wolves jumping agilely on the rock wall, and unexpectedly rushed out of the U-shaped valley, which happened to be in the direction that Tang Ping and his men were guarding.
