Chapter 108 When the east is not bright, the west is bright(1/2)
If those members of the mountaineering team saw what Su Xiaofan was doing, they would definitely be shocked.
In this plateau area with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, the thin air and lack of oxygen are inevitable. Ordinary people will slow down when walking, and a lot of unnecessary weight will be removed from the body.
At this time, Su Xiaofan was not only carrying a large backpack that was almost as tall as himself, but he was also walking swiftly. The harsh natural environment could not affect his speed at all.
After heading towards the mountains for about ten kilometers, Su Xiaofan saw the two off-road vehicles belonging to Shi Kai and others. It was obvious that the vehicles could only drive up to this point, and they would have to walk in further.
After climbing over a hillside, Su Xiaofan followed the hillside to the back. Su Xiaofan could see from a hundred meters away that there were a lot of gravel at the bottom of the slope.
[Stone-iron meteorite: cannot be absorbed!]
[Mars meteorite: Can it be absorbed? Is it absorbed? 】
[Weathered Rock: Not Absorbable!]
[Red gold meteorite: Can it be absorbed? Is it absorbed? 】
One piece of information passed through Su Xiaofan's mind. Su Xiaofan, who had long been accustomed to such scenes, quickly screened out the rare meteorites that could be absorbed.
"Three absorbable meteorites!"
Su Xiaofan's face showed joy, it seemed that he had come to the right place to enter the depths of the Ajin Mountains.
When we were in the Gobi Desert, we could only find one or two rare meteorites a day. How could it be like today? In less than a morning, Su Xiaofan got four rare meteorites that could be absorbed.
"absorb!"
For rare meteorites that can increase the repair value, Su Xiaofan always absorbs them immediately.
[Repair value: 100 points!]
[Repair value: 110 points!]
[Repair value: 130 points!]
The information flashing in his mind showed that the three rare meteorites had added a total of 31 repair points to Su Xiaofan. After more than a month, Su Xiaofan's repair value finally exceeded 100 points.
Resisting the urge to nourish Zhou Tian, Su Xiaofan continued to head deeper into the mountains.
After several tests, Su Xiaofan discovered that if he cultivated the cultivation technique, he would lose control of his body, and it was obviously not possible to do it in such a harsh environment.
Su Xiaofan is not in a hurry. As long as he has enough repair value, he can cultivate several skills to the extreme at any time after he goes out.
At this time, the Arjin Mountains were a huge treasure house in Su Xiaofan's eyes. Su Xiaofan had no intention of going out unless he could get a few hundred repair points this time.
Moreover, Su Xiaofan discovered that rare meteorites are not as rare as the outside world spreads.
Over hundreds of millions of years, countless cosmic meteorites have fallen to the Earth. In other words, enough meteorites have fallen on the Earth to cover it all over.
However, as time passed and the earth's crust changed, most of these meteorites were buried underground, and some even turned into fossils.
What is exposed on the surface of the earth is only a very small part of the fallen meteorites. Since most of the rare meteorites are small in size, they are even more difficult to detect.
But no meteorite hunter has ever set foot in this virgin land of the Ajin Mountains. Even if only one billionth of the meteorites accumulated over countless years remain on the surface, Su Xiaofan can gain a lot of money.
However, in a place like this, the psychological pressure is quite high, especially the feeling of loneliness, which makes Su Xiaofan want to shout loudly from time to time to spit out the pent-up energy in his chest.
"Ah...ah...ah..."
In this deserted place, I did what I thought of naturally. After climbing over a hillside, Su Xiaofan shouted loudly. The sound spread far away and continued to echo in the valley.
"Boom!" Just after Su Xiaofan vented his anger, a roar suddenly came from his ears. The sound was a bit muffled. When he looked up, Su Xiaofan couldn't help but be stunned.
"Holy shit, is this an avalanche?"
Looking at a mountain peak a few kilometers ahead, the white snow was rolling down from the highest point. In almost a moment, some of the ground that was originally free of snow was covered with white snow.
"You can't shout loudly in this place!" Su Xiaofan shrank his neck. Fortunately, this was no man's land, otherwise his voice would have caused big trouble.
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But what Su Xiaofan didn't know was that his voice, instead of causing any trouble, actually helped Shi Kai, who had entered the mountain earlier, a big help.
Poachers like Shi Kai and others who specialize in high-end prey have very detailed plans for every step.
For example, the time they went into the mountains was set in September, and the time when the seabirds hatched their chicks happened to be July or August. The current chicks are almost a month old.
For falcon chicks, they are very fragile when they are just born and can easily die. However, after more than a month after birth, their survival ability will be greatly enhanced, and they will survive even if they are artificially fed.
It is not easy to get baby birds.
Because most of the falcon's nests are built on cliffs, it takes a lot of effort to climb up, especially in the hypoxic plateau zone, which is even more difficult.
In the more than ten days since they entered the mountain, Shi Kai and others had already locked onto an eagle's nest, which was on a cliff about seventy meters high. There were two male and female eagles living in it.
Shi Kai placed their base in a cave under the cliff.
It is said to be a cave, but it is actually a large rock crevice only five or six meters deep. Some large rocks were found to build it up, turning it into a temporary residence that can accommodate a few people.
In fact, the same is true for the falcon's nest overhead. It is a crack in the mountain. The falcon has transformed it into its own nest. Basically, no wild beasts can threaten them except the same kind.
In the first three days, Shi Kai and others observed the feeding patterns of adult falcons. On the second day, Shi Kai saw the baby birds through the telescope.
This discovery immediately made several people excited. Compared with obtaining unhatched eggs from falcons, the value of young birds is higher.
Speaking of which, people like Shi Kai cannot be completely regarded as vicious poachers. They have their own rules for how they act.
For example, not harming adult falcons was a rule set by Shi Kai. Otherwise, with their marksmanship, it would be absolutely easy to kill two adult falcons.
Shi Kai understands the principle of fishing in the lake and keeps two adult falcons. Maybe they will have a chance to harvest again in the future.
So the brothers lived under the cliff and observed the comings and goings of two adult falcons every day.
In the first four or five days, perhaps because the young birds were too small, the adult female never left the nest, only the male went out to hunt.
Perhaps the environment was too harsh and there were not many prey for the male birds. After six or seven days, the female birds also began to go out.
After more than ten days of observation, Shi Kai figured out the pattern of the two birds going out. Every day from 10 to 12 o'clock in the morning, two adult falcons would go out together.
The day Su Xiaofan entered the mountain was the time when Shi Kai and others were preparing to take action. The supplies they had brought in were running low, and the oxygen was almost exhausted. They had to exit the Ajin Mountains as soon as possible.
In the early morning, Shi Kai climbed from the other side of the hillside to the top of the cliff and fixed the rope on a huge stone.
Shi Kai was extremely patient, enduring the low temperature of more than ten degrees below zero and hiding his body in the snow.
If he hadn't been wearing high-tech clothes that could self-heat, I'm afraid he would have been frozen like a stick during the few hours he waited.
Shi Kai waited until around eleven o'clock before landing from the top of the mountain to the eagle's nest. As expected, the two adult eagles had already left.
An eagle, covered with gray down and slightly larger than a chicken, was lying in the eagle's nest, looking at Shi Kai warily.
At this time, Shi Kai was very polite, and even though he was wearing gloves, he was not afraid of being pecked by the baby bird, so he immediately prepared to put the baby bird into the bag he had prepared.
In this place, the altitude was already over 3,500 meters. Even though Shi Kai was in good physical condition, the bulky warm clothes and the hypoxic environment forced him to move slowly.
The baby bird, which had been born for more than a month, could not fly yet, but it knew how to hide deep in the gaps, and Shi Kai's arms were not long enough, so he could not catch the little thing for a while.
To make matters worse, while Shi Kai was competing with the young bird, the adult female bird that went out to hunt came back early for some reason.
Seeing that the old nest was occupied, the female bird immediately became furious and began to attack Shikai crazily.
Although he was wearing a helmet on his head, goggles on his face, and the clothes on his body were thick, Shi Kai knew that the falcon was powerful and knew that he could not block Hai Dongqing's attack.
In just a few seconds, the goggles on Shi Kai's face were pecked open by a sharp beak, almost injuring his eyes.
Those people under the cliff were stunned. The falcon almost pounced on Shi Kai and bit him. They had no way to shoot.
At this moment, a burst of howling like ghosts and wolves came from nowhere, causing the snow on the top of the cliff to loosen and fall down.
There was an avalanche on the back of the cliff. Although only one side of the cliff was fine, a lot of snow fell down, and the flying snow blocked the view of the falcon.
That is, taking advantage of the gap in the falling snow, Shi Kai quickly slid down and escaped.
But even so, the clothes on Shi Kai's back were scratched into strips by the sharp claws of the falcon, and a piece of flesh was pecked off his arm, leaving him disgraced.
It can be said that this hunting operation by Shi Kai and others was a complete failure. They did not have much supplies left and could no longer consume them.
After this incident, the adult female birds will never leave the nest again. Even if they have murderous intentions, it will be difficult for them to kill two defensive falcons.
Shi Kai's trip was considered a heavy loss, because just preparing supplies and renting vehicles cost him almost more than 100,000 yuan, but he could only return empty-handed.
Several people who had worked as mercenaries abroad were able to afford it. After bandaging Shi Kai's wounds, they began to evacuate.
Being a few kilometers away from Shi Kai and others, Su Xiaofan naturally didn't know about the bad luck that happened to the brothers.
At this time, Su Xiaofan was busy disemboweling a wild goat. The tiger cat had just dragged it from somewhere. The goat had just died and was still warm.
Su Xiaofan, who often helped adults slaughter pigs and sheep in the countryside, was very good at doing these things. After finding a place to bury the internal organs of the wild goat in the snow, Su Xiaofan stuffed several seasoning packets from his backpack into the goat's belly.
Taking out the folded engineering shovel, Su Xiaofan dug a hole in the ground, then threw two pieces of solid fuel into it, then found two stones and placed them on both sides of the hole. A simple stove was ready.
He took out the pipe from the engineer's shovel, strung the whole wild goat together, placed it directly on the stone, ignited the solid fuel, and the flames immediately burst out.
Su Xiaofan took out another pot and placed it next to the goat. After putting some snow in the pot, he threw a pure tablet in and waited for the water to boil.
"Don't worry, wait until it's baked before eating."
Seeing Duobao's eagerness to try next to him, Su Xiaofan couldn't help but laugh, took out a bottle of cooking oil, and brushed the surface of the goat whose hair had been scorched.
“I don’t know if there is any explorer certification in China, but I can get one certified when I go back.”
Su Xiaofan took out his mobile phone and took a few photos. In fact, the scenery in the no-man's land was still very beautiful. The blue sky seemed to be within reach, and the snow-capped peaks stood tall, giving people a very pure feeling.
Only such uninhabited land can maintain such a pure natural ecology.
To be continued...