Chapter 35 Chapter 34: The Assembly Number of the Wolf Clan

The smell of dead sheep was very strong. I dragged the sheep to the snow field a hundred meters away from the observation point, and let Green have a full meal.Yifeng gave some instructions, and went down to fetch water before it was dark. I sat alone in front of the house and watched Green eating sheep, and I couldn't help feeling worried.It is really troublesome to give my telescope to the herdsmen. In the past, the distance was far, and few people came near Wolf Mountain. The observation point is relatively safe, but once they have a telescope, they can easily find us, and even Green.For safety reasons, I recruited the full-fledged Green into the hut.

The last rays of the setting sun also faded, and Yifeng returned to the observation point with the bucket, and was stunned as soon as he entered the room: "Ah! Why is Green here?" "I asked him to come in, for fear that people would find out..." "But... there is one outside!" Yifeng said, his hair standing on end, "Wild wolf?" My heart skipped a beat and I lowered my voice: "Where?" "Where is the dead sheep..." Yifeng replied tremblingly, his hands were shaking, and half of the bucket of water was shaken out. I patted Yifeng on the shoulder, made him bend down, quietly closed the door, and bolted it to death.The two crept close to the window and hid, holding their breath, climbed up the window sill, and looked out with half of their faces exposed.Sure enough, a huge wolf was devouring the sheep corpse.Winter wolves have changed into thick fur, which makes them look more majestic.When I first saw the stalking wolf, I was only looking at it from a distance, not as close as I am now. I was not sure if it was the big wolf just based on my eyesight.

I slightly retracted my head to look at Yifeng, and our eyes turned to Green at the same time.Green's ears were erect to listen, his nose shrugged.When Yifeng didn't come back, I felt that Green's expression was a bit strange, and I thought it was because he was not used to it, but now that I think about it, he has already felt the existence of the same kind.Let him go out and recognize his kind?Yifeng and I exchanged glances. All the signs of the past few days have been connected in my mind one by one: the wolf footprints next to the frozen pig carcasses in the glacier; the late night wolf howls in response to Green; Skin bones, maybe the wolf visited the night after the slaughter of the sheep and wiped out half of the sheep for Green.Looking at it this way, wild wolves have been haunting this area all the time, so I am very relieved that this hut is familiar with it.Now I dragged a dead sheep back from a long distance, and the smell of carrion attracted the wild wolves, so that the wild wolves couldn't wait to appear before nightfall.From this point of view, this dead sheep really did something for us.Or, did this wild wolf follow the herd of cattle and sheep all the way back?Maybe today's dead sheep was originally the dish he was eyeing, but I didn't expect it to be brought back by me first.

In any case, we have been waiting on Wolf Mountain for almost two months, and finally found a companion for Green. Although there is only one, it is not in vain for us to wait.It may not be easy to find the wolves on the grassland now, so we must seize this opportunity and let Green go out and meet each other.My heart couldn't stop beating wildly, and I was about to move my body to lean against the door, when another question occurred to me: If this wolf came to eat sheep at night, then Green, who often spends the night outside, probably had a relationship with this wolf. I have had contact with him before, and seeing Green's expression of sitting quietly and listening at the moment but not being novel, I am more convinced of this guess.I couldn't help frowning. The wolf in front of me is so boldly approaching the human area and eating Green's leftover food. It seems that the situation is also very difficult, and he is a lone wolf. Will Green follow him in danger? ?Does he have any other companions by his side?Let's take another look.

I winked, and He Yifeng poked his head close to the window again lightly, but this time he was shocked.The big wolf continued to devour Haisai madly, but he rolled up his wolf eyes, and his two sharp gazes came straight to us behind the window—he knew we were looking at him!Yifeng and I were stunned for a moment, since we had been discovered and the other party hadn't escaped, our spirits relaxed a little, and we couldn't help but immerse ourselves in this strange scrutiny.If wolves don't want people to notice, it's really not easy for people to find them. It's a safe temptation for this wolf to show up to eat, at least he thinks we are harmless.

He should be an old wolf, his scorched fur looks a bit vicissitudes in the twilight, his wolf tail is drooping, one ear is straight in our direction, and the other is turned to the side slightly.I touched my chest quietly, and suddenly remembered that my telescope was gone, so I hurriedly motioned to Yifeng to give me the camera behind him. As soon as I took the camera and started to focus, Yifeng pulled my arm in a hurry. I looked back, and Green, who was sitting quietly, stood up suddenly at this moment, staring at the two of us with wolf eyes, wrinkling his nose slightly showing His fangs let out a low-frequency roar from his throat, while the thick wolf tail kept swinging behind him.I have never seen him act so weirdly, these are two completely opposite body language: wrinkling nose, baring teeth, growling, staring at each other, these are threatening gestures, but wagging tail is begging express.The intricate look in Green's eyes made me gradually understand that Green thought we were going to deal with the old wolf, and it seemed that Green did know him.

I gently handed the camera to Green's eyes, and said softly, "Don't worry, just take a look." Green sniffed the camera, and his tense expression gradually relaxed.I turned my eyes and looked out the window. At this time, the sun had already received all the afterglow, and the dead sheep was still lying on the spot, but the wolf disappeared. Perhaps after hearing Green's low growl, he quickly retreated. "Look and see?" Yifeng was not reconciled.I looked hesitantly at the night falling outside the window and shook my head. The situation of the wolf was not clear, and I didn't dare to act rashly at night.Besides, it's hard to guess the wolf's mind. In case we are regarded as enemies, Yifeng and I go out rashly. If there is an accident, there will be no one to save our lives. The wild wolf is not the Green we are familiar with, although countless documentaries say Guo wolves are very shy animals and will not attack people easily, but after experiencing it personally, I still feel a little guilty.In the current situation, we should first look at which side Green is on. Only Green can become the only bridge between humans and wolves.I opened the door and let Green out, and wait and see what happens now that they know each other.

"Did you see clearly?" I asked Yifeng. Yifeng took out his binoculars and looked out the window, and said: "I saw it when I was carrying water up the mountain. At that time, I thought it was Green, but I found something wrong when I entered the house. God, I look forward to the wild wolf day and night, and the wild wolf is right in front of my eyes." I didn't care. Is he the big stalking wolf you mentioned before?" I bit my lip and shook my head: "It's not like, watching the big wolf gives me the impression that he is young and strong, calm, arrogant and old-fashioned, very careful about food, always keeps a safe distance from people, and never let people find his whereabouts easily. But this wolf is an old wolf with gray fur and seems to be more greedy. It dares to get so close to people for food. Oh, by the way, I am particularly impressed that the tail of the stalking wolf is raised high, and this The old wolf has his tail between his legs, but how dare he show his face blatantly?"

"I think he looks like a spy." Yifeng boldly put forward his opinion, "If you come here just for food, it will be dark, why bother to wait a little longer? There is no need for a shrewd old wolf to show up in the daytime, and I We were only a hundred meters away from him when we went up the mountain, and he didn’t run away when he saw me, so I thought it was Green, he must be trying to test our reaction to the wild wolves.” I thought for a while and nodded, Yifeng's analysis made sense. When the old wolf was eating the dead sheep, one ear was facing us, paying attention to collecting our movements, while the other ear was collecting the surrounding sounds. The old wolf was also hesitant and nervous, should he run away or stay?He may have never tested humans like this before.The old wolf knew that we were looking at him, but he paid attention to our reaction while eating, and didn't disappear immediately until he heard Green's warning sound.

I looked at the already dark scene outside the window, the dead sheep had been swallowed up by the night and I couldn't see clearly.Green walked around the house, and lay down in a snow nest in the lee of the window. "If he is a spy, is he testing us, or is he suspicious of Green?" Yifeng asked. "Maybe there are all of them, but wolves are not really interested in people. Maybe they want to understand why Green is with us. Maybe they still have deep doubts about whether Green is a spy." "Birth investigation," Yifeng wiped off his cold sweat and laughed, "Wolves are really suspicious."

"Of course, if a wolf sent his raised human child back into the human population, how would people react?" Difficult, there are too many hatreds, fears, threats, killings, curiosity, mysteries and constant temptations accumulated over thousands of years between humans and wolves. To send a wolf raised by humans back to the group, that is An unprecedented and wonderful transmission is a kind of sincere handshake with the wolf to make peace. Over the next few days, our little house seemed to be a popular attraction.When we wake up in the morning, we will always find some wandering wolf footprints on the snow, and there are more wolf paw prints around the dead sheep.At the beginning, Yifeng was still extremely nervous. Every time he entered the house, he had to close and lock the door, and every time he went out, he had to look through the binoculars for a while, and then put the iron chain in his arms.Later, Yifeng gradually relaxed. "Wolves are very shy." Yifeng said, "I shoveled the snow at the door of the house in the morning, and found that the wolf was approaching the dead sheep. I just glanced at him, and he flashed away immediately." Yifeng said that he ambush the camera at night Around the dead sheep, I might be able to photograph wild wolves eating to see how many of them there are, but I don't want to risk destroying the trust that I have built with the wolves after months of hard work.And camera equipment does not have that long standby power.Yifeng had no choice but to tie a wireless microphone under the eaves to see if he could record the sound.After the cattle and sheep went back at dusk, we could occasionally see one or two wolves looking at us on the opposite mountainside.Those sightseeing wolves did not deliberately avoid even facing our binoculars.Wolves can indeed coexist peacefully with humans. That night, the starry sky was clear, and there was a faint light between the sky and the earth. Yifeng and I refused to sleep, and there was an inexplicable excitement and premonition that something would happen tonight. After twelve o'clock, a full moon crossed the sky and hung high in the light blue night sky, and the snow-covered Wolf Mountain seemed to be bathed in a gloomy white light.Yifeng took the courage to look around the dead sheep with a flashlight, but there was no movement, and Green didn't seem to have any abnormal behavior under the window, lying quietly in the snow nest with a pair of phosphorescent eyes open. Yifeng returned to the hut disappointed, patted the snow on his boots, opened his sleeping bag and prepared to rest.As soon as he got into his sleeping bag, a clear howl of a wolf suddenly sounded through the night sky, and the sound came from this mountain.Yifeng and I broke out in a cold sweat, and the drowsiness disappeared. We quickly turned over and sat up, lying on the window and listening quietly.Green had already got up, pricked up his ears, listening carefully, and sniffing. After the first long howl, the surroundings were quiet and there was no reaction.Green trotted a few steps, standing like a statue under the moonlight and continuing to listen attentively. The quiet moonlight covered his black body with a silver-white halo. Soon, the second howl of wolves sounded. On the northwest hillside, the ethereal chill pierced through the snow and ice, like a peaceful introduction to a magnificent movement.Before the end, the wolf howls nearby echoed each other: "Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu." In the silence of all, a long, high-pitched, and passionate howl of a wolf appeared across the sky, just like the protagonist's appearance after a short prelude, and this sound came from the top of Wolf Mountain and the side of the prayer flags.This long howl is calm, calm, and authoritative, with a sense of superiority over the world. It seems that the first two wolf howls are to clear up and pave the way for its appearance, and the voice has a strong sense of calling.Yifeng and I looked at each other excitedly, and at the same time, a word came to mind - "Assembly Number"! Grimm's silhouette in the moonlight trembled wildly, the hair on his neck and shoulders standing on end, silvery at the ends.He eagerly turned to the northwest slope, then immediately adjusted his ears to the nearby voice, and finally turned to the direction of the most majestic long howl on the top of Wolf Mountain.He licked the tip of his nose nervously, as if there was a throbbing of new life in his body, this throbbing was completely different from the sparse responses he had elicited from his calls every night in the past, even more so than the calls of the Tibetan mastiffs he grew up with very different.He turned his ears and tried to hear the meaning of the howl.It was the call from another world that remained in his memory, the call from the wolf clan, more alluring than ever, and he couldn't resist. As soon as the long wolf howl was settled, a large group of sharp wolf howls from far and near began to echo each other, resounding through the entire Langshan mountain range, and even the foothills hundreds of kilometers across the grassland echoed faintly, like warriors eager to join the battle scrambling to report.I have never heard so many and clear howls of wolves, like waves surging in the depths of the grassland, like a long wind in the dark night shaking the entire Langshan mountain range, and like a silver torrent rushing into the moonlit wolf crossing beach. Amidst the strong sound waves, Green's narrow chest heaved violently, his lips trembled uncontrollably, he breathed heavily, and exhaled clouds of white mist from the tip of his nose.He fidgeted, eager to respond to the voice in the dark. Yifeng held my sweaty hand tightly, and the two of them looked at Green outside the window and prayed in their hearts: "Howl, Green, answer your companion quickly." On the icy and snowy field, we were eagerly looking forward to the appearance of Green's first long howl as if we were waiting for the dawn. Green sat down with his head tilted, alternated his front paws nervously, and immediately stood up again, wagging his tail in bewilderment. This sudden joy almost dazzled his brain and stagnated his vocal cords.Green buried his head in thought, licked a mouthful of snow, and mustered his belly to find the tone in his instinct. Finally, he opened his mouth wide: "Woo-woo-ah-" like a bobcat yawning As soon as the sound came out, we almost fainted on the spot, and Green couldn't find the tune under the intense excitement. "Mo woo——ah—oh——" There was another four-faced sound.Yifeng looked at me dumbfounded.This guy is usually good at humming and singing, why is he getting tired when the long-awaited moment comes? I hurriedly took out my mobile phone and frantically adjusted it, trying to take him with the tape of howling wolves in the past. "Don't worry about it," Yifeng said, "Now that there are so many live soundtracks, do you still need this recording?" I thought about it, put away the phone, and continued to wait for Green's voice to return. Green listened for a while, and then timidly howled a third time: "Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" he finally remembered to curl his mouth into a cylinder shape. "Be better!" I squeezed Yifeng's hand excitedly. I am always happy to see every bit of Green's progress. "The voice is too small." Yifeng said, he always saw the shortcomings. Isn't it true that Green became unconfident about his singing after calling out twice.In the powerful lineup of howling wolves, this meowing response was quickly overwhelmed by the excited voices of the wolf warriors.Green obviously realized this too, but the howl was always timidly unable to bring it up because he couldn't find the sound. His heart was beating wildly and he was eager to join the band in the dark. In his desperation, he suddenly thought of the loud sound of the Tibetan mastiff bark. "Yellow! Flower! Ahhh—" The grotesque entry did not resonate with the Darksinger, but the nearest wolf who uttered the first wolf howl noticed him.The long howling of the wolf stopped abruptly, only the sound of the wolves gathering in the distance. Suddenly, a high-pitched high-pitched sound different from that of the assembly report appeared on the scene. It was from the nearest wild wolf. After the long howl, a large number of wolves stopped howling. I was so absorbed that I didn't hear the wolf elder's "Silence!" voice, but soon these voices also died down. "Flower! Ow—" Green didn't notice or care at all, and still boldly choked out a louder and louder voice, "Flower! Ow—oh—" This voice came out after all the wolves were silent, It is particularly clear and prominent. Yifeng and I looked at each other with bated breath, not knowing how the wolves would react once this wolfish voice was announced to the world.Green's position is so close to the position of the wolf king at the top of Wolf Mountain, and even the wolf elders have chosen this commanding height. The wolves in the four wilds must be puzzled as to what role he is. Has this year's gathering changed a new one? password? "Mo-oh-oh-oh-" the voice seemed to gradually return to Green's normal level. I finally discovered the problem of Green's pronunciation. He still doesn't use the back of his tongue to resist the blasting guttural sound, but uses the sound of "Mo" when opening and closing his lips to round the mouthpiece, and then shrink the circumference of his mouth. Go to the standard "European" sound.I used to teach him with documentaries and field recordings of Langgu collected by Yifeng as teaching materials, and no one could teach him the pronunciation and mouth shapes face to face.Even if I want to teach, my mouth is not the same as his, no, it is too different, so I can only learn a sentence according to the voice I hear.Later, when I went to the grasslands, I used to hunt for a living, and there was no TV teaching in the wild, so there was less wolf language practice.Green directed and sang every night, I also think it's passable, and occasionally it can attract a wolf howl or two in response, so I didn't think about comparing it.Now that there are so many Mr. Wolf's live soundtracks, the problem is discovered.It's like when foreigners speak Chinese, they can't hide their awkwardness no matter how they hear it.But at this moment, it must be too late to teach him temporarily.I suddenly felt extremely depressed.If you can't pass the language barrier, the wolves will never accept a wolf who speaks "dialect". "Mo-oh-oh-oh--" Green continued to sing solo in the silence, and I covered my ears in agony, the voice that usually sounds pleasant and enjoyable, but now it became the one who witnessed Green's dying alone A kind of torment. "Be confident." Yifeng took away my hand covering his ears, "We taught him how to howl, so many recordings..." "I wonder if yours are pirated copies!" I had nowhere to vent my anger, and got impatient with Yifeng for no reason. Yifeng stared: "Miss, so many materials are false, some of them are true, besides, there is your own collection, you don't know if there is a cry that you can understand !" He pointed to the lonely Green outside the window: "If you have confidence, he will have confidence!" I suddenly thought that Green was still in the "examination room", and I hurriedly looked at him. Green still yelled twice and listened carefully. More than ten minutes passed, but there was still no response from Dashanli.He was so lost, he wondered why his howl with all his heart didn't elicit any response.He walked back and forth, turning his body in different directions, and it seemed that even his sensitive hearing no longer believed in the silence.After two howls and several minutes of silence, he turned around lonely and stared at me in the window like a child who failed an exam. "Aw—oh—oh——" An old, friendly, slightly hoarse wolf howl sounded out, not a hundred meters away.Green's eyes glowed green in surprise, he turned around, hurriedly responded to the voice that was close at hand, and rushed in the direction of the voice, and fell into the darkness for an instant... There was no more movement after that. We both waited with bated breath.Time passed by every minute and every second... "Why is there no movement?" Half an hour later, Yifeng finally spoke. I shook my head and remained silent, still lying on the cold window... Yifeng's watch was ticking softly. "He left?" An hour later, Yifeng seemed to be talking to himself. "Well, it seems to be..." I scratched my head, a little unbelievable, Green just left?Does this count as the wolves accepting him?Will we see him again in the future?Although I hoped that he could return to the wolves countless times, but now this kid has passed the exam in one go. It feels so unreal to me that his dream has come true.Waiting...Looking...Guessing...With countless doubts and puzzles, under the urging of strong drowsiness, the two of us leaned against the window and gradually fell asleep in the cold wind...