Chapter 12 12. Mountain God Wolf and Deer

At about ten o'clock in the morning of the next day, we had already turned over the index finger mountain range, crossed the soft mud washed by the stream in the valley, and climbed up the middle finger mountain range. As I was walking, I suddenly felt strange, and stopped Yifeng: "Hush—listen!" There was a rustling sound, and a big wolf jumped out of the bushes eight or nine meters away, staring at us. I quickly scanned the surroundings to see if there were any other wolves, which had become a knee-jerk reaction.I quickly turned my gaze, and he was the only one! "What a big wolf..." Yifeng quietly lifted the lens cover of the camera with his hand.

"Stay still," I said, "he's coming..." The wolf was resting in the bushes just now.We are in the light, he is in the dark, he must have been observing us long ago.If we were just passing by, he was happy to keep sleeping, but it happened that our route led to the bushes, so he had to jump out. This wolf is the biggest wolf we have ever seen. I am 1.73 meters tall, and this wolf should be slightly taller than me if I stand upright.His huge body is inherently oppressive. He has long legs and narrow chest. His winter fur has begun to fall off. There is a gap in his left ear, which may have been torn in previous fights.

What makes people tremble the most is the pair of wolf eyes, which are different in color from most prairie wolves.Coyote eyes are usually brownish-yellow greenish or amber, but this large wolf's eyes are sky white, with light blue filaments emanating from the periphery near the pupil.His pupils are so small that it is easy to think of the firing holes of poisonous needles.He tightly strangled my "seven inches" with these eyes, and we dared not act rashly. However, we didn't feel scared, maybe the wolf neither bared its teeth nor threatened us at all.He was not afraid of us, nor did he scare us. He just stared at us calmly and circled around for a short while, opening and closing his nostrils a few times.Finally, he rolled his tongue and yawned, glanced at our camera again, and then took a small step down the valley on the right.

Yifeng quickly turned on the camera and set up the tripod on the steep slope while shooting. The wolf took a few steps to look back, and in the blink of an eye, he reached the valley.After taking a sip of the stream water, his steps became more calm, his paws were as light as springs, he flicked and flicked among the yellow flowers in the valley, and then he went up the index finger mountain range, his feet were not slow or panting, and he was halfway up the mountain. By the way, I have a small toilet. Yifeng's camera followed the wolf all the way up the mountain ridge: "Hey, look at his marking posture, this is a male wolf."

"I know." I said, "I saw it when we met each other just now." "Ah," Yifeng smiled, "You women are really good at observation." I gritted my teeth and ignored him, I don't want to record the same voice of a poor mouth. This wolf should know us. Although he had never seen him up close before, he always looked at us with calm eyes. He didn't even wonder that we would appear here.This is completely different from the surprised and nervous expression of Longlang when he first saw me. The big wolf had already reached the index finger mountain ridge where we came from, looked back at us one last time, and disappeared.

Also check the recording time of the video. "It took us more than 40 minutes to get from that ridge to this ridge, but he only took seven and a half minutes, which is just a walking pace. If wolves really want to chase people, how can people run? Seven points Half ah, tsk tsk, seven and a half minutes... oops!" He slapped his thigh, "We forgot to call him Green just now!" "Do you need to call so close? You don't know him, but he knows you. I saw that he doesn't have sky eyes, and this wolf is at least five or six years old. If you want to remember him, just call him 'Qifen' Half''Seven and a half'Okay, don't recognize a wolf when you see a wolf, let's go."

"How do you know his age? Did you find his ID card?" "His fangs are blunt and round, and the three sets of lower incisors are ground into a rectangle. Don't you know how to look at it when you yawn?" Yifeng was in awe: "You women are really good at observation!" I smiled lightly and shrugged my backpack, quite satisfied with his current attitude, this sentence can be regarded as regaining the position. Yifeng picked up the camera and continued to march towards the ring finger mountain with me. With more and more contact and understanding of wild wolves, when we encounter wolves in the wild, we are more friendly than panic.As long as you grasp the scale and respect their habits, there will be no safety problems.Wolves only attack humans in three situations:

First, protect the family, protect the cubs and save the companions. Humans threaten their lives. When the wolves drive away and threaten them ineffective, they will fight to the death. Second, due to extreme hunger, wolves will recklessly attack livestock, preferring to die in battle rather than starve to death. Third, wolves were infected with rabies by domestic dogs.But this probability is very small, because wolves are never willing to deal with dogs. At noon, we climbed the Ring Finger Mountains, and the hidden tent was quietly waiting for the owner on the ridge.I checked around and there was no sign of wolves.

Yifeng held up the binoculars and watched for a while, then pulled me into the tent. "...There is something on the opposite mountain." He handed over the binoculars, "Three quarters of the height (mountain height), one o'clock direction." I opened the observation window of the tent and fixed the position - the thing was only the size of a grain of rice in the telescope, a pair of long and pointed ears stretched out on the bushes, and a triangular yellow object was under the ears. "Wolf? Rabbit?" Yifeng guessed. One of the thing's large ears flapped to one side.

"Rabbits don't flap their ears like this..." I shook my head and continued to focus. The image gradually became clearer, a big dark eye appeared on the triangular object, and there seemed to be a hint of yellow on the ear.When I looked closely, the thing raised up with its big ears, and a large body protruded from below, as well as four long and straight legs. "Deer! Sika deer!!" I bumped my elbow excitedly into Yifeng, and let him snatch the telescope away. This was the first time we saw a sika deer in the wild. After being excited for a while, the two became a little puzzled.This is the territory of wolves. We all met wolves when we came here. Isn’t a single deer running this mountain to deliver food?

Yifeng moved his body backwards, barely stretching his numb legs and feet: "It is a good thing to have wild prey. Let's gamble on whether the wolves will find the deer." We took turns to observe the deer until the sun was already slanting, and the sika deer just walked, grazing and resting calmly. Yifeng's stomach growled louder and louder: "Oh, I should have brought more dry food and water. I've been in the sun for an afternoon, and I'm going to have hypoglycemia." I stared at the movement in the mountains outside the tent, without looking back, I took out a large handful of black particles from my pocket: "Here, eat." "What the hell?" "Sheep dung eggs." I said and put one into my mouth and chewed, "This is the wild, if you don't eat it, you will starve to death!" Yifeng was quite surprised. "Ah, you! A lady, depraved to the point of eating..." He suddenly noticed the uncontrollable smile on the corner of my mouth, "Liar!" He picked up one and sniffed it, his eyes rolled into a smile: "It's obviously bamboo charcoal Peanut, how much did you bring? Life-saving food!" I grinned and took out another big handful for him, remembering that when I was stationed in Langshan, Yifeng also joked with me and said: "I have a bad news and a good news. The bad news is that our food reserves are almost exhausted." , I can only eat cow dung! The good news is that there is a lot of cow dung!” Fortunately, Green often brought wild rabbits, so we could last for so long.Those past events are far away, and the days when there was little Green with him on Wolf Mountain are gone forever, and we are the only ones left here struggling to find Green.Does he know we're back? "There are wolves!" Yifeng was the first to notice the movement, and the "sheep dung eggs" were not in vain, "Look! The opposite mountain ridge! Two!" The two wolves came over the mountain one after the other, shaking their fur as they walked, as if they had just had a good sleep in some grass nest, and it was time for them to go hunting when the sun went down. "Oh, run!" I clenched my hands, instinctively sweating for that sika deer!Wild sika deer outside the Ruoergai sika deer protection area are also rare. We have been in the grassland for more than two years, and we saw this deer. We can't be eaten by wolves as soon as we show our faces.As soon as this thought flashed across my mind, my nerves were instantly seized by another stronger desire. This is the wild food of a wolf, and the opportunity to eat meat is not to be missed!On weekdays, people only hear people complaining about wolves eating sheep and beating cattle, but now a real wild versus wild showdown is about to take place, which is a rare scene in today's grasslands.Wolf, chase!Deer, run away!The two contradictory voices collided like a torrent! The two wolves are walking down the hill, and the deer are still grazing, haven't they spotted each other yet? Yifeng suddenly asked: "What level of protection is the sika deer?" "Level one." I almost crushed the telescope. "Wolf is level two, right?" Yifeng was struggling with this question, and he seemed to still have a sense of guilt that he could not help.Is this what city people think?Do wild animals need to be qualified to eat and be eaten?Put away those "sense of justice" and professional title evaluation that weed out the strong and help the weak. I had no time to care about Yifeng, and stared at the wolf and the deer, as if there were no other organs in the whole body except the eyes. The sika deer stopped grazing and looked up at the wolf, won't it run away? !What surprised me even more was that the wolf just turned its head to look at the deer, and walked straight down the valley, not chasing it? !The way they looked at each other was as ordinary as meeting neighbors, almost nodding their heads in greeting. "Where did this song come from?" Yifeng looked dumbfounded, "Two wolves just took down a deer! Aren't the wolves hungry?" "It must be hungry. The wolf went to the water source to drink water. This is the preparation before hunting." "Unfortunately, if our cameras hadn't been withdrawn, we would have been able to take pictures today." "If the machine hadn't been withdrawn, they wouldn't be drinking water here today." Yifeng and I whispered each other one sentence at a time, staring at the two wolves closely. After the two wolves drank the water, they rolled several times by the water's edge, soaked in the mud and grass juice, as if they wanted to fully leave the smell of the "home" clear spring, then got up and shook their wolves' manes, and walked along the valley towards the wolf crossing beach away.Only the sika deer are left to continue grazing in the mountains. Yifeng grabbed the camera: "Go, go and see with the wolf." "Don't follow..." I held him back, "Don't say you can't keep up, even if you do, it will only disturb their hunting. And it's getting dark, you don't want to be trapped in the swamp again. The wolves hunt at night , Go back to the lair early in the morning, you have to wait for them to come back before you know where the wolf lair is." Yifeng glanced in the direction where the wolf was going: "It's fine, come early tomorrow." Taking advantage of the twilight, I took a last look at the sika deer. The yellow silk knot on his ear, which represents the religious release, suddenly reminded me of what Suo Lang said before: "The living Buddha once released a sika deer on this mountain, and the poachers were greedy for him. It's been more than a year..." Could it be him?This rare "wild" sika deer was actually "released".The wolves have lived in peace with the released deer for more than a year?Is there really a saying that mountain gods bless each other? The wolf is a creature between gods and demons. Just like the description of the prairie people, the thoughts and behaviors of wolves are sometimes difficult to explain with natural laws.Do wolves have animal nature, human nature or divinity?Or both?