Chapter 13 13. Follow the plan

May is a good time for the first round of flowers to bloom in a year. To catch up with the Labor Day holiday, tourists from all over the country go to the grassland to visit the flower sea. When there are more disturbances from the tourists outside the grassland, the wild animals will go to the core area. Walk. Today is May 8th, the holiday has just ended, a large number of tourists have left, and there are still sporadic donkey friends roaming in the grassland. Lu Wang stayed in the hut to look after the house. Yifeng and I drove to the southeast foot of the Langshan Mountains along the route that Tashi took us up to the main peak of the Wolf Mountain to see the wolves for the first time in the morning.This is the closest place to the road in the Langshan area. The hillside is full of pink and white chamaejasma flowers and various purple or yellow mountain flowers. The field of vision is also very wide. There are some food packaging bags and beer bottles scattered at the foot of the mountain. Looks like someone has stopped here.

Yifeng stopped the car at the foot of the mountain: "You can't drive up any more, it will be troublesome if the beer bottle punctures the tire. Bring your equipment and go climbing." He said and pulled a garbage bag, and conveniently dumped the wine bottles near the car. Pick it up, "Who would find such a hidden corner of the mountain?" "There is no place that no one can't go to. If we can find it, others can naturally find it. There is no absolutely hidden place in this world." I glanced at the garbage, "Look, these packaging bags are quite high-end, and most likely they are for deep travel. Donkey friend."

"As long as it's not poaching." I put the dry food and water into the backpack, and in the blink of an eye, I just saw a bush on the hillside, and there was a shadow hiding behind it. I guessed that someone was squatting there, so I turned my head in embarrassment, and told Yifeng : "Don't go up there, someone is on it for convenience." Yifeng let out an "oh", turned his back and tied the garbage bag, and suddenly slowed down: "Who is it?" When I heard it, I also felt that something was wrong. There are no donkeys’ vehicles at the foot of the mountain, and no herdsmen’s cattle and sheep on the mountain. Who would go to such a high hillside alone to poop sightseeing?Is it really poaching?

We both turned our heads to look at the same time, and the shadow behind the bush quickly lowered its head to hide, but a pair of sharp ears were furtively exposed on the top of the bush, opening and closing in our direction. "Oh, it's a wolf!" As soon as the word "wolf" was uttered, the shadow jumped out with a whoosh. Before we both recovered, the wolf turned and rushed towards the mountain ridge. Yifeng threw off his long legs and chased up the mountain. When I hurriedly put on my backpack and grabbed the camera, the wolf and Yifeng were gone, only the shout of "Green—Green——" came from the other side of the mountain. .

"Call Yifeng! Call Yifeng! Is that really Green?" I climbed up the mountain panting with heavy equipment on my back. Yifeng on the walkie-talkie was particularly excited: "There are three wolves running one or two hundred meters in front of me. I'm chasing them, come quickly!" "Three?!" I was worried, "Keep a distance, don't chase!" "Don't worry, I can't catch up with the wolves, it's just that they didn't run very much. Now they are keeping a distance from me, stopping to scratch and shit after a while, and when I catch up, they continue to walk."

"So amazing? Is there Green?" "I'm still watching. The big male wolf was 7.50% yesterday, remember? He's also inside! Let me just say, the wolves in this territory have been familiar with us for several years, so they can't just give me some light." "Seven and a half running so fast, can you keep up? Be careful to bite you!" I was even more worried. Yifeng stammered a little excitedly: "No, no, very friendly! They are very friendly. My name is Green, and all three of them reacted. They even wagged their tails at me, and the wolf wagged its tail! You know what that means—they Know me! Green must be among the wolves!"

"All three wagging their tails? This is too evil. Who is Green?" "I don't know. I only recognize the biggest wolf as seven and a half. I have to get a closer look at the other two." I was moved and vaguely uneasy: "Be careful, you are three wolves after all, don't let them take you to the wild mountains." "Where is this place not a barren mountain? It's time to attack! It's not as complicated as you think, come quickly! I'm waiting for you to bring the camera. Hurry up!" The long-awaited reunion moment is finally coming. I quickened my pace and asked while running, "Are they still there? Are they still there?"

"Yes. I go, they go; I stop, they stop too. They are waiting for me! Maybe they are waiting for you! Come and identify who is Green! Quick! Quick!" Yifeng bit his tongue happily . I climbed over the ridge connecting the Ring Finger Mountains and the Little Finger Mountains, and the four rows of lodging grass roads in front of me guided the direction of the wolves and Yifeng.My heart was beating so fast that I wished I could fly over the mountains and hold Green in my arms right away! While running, my nose suddenly caught a smell, which was a little familiar and a little chilling.I stopped subconsciously, grabbed the smell, and looked down.

Not far from the left rear, there are obvious scratch marks on the ground and gnawing marks on the bushes. This is the territory mark of the wolf. The breath of this mark is so strong that even people will instinctively think twice if they want to cross this boundary.The strong fishy smell is like an invisible wall or a protective circle drawn by Monkey King, warning visitors: trespassers will bear the consequences in high-risk areas. I turned around and looked, under the reflection of the morning sun, there seemed to be a lot of white bones scattered in the valley of the Little Finger Mountains. Although it is not uncommon for wrecks to appear on the grassland, it is relatively rare to see such a concentrated appearance on a hillside.My scalp tightened, where did I go?

"Call! Call! Where have you been? We're all waiting for you!" A strange feeling flashed through my mind: "Yifeng, you stay there first and don't move." As I said this, I mustered up the courage to pass through the wall of smell, and instead walked towards the hillside of bones. Along the way, I took a few steps to listen to the movement, and Yifeng was still reporting on the walkie-talkie: "Guess what, I stopped and they just lay down on the ground to rest." I turned down the volume of the intercom, and suddenly my heart moved: "Go back a little bit."

After a while, Yifeng replied: "I walked back tens of meters, followed by seven and a half minutes, and I was still rolling. It was pretty bad." I was more sure of my judgment: "We are the second one, we got caught! Guess what your opposite direction is?" Yifeng was silent for a long time, and shouted while pinching the walkie-talkie: "Wolf's den? It's a wolf's den!" "Shhh, don't shout! They want to hook you, you follow them. Help me hang them, go as far as possible, remember, don't come towards the wolf's den! Otherwise, we are both dead !" "You have to be careful, there may be wolves!" I went down to the col in fear. A hundred meters away from the end of the water source, there is a piece of sandy land covered by shrubs, about five or six square meters, and there is a marmot that has been gnawed and incomplete. There are traces of scratching with small claws on the steep places.This should be a dedicated channel for the little wolf cubs to come down the slide and play. I wrapped the walkie-talkie in my clothes, put my mouth on the receiver and whispered, "Call Yifeng, I'm approaching the wolf's den." In order to avoid disturbing the little wolf by making any more noises, I turned off the walkie-talkie.I checked the surroundings for no movement, and I walked up the winding coyote path above the sandy soil. The bushes along the road were scattered with animal fur, vertebrae, and shoulder blades. A fresh rabbit head was connected with a front paw, a sheep skull, Tiny small teeth marks can be faintly seen on the withered bull head.Even though it was an animal skeleton, my heart was still flabbergasted, as if I was approaching the Jiuyin Bone Cave. After walking about 50 meters, there was another sandy platform of about three square meters, surrounded by shrubs more than one meter deep like a city wall.I was afraid of leaving footprints, so I dared not step on the sandy soil platform. I walked lightly to the grassy slope outside the bushes, stood on tiptoes and stretched my neck to look. A deep wolf cave appeared impressively. Scratch marks where the pup climbed.I raised my eyes to look up the hillside, and there were several escape holes connected to it that were looming in the bushes. Unless I got closer, I would never find them under the cover of the bushes. I took a deep breath, and slowly approached the wolf cave with a posture ready to escape at any time, while scanning the surrounding vigilantly.At the foot of the mountain is the No. 1 water source that we used to control, and our hidden tent can be seen from a distance on the opposite mountain.How many times have I searched the mountains with binoculars in the tent, but I didn't expect the wolf's den to be right under our noses.This pack of wolves is really calm, are they sure we won't find out, or do you think we won't hurt them? I touched the front of the wolf cave and squatted down to take a closer look. The tough grass that had been trampled by the cave was slowly rising, leaving fresh and dynamic small paw prints on the fine sand. Wolf claw marks, then they entered the hole very fast just now, and they just entered the hole not long before I came here, so that the trampled grass has not recovered its straightness. I suppressed my heartbeat and listened carefully to the movement. There was a slight sound from the hole, "clack click", like the sound of small claws scratching the roots of bushes, or the sound of teeth grinding dry bones.I hold my breath and listen again!The most dangerous thing is that there is a female wolf in the cave, but judging from the paw prints and remains of the pups, the pups are already more than one month old and can come out of the den long ago. At this stage, the female wolf may also go out to hunt and bump into The probability of getting a female wolf is half and half. I adjusted my breathing and kept reassuring myself: It's okay, don't worry, as long as there is no excessive behavior of digging out the nest to interfere, the little wolf in the wolf den will quietly lurk like the little fox in the den, and wait and see what happens.I carefully walked around to the right side of the wolf cave, and just about to choose the location for the camera installation, I suddenly saw a clean mineral water bottle thrown on the sandy platform near the edge of the bushes!Has anyone been here?I was nervous for a while, and when I saw two pieces of fresh black wolf dung left in front of the cave, I felt a little more at ease. I tensed my nerves, turned my ears, and was about to go to the entrance of the wolf cave to listen again, when I suddenly heard the sound of panting and something rushing towards me from behind.I trembled in fright, my hands and feet went numb for a moment, as if someone had slapped me on the back while watching a horror movie, I hugged my head and screamed "Ah", the taste of gall overflowed from my throat. "Don't shout, it's me!" Yifeng rushed over sweating profusely, and said hoarsely, "Quickly install the machine and withdraw from this mountain!" I was startled and sweated all over my forehead.We are thinking about the wolf's lair, and the wolves are thinking about it too. Yifeng has already circled around, and the wolves may turn back soon. Maybe the wolves heard me when I yelled just now. I hastily installed the camera with Yifeng, and withdrew! After escaping from the wolf's lair and climbing up the little finger mountain ridge, I was slightly shocked and asked Yifeng, "Why are you here again?" "I don't worry about you approaching the wolf's den alone. After you told me that I was fooled, I pretended to leave and returned to the car from behind the mountain. The wolves are really cunning. They squatted on the mountain ridge to watch me drive the car away before they left. I called you and the intercom did not respond. I was done thinking about it. I was afraid that the wolf would find you when I went back, so I drove to the Gufeng pass and took a shortcut over the mountain. Well, I came up from here, and the car is at the bottom of the mountain.” A few pieces of rubble rolled down the hill from my feet.Although the mountain is not too high, the slope is more than 60 degrees. I looked all over the cliff, but I couldn't find a way to land. I gasped: "You have practiced lightness kung fu!" In the evening, Tibetan tea is boiled on the fire in the hut. I sat at the window mending the pants that had been torn when the two of us slid down the hill.Yifeng scratched his head while remembering, and drew three things that looked like cats and pigs in my sketchbook. I glanced sideways at his painting: "Is the wolf you met today a new breed?" "I won't draw anymore! I'm hurting my self-esteem!" Yifeng fumbled with his pencil on the sketchbook angrily, "Anyway, there is no Grimm among the three wolves." Yifeng tore off the page of the drawing, crumpled it up and threw it into the stove , for fear that I would laugh at him again. "Have you seen it clearly?" I smiled and sewed my crotch, thinking about things in my head. Ever since I found out that the three wolves were luring us, I didn't expect Green among them. "What happened to the other two wolves?" Met?" "It's so close, of course I can see it clearly." Yifeng was a little proud, "The wolf that was the first to find hiding behind the bushes was Seven and a Half, and we both have seen it before. I followed Seven and a Half Just After climbing over the mountain, I found two other wolves squatting on the ridge of Little Finger. When they saw seven and a half minutes, they ran back, turned over and jumped up, and rushed into the valley, like a relay race. I couldn’t see clearly at the time. Excited, I called Green a few times, and when I was hesitating whether to chase or not, and which way to chase, the two wolves emerged from the mountain again, and got together with Qi Fen and a half, teasing me to go to one side Later, when I got closer, I saw clearly that one of the two wolves was a female wolf, but she was not a lactating female wolf, and the other was a very dark, old wolf. When I want to take a closer look, you can tell me , You found a wolf's den in the mountain depression, that's when I knew I was raped by them." "hehe!" "Don't you haha, I feel like they know me, especially the old wolf, maybe he is the elder of the wolf pack, maybe he knows about Green's return two years ago. And... the three wolves didn't Instead of killing me, he kindly teased me away." "Hehe, it's fortunate that you didn't go back to the wolf's den, otherwise it would be hard to say whether the wolf would be friendly to you." Yifeng handed me the scissors to cut the thread, and leaned towards me with a "face": "Since these wolves know Green, if I keep following them and communicate with each other, will they finally bring me to Green?" Where are you going?" "Hehe, pull you down, I've watched too many cartoons." I pushed his bearded chin away, "If I'm not mistaken, some people stayed in Wolf Mountain during this period, which made the wolves feel that the base camp is not safe, so sent The sentries are always there to detect and protect the cubs. Seven and a half are the outposts, and the little female wolf and the old wolf are the rear sentries. Once danger is found, it is like passing a beacon, and the cubs are rushed back to the den. I saw some wolf cubs in front of the wolf den. The traces that the thing entered the hole not long ago must have been urgently notified by the two wolves, and they turned around and took you away after the little wolf hid." "It's so tight," Yifeng snapped his fingers excitedly, "Then let's hope that the camera in front of the wolf den can capture something for us." I pursed my lips: "You, when you first came to the grassland, you said you wanted to record, but now when you encounter an emergency, you don't even remember to bring a camera. It's a pity that you are so close to the wolf, but you don't even have a picture. Leave." Yifeng was embarrassed by my laughter: "Actually, we are not good recorders, because we are not calm enough, and when we encounter problems, we immediately fall into it. I was in a hurry at that time, so I didn't bother to take the camera." I handed him the stitched trousers, and laughed even harder: "I didn't bother to take the camera, but you carried a bag of garbage from beginning to end. You are quite a professional at picking up junk." "That... throwing it on the mountain doesn't look good," Yifeng muttered, "I'm afraid that the little wolf will eat the garbage." My heart moved, and I gave him a serious look with a smile: "Hehe!" "What do you mean, if you stop haha, I'll cut you off!" "Nothing, I think you're fine."