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Chapter 106 The first night in no man’s land(1/2)

 "Humans are more terrifying than beasts!"

Batur said in unfluent Mandarin: "Poachers, kill animals, kill people!"

"There are still poachers?"

Su Xiaofan felt a little incredible. He had seen a documentary before, which talked about poachers.

Watching the contents of the documentary on TV, Su Xiaofan felt very far away from himself. He had never thought that he might actually deal with these people.

"A lot of money!" Batur explained in one sentence the reason for the existence of poachers, which is of course profit.

In DJI Province, poaching is the most common and rampant crime, and the reason for repeated prohibitions is the astonishing profit chain behind poaching.

"Money moves people's hearts." Su Xiaofan nodded. The huge profits made by poachers are indeed irresistible to many people. He has seen it in documentaries.

If a falcon living in DJI is sold to a prince in the Middle East, the price can be as high as one million U.S. dollars. Therefore, the profits from poaching can be said to be incomparable to any criminal activity.

"Batur, are we still going there?" Su Xiaofan looked at Batur, he didn't really want to deal with these people.

"Go over and ignore them." Batur used to be a herdsman living in the Ajin Mountains and was very familiar with poachers.

Batur knew that although these people were very cruel, they would not do anything harmful to others as long as their interests were not touched.

On the contrary, if you camp in the wild, you will run into big trouble.

Even though the temperature in this place close to no man's land can be as low as ten degrees below zero at night, there are still wild animals coming out to hunt.

The most common one is the wolf pack. The wolf pack has become extinct in many places, but it still exists in the uninhabited land because there are many natural preys such as wild donkeys and goats.

Someone once drove through no man's land and camped in the wild, but in the end he was eaten by wolves and only a piece of bones was left.

Wolves are very cunning animals. They will chew through car tires and trap people in the car. In this no-man's land with no signal at all, they can only sit and wait for death.

"Park one car here and drive only one over there." Su Xiaofan thought for a while and made a decision. If something happened and the car was damaged over there, one car could be left behind.

They have now entered uninhabited land for more than 200 kilometers, and their mobile phones have no signal. Without their car, they cannot get out on two legs alone.

"Okay, drive your car there!" Batur nodded. The supplies in his car are more important and cannot be lost.

Su Xiaofan and the others were currently at a connecting point between the Gobi Desert and the mountains. The terrain was undulating. They parked their car behind a mound without being discovered.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the modified car lights shone at the abandoned military station from a distance. Su Xiaofan could clearly see two figures walking out of the house.

"They have guns!" Batur grabbed the gun placed next to him and looked a little nervous.

"It's okay, let's go over there first." Su Xiaofan narrowed his eyes and saw that one of the two people who came out had a long gun on his back.

The roar of birds of prey broke the silence of the night, and several flashlights shone from the front, and someone waved to the car.

After parking the Raptor in the open space in front of the military station, Su Xiaofan turned off the car and jumped out.

"What do you do?" came a voice from more than ten meters away.

"We are meteorite hunters." Su Xiaofan replied, then asked: "What about you? What do you do?"

"We...are mountaineers." The other person was slightly sluggish and said, "We are here to challenge the Ajin Mountains, and we are camping here temporarily."

Perhaps seeing Su Xiaofan's empty hands, the man standing at the front waved his hand back, and the man with the gun turned around and entered the room.

"Can I borrow a seat?"

Su Xiaofan spread his hands, indicating that he had no weapons, "Brothers, you also know that there is only this camping spot nearby, and we have no other place to go."

"Of course. There's a bonfire inside. It's very warm. Come in." The man nodded, turned sideways, and motioned for Su Xiaofan to come over.

"Batur, come down, Duobao, you come down too." Su Xiaofan waved to the car, and from the open window on Batur's side, a black figure jumped out and jumped onto Su Xiaofan's shoulder.

"Brother, what are you doing?"

Seeing Duobao, the man standing in front of Su Xiaofan couldn't help but squint his eyes. Although he couldn't see clearly in the night, the impression of Duobao at this time was definitely not that of an ordinary cat.

"My only pet."

Su Xiaofan smiled, didn't say anything, and walked straight to the man and said: "There is a way in the wilderness, there is no road, brother, thank you."

Walking closer, Su Xiaofan saw clearly the appearance of the person opposite.

The leader is in his thirties, with a shallow scar on his face from the corner of his mouth to his left eye. He is about 1.7 meters tall and is very strong. In this low temperature of minus seven to eight degrees, he is only wearing a leather jacket.

, looks very tough.

"Shi Kai, what do you call me, brother?" The leader extended his hand to Su Xiaofan.

"Su Xiaofan, hello, Brother Shi!"

As soon as Su Xiaofan held the opponent's hand, he felt a strong force tightening his right hand. Su Xiaofan did not fight back, but just looked at the opponent with a smile.

"Brother Su, please come inside, it's too cold outside."

Shi Kai's expression changed a bit. Although he only exerted a little force on his hand just now, if he were an ordinary person, he would definitely cry out in pain. However, Su Xiaofan in front of him seemed to have no feeling at all, which made people confused.

"good."

Su Xiaofan nodded without saying anything and followed Shi Kai into the military station. Batur also followed in, carrying the shotgun he brought on his back.

This abandoned military station doesn't look very impressive from the outside, but it's quite big inside.

Shi Kai and others burned a bonfire in the open space in the middle of the military station. At this time, three people were having a barbecue around the bonfire, one of whom was the one who had just come in carrying a gun.

"Have you two eaten? Do you want to eat some together?" Shi Kai kicked a person by the campfire with his foot, "Beard, make room."

Shi Kai was probably the leader of the group. The person who was kicked moved aside to make room for the two of them.

"Okay, then I'm welcome."

Su Xiaofan pulled Batur and sat down beside the fire. Looking at the two roasted and fragrant thighs on the bonfire, he couldn't help but ask: "What kind of meat is this? It smells so fragrant?"

"Wild donkey meat, I picked up one today. Brother Su, it's better to come early than to come by chance."

Shi Kai took out a dagger, cut off a piece of meat from the roasted thigh and handed it to Su Xiaofan along with the dagger, his eyes flashing as he observed Su Xiaofan's expression.

"Dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground, this is really good stuff." Su Xiaofan smiled, took the dagger, bit into the donkey meat, and immediately felt a strange meaty aroma coming into his mouth.

"Not bad, good food. This is the first time I've tasted such delicious meat."

Su Xiaofan nodded, motioned to Batur, and said: "Brother Batur, take out the wine in my backpack and let the brothers taste it too."

After hearing Su Xiaofan's words, Batur brought his backpack, took out two bottles of wine, and placed them next to the bonfire. Without Shi Kai, he pulled out a knife from his waist and cut a piece of donkey meat.

Start eating.

Batur used to be a herdsman. Apart from grazing, he also hunted. He had no concept of protecting animals. Two bears died at the hands of him and his father.

Of course, all the animals Batur kills end up in his own stomach, and he will not take them out for sale, which is still somewhat different from these poachers.

"Brothers, please drink some." Shi Kaikai opened the wine and poured half of the enamel jars for the people sitting by the campfire, including Su Xiaofan. However, few of them didn't drink. Instead, they held the enamel jars and looked at them.

With Su Xiaofan.

"I'll do it first out of respect!"

Su Xiaofan knew what they were thinking, so he raised his head and drank the wine in the jar. More than three ounces of wine was simmered down in one gulp, and a touch of red suddenly appeared on Su Xiaofan's face.

"Good man, feel good!" Seeing Su Xiaofan drink the wine, those people no longer had any doubts and started drinking one after another.

With the wine and meat, the coldness was dissipated a lot, and the atmosphere around the campfire became lively for a while. Those who were originally a little scrupulous spoke a lot louder.

"Brother Su, I see you are also a cultured person. You won't look down on us brothers, right?"

Shi Kai poured wine into Su Xiaofan's enamel jar again and said: "To be honest with you two, we come here to make some hard money, but we won't drive away those animals, and we haven't touched people."

Shi Kai knew what people like him did and couldn't hide it from the other party, so he simply said it straight to the point.

"I can see that."

Su Xiaofan laughed when he heard this, cut a piece of donkey meat with a dagger, handed it to Duobao who was lying next to his legs, and said, "Brother Shi also recognizes what my pet is, right?"

"Ocelot?"

Shi Kai looked at Duobao carefully, shook his head and said, "It should be a tiger cat. Oh, this thing is difficult to tame. Where did you get it from?"

Being in the poaching business, Shi Kai naturally knew those rare animals very well. He knew that there were no tiger cats in the country, and pure tiger cats needed to be smuggled in from abroad, which was beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Moreover, tiger cats are not domesticated abroad. They are wild animals and are untamed. He had seen this tiger cat at the home of a prince in the UAE back then, but the tiger cat was very wary of people and was not very close even to its owner.

"I was raised since I was young, so I am very close to people."

Su Xiaofan continued to feed Duobao, picked up the wine glass, touched it with Shi Kai, and said, "Brother Shi, it's not worthwhile to do this business these days."

When Su Xiaofan chatted with Batur on the way here, he heard him talk about poaching. Now the country is cracking down on this area extremely severely, and the number of poaching teams in no-man's land has been reduced a lot.

"I don't have any other skills, I can only rely on this industry to make a living."

Shi Kai gave a bitter smile and said: "I don't hunt ordinary animals. This wild donkey was also killed by a leopard. We only catch sea turtles. That thing can be sold at a high price."

Shi Kai worked as a mercenary abroad for several years and had many options. Later, he learned that the price of falcons in the UAE was extremely high, so he took the idea and brought a few comrades back to China to start this business.

Not to mention, Shi Kai was very lucky. In his first year in the industry, he caught two Triton bluebirds. Since there was no broker to increase the price, he directly sent the two baby birds abroad and earned US$800,000.

After making this deal, Shi Kai and his brothers divided the money and lived separately for a few years. Now that they came out again, they had almost spent all their previous money. They wanted to catch a few more falcons, so that they might be able to retire.

"Brother, what do you do?" Shi Kai looked at Su Xiaofan and asked.

Shi Kai has been living abroad for several years and has met many important people, but now he is a little confused about this young man, so he is very polite in his words.
To be continued...
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