Chen Zhao didn't like accidents like this. He hoped for a normal trip or a normal hunt.
The carcasses of the beasts were piled up here.
They hadn't rotted yet, but the smell was really bad.
Plus, the environment was warm, and the carcasses were already giving off a pungent smell.
"Let's go back," Chen Zhao said.
Even Laurent, who liked to court death, didn't object to this point.
However, not long after they started walking, Black-Ma suddenly ran back from the front.
"Master, there's a human smell in the direction against the wind. There's also a heavy smell of blood."
Chen Zhao frowned. The direction against the wind was the direction they were going back in?
"Stop," Chen Zhao said.
"What's wrong?"
"The poachers might be in the direction we're going," Chen Zhao said. "Black-Ma smelled it. It's that way."
Everyone was a bit hesitant, but they all knew that all of Chen Zhao's pets had turned into spirits.
"What do we do now?"
"Change direction," Chen Zhao said.
…
"Huh? There are quite a lot of footprints in that direction. Five males and two females. "
"That direction seems to be where we were skinning." Mayfield frowned.
"Boss, what should we do?"
"We'll find our prey," Mayfield said. "It's fine if we don't see them, but if we do, we'll make them stay."
"F * ck, that guy's so hard to catch."
"If it was so easy, it wouldn't be worth five million dollars."
Poachers were usually good at tracking, especially in the forest.
They used footprints, feces, and even smells to track their prey.
However, their prey this time wasn't an ordinary one.
It was an albino cougar. On the black market, a rich person offered five million dollars to capture this albino cougar.
Cougars had always been a favorite pet among the rich.
Pumas belonged to the large feline family, but their size was very different from African lions.
Cougars wouldn't grow that big, so they weren't as threatening to humans.
Cougars were also much bigger than regular cats.
Thus, among the rich, raising cougars was a symbol of status.
The market price of a normal, healthy cougar ranged from thirty thousand to a hundred thousand dollars.
The United States was also a rather strange country. Cougars were not allowed to be sold, but they were allowed to be bred.
Coupled with the market demand, the black market was born.
Every year, more than a thousand pumas were sold on the black market.
Most of these pumas came from poaching gangs.
As for this group of poachers, they skinned animals purely to earn extra money.
Ordinary deerskin could be sold for a hundred dollars. If they couldn't catch the albino puma this time, they could at least earn back their capital with these animal skins.
As for a team of poachers, their hunting methods were much more efficient than those of ordinary hunters.
They would set up all kinds of traps. Not to mention animals, even humans could get hurt easily.
As for the ecological balance, it had nothing to do with them.
"Boss, look at this footprint."
Mayfield Leon stepped forward to check the footprint and gasped.
"What is this? Do you recognize it?"
"It looks like a bear."
"Black bear? Or brown bear? It can't be this big. From the depth of the footprint, it's more than twelve hundred kilograms, "Mayfield Leon guessed in shock.
As the leader of a poaching gang, he naturally knew about all kinds of wild animals.
Especially for some valuable animals, they would do some research.
On the black market, some special and rare wild animals were very valuable.
The most valuable ones, such as pandas in China, were worth more than five million dollars.
However, whoever went to China to steal pandas would be shot to death before they could leave the country.
That thing was even more dangerous than smuggling drugs. To China, it was a national treasure.
If anyone dared to steal their national treasure, they would fight to the death.
Thus, even though pandas were expensive on the black market, basically no one dared to get them. They couldn't get them either.
There were also some mutated species that were very expensive.
For example, the albino puma they were chasing this time was a rare mutated species.
But now, they seemed to have found a new target.
A normal bear was estimated to be less than fifty thousand dollars.
But if it was a mutated bear, the price would be at least ten times higher.
"From the claw marks, it should be a brown bear, but it's many times bigger."
"We got this brown bear." Mayfield Leon licked his lips. This was a pleasant surprise.
Catching this brown bear would definitely be much better than skinning others to earn extra money.
"The bear's footprints are the same as ours."
"Maybe it's domesticated?"
"No matter, let's catch it first," Mayfield Leon said decisively. "So what if it's domesticated? It's mine now."
The poaching team started tracking the footprints until the evening.
They still couldn't catch up to the owner of the footprints.
"Boss, they seem to have discovered us and are avoiding us."
"We're going deeper and deeper. They can't leave the forest either. They'll run out of energy sooner or later and we'll catch up."
…
Just as the poaching team had guessed, Chen Zhao's group was indeed tired.
Apart from Chen Zhao, the others couldn't walk anymore.
They couldn't walk too fast in the mountains.
The humid air and heat in the mountains would quickly take away water and energy.
Even a marathon runner would find it hard to maintain a high speed in such an environment.
Moreover, the rugged mountain path and the vegetation that blocked their path were all factors that slowed them down and consumed their energy.
"No, no … I need to sit down and rest." Laurent was too tired to walk anymore. He sat down in front of a haystack.
Suddenly, a white figure flashed past from behind the haystack. Frightened, Laurent fell to the ground and covered his head with his hands.
The white figure didn't intend to attack them. Immediately, it went back into the forest and disappeared.
It was a big guy, about the same size as Black-Ma and White-Ma.
"Did you see that?"
"What's that?"
"It looks like a puma, but do pumas have white fur?" Laurent asked in confusion after catching his breath.
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