Commercial
fishing is prohibited in the Heilongjiang region between June and July in the
summer time.
There weren’t
a lot of boats in the river around noon time, so the three speed boats
splitting the waves as they approached Dzhalinda drew a lot of attentions from
the locals.
The speedboats parked at the commercial
fishing port of Dzhalinda and 20 or so muscular, armed men disembarked the
boats.
The
leader of them was a 1.8 meter tall muscular man. Asian, with a scar stretching
from his left brow all the way to the corner of his mouth, making him looked
savage and sinister. The humongous Qin crossbow looked like wings on his back.
The
other muscular men behind him were of all different races, but they all looked
vicious.
This town
combined both commercial logging and commercial fishing businesses so smuggling
was quite rampant and residents were usually brute looking.
So
when these men boarded the shore, the fishermen drying their news on the dock
barely took a second look at them but just keep their heads down and carried on
with their work. Partly because they were already used to it and partly because
they didn’t want to attract any trouble.
These
brutes didn’t stay on the dock for long before the entered the small town.
Before
leaving the dock, the man with the scar turned at looked at the vast mountains
in a distance. With an evil grin, he said, “Wei Xingshan, this is the cemetery
that I have picked for you!”
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“Ah
choo!”
Wei
Xingshan, at the deep Outer Khingan region, sneezed. Rubbing his nose, he
turned to look at Lin Shuo, “A something big? Where?”
Just
when he had finished his words, they heard a loud roar coming from the
northwestern direction.
It was
the low and rumbling kind of roar. Everybody immediately got goosebumps and
became frightened uncontrollably.
“This
is the roar of a tiger,” said Yang Ta as he adjusted his spectacles, appearing
to be usually calm. He started looking around in search of the origin of the
roar.
Except
that the group were stuck in the midway up the mountain inside a forest. It was
either trees or boulders next to them. They couldn’t see anything.
“Let’s
head to the top of the mountain immediately, so we can surveil from up above,”
said He Zihong as he pointed toward the apex of the mountain with his alpenstock.
“But
professor….” Said Yang Ta, concerned.
“I am
fine. I have recovered already,” said He Zihong as he led the way toward the
top of the mountain. He looked as though he had past his threshold and felt
refreshed all over again.
“He’s
so fit for his age,” said Anne as she followed him quickly.
Lin
Shuo casted a glance at Anne. He noticed that she had been trekking for two or
so hours, not only was she not out of breath at all, she wasn’t even sweating.
On the
other hand, Wei Xingshan, the head of the mercenaries, even though he looked to
be at ease, but he was already starting to sweat.
Her
fitness seemed to be above that of mercenaries. That, of course, was not a
result of any judo or Taekwondo training.
Not to
mention that there was a tiger roaring nearby. On this trip there were either
biologists or mercenaries who had seen their fair shares of lives and deaths, so
it’d make sense that they did not show too much reaction to what was going on.
But
Anne, a beautiful woman, not only was
she still looking just like normal, she even has the capacity to care about
others around her. Lin Shuo was starting to be intrigued by her.
But he
was in no rush, no matter how good she was at hiding her true self, he would be
able to see it before the end of this trip at Outer Khingan. Otherwise, she
wouldn’t make it out alive.
In the
midst of thinking about all these, Lin Shuo had arrived at the top of the
mountain with the rest of the crew.
The
view opened up entirely in front of them.
“Quick!
Look over there!” Shouted Yang Ta as he pointed toward northwestern direction.
“Hot
damn! What is that?”
“Look
at the tree next to it! It’s almost 4 meters tall!”
“Damn!
That thing was huge even looking at it from so far away!”
Across
from the mountain top that they were standing, on top of a cliff, stood a giant
creature. Its entire body was covered in dark, brown hair; it’s body round and
strong. It was standing with it’s back to everyone.
“That
is a gigantic brown bear,” explained Yang Ta. “Once a male brown bear grew to
this size, it has no more natural predator in nature.”
As he
was saying it, he reached into his pack and pulled out a portable camcorder.
Right
after he finished his words, the big brown bear on the cliff across from them
was struck by something, causing it to stagger backward.
It was
then when everybody saw the animal that was blocked from everybody’s site
previously by the brown bear.
It was
a Siberian tiger. It one size smaller than the brown bear but still reached a
good 3 meter with upturned eyes and a white forehead. It looked savage and
ferocious.
ROOARRR!
Another
roar from the tiger. It’s volume loud, short but full of strength, much more
aggressive than it’s previous roar.
All
the mercenaries turned pale and subconsciously raised their rifles in their
hands. This fear for this ferocious animal was deeply-rooted fear in the human
DNA.
“Don’t
shoot! Don’t shoot!” shouted old man He Zihong to remind everyone. “This is
their territory. We are the visitors. Don’t shoot!”
“You
bunch of weaklings. Lower your weapons!” ordered Wei Xingshan with a cold look.
This was when the mercenaries came to and lower their rifles.
Across
from them, an epic deadly fight between two ferocious beasts had begun.
Obviously, the Siberian tiger was the instigator in this fight. Whether it was
merely hunting for food, or to avenge the tiger cub, nobody knew.
They
could see that it leaped high up on the air and descended onto the shoulder of
the bear. It’s two paws, size of hand fans, struck the brown bear forcefully on
its head.
THUG!
THUG!
The
sounds arrived everybody’s ears with a half second delay due to the distance.
The
brown bear was clumsier than the tiger, but it was stronger in strength. Under
pain, it waved it’s giant paw and sent the 3-meter long, sturdy tiger out over
10 meters.
The
tiger flipped and got back up immediately after it landed on the ground and
charged at the brown bear again.
“This
was not a wasted trip,” lamented Yang Ta as he filmed the fight. “A fight
between a Siberian tiger and a giant brown bear is a rarity. In the past,
biologists were only able to speculate from trails left behind from the fights.
I never imaged that I’d not only be able to witness this with my own eyes
during this trip, but also capture it all on tape.”
While
he was saying that, the two giant beats on the cliff stopped in their actions
abruptly.
Almost
simultaneously, they both turned and looked in the northwestern direction.
Then
the tiger turned around and with a big leap, disappeared into the thick woods.
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