Interstellar Gardener Life

Chapter 114 Head Hunting
The hare ran through the undergrowth, but the gun did not fire.

Because Jiang Ling took aim, but didn't pull the trigger: "Is that a female rabbit? It has a big belly."

Dongming shook his head: "That's a big fat rabbit, a male. In autumn, weeds grow, and it eats too much."

Jiang Ling was speechless, and nodded slowly, but she still didn't shoot, and lowered the muzzle of the gun...

--no way!The hare was long gone.

Dongming looked at Jiang Ling: "If you run away, run away. If it's a female rabbit, I will say it."

Jiang Ling responded, and was surprised again: "Can you tell whether the rabbit is male or female? They look the same."

Dongming usually said: "The body shape is different. I'm not sure, I haven't seen much. Fortunately, it doesn't matter if I make a mistake."

This is true, because they are not mating now, and they are too fertile: a female hare has four or five litters a year.The first litter is less, often three.It began to increase later, with four to six in the second and third litters, and about seven remaining.So after a year, there are twenty or thirty!

……

They went on into the woods, but took a long detour in order to search a larger area.

When Dongming pointed out the hare for the second time, Jiang Ling responded with a gun and pulled the trigger.Because of the silencer, the gunfire was no louder than paper ripping.When Jiang Ling slowly lowered the gun, she was a little dazed—she shot to kill a rabbit.

Dongming glanced directly, without reining in the rein, and let Hongcai continue to move forward: "Miss."

Jiang Ling let out an "oh", both disappointed and grateful.

Dongming looked at Jiang Ling, paused, and wentssiping: "Mr. Zhao said, your semi-automatic sniper shotgun, within 200 meters, the accuracy is stable below 0.25MOA. If you shoot a hare, the eyeball will not hit the eye socket. There is no bias. He also said that this gun is not greatly affected by the wind. There is no wind today, just pay attention to the amount in advance."

Jiang Ling honestly said: "I don't understand. In fact, I don't understand the data he reported. Except for the three words "measurement in advance." What manual, automatic, semi-automatic, what rifle, musket, what precision unit... After these two days, Jiang Ling only had a vague idea.

There was no other way, since he had to practice physical skills and learn foreign languages, and Lu Lin's affairs, Jiang Ling couldn't spare time to collect information and supplement knowledge about firearms.As for Zhao Yonggang and Old Wang, they didn't think this was necessary for Jiang Ling.So Jiang Ling didn't ask, and they didn't find any information for her.

Dongming didn't care: "As long as you know how to use the weapon." The corners of his lips curled up slightly: "Listen to him, you are bullying rabbits with this gun for hunting. Because the sniper rifles they used before are not as accurate as yours. good."

Among the soldiers of a country, the Special Forces certainly use the best equipment!So Jiang Ling was very surprised, and looked at the gun in his hand carefully again: "Isn't it? Did you use new materials? I just chose the gun I used to learn how to shoot two days ago because I am familiar with it. What he said would I was stunned, I didn’t pay attention, a lot of terminology...Alexander brought out their new product? Petukhov...you are indeed an arms boss!"

Dongming shook his head: "I don't know the material. Maybe it's a new product; but if it is, it's just a new product of a shotgun. A shotgun is just for hunting. Even a bear, with a little fat, can't wear protective armor, so the design of a shotgun , Just consider one type of bullet. But sniper rifles for combat will definitely use different bullets. Maybe incendiary bullets, or armor-piercing bullets. To adapt to them, accuracy and range will be sacrificed.”

Jiang Ling understood, and looked at the gun in his hand: "This way...that's about the same. It's specially used for hunting. Look, the butt of the gun is still made of walnut wood!"

The corners of Dongming's lips were even more curved: "Light guns are useless, you have to be good at marksmanship."

- On purpose again!This guy has gone bad... from Yale?

Jiang Ling was silent for a while, and then said innocently: "The marksmanship is shot."

Dongming nodded, raised his whip and pointed straight ahead: "Then hit it." After speaking, he slammed the whip heavily.

Jiang Ling quickly aimed his gun.Amidst the crackling sound of the horsewhip cracking the air, a hare jumped out of the shallow pit where it was sheltering.

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Aim, follow the movement, go down the ridge, go up the ridge, enter the small bush, come out of the small bush...

Jiang Ling pulled the trigger.

……

This is the fourth rabbit they have encountered.Dongming finally changed his words.He nodded, and said, "I got hit. Hind." After speaking, he jumped off the horse and passed.

- hit in the ass...

This thought just flashed through Jiang Ling's mind, and before he could feel embarrassed, he quickly stopped Dongming: "Wait, I'll do it myself!"

Dongming slowed down, nodded his head, walked a few more steps, and stepped on something.

While Jiang Ling was talking, he had already pinched the horse's belly to urge the cookie to pass, reined in the reins at Dongming's place, got off the horse, tore off his gloves, and took off the knife on his left wrist.

The hare struggled on the ground, but it dropped one leg, and Dongming stepped on the nape of its neck again. It just flopped around in vain, leaving bloodstains on its brown fur.

Jiang Ling handed the shotgun to Dongming, quickly squatted down, and grabbed the hare by the neck.The soft rabbit fur poked Jiang Ling's palms slightly itchy, and the warm little body and fierce pulse under the fur made Jiang Ling purse his lips tightly.

Dongming took the shotgun, let go of his feet, squatted down, and tapped between the hare's forelimbs: "Don't cut the throat. Here. Then move in this direction, the heart. It's more straightforward."

He didn't step on it anymore, so Jiang Ling had to work harder to hold the hare firmly.As a result, Jiang Ling found that her hand was steady, but her fingers trembled a little. She hurriedly asked Dongming, "Can I break its neck?"

Dongming looked at Jiang Ling: "You can. But we have a custom there - the first time you hunt independently, you must stab the knife into the heart of the prey. Do you understand?"

Jiang Ling nodded, and did as Dongming said.The tip of the knife plunged into the fur, pierced the rabbit's skin silently, quickly slid into the rabbit's body, and stabbed deeply.A warm liquid gushed out immediately, dyed the fur red, flowed to the ground below, and wet the knife and Jiang Ling's hand holding the knife.

The hare stopped struggling, twitched a few times, and didn't move.Jiang Ling unconsciously held his breath.She has never dared to communicate with this rabbit, but at the moment when it pierced its heart, the great fear, the hopelessness of exertion, and the deadly sorrow suddenly rose and exploded, and it still hit her.

Dongming didn't look at the rabbit all the time, just looked at Jiang Ling, and quickly said softly when he saw it: "Relax. Exhale, exhale...exhale! Now breathe in, slowly inhale...take a deep breath, okay, take a deep breath You see, Jiang Ling, when we head-hunt, or when we hunt ferocious beasts, we drink their blood and eat their hearts raw."

Jiang Ling looked at Dongming in a daze, looked down at his right hand holding the knife, pulled out the knife, raised it horizontally, and raised his hand to his mouth...

Dongming grabbed Jiang Ling's hand: "No, it's not. I mean, it's nothing. It's just necessary."

Jiang Ling blinked her eyes, then blinked a few more times, and then she twitched the corners of her mouth: "Oh, it's nothing... I grow up so big, I don't know how many rabbits I ate."

(End of this chapter)