Chapter 166: Someone is behind?
"reindeer!"
Etienne exclaimed.
As the glider flew closer, the audience finally got a clear look at the creatures; they were actually giant deer with horns!
[Reindeer? Lao Fang is going to hunt again? ]
[Oh my goodness, we are going to eat meat now? But isn’t it illegal to eat wild venison? ]
[Etienne: I was wrong after all. I just finished eating lichens while enduring nausea, and you tell me there is meat? ]
[The person above is thinking this is China? This is a foreign country, a lawless place, Fang Shen has let the tiger out of the cage! ]
Bifang didn't expect that he was so lucky to actually discover a herd of reindeer migrating on the plain!
Seeing the comments from netizens, Bifang shook his head and said, "Don't worry, reindeer are the most numerous deer species in the world. There are about four million wild reindeer in the world. They are the main source of meat for people living in many polar regions. There are also many reindeer meat restaurants in Finland itself."
Bifang raised the glider and circled nearby, preparing to find a place to land.
Fortunately, Finland doesn’t have much else but a lot of lakes.
Finland's land area is only 330,000 square kilometers, which is smaller than YN Province, but it is known as the "Land of a Thousand Lakes". Even this name is an understatement, because Finland has a total of 188,000 lakes, which means there is a lake in less than two square kilometers.
If it were not for this, Bifang would not have to work so hard to calculate the longitude and latitude, and could have directly found its location on the map based on some large lakes.
After a walk, a small frozen lake came into view.
Bifang piloted the plane in a circle and descended. The ice was not thick, and the buoy broke through the ice surface directly, drawing a long water line and docked steadily on the shore.
The geese landed on the lake, shivered with the cold, and climbed ashore with trembling wings, shaking their feathers.
Bifang took out his hunting knife and handed it to Etienne for self-defense. He pointed at the glider and said, "Drive the glider to the center of the lake. Don't go ashore casually. If you encounter danger, call me. The drone is left to you. The audience will also help you observe. I will come back as soon as possible. If everything goes well, we can eat venison tonight."
Etienne was a little worried at first, but when he thought of the unique "flavor" of lichens...
There was nothing he could do but agree, he didn't want to taste the lichen again.
"Remember, don't panic when you encounter danger. Even if it's geese that are in danger, don't go ashore easily. Don't put yourself in danger for them. If you really can't help it, fly into the sky with a glider."
Before leaving, Bifang repeatedly asked him to switch the drone's barrage to French to facilitate communication between the two sides.
With the drone, he can always observe the situation on Etienne's side and avoid any accidents.
As long as Etienne did what he told him to do, there would be no problem.
Few beasts of prey would be willing to swim to hunt, and even if there were, that time would be enough for Etienne to fly his plane into the sky.
As Bifang left, the live broadcast room switched to two split screens.
One is the first-person perspective of Bifang hunting reindeer, and the other is the third-person perspective of Etienne floating on the water.
Looking at the drone in front of him, Etienne was very curious. He looked at the display screen in front of him and saw a lot of barrages of comments popping up. Surprisingly, these comments were translated into French!
Etienne was excited. He didn't expect the drone to be so smart and able to communicate almost without any obstacles, so he stretched out his hand to say hello.
"Hello! Chinese audience!"
[Wow! It’s my little brother! ]
[Is France on winter vacation now? 】
[So interesting, one live broadcast room, double the happiness! ]
[Can you tell me the story of raising white-fronted geese? I really want to know! ]
The comments were so dense that Etienne was startled by the enthusiasm of the netizens, but he quickly got used to it.
"Of course. Actually, I didn't like the eggs when Elvan first brought them back. In order to get them used to the sound of the engine, Elvan played the sound on the stereo every day. It was so loud that I couldn't sleep at night. But later I got used to it. One day I went to the incubator to see them..."
Snap!
Bifang cut off a branch, made sure it was of suitable weight and length, and then held it in his hand to use as a walking stick.
After walking for less than ten minutes, Bifang climbed up a snow slope, and the herd of reindeer that had been discovered in the air before appeared in front of everyone again.
In the first person, this hunting perspective makes the audience's adrenaline surge, and they are so nervous that they dare not breathe, as if they might scare the herd of deer in front.
Bifang slowly retreated down the snow slope, lay in the snow, and pointed at the herd of reindeer not far away and said.
"The most amazing thing about reindeer is their annual migration, which stretches hundreds of kilometers. When spring arrives, they leave the forests and grasslands where they live and head north along a route that has remained unchanged for hundreds of years. The female reindeer always lead the way, followed closely by the male reindeer. They march in an orderly manner, eating as they go, and traveling day and night."
"They shed their thick winter clothes and grow new thin summer clothes along the way. The shed down falls to the ground and becomes road signs. They do this year after year for who knows how many centuries they have walked."
"This herd of reindeer is probably migrating."
The deer herd under the snow slope lined up in a long line. The leading reindeer had huge horns, were elegant and strong, had thick long brown hair, and their backs were curved into an extremely powerful arch shape. They were obviously animals that were extremely good at jumping. The pair of large horns on their heads were covered with fine hair, which made people want to pinch them.
Several deer in the team stopped from time to time to nibble on the grass buried under the snow, then raised their heads and looked around alertly, just as Bifang said.
But what surprised the audience was that all these reindeers seemed to have horns?
All males?
[It's numb, Lao Fang's pathfinder stick appears again]
[Why do I feel like this hunt is more difficult? ]
[I feel like it's a weird creature I've seen before. Is it really not against the law? ]
"Many people think reindeer and elk, also known as four-legged animals, are very similar, but there are still big differences between the two."
Without the drone, Bifang had to pretend not to see the barrage and could only answer netizens' questions in a different way.
"The elk has the longest tail among all deer, while the reindeer has a very short tail. The elk's horns have no brow forks, and all the forks grow backwards, while the reindeer has very complex horns that grow forwards, and it is the only deer species that has horns for both males and females."
"In fact, there are no wild reindeer in our country. Most of them are domesticated. Interestingly, the people who domesticate reindeer are the Ewenki people whom I have mentioned many times before!"
Bifang stared at the reindeer herd, moved with them, slowly looked for a suitable hunting opportunity, and at the same time saw which reindeer was easier to capture.
The reindeer under the snow slope are still unaware.
Bifang took out his whale harpoon, tied it to his walking stick with vines, and made a simple short spear. He also took this opportunity to share some scientific knowledge with everyone.
"In the Ewenki legend, the Oroqen, Ewenki and Hezhe peoples once had the same ancestors, all living in the primeval forest near Lake Baikal ."
"As ethnic groups gradually migrated, those who were unwilling to leave the Xing'an Mountains became the Oroqen people."
“The ethnic group that moved from the mountains to the plains became the Ewenki people, living in the HLBE and mainly engaged in animal husbandry.”
"The Hezhe people went down the river and arrived at the northern side of Changbai Mountain."
"More than 300 years ago, one of the most remote and mysterious branches of the Ewenki people migrated from Lake Baikal and other places to the Ergun River Basin and stayed on the banks of the Aoluguya River in the northernmost part of Genhe."
"Unlike the Oroqen people, they have an inseparable and sticky relationship with reindeer, so they are also called 'reindeer herding Ewenki people', and make a living by domesticating reindeer and hunting."
"In China, the Ewenki are the only ethnic group that raises reindeer. Unfortunately, as society develops, more and more Ewenki people choose to leave the mountains and forests, and their inherent and unique hunting culture has collapsed."
"In the vast forests of the north, the sound of the Evenki people beating birch bark buckets to call their reindeer will never be heard again."
[Damn, why do they all have horns? I thought they were a fencing team!]
[The fencing team...looking at the reindeer horns, what a fucking image.]
[Damn, it’s the Ewenki again. This ethnic group is so awesome!]
[Me too, I seem to know a little bit about everything]
"This ethnic group, which relies on traditional hunting for a living, has many practical survival skills, and I learned many of my skills from them."
The reindeer moved slowly, and from time to time one or two would break away from the group and come to the sides to graze.
Bifang stared at the reindeer not far away, like an ambush tiger.
But no one knew that not far away, there was also a pair of eyes silently staring at their "prey".
The two are surprisingly similar!
