Chapter 53: Hunting Tigers and Encountering Villains

In the next few days, Zhao Ya kept wandering in the forest, looking for traces of the mutant tiger and wild boar, but he didn't get anything.

Zhao Ya had expected this.

After all, even among ordinary wild animals, tigers and wild boars are absolutely fierce beasts, not to mention the mutant ones.

Such powerful beasts often have their own territory, and the forests within a radius of more than ten miles may belong to its sphere of influence.

Other beasts cannot enter at will.

This invisibly increases the difficulty of the search.

But Zhao Ya was not discouraged, but went deeper and deeper.

Finally on this day, Zhao Ya made a discovery.

This is a dense forest with a stream running through it, providing precious water for animals.

Zhao Ya found the clues beside the stream.

This is an adult elk, with a strong body and sharp antlers. Ordinary beasts are no match for it.

But at this time, its neck was bitten off, its antlers were also broken by the huge force, and most of its flesh and blood were gone, leaving only a skeleton covered with scars.

Based on these bite marks, Zhao Ya concluded that it should be done by an adult tiger.

And it didn't take long.

Because in this primitive forest, a corpse may not even last three days before being eaten by countless predators.

And there was still some flesh and blood left on the body of this elk, so it was no more than two days at most.

Zhao Ya was happy in his heart, as long as he found the trace, it would be easy to deal with.

Zhao Ya walked back and forth along the two banks of the stream several times, and soon found some clues, and finally found the animal road that the tiger often walked through these clues.

To deal with tigers, especially alienated tigers, ordinary traps cannot be used.

After this period of research, Zhao Ya has his own experience in setting traps.

He combined the rock trap with the platform trap and set up a large trap with great lethality.

At the same time, Zhao Ya also put a specially made bait in the trap.

A fried pheasant.

For wild animals, the temptation of cooked food is unimaginable.

Not to mention that it is fried.

After arranging all this, Zhao Ya hid and waited quietly.

This time he didn't have to wait long.

In just half an hour, a gust of wind blew in the forest.

The smell of the wind was overwhelming and disgusting.

Zhao Ya was overjoyed.

Because he knew that this was a sign before the tiger appeared.

As the saying goes, clouds follow dragons and tigers follow winds. Before a tiger appears, a gust of wind often blows.

This is also to announce its majesty as the king of beasts to the forest.

Sure enough.

After the gust of wind, a tiger as big as a bull slowly walked out of the forest.

This is a tiger in its prime, with shiny fur. The muscle lines under the fur are faintly revealed when walking, full of explosive beauty.

Even Zhao Ya couldn't help but be shocked.

What a beautiful... big cat!

At the same time, the tiger also noticed the fried pheasant, and a trace of doubt appeared in his eyes.

This tiger was obviously alienated, so its IQ was not low.

But no matter how high its IQ was, it was still a beast with fur and horns, and it was difficult to resist the temptation of this bait.

It circled around the bait for a few times, as if to confirm whether there was an ambush around. When it found that everything was normal, it suddenly pounced forward and planned to take the pheasant away.

But as soon as its front feet landed on the ground, the trap was activated, and several stones the size of water tanks fell from the sky and smashed towards the tiger.

The tiger moved very quickly, and turned around and wanted to run when it saw that the situation was not good, but this trap was specially designed for it, so how could it run away easily.

The wire trap that was arranged in advance suddenly bounced up and tied its hind legs, making it unable to break free for a while.

At the same time, Zhao Ya drew his bow and shot an arrow at the tiger's eyes.

With two swoosh sounds, the arrows hit the tiger's eyes.

The tiger roared in pain, and with a slap of its front paw, it actually broke a big tree next to it that was as thick as a bowl.

But Zhao Ya was not afraid at all, instead he picked up the sword and rushed over.

No matter how fierce the tiger was, it could not be the opponent of Zhao Ya holding the sword.

Therefore, after a few encounters, it finally collapsed and became Zhao Ya's prey.

"Huh!"

Zhao Ya let out a long breath, wiped the blood off the meteorite knife, then took out the skinning knife and a special leather bag, came to the tiger's body and started skinning.

He wanted tiger bone marrow, but the tiger skin and tiger blood were also good things. Although they were of no use to Zhao Ya, the medicine shops in the city had been buying these things at high prices.

So Zhao Ya specially asked Zui'er to sew this leather bag, and used the leather bag to hold the blood while skinning.

Soon, a complete tiger skin was peeled off, and the tiger blood filled the leather bag.

Zhao Ya was about to cut the flesh and take out the bone marrow.

At this moment, he suddenly turned around, holding the meteorite knife in his hand, and said to a certain forest with a vigilant face.

"My friend, since you are already here, why don't you show up?"

As the voice sounded, there was a rustling sound in the bushes, and then a man dressed as a hunter walked out.

The man was about fifty years old. He had been running around in the mountains for many years, which made his face full of vicissitudes, but his eyes were frighteningly bright.

I saw him cupping his hands towards Zhao Ya with a smile on his face.

"This young man is so skilled that he can hunt a tiger by himself. It's really admirable."

Zhao Ya did not let down his guard at all because of the man's smile and compliments.

Because Niu Yuan had said at the beginning that this deep mountain and old forest was a truly lawless place, and no one could be easily trusted.

Especially at this time, Zhao Ya had just killed a fierce tiger, and the benefits were tempting.

"Whether I am good or not has nothing to do with you. If you don't want to die here, leave immediately, otherwise don't blame me for being rude."

Zhao Ya said coldly, his words were not polite.

Unexpectedly, this man had no intention of retreating, but instead walked forward with a smile.

"Brother, you don't have to be so wary. In fact, I really don't have any ill intentions, it's just..."

An arrow shot straight towards the man's face. The man was so frightened that he ducked aside to avoid the arrow.

"Get lost!" Zhao Ya said coldly.

The man's face gradually turned cold, he spat hard, and then said coldly: "You little bastard is quite alert, that's all. Since you don't know how to appreciate someone like this, don't blame me!"

Following the words, three more people walked out of the forest, all dressed as hunters, and they all looked at Zhao Ya with unkind expressions.

The first man smiled at Zhao Ya.

"Boy, we have been staring at this tiger for a long time. We were about to take action, but we didn't expect that you took advantage of it. That's all. You can keep this tiger now and get out."