Chapter 732: One Man and One Horse: The Most Eye-Catching Standout in the Hunting Grounds (Part 4)

Chapter 732: Chapter 314: One Man and One Horse: The Most Eye-Catching Standout in the Hunting Grounds (Part 4)

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At this moment, Li Younan, being the last person to arrive at the mission point, also successfully received the mission requirements.

The core mission here is tracking wild boars in the meadow area.

Because all the hunter teams are in this region, shooting poses a significant risk, so the task here is only tracking.

During this period, if threatened by wild boars, pistols may be used for self-defense, but only for self-defense.

Aside from that, shooting is prohibited, and firing a shot will disqualify one from the competition.

The standard for successful tracking is getting within a 15-meter range of the wild boar, and evidence of successful tracking must be recorded via live camera.

A 15-meter range obviously can’t be measured precisely in the video, but the general distance needs to be correct.

Successfully tracking one wild boar earns one point.

However, there’s an additional rule: hunting a wild boar without firearms would earn five points.

Yet it’s extremely challenging, considering all hunters’ equipment does not include bows and arrows. To hunt a wild boar, one must utilize traps, and the organizers do not restrict hunters from bringing their own trap devices.

This task will continue until 8 a.m. tomorrow morning. At that time, the organizers will rank each team based on their scores, only leaving the top 8 hunter teams, while the rest will be eliminated.

This design, as Li Younan guesses, is meant to weed out those hunters trying to muddle through, and moreover, as guns will be needed later, fewer hunters actually mean more safety, since bullets don’t have eyes.

In the later competition, each hunter will be assigned to different regions based on a draw; too many people would mean not enough spots.

Li Younan certainly didn’t bring any equipment for making traps. Upon receiving the task, he thought briefly and quickly came up with an idea.

Tracking a wild boar is a time-consuming and labor-intensive process. The vegetation here provides a good camouflage for wild boars, and although the view is wide open, the wind is strong, making it easy for them to hide in the meadow.

The regular way is to track via boar droppings, hoof prints, and tree rub marks. To reach the goal, one must silently get within a 15-meter range of the boar, so riding is definitely not an option since wild boars can see you from afar.

To a seasoned hunter, this certainly poses a challenge.

Yet gaining points this way is far too troublesome.

Li Younan considered a simpler approach; instead of accumulating points one by one through tracking, it would be better to straightforwardly score 5 points by hunting.

For others, not being able to use firearms in the first round is a hassle, and time is limited for making traps. But for Li Younan, that’s not a problem; after all, he’s a tough guy who can rival bears with a hunting knife. Wild boars are much smaller than bears, so the problem shouldn’t be that great.

Therefore, Li Younan plans to take the opposite approach, utilizing the vantage point from horseback to observe wild boars from a distance, and then use the horse’s mobility to quickly chase and eliminate the boar.

This approach would certainly disturb other nearby wild boars.

Only one boar can be chased at a time, so it can’t serve as a tracking method.

But as long as hunting one pig is successful, it equates to five successful trackings, which is quite cost-effective.

Having decided on the plan, Li Younan set to work. He mounted his little white horse, affectionately stroked its mane, and said, “Whether I can advance smoothly depends on how fast you can run.”

As a result, when Li Younan officially started his task, a bizarre scene unfolded on the meadow.

Li Younan became the only hunter to enter the meadow area on horseback.

All other horseback hunter teams left their horses at the mission point.

At this time, every hunter was quite far apart, and they tried to conceal themselves as much as possible in the camouflage of vegetation, secretly following the traces left by wild boars on the meadow, attempting to approach the unsuspecting wild boars.

In fact, some hunters had already successfully tracked and scored.

However, right at that moment, the sound of hoofbeats echoed loudly, and the hunters raised their heads in bewilderment.

Then, they saw Li Younan riding a tall horse, with a view exceeding 2.5 meters, looking so conspicuous on the meadow, swiftly galloping like the wind.

Ah?

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Mark, having determined the boar’s direction based on the remaining droppings, parted a few shrubs and sure enough, spotted a boar digging at tree roots just dozens of meters away.

His heart was lifted, he gestured to his cameraman teammate beside him, and then planned to sneak over to score one point.

Just at that moment, the distant sound of hoofbeats startled the boar abruptly.

The boar raised its head in alert, scanning all around, and then wasted no time in running away.

All efforts in vain.

Witnessing this scene, Mark couldn’t help but exclaim a word starting with ‘F’, glaring at the direction the boar fled.

But shortly after, he lifted his head toward the direction of the hoofbeats.

Due to the distance, he couldn’t clearly see who was riding the horse to track, but he couldn’t resist cursing, “Who is the fool responsible for this?”

“Riding a horse to track? That’s the pinnacle of stupidity!”

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Meanwhile, luck was favoring Li Younan like the lucky Luke.

Just entering the meadow area, he sharply spotted the rustling of grass hundreds of meters away.

He controlled the little white horse to move to the gravel ground at the edge of the meadow, then sprinted over at full speed.