Rebirth in 1981: Hunting and Fishing in the Northwest
Chapter 63

Almost a Goner

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Li Long was very tense. Right now, his nervousness outweighed his excitement.

This was different from hunting wild boars last time. Those boars had simply been targets; all he had to do was aim and shoot. Of the dozen or so boars, only the biggest had dared fight back. The others had fled at the sound.

But wolves were different. Their cunning had been talked about for thousands of years, and they were much more agile than wild boars.

Li Long still remembered the little story from his classical Chinese lessons about a butcher encountering two wolves. Wolves actually knew how to circle around behind people!

Li Long watched the mountain woods warily. With the faint light in the sky and the reflection off the snow, he could just make out the area near the woods.

The howling continued in the woods, seeming to draw near and then recede. It made Li Long even more nervous, and apparently affected his bladder too. Right now, he needed to pee.

For a moment, Li Long felt some regret. Why had he agreed to come hunt wolves with Harimu?

Wouldn't it have been nice to stay inside?

But the next moment, thinking about how he would be shooting wolves, he grew excited again.

If he brought down a wolf, he could brag about it for a year!

When he laid the wolf fangs he pried out and the wolf Ankle Bones in front of Li Juan and Li Qiang, he would definitely earn admiring looks and endless praise!

Then Li Long was no longer nervous. He opened his eyes wide, searching hard for suspicious targets.

At last, a wolf darted out of the woods, bounding through the snow and moving back and forth in a zigzag, as though dodging something and guarding against

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