The brown bear’s massive body was overwhelmingly imposing. Its eyes, as wide as copper bells, burned with rage, infuriated that Feng Shan had dared touch its food.
It opened its gaping, bloody mouth, revealing sharp teeth. Each roar thundered through the air, sending snowflakes scattering.
Feng Shan never would have guessed that the brown bear hadn’t made a den in the buildings, but was hiding in the snow instead.
They were less than a dozen ters apart.
Brown bears possess incredible explosive power, capable of reaching speeds of 56 km/h in an instant. Even with the snow in its way, it could cross a dozen ters in the blink of an eye.
Originally, Nash was at the rear of the group, but he had run up to help Feng Shan dig out the musk ox, never expecting a brown bear to launch a sneak attack from behind.
And now, the one at the back of the line was Su Ziweng. Accustod to protected hunts, he had absolutely no experience dealing with this kind of sudden situation. He turned his head to see a massive brown bear lunging right at him.
His mind instantly went blank.
’This bear is huge,’ he thought. ’Its mouth could probably swallow my head!’
The mont of crisis was upon them.
"Get out of the way!" Feng Shan raised his gun and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
A continuous series of gunshots rang out. A cut appeared on Su Ziweng’s cheek, the seeping blood instantly freezing into dark red crystals.
The next mont.
The brown bear’s roar ca to an abrupt halt as its body crashed into Su Ziweng, pinning him heavily underneath.
"Ziweng!"
"Xiaosu!"
"Su!"
The others finally reacted, raising their guns and aiming at the brown bear lying on the snow, terrified that Su Ziweng had t a terrible fate.
Zhang Kai was completely stunned.
’An accident on my first tour, and with a rich kid like Su Ziweng, of all people,’ he thought. ’My career is completely finished.’
"What are you all standing there for? Help him!" Feng Shan was rendered speechless by their reactions. They had zero safety awareness. He’d reminded them to be careful, but in the end, not a single one had their gun ready.
Nash and Yves ran to the brown bear’s side, prodded its eyes and nose with their gun barrels, and only after confirming it wasn’t breathing did they start to move the carcass.
The thousand-pound brown bear lay on the ground like a small hill; two people alone couldn’t possibly move it.
Feng Shan and the others worked together, pulling and tugging, and finally managed to roll the bear’s carcass over.
"Ziweng, are you hurt?!" Feng Yang quickly knelt beside Su Ziweng, who was lying on his back with his eyes wide open, and shouted.
He wasn’t injured. Thankfully, the snow was thick. As the bear’s body crashed down, it also pushed Su Ziweng deep into the snowdrift. He was most likely just frightened.
Hearing soone call his na, Su Ziweng’s dilated pupils gradually contracted as he regained consciousness.
He imdiately broke into a grin.
"Fourth Uncle, that was so fucking exciting! Fucking aweso!"
He could still swear, which ant he was really fine.
Only then did everyone relax.
Feng Yang no longer cared about his identity being revealed and slapped Su Ziweng heavily on the shoulder.
"You little brat! Is that gun in your hand a fire poker? Where’s all that energy you use to chase girls? You nearly scared to death! If sothing had happened to you, how could I have faced your mother? You scared the hell out of !"
Seeing Su Ziweng still lying in the snow, Feng Yang cursed irritably, "Getting addicted to lying there, are you? Get up!"
"I... I..." Su Ziweng had an embarrassed look on his face as he stamred, "Fourth Uncle, I think I peed my pants!"
As soon as he said this, the atmosphere instantly turned strange.
Everyone’s eyes unconsciously fell on Su Ziweng, so surprised, others trying to stifle their laughter.
At that mont, Su Ziweng’s face was beet red, so embarrassed he wished he could find a hole to crawl into.
"Get up first. In that cold storage room just now, I saw a few pairs of cold-weather pants. Go change, or your pants will be impossible to take off once the piss freezes," Feng Shan said, frowning as if getting a headache.
"It’s already frozen. I think it’s all stuck together. Brother Feng, it won’t... get frostbitten, will it?" Su Ziweng said in a low voice. After being pulled up by Feng Yang, he walked with his legs apart like a duck, waddling toward the container building.
"Bro, what are we gonna do with such a big bear?" Black Hide asked, looking at the brown bear’s carcass on the snow with lingering fear.
"We’ll take it back to camp first. Dealing with it here will attract other predators with the sll of blood."
Feng Shan told Yves to go back to the plane and get the sled. Then he looked at the others. "Do you want to take pictures? It’s rare to co across a brown bear this big."
Pictures.
They were a must.
After learning Su Ziweng was safe, Zhang Kai imdiately ca back to life and took out his phone. The others did the sa.
Normally, they could only see bears in a zoo, or at best, from a car in a wildlife park.
But those bears were all dosticated, not only lacking any wildness but also quite thin.
This was nothing like those. This was a pure wild brown bear, well over a thousand pounds, fat and sturdy. Lying down next to it, you wouldn’t even be as wide as the bear was tall. Its paws were nearly the size of pot lids.
By taking care of this brown bear that had wrecked Kevik Camp, they could also consider the matter with Aunt Susan settled.
Feng Shan also took a few photos, reloaded his Type 56 carbine, and told Nash to stay and look after the others.
He then took Prince and Princess to check the periter of the camp to see if he had missed any other animals.
When he returned after completing a circuit, the area around the bear’s carcass was bustling with activity.
His spirits restored, Su Ziweng was whooping and hollering, making all sorts of poses over the bear’s carcass, even holding a paw up to his face to compare its size.
Ahem!!
Feng Shan coughed deliberately. "It’s about ti we headed back."
"Brother Feng, can I discuss sothing with you?" Su Ziweng sidled up with a grin. "I just talked it over with the guys. Can you let have this bear? I’ll pay 100,000 US Dollar for it."
100,000 US Dollar was certainly a good price. However, Feng Shan frowned.
"You can, but the problem is how you’ll get this bear out of the country. Unprocessed at products can’t be exported, especially at from wild animals like this. It’s very troubleso, and you’ll have to involve the customs and quarantine bureau."
"No, no, no, you misunderstood!" Su Ziweng waved his hands frantically. "I don’t want the at. I an I want to have it made into a taxidermy specin."
"Alright then. When we get back, go find Tom. He has connections. You two can discuss it yourselves."
’Just the hide, not the at,’ Feng Shan thought. ’I’ll lose out on a bearskin, but I get to keep the at and get 100,000 US Dollar. This deal is definitely worth it.’
After a mont’s consideration, Feng Shan nodded and agreed.
The next step was to load the bear’s carcass onto the sled and drag it back to the runway.
Fortunately, the P-750’s maximum payload was 1900 kilograms. Subtracting the nine occupants, it could just barely fit the brown bear.
It just needed a longer takeoff roll.
Back at River Beach Camp.
The won, having heard the news, all ran out to see the spectacle.
When the 500-plus-kilogram brown bear was dragged out of the cabin, the won all gasped in amazent. Xiaohua was so scared she hid in Jenny’s arms.
"Buddy, where’d you hunt such a huge brown bear? It’s even bigger than the one from the last forest hunt."
Tom ca forward, pried open the bear’s mouth, and his voice was filled with envy when he saw the finger-length fangs.
"It’s the sa one that bit Susan. It didn’t retreat to the Tundra, but made Kevik Camp its den instead," Feng Shan explained briefly.
The news of Susan being injured by a brown bear hadn’t made much of a stir in the Far North Tundra. Incidents of people being injured by animals happened constantly every year, and they didn’t get nearly as much attention as Feng Shan’s feat of braving the Blizzard to save people.
"So it was this one. Susan will definitely be grateful," Tom nodded, sighing slightly before putting on a businessman’s smile. "How are you planning to deal with this bear?"
"We’re making it into a specin. We don’t want the at!" Su Ziweng quickly jumped in, declaring his ownership of the bear.
"Of course! An excellent decision. This brown bear will absolutely make a beautiful specin," Tom said, his smile widening.
"Let’s get it back to camp first," Feng Shan said. Seeing that Nash had already brought the snowmobile over, he took the sled’s tow hook and attached it to the back of the vehicle.
The rest of them got on other snowmobiles and followed behind in a grand procession.
Back at the camp.
They placed the bear’s carcass on a wooden workbench. Because they needed to peel the hide off completely intact for the specin, they couldn’t use a crude skinning thod.
A bearskin worth 100,000 US Dollar ant they had to be responsible to their client.
This could be considered their first bit of inco to recoup their investnt.
After all, with a 20 million loan from the bank, it wouldn’t do to only have expenses and no inco.
Feng Shan had been mulling this over for a long ti.
’To be honest, I’m an orphan who didn’t even finish middle school. I struggled to raise a group of younger orphans, acting as both their father and mother. Just when I’d made so progress, I was imprisoned for seven years over *that incident*, completely cutting off from society.’
’After getting out, I ca to the Crown Territory. When it ca to developnt, business, or planning... I was completely clueless.’
’The only things I can rely on are the Witch and the Fire Seed, but I can’t tell another soul about them.’
’It was only after coming to Alaska that my horizons broadened. Thanks to the selfless help from Frank and the people around , I managed to grope my way toward this path of tourism.’
’And tourism is just the Crown Territory’s first attempt.’
’If it works out, I can use the Fire Seed to build a model combining tourism with a farm-stay, and then branch out into a series of related industries.’
’That way, I can pay off the loan within five years and maybe even turn a profit.’
"Khilla." Nash held a small knife, waiting for Feng Shan to start skinning. When Feng Shan didn’t make a move after a while, he prompted him quietly.
Feng Shan snapped out of his thoughts and gave Nash an apologetic smile. He then raised the sharp knife and made an incision down the brown bear’s thick belly.
As the bear’s abdon was cut open, a thick layer of bright white fat and the dark red lean at beneath were revealed to everyone.
You could tell this brown bear had lived a good life.
Unfortunately, it shouldn’t have shown up at Kevik Camp and hurt people.
After opening the abdon, the two of them first removed the bear’s internal organs, which spilled out in a large, ssy heap.
Feng Shan had hunted a brown bear before and kept so of the organs. To be honest, they didn’t taste very good. They had a strong, gay sll that lingered even after being treated with a lot of spices.
This ti, Feng Shan only planned to keep the bear’s gallbladder and the Bear Whip to soak in alcohol. The rest of the organs would be fed to the White Wolf Pack.
After dealing with the organs, the skinning process officially began.
Working with two small knives at once, they moved along the layer between hide and flesh, peeling the bearskin off bit by bit.
It was a pity about the four bear paws. Feng Shan had been planning to see what they tasted like, but since the taxidermy specin required the paws and head to be intact, he would have to postpone that desire.
Beside the workbench, Zhang Kai, Hu Zi, and the others stared with wide eyes, watching the two of them expertly butcher the brown bear with the skill of master butchers.
The expressions on Hu Zi and Black Hide’s faces were particularly complicated.
’Killing a bear!’
’Back ho, you’d get at least ten years in prison for this.’
’But in a foreign country, you can just hunt openly.’
’This is so wild!’
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