Troy finally brought Su Ran to a small cabin deep in the mountains.
The wooden house is not big, but it has everything it needs, including various firearms.
Su Ran scanned the room and found no animal skins or bones, so they did not seem to be poachers.
"Don't look at me, my friend. There are no tiger skins or bear paws here." Troy noticed Su Ran's little thoughts, but he was not angry. Instead, he smiled and patted his shoulder, and didn't mind his naked gaze at all.
Su Ran accepted his current identity and spoke in a very relaxed manner: "I thought we were in the same industry."
"No, no, no," Troy laughed, "Rather than saying we are in the same business, what we do is more thrilling and exciting."
Su Ran saw an endless sense of superiority on Troy's face, as if in his eyes, poaching was just the most trivial thing.
"Do you want to join us?" Troy suddenly asked seriously.
Everyone in the room stared at Su Ran, waiting for his answer.
Su Ran felt a little uneasy being stared at, but still pretended to be calm: "If I can make a lot of money, of course I'd be very happy."
"Hahaha." Troy laughed. He was quite satisfied with this answer. "I will grant your wish, but not now."
Obviously, Troy didn't completely trust Su Ran yet.
It's not a lack of trust in the other party's identity, but an inability to guarantee whether the other party can stand on the same front with him.
Because Troy also has a stereotype about poachers, that is, this kind of group is very greedy and cowardly.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have set their sights on making money from a group of animals.
Su Ran sat down angrily without saying anything more.
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"What...you mean, Xiaoran is missing?"
In Qijiaqiao Village, after hearing the news brought by Wang Zhibin, the grandfather instantly fell to the ground and his head felt buzzing.
Su Ran's parents were so anxious that they paced back and forth, not knowing what to do.
Wang Zhibin was a little annoyed. He was too careless to bring Su Ran back safely. He bowed to the three people and said, "I'm very sorry, but please believe us, the police. We will definitely bring Stationmaster Su back."
It is said that if a person is alive, he should be seen alive. Now that Su Ran’s body has not been found, the possibility that he is still alive is very high.
Maybe there were just some accidents in the middle.
In Qijiaqiao Village, news spread very quickly. When other villagers heard that their village chief had disappeared while cooperating with the police's arrest operation, many people felt as if the sky had fallen.
"Did something really happen to Xiaoran? This... this can't be true!"
Zhou Dafu, leaning on a cane, stood in his yard and looked towards the sea of forests, his eyelids trembling.
Not long after he personally handed over Qijiaqiao Village to Su Ran, the child encountered such a thing.
As for Aunt Wang, she felt even worse. She had watched Su Ran grow up and treated him like her son-in-law. She never expected that God would let him have this experience. It was simply unfair.
After returning to the police station, Wang Zhibin felt very upset.
He applied to the branch for more manpower to go into the mountains to search for Su Ran, but the leaders of the bureau told him that they could only send a few auxiliary police officers to help for the time being.
"Stationmaster Su has made so many contributions in the past. He disappeared in the forest this time just to cooperate with our police. Shouldn't we use our police force to find him? What can a few auxiliary police officers do?"
It’s not that Wang Zhibin looks down on auxiliary police officers, but their number is too small.
He wouldn't say anything if he could be given twenty auxiliary police officers.
The leaders of the bureau did not respond directly. Instead, Yang Shulin, who was Su Ran's old friend, told Wang Zhibin in person:
"Everyone is concerned about Xiaoran's case, and so am I. But right now the bureau is dealing with a major transnational case, so we can't spare too many people." "But don't worry, I will ask a few brothers from our Criminal Investigation Brigade to go with me to the forest to look for brother Xiaoran."
A major transnational case?
Wang Zhibin had never heard of the bureau handling such a case before, so he couldn't help but feel curious.
Yang Shulin did not hide the truth from him, but said frankly: "A group of premeditated criminals from the Bear Country stole a cart of gold, and they fled to our side with the gold."
"Everyone in the bureau is busy with this matter now. Many people were transferred away a few days ago."
Upon hearing this, Wang Zhibin understood what was said, but at the same time he couldn't help but become curious about these gold thieves.
Because he thought of the gold nugget that Su Ran found in the forest at that time, which had been deliberately polished away from its source.
But he couldn't concentrate on thinking about it right now.
I can only go to the forest with Yang Shulin to continue looking for Su Ran.
Zhou Dafu and the village committee also sent villagers to the mountain to search for Su Ran. At this time, the forest had become restless for a long time.
But nothing changed on Su Ran's side.
Just as he was lying in the wooden house to rest, thinking about when to find an opportunity to escape from here, there was a very loud noise outside the house.
"Boss, there are wolves gathering towards us!"
They are now very close to the Bear Country.
There are many wild wolves in the bear country.
That is the Siberian plains wolf.
The Siberian steppe wolf is a subspecies of the gray wolf. It is a predator at the top of the food chain. It mainly lives in the northwest of Siberia and the Caucasus region, the country of bears.
This type of wolf is very large, with an adult wolf ranging from 1 to 1.5 meters in length.
It's already flooding here.
As a fighting nation, the Bear People have no way to deal with these wolf packs. These gray wolves have strong ability to adapt to the environment and can withstand the test of the cold.
As wolves continue to reproduce, their number is increasing. The rapid growth of wolves has caused great damage to the local ecological environment.
They have no natural enemies and, apart from humans, can be said to be at the top of the food chain.
The Bear Country also had to resort to helicopters to hunt the gray wolves, but the gray wolves had already guessed the humans' purpose and had already hidden themselves.
Hunting gray wolves with helicopters has little effect.
Helicopters don't work. The input and output are far from proportional.
The locals also thought of setting traps and placing poison baits.
But the clever gray wolf seemed to have seen through everything humans did. The result was not good.
The local area is still encouraging the hunting of gray wolves. For each successful gray wolf hunted, a reward of 3000 yuan can be obtained. Driven by interests, many local people have joined the gray wolf hunting team.
In addition to receiving a reward of 3000 yuan for each wolf, they can also send the hunted wolves to local leather factories for processing. The leather products made can then be sold locally.
In this way, you can get a considerable income.
But even with such encouragement, the number of gray wolves could not be effectively controlled. During the hunting process, many people also lost their lives due to the lack of professional tools. (End of this chapter)