Chapter 748 - 319: A Pleasant Hunting Trip (Part 4)

The staff gave a definite answer, so Li Younan asked, "Then what if after three days there are still contestants who haven’t eliminated their opponent in the same zone?"

The staffer smiled. "If that happens, then both of those guys are going to be eliminated."

Li Younan nodded. Thinking about it like that, taking out your opponent as early as possible really does give you an edge.

So over the next three days, Li Younan switched into full-on hunting mode.

It was honestly a very enjoyable thing to do,

Every man has a hunter’s gene etched into his instincts; that rush from a successful hunt is written straight into the genetic sequence.

For Li Younan, this kind of completely unrestricted hunting trip was pretty much the most fun part of this United States journey.

In the blink of an eye, three days flew by. The Indian Hill ruins, Redstone Creek, shrubland, meadows—Li Younan gradually got familiar with this whole area, with almost no moments that felt boring.

Li Younan built himself a simple shelter on a ledge on a cliff, with the basic logic still being to avoid harassment from wild animals.

The tent was good quality; sleeping in it at night, he could sleep soundly.

Every morning after getting up, Li Younan would randomly pick a direction and start exploring.

Gotta say, the wild boars in this area are really everywhere. In southern Dezhou, wild boar are legit classified as pests.

Every year the government allocates funds to wipe out wild boars, and as a ranch owner, organizing this kind of hunting competition is partly to send a warning to the wild boars in this region.

It’s said that Dezhou’s wild boar population has already exceeded 2.6 million, so trying to control their numbers through a competition like this is basically wishful thinking. As for how much "kill one to warn a hundred" effect it really has, that’s hard to say.

Because there are so many wild boars, every time Li Younan went out for his daily hunt he could easily find a bunch of them.

And with a modern weapon like a hunting rifle, taking down a wild boar is way easier than using a bow.

At first, Li Younan tried taking them out from long range, around a hundred meters.

To be honest, after picking up such an over-the-top Gun Mastery skill, at first he didn’t really grasp what it meant to be able to hit every shot at that distance.

Later he happened to see comments in the livestream chat and realized he might be a bit mind-blowing, so he started gradually moving closer, then closer again.

In his stream, he kept calling the wild boars "evil big boars."

The nickname is actually pretty apt. From a human standpoint, wild boars are genuinely annoying: they not only cause insane economic losses, they also tear up ranches and threaten livestock.

More importantly, wild boars are highly aggressive.

When it comes to hunting Dezhou’s big boars, Li Younan didn’t have the slightest psychological burden.

Later on, shooting boars with a hunting rifle started feeling a bit too tame, so he began trying a revolver.

Honestly, the feel of using a revolver was even more exciting than a rifle.

The viewers in the livestream also preferred him using the revolver.

Li Younan watched highlight clips other people had edited from his streams; from the first-person view, it looked just like playing a first-person shooter like CS.

When he played with the revolver, he loved spinning the gun, doing all kinds of tricks. No special reason—he just thought it looked cool.

And the fans watching would imagine that the guy doing the gun tricks in the video was themselves, which made the immersion even stronger.

And the close-range revolver headshots on wild boars, because the distance was much shorter, looked even more intense.

After the three days, the followers in Li Younan’s livestream had stabilized above sixty thousand, and his overall fan count had broken three hundred thousand.

Even though there’s still a big gap compared to multi-million follower accounts back home, for Li Younan this was a great start.

During this process, of course, Li Younan completed the Dezhou check-in task and then got another Level 2 skill.

[Plane Repair Lv.2: Metal fatigue and hidden circuit faults cannot escape your eyes. Aircraft calibrated by you will push beyond the original design’s redundancy limits.]

Nice, very nice—now he can repair planes. So, where’s the plane?

Over these three days, naturally his food was all from his hunts.

Wild boar can be cooked in all kinds of ways, and you can cook different parts too, so there’s no need to worry about getting sick of it.

Of course, during this period he also hunted a white-tailed deer to change things up.

As for turkey, one actually flew straight into his face when he was setting up camp; Li Younan gave it a kick and sent it flying. That stuff’s so bad even dogs wouldn’t eat it.

Those three happy days were about to come to an end. At daybreak it’d be time to hand in the mission, and thinking about that, Li Younan felt a tiny bit reluctant.

That night, Li Younan went to sleep early. Around four in the morning, he woke up.

The deadline was tomorrow at noon. His plan was to take advantage of the remaining time to wander around the Indian Hill ruins a bit more, treat it as an adventure.

As he woke, he suddenly heard movement from below the ledge; the little white horse was neighing nonstop.

Li Younan crawled out of the tent.

The weather was clear that night, the moon perfectly round, its bright light illuminating everything.

Li Younan walked to the cliff edge; down at the base of the rock face there were actually two people. They looked pretty clumsy in their movements—no idea what they were doing, seemed like they were trying to climb up.

Li Younan squatted down and asked, a bit puzzled, "Hey, what are you two doing?"

The two below froze like they’d been struck by lightning, then looked up together. One of them, an Asian guy with a flat-top haircut, blinked and said, "W-we’re hiking enthusiasts."

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