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Chapter 801: 785: "Three Squirrels Gift Package

Chapter 801: Chapter 785: “Three Squirrels Gift Package

Yue Feng thought for a moment: “I’ve been busy with the catch since I woke up this morning. I haven’t checked the traps today! Let’s take everyone on a tour of the traps, and while we’re at it, see if there are any edible wild herbs or plants. Eating meat all day is not just tiring, it’s a hassle to go to the toilet!”

“Is this something a person would say? Sick of eating meat, how would our starving friends feel hearing this!”

“Digging wild herbs, gathering wild fruits, searching for grass roots! I saw that Indian lady in the sixth live stream room gathering quite a bit of edible plants! Brother Feng, if you know any, you could give it a try!”

Yue Feng nodded: “Alright, I’ll listen to you guys! Let’s go, bring our weapons for defense, and patrol our territory!”

With a military knife and a backpack, Yue Feng left the camp with his gear.

After using the purple Intermediate Hunter Card, and as he ventured out, Yue Feng quickly noticed many details he hadn’t paid attention to before.

Take the simplest plants, for example—Yue Feng only knew of lichens and those berries before!

But on this walk, Yue Feng found quite a few edible things nearby.

A low-growing plant resembling shepherd’s purse, lying flat on the ground, almost the same color as the earth, with luscious leaves, can be eaten.

Purplish-black crowberries—besides eating them directly, they can also be used to brew tea.

And in areas with tangled dead trees and rocks, traces of small animal activity could be seen everywhere. While chatting with his streaming friends, he continued walking, even startling a rabbit that had turned gray and white along the way, causing the audience to exclaim.

Since he last checked the traps, a whole day and an extra half-day had passed; this time, the harvest was decent—two rabbits and an unfortunate squirrel caught by its hind leg in a trap. But Yue Feng wasn’t worried about food anymore, so he released the still-alive squirrel.

Releasing this squirrel seemed to bring Yue Feng some good luck, as on his way back, Yue Feng habitually glanced up at a pine tree.

Suddenly, he spotted a large shadowy mass mid-trunk of a stout pine tree.

Such a pine tree, over forty centimeters in diameter, might take at least several decades to mature in such cold regions, and there generally wouldn’t be bird nests between its branches during the short summer.

In such a case, nine out of ten times, it’s a storage depot for a squirrel’s winter stash.

A life can be spared, but when encountering this kind of storage, one must check it out. Yue Feng signaled, then maneuvered the drone to slowly approach the top of the branch.

Soon, the image was relayed back through the camera.

This shadow indeed turned out to be a storage depot, filled with mushrooms, berries, and pine nuts—all good things.

“Haha, folks, we’ve hit the jackpot this time! This should be a mature squirrel’s winter food depot! Judging by the size in the image, the stash is quite substantial! Let’s raid it and teach it a lesson!”

Yue Feng gave a shout, secured the camera, and started climbing.

Only the bottom few meters of the pine tree were smooth, and once he climbed up, there were branches to assist. Yue Feng moved nimbly, like a monkey, and quickly reached the middle of the pine tree.

It was evident that the branches here had been used for construction. A lot of twigs and bark were laid between two branches, forming a flat basket about thirty centimeters in diameter, much like a smaller magpie’s nest commonly seen in rural areas.

In this storage depot, pine nuts, mushrooms, berries, and some fresh roots and stems were piled neatly together, totaling at least several pounds.

“Oh, does this count as ransacking?”

“So much food! A three-squirrel gift pack?”

“What the heck, a three-squirrel gift pack? Ransacking is such a serious topic! You’ve got me laughing!”

“Uh, I was pretty excited when I first discovered it, but then suddenly thought of a question—if we take it all, won’t it starve in winter?”

Initially, Yue Feng was quite excited as well, but seeing the chat discussing this topic made him hesitate.

In this area, food on land is actually quite scarce; there are only so many resources. Every animal must put in one hundred percent effort to survive.

This squirrel, able to store this much food, must have worked incredibly hard to gather it!

If Yue Feng were struggling for his next meal, he wouldn’t hesitate in this situation, but now his storage is well-stocked, there’s no need for a full sweep!

“Um, seeing what the viewers in the chat mentioned, I’m hesitating too!

There are quite a few squirrels around, but not many wealthy landowners with food stores. It’s likely a rather experienced individual surviving for quite some years.

If it got eliminated by the environment because of bad luck and us taking its food reserve, it would be quite a pity! So, let’s not touch other things in the food depot, just bring the mushrooms back!

Tonight, we’ll make mushroom soup, using the savory flavor of the mushrooms to enhance the bear paw leftover from lunch!”

Having made up his mind, Yue Feng didn’t cause major damage, just removed the mushrooms from one side of the nest and stuffed them into his pocket, then climbed down the tree.

As soon as he landed, an urgent chittering sound came from afar. A beautiful male adult polar squirrel, with pouch cheeks stuffed full of who knows what, was jumping excitedly on another tree. No need to explain, it had noticed the uninvited guest to its food depot.

Yue Feng: “Consider yourself lucky! Off we go, guys!”

Unexpectedly gaining over a dozen mushrooms put Yue Feng in a great mood, humming a tune as he headed back toward the camp.

While walking, suddenly a violent flapping sound erupted from the bushes, and a bird, resembling a pheasant but unclear in appearance, took off from beside his feet, flying straight into the distance.

The massive commotion startled Yue Feng into a jolt, instinctively looking up. There are no pheasants in this area, but there are ptarmigans similar in size to pheasants, so if he wasn’t mistaken, the one just flew away was a ptarmigan.

The drone camera sensed the sudden situation and followed with its perspective.

At that moment, above the “pheasant” that had already flown seventy or eighty meters into the air, a white shadow suddenly dove down at high speed.

With a crisp snapping sound, the pheasant, flying well just a moment ago, was kicked solidly by this shadow, scattering feathers in the air, and fell like a kite with a broken string.

The white shadow, after hitting the pheasant, spread its wings, turned in mid-air, and grabbed the lifeless pheasant, quickly disappearing from view.

The entire attack process was witnessed by Yue Feng and his streaming friends, especially more clearly through the drone camera in the live stream.

Yue Feng watched the playback, breathing grew heavy immediately.

With pure white feathers, featuring a superb dive hunting posture!

The predator just now was a white falcon!