Chapter 215 – Bear Hunting
“Fuck, what do you need to kill? Do you know what kind of neighborhood mutt the grizzly bear is?”
Even though I was complaining, I was thinking of a way to catch the bear.
Because I have no intention of sitting down and being eaten. If I wanted to live, I had to kill.
But even if I thought about it, there was no way I could immediately think of a way. You have to have caught something like a bear to know!?
Bear. It’s a grizzly bear.
From what I’ve heard, it seems quite large. Since you said ‘lone hunter,’ it must be one, right? Not being mobbed could be said to be a blessing among misfortunes.
So what do you have to do to catch a big bear?
The first thing that came to mind was a gun.
There is a pistol in my pocket. But this is too small. It may not be possible against a human, but against a bear, it wouldn’t even be able to pierce the skin.
So this is a pass.
So should I buy a bigger gun from the store?
The K2 rifle was 10,000 coins. I had just collected 10,000 coins.
However, rifle bullets cost 500 coins per shot. There is no guarantee that you can kill the bear with one hit, so should you risk all your money on this? If that happens, there will be no insurance to revive.
“I’d rather die…”
Gulp. Swallow dry saliva.
There is no choice, so accept death and then be resurrected.
That thought came to my mind for a moment, but I quickly shook it off.
Her mother said. I think I would die easily if I had insurance.
And I said I would never die.
I didn’t want to die even to prove that I was right.
“Fuck…”
First, we decided to fight back.
However, the current equipment was insufficient.
Pistol, titanium spear and crossbow.
Should I have brought the ax I got from killing the wild boar leader? All the drop items that came out at that time were so heavy that I left them where they were.
I felt like I needed something like that to be able to fight against a bear. I couldn’t even have a conversation with the equipment I had now.
I first searched the store to find a suitable weapon.
A weapon that can deal damage even against large bears.
At least you can tie your legs.
If possible, it is better if the price is cheap.
Is there anything? Is there anything? Is it really not there?
“… Huh? Oh… Oh? “This?”
As I quickly flipped through the store tabs, I found an item that looked barely useful.
An item that can be used as a bamboo spear, can tie legs, and is even cheap.
But it took time to prepare this.
You never know when Gomtaeng will attack you from behind. It was too dangerous to use it now. Maybe he’s still running here now. Will I be able to write it on time?
A method came to my nervous mind like lightning.
“──Chirp!”
A way to pass the time.
That was to give work to the tweet that had been eating nothing until now.
-Beepee-
When I called, silver glitter fell quickly from the sky.
And it stops high above my head and looks down at me with sharp eyes.
He seems like a cocky guy.
“Tweet. Is there a bear chasing you around here? Do you know what a bear is? Just block it for 5 minutes, no, just 3 minutes. Don’t come here right away. Do you understand what I mean?”
I was in a hurry, so I didn’t have time to explain at length. There was no guarantee that the tweet would understand my words properly.
But there was no other way. Now I had to walk to Tweet as if I was borrowing a cat’s hand.
-Beep!
The chirp made a sound as if it understood and flew up into the sky again. The back seemed somehow reassuring.
“… When you die, I will bury you in a sunny place.”
It seemed funny to ask a small bird to fend off a bear. I might not be able to last even 1 second, let alone 3 minutes. It seemed like I could see a future where tweets would be eaten by bears.
But this is something I can’t help but live with.
While thinking about what excuse I would give my family to look for Tweet, I started setting up a large bear trap, Chalco.
* * *
‘Grand Silver’ was lonely.
The female, who was the only mate, was eaten by ‘tyrant Kushtapa’.
Even the grizzly bear, which reigned at the top of the natural food chain, was nothing more than a piece of meat in front of the Tyrannosaurus that emerged from the fossil.
Since its mate died, the Grand Silver has been protecting its territory alone.
That was entered into the giant bear’s genes. Protect your territory. And anyone who invades that territory must be chased down and killed.
Except for the temperamental dinosaurs.
However, rarely did anyone invade the grizzly bear’s territory.
Grand Silver just stood there for a long time, not knowing why it was protecting its territory or how long it would have to stay like this. In preparation for an intruder who might come someday.
The first signal came to Grand Silver.
It was a signal that there was an intruder invading the territory.
“Kooooo——!”
The Grand Silver roared.
The time had finally come to do its job.
The Grand Silver began running to annihilate the intruder. I began to move according to the instincts engraved in my genes, without knowing who engraved them or for what purpose.
-Kukkung. Ku-kung.
It runs with a massive body weighing up to 700 kg. A sound rang out every time it hit the ground.
The intruder was too far away to be detected even by the bear’s keen sense of smell, but an unknown signal guided the Grand Silver. The intruder is right here.
A grizzly bear charging through the trees without hesitation.
It has now reached a distance where it can be detected even if it is not an unidentified signal. Now all I had to do was run to the moon and kill the intruder.
“Bleep-!”
The sound of a bird of prey ringing in Grand Silver’s ears.
Anyway, I ignored birds because I thought they were animals that had nothing to do with me.
But wouldn’t the little hawk that fell from the sky hit the top of the Grand Silver’s head with its hard beak?
Grand Silver was embarrassed. Why would a bird as small as a bite attack the king of the land?
Since they were not prey to each other in the first place, they did not know why they were being attacked. However, since it was attacked first, it had to be returned.
“Choo!”
The Grand Silver planted his hind feet on the ground and swung his front feet. Boom, boom. The heavy front feet cut through the air.
However, the small bird flew quickly into the sky and avoided the bear’s attack. Then it spun around on his head, out of reach of the bear’s arms.
“Kooooo-!!”
Grand Silver roared with anger.
He said he would definitely kill the arrogant bird that touched him.
He raised his arms and made his body as big as possible and threatened.
On the other hand, I expected the bird to run away after hearing the sound.
Because catching such a fast bird was extremely inefficient. And most animals would run away when they heard that roar.
But chirps were different from most animals.
A body that was given the great name of Chirp (Silver Flash) by its owner.
Whether the opponent was a bear or a dinosaur, he had no intention of backing down. There was nothing on Tweet’s mind except the task of tying up the bear’s paws for three minutes.
In the eyes of such a tweeter, the Grand Silver’s roaring posture seemed full of gaps.
Raising both arms and showing a large body may look threatening, but it was of no help in fighting. If the opponent wasn’t scared by the roar, I was only exposing my weakness.
“Beep-!”
Tweet did not miss that moment.
He struck down at a speed befitting the name given to him (Silver Flash), and snatched the bear’s glowing yellow eyeball with his claws.
-Kwadeuk.
Four sharp claws dug into the bear’s eyeballs.
It was a heartbreaking blow to the Grand Silver, which thought it would not suffer any harm whether pecked by the beak or scratched by the claws of such a small bird.
“Kuhuhuhungok!”
Grand Silver swings his forepaws raised high in pain.
The thick front paw hit the body of the tweeter, which was unable to fly due to its claws being stuck.
-Pow!
“Beep!”
The chirp flew away from the impact.
However, the trophy of victory, the plucked-out eyeball of Grand Silver, was dangling in its claws.
“Chooooo! “Chooooo!”
Grand Silver writhed in pain.
It was something I had never experienced before in my life. I can’t believe I was attacked and suffered by such a small animal.
Losing one eye was also a fatal blow to Grand Silver.
-Pudduk.
Tweet suffered the same damage, but was barely able to flap his wings and escape.
It was more than enough to fill the three minutes that the owner had ordered. Chirp successfully completed the mission given to him.
“Cooooo!”
Grand Silver watched the tweet fly with his remaining eye.
If a bird flew into the sky, there was no way to catch it. Grand Silver’s anger has nowhere to go.
Still, since he was hit squarely in the front paw, that bird probably won’t live long either. It was only a matter of time before the enemy died.
Then he had to finish his job. The goal is to punish intruders.
Grand Silver, who had nowhere to go, naturally turned his anger towards the unknown intruder.
The distance was close. I had to go right away and kill the intruder, then go back and rest until my eyes recovered.
Grand Silver started running through the forest again.
-Kukkung, kukkung, kukkung.
The distance narrowed in an instant.
Of course, the intruder also felt a huge creature approaching him.
“Holy shit! Are you here already?!”
An intruder finally entered the narrowed field of view of the Grand Silver. The intruder, noticing the overwhelming presence, became frightened and began to run away.
The intruder was an unremarkable small land creature.
Birds cannot be caught if they fly into the sky, but land creatures are different. No matter how much he ran away, he could chase him down and kill him. Looking at its size, it didn’t seem to pose any threat.
“Cow!”
Grand Silver immediately closed the distance. The plan was to chase after the small, slowly escaping creature, trample it, bite it to death, and then eat its bones. It seemed like a much easier task than catching a flying bird.
However.
-Clap!
“Chooooo!”
-Cow.
Grand Silver fell on the spot due to the impact of being held by its hind feet.
When he turned around, he saw a black piece of metal biting into his left hind foot and pulling it. It was Chalco, a very large bear trap made to hunt bears.
Normally, Grand Silver might have felt something strange.
However, due to the loss of one eye, narrowed vision, and blindness due to anger, the vicious hunter was caught in a trap without a move.
“Choo! “Chooooo!”
Grand Silver writhed in pain.
However, the sharper iron teeth dug deeper the more Grand Silver struggled. Clap, clap. Chalco, which was tightly tied to a large tree with an iron rope, did not budge no matter how much we pulled. The pain only increased.
-Clap!
Moreover, Chalco was not one. Grand Silver, who was struggling with excitement, touched another trap with his front paw.
From the left hind foot to the right front foot. The predator, who reigned at the top of the food chain, had both his front and hind feet restrained.
“Oh…”
The intruder who was running away after being chased by the Grand Silver also came back and looked at this situation as if he couldn’t believe it.
I never thought things would work out this well. Although I had set up several traps as a backup, it was amazing to see them working so well.
“You fell behind, Gomtaeng.”
The intruder lifted the flashing spear.
Grand Silver, who reigned as the strongest predator on this island, sensed that he would soon be in the same situation as his mate.