Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 23 Hunting
Early the next morning, it was the sixth day after the spacecraft landed.

Chen Ming put on protective clothing again and brought a pistol.

Planning to continue the unfinished work yesterday, hunting.

What happened yesterday and what he thought before falling asleep did not affect Chen Ming too much.

Because Chen Ming knew very well that hunting might lead to nothing.

If you hunt an animal that has been infected, you will probably consider it as a hunting failure.

As long as one of the hunting results is successful, the benefits obtained will definitely be greater than farming the land next to the spacecraft.

As for that possible virus.

Since it cannot be transmitted through the air, Chen Ming only needs to protect himself from injury, boil drinking water, and do a good job of sanitation and disinfection inside and outside the spacecraft every day.

Basically, you can treat it as if it doesn't exist, and it may only appear suddenly when hunting to make you feel sick.

So in the final analysis, it is definitely better to do hunting than not to do it.

What's more, when I was reinforcing the fence yesterday afternoon, I took the time to weave myself a very rough camouflage suit using long purple leaves obtained from chopping down trees.

It took a lot of effort to make it, so it can’t be used.

Chen Ming put on the camouflage suit over the protective suit he was already wearing, looked at the map on the terminal with various marks on it, and came to the river.

There were still no fish seen in the clear river, but this time Chen Ming saw many animals with shells.

They were strangely shaped and lay on the sand very quickly. They disappeared into the mud at the bottom of the river in the blink of an eye, leaving Chen Ming with no desire to catch them.

Chen Ming continued to walk along the river for a while and looked down at the map.

We're almost there.

Not far ahead, there was a place that I had specially written down on the map.

This is where Chen Ming discovered a large number of animal footprints densely distributed when he passed by the river a few days ago.

The appearance of such footprints on the riverside probably means that this is a drinking point for these animals.

After Chen Ming arrived at the place, he found a tree nearby and climbed up.

Then all you have to do is wait.

Wait for those animals that may be present to come to drink water, and leave the rest to the sky.

After those animals that leave obvious footprints are scared away, the remaining animals are obviously more difficult to track.

It is very possible that Chen Ming is chasing the footprints, and the prey has discovered him before he, the tracker, has discovered the prey.

Chen Ming is not a professional hunter. He has no special hunting knowledge and no hunting skills.

So crouching hunting like now is obviously more suitable for me.

At least what he had to do was simple, wait for the animal to come, then raise the gun and shoot.

When there is a temperature control device inside the protective suit, it is not difficult to spend some time outdoors in the still hot weather of early autumn.

Otherwise, Chen Ming would have been unable to carry the body when he was halfway there yesterday.

Now Chen Ming only needs to squat on the tree, which is much easier than yesterday.

I even brought the terminal with me. While waiting for prey, I could read the books on the terminal, so it wouldn't be a waste of time.

Two hours passed quickly.

Just when Chen Ming had already put into the contents of the books in the terminal.

In the bushes on the other side of the river, an animal suddenly appeared.

It has a pair of curved horns on its head, a slender body, and its hair is purple with lavender spots in the middle. It seems to be a kind of antelope.

It’s really here.

Chen Ming was a little surprised in his heart. He had already prepared to wait for several days in a row to see the animals that came here to drink water, but he didn't expect to encounter them so soon.

Chen Ming slightly moved his arm that had not moved for two hours, slowly raised the terminal, and took a photo of the antelope.The search also produced results.

The name of this antelope is the purple antelope, and it is a herbivorous social creature.

Knowing what he wanted to know, Chen Ming immediately put the terminal away.

He raised the pistol, pointed it at the purple antelope, and put his index finger on the trigger.

Chen Ming was not in a hurry to shoot, but continued to hold his breath and wait quietly.

After the first purple antelope poked its head out of the trees and confirmed that there were no dangerous animals around.

Soon, other purple antelopes emerged from the woods one after another.

The antelope herd soon gathered on the river bank, and the purple antelope that came out first stood alone at a certain distance from the antelope herd, on guard.

The other purple antelopes huddled together and began to drink water in batches.

During this process, none of them noticed the signs on the trees on the other side of the river.

Now is the best time.

Chen Ming's gun was aimed at the largest antelope in the group drinking water.

Breathing at its slowest pace, the moment it lowered its head to drink water, he pulled the trigger.

Under the action of the silencer, an extremely low gunshot sounded, and the .45-caliber bullet passed straight through the body of the purple antelope and penetrated its lungs.

The pain stimulated the purple antelope to jump up, turn around and rush into the woods.

In just a few seconds, Chen Ming clearly saw the blood foam between its mouth and nose.

Several nearby antelopes also reacted quickly and fled into the woods after the injured antelope.

However, the purple antelope that was a little further away did not react so quickly. They continued to drink water without warning from the leader responsible for the warning.

This gave Chen Ming a chance to shoot again.

Chen Ming's second shot was fired quickly.

Another precise hit on the chest of a purple antelope.

This time, stimulated by the pain, it rushed into the river in front of it in a panic. After struggling for a few times, it stopped moving.

Bright red blood gradually spread in the river water.

The violent splashing sound and the spreading smell of blood completely frightened the purple antelope group, and they all turned around and ran away, raising dust all over the ground.

Chen Ming could no longer aim stably at this time. Shooting on a moving target was much more difficult than on a fixed target, and there was also smoke and dust blocking his vision.
Chen Ming could only roughly aim and pull the trigger one after another, emptying the remaining bullets in the magazine.

This round of shooting caused the group of antelopes to fall to two again.

Counting the previous two, there were a total of four purple antelopes that were about the same size as wolfdogs. As long as they didn't rot, they would be enough for Chen Ming to consume food for a long time.

Chen Ming refilled his pistol with bullets and waded across the river with anxiety.

The carcass of an antelope was found floating on the water.

When he saw the appearance of the corpse, a smile finally appeared on Chen Ming's face.

The body had not decomposed.

Chen Ming quickly dragged it to the river bank, and then continued deep into the woods.

Following several obvious blood stains, the bodies of three other purple antelopes were found about a hundred meters away. They were also not decomposed.

Chen Ming restrained his inner joy and nervously cracked open the skulls of the four purple antelope corpses by the river.

After confirming that their brains showed no signs of decay.

Chen Ming was finally relieved.

The first hunt was successful.

(End of this chapter)