Chapter 382 Hunting Competition
"Mary, Gus. What are you doing coming to the bar?" Zhang Ailun looked at his old acquaintance and partner again.
"Surprised?" Mary asked while hugging Keith. "Don't worry, we don't have to worry about the bar. It's rare to be invited by your friends, so you should take a break once in a while."
"It's not a big surprise. If your boyfriends knew about it, they might scare me." Zhang Ailun said unhappily.
"What are you thinking about? We are not staying here tonight." The two replied.
You might as well go back now... the chief leader secretly complained.
Gis also smiled and said, "My boyfriend is like this. All he does all day is play games online with his friends or watch short videos at home. When I say that I went shopping with Mary and didn't come back at night, they just think we spent the night in a bar or went to a billiard room to play billiard all night."
Is it so outrageous?
But Zhang Ailun thought about their boyfriends. Although he had never met Gus's boyfriend, he had met Mary's boyfriend before. The other party was indeed a typical white man at the bottom of American society, and he also received a happy education.
He was born in an ordinary family, graduated from high school, never went to college, worked two part-time jobs, earned two to three thousand dollars a month, drove a second-hand broken car, lived in an old apartment complex in Los Angeles, and his hobbies besides working were staying at home playing games. His monthly rent and utilities cost more than a thousand dollars, and he had no money left for food and drink, and he had no savings at all.
In contrast, Mary, who worked as a waitress and hostess in a bar, although her life was not very glorious, she relied on her own efforts to become a bar owner and bought herself a new car. She was indeed an independent and ambitious woman.
Well, although the reason why the leader invested in them is indispensable, there is a reward for every effort, and the leader has seen the efforts of the two.
After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Ailun didn't think too much about it. He welcomed the arrival of several people and invited them to the next round of programs. "It just so happens that we have just finished horseback riding and are preparing to go hunting in the hunting area of the ranch. You came at the right time."
He turned around and called the Beggar Gang disciples over, and asked them to hand over the guns to several people.
"Cool, my favorite thing is shooting." As the leader of the motorcycle gang, Sadie obviously knows a little about guns. She took the Winchester lever rifle from the Beggar Gang disciple, skillfully loaded the bullets into it from the side, then aimed at a distant position and tried the feel of it.
He smiled and said, "When I was a kid, I lived in the rural town of Palm Valley. My grandfather often took me hunting in the wild. His shooting skills were very accurate. Gray rabbits and other animals could not escape his hunting. We always returned with a full load. Even coyotes and large carnivores would be made into animal skins if he targeted them."
"My shooting skills are also very accurate." Zhang Ailun said tactfully.
Who says people on the West Coast like to protect animals?
Look at Sadie's self-righteous look. The Angsa Plain White Banner people are good at riding and hunting. They are the Stars and Stripes people on horseback.
Back when their ancestors, the Bannermen, entered the Western Continent, the rednecks did a lot of hunting in the West. They relied on breeding and raising slaves for a hunting life, as well as their skilled scalping techniques.
Nowadays, the ancestors of animals that can recognize the hot weapons in the hands of hunters at a glance all have brains, because animals that cannot recognize hot weapons have long been extinct here.
"Your shooting skills are indeed very accurate." Sadie blinked and answered in approval.
When the chief saw her expression, he immediately realized that the two were not talking about the same thing, but he did not delve into it too much. After chatting for a few more words, he invited them to get on the pickup truck and drove towards Maolin's hunting area.
They soon drove to the hunting area and parked nearby. Several people got out of the car. Next to it was a shooting range specially built for the ranch estate, but the chief leader had never used it yet.
"Look, there are gray rabbits!" Sadie's eyes were sharp. As soon as she got off the car, she noticed a family of five rabbits, including two big fat gray rabbits and three little rabbits, lying on the ground chewing grass next to the lush forest not far away.
What a heartwarming scene. Before the chief leader had time to sigh, Sadie took out the Winchester lever-action rifle, loaded the bullet, aimed at the big rabbit, pulled the trigger, and a shot went off with a snap. The North American gray rabbit instantly straightened up.
He collapsed to the ground, twitched twice, and went straight to see God.
The three little rabbits and the big rabbit next to them were frightened and immediately ran away in all directions.
"...Your shooting skills are really accurate." The chief leader was a little surprised. Seeing Sadie happily running over to bring the prey back to show off to everyone, he couldn't help but praise her: "Did your grandfather teach you this too?"
"Yes, although I don't like to show off my marksmanship on a daily basis, I am a senior member of the Palm Valley Shooting Club! I have also participated in club competitions and won a medal, although it was only a bronze medal," Sadie replied.
“……”How come he is another medal winner?
It is worthy of being called the West Coast, a place full of martial virtues.
The chief leader was speechless, thinking that his accurate shooting skills were not suitable for showing off in such a scene, because it was easy to fail. After thinking for a while, he immediately pulled out his sharpshooter and introduced him, "That's really a coincidence. There happens to be a sharpshooter from California among my employees. He is also a senior member of the shooting club and has won shooting competitions held in California. He has won two gold medals, three silver medals, and many bronze medals in bow and arrow shooting. Perhaps you have a lot of shooting skills and hunting techniques to share with each other."
Zhang Ailun just wanted to push Sadie out quickly and let her shift her attention and her arousing hunting ideas to the Beggar Gang disciples.
The Beggars' Sect disciple was a little confused after being pulled out by the chief leader, but he still said modestly: "I am only more accurate with the bow and arrow, and my spear skills are average. This is a skill I have practiced hard for many years. Now I haven't trained for a long time, so I am a lot less skilled. I am definitely not as good as Miss Sadie."
"I can tell whether you have the skills or not at a glance. You don't have to be modest. Perhaps we can have a competition. I haven't trained my marksmanship in a long time. Let's compete fairly in this hunting ground for two hours to test our hunting abilities and luck. After that, whoever hunts more prey will win!"
Sadie said, "Of course, since it's a competition, there must be rewards and prizes. I will give out a sum of money as a prize. How about $10,000? If you beat me, I will give you this $10,000 as a prize."
"Really?" The Beggar Gang disciple didn't want to compete with Sadie at first, because the guest was a guest, and this was not a good idea. If he won and the guest got angry, the leader would be in trouble.
But when they heard that the winner would get a bonus, Sadie really took out a stack of US dollars in cash, and the Beggars' Sect disciples' eyes suddenly widened. They turned their heads to look at the chief leader, wanting to ask for his opinion.
Of course Zhang Allen would not have any objection. He nodded enthusiastically and said, "It's rare that everyone is so interested. I will be the referee. The timer will be two hours. Everyone present can participate. The final winner can get Sadie's $10,000 prize! At the same time, I will personally sponsor $20,000, as well as shopping vouchers worth $5,000 for various stores in Green Town, free tickets for a three-day tour of Jehovah's Island, and a chartered flight, a total of $100,000 worth of rewards. Even if you fail, everyone can get a consolation reward of $1,000. The prey hunted in the competition will be made into meals that appear at the bonfire party!" "Great!" The Beggar Gang disciples present congratulated when they heard this.
Zhang Ailun also felt very satisfied when he saw the atmosphere on the field being mobilized.
Very good, with so many people participating in the hunting, even if the leader fails to kill any animal, no one will gossip behind his back about his poor shooting skills. Instead, they will think that he is very generous. After all, who would have a negative impression of the sponsor who pays for the competition and is responsible for eating and drinking with public funds?
Sadie didn't feel anything about the $20,000, but when she heard that she could go to Yahweh Island, she immediately became interested and said with a smile, "That's great. This is my first time to visit your manor, but I haven't been to your private island yet."
"Don't worry, even if you lose I will still take you there for a trip. It's not a big deal for me. I can also take you to visit the construction on the island and the various military equipment." Zhang Ailun replied with a smile.
"I have no interest in arms, but I will try my best to win the first place in the competition!" Sadie is confident in her hunting skills and marksmanship.
"If you lose, as a punishment, you have to prepare a reserved program for the party tonight, whether it is singing or dancing. Except for the winner and the organizer of the competition, everyone will have a program punishment."
"Then I'm screwed." Jennifer immediately deflated, "I'm not good at hunting or shooting at all."
Irene nodded in agreement. The first time she truly understood and came into contact with guns and ammunition was when she became an employee of the Armed Nation of Thunderbolt. Before that, she had only touched real guns a few times and was not very interested in them, let alone hunting in the wild.
"Honey, I think you can wait until the party is over before letting me perform." Olivia hinted to the chief.
Zhang Ailun agreed with her suggestion and said immediately: "Then you have to perform two!"
Olivia was immediately speechless.
Soon everyone present began to prepare weapons and hunting equipment. The Beggar Gang disciples had already tried hunting nearby, but the rabbits here were too cunning. Not long after being placed in the woods, they became very alert and dug many holes. Due to concerns about causing a fire, the rules did not allow the use of smoke techniques. The setting of traps was unlikely to have much effect and benefit in a short period of time, so the only thing that could be relied on, apart from the marksmanship, was the luck of encountering prey.
"Please note that this hunt does not allow harming pregnant doe deer or rabbits. Foxes are also not allowed. You can only hunt rabbits... The countdown has begun, and you can start now."
After the chief leader prepared the timer and explained the rules, at a command, the Beggars' Sect disciples filed out one after another, ran into the woods with guns, and began to track the prey.
Sadie also took Jennifer, Irene and others to the other side of the territory, relying on the hunting skills and awareness inherited from her grandfather to track down the escaped gray rabbit family.
Soon there were only three people left. Zhang Ailun was not in a hurry, adjusting the Winchester lever rifle in his hand, just thinking about giving it his chance. He would be very happy if he won, and it didn't matter if he lost. Anyway, the chief was invincible according to the rules!
He was not in a hurry, and neither were Mary and Guise, who were ready to be punished because they were not good at shooting and hunting. Before, they were too embarrassed to show their relationship with each other because there were so many people around, but now that there was no one around, they came over and bumped into people with the ball.
"Dear boss, we have already lost anyway, so why don't you take this opportunity to let us pay our punishment in advance?" the two asked with a smile.
Zhang Ailun was speechless. It was the first time he saw someone rushing here to accept punishment. Besides, what made you think that the punishment from the chief leader was to learn English from you?
I turned my head and looked at the surroundings. It was quiet, the weather was sunny, and there was a breeze. Then I looked at the two people who came closer. All I had to do was nod and they could start.
But is the chief leader such a person? Of course not!
After thinking for a while, he declined: "Why don't you guys give it a try? I don't think we should waste our precious game time here."
You all know how long the key is, which is only two hours. If someone quits the competition or ends early, wouldn't it be embarrassing if someone finds out?
"Isn't this exciting?" Gis said excitedly, and suggested: "Boss, I visited the geographical environment before and found a good place, in the small woods in the west. There is a tree in a good position. You can do something to me there. Don't worry, no one will find out. I have never played games with you outside. Let's give it a try!"
"..." The chief's mouth twitched. It was the first time he felt that this girl, Gis, was so perverted. It turned out that he did not bring out her true nature when he met her in the bar before.
Suddenly, accompanied by two gunshots from the woods, Zhang Ailun vaguely heard someone cheering and immediately rejected her unreasonable request.
"The truly exciting shows should be saved for the evening, girls. Now all you need to do is focus on hunting. Look, there are two gray rabbits over there!"
The two turned their heads in the direction, and Zhang Ailun pointed, and sure enough, they found two gray rabbits appearing at the edge of the woods, chewing grass with their butts sticking out. They were jumping around like that, blatantly showing that they didn't treat the leader as a human being at all!
The chief leader pulled out the lever and loaded the bullet into the gun.
The chief leader took aim and fired.
The chief hit it! Oh my god! I was so accurate!
Zhang Ailun was surprised by his own marksmanship.
Mary, who was standing next to her, screamed and tried to aim and shoot. With a snap, she accidentally hit the rabbit next to her.
"Oh my God!!"
The two cheered and high-fived each other in encouragement.
"well done!"
"You too, boss. I've started to like hunting!" Mary was delighted.
(End of this chapter)
