Wilderness Survival with Druid System

Chen Wen asked some questions, confirming that this group was indeed the Hunting Owl Organization, and also learned about their situation.

This group of Hunting Owls was slightly different from the ones he had encountered before.

They operated on a cooperative basis.

To be exact, it was a cooperation of three Hunting Owl organizations that had taken control of Qiangtang.

Chen Wen didn’t know the exact names of the leaders of the three Hunting Owl organizations, but he did learn their nicknames: Old Dog, Scar, and Barbarians.

Among these three, Old Dog and Scar were of the same ilk.

Whereas that Barbarian was someone from Central Asia, and because he looked different from them, he was given the name Barbarian.

Feeling he’d asked enough, Chen Wen ended the conversation: ”Alright, I won’t ask more, since it seems you don’t know, just wait here slowly, I guess someone will come to take you away either tomorrow or the day after.”

Hearing this, the person named Sun Qian shuddered once more.

Chen Wen noticed this and asked, ”What are you afraid of, the worst for your line of work is life imprisonment, especially for a worker like you, it’s not enough for a death penalty. Just behave well, reform, and try to get a sentence reduction.”

But after hearing Chen Wen’s words, Sun Qian fell silent again.

Chen Wen became suspicious: ”Come on, brother, you didn’t commit some big crime, did you? Is it possible you did something like highway robbery like Scar?”

Sun Qian still didn’t speak.

Sweat began to gather drop by drop on his body, dripping down to the ground around him.

After a moment of silence, Sun Qian said, ”Brother, please let me go, I promise I won’t appear in front of the world again, let me leave.”

Chen Wen squatted down and turned off the flashlight.

He carefully looked into Sun Qian’s eyes, and quickly, he saw infinite fear in them.

”It seems you people are worse than I thought, but it’s okay, this time, I’ve come to uproot all of you!”

Chen Wen’s tone became serious and determined.

He didn’t know what exactly these people had done, but he was now certain their deeds were more severe than he had imagined!

Ignoring Sun Qian’s pleas, Chen Wen tied him up, securing it tightly.

Then he went outside the tent and called Qu Yong.

This time, Chen Wen waited for a while, and after about ten seconds, the call was connected.

Qu Yong’s sleepy voice came through the receiver: ”What’s up?”

Chen Wen thought for a moment, then modified the story of capturing Sun Qian a bit and told it to him.

In his description, he saw the three men split up, then ambushed and waited until the evening to subdue Sun Qian.

Upon hearing this, Qu Yong became alert.

He asked Chen Wen to activate the satellite phone’s GPS and immediately reported the coordinates to Liu Yu.

He asked Liu Yu to pass it up to the wildlife protection area.

About ten minutes later, Qu Yong asked Chen Wen to deactivate the satellite GPS and informed him of the final course of action: ”The protection area has already alerted the authorities, and tomorrow morning, a deputy director from the local forestry department will be there.”

”Is he trustworthy?”

Chen Wen asked another question.

Qu Yong paused briefly, then said, ”This deputy director has solved dozens of poaching cases, and he was even shot by poachers once. His father died heroically in the last century—when poaching was rampant—fighting to protect the Tibetan antelope.”

Chen Wen paused and said, ”Sorry, I’ve just been... a bit wary because of the protection area here.”

”No worries, just don’t get into a conflict with him when he arrives,”

Qu Yong understood Chen Wen and said, ”Make sure to stay safe. Once you hand the case over to them, you don’t have to worry about anything else, just continue surviving. This situation might be worse than we anticipated, so be cautious.”

Upon hearing this, Chen Wen responded affirmatively and finally hung up the phone.

He returned to Sun Qian’s tent.

At this point, Sun Qian had also overheard Chen Wen’s conversation with Qu Yong, and his eyes were filled with despair and panic.

The more he understood the situation in Qiangtang, the more he realized how serious the matter would be if they mobilized that distinguished deputy director, and he knew it was over for him.

Sun Qian desperately twisted his hands, even showing signs of dislocation.

He wanted to break free.

But Chen Wen’s subsequent actions filled him with despair.

Under Sun Qian’s gaze, Chen Wen took down the entire tent.

After wrapping Sun Qian with the tent fabric, he twisted the metal parts of the tent to tie him up.

This way, even with Giant Strength, it would be hard for him to break free.

This was because the tent fabric entirely covered and wrapped around Sun Qian’s body, dispersing the pressure evenly across his body.

Whenever he struggled, his strength would be indiscriminately distributed across every inch of the tent fabric, unable to concentrate and break through a single point, just like a fist hitting cotton.

Moreover, the metallic components on the outermost layer served as a defense line, significantly restricting Sun Qian’s movements.

Once Sun Qian was wrapped up, he was utterly in despair.

The only metal object he had—a rather short dagger—was also found by Chen Wen and tossed aside.

He started a campfire.

Chen Wen roasted a can of salted fish and ate it, then began resting in the camp.

Of course, the Golden Eagle was on guard duty.

It kept a keen eye on Sun Qian, completely blocking any escape route for him.

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That night, Chen Wen managed to get a short rest.

When the first light of dawn pierced through the darkness and reached the area, Chen Wen opened his eyes.

He looked around.

There was no difference compared to the night before; the bound Sun Qian was just as he had been before Chen Wen closed his eyes.

It was quiet all around; there wasn’t a sound.

Just as Chen Wen stood up, intending to stretch his body a bit—

Suddenly, the Golden Eagle descended from the sky.

Seeing Chen Wen awake, the Golden Eagle immediately said, ”Someone’s approaching again, but these are cars I haven’t seen before, and there are several. Is it safe?”

Upon hearing this, Chen Wen climbed onto a small hill, using the height to observe the surrounding situation.

In the direct west, he observed a smudge of smoke spreading towards this direction.

The center of the smudge was an off-road vehicle, resembling the type he once saw people from the protection area driving.

”That’s the group,”

the Golden Eagle said.

Chen Wen nodded and explained, ”This should be the deputy director of the forestry department that Qu Yong mentioned yesterday; he’s also a vice official of the protection area here. I’ll go deal with them; you don’t have to come.”

Hearing this, the Golden Eagle flapped its wings and took off, circling in the sky.

Chen Wen stood on the hill, watching as they slowly approached.

When they were about a kilometer away, they seems to have noticed Chen Wen, and the first SUV flashed its headlights twice.

Chen Wen waved at them, then slowly descended from the hill.

A few minutes later—

With a screeching brake, the off-road vehicle stopped near Chen Wen.

Click.

A man got out of the car, very obviously of Tibetan race, and he seemed quite aged, giving a noticeably old appearance.

After getting out, he casually put on something resembling a law enforcement recorder.

He tinkered with it for a moment, then looked at Chen Wen: ”Hello, are you Chen Wen?”

”Yes, I am,”

Chen Wen nodded. ”And you are?”

”Zhaxi Cizhu, it was me you and Qu Yong contacted last night,”

Zhaxi Cizhu said, handing a credential symbolizing his identity to Chen Wen.

Upon looking at it, Chen Wen confirmed the man’s identity—it was indeed the deputy director that Qu Yong mentioned!