The Top Fishing
Chapter 651 - 279: Making Traps_2

Chapter 651: Chapter 279: Making Traps_2

Large clumps of scattered soil, as well as faintly visible footprints and the dark entrance, told of what happened last night.

"Fuck, it almost burrowed into the cellar? If it had succeeded, wouldn’t the cabin be uninhabitable, with it digging here and there, eventually collapsing the house."

"Such large footprints, fuck!"

Lin Yang continued with the camera: "There’s even scarier stuff. I also found this over here."

Soon, bear feces appeared in his camera.

"These feces with remnants of both meat and veggies, I can say with certainty, are Black Bear feces. It has already marked the area around my campsite as its territory."

Hearing this, everyone in the live stream became unsettled.

Just the thought of being neighbors with an adult Black Bear without any weapons is terrifying.

Imagine squatting by a bush, taking a dump, and suddenly getting slapped on the back by a bear. Just the thought of that fatal risk made everyone feel a chill down their spine.

"Host, listen to us, let’s evacuate, safety first."

Yue’er: "Brother Yang, I’m calling Brother Lu right now, you can’t stay any longer. I was scared enough watching your live stream yesterday, what if something dangerous happens?"

What a shocker, Yue’er was spooked early in the morning.

Normally, Yue’er would never get up before nine or ten in the morning when she wasn’t working, but today, being the weekend, it wasn’t even six o’clock yet. She must have subscribed to a special start-of-stream alert and set the ringtone to max to wake up like this.

Seeing her message, Lin Yang quickly interjected: "Don’t panic, Yue’er. There’s some risk indeed, but if I’m just a little careful, the risk is still within controllable limits. It’s not bad enough to quit the competition just yet. I’ve already thought of a way to deal with this problem."

"A way? What way?"

"Yeah, what way? Let’s discuss it, guys."

Lin Yang grinned: "Don’t forget what I have in my hands. I have a shovel! I’ve thought it through before the stream started. I’m going to set a trap for this bear."

As he spoke, he picked up the shovel lying nearby.

After digging the cellar, all the rust on the surface of the shovel had been completely ground away, and now the blade shimmered with a faint whitish hue, flashing with the cold light of metal.

"Setting a trap? Against a Black Bear? What kind of trap can actually catch it?" Yue’er was skeptical about his claim, as it ventured beyond her knowledge.

Lin Yang continued: "This fellow got poked by a red-hot tree branch last night, so it surely has some lingering fear and won’t dare to come too close to the shelter for a while.

So, I plan to dig a huge pit outside the campsite and use dried fish as bait. If it dares to come, I’ll take its life.

Just now I scoped out the area. The soil nearby isn’t too hard to dig. With full effort, I should be able to finish in no more than two days.

And before the pit is ready, I’ll light a bonfire outside the door of the house before sleeping. That’ll definitely keep me safe."

Truth be told, aside from the vast amount of physical labor required, Lin Yang’s proposal didn’t have any other downsides. With a handy digging tool, it wasn’t impossible to create a pitfall.

The shelter was sturdy enough to ensure his safety, and after his explanation, he managed to persuade both the viewers and Yue’er.

With his mind made up, Lin Yang, after breakfast and checking the traps, started to busy himself.

He picked a relatively flat area about seventy to eighty meters away from the campsite as the location for the pit and quickly began work.

His trap was rather simple: the initial plan was to dig a deep hole about the height of a man, making the sides as steep as possible, aiming for a bear to jump in and have a hard time climbing out in a short period, with the planned depth around two meters.

After digging, Lin Yang found that his previous assessment was not off the mark; the soil beneath was not too tough to excavate. On the first day, he managed to dig a large hole over one and a half meters wide and over a meter deep.

Facing a threat to his life, he showed extraordinary potential, taking only short breaks to eat and working almost nonstop all day.

That night, he lit a large fire outside the shelter, and the night passed without incident.

The next morning, Lin Yang discovered fresh bear tracks when he approached the hole.

It went without saying that the creature had visited the vicinity of the campsite again last night, but kept away due to the fear of the fire and did not attack.

On the second day, Lin Yang’s commitment to the digging continued. After reaching a certain depth, the handle of the shovel got in the way, so he decided to sharpen it with an axe, shortened it, and used a makeshift ladder to haul the dug soil up.

By late afternoon, the pit began to take shape, with the excavated soil piled around the edges, raising the height by another half a meter.

From afar, it resembled an old-fashioned well one might find in a country lane.

Lin Yang compacted the piles of soil around the pit, effectively preparing the trap preliminarily.

"Look, everyone, how does this trap that I spent two days digging look? Not bad, right?" Lin Yang took a swig of water from a crude pottery jug, feeling a great sense of achievement.

"It looks the part, but are you sure a bear can’t climb out of this? I’m not convinced by the depth of around two and a half meters. An averagely trained person could climb out without a ladder."

"Besides, with the mound so high around the edge, how’s that going to work? Would a bear even get in there?"

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