The Wilderness of the Seventies: One Person and One Hunting Rifle, Living Like a God

[Period setting] [Hardcore hunting] [Golden finger] [No saintly protagonist] [Rise of a legend]

A blizzard sent Chen Ye, a patrol ranger in a wildlife reserve, plunging off a cliff to his death.

When he opened his eyes again, it was 1975, in a remote forest camp in the mountains of Mohe, surrounded by frozen wasteland at forty degrees below zero.

The thatched hut was drafty, the stove was empty, and all his uncle had left him was a rusty single-shot hunting rifle and five homemade rounds with loose primers.

While others huddled indoors waiting to die, he trudged through the snow to set traps in the mountains.

While others scraped by on thin cornmeal gruel, he ate rabbit soup and grouse every day, with his eaves hung full of dried game.

He activated the [Mountain and River Tracks Atlas], and a terrain map of the wilderness appeared in his mind, showing every animal track and trace of droppings.

He tracked lone wolves through the snow, hunted red deer in the deep mountains, and ventured alone into the uninhabited wilderness to take down a menacing black bear.

From a young educated settler who nearly starved to death to a legendary hunting god admired across the province, Chen Ye carved out a path through the frigid forest with his rifle and wilderness survival skills!

A forest camp supervisor gaped. "What's all that hanging in this kid's house? Gray wolf pelts, wild boar tusks, bear paws?"

A commune official drew in a sharp breath. "The uninhabited wilderness in Mohe that nobody's dared enter for years... He crossed it all alone?"

Only at the provincial commendation ceremony did everyone realize:

That poor, isolated young settler they'd once considered a burden had already become the founder of the foremost hunting stronghold on the border!