Chapter 260: Gaining Experience
Two days passed in a flash. Noah successfully applied for a mission to hunt a saltwater crocodile of about two and a half meters. Unfortunately, this bounty mission wasn't very dangerous, so the price was also not high—only five thousand Australian dollars.
Basically, any bounty mission for a saltwater crocodile under three meters would be snatched up by a crocodile hunter almost instantly.
Most of the ones that hung around on the municipal government's list were the difficult ones—huge in size and surrounded by other saltwater crocodiles.
These tough nuts were, of course, dealt with, but it required a team of four or five experienced old hunters.
A four or five-meter saltwater crocodile could swallow half an adult in one bite. A two-person team would not normally challenge one.
It was quite lucky that Noah was able to get this bounty mission.
He had wanted to get a smaller saltwater crocodile for Chu Mingcheng to practice on and gain some experience.
As it happened, the client came to the City Council for help just then. When he heard it was only a 2.5-meter saltwater crocodile, he immediately accepted the mission.
Then he went to the client's house to understand the specific situation.
Chu Mingcheng had been quite relaxed these past two days. The issue with Jiang Luoluo's employee accommodation was never really a problem. However, she didn't want a strange woman living in the apartment her man had lived in; after all, it still had traces of him.
Therefore, she was willing to spend a little more money to rent a separate place.
And for the following two days, Noah was the one who ran all the errands, searching for a suitable target. To be worthy of his twenty percent cut, he got a taste of being fleeced by the capitalist for once.
"Cheng, take a look at the information on this saltwater crocodile."
"Okay."
Chu Mingcheng took the tablet and looked at the crocodile's information in detail.
He had thought it was the information on the saltwater crocodile they had found in the small river before, but it turned out Noah had accepted a bounty mission.
The target was a female saltwater crocodile that had recently taken up residence in a small pond in someone's yard and refused to leave. The main reason was that the client kept a lot of fish in the pond, and the abundant food made the saltwater crocodile unwilling to leave.
Saltwater crocodiles are quite aggressive toward humans, and the client had two young children, only five or six years old. He couldn't rest easy with the crocodile staying there for even one more day.
Therefore, he had immediately gone to the City Council for help that very day. Noah, who had been running around for two days and had filmed another saltwater crocodile, happened to run into him and took the mission on the spot.
After reading it, Chu Mingcheng began to pack his gear. "Let's just bring a rope and we can go."
Noah, who had just taken out his shotgun, was stunned. "I've already got my shotgun out, and you're telling me we only need a rope?"
"I don't need this thing. Are you planning to go solo?"
"NONONO, I have absolutely no intention of going solo. I just want to try the feeling of shooting a gun."
"Noah, you should save some bullets. Your wife is coming back to Australia soon."
"You don't understand. It doesn't matter if the bullets are gone, as long as this shotgun is good."
Chu Mingcheng couldn't be bothered with this chattering old man anymore. What was an assistant doing with a shotgun? Would he admit he was envious?
Unfortunately, he couldn't own a shotgun!
They had switched cars. This time, it was a second-hand—or who knows how many hands—pickup truck they had bought from a used market, complete with a crane on the back. The total cost was twenty-two thousand Australian dollars.
Chu Mingcheng had paid for it. After all, he was taking eighty percent of the profits; he couldn't let Noah pay for it. Anyway, he would sell the truck before leaving Australia to recoup some of the cost.
Although the pickup was cheap, it was very stable on the road. Noah had been driving around the suburbs for the past few days, and the truck had no problems at all.
They bought a boiled chicken on the way, and Noah drove directly to the client's house.
The client lived on the outskirts of the city, in a typical European-style small villa with a yard much larger than the house.
This was the advantage of a developed country with a small population—at least people didn't have to worry about housing when they got married.
"Oh, thank goodness, you're finally here." Noah had already called ahead, and the client was waiting at the door. When he saw the car drive in, he immediately came forward to welcome them.
Of course, his enthusiasm was mainly for Noah.
As for Chu Mingcheng, he was treated as the crocodile hunter's little assistant, but he didn't mind.
The client exchanged a few pleasantries with Noah, then walked into the yard and came to the side of the small pond.
At the left edge of the pond, a saltwater crocodile's head could be seen above the water. Judging by the size of its head, it was indeed smaller than the one they had caught before.
Chu Mingcheng took out the boiled chicken he had just bought as bait and came to the edge of the pond.
Seeing this, the client was startled. "Noah, what is he doing?"
"Don't worry, just watch. He's the crocodile hunter of our team. He once subdued a three-meter-plus saltwater crocodile with his bare hands, easy."
Noah patted the client's shoulder to reassure him, then set up the camera to film.
Then he brought a rope from the car to tie the crocodile with later.
Of course, there was also a cloth to cover its eyes, which he thought Chu Mingcheng might use.