Chapter 293: Encounter with the Wild Boar King Again

Anyway, the wild boars had already been frightened, so there was no need to tiptoe anymore. The people at the bottom of the ditch spread their legs and feet and quickly chased after them.

Xiaowu, who was standing on the ridge, also fell down.

Soon, the two groups met together.

“What’s going on? Why are you so scared when we are so far away? Xiaowu, did you make eye contact with the wild boar on the ridge?” Uncle Zhao asked with a puzzled look on his face.

“No, I can’t even see the pigs near the bushes from where I am!
There is a very big pig! It must be at least 800-900 kilograms or even heavier. It looks as big as the old yellow cow in the village! “Xiaowu was still a little frightened when he spoke.

“A pig weighing 800 to 900 kilograms? Are you drunk? You’re not the Wild Boar King, how can you get so many pigs as big as old oxen?”

When Yue Feng heard Xiaowu say this, his first reaction was that this guy was bragging.

It is true that some wild boars with extraordinary talents can grow to weigh up to 800 to 900 kilograms, but this is definitely an exception and not the norm.

In an ordinary herd of pigs, the largest pig can weigh three or four hundred kilograms, which is considered quite large!
At this time, Xiao Tao also agreed, “Xiao Wu is right! It is really big! It runs like a small car! The snow crust is crushed, and the remaining pigs follow behind it.

“Damn! Could it be the wild boar king from last time?” Yue Feng frowned when he heard Xiao Tao agree.

“Which big pig gave the first signal?”

“Yeah, it seems like they are! They are under the forest. We can’t see the ground at all from the ridge because they are blocked by the bushes nearby.

I heard a sound of chasing, and then the pigs started running! The big one was much bigger than the armored cannonball we killed last time!”

“Did you just hit it?”

“It looks like I was shot!”

“Let’s go and take a look at the place where the pigs were driven up!” Uncle Zhao heard that the Wild Boar King was also interested, so he took the lead and walked in front.

Soon, after walking for more than 200 meters along the bottom of the ditch, they arrived at the place where the wild boars had just fed.

The snow on the ground was completely trampled into mud. Uncle Zhao lowered his head and looked carefully in the mud for a few times, and soon found a huge footprint.

“Look at this footprint! It’s almost as wide as a cow’s hoof!”

Yue Feng looked over in the direction of the sound, and sure enough, the footprints left on the snow were similar to those left by the wild boar king when he came back to fight him. Compared with the hoof prints of ordinary wild boars, the difference was at least two sizes.

“Could it be that the wild boar king has been wandering somewhere else for more than a month and has come back here?” Yue Feng asked curiously.

“I was wondering why, twice in a row, even though people didn’t get close to them, the pigs ran away from a distance, and there was a very smart pig in the herd!
Xiaowu, you said you were hit by a bullet just now. Did you hit the wild boar king?” Uncle Zhao turned his head and asked.

“Well…it seems so! I vaguely saw blood spurting out just now!”

The straight-line distance from the place where the shot was fired to the place where the wild boar escaped was at least two hundred meters, which meant that standing on the ridge gave him a visual advantage. In addition, the Qiuzi forest was not too dense, which gave Xiaowu the opportunity to shoot. With his marksmanship, it was normal that he missed the target.

Not to mention Xiaowu, who was two hundred meters away and separated by a forest, so if Yue Feng took the target, his hit rate wouldn’t be very high.

“Spread out first and look around to see if there’s any blood!” Uncle Zhao nodded, and followed the wild boar’s trail as he looked out.

Yue Feng also followed, and as he slowly climbed from the bottom of the ditch to the shady side, he looked around for possible traces.

I did see a few bullet impact points, but no bloodstains.

After climbing up another ten meters, a splattered bloodstain appeared in front of Yue Feng.

“There is blood here!” Yue Feng shouted.

Soon, Uncle Zhao came over, looked down at the location where the blood was splattered, and then looked around at the surrounding environment and trees.

Uncle Zhao looked very carefully. Yue Feng didn’t know what he was looking for. After waiting for about a few minutes, the old man found a barely detectable trace of blood under a tree nearby.

“The bullet just grazed the skin and didn’t hit any vital parts! It shouldn’t have hit the cannon’s testicles!” Uncle Zhao said in a very affirmative tone.

“Uncle, how do you know? It looks to me like the cannon ball is being fired!” Xiaowu asked curiously.

“Look, the blood is splattering from this direction! A few drops splashed onto the tree trunk, and the rest fell diagonally onto the snow. The height of the blood on the tree trunk was only about 40 centimeters, and next to it, less than a meter away from the blood, were the footprints of a wild boar!
Let’s work it the other way around. Connect the two bloodstains into a line, extend it in the opposite direction, and intersect it with the wild boar footprints. Then we can roughly determine the height at which the wild boar was shot! According to my method, the wild boar that was shot and bleeding was about 60 centimeters high! This height is exactly the core position of the wild boar king’s torso.

If the 7.62mm bullet hit the wild boar king’s torso, it would at least cause serious injuries, and the blood loss would definitely be more than this.

The most reasonable guess is that the bullet hit a smaller wild boar.

In addition, there is another factor. If you are firing from 200 meters away, the muzzle of the gun will be raised subconsciously, which can also be consistent with the inference result!”

After listening to Uncle Zhao’s analysis, Yue Feng was full of admiration. The old man was indeed a veteran hunter who had played with guns in the mountains all his life. He roughly guessed the situation at that time just from the bloodstains on the ground and the footprints of the prey.

Of course, this speculation cannot be said to be 100% correct. There is a small probability that the bullet hits the tail, hoof or other non-fatal parts, but the probability is close to reality.

“No matter whether it’s a big pig or a small pig, let’s continue chasing it with the dog before it gets dark! This is the wild boar king! Last time we came to hunt it but couldn’t find any trace, we can’t let it get away this time!”

At this time, Xiao Tao was eager to try with the knife in his hand.

“Uncle, what do you think?” Yue Feng did not make a decision, but turned to ask Uncle Zhao.

Uncle Zhao frowned slightly and shook his head.

“If the wild boar king is injured, we might have a chance if we take the dog to chase it! But now it is highly likely that the wild boar king is in good condition, so I don’t recommend that we continue to chase it!”

“Are you afraid that it will be like last time, chasing for a long time and then in vain in the end?” Yue Feng understood immediately and asked with a smile.

“Yes! A wild boar that can grow to this size must have some skills. Apart from anything else, it can spot us from such a long distance even without any scent upwind. We have no way to deal with it!
Humans can’t outrun pigs. A pig that big must be a very cautious and timid one to survive and grow that big!
It was startled, and it could run for at least a few hours on the mountain before stopping. It’s hard to say whether it can return to the pig sty where it spent the night! I don’t think there is much hope if we just chase it blindly!”

After hearing what Uncle Zhao said, people who don’t know much about the business might refute him without hesitation. They are all wild boar kings weighing hundreds or even thousands of kilograms. How can they be timid? How cautious can they be?
If someone is chasing you or even shooting you, wouldn’t you have to defend your dignity with your huge body and thick skin like those cannon eggs that were shot dead?
The answer is quite heartbreaking. Those who can survive in the cruel natural environment are individuals who are smarter than their peers.

Intelligence is not necessarily reflected in being reckless, but rather in being timid and cautious. Only by running away at the slightest sign of trouble can one survive repeated pursuits and manhunts.

It’s not that fat grows in one day, and you can’t eat a lot of fat in one go. That huge body is the result and proof of its survival time and time again.

As for those reckless guys who weigh three or four hundred pounds and rush at people at the sound of gunfire, almost without exception they become dead by the gun, so they have no chance to grow that big.

If you want to compete with this thing to decide life and death, under the current objective conditions, it can be foreseen that it will be a protracted tug-of-war, and it will definitely be difficult to get a result in a short time.

Uncle Zhao had foreseen all of this, which is why he made the previous judgment.

“Then, should we still stroll around these ditches? At least look for the location of the wild boar’s den. If we’re lucky, we might be able to find a pee nest tomorrow morning!” Yue Feng asked again.

Uncle Zhao nodded: “It’s okay to go back at this time. If you want to go around, let’s go ahead. I personally don’t think it’s a good idea!”

After a brief discussion, everyone decided to continue wandering around the surrounding mountain valleys that were suitable for wintering.

Uncle Zhao took a few people to wander around in the mountains and searched all the places he thought were most likely to be where Xuwo would spend the night.

As it was getting dark, they found the pigsty where the wild boar had spent the night last night in a sheltered place called Bojiweizi.

The intelligence of this wild boar once again shocked Uncle Zhao.

When ordinary wild boars build their nests, they just pick up some branches and daylilies and spread them in the nest to keep warm. The bottom of the nest is the snow accumulated since the winter, and branches and hay are spread on top.

Wild boars gather together in their dens at night, and their body temperature will warm up the grass and trees. If there is snow underneath, the snow may absorb the heat and melt, or even turn into a pile of mud. Many grass, trees and branches will be pressed at the bottom of the mud.

After the pigs wake up, the mud freezes hard again and the process is repeated at night, consuming a lot of the wild boars’ extra calories.

This wild boar’s den clearly looked like it had not been there for long, but a deep pit had been dug out by the wild boars, and the snow underneath had all been dug up, revealing a thick layer of pine needles, hay and other warm things.

Wild boars spend the night in such pig kennels. Even if there is wind at night, most of the cold air is blocked by the edge of the pit. In terms of heat preservation and comfort, it is much better than the kennels made by ordinary wild boars.

“Fuck, this wild boar is different! Look at this nest, the earth pit is like the bottom of a big pot! It’s dry and clean underneath, without any mud!” Even though Xiao Tao was usually a bit reckless, he could see the details now. He walked around the wild boar’s nest several times, marveling at it.

“Now, do you still plan to continue chasing this big wild boar king?” Uncle Zhao’s judgment was verified again.

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