Chapter 100 Encounter with a Herd of Wild Boars
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The large group marched into the back mountain in a grand procession. As soon as they entered the mountain, Qiao Qiao could clearly feel that some of the small animals that were out and about became restless and all hid in their dens.
Unfortunately, what these little animals didn't know was that it was precisely because of their behavior of hiding in burrows and nests that they were all taken away.
This time, the group was better equipped than before, and several of the boys even brought their family's iron rakes.
Qiao Qiao didn't have to do anything. She was like a mascot, sitting in the middle surrounded by a few boys, and then surrounded by another group of people.
The boys would occasionally glance at the hints on Qiao Qiao's forehead, and then, just like the deputy generals and vanguards surrounding a general in ancient times, they would start giving their opinions based on Qiao Qiao's hints.
The boys who followed them in simply followed the directions of the Qiao family's sons.
It only takes two hours to get into the mountains.
The rabbits, which have the highest reproductive rate, were wiped out more than ten broods, and eight or nine pheasants were caught, not to mention wild eggs, which were taken from brood after brood.
Seven or eight hog badgers, who were sleeping in a deep burrow, were dug up and caught by the boys with iron rakes.
Seeing the harvest increasing,
Everyone was getting more and more energetic as they worked.
Finally, Qiao Jing realized it was getting late, and the other young men in the Qiao family also felt it was about time, so they prepared to have everyone retreat.
Qiao Qiao, who was sitting in Qiao Jing's lap, suddenly stiffened.
Qiao Jing sensed her unusual behavior and looked at her with a puzzled expression.
He saw that Qiao Qiao's face was slightly pale, and she was clutching his clothes tightly with both hands.
The animals in the shallower areas on the outskirts of the back mountain had been mostly found by the Qiao family in previous visits, so this time, taking advantage of their large group, they ventured three kilometers further into the mountains.
The further you go into the mountains, the more animals you'll find.
Similarly, this also foreshadows greater danger.
This time, Qiao Qiao sensed an unusual aura.
After a month of cultivation, her spiritual power can now perceive places more than eighty meters away.
Therefore, she clearly sensed that there was a group of ferocious animals running towards them from eighty meters away.
They're a herd of wild boars!
Yes, a whole group!
Wild boars are social animals and never act alone; they usually live in groups of four to ten, or even ten to twenty.
Their luck wasn't so good; this time they encountered a large group—a full fourteen wild boars!
Eight of them were adults.
Although there were nearly thirty of them, they were all teenagers and there was no way they could be a match for these wild boars.
Moreover, this group of wild boars is looking for food at farms outside the mountains because they haven't found a place to spend the winter.
Qiao Qiao could even sense the violent energy emanating from the group of wild boars as they ran toward them.
As the herd of wild boars charged toward them, Qiao Qiao's face grew paler and paler.
She tugged at Qiao Jing's sleeve, anxiously saying, "Brother, wild boar! Run... no, no, no, climb a tree, climb a tree!!!"
They couldn't outrun a wild boar on two legs, especially with her and Meng Zihuan having such short legs, it was even more impossible.
Qiao Qiao remembered that her third uncle, Qiao Changhong, had once told her that he had encountered a wild boar that came to root up sweet potatoes in the fields by the mountain, and he escaped by climbing up a tree.
When the Qiao brothers heard Qiao Qiao's anxious words, they were stunned for a moment. Then they saw a group of wild boars running wildly in the bubble on Qiao Qiao's forehead, and the little person in the bubble darted up a tree.
"!!!"
The Qiao brothers were also taken aback.
Ignoring everything else, he quickly shouted to the others nearby, "Quick, quick, climb the tree! Quick, climb the tree! Hurry, the wild boar herd is coming!"
"ah??"
"Wild boar?"
"What what?"
"..."
"Climb the tree! You bunch of idiots! Wild boars are coming!"
Seeing the group of people still looking at each other blankly, not knowing what to do, Qiao Kun shouted and climbed up the tree as fast as he could. Once he reached a branch about a meter high, he reached out to Qiao Jing and said, "Quick, give me the sister!"
The others were still confused, but seeing that the Qiao brothers were already climbing trees, they didn't care about anything else and all found the nearest big tree to climb.
When they were halfway up the mountain, they heard the sound of approaching footsteps: "Thump thump thump!!!"
"Ahhhhh..."
"My God!"
"It really is a herd of wild boars!"
"Awoooo ...
Some sharp-eyed people actually spotted the wild boar, and they were so frightened that they all turned into monkeys, howling and leaping up the trees at incredible speed, as if they were riding on wheels of fire.
Fortunately, they all grew up in the countryside, so they all know how to climb trees.
Even Pei Yuanfan climbed extremely fast, reaching a tree branch more than a meter high in just over ten seconds.
Three seconds before the wild boar herd arrived, the group of people all climbed up the trees, with an average of four to five people per tree.
Some sat, some stood, and some lay on the trees, watching in shock as the wild boar herd stopped running after reaching their area.
Just as someone was about to ask why the wild boars had stopped running away, they saw the lead boar bite off the head of a rabbit they had just tied up.
"Ah... why are they eating our rabbits?" the man exclaimed, his expression pained.
"Are you hungry? My dad said that wild boars will come down the mountain to find food when they're hungry. They'll eat anything, even the chickens in the coop," someone replied.
"Yes, yes, my grandfather also said that these wild boars are very fierce and they come down from the mountains to find food every year during droughts."
"What should we do? Are we going to stay in the tree forever? What if they finish eating what's on the ground and then come up and eat us?" The boy was almost crying as he said this.
"Junzi, are you stupid? Haven't you heard adults say something like, 'When something is impossible, they usually say something like, "Even sows can climb trees, which means sows can't climb trees!"
"What about the boar?" someone asked timidly.
"..."
For a moment, no one spoke.
"Pfft." Until someone burst out laughing.
Everyone looked in the direction of the laughter and saw the little fairy of the Qiao family, with her head buried in Qiao Kun's shoulder, laughing so hard that her little body bounced up and down.
Qiao Qiao couldn't help but laugh; she found the way these young men were talking hilarious.
This made her almost burst out laughing in what was originally a serious and dangerous environment.
"You bunch of idiots, whether it's a boar, a sow, or a piglet, none of them can climb trees, okay?"
Qiao Kun hugged the little body that was shaking with laughter in his arms, afraid that she would fall off the tree while laughing, and rolled his eyes at the group of people who were talking nonsense.
What worries him now is that after the wild boars have finished eating what's on the ground, they might actually be lying in wait for someone to come to them.