"There are people ahead, let's hurry." The people who ran ahead saw someone walking towards them from afar.

"Why are people going into the mountains at this time? Didn't the people from Pinghe Village go to the city to exchange supplies?" These people only went up the mountain secretly after the others left.

"Hey, hurry up, there's a wild boar!" Just as they were running forward, someone in the group started shouting ahead.

"Wang Zili, what are you doing? They got away, who are we going to get help from?"

"What are you expecting them to do? There are dozens of wild boars! If they don't run, are they just waiting to die?" Wang Zili shouted as he continued to yell ahead.

"Forget it, let's run. Maybe if we catch up with them we can still survive."

“Someone’s coming.” Si Cheng stood still and looked ahead, and the group behind him also stopped.

"Someone else is coming from this deep mountain? Who could it be?" Yun Jianying stepped onto a rock and looked ahead, having no doubt about Cheng Ge's hearing.

"I don't know, but I could hear them shouting from afar, but I couldn't make out what they were shouting."

"There are several figures running this way, and they seem to be running very fast."

"Are you trying to escape? Here, take a closer look." Wu Yong handed the binoculars hanging on him to Yun Jianying.

Yun Jianying took the binoculars and began adjusting the focus as he observed. "Oh, it's a few familiar faces from Xin San Village. Why are they coming up the mountain alone at this time?"

"New Third Village? It seems they're insatiable, trying to take the goods back up the mountain themselves. But what are they running about?" Wu Yong immediately guessed the reason.

"I don't know, but it runs quite fast."

"Wait, did they do something? Are they running for their lives?" Wu Yong felt this scene was very familiar; it was exactly the same as the last time he encountered a tiger, except that last time it was various animals running for their lives, while now it was humans. "Did they provoke a tiger?"

"It shouldn't be. If it were a tiger, those few wouldn't be able to escape. Besides, our Brother Cheng took care of all the tigers in this area. There shouldn't be any tiger that could become king of the mountain so quickly."

Their discussion stunned Captain Xiao, who turned to look at Si Cheng beside him. "You guys have even hunted tigers on this mountain?"

"Yes, we just got these tigers a few days before we went to the city to exchange them for supplies. The tiger bones are already soaked in alcohol, and the tiger skin is still being processed. I'll take you to see them when we get back." Wu Yong said this with great pride.

Captain Xiao didn't know what to say. He suddenly felt a little envious of the villagers of Pinghe Village and wanted to become one of them.

"Run! Wild boars!" Just as they were speaking, the calls from ahead became clearer.

"Damn, these people really went and provoked those wild boars. They really don't want to live."

"Brother, give us a chance, let us try this time." Yun Jianying gripped the crossbow in his hand, looking at Si Cheng expectantly.

"Don't be reckless when the time comes." This is an implicit agreement.

"Got it, brothers, let's find a place ahead to prepare." As soon as Wu Yong and the others heard that Brother Cheng had agreed, they grabbed their weapons and ran forward with Yun Jianying.

Before Captain Xiao and his team could react, they discovered that most of the people around them had run away, and the rest were his own comrades who had come with him.

"Village Chief Si, why did you stop?" Chief Wu and the others, seeing that the procession hadn't moved for so long, sent Amon over to ask why.

"Someone is being chased by a herd of wild boars, and they're heading this way," Captain Xiao answered Amon's question for Sicheng.

"There are other people on this mountain. Will our place be taken over by someone else?" Amon was about to reach his destination when other people suddenly appeared. He began to worry and completely ignored Captain Xiao's previous words.

“It was people from other villages who went up the mountain without permission. They must have provoked a herd of wild boars, and they’re fleeing towards us now,” Si Cheng said, glancing at Amon before answering his question.

"Let's go, let's follow and take a look." Captain Xiao also wanted to go and see; he couldn't let Pinghe Village rush ahead while he hid behind.

"I'm going back to find someone." After saying this, Amon started running back. In less than a short while, he led more than twenty young men, each carrying a saber, to catch up with him.

"Chief Ma, please rest here for a while. Don't go to the front yet. I'll go take a look." Si Cheng quickly stopped them when he saw Chief Ma being helped over.

"Alright, you all be careful too." Although Chief Wu was already mentally prepared, he didn't expect to encounter problems before even entering the mountains.

When Si Cheng found Wu Yong and his group, they had just found a relatively open area with many loose rocks nearby that could serve as obstacles.

"Brother Yong, it really is you guys! Help! There's a huge herd of wild boars behind us!" The people from Xin San Village ran in and realized it was indeed someone they knew. At that moment, they didn't care about anything else and charged straight at them.

"You guys are really risking your lives for money. We specifically told you not to go up the mountain so easily, and now you've gotten yourself into trouble, haven't you?" Wu Yong and the others saw that these people were almost out of breath, so they went forward to help them walk back.

Is anyone else behind?

Si Cheng's question stumped them all, and no one answered. But this also gave Si Cheng and the others a bad feeling.

"Is there anyone else? How many people are behind us?" Captain Xiao pressed.

“There were three others. Two of them were attacked by wild boars when we were close to their nest, and we don’t know their current situation. Xiao Qin fell down halfway because he couldn’t catch up, and we didn’t pay attention to him at the time.” Seeing that no one answered, Wang Zili gritted his teeth and told them what had happened.

Are you sure the wild boar is chasing you?

"Yes, we only managed to pull ahead a bit in the previous ravine, otherwise they would have been chasing us the whole time."

"You should leave here quickly too, those wild boars have gone berserk." Wang Zili was genuinely scared; he shouldn't have ignored Captain Liu's warnings and been tempted by the wild animals on the mountain.

"If you don't have the ability, why provoke them? Isn't that just asking for trouble?" Once they heard that their encounter with the wild boars wasn't accidental, but rather an attempt to raid their lair, and given the previous incident where the baby wild boar was captured, it's no wonder that these wild boars were chasing them relentlessly.

“We didn’t originally intend to go near the wild boar’s den, but they thought that since Captain Liu and his group had easily caught so many small wild boars last time, they could surely take a big wild boar back with them now that they had so many men. But we never expected this…” Wang Zili was now filled with regret. If his three companions had met with misfortune, he didn’t know how he would explain it to their families, and he would definitely live with regret for the rest of his life.