The apocalypse arrived, but there were no zombies. Only unpredictable extreme weather and daily squabbles forced humans to survive on instinct alone to avoid being eliminated.
Yun Qi struggle...
The news that Wang Zili revealed shocked everyone; it turned out that there were still three people whose fates were unknown.
"..." Everyone couldn't help but swear. This really shows that if you don't do stupid things, you won't get into trouble.
"Wu Tiancheng, go to the back and have Liu Fengya bring his medicine box over."
Upon hearing this, Wu Tiancheng nodded and ran towards the back of the line.
"We need to finish this quickly. I wonder if we can still salvage the situation?"
If we hadn't encountered them, we might have said they deserved it later, but since they've actually run into them, it wouldn't be right not to help them.
"What kind of mess is this? I specifically told them before we went down the mountain last time, but I didn't expect these people to be like this..." Wu Yong really didn't know who to blame.
"You guys keep going forward, our group is ahead." Si Cheng waved to Wang Zili and the others, seeing them standing there dumbfounded, so they could leave quickly and not hold us back.
The people of Xin San Village were eager to leave, so they quickly helped each other and headed in the direction Si Cheng had pointed.
"How could these people be so naive? They actually thought they could easily take wild boars back with them." Yun Jianying took out anesthetic from his satchel, lightly dabbed some on a gauze, and began to wipe the arrowhead.
“They’re not naive, they’re too scheming. Last time we took them up the mountain, they brought back so much stuff with ease. They thought we specifically told them to come back to the mountain to prevent them from doing so again, that we were afraid they would monopolize the resources on the mountain.”
Seeing that Yun Jianying had finished wiping the arrow in his hand, Wu Yong handed over his own arrow.
Yun Jianying shoved the gauze soaked in medicine into his hand, saying, "Hurry up, the others are waiting."
"It seems we can't be good people so easily from now on. We don't want these accidents to be blamed on us later."
"That's hard to say. After all, there are all sorts of birds in a big forest. But we don't need to worry about it. We've reminded them again and again before, and people from both villages can testify to that."
"I wonder if those three people ahead can still be saved?" Yun Jianying stood up and looked in the direction ahead. "Why haven't the wild boar herd caught up yet? Have they given up?"
"Let's wait a little longer. If all else fails, we'll have to take the initiative. We can't just sit here and wait idly."
Captain Xiao and Amon also noticed Yun Jianying and the others applying medicine to the arrowheads and wanted to know what kind of medicine it was.
“Brother Wu,” Amon couldn’t help but ask curiously as he approached Wu Yong, “What are you doing? Are you applying some kind of medicine?”
"They can tell already." Wu Yong and his team didn't try to hide it. They believed the military already knew they had anesthetic drugs on hand, but probably hadn't revealed it to the outside world.
"Can you tell me? I'm so curious!"
"What's wrong with saying this? It's anesthetic on this. We wouldn't have used it if it weren't to get rid of those wild boars as soon as possible. It's so heartbreaking. I'll have to settle this score with Xin San Village when we get back." Wu Yong even made a heart-clutching gesture, making Yun Jianying next to him feel disgusted and retreat to the side.
"You actually have such good stuff? Why didn't you exchange some for us yesterday?" Amon looked at the bottle of potion with great envy.
"What are you dreaming of? I'm already heartbroken from just using these few. We only got them by chance, and there weren't many to begin with. Every little bit we use is one less. How could we possibly exchange them for others?"
"I see. Is there a similar medicine?"
"No, why are you asking so many questions? Do you want to use them for bad things?" Wu Yong squinted at the young man, and Amon shook his head at his question.
"They're here," Si Cheng suddenly called out.
Wu Yong and the others ran to their chosen positions as quickly as possible.
Ammon, relying on his height, stood on the rock and looked ahead, but found nothing.
"Stop looking, trust Brother Cheng, he's sure to do it right," Yun Heng, who was not far from him, reminded him.
And as soon as he finished speaking, he saw several wild boars leading the way, sniffing the ground, probably looking for the scent of Wang Zili and his group.
"Goodness, these wild boars have grown even bigger in just a few days," Wu Yong thought to himself. It seemed that the plain was the perfect place to raise wild boars, but unfortunately, Chief Wu and the others valued cattle and sheep more.
"Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, ... twenty-three," everyone counted silently as a wild boar appeared in their sight, admiring even more the reckless suicidal abilities of the people in Xin San Village.
Captain Xiao and his team had learned the maximum firing range of these crossbows along the way, so they simply pulled the safety on their guns and waited for the Pinghe Village group to make the first move.
"Three, two, one!" Yun Jianying counted down three seconds, and more than a dozen crossbows fired at the wild boar at the same time. Captain Xiao and his men followed closely behind, pulling the triggers in their hands.
During regular training, Si Cheng would explain to them the different weaknesses of various animals.
The weakest point of a wild boar is above and between its eyes. If hit accurately, it can be killed instantly with a hammer or a stick. So this time, they aimed at that spot.
Through years of training, the archers who went up the mountain this time were very accurate. They hit some of the wild boars' weak points with two arrows at the same time, and the wild boars at the front fell to the ground with a thud.
The wild boars following behind began to riot again, charging recklessly towards them.
Wu Yong and his men quickly fired a few more shots before grabbing their machetes and joining Amon and the others to meet them.
"Watch out for their weak point, just above the space between their eyes," Yun Jianying shouted, wanting the others to know as well.
In its irrational state, the wild boar charged recklessly with its tusks. Everyone carefully avoided it, knowing that those tusks were teeming with bacteria, and if they scratched you, the consequences would be dire.
Si Cheng picked up some stones from the ground and stood by watching them fight. Whenever someone was about to be unable to dodge, he would throw a stone. If it hit a vital spot, the person would fall to the ground immediately. If it didn't hit a vital spot, it could slow down the opponent's movements.
With Si Cheng holding the fort on the sidelines, Wu Yong and his men became even more fearless and took down all the wild boars in less than half an hour.
"That was exhilarating! That's the spirit a real man should have," Wu Yong exclaimed, looking at the bloodstains on the blade.
“If your hands hadn’t been shaking so much when you said that, I would have believed you,” Yun Jianying retorted.
"My hands are just too weak, and besides, you're not much better off than me."
"But these wild boars are in such a sorry state. We hacked them to pieces, and their skin is thick and their bones are hard. Several times we almost couldn't pull our knives out." Captain Xiao and his men were also sitting on the ground, panting. In the end, they all went into battle with machetes.