As he spoke, Feng Baoguo began climbing up the nearest large tree.

Every year around this time, villagers who go up the mountain to chop firewood often encounter wild boars, black bears, or other such creatures.

Therefore, as a veteran educated youth, Feng Baoguo was naturally more experienced in handling such dangers than Chen Shuning and the other two new educated youths.

As soon as Feng Baoguo finished speaking, the old educated youth around him dropped their tools and started looking for big trees to climb up.

Chen Shuning and the other new educated youths didn't know, but Feng Baoguo and the other older educated youths did.

Every year, the village organizes a hunting team. Several members of the team have hunting rifles. Before the heavy snow closes off the mountains, the team's task is to patrol the outer perimeter of the deep mountains.

The hunting was also partly to ensure that, should something like today happen, the villagers in distress could be rescued immediately.

So apart from Chen Shuning and his group of new educated youth, everyone knew that if they encountered danger, they should climb a tree immediately and wait for rescue.

The new educated youth were unaware of this because so many things had happened at the educated youth settlement recently, so Feng Baoguo didn't follow the usual practice of holding a meeting with them after the weather turned cold to talk about these things.

Another reason is that the educated youth didn't go too far into the mountains to cut firewood every year. So, although there were one or two cases of villagers encountering wild boars every year, the educated youth hadn't encountered any in recent years.

So it was Feng Baoguo's carelessness.

Chen Shuning didn't expect that even after finding the main group, she would still have to climb a tree to wait for rescue.

However, seeing that the trees around him were already full of people in just a short while, Chen Shuning didn't dare to hesitate and quickly found a sturdy tree to climb up.

After hearing Feng Baoguo's words, Xu Laidi hurriedly caught up with Wang Chunni and helped her climb the tree. Seeing that they could already hear the grunting of the wild boar, Xu Laidi didn't have time to find another big tree and quickly climbed the tree where Wang Chunni was.

Because of the experience from last time, and because this time we had much more time, and with Xu Laidi helping out, we were able to improve things.

So even Wang Chunni climbed the tree this time, and everyone followed Feng Baoguo's instructions, untying their belts and binding themselves to the tree.

Chen Shuning felt that this time he was much more at ease than last time he was in the tree.

By the time the wild boar finished eating the last bun Chen Shuning threw out and chased after them, all the educated youth had already tied themselves to the safe trees.

The wild boar could no longer smell the enticing aroma and, in a rather unpleasant mood, turned its attention to the people in the tree.

The wild boar headed towards the nearest tree where Feng Baoguo was.

Although Feng Baoguo had been working in the countryside for four or five years, this was the first time he had encountered a wild boar.

This was the first time Feng Baoguo had ever seen a live wild boar. Its bristles stood straight up, its long tusks were long, and its mouth was snorting and spewing white steam.

If it weren't for the belt holding him back, Feng Baoguo would have stumbled and almost fallen off the tree.

He quickly and clumsily regained his balance, pulled a whistle of unknown material from his pocket, and put it in his mouth to blow.

The educated youth were somewhat relieved to know that Feng Baoguo was calling for reinforcements.

Moreover, the wild boar kept circling under the tree where Feng Baoguo was, which relieved the pressure on the other educated youth.

Only Feng Baoguo was nervously clinging to the big tree, not daring to move, for fear of angering the wild boar. He didn't know if the tree he was on was thick enough to withstand the wild boar's charge.

Chen Shuning stopped throwing the buns at this point, since her small handbag wasn't big, and it would be strange if she kept throwing buns at it.

Only Wang Chunni was alright. Through what had just happened, Chen Shuning discovered that Xu Laidi was actually calm under pressure, bold yet meticulous, and avoided letting her discover any clues.

Just moments ago, Chen Shuning had thrown the buns from her handbag into her spatial storage, so now her small bag only contained a handkerchief and a small packet of pickled vegetables.

The wild boar seemed satisfied, whether from its recent meal or from its obedient behavior towards the group, not daring to move an inch.

Instead of crashing into the tree where the educated youth were standing, he lay down under the tree where Feng Baoguo was.

Seeing the wild boar like this, the educated youth in the distance tried to climb down from the tree, but as soon as he moved, the wild boar, which had been lying on the ground and dozing off, would raise its head and look in the direction of the sound.

This made everyone afraid to move or walk, and Feng Baoguo, who was closest to the wild boar, held his whistle but dared not blow it again.

I don't know if it was because he blew the whistle that the wild boar chose to lie under the tree where he was.

He only blew it twice, and it's unclear whether the hunting team could hear it, since the whistle didn't seem to be very loud.

So they all stood on the tree, filled with trepidation, waiting for rescue.

Fortunately, the whistle worked well, and the uncles and brothers in the hunting team also worked well. Some of the female educated youths were so shaken that they actually rode on the trees.

Even more unlucky was Gu Xinyi, who, upon hearing about the wild boars, panicked terribly, as it was the first time she had encountered something like this.

In her panic, she chose a dead tree. The branches, already withered and dry, were easily broken. As soon as Gu Xinyi climbed up, she heard the branches creak under the weight of the tree.

But by then the wild boar had already caught up, and it was too late to change trees. Helpless, she could only try not to move around too much, and even deliberately kept her breathing light, hoping that the branch she was on could hold out until the hunting party arrived.

But things rarely go as you expect. Just as the person who was trying to sneak down the tree and slip away was warned by the wild boar.

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