Chapter 61 A Different Roar
Zhao Yeqing was startled and stood up and ran upstairs. Mu Xi followed closely behind him and took three or two steps up the stairs.
Going up to the second-floor terrace, the scene in front of you becomes clear. Although the sun has set, the white moonlight is scattered on the earth. With the help of the moonlight, the dark shadows outside the wall can be seen clearly.
Zhao Yeqing recognized it, the wild boar that was digging at her potatoes!
The wild boar heard the noise, looked up and saw the person standing on the second floor. He let out a low growl and his eyes flashed with ferocity.
Zhao Yeqing's heart trembled, and the fear of facing the wild boar in the woods that day resurfaced.
When the wild boar saw people, it did not hide, but instead rushed straight into the outermost wooden wall.
The wall was not very strong and it tilted slightly after being hit a few times.
She remembered the stainless steel basin she had used to drive away the wild boar, and quickly took it out of the bathroom and hit it hard.
"Ding! Ding! Ding!" The sharp metallic sounds did not make the wild boar retreat even a step this time.
Because the weather has been getting hotter recently, Zhao Yeqing removed the torches set up outside the courtyard wall. He hadn't seen wild boars for a long time and thought they would not come again, but he didn't expect them to come again.
The wild boar roared and rammed the wall hard. Its long and hard tusks hit the wooden boards with a dull "dong dong" sound, which made people's hearts beat fast.
She then remembered that there was someone else at home, and subconsciously reached out to grab something, but found nothing. She turned around and found that Mu Xi was not around. Just as she was about to call for help, she saw him running up the stairs.
With that gun in hand.
He pulled the bolt and loaded the gun in one go, then raised the muzzle and aimed at the wild boar. The wild boar outside the fence was unaware of the danger at all.
"Bang!"
The sound of gunfire pierced the entire forest as the bullet penetrated the wild boar's body. The wild boar felt the pain and let out a sharp howl that was completely different from the low growl before. It rushed around in panic, twisting its body around.
One shot is not fatal. It is difficult to hit the vital parts of the wild boar when it is moving around. It is also difficult to hit the head. The previous shot was aimed at the heart, but the wild boar did not fall down. It is estimated that the bullet was blocked by the bones.
Mu Xi held the gun and waited for the opportunity. The wild boar was sometimes visible behind the wall and sometimes hidden in the shadows. He didn't want to waste bullets because he was not sure. After all, in this forest, every extra bullet meant an extra chance of survival.
The wild boar was in so much pain that it found a random path and went into the woods.
Mu Xi slowly put down the gun. Zhao Yeqing was still in shock. "Will it come back again? Will it die if it is shot?"
Mu Xi shook his head. "It won't die, but it probably won't come back anytime soon. It still needs to heal its wounds."
Zhao Yeqing thought of the wild boar she had killed before. It was poked in the eyes by her and shot twice before it died.
"Can it be recovered after being shot?" She was puzzled. Wouldn't it be infected and die if the bullet was not removed?
"Do you remember that wild boar we killed earlier was covered in mud?"
Zhao Yeqing was deeply impressed. "Wild boars cannot sweat on their own, so they cool themselves down by rolling in the mud. The mud crust sticks to their bristles and becomes hard."
Mu Xi explained, "In fact, it not only cools down, but also heals wounds. Like other animals, wild boars not only find herbs to eat, but also roll in the mud to stop bleeding and speed up the clotting of wounds. I once saw a wild boar in the reserve behind my B&B that survived with a hole as big as a bowl."
Zhao Yeqing was once again struck by nature.
The two men went downstairs. The two little leopards did not go up to the second floor. When they heard the roar, they growled warnings in the yard towards the outside.
When I saw the two people coming down, I approached them cautiously.
The outer wall didn't have a foundation to begin with. They just dug a small ditch and knocked the wall into it and buried it. It wasn't buried too deep, so it fell inward a little after being hit.
Zhao Yeqing straightened the wall, and Mu Xi filled the soil that was dug out from under the wall and compacted it with his feet, and it was barely repaired.
I was feeling a little sleepy after eating, but the sudden attack by the wild boar scared away all that sleepiness.
The two of them sat in the living room, enjoying the fans and playing with their phones.
The howling of wild boars came from the woods in the distance. Zhao Yeqing was almost having a stress reaction and straightened up all of a sudden.
"here we go again?"
"Not like it." Mu Xi sat still, listening with his ears perked up.
The wild boar's voice was not close, but its roar was extremely tragic. Soon, another roar that was completely different from that of the wild boar sounded.
It sounded like two animals were fighting in the woods.
The roar that she had never heard of before was obviously more frightening. She turned her head to look at Mu Xi, she was so frightened that she was a little dazed, with her mouth slightly open.
"It's a bear."
There is only one kind of bear in the Meishan Mountains, the black bear, commonly known as the black bear.
Black bears are not particularly large in size, generally between 1.5 and 1.8 meters, and their combat effectiveness is not very high.
But this fighting power is compared with other bears, she can't compare with this thing.
Bears are also nocturnal creatures. I think they came out at this time and happened to encounter the wild boar fleeing in panic, so they started fighting.
Otherwise, according to the habits of black bears, as soon as they smell the scent of wild boar from three hundred meters away, they will growl and drive away the enemy.
The bear's mating season is in June and July, and this month, the weather suddenly became hot. She could imagine how irritable the bear would be.
If the black bear's target was their house, then this wild boar could be considered as helping them ward off disaster tonight.
Zhao Yeqing looked at the hunting rifle standing upright on the ground next to the sofa, which made her feel extremely safe. This was her first time to come into such close contact with a real gun.
"Where did this come from?"
Mu Xi's eyelashes trembled, and her shoulders seemed to sag a little. After two seconds of silence, she answered, "Before the ground cracked, I helped the authorities catch a few people who wanted to take advantage of the infected to go into the mountains to poach. Just as they caught them, the ground cracked... Everyone fell in. I drove to escape. This was taken from them when they were arrested."
Zhao Yeqing didn't know that this topic could be so sensitive, and she was at a loss for a moment. She was not very good at comforting people, so she just rubbed his head with her hand, just like Mu Xi did last time.
After rubbing it, I felt something was wrong and tried to find a topic, "So, doesn't that mean there are no spare bullets?"
Mu Xi was suddenly comforted in some strange ways and completely forgot that he did the same thing. It was the first time he felt it and it felt a little strange.
Seeing her unnatural expression, he wanted to tease her instead. He rubbed her hair back with evil intentions, messing it up, and then said
"The order is in disarray. This kind of thing is easy to buy, but the quantity is not large."
She saw that Mu Xi's mood had calmed down, and the silence in his eyes seemed to dissipate.
He turned to talk to her, facing the open door. The moonlight was bright outside, and his eyes seemed to be filled with the Milky Way.
Suddenly, I felt that it was okay to sacrifice myself to comfort others once in a while.
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