With such a large and heavy wild boar, these few people couldn't easily drag it to the stream to deal with it. Chen Chongshan took out a long knife and began to skin the wild boar on the spot.
Old Fu and Wenfei also brought over knives and cut off some shredded meat and fat to feed the dog.
These dogs, big and small, are all experienced hunters and are not averse to raw meat. Although Mastiff King Sengge has never hunted before, its main food on the grassland used to be fresh beef and mutton fed by herders.
Chen Chongshan cut off pieces of meat with good quality, one by one, and prepared to wash them by the stream before roasting them over the fire.
Although they had pheasant soup and muntjac meat before, the eight men had a large appetite, and coupled with the exhaustion from the long journey, some wild boar meat would be just enough to completely fill their stomachs.
Chen Chongshan was carefully cutting the wild boar meat when Xu Jiaming called out, "Hey, Chongshan, help me get that wild boar's head off. I'm taking it back to Tanzhou. Be careful not to damage it."
"How are we going to carry such a big wild boar head?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Chongshan paused for a moment, then asked hesitantly.
This behemoth weighed at least 800 pounds, and its head was enormous. Chen Chongshan estimated that the wild boar's head weighed at least several tens of pounds.
Carrying such a large vehicle through the mountains and forests is not a wise choice.
"this……"
Xu Jiaming was stunned for a moment when he heard Chen Chongshan's question.
Such a large wild boar head is indeed not suitable to carry on your person; carrying too much weight during jungle adventures can sometimes cause fatal injuries.
However, such a large creature is extremely rare and hard to come by. If such a wild boar head were brought back to Tanzhou, it could definitely fetch an astronomical price.
"Young Master Xu, what do you need a wild boar's head for?"
Zhou Cong looked at Xu Jiaming with a puzzled expression and asked.
"Make it into a specimen, don't you think it would be impressive and imposing to hang this guy as a specimen in the hall?"
Xu Jiaming said with a hint of reluctance.
"Oh, that's easy."
Zhou Cong replied casually.
"Easy? How do you do it?"
Xu Jiaming immediately became interested and hurriedly asked.
"Just cut off the head, peel off the skin, and then we can make a model frame with other things to hold the skin up."
Zhou Cong replied with a smile, then paused and added, "Remember to remove those fangs; teeth can't be replicated."
After hearing Zhou Cong's words, Xu Jiaming became excited and hurriedly shouted to Chen Chongshan, "Alright, alright, Chongshan, that's enough meat, we can't finish it all."
"Let's get this wild boar's head ready before it gets dark, and we can let it dry tonight."
"Alright, stop rushing me."
Chen Chongshan shook his head helplessly and handed all the cut meat to Liao Bin and Cao Yang. With Zhou Cong's help, he began to work on the wild boar's huge head.
Xu Jiaming watched from the side, muttering to himself, "Hey kid, you're a bit too heavy-handed. Be careful, this thing is expensive."
"Alright, alright, stop nagging."
Chen Chongshan replied silently as he continued cutting with his knife.
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Everything at the campsite was set up, the fires were lit, the sun was gradually setting, and it was getting late.
After a fierce battle, the hunting dogs were exhausted and lay down to rest beside the camp. Nightfall meant that more unknown dangers might befall them, and they needed to be well-rested to keep watch.
The stream flowed slowly, and there was even a lot of wild animal droppings in the lower reaches, so the water quality wasn't very good. Liao Bin and Cao Yang took the wild boar meat and walked to the upper reaches of the stream.
Just a hundred meters from the camp, a deep pool appeared in the middle of the shallow stream.
The pool is not wide, but the stream water is dark green, which is enough to show that the pool is extremely deep.
"Hey, there's a deep pool here too. It's a pity we didn't bring a fishing net, otherwise there might be some fish we don't know or have never seen before in there."
Upon seeing the pool, Liao Bin was quite excited and turned to shout towards the camp.
"There aren't that many unknowns. Hurry up and wash the meat; I'm waiting to grill it."
Wenfei replied with a smile,
Liao Bin immediately shook his head: "No adventurous spirit at all, no room for imagination."
Muttering to themselves, Liao Bin and Cao Yang still squatted down by the pool.
The pool was bottomless, but the water quality was quite good. They placed the pieces of wild boar meat one by one on the rocks by the pool, and the blood seeped out with the water, dissolving into the dark depths of the pool...
"I must say, I've never eaten an 800-pound wild boar before in my life. Today I can finally have a taste."
While washing the wild boar meat in his hands, Liao Bin spoke to Cao Yang beside him.
"I used to think that only places like the Xingan Mountains in Northeast China could have wild boars this big, but I didn't expect that there were also wild boars in Shennongjia."
"Didn't they say there are South China tigers here? With tigers and tigers around, how could these wild boars have survived for so long..." Cao Yang muttered to himself.
"Look at this, this wild boar is already so big. Even if it encountered a South China tiger, it probably wouldn't be at a disadvantage."
"Besides, wild South China tigers haven't been seen for many years, and there might not even be any in Shennongjia," Liao Bin replied, shaking his head.
"That's true."
Cao Yang nodded in reply, and just as he was about to say something more, the water in the pool in front of him suddenly began to churn without warning.
The two were immediately shocked, and before they could recover, a dark shadow suddenly appeared, the water in the pool churned a few times, and several pieces of wild boar meat that had been thrown onto the edge of the pool disappeared instantly.
Then the dark figure sank back to the bottom of the pool, and the water returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.
"What...what was that...?"
Liao Bin asked in a trembling, broken voice, his face pale.
"I...I...I don't know either..."
Cao Yang shook his head tremblingly, and then the two of them seemed to suddenly realize something, and ran towards the camp: "Monster...water monster...there's a water monster..."
"What happened?"
Hearing the shouts, everyone in the camp looked over, and even the hunting dogs were startled and stood up, staring at the two running people with bewildered expressions.
"There's a water monster, there's a water monster, there's a water monster."
After running all the way to the camp, Liao Bin and Cao Yang's fear subsided a little, and they were panting heavily as they shouted.
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