Chapter 174 The Tiger Forced to Flee
Gao Mingcheng ignored Mr. Luo and the Ma brothers who had left, and instead focused his attention on the remaining two people.
He actually knew the man with a thigh injury and unconsciousness. He was the middle-aged man who sold the Black Tiger to him!
When he sold Black Tiger, it was said that his son had polio and needed money to go to the hospital for treatment. After that, Gao Mingcheng did not make any special inquiries and did not know whether his son's illness had recovered.
The man carrying him was strong and sturdy, with a hunting rifle hanging around his neck and a dagger on his waist. It seemed that he had come into the mountains to hunt.
The news that there are black bears in this mountain range may have spread completely, which is why people started to enter the mountain one after another.
But they certainly didn't expect that there was a tiger hiding in this mountain!
However, tigers are also excellent prey for some people, and the reputation of tiger bone wine is enduring.
The man who sold the black tiger was from Kengli Village, so they must have taken the road to Kengli Village when going down the mountain. However, with the speed of an ordinary person, it would take them until dark. And since he was carrying a person on his back, he would probably have to spend the night in the mountains.
Gao Mingcheng touched his pocket and took out a box of anti-inflammatory medicine. As for hemostatic medicine, he didn't need to bring it with him because as long as he was familiar with herbs, he could find hemostatic herbs in the mountains.
The more common hemostatic drugs in the mountains include thistle, mugwort, locust flowers, cypress leaves, Imperata roots, hairy money grass, and golden dog hair fern.
If Gao Mingcheng was injured and the wound was not big, he would use more golden dog hair fern, because if you tear off the hairy thing on the golden dog hair fern and put it on the wound, press it for one or two minutes and the bleeding will stop quickly.
This thing is very common in the mountains and is easy to obtain. It does not need to be processed and can be applied directly to the wound.
Gao Mingcheng found the right angle, threw the anti-inflammatory medicine in his hand to the man, and said, "How did he get hurt? Give him some anti-inflammatory medicine first, and then find some golden dog hair fern to apply to his wound."
The strong man had known that someone was hiding nearby, so he was not surprised when he heard the sound. He first thanked him, and then said, "He was chased by a tiger and rolled down the hillside. His right foot was broken and his head was hit. Brother, can you help me? I can't carry him alone, and we have to get down the mountain before dark."
Gao Mingcheng was silent for a moment. He was willing to save people, but did not want to reveal his identity.
So he said, "I will help you hold the tiger back so that it won't chase you."
For these two people, the tiger is also a danger lurking in the dark.
The sturdy man was silent for a few seconds. He put the person on his back down, picked up the anti-inflammatory medicine on the ground, and fed the medicine to the injured and unconscious person first. Then he took off the water bottle from his waist, fed the man two sips of water, and then he drank a few sips of water himself.
After doing all this, he put the person on his back again and walked down the mountain step by step.
Gao Mingcheng watched them leave and then went to track the injured tiger.
After searching for a long time in the forest, he finally saw the injured tiger. The tiger had finished hunting and eating, and some fur, bones and blood remained on the ground.
Gao Mingcheng guessed that the tiger must have hunted a hare, but a hare obviously could not satisfy the appetite of a tiger, so the tiger took a short rest and continued to look for prey.
Tigers are good hunters, but their hunting success rate is not high, so it takes a lot of time each time to hunt enough prey to eat.
Once a tiger gets old, it is at risk of starving to death.
However, this tiger looks like it is still in its prime, strong and sturdy.
It just had some wounds on its body, so it looked a little disheveled.
It continued to hunt, and in this familiar territory, it obviously knew which prey lived where, and now its goal was to hunt a wild boar.
Eating plenty of food can effectively restore wound healing.
Gao Mingcheng followed the tiger all the time, witnessing it looking for prey and the entire hunting process.
The injured tiger did not choose a large group of wild boars, but chose a group of only five wild boars. At this time, these five wild boars were eating in the forest. Some of them were nibbling tender leaves, some were digging the soil to find insects, and some were eating berries.
After finding its target, the tiger hid in the dark, observed first, then quickly ran forward and bit a little wild boar.
The little wild boar was frightened and narrowly escaped from the tiger's mouth. The other wild boars were also frightened and instinctively ran away.
The tiger continued to chase, staring at its target intently. Just as it was about to bite the little wild boar again, a noise came from the depths of the forest.
"What the hell!" Gao Mingcheng's eyes widened. He actually saw an extremely ferocious wild boar!
This might be the wild boar king, much larger than ordinary wild boars, and with a terrifying momentum. It led a dozen wild boars behind it and actually charged towards the tiger.
This momentum made the tiger dare not confront it head-on, so it turned around and ran away.
Seeing the wild boar king roaring and running arrogantly, Gao Mingcheng said he was also frightened.
He looked around, his face full of surprise. It was clearly the same mountain range, but why were there not only tigers but also wild boar kings?
The wild boars near Gaojia Village are obviously not so ferocious!
Even Gao Mingcheng had to think twice before facing a wild boar that could fight with a tiger. He also left quietly, not daring to provoke this ferocious wild boar king.
The fur of this wild boar king is even rougher and it has a pair of fangs in its mouth. Judging from its size, it weighs about 400 kilograms. When it runs, it is like a black mountain.
Under the leadership of the wild boar king, the rest of the wild boars also joined the team and ran with the wild boar king. They drove the tiger far away, forcing the tiger to jump into the water to hide, and only then did they stop.
Tigers are different from other cats. They are very good at swimming. And because they have no sweat glands, they will run into the water to swim in hot weather to cool down through water.
As Gao Mingcheng looked along, he discovered that this group of wild boars seemed to be different from the wild boar species he had hunted before. They were obviously more ferocious. The wild boars Gao Mingcheng had hunted before were relatively timid. When in danger, they would instinctively run away instead of organizing to fight.
Gao Mingcheng recalled that an old man in the village once said that in the 1960s, someone dug a cave in the mountains and secretly raised pigs. Later, he was discovered. In order to avoid punishment, the man secretly released the pigs before the production team came up the mountain.
Afterwards, no domestic pigs were found in the mountains. Even though a cave where pigs were raised was found, the matter was ultimately left unresolved.
Could it be that the wild boars he hunted were the offspring of domestic pigs and wild boars, and therefore not as ferocious as pure wild boars?
Although this was just a guess, Gao Mingcheng believed it and was sincerely grateful that the wild boar he encountered at first was not a ferocious creature like the Wild Boar King!
(End of this chapter)
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