Ye Feng couldn't quite describe the feeling, but his past experience told him...
When you're in the wild, there's no place that's absolutely safe.
"Let's keep going. Everyone, pay attention to your footing and your surroundings. Each person should be responsible for watching one direction."
Everyone nodded and began to walk forward cautiously.
After walking for a few more minutes, Salla, who had been leading the way, suddenly stopped again.
Her dark nose twitched slightly, as if she were sniffing something in the air.
Ye Feng knew that the primitive people's senses were definitely stronger than his own, after all, they had lived here for hundreds of years.
"Salla, have you found something?"
"Huff huff".
Salra opened his nostrils wide and took a few deep sniffs.
"Chachuki! There's a Chachuki smell around!"
"Wh...what kind of chicken?"
Ye Feng looked bewildered. He considered himself knowledgeable about all things, but this was indeed the first time he had ever heard of the name of this kind of chicken.
"It's...it's...not a chicken, it's..."
Salla stammered, wanting to express herself, but her English was limited and she didn't know how to describe things in a way that Ye Feng could understand.
After stuttering for a while, he reached out his finger and poked his upturned nose, then made a humming sound.
Ye Feng immediately guessed it...
In the Baija tribe, wild boars are called Chachuki.
Are you sure there are wild boars nearby?
Upon hearing the word "wild boar," Zhan Pengwu immediately perked up.
Where!?
He gripped the spiked club tightly, looking around. He had almost been gored to death by a wild boar last time, and he still had some lingering trauma from it.
The group quickly took down their bows and arrows and became alert.
They had seen many wild boars, and this was arguably the last beast they wanted to encounter.
It has thick skin and flesh, is extremely aggressive and destructive, and is also a stubborn type.
Moreover, they excel at surprise attacks and are incredibly fast; a single collision can cause broken bones and tendons.
Even though several people are armed, they still have to be careful.
Ye Feng didn't want to give the wild boars a chance to launch a surprise attack, so any factors that might threaten his safety had to be eliminated in advance.
“Salara, can you locate them and determine how many there are?”
It took Salla a while to understand what Ye Feng meant. She immediately lay down on the ground and started sniffing around like a dog.
It took about half a minute before he stood up again...
“I don’t know how much, but… it’s definitely not much. The fecal and body odor is much less than that of the Chachuji group I’ve encountered before.”
"Can we find them?"
"Um!"
Salla nodded confidently, then, with a shrug, led the group to the side.
Before long, they heard a pig squealing ahead.
Following the sound, they parted a clump of grass and saw a litter of piglets, not much bigger than puppies, huddled together.
Upon seeing Ye Feng and his group, the piglets immediately scattered in all directions.
Only a small wild boar remained, lying on its side on the grass, its body still heaving violently.
Although it is not dead yet, judging from the bloodstains around its mouth, it probably won't live much longer.
"Wow, this wild girl is amazing! Her nose is even better than the dogs in our village. She actually found something."
Fu Changxiong praised Salla.
Ye Feng snapped out of his daze and quickly alerted everyone to be on guard.
Because such a small wild boar would definitely stay with its mother the whole time, practically never leaving her side.
However, after searching the area for a while, the group still couldn't find the sow.
Salla shook his head repeatedly, saying he didn't smell the wild boar.
"Hiss~"
Ye Feng tilted his head, stroking his chin with a puzzled look on his face.
This phenomenon is indeed quite strange; wild boars with piglets do tend to stay away from herds.
Because other boars might kill the sow's piglets in order to induce estrus as quickly as possible.
However, the stubbornness of wild boars is innate in their genes; they have a strong sense of territory and group consciousness, especially small wild boars like this one.
They are fearless and will attack anyone who gets close.
But these wild boars ran away the moment they saw him, leaving behind their injured brethren.
This is very abnormal.
And then... where did the sow go? And why was this piglet injured?
At this moment, Fu Changxiong, who had been searching for the sows nearby, came forward and said:
"Hey bro, I've been looking for a while, but there aren't any big pigs around."
Tang Weiwei chimed in with a comment...
"I walked about twenty or thirty meters in that direction, but I didn't find it. Could it have been eaten by a jaguar?"
Ye Feng nodded. There was still a possibility, but it wasn't very likely.
Although jaguars are natural predators of wild boars, they generally do not prey on adult wild boars unless they are starving and have no other food options.
Not to mention sows with piglets, which have the strongest aggressive instincts.
Thinking it over, Ye Feng grabbed the barely alive little wild boar...
After a cursory inspection, no external injuries were found.
He frowned immediately, but after glancing at his watch for a moment, a meaningful smile appeared on his lips.
"Everyone, it seems I guessed right. Sure enough, someone prepared gifts for us ahead."
Someone's there!?
These words seemed to trigger everyone's defenses.
They immediately formed a circle, and their bows were instantly drawn to full draw.
Ye Feng smiled slightly, quite satisfied with his companions' reaction.
However, he still waved his hand gently, signaling everyone to put it down.
"I haven't finished yet. This is just my guess, and I'm not sure."
"Holy crap..."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Fu Changxiong complained to him in an annoyed tone...
"Dude, don't breathe so heavily when you talk, it'll scare people to death."
"I just told you not to be nervous, I didn't say you should let your guard down."
Ye Feng presented the still slightly struggling piglet to everyone, pointed to the piglet's mouth covered in pig's blood, and said:
"Look, this pig has no external injuries but is spitting out blood. Its internal organs must have suffered a severe blow."
Even if a wild boar this size isn't protected by a mother, it would still be with other piglets.
If it was indeed done by other predators, I really can't imagine what creature on the Amazonian land uses ramming as an attack method and managed to let such a small pig escape.
"So...you think this was done by a human?"
Liu Sisi asked tentatively, even though he felt the reason was far-fetched.
Fu Changxiong added another sentence…
"Could it have been done by another wild boar? I remember the first time we scalded a wild boar with boiling water, didn't that big wild boar kick over a piglet when it ran away?"
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