Chapter 327 Tremble, Bajie! Snow waves, carrying tusks and a stench, as the wild boar herd pressed in like three collapsing walls.
Xia Zhining, however, became strangely quiet at this moment.
She pressed her lips together, her pupils reflecting the chaotic, frantic shadows of the beasts. Her gaze was sharp as a sieve, quickly scanning the outline, gait, and crimson glint in the eyes of each wild boar.
Xia Zhining's past experience observing animals made her realize that not all wild boars are the same.
Most of them are a mob blindly following the crowd; the real threat comes from those few exceptionally large "leader pigs" with curved tusks, who charge ahead and roar the loudest.
They are like three sharp knives, the core of breaking through the team's defenses.
"elder brother!"
Xia Zhining's voice pierced through the wind, snow, and roars of beasts, reaching Ji Shuyun's ears: "Forty meters directly ahead, black and white spotted, with a scar on its forehead, the biggest one!"
"Thirty meters to the left front, pure black, with a broken fang!"
"Rock side to the right, brown leather, left ear missing a piece! Take care of these three first!"
Xia Zhining only said it once, but Ji Shuyun immediately remembered it without any hesitation or even turning around to confirm. He had absolute trust in his sister's judgment.
Ji Shuyun suddenly pulled on the reins, and the horse beneath him reared up, letting out a long neigh, and skillfully completed a turn on the narrow snow.
The instant before the horse had fully touched the ground, he had already drawn the specially made large-caliber tranquilizer gun from the leather sheath on the side of the saddle with his right hand.
Instead of aiming straight ahead, he leaned back on the horse, almost parallel to its back, creating a dangerous "upside-down" pose.
From this angle, the field of vision perfectly avoids the low bushes and other running wild boars in front, firmly locking the huge head of the "black and white spotted skin" in the crosshair.
The wind was howling, snowflakes were hitting my face, and the horse beneath me was pacing restlessly.
Ji Shuyun's breathing remained steady as a rock, and his finger gripping the trigger did not tremble at all.
"Peace and safety!" At the same moment, Xia Zhining's command shot out like an arrow.
Anle, the gyrfalcon that had been circling above them, waiting for its chance to strike, let out a cry that could shatter metal and split rocks!
[Here it comes!]
[You big wild boar, take a bite from your eagle talons!]
Anle folded its wings and transformed into a streak of iron-gray lightning, rushing straight at the face of the black and white spotted wild boar!
Just as the wild boar was about to accelerate, everything suddenly went dark before its eyes, and two steel hooks, sharp enough to tear tree bark, came swiftly toward its eyes!
It instinctively closed its eyes in terror, jerked its head to the side, and its charging rhythm was instantly disrupted.
Now!
Bang!
A muffled sound, completely different from the roar of a beast amidst the wind and snow.
Ji Shuyun pulled the trigger.
The tranquilizer dart shot through the air, precisely piercing the gap between the thick skin and muscles on the side of the neck exposed by the black-and-white spotted wild boar as it shook its head.
The wild boar's massive body trembled violently, letting out a howl filled with shock, anger, and confusion, its forward momentum abruptly halted.
It staggered a few steps, then crashed to the ground with a thud, splashing up a lot of mud and snow, and soon only heavy snoring remained.
"Beautiful!" Xia Zhining felt a sense of certainty and immediately turned her gaze to the next target, "Left front, Broken-Tooth Black Boar!"
Anle withdrew almost the instant the command arrived. It made a smooth turn in the air and swooped down again, this time targeting the black pig's eyes and vulnerable ears!
The black pig shook its head irritably, trying to butt the annoying "big bird" with its tusks, its steps becoming completely chaotic.
Ji Shuyun adjusted his posture on horseback, and the horse, as if by telepathy, moved sideways in small steps, creating another shooting angle for him.
He remained as calm and collected as ever, raising his gun, aiming, and firing with fluid movements, even exuding a touch of cold elegance.
The second black pig fell down immediately.
Upon seeing this, the third brown-skinned, earless pig showed a hint of instinctive fear in its crimson eyes, and its charging momentum slowed down.
But this hesitation was a fatal flaw in Ji Shuyun's eyes.
"Right front, missing ear! Euthanasia interference, bro, take care of it!"
Xia Zhining's instructions followed her like a shadow.
Anle's shadow loomed over once more, and Ji Shuyun's gun barrel, like the eyes of death, opened again.
The third leading wild boar collapsed to the ground, defeated.
Within a minute, the three most threatening lead wild boars fell one after another, as if their backbone had been removed, and the subsequent herd of wild boars clearly became confused and hesitant.
They lost their clear target and, with the effects of the sedatives taking hold, their steps became hesitant.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xia Zhining took a deep breath and instructed Boss Ya to use the strategy they had rehearsed and discussed before: "Ya Ya, give them a show of being surrounded on all sides!"
In the sky, the crow boss let out an excited hoot and led the chorus of dozens of birds that had been circling and waiting to begin their "performance".
Instead of attacking directly, they split into several groups, emitting sharp, chaotic, and threatening cries, and rapidly darted around and above the wild boar herd.
[You wild boars are finished! You're surrounded!]
[Hehehe!]
The sounds of countless flapping wings and sharp cries from sparrows, tits, crows, and jackdaws created a terrifying sound effect of being "surrounded."
Meanwhile, the Oroqen hunters who occupied the high ground behind them, at the signal of their leader, sang in unison the folk songs that their ancestors used when they went hunting in the mountains.
The song mingled with the wind and the chirping of birds, creating a strange, soul-stirring sound wave that amplified the panic of the wild boar herd.
Xia Zhining seized upon this gap in their psychological defenses: "Bajie, your boss is down! Look around! Listen to the sounds!"
"If you keep charging forward, you'll be the next Sleeping Beauty pig!"
The noisy birdsong, the deep, drawn-out songs of the Oroqen hunters, and the tranquilizing atmosphere...
The effect was comparable to a live broadcast of Tang Sanzang's headband spell.
The group of wild boars, which had been so aggressive, suddenly froze in place, as if a pause button had been pressed.
Its little eyes darted around, and its pig ears stood up alertly like radar.
Its fur stood on end, screaming, "Who am I? Where am I? Am I surrounded by something terrible and doomed?!"
They even held their breath very tightly, afraid to exhale, lest an extra breath trigger some terrifying event.
A few weak, pitiful, and helpless grunts drifted faintly from among the pigs:
[Stop, stop chanting, Master... We won't move, we promise we won't move!]
[I'm just...why am I feeling so irritable today...]
[Dude, did we forget to check the almanac before we went out today? It feels like we're being watched by all sorts of deities at a meeting...]
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