Chapter 208
Chapter 208
Jiang Yunsui had no choice but to run with them.
The boys stared at her in shock. “How are you so fast?”
Jiang Yunsui’s short legs were nearly spinning fast enough to smoke.
“Of course I’m running fast! There are wild boars behind us! What else am I supposed to do?!”
Fortunately, all her training had improved her speed.
The boys agreed wholeheartedly. They too were running much faster than usual.
“The trap is up ahead. It’s a deep pit with sharpened bamboo stakes. Remember to jump over it!”
As they approached, the leading boy snatched up short-legged Jiang Yunsui and leaped.
“Aaaah… all or nothing!”
The boars followed only a step behind.
Some boys jumped the pit while others swerved around it.
Boom!
A tremendous crash sounded behind them.
Those who had jumped too hard hit the ground and rolled forward several times.
One boy landed at the edge and began falling backward. His companion immediately lunged, caught him, and dragged him forward.
Everyone collapsed into a heap, groaning amid the screams of the boars in the pit.
The trap was deep. The boar at the bottom had already died, impaled on the bamboo stakes and crushed beneath its own kind.
Two boars had fallen in. The third stopped just in time. It stared blankly at its companions, then retreated several steps.
Jiang Yunsui and the boys climbed to their feet. All of them had at least minor injuries.
“Oh no! One didn’t fall in!”
Jiang Yunsui took out a packet of special medicine and released Little Pink.
“I have a knockout drug. Or my snake can bite it.”
But there was no way to approach the boar.
“Give me the drug.” One boy took it from her.
Better to forget about the venomous snake.
One boar in the trap was dead. The other had broken a leg and suffered several wounds, but remained alive and tried to climb out.
As for the sole boar that had avoided the trap, it was now enraged.
Naturally, it intended to vent that rage on them.
“Take Jiang Yunsui and climb the trees.”
Every child was an expert climber. They each found a sturdy tree and scrambled upward.
Jiang Yunsui had only just been told to hug the trunk when the boar slammed into her tree.
The tree shook violently.
She clung to it with all her strength.
The boys in the other trees immediately drew the slingshots tucked into their belts.
“Hey, stinking boar! Hit this tree!”
Stones struck its head and eyes. Even angrier, the boar turned and charged another tree.
“Over here! Hit this one!”
The boys cooperated. Whichever tree the boar attacked, those in the others pelted it with their slingshots.
They led it back and forth until even the boar’s seemingly endless strength began to fail.
At last, it roared furiously at the children overhead.
The boy holding Jiang Yunsui’s knockout drug seized the moment. He wrapped the powder in leaves, loaded the bundle into his slingshot, and fired it straight into the boar’s open mouth.
The boar snorted and smacked its lips. It spat out some powder but swallowed most of it.
The creature certainly held a grudge. Even now it refused to leave and stubbornly continued ramming trees.
After only a few more charges, however, its strength rapidly faded. Its body swayed.
“It’s falling! It’s about to fall!”
The children watched with delighted faces.
Boom.
At last, the boar’s body, weighing well over two hundred pounds, crashed to the ground.
Cheers erupted from the trees.
“We did it!”
Jiang Yunsui relaxed. It had finally fallen.
“The one in the pit is trying to climb out. We have to finish it quickly.”
“Don’t approach it recklessly.”
Jiang Yunsui said, “I have more medicine!”
She did not carry many other things, but she had plenty of poisons and knockout drugs.
Since she often vanished the instant people looked away, Shen Qingzhu and the others feared she would get hurt and had hidden many medicines on her.
There were packets, but medicine was also concealed in her shoes, hair ornaments, hidden clothing clasps, and modified jewelry.
After climbing down, Jiang Yunsui removed a silver bell ornament from her hair. She twisted it open and poured out a pill.
“This is the Seven-Orifice Bleeding Pill. This one is the Seven-Breath Pill – it kills a person in seven breaths, though it might take longer for a wild boar. This one is…”
As Jiang Yunsui introduced them, the previously excited boys stared with widening eyes.
They looked at her. She was soft, adorable, and beautiful. Her voice was gentle and childish, her enormous eyes clear and innocent.
But listen to what she was saying! What exactly did she have hidden on her body?
They drew a collective breath.
“What’s wrong?”
Lin Lang – the boy who had fired the knockout drug into the boar’s mouth – quickly shook his head.
“N-nothing. Let’s just use the knockout drug. We can still eat the meat.”
If they used those poisons, the boar would die, but this enormous heap of meat would be wasted.
In the end, they wrapped the knockout drug in leaves and tied it to the end of a long branch so no one needed to approach.
The furious boar instantly bit the bundle.
“There. This thing is really stupid.”
The boar soon collapsed. Everyone finally relaxed and dropped to the ground, panting. The thrill of the encounter left them almost giddy.
These young boys had faced three full-grown wild boars for the first time and successfully turned the tables.
Lin Lang suddenly picked up Jiang Yunsui.
“It’s all thanks to you! Little Yunsui, you’re so brave!”
That was true. The instant the boars appeared, the youngest child among them had lured all three away.
Her knockout drug had also brought the beasts down completely.
Jiang Yunsui beamed, secretly quite pleased with herself.
Of course. She was amazing.
“Jiang Yunsui!”
“Lin Lang!”
“Gouwa! Where are you?”
The adults’ calls came through the forest. Jiang Yunsui even heard someone calling her name.
The others heard them too and shouted back.
The adults had followed the boars’ tracks. Once they heard the children, they quickly found them.
“Are you all right?”
Parents rushed to embrace and inspect their children.
Someone pulled Jiang Yunsui aside for an examination as well.
Nanshu nagged without pause. “You’re hurt. The skin on your knee is broken, and there are scratches on your face. It’s fortunate your body heals quickly. Otherwise, with the way you abuse yourself, who knows how many scars you’d have!”
“Look at you. We lose sight of you for a moment and you come back covered in injuries after being chased by three boars.”
Jiang Yunsui covered his mouth. “Stop talking, stop talking! I didn’t want to be this unlucky either.”
Two of the three boars were merely unconscious.
Everyone tied all four legs of each animal. They hauled out the living boar from the trap too.
“These aren’t small. It’s already an enormous blessing that none of the children lost an arm or leg.”
“Ha… Now it’s our turn to eat them.”
Once everyone knew the children were safe, they looked at the three boars with delight.
The stockade would soon be eating meat.