[It's over! Run away, Old Kui!]
[It saw him!]
[I think I just wet my pants! Run, streamer!]
In the livestream channel, the viewers were all sending live comments and urging Wang Kui to run.
Still, no matter what any of them said, he continued facing the boar while backing away slowly, leaving everyone panicking!
Curiously, however, the larger boar did not charge at him.
In fact, its hooves were not even moving, and it simply stood where it was, staring as Wang Kui slowly retreated into the pea bushes from before.
"Phew… We need to move!" Wang Kui said, ignoring the comment screen once he was gone from the boar's sight and quickly slipping away from the boar's domain.
Five minutes later…
He only stopped after turning to find that there were no movements behind him, panting heavily.
On his smartwatch screen, various questions pressing him for information were flying past.
Wang Kui caught a glimpse at some of them before waving his hand in response. "Running is the wrong move. Although that boar had seen me, the first response to occur in its mind is not to attack, but to determine whether I'm weak or powerful. If I had run off immediately, that would be showing it that I'm a weak coward."
"The boar would then charge at me without a care, because it had determined that I was afraid of him. Therefore, in this situation, we mustn't show weakness."
"However, some might attempt a show of strength by shouting loudly or waving your arms, but listen to me just this once: Do! Not! Do! That! A show of strength is dependent on the circumstances. I don't know if you've noticed, but the boar just now had a piglet. In the wild, any animal that has their young with them would be very careful and would do anything to protect their young."
"That is why there must be no attempt made to provoke it, because that would make it assumed that you are going to attack the piglet. What we have to do, therefore, is hold ourselves upright, but not make eye contact while we back off, and then quickly leave its territory. That's how you tell them that you were just passing by!"
Only then did everyone who was listening understand how many reasonings had been applied!
To tell the truth, Wang Kui himself felt as if he had just escaped death.
It was actually not difficult for hunters to kill a boar since all they needed to do was set up a few strong traps and offer some bait.
Even so, he had run into one head-on!
It had been so close—just five or six meters away!
And it had a piglet tagging along!
Without a high caliber shotgun, a heavy hunting bow, or even a blade that looked the part, who would not feel vulnerable?!
[Wait, Old Kui! Didn't you deduce that the wolfdog's territory was nearby?]
[Yeah, the wolfdog probably wouldn't choose to live alongside the boars!]
[Could the wolfdog have lured you into the boars' territory?]
[Are dogs that clever?! They could set traps?]
***
Wang Kui had considered that question before.
"There have been records of such animal behavior where they drew their enemies to places with more dangerous enemies. Such examples are very rare, however, and I'm not really convinced that the other hunter has managed to instruct the hunting dog to such a level. Instead, it is possible that it went to feed on those peas from before."
Feed on the peas?
What the hell?!
Eating peas while running away? What new metaphysical development was this?
At the same time, information about plants provided by Wang Kui's hunter class card quickly surged up to his brain. "Not the peas, but the leaves of the Vicus Amoena. It is also known as lopseed in Chinese medicine, which promotes blood circulation and removes stasis, clearing away heat and relieving pain, as well as curing sores, boils, swelling and pain, even poisonous insect bites—the main purpose being easing pain."
"It is likely that the dog had often consumed these herbs as medication when its master tortured it. Since this stuff is very common in the Jixi Province, it would have a strong impression toward plants that can cure wounds. That is why it went there to heal itself immediately after being injured!"
That dog was impressive!
Not only was it a fighter and could detect traps, it even knew how to heal its own wounds. It was a two-in-one when it came to attacking and defense!
Moreover, the information of the lopseed proved that Wang Kui's tracking was on point.
Making a detour around the boar's territory, Wang Kui returned to his previous location.
"There! Blood!"
Wang Kui quickened his pace after seeing the dried black stains on the ground.
Ten minutes later, the bloodstains were no more.
However, the pawprints on the ground had not vanished. When he arrived at the gap between the bushes, he found more prints.
"Do you see this, everyone? These pawprints go back and forth. This means that it often moved around here, and its lair might just be ahead!"
Wang Kui lowered his voice, attaching the camera on his shoulder strap as he carefully moved inward.
After traversing past the bushes, he finally reached a clearing.
It was clear because there was no telling what had happened there, with two collapsed deciduous trees in the middle.
One had basically rotted away.
The other was only left with an empty husk, and a single glance at the split end was enough to observe that the wood within had been devoured by insects.
There didn't seem to be any movement!
Spear in hand, Wang Kui made his approach.
Judging from the wariness of the wolfdog from before, it should have reacted when it heard Wang Kui's movement.
There was still no movement even after he had walked up to the tree husk!
"It seems that the wolfdog is not around. It might have left to search for food!"
The entire tree husk was over ten meters long and as thick as an adult human.
Arriving at the split end of the tree husk, he warily lowered his head and looked inside to find that it was indeed empty and piled with various pine needles as well as dry leaves and branches. "This space is enough for use as a shelter, and the leaves piled inside could be used for keeping warm."
It was a shame, however, that the husk was too long, and the interior was too pitch-black to fully see what was inside.
"I'll extend my camera inside and turn on the night vision. Help me see if there's anything inside!"
Taking the camera off his shoulder strap, Wang Kui attached it to the selfie stick and extended it up to maximum length slowly.
The first-person perspective meant that the audience felt as if they were climbing inside the tree husk themselves.
[Deeper, Old Kui!]
[Hurry up, get further inside!]
[Clear! Over! Stick it in, over!]
Everyone's report of the situation inside the tree husk was displayed on the smartwatch in real-time.
As the camera ventured deeper and it got darker, the night mode was turned on. From the green screen, the viewers could see the cracked inner walls of the tree husk as well as green moss that was growing inside. There were also a lot of dry leaves piling, and the camera almost hit a branch.
Then, just as Wang Kui adjusted his direction…
A black object suddenly appeared!
[What the hell?!]
[That scared me!]
[There's something! I was so scared my phone slammed into my face!]
[It's a head!]
***
As the screen overflowed with frightened comments, Wang Kui promptly pulled out his camera. One of his viewers then said that there was an animal's head that was half the size of a fist, and it had been riddled with holes from gnawing.
"It could be a hare's skull. This has to be the wolfdog's lair!"