Chapter 21

Gu Jin looked at the wild boar not far away and knew that she and An Mingji could not run.

The wild boar was too massive.

They stopped dead in their tracks.

At over two meters long and one meter wide at the waist, the wild boar looked frighteningly similar to a small hill. It was ready to attack.

Du Aiqing, who had been climbing the mountain all year long, could not help but break out in a cold sweat.

This particular wild boar seemed overly aggressive, and he was not confident about escaping it.

As the wild boar began to attack them again, Gu Jin noticed how angry and frantic it was through its red eyes. It faced death unflinchingly.

With no time to talk and the child curling his arms around her neck, Gu Jin carried him and grabbed the wooden stick with the bayonet from Du Aiqing.

Once the wild boar was about one meter away from them, she thrust the wooden stick with the bayonet into the beast.

The wild boar immediately howled in pain.

The sharp weapon penetrated the wild boar’s eye and pierced its skull, quickly weakening its offense.

The wild boar rolled on the ground in pain as bright-red blood oozed out of its eye socket. The ground trembled slightly as a result of the massive beast’s struggle.

Du Aiqing saw what happened, and his muscles eased up, but his hands and feet trembled.

If the two children had not been there, he would have slumped to the ground and heaved a sigh of relief.

When Gu Jin grabbed the wooden stick from him earlier, fear and thoughts of death had flashed across his mind.

He did not have high hopes of walking away alive, yet he made it.

In just a matter of moments, the wild boar had gone from being aggressive to being defensive.

While it continued to howl, Du Aiqing took a shovel that he used to dig traps from his back and cautiously walked toward the wild boar.

Such an enormous wild boar rolling on the ground was scary.

It would take a long time for it to bleed out.

Du Aiqing was a skillful hunter, more than capable of dealing with a wild boar that possessed half the attack strength.

Nevertheless, he remained very cautious since the creature could still be dangerous.

With the shovel in his hand, he waited for the right moment and viciously hit the wild boar in its most vulnerable part, which was a spot slightly above its glabella.

The howling wild boar instantly went silent.

The spot in which Du Aiqing landed his hit was the weakest and most lethal part for a wild boar.

After he did that, Du Aiqing could finally breathe a true sigh of relief.

He looked at the wild boar that was lying on the ground. Blood was still oozing out of its eye socket and the wound on its head, which had been punctured by the bayonet. That move of Gu Jin’s had poked a hole in its skull.

His heart skipped a beat when he saw this, and he looked back at Gu Jin in surprise.

“Your strength isn’t half bad at all. You managed to puncture the wild boar’s skull.”

Still carrying the child in her arms, Gu Jin’s heart was throbbing.

Earlier, she had only reacted by instinct. Little did she know that she had so much strength within her.

Her instinctive response came in the midst of danger, but she never expected to kill with just one move.

An Mingji was still filled with dread as he glanced at the dead wild boar not far away.

At the first sign of danger, Gu Jin had instantly carried him in her arms. His expression was ambiguous and dreary as he looked at her.

It was not that he knew nothing. In fact, he knew how inconsistent humans could be thanks to his grandmother’s teachings and his experience in the village over the past few years.