In the mountains behind Wu Xuan's house, two cars were heading towards the mountain, and in addition to the hunters and a servant who was responsible for guiding the way, Tang Zhihang, who was idle and had to watch the hunting of wild boars, was also sitting in the car.

Wu Xuan is learning to cook at home with the chef at home, and the master doesn't want to come because of the previous giant wolf's incident that has a bit of a psychological shadow on the mountain behind his house. Looking at Tang Zhihang, who was sitting next to him with an excited face, I think he probably wanted to find something else to do because he was a little uncomfortable yesterday, right?

I asked Tang Zhihang with some concern: "Do you think you have any discomfort in your heart, so you have to come along?"

"No, I just wanted to see the wild boars, so I came along. Tang Zhihang smiled: "Don't underestimate me too much, I'm not as fragile as you think, it's just a little emotional setback." It's not that you don't know me, and it's not the first time I've been rejected anyway, but the relationship between the person of the confession and me is a little special. Didn't you say it all yesterday? This is not the first time for me, and it will not be the last, and there will be a chance to see me make such jokes in the future. ”

"Don't do that...... I feel a little uncomfortable when you say that......" Looking at Tang Zhihang like that, it was like laughing at himself, I wondered if the ridicule I gave him yesterday was a bit excessive.

The car stopped suddenly, and the servant who was driving pointed to the camera on the tree not far away and said, "That's the camera that captured the wild boar before, and the wild boar should be in this vicinity." ”

"Really? Let's start searching around here. Saying that, the hunter sitting in the passenger seat got out of the car with his equipment, and he said to the people in the car behind him, "Get out of the car, just take a look around here." ”

A group of people got out of the car and began to search in the nearby grass, and Tang Zhihang and I followed.

"There's wild boar droppings here. Suddenly, a man screamed, and a crowd gathered around, and sure enough, they saw a pile of wild boar droppings on the ground.

"It's still a little fresh, it should be less than two hours......" One of them actually crouched down to pick up the mass of feces and sniffed it, which I would never dare to do if it were me.

"Is there a water source in the vicinity?" the other asked the servant who was in charge of guiding the way, "a fixed source of water that can be drunk, don't give me any water pipes, I'm talking about streams or lakes or the like." ”

"If there is a stream, it's about a hundred meters over there. Pointing in the direction he was pointing, a group of hunters took their guns and headed that way.

Since ancient times, human civilization has developed around water, and animals are no exception. Animals that can survive without water don't exist, don't say anything about camels, you let it go without drinking water for a year?

The wild boar must have relied on a water source to live on this mountain, so a group of people went in the direction pointed by the servant, hoping to find traces of the wild boar around the water source.

When we came to the stream, we were all taken aback by the scene.

A lot of trees around it have been knocked down, and those who don't know think that some guy named Bald Qiang has come here to cut wood. But the tree wasn't knocked down by a chainsaw or something, but something had scraped the dirt from the bottom from the roots, and the whole tree was knocked down. There are still a lot of wild boar footprints around, and it seems that the guy has been around here for a long time, and the ground is basically full of wild boar footprints.

A few hunters walked over and crouched down to look at it, picked up something again, and said, "This is a peach pit, and this tree is a nectarine tree." It seems that some animal has knocked down the tree and eaten the nectarines on it. ”

"It can't be the wild boar who did it, right?" I suddenly had a bad feeling in my heart, I'm afraid that this pig is really going to become a sperm, right? In the future, it will not be fun for a pig to appear on this mountain.

"Are wild boars so smart?" they began to wonder.

"Maybe it's really that smart?" I looked at the toppled peach trees, and if that boar wasn't a big eater like me and could eat a lot, then the boar had probably been here for a while.

A group of hunters didn't care about me anymore, and in their opinion, I should be a rich lady who was idle and wanted to see something new, and they naturally chose to ignore what I said.

"Over there, there are traces over there. A few men walked to the other side and looked at the grass that had been overwhelmed by something.

I crouched down and picked up a peach pit, and it looked like it had been eaten for less than half a day. But the food is really clean, it seems to be an environmentalist wild boar...... No, no, it's not the time to say this.

"That wild boar is really powerful. Tang Zhihang squatted next to the root of the tree and said, "Look at how big this root is, how deep it has to be, that wild boar can dig so deep." ”

"Of course, for food. "I picked up another peach pit, and it looked like it had been eaten almost half a day ago...... I continued to look at the others, they were all the same, so can the wild boar be eaten?

"Did it rain yesterday?" Tang Zhihang asked me, "No, it should mean that it has been raining for the past few days?"

"No, what's wrong?" I asked, confused.

Tang Zhihang beckoned me to come over, and I followed him to his side and asked, "What's wrong?"

He pointed to the dirt at the root of the tree and said, "Don't you think it's fresh? That is, it's not dry, and the tree probably fell down not long ago." ”

"Aren't you talking nonsense? could you have been pushed down a month ago?"

"No, I mean...... Alas, the explanation is not clear. Tang Zhihang also knocked on his head with some embarrassment, it seems that yesterday's events had a really big impact on him, and he was almost incoherent.

Tang Zhihang grabbed a handful of soil from the root of the tree, and then reached out to grab the soil in the tree pit and said, "You touch it, how does it feel?"

I reached out and touched the two handfuls of dirt and said, "How does it feel? It's not as good as my boobs." ”

"Isn't it the same feeling, I mean that...... That's right, humidity. Tang Zhihang glared at me and asked.

After listening to Tang Zhihang's words, I touched the dirt again, so I nodded and replied, "Well, it feels pretty much the same, so what?"

Tang Zhihang threw away the soil and pointed to the stream next to it and said: "This place is close to the water source, so there is enough moisture in the soil, and the soil moisture on the roots of the tree is the same as the moisture of the soil on the ground, which means that the soil moisture on the roots of the tree has not been lost." You say that there has been no rain for a few days, but how long do you think the soil can stay dry in the sun without water replenishment in a hot and dry weather like July?"

Listening to Tang Zhihang's reasoning, I nodded, "You mean that this tree has actually just been knocked down not long ago?"

"It's not just this tree, it's all of them. Tang Zhihang took me to look at the soil on the roots of the trees around me, all of which were relatively fresh and moist soil without exception.

Tang Zhihang continued to say to me: "This is just my guess, you see that those trees were knocked down by digging up the soil on the ground, which means that the guy who knocked down these trees did not have enough strength to push the trees down directly, but needed to slowly cut the soil away." ”

I just wanted to scold Tang Zhihang for "talking nonsense", but after hesitating for a while, I still didn't scold, because Tang Zhihang said this for a reason, and I continued to listen to what he said: "But how long do you think it takes for it to cut down a tree? Even if it is a person holding a shovel or hoe or something, it will take a while, right? Not to mention a wild boar." How long does it take for it to cut one tree and then another, and how many trees have fallen here?"

I looked around and there were nearly a dozen or so in our vicinity alone, not to mention many more where the hunters were standing now.

"I guess the dirt on the roots of the trees over there is almost the same state, which means that the pile of trees was toppled around the same time. Does a wild boar have the ability to knock down so many trees in such a short period of time?"

Looking at Tang Zhihang's serious expression, I became more and more uneasy in my heart. If that boar really had the ability to knock down so many trees in such a short period of time, how powerful would that wild boar have to be?

"I know what you're thinking. Tang Zhihang said: "You are thinking that it is very powerful that wild boar can knock down so many trees in such a short time, but have you ever thought - these trees were knocked down by a wild boar?"

"What do you mean?"

Tang Zhihang pointed to the wild boar's footprints on the ground: "Do you think so many footprints could be stepped on by a wild boar? Even if it has lived here for a long time, how long will it take for a wild boar to step on so many footprints?"

"Not to mention that these footprints are all fresh footprints that have just been stepped on. The hunters came over, and they seemed to have discovered something: "The young man is very good, you have no hunting experience and you can find so much, it seems that you are quite talented." ”

Tang Zhihang was puzzled: "Quite talented?

"Be a hunter. The uncle who spoke to us said, "Would you like to consider learning to hunt with me?"

Tang Zhihang hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, no, I don't even dare to kill chickens at home, let alone hunt." ”

"Hahaha, young people nowadays, I think we used to go into the water to fish when we were younger than you. ”

"I don't dare to touch the fish, I feel sick when I touch the fish. ”

The hunters smiled again, and they pointed in one direction and said, "The footprints are spreading in that direction, I guess the wild boar is in that direction now, we have to go over and see, you follow carefully." ”

So we followed the hunters in the direction of the footprints.