"Ah—"
The crowd immediately erupted in startled cries. The more timid ones even shut their eyes, afraid of witnessing the gruesome sight of the wild boar knocking someone into the air and trampling them bloody. But some people rose excitedly and shouted at the burly man, "Lili, tear it apart!"
"Lili, go!"
"Kill it! Kill it!"
The tall, sturdy man looked resolute and focused. The muscles in his cheeks were taut, and his entire body had entered a state of alert. His eyes held nothing but the ferocious Black-faced Gentleman charging at him. The crowd's frightened screams and excited jeers were all blocked out and ignored.
Then a teeth-grating "bang" rang out. Everyone watched as the plump, sturdy Black-faced Gentleman, its face filled with ferocity, collided head-on with the man without any buffer at all. And yet—the expected knockback or trampling never happened.
At the instant they collided, the tall man's hands, seemingly even larger than palm-leaf fans, moved as fast as lightning and seized the Black-faced Gentleman's forelegs, clamping them firmly in place like iron pincers. Faced with such tremendous impact, he had merely retreated half a step!
The man's expression did not change, but the Black-faced Gentleman sensed a powerful, overwhelming threat of death. A desperate, terrified howl rose from its throat as it twisted and thrashed wildly, kicking and flailing in an attempt to break free. After flailing for a while, it realized its hind legs could no longer reach the ground.
The man had actually lifted it up with both hands.
The crowd immediately burst into cheers and whistles. Encouraged by their support, the tall man exerted both arms and tossed the two-hundred-plus-pound black boar away. The wild boar crashed heavily onto the ground more than a yard away and let out pitiful wails.
Strangely, it