Never Missing a Shot

Ten days later.

In the southeastern region of Old Forest, in the woods beside Chaotic Stone Beach.

Draped in Camouflage Clothing woven from vines and Grass Leaf, Ling Yi and Zhang Lei each straddled a branch midway up a large tree, arms wrapped around the trunk to hold themselves firmly in place.

As time ticked by, Ling Yi's eyes were half closed, as if asleep yet not asleep, while Zhang Lei's gaze was fixed tightly on the direction of Chaotic Stone Beach.

They're here—!

With a soft note in his heart, Ling Yi abruptly opened his eyes and cast a sharp gaze toward Chaotic Stone Beach.

All he saw was, in the northern part of Chaotic Stone Beach, a string of black shadows appearing one after another by the Stream.

Only then did Zhang Lei, on the large tree beside him, notice it, and he hurriedly gave Ling Yi a light wave.

Ling Yi nodded slightly to Zhang Lei to show he had received it, then raised his hand and reached toward the gray figure on another branch above his head.

He patted Meow Meow's long back, and she turned into a gray blur, leaping several times through the treetops before vanishing from sight.

When she appeared again, the little one had already shown herself atop a huge blue-black boulder at the edge of Chaotic Stone Beach. Standing shoulder to shoulder with her was A'Huang, who had slipped over at some unknown point.

Over here, Zhang Lei asked in a low voice, "A Yi, will Meow Meow and A'Huang be all right...?"

Although the two large trees were nearly ten meters apart, Zhang Lei knew that with Ling Yi's keen five senses, he could hear this quiet question.

After giving Zhang Lei a reassuring gesture, Ling Yi put his fingers into his mouth...

Suddenly!

Amid a shrill whistle, one gray and one yellow figure leapt and landed several times, crossing the narrow Stream. Like lightning, they launched a surprise attack on two enormous brown-black figures on the other side of Chaotic Stone Beach.

They were wild boars, a herd of more than thirty!

The ones ambushed by Meow Meow and A'Huang were two Adult male Wild Boars that had just finished drinking and turned to the edge of the herd.

One gray and one yellow forepaw sank respectively into the weak rear gates of the two Adult male Wild Boars. With another scoop, red, yellow, black, white... a messy jumble of things was immediately ripped out.

Before the miserable howls could even ring out, Meow Meow and A'Huang, having succeeded with one strike, decisively turned and fled at another sharp whistle.

Only after the two little ones had crossed the Stream and run a full ten meters or more did the wild boar herd on this side finally come to its senses.

At once, a series of furious squeals rose and fell, resounding across Chaotic Stone Beach.

Led by a Black Bristle Wild Boar that stood as tall as one point two meters, measured more than two meters from head to tail, and had tusks protruding from its lips, six slightly smaller Adult Wild Boars chased in the direction Meow Meow and A'Huang had retreated, leaving only three Adult Wild Boars in place, along with some twenty Young Wild Boars that looked rather panicked.

Oh, and two Adult male Wild Boars collapsed on the ground, in an oddly heroic state of ruin, groaning weakly as they hovered on the verge of death.

In the woods, Ling Yi and Zhang Lei watched helplessly as Meow Meow and A'Huang led seven wild boars howling past beneath the trees.

Only after the last wild boar's figure disappeared among the large trees did Ling Yi gesture to Zhang Lei, then slide down the trunk to the ground.

The two trotted all the way to the blue-black boulder where Meow Meow and A'Huang had just stood, then came to a stop.

At this moment, the wild boar herd that had only just been ambushed was especially alert. The instant Ling Yi and Zhang Lei showed themselves, they were noticed.

The twenty-odd Young Wild Boars grunted in a flurry, while the three Adult Wild Boars bent their forelegs slightly and leaned forward, taking an attacking stance toward Ling Yi and Zhang Lei.

"Hit the small ones!"

Ling Yi gave Zhang Lei a brief instruction at his side, then entered a combat state.

His feet stood one before the other in a T-shape. His left hand held the Iron Birch Slingshot, while his right pinched a Stone Bullet in the leather pouch. He pulled, released, and a gray-white streak shot through the air in a flash.

After firing the first shot, Ling Yi did not stop. His right hand moved with extreme speed, taking another Stone Bullet from the open cloth pouch at his waist. Pull, release...

By the time Zhang Lei beside him had fired three shots, hitting one Young Wild Boar in the neck, the cheek, and another wild boar between the brows, Ling Yi had already fired eight Stone Bullets.

Of these eight Stone Bullets, six had struck the foreleg joints of the three Adult Wild Boars charging madly toward them, causing the three Adult Wild Boars to crash hard to the ground and send quite a few cobblestones flying as they tumbled along.

"Whoosh—!"

A whistling sound rose. The ninth Stone Bullet flew past and accurately sank into the eye of the third Adult Wild Boar. Like the first two, the powerful kinetic force drove the hard Stone Bullet straight into its brain, churning the pale pig brain into shattered tofu pudding.

After dealing with the greatest threat on the scene, Ling Yi did not stop. Instead, he continued pulling the slingshot and launching stones, shooting together with Zhang Lei at the Young Wild Boars that had lost the protection of the big boars and begun fleeing in all directions.

With each raise of the hand, a stone flew. Twenty-two Young Wild Boars in a row, not one missed, were all struck down by the two of them, grunting and unable to get up and escape.

The difference was that four or five Young Wild Boars had multiple wounds on their bodies, while the remaining dozen or so basically only had injuries at the joints of their four hooves.

Glancing at the spoils of battle lying all over the ground, Zhang Lei gave Ling Yi a thumbs-up and praised him sincerely, "A Yi, you're seriously amazing!"

At the end, he added with another sigh, "If only your Martial Soul were a slingshot~"

In Zhang Lei's eyes, the slingshot in Ling Yi's hands was practically a godlike existence.

He had personally seen Ling Yi fire three shots in an instant, each one striking a Gray Winged Mosquito flying more than fifty meters away in different directions!

The key point was that Ling Yi at the time had pulled the slingshot and fired with his eyes closed!!

Zhang Lei felt that even those Soul Masters, Great Soul Masters, or even a Soul Elder's Soul Skill could probably only reach this level, right?

Sometimes, people had no choice but to admit that the gap between one person and another was often so great it gave them an illusory, dreamlike sense of unreality.

On this point, Ling Yi had actually felt it deeply in his previous life.

Facing those "superhumans" who broke the world's conventional understanding, he could not help but feel that, as an Ordinary Person at the time, he seemed to have only come into the world to make up the numbers.

For one article, some people had to read it a dozen times, dozens of times, before they could memorize it, while others could become a "Human Camera," remembering everything after a single glance.

A two-story building five or six meters tall—some people trembled even climbing a ladder, while others could casually kick off the wall twice and vault up in one leap.

Fortunately, in this life, with his cultivation of the Path of the Mind and the development of his Mental Strength, Ling Yi discovered that he, too, had become one of those geniuses who had once seemed forever beyond his reach in his previous life.

Ling Yi did not say much in response to Zhang Lei's sigh. He tucked the Iron Birch Slingshot into the pocket at his waist, took several bamboo tubes from the small of his back, and strode toward the Young Wild Boars one by one.

He skillfully put on double-layered rabbit-hide gloves, pried open the mouths of the Young Wild Boars one after another, and fed each of them a mouthful of the pungent brown liquid inside the bamboo tubes.

As the liquid entered their stomachs, the squealing Young Wild Boars gradually quieted down, and their movements grew stiff.

This brown liquid was a simplified knockoff version Ling Yi had made based on a Sleeping Drug formula he had looked up online while reading novels in his previous life. It was brewed from several common, mildly toxic Flowers and Grasses, such as Datura Flower, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, and Rhizoma Arisaematis.

As for the effect~ it was pretty good!

A small spoonful was enough to make an Adult Rabbit raised at home sleep for a full day and night!

The only problem was that the smell was too strong. Forget humans—even animals had to have their mouths pried open and the stuff poured in before they would drink it~

By the time Ling Yi had dealt with the twenty-two Young Wild Boars, Zhang Lei had already mixed underwater silt with aquatic plants and leaves to plaster over the wounds on the five Adult Wild Boar corpses, slowing the Bloody Scent from spreading as much as possible.

The two exchanged a glance. Paying no further attention to the wild boars of all sizes lying "dead all over the ground," they took out their Iron Birch Slingshots again and strode into the forest, following the tracks the wild boars had left behind as they passed through.

He wondered whether Meow Meow and A'Huang had successfully lured those seven wild boars over to the Trap Pit.

Thanks to book friend Qing Ji T Wu Qing for the monthly ticket, and thank you all for your support and continued reading! Thank you! (^_^)