The blazing sun hung high overhead.
The scorching sunlight mercilessly baked the forest, even making the air seem to warp.
In the clearing beside the mud pit, the heavily wounded and crazed boar had become an enormous mountain of flesh reeking of blood and death.
"Awoo—!!!"
Its deafening howl carried heart-rending pain and boundless savagery. The boar's sole remaining right eye was blood-red as it locked onto Ning Chuan's hiding place!
Though its brain had been damaged and its sense of direction thrown into chaos, the beast's primal instinct for revenge and hatred toward the one who had inflicted such pain upon it allowed the boar to accurately sense the direction in which Ning Chuan hid!
"Rumble! Crack!"
The boar had gone completely mad! It no longer charged around blindly. Instead, it lowered its head, aimed its pair of mud- and blood-smeared tusks at the bushes, and frantically pawed at the ground with its thick hind hooves, sending dirt and grass flying.
The ground let out a dull roar, like war drums beating to announce the start of a deadly charge.
Ning Chuan hid behind the bushes, his heart nearly leaping out of his chest!
He could clearly feel the vibrations traveling through the ground and smell the stench of mud, blood, and the boar's pungent animal odor rushing toward him!
The boar's charge was not a straight line but a wild, erratic zigzag. Yet its overall direction was unmistakable—it was coming straight for him!
Before the maddened boar, the dense bushes were as fragile as paper. They could not possibly offer any effective shelter!
"I can't keep hiding!"
The thought flashed through Ning Chuan's mind in an instant.
If he hid, there was only one outcome—death! The crazed boar would crush both him and the bushes into pulp!
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