164: Chapter 164 Impersonating the BOSS

In this critical moment, Hu Gualing didn't have time to ask Xiao Niao why he had lured all the wild boars over with a single arrow; he just panted and said, "Why did you stop? Run!"

Xiao Niao pointed at the corridor: "I found this."

"This?" Following where Xiao Niao was pointing, Hu Gualing also noticed the narrow corridor between the ridges.

Tang Yao dragged the Sharp-toothed Piglet over, panting. Her beautiful eyes sparkled as she said, "Eh, there really is a cave hiding peerless martial arts!"

Xiao Niao: "I don't know if there are martial arts, but I think we should be able to evade that group of wild boars behind us."

He ran along the foot of the mountain because he considered that the wild boars' Charge was too difficult to deal with. On a wasteland, they would be caught no matter how they ran. Even if someone as agile as Gualing could luckily dodge, the wild boars would just turn around and continue their Charge after missing. Moreover, there were five of them, making escape nearly impossible. But at the foot of the mountain, it was different. There were rocks of all sizes acting as obstacles to hinder the wild boars, and irregular mountain ridges and stone walls. Even wild boars wouldn't dare to Charge recklessly; otherwise, if they went too fast and slammed into a ridge, even that red-haired wild boar would be knocked unconscious on the spot.

But this was only a choice of desperation and didn't guarantee they could escape the pursuit. However, with this long and narrow corridor in front of them, once they entered, the wild boars certainly wouldn't be able to attack them anymore.

During the conversation, the rolling dust and the sound of pig hooves from the wild boar herd drew closer. Xiao Niao didn't dare delay; regardless of whether there were other hidden dangers in the corridor, he took the lead and dove in.

Tang Yao was second, holding Sharp Tooth, and she also successfully entered the corridor.

But when it was the third person's turn, Hu Gualing, he hadn't even started crawling in yet. Just standing in front of the corridor, he felt the entrance was a bit narrow for his physique. His face was full of doubt: "Can I even get in?"

Xiao Niao stood inside the corridor giving him advice: "The gap at the top is a bit larger. If you climb up a bit, you can get in."

Hu Gualing looked up and found that the gap above was indeed wider than the one below. Just as he was preparing to grab the mountain walls on both sides of the corridor to climb up, he heard a whistling sound from behind his buttocks.

"Quickly!"

"The wild boar is charging!"

Xiao Niao and Tang Yao's voices reminded him urgently.

Hu Gualing was startled and didn't care about climbing anymore. He leaped up, and his upper body successfully entered the corridor. However, because he didn't jump very high, his lower body unfortunately got stuck.

The whistling sound was right behind him. Hu Gualing only felt a pain in his buttocks before his whole body was knocked into the corridor by a wild boar.

The Irritable red-haired wild boar only managed to squeeze its head in. Its irritable body swayed wildly, but it could do nothing against the hard mountain walls on both sides of the corridor.

Xiao Niao and Tang Yao finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed the corridor was indeed safe.

The two of them helped Hu Gualing up, who had been knocked in by the red-haired wild boar and was lying on the ground. They asked with concern, "Are you okay?"

Hu Gualing originally thought he would end up like Xiao Niao, pierced through by a wild boar's tusk. But after feeling his buttocks, he found his novice pants were intact. It seemed that because he jumped, he was lucky enough not to be gored by the tusk; he was only hit by the pig's head. His health dropped by twenty points instantly, and his buttocks hurt for the moment. It would be fine soon as long as he applied some euphorbia humifusa.

"I'm fine." Hu Gualing took out a small handful of euphorbia humifusa, chewed it up, and spat it into his palm. Facing Xiao Niao and Tang Yao, he pointed his buttocks at the red-haired wild boar, making the irritable red-haired wild boar howl in anger. Hu Gualing ignored it completely, gently pulled his pants aside a bit, reached in to apply the herb, and waited for his health points to recover before turning around to size up the red-haired wild boar.

The wild boar's fur and skin were a yellowish-red. It had much more fur than the black wild boar, and the bristles on its back looked softer than those of the black wild boar. However, its name was [Irritable Red Wild Boar].

From the name alone, one couldn't tell if this red-haired wild boar was a BOSS or belonged to the same Rank as the previously killed [Fearless Black Wild Boar]. The red wild boar's body was even slightly smaller than the black wild boar's, which was why it managed to jam its head in with a single Charge, while the rest of its body below the neck was stuck outside the corridor, unable to move forward or backward.

As for its tusks, they seemed shorter than the black wild boar's. Hu Gualing wasn't sure, so he took out the [fearless tusk] from his backpack and compared it with the red-haired wild boar's tusks. "They really are shorter. This guy isn't as sturdy as the black wild boar, and its tusks aren't as long. Where did it get four lackeys? It couldn't be pretending to be a BOSS, right?"

After comparing the length of the tusks, Hu Gualing spoke to the red wild boar's head with great suspicion.

The red wild boar seemed to understand Hu Gualing's words and suddenly became Life Qi. Its four hooves kicked the ground with all their might as its head tried to pull its body into the corridor.

Seeing its stance, Hu Gualing didn't dare be careless. If it really managed to rush in, in such a narrow space, even if he was proficient with the Lazy Donkey Roll, there would be nowhere to roll. Unable to dodge or run, they would likely be wiped out here. Thus, Hu Gualing didn't even use his fists; he directly held the fearless fangs with both hands and stabbed at the red wild boar's face. At the same time, he called out to Tang Yao and Xiao Niao to act: "Quick, attack it! Whether it's a BOSS or an elite monster, kill it while it's stuck!"

As Hu Gualing spoke, the fearless fangs in his hands had already stabbed into the red wild boar's face, -10.

The attack power of the fearless fangs wasn't even as good as his gauntlets. Even stabbing the red-haired wild boar's face only resulted in a 10-point damage number. However, the longsword that followed was different. Tang Yao dealt -22 damage with one strike, causing the red-haired wild boar's health to drop visibly. Hu Gualing calculated in his heart that this red-haired wild boar's total health should be less than 250 points, even less than the Fearless Black Wild Boar. It seemed it really might just be an elite monster that somehow got four ordinary wild boars as lackeys to look intimidating.

As Hu Gualing thought this, he stabbed at the wild boar's face again with the fearless fangs, but this time he missed. Having been struck by Tang Yao's sword, the red-haired wild boar was in so much pain that it stopped trying to rush into the corridor. Instead, it kicked its hooves backward with force, struggling to pull its head out of the entrance gap.

"Oink," "Oink," "Oink." Outside the corridor, the four ordinary wild boars, who had been anxious, saw their big brother escape. They gathered around, oinking to express their joy and concern.