Finally, no more wild animals appeared.
However, the sound of the beasts fighting in the north of the flooded valley continued. It only gradually calmed down more than an hour later. There were occasionally one or two low roars, which led one to think of the beasts having their meal.
This showed one thing. The wild boar family was a goner.
There was no time to feel emotional or regretful. Neither was he interested to know the secret that the wild boar family tried to protect.
Li Siwen was busy. Since the tiger with the broken fang appeared, he had already predicted this outcome. Then he immediately worked on rebuilding the treehouse.
There was no need to escape. Unless he was willing to give up over one thousand catties of wild boar meat.
Hence, if he wanted to avoid the wild beasts from coming after him after feasting on the wild boar family, a defense system was necessary.
Those old wild boars were so powerful they could overturn the treehouse. But it didn’t mean that they could go against the leopards and tigers. He would stand on the treehouse with his mountain axe and kill them as they came!
It would be much simpler to rebuild the treehouse. After all, all the materials were available.
There was no need to lay the foundation. All he needed was a hoe to dig a trench around the periphery of the treehouse. Previously, the trench he dug was only one meter deep, and those wild boars turned his treehouse upside down. Learning from the lesson, he was going to dig a two meters deep trench, surrounding it with logs buried in the ground, leaving five to six meters above the ground. Then, he would use stones to secure them and finally bury them in the mud. Hundreds of catties of stones tamping it down. He didn’t even need the vines, and it was stronger.
Li Siwen buried two rows of log wall and firmly tied it up with vines at the top end. And so, the primary structure of the treehouse took shape.
In the evening, the Broken Fang Tiger passed by Li Siwen’s treehouse with a full belly. In its mouth was a carcass of a two-year-old wild boar, weighing over two hundred catties. The nearest it came was more than a hundred meters away. The Broken Fang Tiger didn’t make any stops and soon disappeared into the forest.
Li Siwen didn’t think it would be the end. The biggest test had just begun. After all, there were over 30 wild boars in the wild boar family. That was an extensive amount of food. If the boorish Feudal Lord knew, he would be tempted as well.
Now the Broken Fang Tiger left prematurely. Even if it was full and had a small wild boar in its mouth, it was enough to prove that it was the first carnivore to be eliminated when more food was distributed.
“Hence, what I’m facing next could be a gang of wild beasts!”
Li Siwen thought, “Fortunately, I’ve already taken advantage of building the treehouse in advance, and have more than one thousand catties of pork reserves. As long as there is rain every three to five days, I can last for a month or even longer. That’s impossible for the wild beasts’ gang.”
“This is the worst-case scenario. I will be delayed for more than one month and my plans will be ruined. Hence, I have to stand strong and make them retreat.”
Right then, while the sky was still bright, Li Siwen jumped out of the treehouse and brought back the logs of the trees he cut down. He placed them flat on top of the treehouse as the roof to strengthen it. He even tied up every three logs with vines.
For the time being, he left a one-meter-wide gap in the middle as an access area, which could also serve as a chimney.
Then he retrieved some rocks, rearranged two fire stoves, and raised their height by one meter. He placed them in the gaps and set up a bonfire on them.
In this way, the smoke could be dissipated easily, and could also form as a deterrent to the beasts that try to sneak attacks at night. Most importantly, it could speed up the drying of wild boar meat.
This would consume twice as much dry wood. Hehe, but he had no lack of dry wood at all.
When night fell and the bonfire was lit, Li Siwen hung strips of pork on both sides of the bonfire. He used a mountain axe to quietly cut the remaining four hardest logs, preparing to cut them into three meters long. He would then carve them into a giant wooden spear and a spare handle for the mountain axe. If he encounters colossal beasts like the big snake or the old wild boar in the future, he could deal with them.
Carving into the middle of the night, Li Siwen yawned regretfully. He originally hoped to use this method to enter the mysterious state of enlightenment.
After adding enough firewood to the two fire stoves, he found a corner, held his mountain axe, and rested for a while. It was impossible to fall asleep. After all, he hoped that there would be a reckless beast to charge in to become his snack.
Nothing happened that night. The beasts’ prudence left one speechless.
If they were all like the leopard from before, it would be troublesome.
But Li Siwen was curious. What had the wild beasts experienced? Why were they all as sly as foxes?
After daybreak, Li Siwen first checked the wild boar meat. He was quite proud of it. He had started to air-dry and roast it since yesterday afternoon. Not only did he dissipate the pollution from mosquitoes and flies to the greatest extent, but it also sped the drying speed up. Until today, the process of air-drying was already half done.
“There will definitely be heavy rains these days, and my chance will come. That is if the beast team still wants to devour me.”
He sneered and continued to add firewood to the bonfire to smoke and roast the wild boar meat. Then, he leaped out of the treehouse with a mountain axe. He looked around and the coast was clear.
There were no signs of the wild beasts outside. But they could definitely appear silently out of nowhere.
Li Siwen pretended not to care and jumped straight out of the treehouse holding a mountain axe. He split the crown of the big tree and placed it in the sun. There was no shortage of dry firewood.
As for the small branches with leaves, he gathered them to spread them on the roof of the tree. Speaking of which, it was troublesome to rainproof the treehouse. He could only spread the leopard skin and wild boar skin on top temporarily.
In addition, as he had cut down the big trees around the treehouse, only four big trees were left as the support of the treehouse. Next, he had to cut the four big trees in half to prevent being struck by lightning.
Well, he would use his Level 3 woodcutting skill and preserve the Vitality Points to strengthen these four trees as much as possible.
As Li Siwen was thinking, a lurking grey wolf suddenly pounced on him from more than ten meters away and attempted to bite his neck.
Li Siwen appeared unaware. But in the next second, he suddenly turned around and in a violent flash of movement, the sound of air being cut was heard. The grey wolf was cut into half before it had the chance to howl.
Even its blood did not splatter on Li Siwen.
As though he had done a trivial thing, he looked up more than a hundred meters away with a faint smile. In addition to the black leopard from yesterday, there were two more leopards, and a fierce one one-eyed black wolf more than two meters tall. They didn’t charge at Li Siwen but watched carefully.
Needless to ask, the grey wolf was just a small test.
Li Siwen understood that. In fact, he had been pretending to clean up and establish domination, telling these beasts plainly that they could kill him, but they would have to pay a heavy price.
After the Broken Fang Tiger left the day before, he had guessed that it was not a herd of wild beasts that slaughtered the wild boar family, but a group of beasts that were singled out.
Seeing it today, it was as he guessed.
The black wolf was several times fiercer than the grey wolf from earlier but was lacking one eye. It was obvious it had experienced a very tragic fight.
The black panther looked mysterious, but a part of its tail was missing.
As for the other two leopards, one was lamed, and the other appeared weak.
Hence, they formed a temporary gang.
It sounded very strange.
Of course, they wouldn’t be able to take down the wild boar family themselves.
Li Siwen turned around and saw another gang of wild beasts in another direction.
A lion more than two meters tall, a red fox, and a black bear three meters tall. But what surprised him more was the old sow and twelve little wild boars following obediently behind them. What was the meaning of this?