Our neighborhood has been transported again.

Chapter 45 Rescue
After traversing the forest for a while, the golden retriever stopped ahead.

Qin Ziwen stood at a distance, in front of an open space.

He told the men to put down their backpacks and hide in the bushes nearby, then he stepped forward with his weapons.

A man sat by the tree roots, leaning against the tree. The golden retriever ran over and rubbed its head against him, then barked a few times in the direction it had come from.

Qin Ziwen moved a distance away, hiding behind a tree, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Hearing the voice of the newcomer, the man sitting by the tree root regained some of his strength. He turned around and said excitedly, "My leg is injured, and it hurts a lot when I move it. Can you help me?"

How did you hurt your leg?

"I was hit by a wild boar. We were hunting wild boar just now, and after it was injured, it went crazy and kept charging at me, breaking my leg. In the end, the wild boar ran away."

Where is your companion?

The man gave a bitter laugh: "They went after that wounded wild boar. I called to them, but none of them answered."

The harpy eagle flew around once before finally landing quietly on a branch overhead.

Qin Ziwen felt relieved; it seemed there was indeed no one else around.

He walked out and came to the man.

The injured man looked to be in his early twenties, and his lips appeared pale, perhaps due to excessive blood loss.

His brown trousers were soaked in blood, and in one place they were torn, revealing a bloody wound.

A finely crafted knife lay on the ground next to the young man.

"Was that injury inflicted by a wild boar?"

The young man nodded: "It was gored by its fangs."

Looking at the young man's wound, Qin Ziwu felt somewhat relieved. Fortunately, his older brother hadn't let him hunt that wild boar earlier; otherwise, they might be the ones injured now, and they might not have been able to find the kiwifruit.

Judging from his condition, the injury is quite serious.

The young man looked at Qin Ziwen hopefully, "Can you help me? I promise you won't help me for nothing. By the way, I have a set of mountain armor at home, made of cold-rolled steel plates! It's absolutely top-notch. Even wild boars can't penetrate it! It's a game-changer! Armor, full-body armor, in ancient times it would have been a deadly weapon."

"Mountain Armor? How do you have this?" Qin Ziwen asked in confusion.

The young man said, "I am a fan of ancient costumes. I have not only mountain-patterned armor at home, but also Hanfu and various ancient-style weapons. That mountain-patterned armor is too heavy. I can't walk very far in it, so I don't wear it."

At this point, the young man gritted his teeth in anger. "I teamed up with a few people from my neighborhood because we all own large dogs and often walk them together. So after we time-traveled, we teamed up together. I trusted them and thought that if we all came out together, there would be strength in numbers, so I lent them the cold weapons I had collected."

But at the crucial moment, they ignored me and went straight to chase the wild boar. I really misjudged them.

Qin Ziwen told his younger brother to pick up the knife from the ground as well, "Let's go."

Qin Ziwu picked up the knife from the ground and waved it in the air.

"What kind of knife is that? It looks pretty cool."

The young man said, "I had the Tang sword custom-made; it cost five figures. By the way, my benefactors, I still don't know your names. My name is Li Yue, Li as in the Tang Dynasty, and Yue as in Mount Tai."

"My surname is Qin, this is my younger brother, and this is my friend Lao Deng."

Li Yue's eyes reddened. "Brother Qin and Brother Deng! Thank you so much!"

Qin Ziwen said, "Alright, you're injured but still talking so much. Can't you put any weight on your leg?"

"The leg that isn't injured can still exert force."

Qin Ziwen and Deng Guang supported him on either side, while Li Yue hopped around on one foot.

After walking for a while, Li Yue's face turned even paler. The wound on his leg, which had already scabbed over, burst open and started bleeding.

Li Yue said weakly, "Brother, I think we should stop the bleeding first."

They put him down, searched around, then cut open his shirt with a knife, tore off a strip, and tied it tightly above the wound until the bleeding decreased.

None of the three were professionals, nor had they learned how to bandage wounds, so they didn't know if this was feasible.

But it's probably better than not stopping the bleeding. "I'll carry you on my back."

The three of them then took turns leading Li Yue back. Fortunately, Li Yue was not heavy; he was the tall and thin type.

According to him, he weighs just over 110 pounds.

Qin Ziwu touched the blade. "Is this knife already sharpened? Didn't they say that these bought online can't be sharpened?"

Li Yue, who was being carried on Deng Guang's back, said, "In principle, it cannot be sharpened."

"Then I understand."

Some time after Li Yue left.

A beagle, drawn by the scent, emerged from the bushes.

The three followed closely behind, with a German Shepherd and a Labrador Retriever beside them.

"I told you, we should hit its legs first. How can we catch up if we don't hit its legs?"

"You make it sound so easy. Do you think I don't want to fight? Those wild boars are fast and strong; there's no way to stop them."

"What about Li Yue? He injured his leg. How are we going to take him back?"

"It's still so far. By the time we bring him back, it will be dark."

As they were talking, they arrived nearby.

"Hey, where are the people?"

"Where has he/she gone?"

"I think it was under this tree, and there were some stones next to it."

The man, wearing a denim jacket and sporting a wolf tail, looked around and wondered, "I hope he wasn't carried off by some wild animal."

The man with a mole on his lip said, "Look here, there's still blood on the ground. He was here just now."

The middle-aged man wearing glasses looked worried: "Oh, what should we do?"

The wolf-tailed man glanced at him and sneered, "Alright, stop pretending. You were the first to suggest chasing that wild boar, but you didn't consider what to do with it."

The middle-aged man's lips twitched slightly. "Back then, Li Yue was calling out to us from behind, but you didn't pay any attention to him either."

Upon hearing this, the three men's eyes flickered.

At the time, Li Yue was injured, and the wild boar also appeared to be seriously injured, so the three of them chased after the wild boar without prior arrangement. As for Li Yue, if something happened to him, it would be good to have one less person to share the meat.

Moreover, the borrowed weapons do not need to be returned.

After Li Yue lent them the cold weapons, he urged them to take them back every night.

They're using this so easily, it's like they don't want to return it.

Unexpectedly, not only did they fail to catch the wild boar, but the injured boar ran incredibly fast, outrunning even the dogs. The boar was very familiar with the surrounding terrain and eventually disappeared.

The wolf-tailed man glanced around and said, "Damn it, all the scenery around here looks the same. It's a good thing we have the dog, otherwise we probably wouldn't even be able to find this place. By the way, is Li Yue hiding?"

The man with a mole on his lip said, "His leg is injured like that, what good is hiding? He won't survive the next day in this forest. Alright, let's go back."

The middle-aged man pondered for a moment, "I suggest that after you go back, you keep an eye on him near his house. If he comes back, it will be good to resolve the conflict."

The wolf-tailed man scoffed, "So what if he's back? We're back to find him now. He disappeared on his own, so it's not our fault. Do you expect us to apologize to him?"

Looking at the other two, the middle-aged man cursed inwardly, "These two idiots."

How could his solution to the conflict possibly be an apology?

The simplest and most brutal method is to make someone completely shut up.

(End of this chapter)