With the indiscriminate attack, Qiao Erli barely clung to his flying soul.
"This is killing meeeehhhh!! Brother! My dear biological brother! You're my real brother! Do something!"
His cousins, "...."
You are so energetic, I see your strong, undying vitality.
They hesitated to throw things again. Qiao Erli's awkward dodging, rolling, and tripping was more effective than their random help. At least he has some luck, and the boars end up charging at each other from time to time, earning mutual damage.
"Who has a stick? Give it to me."
Qiao Dali stretched out his hand, and after a moment's pause, something hard landed in his palm.
"....."
There was no stick, but there was a wooden spoon.
"Don't you have something better?"
"Hey, don't look down on it. My mother swung it at me and gave me a really big, nasty bump. My parents were horrified, but look, it's still intact. What does that mean? It's sturdier than me!"
"Hello?!!!!" Qiao Erli rolled down, and one of the boars hit the wall.
"Whoa! Whoa!" The wall shook in the impact. "Erli, don't run here too close!"
"Fuck your mother!"
A single curse damaged more than half of the group.
"What did you say?! My mom's your fourth aunt!"
"Qiao Erli, if you have guts, let your mother hear!"
"Yeah! Let Aunt clean your mouth!"
Ah, the curse of being related to the whole village.
"I said grass! Wuhuhuhuhu! I'm going to die young! I'm going to be run over by fatty boars, stepped on, and chewed bloody! My body will not be intact! It will be unrecognizable! Ugly! And everyone will see! Huhuhu! Everyone will remember my ugly death."
"...."
"...."
Who says that to themselves?! You are jinxing yourself!
Shut up and focus on evading!
"Ummm. I have a broom," someone waved the 'weapon' of their choice.
In their excitement, everyone just grabbed whatever was at hand. No wonder a fresh serving of stir-fried bamboo sticks awaits them back home.
"Not long enough."
"Chop up the handle, tie the knife, and throw it."
"So it's still throwing?"
"Which one of you can spear?"
"Whatever. It's all the same. Just throw the hoe at the pig quick."
"Don't you dare!!" Qiao Erli snapped his head toward the person, almost running to the center wooden pillar, which he easily sidestepped, by the way, but the wild boars were unable to do the same.
"Qiao Erliiiii!!!!!!"
The people on the beams, on the other hand, were horrified.
"I told you! It's too close to me! It's almost kissing my ass! I can't do anything! Tell them to do something!"
"Idiot!" The previous guy snapped back. "Can we miss such a big target?! Don't we have trust between relatives?"
"No! No! We don't have it! Just open the gate! And we will still be cousins!"
"The door will be broken down! Kids are gathering outside!"
"Then that flimsy wood is useless from the beginning! It can't block the wild boars at all!"
"Well, yeah, that's why we are blocking it outside…"
Half of the group jumped down on the other side the moment they lured the wild boars in and barricaded the door outside with reinforcement. The rest remain to calm down the wild boars to avoid damaging the old pigpen, but someone unlucky was stuck inside, and they're unable to start.
Qiao Erli gasped, "So I'm bait?!! You all locked me in as a distraction?! Sacrificing your flesh and blood?!!! Where's the brotherhood? The conscience?! I'm your cousin! Brother! Brother! You are the only one I have left!!!"
His conscienceless cousins, "...."
No, don't throw accusations.
An old uncle looking after them was speechless. The old hunter's second son was as slippery as his father had said, and was still able to engage in heated conversations with multiple people despite his urgent situation. He's the one getting tired of their ruckus. His other companion held a wooden shotgun, contemplating whether to step in to end the headache.
"Second brother, stick to the wall!" Qiao Dali ordered. "You, throw whatever, I don't care anymore. Just scare them for a second, then pull him up quickly."
Qiao Erli still listened to his brother. Spreading his hands and feet, he clung to the walls, wishing to stamp himself flat.
But the idiot couldn't resist taking his chance and did something extra, spinning around as he flung himself at the wall. He came face to face with a sickle whizzing towards him, followed by a hoe landing sharply between him and the boar, its handle nearly smacking him.
Qiao Erli, "!!!!"
How can there be trust between us like this?! No wonder the little ancestor refused to take you hunting!
This time, his soul really flew off, turning his legs jelly. His unworthy cousins reached for his shirt and labouriously pulled him up. They were putting too much strength, and as a result, they all ended up falling to the other side.