Li Yuemin, seeing that they had crawled to within fifty meters, finally removed the cotton mitten from his right hand. The sun had just risen, but the temperature in the old forest remained extremely low, easily twenty degrees below zero. None of the three dared to keep their hands exposed for long; even the headstrong Yin Cuiping, who had been gripping her pistol for a while, could not help but hiss and blow warm air onto her fingers.
Li Yuemin flexed his stiffened fingers, squeezed the trigger, and fired a shot directly at the large boar that was busy rooting through the snow. The bullet, carried by the whistling north wind, shattered the silence of the sunny slope and struck the boar squarely in the head. One of its tusks snapped, and the jagged, broken half flew off, embedding itself into a sow foraging nearby. The sow let out a pained, piercing shriek, causing the herd of over a dozen wild sows to scatter in a panicked frenzy.
"Huzi, you lot, what are you waiting for? Go!"
Chapter 99