Bai Junjun disdained the bland taste of white porridge, so she specially caught a fish to come back, and now the fish slice porridge was incredibly fresh and sweet.
On their third day in the valley, their meals had improved day by day, and today they could even enjoy fish slice porridge, which filled everyone with high spirits and determination.
They believed that today they would definitely be lucky and would surely find Xiao Yu.
After breakfast, although Bai Sasa was preoccupied with the thought of finding wild paddy, a command from Bai Junjun to continue searching for Bai Lingyu in the forest made Bai Sasa cast the thought of wild paddy to the back of her mind and stride after Bai Junjun.
With the nourishment of Magical Wood Water, Bai Junjun had recovered about seventy to eighty percent of her spent Special Ability.
Now that finding people was the priority, she could not afford to be frugal with her Special Ability, and she continuously connected with the plants around her, sensing their perception as she went along.
However, plants, after all, were not like animals that could see and hear; they could only feel the concentration of CO2 emission, changes in temperature, and the Special Ability User would then infer from these cues to judge whether there was human activity. As for whether that person was the one they were looking for, that was impossible to determine.
Yet even so, this saved them a lot of trouble in comparison to wandering aimlessly through the vast forest.
As she was trying hard to discern the direction, she suddenly felt that not far ahead, there was an area with a high concentration of CO2, which remained steady in one place without moving.
Her eyebrows slightly raised, she led Bai Sasa and Xiao Shan directly towards that location.
However, upon arriving, they were stunned.
In front of them was a two-meter-deep pit, and a young wild boar was struggling hard inside. However, there were many sharpened bamboo spears in the pit, and these had deeply pierced into the body of the wild boar.
At this moment, it had lost too much blood and was at death’s door.
Bai Junjun looked at the scene but froze; this was a trap!
A blatant man-made trap!
Did this mean that there were people nearby?
And looking at those bamboo spears in the trap—all as sharp as needles and dense like a bed of nails—this ruthless trap didn’t seem like a hunter’s doing.
Looking further at the pit walls, which were as smooth as if they were cut by a knife, it was clear that not one person could have dug this; it was definitely the work of a team.
And there were undoubtedly more than one trap around the vicinity.
In such a place, a team belonged either to bandits or to official people.
It was best to retreat before figuring out who they were.
Bai Junjun signaled the two kids behind her to retreat, but as they were retreating, Bai Junjun’s gaze shifted back to the young wild boar in the trap once more...
Ultimately, seduced by the wild boar, Bai Junjun decisively found some vines to wrap around the boar, controlling them to tie it up securely before having Bai Sasa drag it out.
The young wild boar was not big, weighing about thirty-odd pounds, and its meat looked very fresh and tender.
With so many traps, it shouldn’t be strange if a small animal got caught and then escaped, right?
After mentally posing the question to herself, Bai Junjun felt justified in hastily urging Bai Sasa and Xiao Shan to make a quick escape.
The two kids became unwitting accomplices to pig theft, running as fast as they could, as though fearing that the owner would come chasing after them with bows and arrows if they slowed down even a bit.
After running a long distance, Xiao Shan nervously glanced at Bai Junjun, "Is it really alright to steal other people’s things ?"
"Did the wild boar have their name on it?" Bai Junjun asked righteously in return.
"Though it didn’t, there’s a rule among the hunting families: whatever is caught in one’s trap belongs to them..." Xiao Shan murmured, but then he paused, bewildered, why did he know that?