Chapter 11 The Dire Badger

Joan stepped over the threshold of the forest hut, took two steps forward carefully, and observed the pile of high soil up close. He found a hole about two feet in diameter in the middle of the pile, leading to the bottom of the floor. I don't know how deep it is.

As if startled by the sound of footsteps, there was a sudden rustling sound from the depths of the cave.

Joan had a premonition that something was climbing up the cave, and quickly retreated to the door, holding his breath, and prepared to avoid the attack. Under his gaze, the soil slid down one after another, and a round head appeared above the cave. This animal has dark brown-gray fur, with several conspicuous white stripes appearing on the cheeks and the top of the head. Its chubby cheeks are naive, and it stares around with a pair of black eyes, vigilantly observing the movement around it.

"It turned out to be a badger." Joan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Badgers are relatively common animals in the woods. They are thick, short and fat. They are good at digging and digging holes. They feed on small animals or plant roots. Although they are aggressive to a certain extent, as long as you don’t provoke them, they are not bad for humans and animals. Not to mention how dangerous it is.

When the weather is warm, Joan often sees badgers in the woods, and when he is lucky, he can hunt down one or two badgers with Jamie's help. The fat of the badger is very thick, which can be refined into oil, and the meat is tender and delicious, but the most valuable thing is the smooth and soft fur. A complete badger skin can be sold at a leather shop in the town for a high price, or can be processed into a warm cloak by a cobbler.

Badgers are similar to bears in their habits. When the weather is cold, they hibernate deep in their burrows and rely on their thick body fat to maintain the most basic physiological activities. They crawl out of their burrows in search of food in spring. However, the badger in front of Joan was a little special. He didn't know whether it was too hungry or was disturbed. It actually woke up from hibernation and dug a tunnel all the way from the ground until it dug through the floor of the hut and emerged from the ground. Judging from the wetness of the pile of soil, the badger broke into the hut for at most three or five days. Maybe it thought it could shelter from the wind and snow, so it simply stayed in the house until Joan, the owner of the hut, opened the door and came in.

Joan noticed that the badger's lower body was hiding in the cave, and only half of its head was exposed vigilantly. It was obviously ready to retreat into the cave and escape at any time if the situation was not good. Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible to catch a badger that has a way out. Besides, he has already harvested enough hunting today, so there is no need to think about this badger, so he stomped his feet and shouted at the badger With a roar, he intends to scare it away first, and then fill the hole.

The badger was indeed frightened by Joan's actions, but to Joan's surprise, it did not run away immediately like most wild animals when frightened. With a deep and fierce roar, two sharp claws that resembled large shovels grabbed the entrance of the cave and jumped upwards. Most of the body was exposed to the surface, and the towering mounds around the cave were squeezed and fell apart.

Joan suddenly felt his scalp go numb. It wasn't until the furious animal crawled out of the cave that he realized that it was six feet long from head to tail and four feet high. Its size was far larger than that of an ordinary badger, and it was comparable to a black bear! A thick layer of fat is wrapped under the fluffy and smooth fur, and the strong and firm muscles under the fat layer swell and agitate with the furious roar of this ferocious beast, demonstrating the wild power in the most intuitive way.

Canti heard the roar of the beast from outside the house, and looked into the house with his head. His expression changed, and he hurriedly dragged Joan to run out the door.

"We're in trouble," Conti said with an unprecedentedly serious expression, "That's a ferocious badger!"

Hearing the word "violent badger", Joan's expression also changed. He once heard from his grandfather that there is a type of so-called "violent animal" in the world, which looks similar to the same kind in appearance, but is bigger, stronger, and more aggressive. If you encounter this kind of mutant animal in the wild, usually There are only two endings: either kill the beast, or be torn apart by the beast.

Compared to Joan, who encountered a ferocious animal for the first time, Kandy looked more experienced, and told Joan seriously: "I'll deal with the ferocious badger, you quickly find a tree and climb up."

At this time, the door of the wooden house had been knocked open, and the ferocious badger rushed out with red eyes. Candy didn't care about talking, and swung the wooden stick tightly with both hands, hitting the beast's head with a bang.

The girl was tall and slim, and the wooden stick in her hand was as thin as a thumb. At first glance, it seemed that she could not pose a threat to the huge beast. However, this blow contained a force that was out of proportion to the girl's weak image. The ferocious badger who rushed over like a bat knocked over with a club, and struggled to get up after rolling a long way on the snow.

The Dire Badger shook his dizzy head, glared at Kandy viciously with his bloodshot eyes, and let out a piercing scream. His fat body shook violently, and his body seemed to swell again.

"It really went berserk, what a bad-tempered monster!" Conti managed to maintain his composure, but the knuckles of his fingers holding the stick were slightly white, revealing the inner tension.

Dire badgers are extremely aggressive. If they are injured in a fight, they will spontaneously fall into a berserk state, completely ignorant of fear and pain. a drop of blood.

Conti is sure to subdue a ferocious badger in a normal state, but facing a ferocious ferocious badger... confronting it head-on is not a good idea. Compared with this crazy animal, human beings have the advantage of brains rather than brute force. Conti put away the wooden stick and moved back, intending to hide in the depths of the woods and use the leafy terrain to deal with the ferocious badger.

The Dire Badger seemed to have read her mind and pounced on her before she could hide in the dense forest. Conti reacted in time, jumped up before the ferocious badger approached, grabbed the branch above his head with his left hand, used his strength to soar high into the air, narrowly avoided the ferocious badger's pounce, and then swung back like a "pendulum" . Holding the stick in his right hand, he swung it downwards, and after the blessing of the divine spell, the wooden stick, which was as strong as steel, hit the ferocious badger firmly in the face, smashing the bridge of its nose to pieces on the spot, and blood sprayed out, staining the snow scarlet.

The ferocious badger was hit hard again, let out a mournful howl, and crazily slammed his head into the birch tree where Kandy lived. Folding, the trunk fell to one side with a "creaking" sound.

There were no other trees nearby to stand on, so Kandy had no choice but to jump in a direction away from the ferocious badger before the big tree he was living in fell down.

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