Suddenly, James asked, "Brother, there are four wild boars inside, they can't all be adult males, right?"
Luke replied, "Indeed, if I'm not mistaken, there should be one male and one female, along with two piglets."
Luke then inquired whether James intended to make a move. After a long contemplation, James asked Luke about their chances of success. Luke believed that with the help of the bee swarm, they stood a chance, although there would be significant casualties.
James, with a resolute look in his eyes, said, "The bee swarm can be replenished. That's not an issue. The question is whether hunting these wild boars is worth the cost."
He continued, "The two adult wild boars can provide an extraordinary amount of meat, a substantial fortune. As for the two piglets, they can be taken back to the shelter for breeding. Especially if it's a male and a female, their value would be even greater! If the cost is just part of the bee swarm, I think it's completely worth it."
Luke, visibly moved by the idea, added, "Not only that, but the resource boxes dropped by top-tier good-quality beasts must also be of high quality. Although resource boxes from good-quality beasts are generally similar, there is a slight difference in quality. From my observation, the stronger the beast, the more likely it is to drop superior items in their resource boxes. The beast search scroll I have was actually obtained from a resource box dropped by a good-quality beast I hunted early on."
Clearly, if there was a chance, Luke was more inclined to hunt the two wild boars.
However, his strength alone was insufficient for such a task.
Despite his dislike for the Black Tiger Bee Queen, he had to admit that the bee swarm was very powerful, particularly the venom of the Black Tiger Bees, which even formidable good-quality wild beasts had to carefully contend with.
"Brother James, I have no problem with this, but we'll need to rely on your bee swarm to wear them down first, which will probably result in losses," Luke pointed out, passing the decision back to James.
James thought for a moment and said, "The bee swarm can be replenished as long as the Black Tiger Bee Queen survives. This deal is worth it. Let's do it!"
Having made their decision, the two began to plan the hunt for the wild boars.
The plan was straightforward: have the bee swarm attack first to exhaust the boars. The tree bees would create numerous superficial wounds on the boars, followed by the Black Tiger Bees enlarging these wounds and injecting a large amount of venom.
This combined attack of physical injury and venom would significantly weaken the boars. Finally, Luke would step in to deal with the weakened boars.
The most critical aspect of this plan was the venom of the Black Tiger Bees, especially that of the queen bee.
Regular tree bees would struggle to cause significant damage to the boars with their thick hides. This made James ponder the importance of the venom.
Luke, noticing James's silence, asked what he was thinking. James sighed, "If we had a strong poison, we could complete the plan more easily. Unfortunately, we don't have any."
Luke then surprisingly revealed, "Who says we don't have any? Just because you don't, doesn't mean I don't. I actually have something that might work."
Excited, Luke explained they needed to return to the shelter to get the item from Katrina. They quickly went back, and through a private trade, they obtained an item from Katrina who was alone at home: a dark green poison sac.
Luke explained that the sac came from a venomous snake of good quality he had encountered, thin as a finger but with terrifyingly potent venom. He had witnessed it incapacitate a good-quality giant wolf within minutes.
James expressed concern about the poison affecting the boar meat, but Luke assured him it was a paralytic toxin, similar to an anesthetic.
With everything in place, they returned to the wild boar cave to commence their plan.
Selecting a thousand tree bees, they coated their stingers with the snake venom. These bees, now effectively suicide attackers, were sent in waves into the cave.
As the command was issued, the ordinary tree bees, devoid of intelligence, crazily swarmed into the cave.
Soon, an angry roar echoed from within, like an earthquake shaking the mountains, causing stone chips to fly chaotically.
But quickly, the noise died down. Clearly, it wasn't the wild boars that had died, but the first batch of tree bees.
However, the second batch of tree bees was already assembled and rushed in again.
This was followed by the third, fourth, fifth batches, and so on.
As expected, the stingers of the ordinary tree bees could hardly penetrate the thick fur of the wild boars. Thus, the earliest batches of tree bees did not cause much damage and met a tragic end on the spot.
But by the fifth and sixth waves, the wild boars began to sustain substantial injuries.
Before long, the wild boars ran out of the cave. Indeed, there were two adult wild boars, one male and one female, with two young ones following.
Before the attack, James had already given the order—to target the largest one, the adult male wild boar!
By this time, the male wild boar was clearly injured, with toxins gradually entering its body. It could feel intense pain and a strong numbness in its back. These two contradictory sensations intertwined, causing it extreme unease and quickly driving it into a state of frenzy.
Seeing the two-meter-tall giant wild boar, James and Luke couldn't help but swallow nervously.
If they had to face this giant head-on, even ten lives each wouldn't be enough; they would likely end up as winter fat for the wild boar.
"It's too strong. Thankfully you thought of using poison, or else we would never have been able to handle this beast!"
Luke looked shocked, feeling relieved and thankful that he hadn't acted rashly, or else their fate would have been uncertain.
At first, he thought he might stand a chance in a fight. But it was only upon seeing the size of the wild boar that he realized he had overestimated his own strength.
The wild boar, enraged, charged and knocked the bees to the ground, crazily trampling the earth.
But the bees' actions, guided by James, were not entirely mindless; instead, they were exceptionally orderly. Nearly 80% of the tree bees gathered around the back of the wild boar's neck.
This was a blind spot in the boar's attack range, where it couldn't effectively hit or touch, so it couldn't clear the bees in this area.
It could only try to shake off the bees in front of it by hitting the stone walls and trees, but it couldn't stop the bees at its back from attacking.