Chapter 25: A terrifying presence

A wolf this big made me feel insecure even on a branch more than five meters above the ground. I always felt that the big wolf could jump up at any moment, then bite me, and then leave with me in its mouth, contented.

Just thinking about this situation makes my skin crawl, but the highest place is reserved for Ruixue, and it is not realistic to go any higher because there are no large branches that can bear the weight of a person, so I can only make do with this.

Old Zhang was sitting next to me, straddling the same branch as me. I heard him loading his single-barrel shotgun and the sound of the bullets being loaded. Old Zhang was also looking at the big wolf, and his heart was just as uneasy as mine. I heard him mutter “This calf, with such a big body, is probably a monster. What year is this? All kinds of monsters are running out. I’m really lucky. I haven’t seen anything like this in most of my life, but tonight I’ve seen it all. But I’m not afraid, I’m not afraid, I really am not afraid.”

I can understand Zhang’s rambling, after all, such a fierce beast, he feels that we can’t help, only he can protect us, he is also relieving pressure by talking like this.

However, when I saw Zhang’s single-barrel shotgun, I was somewhat relieved and said, “Zhang, don’t you have a gun? What are we afraid of?”

“The gun’s power is limited, and reloading is a hassle. The wolf pups are fast, and if you miss, you’re in trouble. You’re also afraid that it will call for more pups, and then we’ll be trapped up here in the tree. The blind bear is not easy to kill either. The skin on its body is thick, and if you don’t hit the vital spot, you won’t be able to kill it with ten shots. After all, the biggest advantage of hunting with a gun is the power of the iron pellets. If I can’t kill it with ten shots, its strength, believe it or not, will be able to knock us off the tree. I just hope that we will have better luck. After they fight, whoever wins will be seriously injured, and a few shots will scare off the winner. Old Zhang was a little nervous, so he kept wiping the single-barrel shotgun in his hands.

After listening to Zhang, I couldn’t help but try it on this branch. I didn’t think I could sit very still, after all, the branches still had traces of snow on them in the winter and were slippery.

“If only I had a three-stone bow, I could draw it back and shoot the vital spot. Whether it’s a wolf cub or a bear, they’d be done for! Unfortunately, these days, there aren’t many people who can draw a three-stone bow.” Old Zhang sighed, holding the shotgun and not saying a word. When people are in trouble, they always think about what if.

I quickly thought of a countermeasure, but unfortunately, the powerful techniques that threaten wild beasts, whether it be thunder magic or fire dragon magic, all require the use of the step of the qi, and I can’t step on this branch again, right? This is not how acrobats perform.

But then, Chengxin suddenly said, “Don’t worry. If it really doesn’t work, I have a solution.”

Xue’s voice also came from above, saying, “I also have a way.”

I believed in Chengxin and Ruoxue. Although I had never seen Chengxin’s methods, I knew Ruoxue’s methods very well. I thought to myself, if she really had a plan to deal with these beasts, I would be able to relax.

Lao Zhang, however, was a little skeptical and asked me, “Can a delicate young lady really do it?”

“If she says it, it must be possible,” I said seriously to Zhang.

Zhang opened his mouth, but in the end he didn’t say anything. However, his furrowed brows had already relaxed, and he believed me.

When the old Wu heard what Chengxin said, he was so happy that he couldn’t help but smile. He said, “What’s the hurry? Let’s watch the fight between the two dragons!”

After he said that, we focused our attention on this sparse patch of trees, which was actually an open area. The wolf had obviously noticed us and looked at us several times, but it didn’t come near us. It just walked back and forth in the snow gracefully, or occasionally stopped and let out a long howl!

It was truly elegant, every move exuding a kingly air. In the moonlight, in the nighttime north wind, its long fur danced in the wind. I noticed that the wolf’s fur was extremely light. People say the big gray wolf, the big gray wolf, but what should this guy be called? Light gray wolf? Or gray wolf?

“There is a legend in this old forest. The older the wolf cub, the lighter its fur will become. If it turns into a white wolf, it will become a spirit. If its white fur turns into golden fur, it will become a heavenly wolf! It is not to be provoked at all. If you see it, you must kneel down. Whether you can let you live depends on its mood.” Old Zhang said in my ear.

But as soon as the words fell, there was a great commotion in the forest, as if the earth were shaking. The sound came from far away and then closer and closer, so that for a moment we could not even talk to each other because we could not hear each other.

I knew it was the bear that made the noise, but I felt the trees under me tremble, and I was shocked. How big a bear could it be to make such a noise in the soft snow? It was so loud that it affected us before it even reached the ground.

But we shouldn’t be the most nervous. At this moment, we heard a long howl. The wolf, which had just been extremely graceful, suddenly lowered its body, stared intently at the forest where the loud noise came from, and then began to howl lowly. In the cold moonlight, it showed its teeth.

The sound of vibration continued to come, and after reaching an extreme, it suddenly stopped. The tree we were standing under no longer had any more snow falling on it, but it was only quiet for less than half a minute, when a loud, earth-shattering, a roar of authority came, and with this roar, I widened my eyes. I swear that if I hadn’t known in advance that the ‘stick’ here was a bear, I would have thought I was on the African savannah and saw a half-grown elephant!

It is no exaggeration to say that this old man-bear with an open mouth is this big, and its fur is a strange color between grayish yellow and golden yellow. Looking at this fur, I couldn’t help but ask Lao Zhang, “Lao Zhang, is there a saying that there are bears in the sky?”

Old Zhang, who had probably never seen a man-bear before, said in a daze, “No, but this is the outer forest. How could there be such a thing? No wonder all the people who died at its hands were good fighters.”

We didn’t say anything. I think not only Zhang, but even we, who have seen a lot of strange and terrifying things, never expected to find these guys in the outskirts of the forest. It was really shocking.

Facing the man-bear’s demonstration-like roar, the demon wolf also showed no weakness, putting away its fighting stance. Suddenly, it also let out a loud howl at the man-bear. I suddenly understood that this was the first confrontation between the two, and they both wanted to overwhelm the other in terms of momentum.

The howling continued for nearly a minute. Apart from the birds in the forest, which were startled and flapped their wings, it was quiet. It was estimated that all the animals had chosen to avoid or hide from the fight.

The deafening roar finally stopped, and my ears were aching from the noise, but I could also clearly feel that the blind bear was deliberately or unintentionally looking at us a few times.

Bear blind, bear blind! How could the bear blind see us? Although its nose is much better than its eyesight, it is not as good as a wolf’s or a dog’s nose. We were sitting in the trees at a distance from it. How could it find us? This is really strange!

However, it didn’t care about us at all. After roaring, it walked step by step towards the evil wolf. The evil wolf didn’t back down in the face of the man-bear, which had an advantage in size, and also walked step by step towards the man-bear.

When they were about five meters apart, the two suddenly stopped and began to circle around each other. Of course, the main one was the demon wolf, while the man-bear just kept turning around to guard against the demon wolf.

The two of them were like masters at their craft, and they didn’t fight for almost two minutes.

But then, without warning, the demon wolf suddenly jumped up and bit the human bear hard, low-key but insidious.

The man-bear suddenly stood up, facing the demon wolf that had suddenly pounced on him, and raised its bear paw in a fierce gesture!