Chapter 395 - 6 Brawl
Chapter 395: Chapter 396 Brawl
I only had two legs, how was I able to outrun a creature with four legs? Not to mention that it was uphill; my back could almost feel the breathing of the wolf. Panic-stricken, I finally cock the crossbow, however, I dropped the bolt in the next moment.
Trying everything in a desperate situation, I still turned around and fired the crossbow. There was only the sound of the string being released, but no bolts came out, but the wolf seemed to be frightened by the previous bolt I fired; it actually dodged to one side in fear.
This was a great chance for me to escape! Thinking of this, I rushed toward the tree where Liu Xiaosheng was.
Liu Xiaosheng may be more agile than me, but when it came to climbing a tree, he who was from a rich family may not be able to compete with me. I held the crossbow with my mouth, jumped up, and grabbed the tree branch that Liu Xiaosheng was standing on. Kicking both my legs out with the help of inertia immediately afterward, I swung my body and easily sat on the tree branch like a professional gymnast.
The hungry wolf was still not as good as the standing man. Even if it leaped with full strength, it still couldn’t reach the branch that was 2.5 meters high. Despite that, it still managed to bite off the leather bag that I used to keep the crossbow bolts.
“Ouch!” Before I could feel relieved, I felt a sharp pain coming from the back of my hand. The tree branch that I was sitting on was not thick, it was very hard for me to maintain my balance when I tried to stand up, so this sudden pain almost caused me to fall off the tree. I raised my head and looked at my hand. The person who stepped on my hand was Liu Xiaosheng!
I was already very angry, seeing this, it only made me even more furious, “Mr. Liu, you want to kill me?”
“Mr. Chu, what are you talking about? I was startled when it jumped up and accidentally stepped on you.” Liu Xiaosheng’s hands were grabbing a tree branch that was much higher up, so he was able to stand firmly. He reached out his hand to me and said with a smile, “Come, I’ll pull you up.”
Because the wolf under the tree kept staring at me, I didn’t feel safe sitting on the thin tree branch at all. I instinctively lifted my hand, but Liu Xiaosheng grabbed my wrist instead of my hand. I felt slightly strange, but because my mind was still thinking about the wolf below, I didn’t think too much about it.
When I was about to stand up, Liu Xiaosheng suddenly let go of my hand!
After losing my balance, gravity pulled me directly to the wolf’s mouth. While falling off the tree branch, I saw the cold vicious smile on Liu Xiaosheng’s face and the triumphant look in his eyes. It was as if he was telling me that I shouldn’t have offended him, I shouldn’t have taken away Mo Fei and Shu Tong from him, and now this was my punishment for offending him…
‘Even if I would die, I would drag you to hell with me! Otherwise, the next person who will die in your hands will be Guo Xiang!’ Thinking of this, I hugged Liu Xiaosheng’s leg immediately while I was falling.
Liu Xiaosheng was too careless, it didn’t take me much effort to drag him down with me. The sad thing was that the shotgun didn’t fall off the tree with him. It was stuck on the tree branch. Fortunately, the shotgun was fired accidentally. The loud ‘bang’ resounded across the hunting park, it was so loud that even Chu Yuan and the others who were outside the hunting park would probably hear it clearly.
The shotgun didn’t hurt anyone or the wolf, but thanks to that loud noise, the wolf didn’t dare to jump toward us and attack us immediately. Instead, it jumped a few steps away in fear. Because of the hard fall, both of us felt like the bones in our bodies had fallen apart, but we still struggled to our feet as fast as we could.
“Why the hell are you pulling me? !” Liu Xiaosheng no longer cared about his demeanor anymore after seeing that the wolf lowered its front body and was ready to attack again. Its hair was standing up, and its mouth was dripping saliva. Its expression could even scare a tiger, let alone humans. Liu Xiaosheng was questioning me angrily while desperately trying to hide behind me. “Hurry up and give me a hand! Let me get the gun first.”
“Get the gun? What are you going to do with the gun? Shoot the wolf or me?” I lifted the crossbow before me and looked around, trying to find the leather bag that had crossbow bolts. However, I couldn’t find it anywhere.
Seeing the wolf approaching step by step, I threw the crossbow fiercely at the wolf and pulled the hatchet out of the holster; but my hands were trembling because of fear and pain. After all, when I fell from the tree earlier, my shoulder landed on the ground first. So my right arm did not have any strength at the moment, “Motherfu***, Liu Xiaosheng! This is your plan, right?!”
“What fu*** plan do I have? I was dragged down from the tree by you! I should be the one who is asking this question!”
Playing the victim card? I was furious, “Would I fall off the tree if you did not let go of your fu**ing hand?”
“But why did you drag me?!”
“Why didn’t you explain why you let go of my hand? You want the wolf to eat me, right?”
‘You were asking for it! You fu**ing took Mo Fei away from me!”
The oppression one had when confronting a wolf was completely different from when confronting a person. The latter was all about scheming, while the former was a blatant threat.
No matter how scheming one was, it was still useless when facing the blatant threat. We could only use the most primitive means to survive, and in the most primitive laws of nature, humans without fangs and claws were undoubtedly a vulnerable group… Liu Xiaosheng and I both understood this.
In front of life-threatening danger, Liu Xiaosheng’s fear of the wolf obviously distracted him. That was why he panicked and accidentally blurted out the real reason why he let go of his hand.
Sure enough, that was his motive… However, strangely, after hearing this, I did not feel angry. All it left was contempt in my mind. “Mr. Liu, you know you are really pathetic, right?” I said coldly.
Liu Xiaosheng no longer concealed himself and said angrily, “You don’t know shit!”
“Do you like Mo Fei, or the wealth that her identity can bring to you? Are you pursuing her or your own interests?”
“I’ll give you a million. No, two million. You lift me up the tree.” I knew Liu Xiaosheng wouldn’t answer me, but I didn’t expect that he would still think about using money to make me help him at this moment. I was not a fool. I knew that he wanted to buy my life with these two million.
“Do you think I am a fool?”
“Three million!”
“I wouldn’t do it even if you offer ten million!” The wolf took a step forward. It just happened to step on the flashlight Liu Xiaoxeng dropped earlier, causing the light to go out instantly. As if it could see that it was winning, it howled triumphantly. Its howl was so frightening that I couldn’t help but swallow and say, “Do you think it will give me a chance to lift you up? If there was really such a chance, I would definitely lie to you and tell you that I would give Mo Fei back to you, so you can lift me up first…”
Liu Xiaosheng could not help but scold me, “Shameless!”
“You are the same,” I said, “You only regard me as a shameless person because I lied to you, but did you not know that you were lying to me all the time?”
Liu Xiaosheng didn’t know how to refute me. And like a coward, his hands grasping my shoulders were shaking violently, “What, what should we do now?”
An idea suddenly came into my mind. I quickly took out my flashlight and shone it at the wolf. The wolf suddenly trembled, and it actually stopped moving forward. However, this was only temporary. When it realized that a flashlight would not do anything to it, it would definitely jump toward us. “Shu Tong said that you are some kind of Taekwondo master, so go kick its ass, I have faith in you.”
“Why don’t you go kick its ass, I also have fu**ing faith in you!” Liu Xiaosheng’s voice was too loud. The wolf probably felt that we were provoking it, it lowered its front body even more, and its snarl also became louder.
With the help of the flashlight, I could finally see this terrifying wolf clearly. Its exposed fangs were filled with a bloody smell, its green eyes were full of primitive killing intent, and its sharp claws pawed at the ground, leaving several deep marks. If it was pawing at my stomach with those claws, it would probably rip open my stomach.
This wolf was much bigger than normal dogs, and its body size was almost comparable to my deputy team leader Gao Dahai. However, its waist was as slim as Yang Wei’s. It was still so energetic after being hungry for two days, I could imagine how strong it must have been originally. It was probably irritated by the light, it was in a terrible mood now.
“Well, it seems like we need to rely on our luck now,” I said realistically, “Let’s run in two different directions. It can only chase one person, so the other person can take the opportunity to climb the tree, and fire the flare gun. If we are lucky, we can both live, but if we are not… Hehe, we can’t really blame other people. Speaking of which, Mr. Liu, it was you who dragged me into this hunting game, so you shouldn’t blame anyone.”
“How do you know that it will definitely chase after me?” Liu Xiaosheng suddenly took out the signal gun from my trouser pocket and pushed me to the wolf. At the same time, a fireball surrounded by white smoke flew past me. He actually fired the flare gun like a normal gun and used the flare as a bullet!
It was a pity that the flare didn’t have a precise trajectory like a bullet. In addition, Liu Xiaosheng shot the flare gun hurriedly without aiming it carefully. The signal flare failed to hit the wolf and exploded after falling into the grass 20 or 30 meters behind the wolf. The wolf had already turned around in fright and ran away when Liu Xiaosheng fired the flare gun, but because of the exploding flare, it turned around and faced me again!
Liu Xiaosheng took the opportunity and rushed into the woods under the slope. While running, he also laughed loudly, “You are right, you need to rely on your luck now. Chu Nan, don’t blame me! Hahaha..”
This bastard! He actually used my flare gun. If the wolf chased me now, I wouldn’t even have the chance to ask for help!