Chapter 396 - The Price of Winning

Chapter 396: Chapter 397 The Price of Winning

Translator: Doggotranslation
Go chasing Liu Xiaosheng! This was my first reaction, but that damn wolf was very clever. As if it didn’t want me to chase Liu Xiaosheng, it actually circled around and stopped me. In this way, I could only run in the opposite direction.
I was very baffled, I clearly had a hatchet in my hand, although Liu Xiaosheng had a very lethal signal gun, the wolf did not know, so why did it not chase Liu Xiaosheng? Why did it want to attack me who looked clearly much more dangerous than him? Even if it liked challenges, it should first solve its hunger, right?
. . .
God damn it, obviously, we were supposed to be the hunters in this part, but now we became prey.
Climbing up the hill was not like running down the hill, it consumed much more physical energy. The wolf seemed to want to drain my energy. It became very patient all of sudden. When I sped up, it also sped up; when I slowed down, it also slowed down. It only followed me but did not attack me. Who said animals were stupid! This wolf was very smart! It deliberately waited for the moment when I was exhausted!
Although I had just eaten, and the wolf had not eaten for two days, in terms of physical strength, I was certainly not as good as a wolf. No matter how I ran, it was inevitable that I would be attacked by it in the end. So instead of keeping running, I might as well attack it with all my strength while I still have energy. As I thought of this, I stopped running and turned with a hatchet in my hand. The great fierce wolf also stopped five meters away from me.
As if it knew what I was thinking, it was very careful, and did not attack first. However, as a human being with the highest intelligence in nature, it was a shame that I didn’t know what it was thinking.
A wolf and a man stood face to face like this for a while. It did not move, neither did I. It snarled at me while looking at me coldly, I also snarled at it and looked at it coldly. I did not know whether it was following my move, or I was following its move… It felt ridiculous, but the atmosphere was really intense.
A cold wind blew by, the wolf’s ears suddenly moved. It raised its body, turned around, looked back down the slope as if it had noticed something. I was dazed, not knowing what it was doing. Just when I was hesitating whether I should take this opportunity and attack it, the wolf went into the tall bushes. I hurriedly shone the flashlight at the bush, confirming that it was indeed moving down the slope.
My knees finally gave out at this moment and I sat down on the ground in fear. ‘Holy shit, this is scary, I’ve never been so scared in my life.’ I let go of the handle of the hatchet and checked my hand, it was full of sweat. It was clearly a sharp hatchet, but when I faced the fierce wolf, it could not give me any confidence…
While I felt relieved I also couldn’t help but wonder, ‘Why did the wolf leave all of sudden? Did it deliberately leave to lower my guard?’ My heart skipped a beat when I thought of this possibility, and I hurriedly stood up again. It was at this time, I heard a scream coming from below the slope. That scream was filled with pain and fear, making me shudder uncontrollably. But one thing that made me feel strange was that this scream sounded like the scream Liu Xiaosheng made.
“Help, Help me, AH—”
‘Oh shit, it is really Liu Xiaosheng!’ The scream came with the wind, and I heard it distinctly. It was not far from the place where I was separated from Liu Xiaosheng. When I heard the wolf’s frantic roar again, I immediately realized what was going on. Without thinking about it, I picked up the hatchet and rushed down the slope again.
When I arrived, I couldn’t believe what happened in front of me. Liu Xiaoxeng’s hands were holding the branch, his body was hanging in the air, but the wolf was also hanging in the air with Liu Xiaosheng’s leg in its mouth…
“Chu Nan! Save me!”
Liu Xiaosheng’s eyes were very sharp, he immediately noticed me and desperately cried out to me for help. To be honest, I was almost scared silly by what I saw. Liu Xiaosheng’s blood had dyed his whole trouser and even the wolf’s mouth red. However, the blood only made the wolf bite even harder.
Seeing this, I almost wanted to escape on the spot. That wolf hadn’t eaten for two days, it must be very hungry. Liu Xiaosheng was at least sixty kilos, so it was enough to feed it. While it was eating, I should leave here and go get help as soon as possible. This was the most logical thing to do. But when I thought that he was Xingyu’s elder brother, and I had tricked him to pay for a meal that cost twenty thousand Chinese Yuan, I just couldn’t bring myself to leave him here to get eaten by the wolf…
In the end, I decided to take the risk!
I threw the flashlight out, hitting the wolf that was biting Liu Xiaosheng. I thought this would attract its attention, and it would let go of Liu Xiaosheng’s leg. But what I didn’t expect was that the wolf completely ignored me. Helplessly, I could only raise the hatchet and charge toward the wolf. Unexpectedly, Liu Xiaosheng was exhausted at this time. He and the wolf fell into the grass from the tree at the same time!
“Ah!” Liu Xiaosheng and the wolf rolled together, the scream of horror constantly appeared. Because the shade of the trees blocked the moonlight, I couldn’t see very well. All I could see was that the wolf had pressed him under it, and seemed to have bitten his forearm again. I had already lifted the hatchet, but at this moment, I didn’t dare to hack down.
It was not that I was afraid of accidentally hurting Liu Xiaosheng, I just didn’t dare to take away a living creature’s life.
People often would not have problems seeing other people killing animals, but when they were the ones that needed to kill them, they would hesitate. Even if it was a fierce animal, it was still a living thing.
In the end, I didn’t use my hatchet. I lifted my leg and kicked the wolf’s waist fiercely. The sly wolf jumped away from Liu Xiaosheng the moment I lifted up my leg, and pounced at me. Unable to pull back my leg in time, plus my body instinctively wanting to turn around and run away, I tripped over a small pit on the ground because of the terrible coordination of my body parts. Seeing the wolf leaping toward me in the air, I screamed. While closing my eyes, I instinctively lifted the hatchet in my hand. As I felt a hot and painful sensation on my shoulders, a greasy warm liquid was also splashed onto my face.
Feeling that the wolf was not on top of me, I hurriedly opened my eyes and sat up. The searing pain on my shoulders made me groan in pain aloud. After I glanced around in confusion, I noticed that the wolf actually fell half a meter behind me. It opened its mouth and gasped laboriously. In its stomach, there was a long and deep wound. All its internal organs had come out, and it was bleeding nonstop. It was so badly wounded that it was already unable to make a sound. I subconsciously looked down at the hatchet in my hand and shuddered like I was having an electric shock. I dropped the hatchet to the ground and wiped my face. Sure enough, it was full of scarlet wolf blood.
The wolf was dead, and it was killed by me. However, I didn’t feel excited. Feeling an unbearable desire to vomit, I turned around and threw up everything I had eaten earlier.
“Mr. Liu, are you all right?” After wiping my mouth and finding the flashlight that I had thrown earlier from the ground, I hurriedly went to check Liu Xiaosheng’s injury.
Fortunately, Liu Xiaosheng was still alive. He asked weakly, “Where’s the wolf?”
“Dead, haha, Mr. Liu, I think I… wo…” I was stunned, unable to continue to say that I won the bet.
Liu Xiaosheng lay on his back in the grass, his face was as pale as a ghost, and his eyes didn’t show any luster. His handsome camouflage uniform had been torn up and covered with the marks of the wolf’s claws. His left leg was bleeding, his right arm was bleeding, and his face was also bleeding… On his originally handsome face that would make many men jealous, there was a shocking deep scar, from the middle of the bridge of the nose to the base of the ear, spreading across half of his cheek…
However, the most terrible thing was not his wound, but with such a serious injury, he didn’t show any painful expression.
“Is it…” Liu Xiaosheng smiled bitterly, “Yes, I lost. I lost completely. Mr. Chu, if you want to mock me, you can mock me now…”
Liu Xiaosheng raised his uninjured left arm, covered his eyes, and laughed. The trembling of the muscles affected the wound, and his twitching lips were pale as paper, but he still laughed loudly.
I didn’t laugh because I had no reason to laugh. More importantly, I saw two lines of tears falling from Liu Xiaosheng’s cheeks.
It was not that Liu Xiaosheng did not feel pain. It was so painful that he became numb to the pain. The scar on his face must have caused much more pain than his physical pain. The pain of disfigurement may not only hurt his handsome face, but also his confidence…
In fact, I did not win anything. It was just that Liu Xiaosheng had lost too much. However, he didn’t lose to me. He lost to himself.
He did this to himself. Although this was the case, I couldn’t bring myself to say this to him.
I took the signal gun out of Liu Xiausheng’s trouser pocket and fired it into the sky. Then I took off my coat and tore it into strips so I could wrap Liu Xiausheng’s wound.
Liu Xiaosheng seemed unable to feel anything. He didn’t refuse my help nor thank me for bandaging him. He just lay on the ground silently while I did everything.