The strange creature lying on the tree had too many names since ancient times. Pi Xiu, White Fox, Fur Fur, Black Tapir, Iron-Eating Beast, Old White Bear, Panda, and so on. It had a total of 20 to 30 names, but the most commonly used name was panda.
The panda looked down and slowly climbed up the tree. Only then did Ye Xiaotian notice that there was a little panda sitting on a branch that looked exactly like it. The little bear hugged the branch and suddenly made a sound that was very similar to a baby's.
The big stupid bear used its fat palm to hold its chubby butt and pushed it up a bit, making it sit more steadily. The panda cub made another "yi" sound. It was slightly mellower than a baby's cry, but if one didn't look closely, it sounded exactly like a baby's cry.
At this time, Ye Xiaotian noticed that the panda's lower limbs had been injured, but he didn't know if it had fought with the jackals or other fierce beasts before. However, as the saying goes, a tiger can't fight a pack of wolves. Ye Xiaotian saw that the strange bear was naive, and it was already injured. If they really fought, the odds were against it. As Ye Xiaotian stared blankly, his arm was suddenly touched. Ye Xiaotian raised the wooden stick as if he had been electrocuted. He turned his head and saw that it was Xue Shuiwu leading Le Yao to his side. Seeing the situation in the distance, Shuiwu and Le Yao immediately widened their eyes.
At this time, a few jackals circling around the tree began to attack impatiently. They circled around the tree larger and larger, and then one by one, they leaped up, pounced, and opened their mouths full of snow-white fangs to bite the fat butt of the panda.
The tree was not tall, nor was it thick enough. There were a few times when the jackals jumped up high, and their mouths seemed to brush against the panda's short tail. Although Le Yao didn't cry out, she tightly held onto Ye Xiaotian's small hand. The sweat on her palm revealed the nervousness in her heart.
Xue Shuiwu covered her mouth in horror. Her pair of charming almond-shaped eyes were wide open, and there seemed to be mist in her eyes. In front of her was a pack of jackals, surrounding a mother beast and cub that she didn't know at all. However, from the mother beast that was desperately protecting the cub, she seemed to see a common complex with her.
Moreover, pandas were born with a kind of cute temperament. With just one look, her heart was completely on the panda's side.
The tree was shaking, and the fat panda felt danger. It moved uneasily, moving uneasily. Its weight made the tree shake even more violently. The panda curled up on the branch and called out to its mother a few times, as if it was expressing its fear.
The panda stopped moving. It stopped climbing the tree trunk and turned its head. Its two dark circles still looked like it was frowning. It glanced at the wolves circling and howling under the tree, then turned back to look at the red panda curled up on the branch. Suddenly, it opened its two front paws that were firmly hugging the tree trunk, and its fat body fell to the ground.
"Ah!"
Le Yao couldn't help but exclaim, but her mouth was immediately covered by Xue Shuiwu. The panda's fat body fell heavily to the ground. The panda cub lay on the branch and anxiously called out to its mother, like a baby crying.
The moment the panda fell, a few jackals jumped away in alarm. However, as soon as it fell to the ground, a few jackals swarmed it and launched a fierce attack.
The roars of the jackals rose one after another, but what made Ye Xiaotian and the others amazed was that the chubby, cute, clumsy and slow panda didn't show any weakness when it fought, and its movements became abnormally agile.
With a swing of its huge bear paw, it could send a jackal flying more than ten feet away. The sharp claws hidden in its paws were also abnormally sharp. When it fiercely scratched a jackal's abdomen, the jackal wailed and jumped away, its internal organs falling out.
However, the jackals were more agile and there were more of them. The panda was trapped in the middle, struggling left and right, and gradually fell into a disadvantage …
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At the same time, Ai Dian Shi, who had just turned the corner of the mountain, was also attacked. The people lurking in the mountain pass were like a group of jackals surrounding a panda, fiercely attacking it.
Just as their team walked out of the mountain pass, a big tree with lush leaves suddenly fell down, right in front of the road. The huge crown of the tree hit the ground, branches, leaves and dust flew up.
Ai Dianshi, who was sitting in the carriage, was startled. The knight beside him shouted, "Someone is sneaking up on us!"
Before the voice died away, countless "sharp arrows" flew out from the dense forest on both sides. Those were not arrows, but bamboo spears. Countless bamboo spears whistled through the air.
The people escorting Ai Dian Shi reacted quickly. The moment the big tree fell, they had already hurriedly reined in their horses and jumped off their horses. They took out their swords from their waists and the backs of their horses. Using their horses as cover, they hurriedly surrounded the Warden's carriage, trying to form a defensive circle.
However, the overwhelming number of bamboo spears ruined their plan. Those bamboo spears were not thrown by humans, but by a mechanism set in the forest, using the flexibility and elasticity of the branches to shoot them out.
As long as it was cleverly designed in advance, one person could control dozens of bamboo spears. When the target arrived, they could cut the ropes with a knife, and the bamboo spears could be shot out with a force stronger than a machine gun.
There might not be hundreds of people in the forest, but there were hundreds of bamboo spears. They gathered into a dense rain of spears, like a swarm of irritated wasps, and with a buzzing sound, they shrouded Ai Dian Shi's team.
In the forest, six or seven agile jackals launched a fierce attack on the mother panda, who had resolutely slid down the tree in order to protect her child. They rose and fell, and their leaping figures were like arcs of lightning in the thick, leaden clouds.
The panda looked fat and clumsy. Although it wasn't that clumsy, it couldn't deal with so many jackals that cooperated well with each other. Accompanied by the terrifying roars of the jackals, the jackals pounced, flew, and used their sharp claws to tear off pieces of fur and flesh from the mother panda's body.
At the foot of the mountain, the Ai Dian Shi's team, who were frantically trying to form a defensive circle to protect themselves, were like the panda that could not take care of its head and tail at the same time. Under the fierce attack of the people in the forest, there were only a few casualties.
A knight who could not get off his horse in time was shot by a bamboo spear, and his whole body flew off his horse.
Another knight who had just gotten off his horse had just tightened the reins of his horse when the horse let out a sad cry. A bamboo spear had pierced through the horse's neck. The sharp bamboo spear pierced through the horse's neck, and the blood-stained spear brushed past the knight's cheek, leaving a bloody mark on his face.
Immediately, the horse's four hooves softened, and it fell to the ground with a loud bang. Two or three bamboo spears crossed from the left and right, and pierced through the knight's body.
Even a well-trained army wouldn't be able to defend against such a fierce and sudden sneak attack, let alone these guards who were just like guards. The bamboo spears had a terrifying penetrating power. At such a distance, they could pierce through three layers of leather armor.
The second, the third …
As the knights fell to the ground, one after another, the Warden, who had received the most attention, was in the most miserable state. Almost thirty to forty spears were shot at him. The shed of the carriage was just a reed mat, and it could not stop the bamboo spears at all.
In fact, the Ai Dian Shi reacted at the first moment. His melancholy image of a man who always worried about the country and the people was swept away. He bent his body, and suddenly leaped forward, intending to jump off the carriage. But the bamboo spears had already arrived. Like a knife piercing through a layer of paper, they pierced through the reed mat, and pierced through his body.
More and more bamboo spears were coming at him, and his whole body was skewered on the carriage. Ai Dian Shi was the first to die, and he died with his eyes wide open.
The bamboo spears were shot at him with a sharp whistling sound, like the crying of evil spirits at night. When they pierced through the bodies of men and horses, there was a "puff" sound, like boiling water falling to the ground. Corpses fell from the horses one after another, and each of them carried more than one bamboo spear.
When the first round of bamboo spears was over, the bamboo spears that missed their target fell on the cobblestone ground. While they were still bouncing, more than twenty masked men with shiny steel knives rushed out of the bamboo forest like ferocious tigers coming down the mountain.
They did not speak, nor did they shout "kill them all" to boost their morale. They just raised their sharp knives and rushed out of the bamboo forest. They were wearing pairs of straw sandals, and they stepped on the smooth cobblestones as if they were flying.
In the dense forest on the hillside, the panda was in dire straits. It was no longer able to fend off the attacks of six or seven jackals. It let out an angry cry, suddenly got down on all fours, buried its head, and charged forward. Using its body that was far stronger than a jackal's, it forcefully knocked away a jackal that was pouncing on it. The jackal dragged its bloody body into the bushes.
A few jackals looked up at the panda cub on the tree branch unwillingly, and made a decision decisively. They chased after the adult panda that could obviously fill their stomachs.
Pandas were animals that were born with poor eyesight, but it was not to the point where it would crash into a tree. Even if it did, it would not be a problem for its round head, which was protected by enough fat and fur. It lowered its head and ignored the bushes and brambles, charging forward like a tank.
The jackals were small and agile. The panda's method could not shake them off, but once they entered such a place, the jackals could not work together and could not do anything to the thick-skinned panda. It would give the panda a chance to escape.
At the foot of the mountain, Ai Dian Shi and the others were not as lucky as the panda. None of them were spared from the bamboo spear attack. Only a few of them survived the spear attack, but they were already covered in wounds and dying.
The group of masked men that rushed out of the forest did not say a word. They pulled out their knives and slashed, regardless of whether they were alive or dead. In just a moment, they had executed everyone as if they were cutting melons and vegetables.
A person who seemed to be the leader was wearing a black suit and a black hood, revealing only a pair of cold and powerful eyes. He stood on a boulder with a knife in his hand, coldly watching his subordinates as they worked. When they were done with everyone, they symbolically searched some belongings and made it look like they were robbing and killing people. Then, he waved his hand and shouted coldly, "Retreat!"
The others did not say a word from the beginning to the end. As soon as their leader gave the order, they immediately flew back and followed their leader's figure. They came and went like a gust of wind, quickly disappearing into the forest …
