"Cough, cough..."
Qiao Jiajin lay on the ground coughing continuously, feeling as if his internal organs had all been smashed to pieces. Little glasses reacted quickly, immediately climbing up and starting to reposition the iron plate.
"Come help, quick!" he yelled at the several women behind him.
"If these two fall, we're all finished!"
Although the several girls were terrified, they also knew the situation was urgent right now. Everyone bent down, gritted their teeth, and started to move the iron plate. Qi Xia lay on the ground, his whole body feeling a bit dizzy.
This strike from the black bear seemed to have knocked his soul flying out of him. He really didn't know how Qiao Jiajin alone managed to withstand two attacks.
"I'm going to make sure that fleeing fatty dies a horrible death..."
Qiao Jiajin cursed with gritted teeth.
"Pursuing advantage and avoiding harm... it's human nature..."
Qi Xia lay on the ground, muttering silently, "The Memorial to Grand General Liang Shang says, 'As for pursuing advantage and avoiding harm, fearing death and loving life, it is the same for all'..."
"Were you knocked silly?"
Qiao Jiajin struggled to open his eyes and looked at Qi Xia.
"What the hell does a Grand General have to do with this? If that bastard hadn't suddenly abandoned us, this iron plate wouldn't have fallen like this..."
By this time, the iron plate had already been supported up by the several girls. Little glasses then bent down to pull Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin.
"Brothers, are you guys alright?"
The two stood up, weakly holding onto the iron plate.
"Can't say 'alright', can only say 'not dead'."
Qiao Jiajin replied while taking a glance at the black bear. After this collision, that beast's condition wasn't much better. Its huge body seemed dizzy and disoriented, constantly shaking its head to stay awake.
"Let me switch in this time!" little glasses said.
"You two go to the back of the team and rest a bit first."
After speaking, he mimicked Qiao Jiajin's posture, lowered his body, and used his shoulder to press against the iron plate. But little glasses looked truly too frail and weak. Just pressing against the board seemed extremely strenuous.
His legs were constantly shaking, and the veins on his forehead bulged.
"Damn... is this iron plate this heavy..."
He seemed to feel that his posture was problematic, so he slightly adjusted the angle of his legs, but as a result, the iron plate didn't become any lighter.
"Brother, it's not that I don't believe in you."
Qiao Jiajin shook his head helplessly.
"If we rely on you to press against the board, there is no point in us standing behind you. We'll be dead either way."
"How, how about you do it..." little glasses gave an awkward smile and stepped to the side.
At this time, the team had basically adjusted their defensive formation, and Qiao Jiajin was once again pressing against the iron plate. The black bear had also more or less woken up. It originally wanted to attack the iron plate again, but it saw the middle-aged man standing all alone to the side.
"Oh no! Old Lu!" little glasses immediately panicked.
"Come over here quickly!"
"Hmph."
Qiao Jiajin snorted coldly.
"That fatty wanted to go out and seek death himself, so let him be."
"No..." little glasses's expression turned cold.
"Old Lu saved my life before, I can't just leave him!"
"You are quite stupid."
Qiao Jiajin said. But before little glasses could come up with a way to save Old Lu, the black bear was already blocking the path between the group and Old Lu. It seemed to also understand that once Old Lu hid behind the iron plate, it would no longer have any chance of killing him.
At this moment, little glasses looked extremely anxious. He held it in for a long time before turning his head to say to Qi Xia, "Can you save Old Lu?!" Qi Xia's eyes turned cold, and he said, "Sure, you go save him.
I won't stop you."
"I, I don't have a way... so I wanted to beg you..." little glasses said trembling.
"You look like a very capable person, can you please help me..."
"No." Qi Xia said without hesitation.
"If you want to go, go yourself."
After hearing this, little glasses still wanted to say something, but thinking about it carefully, he really didn't have any proper reason to ask a stranger to risk their life. He thought for a long time, and could only grit his teeth and say, "Then, fine... I will go save him..."
He slowly let go of his hand grabbing onto Qi Xia's clothes and stared at the black bear. Following that, little glasses took three deep breaths in a very comical manner, then let out a loud yell to boost his courage, stomped his right foot on the ground, and was about to charge towards the black bear.
Right at this critical moment, Qi Xia reached out and stopped him.
"Ouch..." little glasses was startled and almost sprained his waist from being blocked.
"What are you doing?!"
"You will die, aren't you afraid?"
Qi Xia asked slowly.
"How the hell can I not be afraid?!" little glasses was about to cry.
"But I also can't just watch Old Lu die!"
"Since that is the case, I will make a deal with you."
Qi Xia stared at the black bear not far away and said, "If I can let you guys survive this game, the Dao of you two will belong to me."
"Huh?" little glasses didn't expect Qi Xia to suddenly make such a request at this time, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer.
"Of course, if you are not willing, you can also go save him yourself."
Qi Xia's tone left no room for argument, momentarily putting little glasses in a dilemma. He and Old Lu gambled their lives to participate in this game, but in the end, if they didn't even obtain a single Dao, then what was the point of all this?
"I can only promise to give my own Dao to you, but Old Lu's..." little glasses said in a troubled tone.
"I don't know if he would be willing."
"Then you can act as a guarantor for him."
Qi Xia said.
"You two are together, right?"
"I... I..." little glasses thought over and over again, and still felt that a life was much more important than a Dao.
"Alright... I will guarantee for him. If we both survive, our Dao belong to you."
"Good."
Qi Xia nodded.
"Take your shoes off and give them to me."
"What?"
"Your shoes."
Qi Xia repeated once more. Little glasses didn't know what he was going to do, so he hurriedly took off his two dirty sneakers and handed them to Qi Xia.
"The law of the hunt, animals are sensitive by nature..."
Qi Xia silently muttered in his heart again, "The first taboo, attacking the back." Qi Xia weighed one sneaker in his hand, then suddenly took a step forward and forcefully threw the shoe out, hitting right on the black bear's back. This gave the black bear a huge fright.
Its whole body seemed to tremble, and it quickly turned around to look everywhere.
"The second taboo, severely injuring the nose."
Qi Xia picked up the other sneaker and threw it viciously towards the black bear's face. This shoe flew onto the black bear's nose. Although the force wasn't great, it made it stumble.
The black bear was enraged again, completely ignoring Old Lu in front of it, and turned its head to charge towards Qi Xia. Qi Xia reacted quickly, immediately pulling Qiao Jiajin's clothes to adjust the direction of the iron plate. The black bear's attack this time looked completely unorganized, just purely slapping its front paws onto the iron plate.
Once, twice, three times. Although it roared madly, the power of these few attacks was clearly not as great as before, and they were all blocked by Qiao Jiajin and the iron plate. Old Lu also ran over in a panic at this time and joined the team.