Chapter 137: You are Cute
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Not until roughly three kilometers away from Salvey and his companions did Zhang Tie find them abnormal. If you saw a shoal of golden fish swimming in order in the pond, you would also feel it abnormal.
Similarly, compared to the other pioneers that Zhang Tie had met before, he felt these were too disciplined and good at teamwork. He knew from experience that all pioneers were free-willed. They would form teams sometimes for common benefits, but if you made a comparison between a real pioneers' team with Salvey's group, you would see the difference at once. No matter how many real pioneers gathered together, they were just a pile of sand; however, Zhang Tie felt that Salvey's group was a brick, a shoal of golden fish that could swim in order. This made him feel strange.
Although they looked unusual, Zhang Tie didn't think too much; he didn't have that strong of a curiosity to try figuring it out. He believed that everyone had their own secrets. If it had nothing to do with him, he would prefer to ignore them. Who were those guys had nothing to do with Zhang Tie. What really concerned him was that swift attack from Miller the moment he had entered the birch woods.
What if Salvey didn't shout out at that time...
What if that guy in the shrubs had also followed up Miller by shooting him with an arrow...
Then...
At that moment..!
He might have become a corpse!
Zhang Tie really couldn't accept this. What made him most offended was that he had survived these 'ifs'. What if the 'if' came true one day? Would he then be killed in such an easy way? Would he then become a corpse? Would he then let his parents suffer like what his eldest brother had done?
After that event of Huck and Snade, Zhang Tie became afraid of death. What was death? Was it endless darkness? Every time he thought of this, the fear would arise from his inner heart.
Did his own fate have to be determined by so many 'ifs' concerning others?
Never! Zhang Tie looked calm while running, but he was screaming inside.
'No one can determine my fate except for me, no… one! If only those really powerful can determine their own fate in this world, then I will choose to be that powerful. I will choose to be more and more powerful..!'
That misunderstanding in the birch forest just now was nothing serious to Salvey's group, after all, Zhang Tie had left there safely. However, Salvey's group didn't know that just because of that 'trivial thing' in their eyes, Zhang Tie swore to become a really powerful man so that he would have the ability to control his own fate and life or death. The 15-year old youth finally awakened at this moment, with his heart pounding fiercely.
Only by becoming a really powerful man could he let his parents live a comfortable life.
Only by becoming a really powerful man could he stop his beloved woman from leaving him.
Only by becoming a really powerful man could he master his own fate and prevent others from killing him like a dog.
This was why Zhang Tie wanted to be powerful. It was neither ground-breaking nor great. It was even a bit selfish. However, that was how Zhang Tie really thought. Additionally, these selfish thoughts gradually made him highly spirited. He started to feel really energetic to strive forward...
Zhang Tie then quickened his pace!
...
There were only 4-5 km's from that birch woods to Zhang Tie's own base. It only took him a bit more than ten minutes to arrive there by running.
However, Zhang Tie had never imagined that he would meet a friend there. When he arrived at the mountain cave, both him and that guy in the mountain cave became stunned.
"Is that you?" two voices shouted out in unison before bursting out laughing.
It was Blues. Similar to their last meeting, they just exchanged their roles this time. Blues had already used the firewood and grasses fetched by Zhang Tie to burn a fire, and was roasting a savory hare while Zhang Tie was the one to rush in from outside.
"Is this your base?��� Blues asked.
"Of course!" Zhang Tie put down his luggage. "That's my firewood and grasses, haha!"
"You're really brave to choose your base here! This place is already very close to the Crescent Prairie..." Blues said in awe. "I didn't dare to choose such a close place my first time here!"
"Crescent Prairie? I've just come back from the border over there!"
Zhang Tie couldn't wait to sit near Blues, since he could smell a thick aroma of the roasted hare. He never imagined that Blues was this good at cooking.
"What were you doing there?" Blues asked out of curiosity.
He then noticed that huge bear trap on his luggage. Blues then picked himself up from the ground near the fire and walked over. Taking up the trap, he took a careful look.
"There are blood stains on it, how did you get this stuff?"
Zhang Tie then told Blues about what had happened to Salvey. Of course, he just briefed it—at noon, when he was coming towards here, he met a pioneer caught in a bear trap. He the sent the pioneer back to his base to converge with his partners before coming back. As for others, Zhang Tie ignored them all as he felt that it was not necessary to share his own boredom and mental experiences with Blues.
Blues really enjoyed Zhang Tie's story.
The hare was almost cooked as well, and fat enough for two people to enjoy it. Neither of them hesitated. They just both took out their daggers and started to cut off the meat and enjoy it. At the same time, they started to talk about what had happened in the past couple of days. What Blues revealed finally confirmed Zhang Tie's presumption—Glaze had already become a LV 3 warrior and the first one among all the horny students. He became very well known all over the Wild Wolf Castle.
Hearing this news, Zhang Tie was not too amazed. When Blues told him Glaze was the only student who had entered LV 3 among all the students attending this survival training, he just mumbled inwardly, 'He won't be the only one by tomorrow!'
Another Leakless Fruit on the small tree would become ripe by next day.
"What about you? Have you prepared your tools?"
Last time when Zhang Tie had met Blues, the other had expressed that he would like to go back to the Wild Wolf Castle to prepare some items so as to pick up Goose-neck Grass. Blues felt that it was very difficult to capture a live golden wolf and take it to the Wild Wolf Castle 30 km away as an archer, so he targeted the Goose-neck Grass, which was also very valuable.
However, if one wanted to pick up Goose-neck Grass, he had to own a plant-storage container or a special herbal container. Goose-neck Grass was very tender, its neck and roots very fragile and easily broken. If one was careless, he would break or damage it, and once broken or damaged, its effects would greatly reduce, resulting in a low price. So one should never put it casually among luggage.
One had to pull this stuff out of the soil together with its root. The better preserve it was from its root to its neck, the more valuable it was.
Zhang Tie didn't see any container on Blues or in the mountain cave that could be used to hold Goose-neck Grass.
"I'm looking for someone to make the containers. Speaking of this, I have to thank you. When I went to the Iron Melting Workshop to look for someone to make a medicinal spade for me. Hearing that I was invited by you, the guys didn't even want my compensation!" Blues said with a big smile.
No matter what, such a feeling of being cared by friends everywhere would be a great feeling for anyone, especially a weird recluse like Blues. This might have even been his first time experiencing this kind of care by others.
"Pleasure, those guys in the Iron Melting Workshop are easy to get along with. If you feel embarrassed, you can just let someone take a wild wolf back to those guys for you if you have any surplus. Seeing the wolf, they'll definitely treat you as their bosom brother..."
"Fine, got it!" Blues nodded seriously.
"So why did you come back before preparing well..." After saying this, Zhang Tie felt Blues was staring at him weirdly. Scratching his own face, he asked again, "What? Was my question weird?"
"Have you not heard it?" Blues asked weirdly.
"Hear what?"
"Wolves' Canival!"
"What's that?" Zhang Tie felt like he was becoming rustic.
"The two moons in the sky control the mating time of the wolves. When the two become full moons, the wolves' mating time begins, lasting one month; three times a year. When the first night of the full moons arrives, a large amount of wolves will gather together and howl up at them like holding a ceremony. So this day was called Wolves' Carnival!"
Blues didn't notice that when he explained it, Zhang Tie's eyes became brighter at once.
"There are two full moons tonight?"
"Yes!"
"Will there be a lot of wolves?"
"Many, I heard someone saying he saw thousands of wild wolves howling up to the full moons. But our strength doesn't allow us to venture deep into the Crescent Prairie. Last time when I wandered around here, I found a safe place near where a large group of wild wolves would gather together at night. If my assumption is right, we could enjoy the scene of the wild wolves' howling to the full moons!" Blues said with a delighted look.
Zhang Tie's eyes were not just bright this time. Instead, they had become extremely brilliant, like two burning lanterns.
"Blues..."
"What!" Feeling Zhang Tie's voice becoming strange, he, who was tearing off a hare's leg, turned his head and found Zhang Tie with his eyes fixated on him, causing him to be startled.
"Did someone say you were cute?" After saying this, Zhang Tie heard a sound of 'Pi pa' from the burning firewood.
Blues' hand shook, and he almost dropped his hare's leg onto the ground.
"No!" Blues forcefully swallowed his saliva and replied before moving a bit farther away from Zhang Tie out of self-preservation. His were looked weird, and Blues started to wonder if Zhang Tie had a special hobby related to soap![1]
In the mountain cave where only two men were inside, Blues abruptly felt goose bumps rise all over his skin!
"You are cute!" Zhang Tie said seriously.
In the mountain cave where only two men were inside, seeing Zhang Tie's gleaming eyes, Blues' face immediately turned white, and he dropped his hare's leg onto the ground…
[1] A special hobby related to soap refers to homosexuality. When two men fall in love with each other and prepare to make love, one would bend over like picking up a soap...
Chapter 138: Wolf Pack Howling at the Full Moons
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In the sky, the two moons were as round as wheels: one big, one small. Their brilliance scattered all over the ground, causing numerous stars to lose their shine. Even everything on the ground seemed like it was covered with silver.
The Crescent Prairie at this moment looked magnificent: vast, mysterious, and endless. Under the moonlight, the swaying grass in the distance was changing its shape, bringing Zhang Tie a sense of a sea wave moving across the land.
At the sight of the two full moons in the sky and a vast prairie on the ground, most people would abruptly feel broad minded and lose all their distracting thoughts.
Since he was born—as full moons appeared every four months—Zhang Tie had already watched them dozens of times. He thought them very beautiful, and he would have appreciated the view over a windowsill, however, today he felt that it was more beautiful than ever before.
Of course, what was the most beautiful was the increasing number of wild wolves in the valley. When it reached 30, Zhang Tie knew that his Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit will get ripe tonight. Perhaps because of the nice scenery, the ferocious look of the wild wolves became cute in Zhang Tie's eyes as he thought the wolves' carnival was a grand party themed for mating. He heard some rich people in Blackhot City usually held these kind of parties at home; it was unknown whether they had learned it from wolves.
Thinking of mating, unknowingly, with his eyes fixed onto the two moons of different sizes, a bashful thought flashed across Zhang Tie's mind. Such plump, round, and bright moons reminded him of the breasts of Miss Daina and Alice. The bigger one belonged to Miss Daina while the smaller one was Alice's. After an estimation using his eyes, Zhang Tie found that they were truly similar in size. Although Alice's and Beverley's boobs were comparatively large among girls, compared to that of Miss Daina's, they were still smaller.
Seeing Zhang Tie stretch out his hands and pinched his fingers towards the two moons with a weird smile, Blues—lying on the ground nearby—immediately quivered and silently moved a bit farther away from Zhang Tie.
When the moons rose above their heads, the number of wild wolves in the valley gradually increased to roughly 70, which greatly surpassed Zhang Tie's ability to deal with in one go. If he just jumped into a pack of rutting wild wolves, Zhang Tie was certain that he would definitely be killed miserably.
The night wind from the prairie also brought the smell of wild wolves in the valley. With the increasing numbers, howls could gradually be heard one by one and the entire valley became their meeting place.
'There must be a way. There must be a way!'
When some wild wolves started to growl, Zhang Tie rapidly racked his mind, glancing over the valley beneath, not letting any detail go. If he was surrounded by 70 wild wolves at the same time, he would definitely lose his life.
'What method can I use to avoid being besieged by so many wild wolves at the same time?'
He could only use terrain, allowing wild wolves to not be able to besiege him.
Finally, at the sight of a crack extending from the ravine at the bottom to the cliff upwards 70 m away, Zhang Tie shouted inwardly, 'Gold help me.'
That crack was more than 10 m in height, the top of which was on the cliff where Zhang Tie and Blues were lying. Like it was split by a huge axe, the entire crack was about 20 m deep and in the shape of a wedge. The wider place outside was 5-6 m, while the deeper it went inside, the narrower it got before closing off entirely. Noticing this, a thought flashed across Zhang Tie's mind. He then thought up a brave plan.
He hit Blues's shoulder.
Blues felt uneasy, and in response, slowly moved aside.
"Blues..."
"What?"
"I need your help tonight. I owe you one for tonight!" Zhang Tie lowered his voice.
"I will not do weird things!" Blues hurriedly replied.
Not knowing why, Zhang Tie felt that Blues was a bit nervous tonight, but he didn't think too much on it.
"Have you seen the crack that extends downwards along the cliff" Zhang Tie pointed at the place.
"Yea!"
"How do you feel about that crack? Whether it is stubborn and sexy?"
Blues felt goose bumps all over. Widely opening his eyes, he asked Zhang Tie, "What do you want?"
"I have a plan, a very interesting plan; I need your help!"
"What plan?"
Blues swallowed his saliva. At this time, he had already determined that once Zhang Tie said something disgusting, he would leave, and the farther the better.
Zhang Tie licked his lips, causing Blues to quiver once again.
"After a while, I will go down from there and enjoy the carnival together with the wild wolves. You can keep an eye on the scene. If I cannot stand it any more, you need to hold the wolves back so that I can climb up once again. As long as I can stand it, you just watch..." Zhang Tie revealed his plan, which was actually not a plan at all since he was planning to just fight the wild wolves by force. If he couldn't stand it and would like to escape, he would ask for Blues' help who'd cover him with his bow and arrows.
Such a sharp unexpected reply stunned Blues for quite a while. He couldn't understand why Zhang Tie would do this crazy thing at all. Why would Zhang Tie celebrate the Carnival together with the wild wolves? The word Carnival caught Blues imagination. A people with 70 rutting wolves? Happy? Did it mean that he would even f*ck wolves? That was too terrible! Blues was slightly shocked, feeling that Zhang Tie was already as terrible as prehistoric beasts.
Seeing Blues' silence, Zhang Tie mistook it , especially that bit of shock in Blues' eyes, as his consent, which pleased him.
At this moment, Zhang Tie felt that he should be slightly modest. "After exploding some of their anus, the wild wolves will definitely be driven crazy. I hope they can come in a queue. If they want to come for me at the same time, I will not deal with them!"
Hearing Zhang Tie's words, Blues' face turned whiter under the moonlight. Seeing the sweat oozing over Blues' forehead, Zhang Tie thought Blues was worrying about him.
"Trust me, I've done this kind of thing many times. As long as they come for me in turns, even 7-8 wolves a time, I can still deal with them!" Saying this, Zhang Tie patted Blues' shoulder and lowered his body, running towards that crack.
Have done this kind of thing many times? With wolves?
Blues was so scared that he almost escaped. What kept him was his curiosity. He really wanted to see what would happen between a person and 60-70 wild wolves. This was too terrifying.
At this moment, if Zhang Tie knew what Blues was really thinking about, he would have definitely spat blood for a couple of liters.
He arrived at a place about one meter away from the two sides of the crack, then squatted down and supported himself on the ground using his hands, leaning half of his body inside the crack to explore.
The walls on both sides of the crack were like two horizontal high walls for Zhang Tie. Once stepping against both walls inside, he could easily climb down from the top. Actually, the rugged walls were much easier for him to use his strength on than smooth walls .
Zhang Tie climbed down over ten meters in half a minute.
The ravine was brimming with howling wild wolves.
With six lances, Zhang Tie could kill six wild wolves. Before the other wild wolves besieged him, he could retreat into this wedge crack, during which he could kill several more wolves in the front. By then, he would have roughly killed 10 wolves. After that, he could kill ten more wild wolves in the crack. By then, he would have successfully completed tonight's mission and could safely retreat. There were only two items that he should keep in mind: first, move fast; second, don't get surrounded by wild wolves.
Almost the moment he reached the ground, Zhang Tie was very calm, and started to calculate precisely. After thinking carefully and feeling that no unexpected problems could exist, Zhang Tie pulled out two lances as he took a deep breath and rushed out of the hidden place inside the crack.
Seeing Zhang Tie rush out of that crack with lances in hand, Blues eyes widened once again. "What is he doing?" Closely after that, Blues saw Zhang Tie's marvelous lance skill...
Zhang Tie's first target was a head wolf standing on a huge rock. It was a comparatively large wolf, who was occupying the best place. No other wolves dared to fight for that place with him.
The head wolf kept raising its head and howling at the moons.
Since pack of wolves with a head wolf's guidance would be more difficult to deal with, Zhang Tie would naturally take eliminating the head wolf as his first task.
The lance fell from the sky and pierced straight through the head wolf's body, causing it to fly off the rock. But before the pack of wolves could respond, another lance arrived, nailing a wild wolf to the ground.
Within the next two-three seconds, sprays of spurting blood could be seen coming from a third, fourth, fifth, and sixth wolves after their bodies were pierced through by lances, causing miserable howls to echo around the place before death silenced them.
At this time, Zhang Tie was like a thug—he abruptly intruded into the wild wolves' party and started his massacre.
The lance containers were soon cleared. After that, Zhang Tie pulled out his long sword with his right hand and took the dagger into his left as he rushed towards the two wolves that were also charging at him. Two sprays blood spurted out, caused by the long sword and the dagger at the same time.
In a split second, several wolves pounced at Zhang Tie. He adroitly escaped from their attacks, using his long sword and dagger to kill several more wolves in the short period of time that a person needs to take a couple breaths, causing blood of the wild wolves to spray everywhere.
More wolves rushed forward. Seeing this, Zhang Tie immediately turned back and started to escape. The fastest two wolves rushed out of the pack, aiming to bite him, howling. However, Zhang Tie didn't even slow down. He just changed his footwork and wove his dagger two times, causing the two wolves to fall down to the ground.
Standing at the entrance of the mountain cave on the cliff, Blues was really stunned by what he was seeing. What shocked him the most was Zhang Tie's marvelous lance skills, followed by his brave act of challenging the wolf pack. This time, in his eyes, Zhang Tie was not committing a massacre at all; instead, he was dancing. The wild wolves were absolutely dancing in pre-prepared moves. They all jumped onto Zhang Tie's dagger and long sword one by one, causing sprays of blood to spurt out one after another.
Under that silvery moonlight, everything turned cruelly beautiful...
Not until the remaining wolves had besieged Zhang Tie and force him into that crack did Blues quiver under the night chilly wind. Thinking of what Zhang Tie had told him, he hurriedly took his bow and ran over there.
Before Blues arrived, several more wolves were laid on the ground in the wedge-shaped crack. Zhang Tie kept fighting as he retreated deeper into the crack. Soon, he had reached half the depth of the 20 m deep crack. At this position, the width between the two walls was less than two meters.
Although many wild wolves were outside, few of them could rush in and attack Zhang Tie. Like a rock battered by constant sea waves, Zhang Tie just stayed there and constantly cracked down the wild wolves' attacks, causing them to fall one after another with miserable howls.
In front of Zhang Tie, a pile of dead wild wolves soon came into being...
In Blues' eyes, both the long sword and the dagger in Zhang Tie's hands were like wild wolf grinders. Zhang Tie moved so fast, with both ferociousness and viciousness. It seemed as if he had practiced each move he used to kill the wild wolves for hundreds of times, since they were unimaginably precise and simple.
Once hit by Zhang Tie's long sword or dagger, those wild wolves would completely lose their fighting force and fall down. They would never pick themselves up from the ground again.
When Zhang Tie chopped at a wild wolf's head using his long sword, reaching only midway, so that half of the head was still hanging on the wolf's neck, blood sprayed all over his face.
After this wild wolf fell down, other wolves retreated at the same time, leaving the wedge-shaped crack. Because of their intelligence, the wild wolves understood that they won't win anything by fighting Zhang Tie here in this way.
Although leaving the crack, the wild wolves surrounded the entrance and kept watch. Their ferocious eyes were locked onto Zhang Tie as they growled in low voices. After exposing their sharp canines, they scratched the stones and soil on the ground, their bodies lowered. But even though they felt like surging forward, they dared not to do that!
Unexpectedly, the beasts were this smart. After wiping off the blood from his face, Zhang Tie burst out laughing.
"Are you okay?" Blues shouted from above him.
"I'm okay! I can still stand it..." Saying this, Zhang Tie rushed forward again with the long sword in hand. He killed those wild wolves which had completely lost their moving ability but haven't died yet.
The moment he rushed out of the crack, the surrounding wild wolves charged at him once again. Seeing that, Zhang Tie retreated for the second time. When he reached his previous place, the wild wolves exited too. During the whole rush, another three wild wolves had fallen outside.
The two parties kept repeating this process.
When Zhang Tie rushed out, the wild wolves besieged; after Zhang Tie retreated, leaving several more dead wild wolves, they would fall back too. After repeating this process several times, more wild wolves were killed outside the wedge-shaped crack, causing the pile to grow higher...
Even Zhang Tie himself couldn't remember how many times he had launched the seesaw battles with the wild wolves. Finally, seeing him rush out of the crack again, the wild wolves outside immediately turned back and escaped with their tails between their legs. Zhang Tie didn't retreat any more, instead he kept chasing behind them with loud laughter. Although the remaining wild wolves ran fast, Zhang Tie kept close behind them. After picking up the lances from the ground, he killed two more wild wolves that ran slower than the rest.
When no more wild wolves could be seen in the ravine, Zhang Tie looked around and found over 40 dead bodies lying about...
Under the bright and clear moonlight, the entire ravine was covered with wild wolves' fresh blood and dead bodies.
Everything turned tranquil again...
He really did it: chasing away all the wild wolves by himself. Seeing his achievement, Zhang Tie became stunned!
Previously, he thought that it would be him who would have to escape. Unimaginably, the wild wolves were the ones to run away. Seeing the thrilling scene before his eyes, something flashed across Zhang Tie' mind for a split second, which filled his heart, making him generous.
'It seems that I could make it. I could really make it. Even facing 70 wild wolves, I could still commit a massacre and scare the sh*t out of them...'
"I can make it!" Zhang Tie mumbled...
"I can make it!" Zhang Tie raised his voice, reaffirming it.
Raising his head, he glanced at the dead wild wolves all over the grounds. At the same time, something new appeared in his eyes...
"I can make it!: Zhang Tie shouted out loudly with eyes turning extremely stubborn.
"Ao wu..." Zhang Tie raised his head towards the sky and howled like a wolf, which could be heard in the surroundings...
At this time, Blues, calmly standing on the cliff, gazed at that youth covered with blood who had made the miracle in the ravine...
Under the moonlight, the youth wore a layer of silver frost like silver armor. It was covered with bloody marks, streaks of beasts' blood, like heraldry.
Pitch-dark night!
Full moons!
Ravine!
Dead wolves!
Youth!
Fresh blood!
What a visually shocking scene!
Moved, Blues felt that the scene before his eyes seemed to predict something. It became distant; sadly, he was not an authoritative expert on occultism and wasn't good at predicting. So he didn't know what future was behind that distant scene.
"That guy is really handsome!" Blues mumbled...
Chapter 139: Relaxing
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Being dreamless, last night was Zhang Tie's best sleep during the past days. Especially since together with Blues he had set up that bear trap on the path people had to take if they wanted to enter where the two people were sleeping.
The whole night wolves' howls drifted into the mountain cave from the Prairie outside. Some howls seemed like they were coming from not that far off. If it was before, Zhang Tie would have definitely not been able to sleep well; he would have definitely checked outside again and again with lance in hand to reassure himself that there was nothing there. However, last night, Zhang Tie had slept unexpectedly well.
The never-ending wolf howls outside the mountain cave reminded him of dog barks and the sound of raindrops falling onto the roof of his own attic at home in Blackhot City. It seemed to be a rainy night as raindrops and dog barks drifted into his ears from outside. Everything combined into a sort of tranquility. Hearing those common noises, Zhang Tie felt reassured and easily fell asleep.
Zhang Tie knew that it was not raining outside the mountain cave. The wolf howls were still wolf howls; where he lay was a mountain cave on the border of the Crescent Prairie instead of his own attic. Nothing had changed except for his inner heart and his own feelings.
Like how he had felt being a flesh bag in the Iron Thorns Fighting Club. When he changed his attitude and emotions towards it, everything changed!
Last night, Zhang Tie had experienced a wholly new change inside himself.
...
Not knowing why. Perhaps because he came back late last night, his biological clock didn't wake him up a bit after 6 am the next morning as usual.
When Zhang Tie woke up, the sun had already risen high. He felt so comfortable that the moment reminded him of the feel of waking up late in the morning at home. His parents spoiled him like that sometimes. During the holidays, when he didn't need to go to school, his mom always liked to see him wake up late morning like a pig and get up when the sun was hanging so high in the sky, it shone on his face.
Before Zhang Tie was twelve, his mom would take away his quilt and pat his fat bottom to wake him up in the late morning. When Zhang Tie would open his dizzy eyes, he could always see the happy smile on his mom's face and that assumed solemnity after the smile.
That was his mom's most beautiful smile in Zhang Tie's memory!
...
When Zhang Tie woke up, Blues had already left, leaving Zhang Tie alone. Last night, after Zhang Tie had returned, Blues seemed to have been stimulated, feeling like he was seeing a weird monster with three heads and six arms when he looked at Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie had felt it even in sleep. Blues got up very early this morning and left after picking up his bow and arrows...
After waking up, Zhang Tie didn't get up immediately; instead, he just stayed in his sleeping bag and listened to the various sounds drifting in from outside the mountain cave, including tweets of birds and insects and the sound of 'Bi bi' produced by tree leaves in the wind.
It really felt like sleeping in late at home! Zhang Tie stretched his body with satisfaction, then slowly got up.
Although it was his big day today, Zhang Tie felt very relaxed. Filled to the brim with the comfortable feeling, he really felt like living a weekend at home.
Donder said that whatever you did, you should learn to be relaxed after busy work. The law of being relaxed after busy work was the law of Yin and Yang in the east.
Since he was tense the whole day before, Zhang Tie decided to have a good rest today. After a good rest, he would then choose a place to eat fruits. That was Zhang Tie's full plan for today.
The clothes that he wore last night were put aside. If there was anything unsatisfactory last night, it would be the wolves' blood that covered his body from top to bottom. With the exception of his inner clothes, all that he had worn last night had to be changed and washed at once. Blues had said he was very cool and handsome last night. However, no matter how cool and handsome he was last night, his clothes would never get clean themselves.
After getting up, Zhang Tie changed to a clean set of clothes. He then slowly cleaned his face and mouth at a pond outside the mountain cave before swaggering back. After grabbing the pile of dirty clothes, he moved back onto a stone beside the pond and started to wash them carefully.
Zhang Tie's coat and trousers were both ordinary and jet black, made of Kalan cloth, which was a machine-woven cloth. The most evident features of Kalan cloth were low price and abrasion-resistance. Because it was made of cotton, despite not being water-proof and not having the greatest look, it could maintain warmth.
Most of the students at school wore this, which was also the most favorite cloth of civilians in Blackhot City. As for that costume of City Guard Army left by his elder brother, unless it was an evening party, Zhang Tie would never wear it daily during survival training.
As for the bloody places on his pitch black Kalan cloth, he could not see the red stains after a simple washing. Unless carefully looking for them, he could not even discover the delicate difference between the cleaned bloody places and their surroundings. However, the wolf blood on his white coarse linen shirt could not be cleaned no matter how hard he washed it, especially from the collar. So he couldn't wear the white shirt anymore as compensation for last night's crazy massacre.
Zhang Tie's vest was also sprayed with some wolf blood, one stain remaining even after being washed. Since the vest was worn close to his body, Zhang Tie didn't fear about the stain being noticed by others.
One thing though, he couldn���t take the white shirt back home. If the beast blood was seen on the shirt, his mom would definitely flick his forehead fiercely, causing it to swell, when she thought of the danger at that time.
'Don't show off your talent in front of the public.' This was what his mom had confided to him for over several hundred times. Of course, Zhang Tie didn't want to let his mom worry about him.
The Wild Wolf Valley and the Crescent Prairie didn't lack water sources. The pond he was using was only 100 m away from his base. Previously, if Zhang Tie wanted to wash his clothes here, he would have taken a weapon to be reassured; however, this time he took nothing except his dirty clothes.
After washing his coat and trousers, when Zhang Tie was washing his socks, two wild wolves came to the pond. They drank by one side of the pond. After drinking, one of them raised its head and caught sight of Zhang Tie on the other side.
At this time, Zhang Tie also raised his head and peered at the two wild wolves, then he lowered his head and returned to washing his socks again. Strangely, when he saw common wild wolves in a group of 3-5 now, Zhang Tie felt nothing. Let alone fear, he didn't even feel his heart pound faster.
Glaring at Zhang Tie, the two wild wolves exposed their sharp canines, seeming a bit hesitant.
After washing a sock, Zhang Tie raised his head again and found the two wolves were still there. He then became impatient. Picking up a small cobble, Zhang Tie casually threw it at them like chasing away a cat slipping into his home to steal fish, "Piss off…"
After falling into the water, the cobble produced ripples. Seeming to be scared, the two wild wolves put their tails between their legs and disappeared into the grasses, never reappearing again.
Zhang Tie felt good today and didn't want to kill anymore.
It was just a small episode.
By the time he had finished washing the clothes and putting them to dry on a branch beside a bonfire in the mountain cave, it was noon. Missing Blues' yummy roasted hare, Zhang Tie took a lance and walked out.
Half an hour later, he returned and started to roast a hare over the bonfire in the mountain cave. Although the clothes beside the bonfire dried up very quickly, they didn't smell as good as those dried under the sun's light; he could smell a faint tinge of smoke on them. However, since he was a loner, nobody would care about it.
Soon, the aroma of the hare being cooked over the fire drifted through the air. Imitating Blues' method, Zhang Tie left some openings in the hare using his dagger and sprayed some salt and powder of wild pepper that he had collected in the Wild Wolf Valley when the hare was dropping off golden oil.
Perhaps, Blues had some special treatment method as Zhang Tie could not make it as yummy as that of Blues. But he was already very satisfied. After eating half of the hare, he burped, then went to find a huge tree beside the mountain cave. Climbing up, Zhang Tie found a place and sat there. He then enjoyed the breeze under the shadow of the tree's crown, watching the endless gorgeous scenery of the Crescent Prairie in the distance.
White clouds were slowly moving through the crystal blue sky. Several huge birds were hovering in the sky. The prairie seemed endless as the land was as straight as a blanket.
Some wild wolves were chasing after a pack of antelopes. As one was isolated from its pack, the wild wolves locked onto it. The antelope kept dashing forward like a long jump expert. It kept jumping forward in its escape. Each time it would jump very far. However, the wild wolves chased closely after it. Due to the wild wolves' terrifying endurance and speed, that antelope didn't pick itself up again after the last jump...
Zhang Tie then took a nap on the tree!
When he opened his eyes again, the sun had moved to the west, and the wind felt a bit chilly.
Feeling fully energy, Zhang Tie jumped off the tree and entered the mountain cave. After heating up the remaining half of the hare on the fire, Zhang Tie arranged his clothes and luggage and left with the lance container and his weapons.
The moment he left the mountain cave, Zhang Tie had sped up. He soon entered the "cruising condition" as a loner...
His condition now was unprecedented—good both physically and spiritually. Zhang Tie could feel that he had reached his peak condition ever since he was born 15 years ago.
It was the right moment for him to improve to LV 3 and experience the effect of the Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit. Since Blues had already visited this place, Zhang Tie couldn't be certain that he would not come back. Additionally, the mountain cave was not very deep and hidden, so of course Zhang Tie would not choose to complete his most important improvement here.
The safest place that he could find was still that No.1 base: the mountain cave created by gold-eating boas.
'It's unknown when I'll be able to casually access the Castle of Black Iron, not afraid of being known by others,' Zhang Tie though while running.
However, he didn't know that when he left the mountain cave, Glaze had been close to him.
When Zhang Tie passed by the grass on the hillside, he was less than 400 m away from Glaze. Although Zhang Tie had not seen him, in the woods nearby, Glaze had caught sight of him.
Seeing Zhang Tie's back, Glaze revealed a shadow of a grin in the corner of his mouth...
Chapter 140: The Booming of the Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit
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Zhang Tie didn't know that after he became a loner, Glaze had searched for him in the Wild Wolf Valley for several days.
In Glaze's eyes, Zhang Tie was still that trivial LV 1 warrior, LV 2 at most. As a LV 3 warrior, he thought that he would still have the absolute advantage. So his purpose for coming to Zhang Tie was obvious.
However, Zhang Tie's speed of growth or some hidden force was surprising to everybody, causing Glaze to have a hard time sleeping and eating well.
Loner was the role with the highest casualty chance during the survival training! After silently negotiating with Zuhair, Glaze also declared to the public that he would start a loner's survival training.
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Zhang Tie moved at a medium speed. Since Glaze did not dare to get too close to him, he stayed far behind, at the distance farthest he could without letting Zhang Tie disappear from his vision. The best thing for Glaze was to find Zhang Tie's base. When the night fell, heh… heh… everything would be easily solved.
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Zhang Tie was not able to notice that someone was following him yet. After one day's rest, the only things in his mind were the gorgeous fruits on that small tree in Castle of Black Iron!
The ripe Leakless Fruit and the Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit.
One hour later, Zhang Tie arrived at the woods on the hillside near where the gold-eating boa's cave was hidden.
After several rounds of fights with Zhang Tie, Glaze was afraid of him due to his numerous tricks. He didn't know whether Zhang Tie had already noticed him and just wanted to lure him into the woods. Anyone who had a bit experience would know that it was the most dangerous to follow a person into the woods. Once surrounded by the trees, the roles of the two people could easily change—the latter one might encounter the earlier one's ambush and be trapped.
So Glaze was hesitant. He wanted to see whether Zhang Tie would come out of there...
After waiting outside the woods for half an hour, Glaze still didn't see Zhang Tie leave. At this time, the sun had already went down, and the Wild Wolf Valley started to be covered by the night colors.
Did Zhang Tie live in that hillside? Realizing that, Glaze bravely ventured inside.
After one hour, it became completely dark. Feeling very dejected, Glaze walked out of the woods. By then, he had confirmed that Zhang Tie had noticed him and slipped away during the period when he hesitated whether to enter or not. After carefully searching the entire hillside and woods, Glaze couldn't find Zhang Tie nor any trace of human beings' settlement. So Zhang Tie became more cunning in Glaze's mind.
"F*ck, you have good luck today..." Glaze swore as he left the hillside.
Almost the moment Glaze left the hillside, in the Castle of Black Iron, like what had happened after eating the first Leakless Fruit, the second burning point on Zhang Tie's spine that radiated cyan lights consecutively broke through the blue light pass and the purple light pass.
Boom!
The purple light on the burning point was broken into light points that resembled rain. After that, the burning point turned pitch black. Soon after, a red sparkle appeared in the darkness. The sparkle then started to grow into an eternal flame, lightening up the whole burning point.
After the second burning point on his spine was ignited, Zhang Tie felt that his entire spine had become transparent. The places surrounding the burning point warmed up. Zhang Tie felt so relaxed, like having unloaded a heavy burden or opening a heavy lock inside his body. At the same time, a great new strength rose up in him.
After opening his eyes, Zhang Tie screamed loudly and jumped up from the ground. He then started to rush around the grounds of the Castle of Black Iron. He kept running for half an hour before stopping. Faster speed, longer time, greater endurance, and more ease! This was how Zhang Tie felt while running.
After running, he only rested a few minutes before lying on the ground to practice the Lying-Tiger Move. This time, it lasted for roughly 30 minutes. After practicing the Lying-Tiger Move, Zhang Tie practiced 36 Free-Hand Moves—the whole set of Iron-Blood Fist Skill once. This time, he could make it more like how tiger attacked.
After becoming a LV 3 warrior, Zhang Tie felt that his strength had increased by at least 30 percent. Along with the increasing strength was his endurance, responsiveness, and coordination of all physical aspects. This feeling of growing stronger was really fascinating.
"Zhang Tie, congratulations. You've become a LV 3 warrior!" Zhang Tie shouted out loudly in another voice. "What else do you want to say?"
"Ha… ha… I have a Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit to eat, I cannot wait to experience the feel of a wild wolf's strength in my body!"
Saying this, Zhang Tie walked towards the small tree. He then took a deep breath. The rich fragrance surrounding the small tree was radiating from the ripe Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit. Although ripe, with the exception of its purely white body having become translucent like crystal, the Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit's remained unchanged—it was still a cute wolf cub with two leaves on its head.
——Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit has gathered the Strength of Qi, the Strength of Blood, the Strength of Vein, the Strength of Channel, the Strength of Bone, the Strength of Marrow, and the Strength of God of a Wild Wolf. Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit has become ripe. Usage: Pick and directly eat it. Notice: The fruit cannot be taken out of the Castle of Black Iron. After twelve hours of having been picked off the tree, its energy and vitality will gradually decline.
Beside the ripe Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit was another Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit, which was Zhang Tie's latest achievement. After last night's massacre, besides the first one becoming absolutely ripe, a second one also came into being.
——Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit has gathered the Strength of Qi and the Strength of Blood of a wild wolf. Five more strengths need to be formed. This Fruit has not become ripe yet.
This was the message about the second Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit. It reminded Zhang Tie that he had killed at least 14 wild wolves more than the number he had predicted last night, driving two more strengths of the latest Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit to be formed.
At this time, Zhang Tie had already understood the tip—for each 50 changes, 49 of them are available while the remaining one belongs to people. If it was anyone else, after they killed 50 wolves, all of their energy, Qi, and blood, including the seven strengths in each wolf's body would dissipate and return to mother nature.
However, since Zhang Tie had obtained the small tree, if he killed 50 wolves, the seven strengths of the 50 wolves would not completely dissipate, instead, only 49 wolves' seven strengths would be returned to mother nature. The remaining one wolf's seven strengths would be transferred into the small tree like how people digested food, finally forming a Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit.
Each wolf would contribute 1/50 of their strengths to one Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit. One could eat wolf meat to gain strength. Similarly, the small tree was like an invisible mouth which could eat the seven strengths of wolves that could not be seen by people and form a Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit.
The small tree named "Manjusaka Karma Fruit Tree" was really too powerful, unable to be predicted by Gods and Demons.
Zhang Tie was awed by the small tree once again. At the same time, he started to be filled with gratitude for being favored by the God of Destiny.
Compared to the Leakless Fruit, the Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit was what Zhang Tie was looking forward to most today.
After digesting that Leakless Fruit, Zhang Tie successfully improved to a LV 3 warrior. Now, it was the right time for him to try the effects of the ripe Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit.
After picking off that wolf cub from the tree, Zhang Tie carefully put it onto his palm. As if enjoying an art work, Zhang Tie watched it for quite a while. The fruit was really vivid. Zhang Tie even felt regretful for having to eat it. However, after enjoying it for a while, he finally made the decision. With eyes closed, he quickly threw the wolf cub into his mouth and swallowed it after a couple of bites.
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Almost ten seconds after he swallowed it, the effect of the Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit begun to show up. With eyes closed, Zhang Tie sat on the ground with crossed legs, only feeling a wisp of energy and heat slowly gathering up in his chest. The energy and heat finally formed seven strengths in his chest which kept swirling in a clock-wise manner like seven fish. At this moment, Zhang Tie felt his chest was like a swollen balloon, close to exploding from the energy within.
Of course, those energies did not burst his chest because the seven strengths soon found their own directions to go.
The first strength swam across Zhang Tie's chest and abdomen and finally entered the Qi sea two inches below his navel. Closely after that, Zhang Tie felt his Qi sea expanding in his mind and could almost hear the sound of a heavy wind blowing by...
The second strength swam to Zhang Tie's heart and flew into his blood from his heart before spreading through the rest of his body. Then, Zhang Tie was almost certain he heard the sound of strength flowing in his vessels...
The third strength swam to Zhang Tie's brain and entered his muscles by thousands of individual strengths. After that, Zhang Tie thought he heard his muscles resonating like the strings of a lyre...
The fourth strength swam across Zhang Tie's whole body along a weird path that Zhang Tie had never heard of before and disappeared. Closely after that, he was sure he heard the sound from his body like that produced when a huge tree is knocked at. It was powerful and low, and full of the feel of wood.
The fifth strength swam to the top of Zhang Tie's head before flowing downwards like water and entered his skeleton. Later on, it sounded as if metals and stones were knocked against his bones.
The sixth strength swam to Zhang Tie's rear end before entering his spine from there. After that, it spread to the middle of the spine and entered the marrow of all the bones. Zhang Tie could almost hear a drumming sound in his bones akin to a booming of the land.
The final strength swam into that pale golden Qi swirl that represented Zhang Tie's spiritual energy. Zhang Tie thought he heard a distant wolf howl. At the same time, the Qi swirl that represented his spiritual energy abruptly expanded a lot. As a result, his spiritual energy suddenly rose by 5%, causing Zhang Tie to tremble all over as he opened his eyes...
This was a very strange feeling. Although his look remained unchanged, Zhang Tie felt like he had 'grown up' a lot. He felt a strong sense of existence, strength, and coordination. This was a metamorphosis physically and spiritually from inside to outside, and a real 'growing up' instead of mere development of his muscles, bones, and height.
At this moment, if Zhang Tie had to describe his feeling using one word, it would be 'Great'! Really great! He felt a sense of rebirth!
After igniting the new burning point, Zhang Tie felt like having unloaded a heavy burden and opening a shackle. But this time he felt that he had changed to a better body that was more suitable for him. He had completed an update and improved all over, bringing him a fresher and more shocking feeling.
This was how it felt after one wolf's strength formed in his body.
At the sight of another Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit, Zhang Tie revealed a smile...
"Wild Wolves in the Crescent Prairie, don't run away, you're all mine..." Zhang Tie uttered in a weird voice before leaving the Castle of Black Iron.
When Zhang Tie moved to the entrance of the gold-eating boa's cave, he was stunned by the fact that it was already late morning!
'Does it mean that it took me one night to digest that Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit?' Zhang Tie was shocked. Since he was in deep meditation, he could have never imagined that over ten hours could pass so fast.
However, it was all worthwhile.
The moment Zhang Tie wanted to exit, he was shocked by noticing something different on the ground from when he had entered.
After entering, Zhang Tie had grabbed a handful of soil from the ground near the cave and evenly sprayed it over the ground near the entrance. This was the simplest and easiest form of 'natural trace system' used as an early warning.
Now he saw several new footprints on the ground where he had sprayed the soil...
They were large footprints, at least larger than those of Zhang Tie's. Seeing them, Zhang Tie had a sense of déjà vu. He thought back to the bloody footprints in the wild wolf den and immediately knew what had happened.
It had to be Glaze. Glaze must have visited here...
Zhang Tie then carefully checked the dew on the weeds near the mountain cave. The dew was still there which meant that Glaze had not come this morning. Neither did he leave this place in the morning.
It was last night. Soon after Zhang Tie had entered the cave, Glaze had also went in. Perhaps he had been following him.
Did it mean that Glaze had discovered his secret? Thinking of this, Zhang Tie became tense. No way! Even if Glace had entered the cave, he could not see him enter the Castle of Black Iron. The cave was very deep. If Glaze couldn't find him, he would only think that he had hidden somewhere.
'Why would he follow me then?'
Thinking of how Glaze had glared at him, Zhang Tie understood it. His heart started to pound from the other's killing intent.
Chapter 141: Fishing
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Zhang Tie kept running on the most open hill of the Wild Wolf Valley at a medium speed. Once someone was in the surroundings, he would notice Zhang Tie running in the Wild Wolf Valley even if he was far away from him.
In the past couple of days, Zhang Tie had run like this several times. He fixed his running range within 10 km of the border between the Crescent Prairie and the Wild Wolf Valley. In others' eyes, Zhang Tie was no different from other students attending this survival training, seeking for the chance to hunt wild wolves.
Actually, the number of wild wolves in this range was much greater than in the Wild Wolf Valley. Additionally, besides more wild wolves, there were also more other kinds of wild beasts.
Surrounding a lake on the border, Zhang Tie saw two hazardous living beings that Blues had mentioned to him: huge varanid and horn crocodile. Varanid was a LV 3 living being while horn crocodile was LV 4.
Seeing the two of them, Zhang Tie couldn't wait to fight them at once. However, he controlled his impulse and pretended to be amazed. Every time he met them, he would choose to hurriedly run away. In the past couple of days, once he met any living beings above LV 3, he would hide his real strength and pretend to retreat.
Zhang Tie's main targets were still low level wild wolves and huge wolves that he would meet occasionally. There was only one time that Zhang Tie had met a golden wolf, but after throwing two lances at it, the nimble golden wolf still 'escaped' from Zhang Tie's hand. Zhang Tie pretended to chase after it for a while before returning dejectedly with no achievement.
In others' eyes, Zhang's performance was close to that of a LV 2 warrior. As for Zhang Tie's lance skills and precision, they might be able to threaten living beings below LV 2. Even when he dealt with the wild wolves with his lances, he would occasionally miss them.
In the past couple of days, Zhang Tie had controlled his performance to look below but close to that of a LV 2 warrior, which was a bit higher than when he had left the tree base. His lance throwing skills looked nice, yet he lacked physical strength and reaction speed.
After performing this for two days, on the third day, Zhang Tie felt that he was being spied on. He knew that after two days Glaze would have definitely jubilantly found him in the Wild Wolf Valley 'once again'.
Knowing that Zhang Tie was tricky, Glaze observed him for a couple of days, during which he saw all of Zhang Tie's skills. From it, he knew that the only threat that Zhang Tie could pose to him was with his throwing skills. However, it was only a threat which would be in effect when the distance between them was between 10-30 steps. If he was farther away from Zhang Tie, or closer to him, the lance wouldn't pose him any danger.
Still, Zhang Tie's performance greatly amazed Glaze. He became increasingly more certain that the reason Zhang Tie had dared to go against him those couple of times, embarrassing him, was because he was aiming at him from the beginning. With such a competitive level of strength, Zhang Tie would definitely want to obtain the school's recommendation too. So of course he became Zhang Tie's biggest opponent.
'This guy is more vicious than Burwick and better at hiding his real strength.'
Glaze became increasingly more resolved to kill Zhang Tie.
In contrast, during the past couple of days, no matter how awkward he felt his performance was and how dejected he looked when he failed to catch up with his prey, Zhang Tie was actually jubilant inside.
The ignition of the second burning point on his spine and the increase of one wild wolf's full strength had brought him more surprises. Especially that one wolf's full strength made Zhang Tie feel completely different from before.
He realized that he had fallen in love with running. For him, running was an easy and pleasant thing. If it was before, Zhang Tie would feel very tired after running 10 km or for half an hour. However, now, after either of the two, he no longer felt that weary. Besides that, he felt a seemingly endless energy supporting him in his body, causing him to move with more agility and telling him that he could keep running like this forever.
Because he had experienced the effect of running after igniting a burning point, Zhang Tie clearly knew that this feel didn't originate from the ignition of his burning point, but instead from the Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit. After eating that fruit, wild wolf's terrifying endurance and running instincts seemed to have been activated in him. Zhang Tie became as good at running as wild wolves besides also gaining a super great endurance.
An adult wild wolf, when moving at its maximal speed, could keep running for half an hour at the speed of 60 km/h. If aiming to chase after a prey, even if it was an icy and snowy day, it could still keep following its prey for above 10 hours. Most prey weren't directly hunted down by the wild wolves, but instead simply couldn't keep up with the wild wolves' amazing endurance. After being chased for a long time, most prey became exhausted, and had no strength to keep running anymore. Therefore, they slowed and were killed.
When he started his survival training in the Wild Wolf Valley, Zhang Tie mostly admired the wild wolves' running speed and super great endurance. They were just like the wind.
At that time, he had never imagined that he could be as good at running as them. Although he still couldn't match a wild wolf's running speed and endurance, Zhang Tie was already very satisfied. This was the effect of the first Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit; who knew what the effects of the second one would be?
In the past couple of days, although Zhang Tie was 'fishing' and had not completely showed his real strength, he had killed ten more wild wolves, forming two more strengths in the second Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit on the small tree. As four strengths of the total seven had been formed, the ripening wasn't far off.
Therefore, Zhang Tie felt pretty good; he had no reason to feel dejected. Today, he had even felt a killing intent in his surroundings. After being spied on for the third day in a row, Zhang Tie knew that Glaze would launch an attack against him tonight.
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When the sun started to go down, Glaze gritted his teeth, silently following Zhang Tie. After the past two days' observation, he had found a new reason to kill his rival: that guy was really good at running.
Zhang Tie's running ability filled Glaze with both admiration and jealousy. In the end, this admiration and jealousy changed into a desire to destroy something. If it wasn't daytime, Glaze would have probably launched his attack long ago. But if he attacked during daytime, he would have to suffer a much greater risk of being seen by someone, and according to the wartime decree of the Andaman Alliance, the teachers of the Temporary Supervision Committee will immediately punish him with a death sentence for the crime of murder. They wouldn't even have to send him back to Blackhot City for a trial in court.
What Glaze was worried about was also Zhang Tie's concern. Zhang Tie was also scheming carefully and thinking over the details of his plan for many times. After confirming that no flaws could be discovered, Zhang Tie became reassured.
At this time, both of the two people wanted to kill the other.
This was the first time Zhang Tie had wanted to kill someone since he was born. To tell the truth, the reason for them going against each other was kind of funny—it was several motherf*cking dining plates. This was really a bloody case arisen from several dining plates.
Zhang Tie felt that this was really f*cking absurd. When you sat alone under a tree, some bastards threw several dining plates before you to have you wash them. You refused and got hated in return. Later, the other side even decided to kill you, setting you up for a couple of times. Even forcing you to kill to escape the constant threats.
'Even if this was for a woman, this ordeal is really ludicrous!' Zhang Tie mumbled in his head while running into the ravine where he had chosen to end this thing.
After that, not knowing why, Zhang Tie remembered a funny story. It was about a person having to kill another, and had been spread in Chinese clan for roughly one thousand years.
Donder had told Zhang Tie the story. Someone, once met, would always force the event to develop to the last step. If that story about buying menu was changed into washing plates, Zhang Tie felt that he could say that he had already encountered the same thing.
The story started as this: two classmates ate together in a canteen. If one strove to wash the dining plates, the other would consider that he was showing off and would kill him. If one didn't strive to wash them, the other would consider that he was forced to wash everyone's and would kill his classmate. If they went dutch and washed their own plates, the other classmate would consider that his humble friend wanted to be on an equal footing with him and would kill him. If they didn't eat, the other one would consider that his classmate refused to eat together with him in the canteen, meaning he didn't like him, and so would kill him!"
"Damn!" Zhang Tie swore while running...
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Seeing that Zhang Tie was not returning to his base, but to a strange ravine, Glaze became surprised instead of alert. This place was really remote and hidden. There was nobody here during daytime, let alone at night.
Whether it were students who attended the survival training or the pioneers who appeared in the Crescent Prairie, none of them wanted to be here. Students found it too dangerous here since it was too close to the Crescent Prairie, while pioneers had no interest in it because it wasn't the Crescent Prairie, and they could not find golden wolves or goose-neck grass here.
Before rushing inside the ravine behind Zhang Tie, Glaze paused outside and looked around. When he ascertained that the dusk had almost fallen down and nobody was close-by, he revealed a shadow of a grin, then rushed in. At the same time, he silently pulled out the long sword from its sheath at his waist.
'One minute, in only one minute, that disgusting guy will disappear forever!' Glaze mumbled inwardly.
At this time, the sun had gone down, causing the ravine that was surrounded by dense woods to become even darker. Glaze could only hear the tweets of insects, instead of the sounds made by a person. When Zhang Tie's back had disappeared from Glaze's vision, in order to prevent him from slipping away again, Glaze had increased his speed.
It was easy for a person to hide himself in a ravine. After searching around it for roughly five minutes, Glaze still couldn't see Zhang Tie's shadow. When he became dejected, thinking that Zhang Tie had slipped away again, he suddenly heard a strange sound. It almost sounded like someone was digging something.
Glaze then searched for where the sound was coming from.
It was getting increasingly clearer, and easier to locate. Someone was truly digging something in the ground, making the sound of 'Cha cha cha cha' of the spade entering the soil.
After detouring through the woods, Glaze finally saw Zhang Tie, digging something using a military shovel.
"What are you digging here for?"
With a shadow of a gloomy and cold smile, Glaze walked out of the woods, a shiny weapon in hand...
Chapter 142: Burying You
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"Glaze!"
Raising his head from near the pit, Zhang Tie looked very plain, at least not as terrifying as Glaze had imagined that he would look like. Zhang Tie had even called his name like greeting a common student at school.
Without seeing the expression Glaze had expected to see on Zhang Tie's face, he felt like had a lost a bit of pleasure from what was to come next.
'Perhaps that guy doesn't know what it means to encounter me here, I should give him some tips,' Glaze thought.
"As we were classmates, I'll give you several seconds to tell me your last words..."
Glaze walked forward while glancing over the surrounding environment. When he saw Zhang Tie's lance container thrown onto the ground at least 7-8 steps away from the guy himself, Glaze's last concern disappeared. It was then replaced by a winner's smile.
"You want to kill me?"
Zhang Tie slightly frowned.
"Of course, what else do you think I would come here for? To chat or for an outing?" Glaze revealed a shadow of a smile on his face. At the same time, he licked his lips in a manner full of tyranny and cruelty. "I heard you have three girlfriends in the Wild Wolf Castle. Trust me, after your death, I will definitely f*ck them well. I will definitely tame them into the most lecherous b*tches! And after I get bored of playing with them, I'll award them to Sharlon and the others."
"Are you sure you can kill me today?"
Noticing Zhang Tie's calm tone, Glaze stopped. After being tricked twice,, Glaze had formed an unavoidable psychological uneasy in his heart.
When Glaze stopped walking, his pupils shrunk. He then carefully glanced at Zhang Tie and the surroundings, only to find nothing different in his opposition nor the surrounding environment. There should be nobody to ambush him.
"Are you trying to scare me?"
Glaze revealed a sinister smile, although he kept still.
"If you would stop and turn back, swearing never to find trouble for me and my bosom friends, our previous resentment could be cleaned. I had let you lose face twice, while you set me up once, almost causing me to die in the beasts' mouths, so we're even now! To tell the truth, we don't have any resentment that couldn't be ended. It arose from a trivial thing, but it was your fault at the beginning. I didn't mean to stir you up!"
Zhang Tie's calm, especially his words, made Glaze's heart quicken its pace. Zhang Tie seemed to know what they had done to him some time ago. This really shocked Glaze. He even became hesitant for several seconds. But after that, Glaze cast his sharp eyes on Zhang Tie. This time, he found that the other's left hand's fingers were slightly trembling seemingly due to tension and fear.
Glaze suddenly burst out laughing. "Your performance was really successful, almost scaring me off. But today whatever you say, it will be useless..."
Glaze kept moving forward with a cruel smile on his face.
"You will regret!"
Zhang Tie gazed at Glaze. He clearly knew what the other had seen just now. He did it especially so that Glaze would make the wrong judgment, think that he was very tense and scared. If he could turn back even after knowing that he was tense and scared, Zhang Tie planned to forget the resentment between them.
However, obviously, Glaze chose the other way. Zhang Tie showing weakness didn't obtain Glaze's sympathy and hesitation, instead, it brought about a more stubborn decision.
This was something that Donder had taught Zhang Tie. If not through this way, how could you see though one's inner heart.
'Let's call an end to it then.'
Zhang Tie didn't go for his lances. Instead, he let go of his military spade and pulled out his long sword. Yet his left hand was still trembling, seemingly heavier than before.
Seeing Glaze moving closer to him, Zhang Tie pointed at him with his long sword. "This is your last chance. If you keep moving forward, I will not show you politeness any more!"
"You want to show me you impoliteness?" Glaze revealed a carefree smile on his face, not slowing down at all. He kept moving towards Zhang Tie. "I really would like to see how a guy at most LV 2 will deal with me..."
Before Glaze could finish speaking his sentence, he had already stepped onto something. It was put beneath the ground which was covered by leaves and fine soil. Before Glaze could respond, that something took effect with ferociousness, causing a sound of "Ka...".
The sawteeth with powerful biting force cut into Glaze's shin without any sound. The 'Ka' was produced by his shin being broken by the powerful bite of the bear trap.
Being five-to-seven steps away, Zhang Tie could attack using his long sword. Therefore, his ambush was set seven steps away from Glaze, and that's how after snaring Salvey, the bear trap was put to use again.
Trapped, Glaze released a miserable scream as he fell to the ground...
Zhang Tie immediately moved to slash at him… But even having fallen down, Glaze could still respond extremely quickly. Before Zhang Tie's long sword could land on him, he had already brought out his own long sword to stay its advance.
Without any more tricks, the two long swords directly hit against each other. At the same time, Glaze's ferocious expression turned into amazement as Zhang Tie's hand was far more powerful than his. Soon after the collision, Glaze felt that he could not even tightly hold his long sword anymore.
"No way!" he screamed out loudly. At this moment, he even forgot the pain of his shin and the awkward look of lying on the ground. "I am a LV 3..."
Without waiting for him to finish expressing his disbelief, Zhang Tie sliced at him once again. This time, their swords directly crashed into each other. The moment they did so, Zhang Tie kicked at Glaze's abdomen.
After suffering such a heavy kick, Glaze's face turned pale. His grip loosened, and the long sword that fell off was picked and sent flying through the air… This battle clearly portrayed how a man lying on the ground was disadvantageous. No matter how intelligent a swordman was, few of them could exert their real fighting force in this kind of position.
Zhang Tie's long sword then stopped at Glaze's neck...
Glaze stopped his miserable screams at this moment. With eyes wide, he stared at Zhang Tie pitifully. "You cannot kill me, my dad will not let you go. The Temporary Supervision Committee will not let you go!" he started to shout out loudly.
"Do you want to know what I was digging? You asked about it just moment before..." Zhang tie said solemnly.
Lying on the ground, Glaze turned his head and stared at that pit ten steps away from him, becoming faintly dazzled.
"What for?"
"Burying you!"
After saying this, Zhang Tie didn't hesitate to cut through Glaze's neck with his long sword.
Tightly grabbing onto his neck, Glaze's eyes widened even more, and he glared at Zhang Tie, seemingly not believing that he would dare to kill him. If Zhang Tie had really not held back from slicing his neck open, what he did by blocking the places where blood was gurgling out and air leaking out would be in vain.
"I told you that I will show my impoliteness to you. But you thought I was kidding. So don't blame me for that! You brought it upon yourself!"
These were the last words Zhang Tie said to Glaze. After that, he no longer cared about Glaze's situation, instead walking directly to the pit and resuming his digging.
Deep in the ravine, Glaze—in vain— was doing his best to struggle to live. At the same time several meters away, Zhang Tie was still digging the pit. Couple minutes later, Glaze didn't move anymore, his eyes wide-open. Zhang Tie kept digging. After roughly 20 minutes, he finally finished.
It was a deep pit of two meters in length, half a meter in width and over one meter in depth.
Zhang Tie didn't feel any difficulty in digging through the soft soil. He only sweated a bit during the last few minutes. After finishing, Zhang Tie inserted the military space into the ground.
Walking over to the motionless body, he pulled Glaze by his feet and moved him into the pit. After that, he fetched Glaze's long sword and threw it into the pit too. Zhang Tie didn't even take off the bear trap from Glaze's foot.
He had already lost his interest to search over Glaze's body.
After that, Zhang Tie picked up the military shovel once again and started to fill the pit. When shoveling the first handful of dirt onto Glaze's body, Zhang Tie remembered his name and his records in the playground at school.
The god of destiny made fools of people! Who would have imagined that Glaze would end up buried by him. However, he had deserved it.
Zhang Tie finished filling the pit in three minutes. After leveling the ground, he stamped onto it to make it firm. Then he recovered the original look above the soil by covering it with some rotten leaves and mud. With such a simple treatment, Glaze completely disappeared from the world.
In the next few minutes, Zhang Tie cleaned up the site using his military shovel. Even the patch of soil that had soaked up Glaze's blood was cleaned. After dealing with all of it, Zhang Tie checked it all over again. No evidence seemed to be in the open, up for discovery, so Zhang Tie collected his equipment and quickly disappeared from this small, unknown ravine under the gloom of dusk.
From then on, unless God willed it, nobody would know that Glaze had already fallen asleep beneath the ground.
Glaze had disappeared from this world. Previously, he had planned to do this to Zhang Tie, never imagining that Zhang Tie would end up doing it to him.
Zhang Tie felt very relaxed and didn't feel any guilt about what he had done to Glaze.
One kilometer away from that ravine, under the moonlight, a pack of wild wolves stopped Zhang Tie in his tracks. There were 17-18 wolves with their green eyes fixed on him.
Zhang Tie burst out laughing as it reminded him of a Chinese proverb—good things always come together!
In a split second, six lances were thrown, nailing the farthest wolves to the ground. Even if the wolves would have wanted to escape at this moment, it was already too late.
Zhang Tie surged forward with a long sword in his right hand and a dagger in his left… Soon after that, wild wolves' miserable howls reverberated through the night!
Two minutes later, the last two wild wolves woofed with tails between their legs as they escaped, followed by Zhang Tie's gaze. He didn't chase after them, knowing that two more strengths had been formed in the second Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit.
After putting his lances back into his lance container, Zhang Tie ran towards his base once again...
'If I'm lucky enough tomorrow, the second Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit will become ripe… Perhaps, with several more Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruits in my stomach, I'll be able to run even faster than the wild wolves!'
Running in the moonlight, an absurd thought came to the youth's mind...
Chapter 143: Before the Arrival of Turmoil
Translator: WQL Editor: DarkGem
Each Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit was a wholly new life experience for Zhang Tie. In the ten days after burying Glaze, he had eaten another three of them, which helped him to improve three more times. Now, Zhang Tie had the full strength of four wild wolves. With the fruits, his strength, endurance, and explosiveness all had reached an amazing level.
Zhang Tie made tested himself. He found that his running ability had increased to an unbelievable level. After eating the first Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit, he, who had learned how to run in the state of exerting all of his force, could keep running for more than an hour at a cruising speed of 15 km/h while keeping his effective fighting force.
Now, after eating three more Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruits, Zhang Tie found that he could keep running for two hours at a cruising speed a bit higher than 15 km/h while still remaining full of energy. If he ran at his greatest speed like in a 100 m sprint—although Zhang Tie hadn't calculated his maximum speed—he knew that he could continue at it for roughly 30 minutes.
Zhang Tie remembered that Glaze's endurance was 13 at school, which indicated that he would still have more than half of his fighting force after marching rapidly for 13 km with standard military equipment. At that time, based on Glaze's physical data, half of his fighting force meant thrusting out an armor-breaking spear 69 times or punching with above 255 kg's force behind it...
Now—although Zhang Tie had not made concrete tests on himself—he felt that his endurance might have surpassed 20. He remembered that his endurance value at school was only 4, which was why he had admired Glaze with his 13. At that time, he thought that the disparity between the two of them was really huge. Unexpectedly, within two months, his own force had experienced an earthshaking change.
Of course, he had benefited from igniting his burning points which could improve his physique. But the most direct effect was from Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruits. They could update and reinforce the human body in an all round manner. With each Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit, Zhang Tie 's Strength of Qi, Strength of Blood, Strength of Vein, Strength of Channel, Strength of Bone, Strength of Marrow, and Strength of Spirit would increase accordingly.
The increased data could not be precisely calculated or expressed. However, given his endurance value, Zhang Tie estimated that a Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit might be able to add 2 points to his endurance value. Therefore, four Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruits would at least increase 8 points, bringing him an obvious advantage in endurance over Glaze who was LV 2 at school, and even when he turned LV 3 here.
Besides Wild Wolf Seventh-Strength Fruits, Zhang Tie had a new Seven-Strength Fruit on the small tree after killing two huge wolves. The Strength of Qi had already formed in this Huge Wolf Seventh-Strength Fruit.
Zhang Tie estimated that the number of Seven-Strength Fruits of a certain living being on this small tree should be limited. The fruit was based on a certain spare "number" law, and there could not be endless spares as they had to be restricted by a certain "number" law. This was the rule of the universe and mother nature—everything should proceed within a balanced framework.
If not, the fruit's strengths would be ferociously "grabbed" instead of being spares. If Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit could really keep growing endlessly, Zhang Tie estimated that after killing the tens of thousands, maybe even the hundreds of thousands of wild wolves on the Crescent Prairie and eating all the Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruits, he would be the No. 1 fighter in the world. However, the rule of the universe and mother nature would not allow for such a brutal event that felt off to happen.
Therefore, after eating three Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruits, Zhang Tie became worried, not knowing how many more could be produced by the small tree.
Although the appearance of the Huge Wolf Seven-Strength Fruit brought Zhang Tie a surprise, he knew that LV 1 living beings like huge wolves were not as populous as wild wolves even in the Crescent Prairie. Huge wolves were as rarely seen as golden wolves. The scene where Bonder's group was attacked by six huge wolves was pretty rarely seen. Unless being very unlucky—or lucky—people could rarely see huge wolves or golden wolves move in packs.
After mutating and evolving, these living beings' habits changed from those of common wild wolves. This also agreed with the law of mother nature: the more powerful the species was, the less populous it would be. So even knowing that killing huge wolves could bring him Huge Wolf Seventh-Strength Fruits, Zhang Tie mainly paid his attention to the wild wolves in the past couple days.
He told himself that he should eat one bite after another, and walk one step after another. As the wild wolves were numerous in the Crescent Prairie and could be easily dealt with, he should focus on them instead of wasting time dreaming of hunting huge wolves. Most likely the time it took him to find a huge wolf would be enough for him to kill dozens of wild wolves.
Additionally, he also wanted to see the maximum amount of Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruits that could be produced on the small tree if he kept hunting the wild wolves. If he could eat 99 of those fruits, he would greatly improve himself. Though, it would also be okay to enjoy 49 Wild Wolf Seven-Strength Fruits.
...
He was already in the Crescent Prairie. The huge opening of the Wild Wolf Valley was more than 10 km away from this place.
Several wild wolves which were caught by Zhang Tie and tied onto a crown-like trunk that had been struck by a lightning bolt encircled a hill. Their mouths covered, the wild wolves could only yelp pitifully.
With several bamboo tubes on his body, Zhang Tie pinched his nose and carefully sprayed a smelly liquid over the grassland under the small hill as if he was spraying water. After ten more minutes, when Zhang Tie had sprayed all the liquid from the bamboo tubes onto the surrounding grassland, a strong smelly odor permeated the air.
The hot sun at noon accelerate the volatile speed of the liquid and made it more stimulative.
After spraying the strange liquid, Zhang Tie threw off all the bamboo tubes. He didn't dare to freely breathe until he ran onto the top of the hill where there was ventilation.
"Damn! That was too f*cking smelly!"
Even though Zhang Tie had kind of gotten used to this in the past couple of days, the smelly odor still had forced him to pour out his last dinner.
After heavily breathing in the fresh air, Zhang Tie smelt his hands as he had gotten used to doing these days. When he sprayed the liquid just now, he noticed that some of it had splashed onto his hands. After smelling them, a disgusting odor rushed directly into his head. So Zhang Tie hurriedly ran to a nearby pond and washed his hands before returning.
The liquid that Zhang Tie had sprayed the grassland with was the wild wolves' urine, more accurately, female wild wolves' urine. During the mating season, adult female wolves' urine could drive all the wild wolves mad.
This was a trick that Zhang Tie had thought up when he saw a pioneer using some strange smelly liquid to trap golden wolves. At the sight of it, Zhang Tie had patted his forehead.
'How could I forget this? After the full moons would be the wolves' mating season.'
So Zhang Tie started his plan by catching several live female wild wolves in a short period of time and collecting their urine.
It was very filthy when he collected it. If Alice's group was with him, Zhang Tie would have never done this. However, now that nobody could see it, he didn't mind doing this filthy thing several more times.
Whether it was waiting under a tree for prey to come close, or running around to hunt one down, no approach could match this method. This was the simplest way that Zhang Tie had discovered to hunt wild wolves.
The sun was hanging high in the sky at noon. After a short while, the female wolves' urine that Zhang Tie had sprayed had become even more smelly under the scorching sun. Added with the heavy wind in the Crescent Prairie, the strange smell was blown everywhere.
According to Zhang Tie's experience, the smell of female wolves' urine could remain for at least more than half a day. Perhaps to male wolves it smelled good, but humans really couldn't stand it.
Zhang Tie put a triangular face-cloth on his face, which was tailored from the shirt stained by wolf blood. After covering his mouth and nose, he inserted his lances on the ground under the tree. After that, he leisurely and casually did some warm-up movements like twisting his waist, stretching his hands, and kicking his legs.
At this moment, Zhang Tie felt that he was a fisherman who had flung his fishing net into the water.
Five minutes later, two wild wolves with red eyes arrived. They noticed Zhang Tie and the female wolves.
'He dared to take five beauties,' the wolves must've been thinking, judging from their animosity.
The two wild wolves then rushed towards Zhang Tie. At the same time, Zhang Tie also ended his warm-up movements and dashed forward. He didn't use any weapons like a sword or a dagger because they would cause bleeding. Wild wolves had a sensitive nose and high intelligence. After smelling the blood of their companions, they would not be easily fooled.
The first wild wolf wanted to bite Zhang Tie's shin. However, it was hit by the Spade-Kick, one of the skills from Iron-Blood Fist. Closely after that, the wild wolf's shin cracked, and it was sent flying for over 10 m in the air. It fell to the ground, never to climb up again.
The second wild wolf charged at Zhang Tie's neck. Seeing that, Zhang Tie stretched his hand and easily broke its neck using the Wrestling Hand move.
The battle soon came to an end without any blood being spilled.
Some vultures were swirling in the sky, somehow feeling the approaching death and knowing that they will enjoy a grand lunch after a while.
The wind above the Crescent Prairie blew away the dandelions on the hill into the air, and they flew off like white clouds. Among the cute dandelions, Zhang Tie saw the vultures in the sky. Although other people didn't like them, he burst out laughing at the sight of them since he had predicted that he would achieve a lot today...
However, Zhang Tie didn't know that what would happen today would change the destiny of a lot of people in the Andaman Alliance...