Bullets whistled through the air, heading straight for the Tiger's head!
However, the Tiger truly lived up to its reputation as a top feline predator; its reaction speed was simply outrageous.
The moment it saw Zhou Cang raise his gun, it twisted its body violently, forcefully changing its posture mid-air.
Pfft!
The bullet grazed the Tiger's ear and embedded itself in the frozen ground nearby.
Zhou Cang's right hand trembled, and the barrel folded forward. The instant his left index fingernail flicked the empty shell out, he loaded another bullet.
Reloading took less than two seconds!
Looking back at the Tiger, after landing, it completely abandoned Zhang Quanfu, who was still by its mouth. Its powerful large paws kicked up a cloud of snow on one side, and with two bounds, it vanished into the dark forest!
One of its ears had been shattered, and the intense pain made it decide immediately: run!
"Oh, my dear mother!" Zhang Quanfu was now slumped on the ground, his crotch wet. This guy was indeed blessed; escaping from the jaws of a tiger would be enough for him to boast about for a lifetime!
"Quan Fu, are you okay?" Zhao Kaishan, also with weak legs, leaned against a tree, craning his neck to look at Zhang Quanfu and asked.
"Captain, you scared me to death! Did you see? That Tiger's big teeth were right in front of my eyes!"
"Yes, yes!" The others were also badly frightened.
Zhou Cang rushed over, picked up the flashlight from the ground, pulled Zhang Quanfu up, and examined him, seeing several large tears in his cotton jacket from the Tiger's claws.
"Are you injured?"
"No, no, just my clothes are torn," Zhang Quanfu said quickly.
"It's good you're not injured. Captain, how about you all? Are you okay?" Zhou Cang then asked Zhao Kaishan.
"We're fine too. Luckily you came back quickly, otherwise Quan Fu would have been finished!"
At this moment, everyone completely regarded Zhou Cang as their backbone.
From the previous accurate shots that drove away the Wolf Pack to the single shot that scared away the Tiger just now, Zhou Cang was their guarantee of safety in their hearts.
Zhao Kaishan looked at Zhou Cang's back and couldn't help but think of Fu Gui's father. This young man was exactly like his father when he was young, tall with broad shoulders, strong as a calf.
In the past, Fugui had almost no presence in the Village. Who would have thought that after losing his parents, he would suddenly become enlightened? Not only could he hunt, but he also learned how to handle interpersonal matters without a teacher!
Most importantly, this child had a benevolent heart. You could see his character from how he distributed the wolves to everyone today. Except for his dislike for his second uncle's family, but that was because his second uncle was not a good person first.
"If everyone is okay, let's leave quickly. That beast is injured and probably won't come back, but you never know!"
Zhou Cang said, looking at the few blood spots on the ground.
"Right, right, let's go, let's go!" Zhao Kaishan quickly echoed.
"Zhao Shu, how many bullets do you all have left?" Zhou Cang asked.
"I have over a dozen rounds, how about you?"
"I have seven or eight rounds left."
"I have three rounds left."
Zhou Cang frowned. There were few bullets left, but it should be enough to last until they got down the mountain.
"The Captain has more bullets. Fire a shot occasionally to scare off wild beasts."
"With so many of us dragging the wolf carcasses, other wolves definitely won't come back. As for the Tiger, it's also injured and most likely won't be targeting us anymore."
"Fugui, what do you mean by that? Not targeting us? Are you saying..." Zhao Kaishan heard the hint in Zhou Cang's words.
"Hehe, this Tiger's belly is starving. It didn't get anything good from us, where else could it go?"
"Oh no, Wu and them!"
Zhao Kaishan was about to say they should go save them, but the words caught in his throat. He had no ability to save people; they could only rely on Fugui.
"Captain, don't think about it, there's no way to save them. Think carefully, if we all go, even if we find the right direction, we absolutely can't catch up to them. This mountain forest is the Tiger's territory. If we walk for an hour, the Tiger will be there in ten minutes."
"By the time we arrive, the Tiger will have eaten its fill long ago!"
"If I go by myself, I'm confident I can find them quickly, but what about the rest of you? What if the Tiger is still watching us from the shadows..."
"Alas! You're right. Actually, I originally planned to meet up with Wu after finding them and go down the mountain together, but those educated youths caused a fuss and left on their own!"
"Let's go. Maybe the Tiger went back to sleep, you never know," Zhou Cang comforted.
Although he knew that such a cunning Tiger would never miss tonight's opportunity!
In other words, the Three Team, someone is bound to die today!
Tonight, this mountain will become the Tiger's hunting ground. It remains to be seen how many of them can escape alive!
Seven or eight kilometers away.
"Captain Wu, we finally hunted down a wolf and were almost bitten to death by the Wolf Pack! Why did you give them the meat!"
At this moment, Wang Fang, whose face was covered in freckles, was still complaining to Wu Yuan.
Wu Yuan's face twitched, and he didn't know if it was from the cold.
"Okay, stop talking. We can come again next time," Zhou Xuemei comforted.
Wu Yuan had been bottling up a lot of anger and finally couldn't suppress it anymore.
"Next time? You few don't know how high the sky is or how deep the earth is! You still want to come?" The cold wind blew into Wu Yuan's mouth, making his voice tremble slightly.
"If the Third Team hadn't arrived quickly, all of you would have been fed to the wolves!"
"Dream on!"
Wu Yuan was particularly annoyed. He was used to bossing people around in the Village, and the villagers were afraid of him, but these few educated youths didn't listen to him.
He must use this opportunity to give them a good lesson!
"Captain Wu, I don't like hearing you say that. Before they came, we were also fighting back and forth with the Wolf Pack. As long as we killed a few, wouldn't the Wolf Pack have run away?"
"You're siding with outsiders like this. When we go back, I'm going to talk to the County about it!" Chen Zhiguo said slowly.
"Damn it! Ungrateful things!" Wu Yuan cursed inwardly, thinking it would have been better to let them be fed to the wolves!
"We risked going into the mountains to hunt for the collective good, not for personal gain..."
"Ouch!"
A dark shadow swiftly swept past the back of their group. The educated youth walking at the very back only had time to let out an "ouch."
"What's wrong, Wang Qi?" Chen Zhiguo heard the sound, stopped his educational speech, and turned to look behind him.
"Wang Qi?"
Cold sweat instantly broke out. Chen Zhiguo felt a chill from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
Wang Qi behind him was gone!
He struggled for several seconds, which felt as long as a century to him, before Chen Zhiguo finally managed to speak.
"Wu... Wu..."
At this moment, Wu Yuan, who was walking in front, also heard the cry and turned his head.
"What's wrong?"
"Captain Wu, Wang Qi is gone!"
"Just now, he let out an 'ouch,' and when I turned around, he was gone!"
Chen Zhiguo said tremblingly, while Wang Fang was already crying from fear.
"Wuwuwu, what was that?"
"Only a Tiger could carry a person away that quickly!"
Wu Yuan held his gun, pulled the bolt to chamber a round, raised the gun, and squeezed the trigger.
Bang!
"I hope Zhao Kaishan and the others haven't gone far! Otherwise, all of us are finished!"