Xiong Yu didn’t directly approach the strong man to teach him a lesson. He thought maybe the strong man was just passing through here.
However, after the strong man saw him, the calm expression on the strong man’s face told Xia Yu that the strong man had indeed come for him.
Looking at his own burly bear body, Xia Yu couldn’t figure out where the strong man had gotten the courage to stand before him—was it because of the wooden spear in his hand?
Leaning against a tree, Xiong Yu looked at the strong man in front of him.
Besides the wooden spear, the strong man also had a backpack on his back, though its contents were unknown.
However, with his bear body and superb skills, Xiong Yu wasn’t afraid at all.
He watched as the strong man placed the backpack on the ground, held the wooden spear horizontally, and began moving around, spreading his arms and legs wide.
After thinking for two seconds, Xia Yu understood the strong man’s intention—the strong man was trying to appear larger to exert pressure.
If it were a real bear, it might actually be intimidated by the strong man, but in Xia Yu’s eyes, the strong man was just making a fool of himself.
After turning around like that for a while and seeing that Xiong Yu remained unmoved, the strong man’s expression hardened. He then let out a roar imitating a tiger.
“Wu—”
It sounded pretty convincing too.
Not only did he use his mouth, but the strong man also made a new move with his hands—he gripped the wooden spear with both hands and began spinning it rapidly, creating a blur of motion with a powerful aura.
Xia Yu sat down to watch leisurely.
Seeing that his actions still had no effect, the strong man retreated behind the backpack. Keeping his eyes fixed on Xia Yu, he took something out of the backpack.
It was a string of firecrackers.
Placing the firecrackers on the ground, the strong man lit them with a match.
The loud crackling sound erupted, and the strong man began swinging the wooden spear in rhythm.
The firecrackers were very loud, effective at scaring away wild animals. There was even a legend that firecrackers could be used to drive away the mythical Nian beast.
The strong man felt that even the calm brown bear in front of him would definitely panic and flee after hearing the loud explosion of the firecrackers.
Indeed, he saw the previously expressionless brown bear show a change in expression.
Xiong Yu showed a look of astonishment and even clapped his bear paws.
The strong man’s hands stiffened, and the wooden spear slipped from his grip and flew to one side.
From the brown bear’s expression, the strong man felt like he was a performing monkey in a zoo.
It was just a bear, after all!
Don’t you know fear even after seeing fireworks and spear dancing, you bear!
This is what you forced me to do!
The strong man reached to his waist and pulled out a handgun.
This time, he finally saw fear appear on the brown bear’s face.
Satisfied with a smile, the strong man prepared to fire a couple of warning shots to scare the bear away. But in the next moment, the brown bear disappeared from his sight.
The brown bear had darted behind a tree and was now running toward him in an arc.
Although it curved around, the bear was very fast. It ran upright, both paws behind its back like a ninja.
As it got closer, the brown bear suddenly lunged onto the tree, pushed off the trunk, and pounced toward him.
The strong man didn’t have time to turn the gun around and quickly dodged sideways.
After rolling on the ground and getting back up, the strong man aimed the gun at the brown bear’s direction. At that moment, a bear paw suddenly came and knocked the gun out of his hand.
At the same time, a bear leg came down toward his body.
The strong man rolled away again, narrowly avoiding the attack.
“Come on!” the strong man shouted loudly. Although he had lost his weapon, he wasn’t panicking—he was also skilled in hand-to-hand combat.
The bear was simply too fast to outrun. The only option was to fight head-on and buy some time.
He assumed a martial arts stance and threw a punch directly at the bear’s eyes.
He thought that if the bear didn’t dodge, an attack to the eyes would surely impair its combat effectiveness for a while. If the bear did dodge, he had a hidden move—a low sweep kick. Even a bear, he believed, wouldn’t be able to withstand that blow.
The brown bear dodged his eye strike, which was exactly what the strong man had anticipated. He retracted his hand and powerfully kicked out his leg.
The bear bent its leg again, blocking the path of his kick.
The strong man’s foot struck the bear’s leg, sending a wave of pain.
Biting through the pain, the strong man quickly adapted—he stepped forward, getting inside the bear’s guard, grabbed the bear’s paw, and used his waist strength to try to throw the bear.
If it were a human opponent, he was confident he could incapacitate them. But against a bear, he wasn’t sure how much damage he could inflict.
Still, he thought that even if he managed to throw the bear, it would probably be stunned for a moment, maybe even decide to leave.
As long as the bear hesitated for a moment, he would have time to figure out what to do next.
Thinking this, he increased his effort, using all his strength. He felt the bear’s body pressing against his back.
Just one final push, and he could throw the bear away.
However, he couldn’t complete that final motion.
A bear paw pressed firmly against his lower back.
With a forceful push, his body, which had been leaning down, was forced upright. His leverage was gone, and he couldn’t throw the bear anymore.
The strong man reacted quickly—releasing the bear’s paw, he rolled forward twice, distancing himself from the bear, and picked up the long spear from the ground.
He didn’t have time to wonder how a brown bear could be so formidable. He twirled the spear twice around his wrist, creating a couple of dazzling arcs to pressure the bear mentally, then charged forward.
When he was five steps away from the bear, the spear aimed for the bear’s eyes. At four steps, it shifted toward the bear’s paw. At three steps, it targeted the bear’s head.
At two steps, he steadied himself and swung the spear tip toward the bear’s wrist.
Finally, just before the tip reached the wrist, he made another change, redirecting the spear toward the bear’s eyes again.
This series of moves was complex, full of feints. It was the strongest technique in the strong man’s family spear style. Originally, he could only execute three feints, but under the bear’s pressure, he surpassed himself and managed four feints!
He widened his eyes, excitedly watching the spear tip heading toward the bear’s eyes.
This was a spear strike that concentrated all his martial arts experience—a strike that embodied his entire first half of life, a strike that carried his full spirit and energy!
Ka—
A bear paw reached out and firmly grabbed the spear tip.
The strong man and the brown bear locked eyes in silence for two seconds.
The bear then pulled hard, wrenching the wooden spear from the strong man’s hands.
The spear began spinning in the bear’s paw, rotating from the wrist to the neck and then to the waist—much more powerfully than the strong man had done earlier!
After finishing the spin, holding the spear at his waist, the brown bear thrust the tip forward, aiming directly at the strong man’s eyes.
The strong man quickly ducked backward. The bear advanced another step, aiming for his foot. The strong man rolled to pull his foot back. The bear took a big step forward, aiming for his head.
The strong man’s scalp prickled, and he rolled away again like a desperate donkey.
Just as he stopped moving, he saw the spear tip coming for his wrist again.
Unable to stand up in time, the strong man kicked the ground, shifting his body less than half a meter to escape the spear’s range.
Yet, the spear had a fourth motion.
At this moment, the strong man had nowhere left to dodge. He could only watch the spear tip grow larger in his vision.
The spear tip paused in front of his eyes for two seconds before the bear withdrew it, planting it into the ground between his legs, then smiled.
The strong man finally realized—the bear had just used the exact same spear technique he had used earlier.
He also understood now that the bear was mocking him.
But instead of feeling anger at being mocked, the strong man felt only astonishment.
Reflecting on the scene just now, he felt like he hadn’t been fighting a brown bear, but sparring with an expert martial artist.
Sunlight shone on the brown bear, giving it a majestic aura.
But even a majestic bear was still a bear.
Had he, in hand-to-hand combat, actually lost to a bear?
Lying on the ground, the strong man couldn’t accept it—and decided to fake his defeat.
He didn’t know that the bear he faced wasn’t just any brown bear, but Xiong Yu—Xia Yu, who had Agility Level 4 and Combat Level 2.
Xiong Yu lightly kicked his waist, telling him to get up.
The strong man had a gun and decent martial arts skills—he was clearly no ordinary person. Xia Yu was curious why he had come looking for him.
From the strong man’s actions, it seemed he wanted to drive Xia Yu out of this place.
As Xia Yu was thinking, he caught a familiar scent.
Looking up, Xia Yu turned his gaze eastward.
The strong man also secretly glanced eastward. Through the dense trees, a figure was running toward them.
It was the girl in the mask.
Seeing the girl, the strong man’s face changed drastically.
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