The door was a thin wooden one. Though it could not stop bullets when closed, it did block the enemy’s line of sight, giving the soldiers a chance to help the fallen Awei back up.
Xiong Yu frowned. He didn’t sense any danger—or rather, the sense of danger was extremely faint. Due to his dulled perception abilities while inhabiting the brown bear’s body, he hadn’t noticed anything.
It might also be that his psychic abilities knew neither he nor Meimei were in danger, so they did not trigger an alarm.
Regardless, Awei had been shot and deserved some concern.
Approaching Awei’s side, Xia Yu looked at his body. There was no blood on Awei, his eyes were wide open, and he appeared completely unharmed.
As Xia Yu was puzzled, Awei took out a coin from his chest pocket.
“???”
Instantly, a scene from a classic gunfight movie flashed through Xia Yu’s mind—the coin blocking a bullet.
The captain of the royal guard thought the same. He hugged Awei tightly, “Oh man, this really is a lucky coin!”
“Yes,” Awei gripped the coin tightly in his palm, “This is a charm given to me by my mother. This morning, seeing it reminded me of what she told me—’remember to wear your bulletproof vest.'”
The captain of the royal guard frowned, “So it was the bulletproof vest that saved you?”
“What else could it be?” Awei looked at the captain, puzzled.
Thud.
The captain released his grip, letting Awei fall hard onto the floor. Awei’s head hit the ground with a painful-sounding noise, but none of the surrounding soldiers showed any sympathy for him.
“Captain, there are only three of them on the other side!” A soldier observing from the window reported.
“Only three?” The captain was puzzled. He walked to the window and indeed saw the three slowly approaching. He tried shooting at them but failed due to the trees blocking his shots.
The log cabin had never been designed with gunfights in mind, so its layout had serious flaws.
The three enemies smoothly reached the front of the cabin. They climbed onto the roof quietly and jumped into the house through the skylight, only to be met with eleven guns pointing at them.
“Oh my God,” the three enemies dropped their guns under the confused gazes of Xia Yu and the others.
“The villagers told us there were only a man and a woman among you!” The leader explained why they had come so willingly.
The royal guard’s arrival had not alarmed the villagers, so the three had received very inaccurate intelligence.
“Now you know,” Awei said while rubbing his bullet-hit chest, binding the three enemies tightly.
The royal guard soldiers began laughing again, teasing each other about their earlier panic.
Once they relaxed, Xia Yu felt a vague sense of unease. He looked around, trying to locate the source of this feeling.
Suddenly, inspiration struck, and he immediately looked toward the skylight.
Another figure fell from the skylight again, successfully entering the cabin while the soldiers were off-guard.
Seeing the shadow’s movement, the soldiers reacted instantly. They watched in horror as the figure rolled twice on the ground after landing and moved behind the princess.
The figure stood up, a proud smile on his face, and raised his gun toward Meimei.
Thirteen soldiers, along with Awei and Ahua, widened their eyes in shock. None had expected another enemy.
As the attacker was about to succeed, he nearly laughed out loud—but only nearly.
Xia Yu stood up and swung a bear claw at him.
The attacker flew two meters and crashed into the cabin wall, falling motionless.
The three companions of the attacker looked at the royal guard soldiers in disbelief. Seeing their comrade go down, they had expected the situation to turn around. But instead, these damned royal guards had even trained a bear as a bodyguard!
Is this something humans should do! What kind of cruel torture must that bear have gone through! Did you ever ask the bear for its opinion!
The thirteen soldiers didn’t notice the three captives’ expressions. They looked at the fallen attacker, swallowed hard at the sight of his condition, and remembered how they had teased Xia Yu earlier.
If Xia Yu did the same to them…
The thirteen soldiers immediately distanced themselves from Xia Yu.
Awei, looking smug, faced the three soldiers who had previously laughed at him, “I told you it was a wild bear, a wild bear that took on three tigers alone!”
Ignoring Awei’s boastful remarks, Xia Yu comforted Meimei, who had thrown herself into his arms.
He felt relieved that he had been here today.
Wait, maybe it wouldn’t have mattered if he hadn’t been.
Judging from the decisiveness of that last attacker jumping down, they probably hadn’t intended to kill Meimei. If they had wanted to kill her, they would have had almost no chance of escaping alive.
No wonder the psychic ability hadn’t shown anything.
Xia Yu relaxed.
At this moment, a line of subtitles floated before his eyes:
[The brown bear’s bonus has increased to LV3]
[…]
Perhaps because he had been in this bear’s body for a long time, its intelligence had risen significantly. It even understood that it had just saved its little master.
With the bonus now at LV3, there was no time limit on gameplay anymore. Xia Yu could spend the entire day licking honey if he wanted.
Putting aside the matter of selecting rewards for now, Xia Yu watched the royal guards and the two “A”s to see what they would do next.
Awei interrogated the three and learned they were part of a vanguard unit from the interim government, with a larger force following behind.
“We must leave immediately!” Awei took out a map from his bag and forced the three to tell him which route they had taken to get here.
The three pointed east.
Curious, Xia Yu moved closer to look. He pushed his way in front of a soldier, who turned around in dissatisfaction but immediately changed to a smiling face and stepped aside when he saw it was Xia Yu.
Approaching the table like this, Xia Yu could see the map clearly.
To the east of the forest was the nearest escape route, leading to a major road. Not far to the west of the forest ran a river. To the north were more mountains, and to the south lay plains.
“We should go west!” The royal guard captain said.
“No, I think we should go south!” Awei disagreed with the royal guard captain.
“Going west, once we cross the river, we’ll be free!” The royal guard captain argued.
“There are too many unknowns with crossing the river. Compared to boats, I only trust my own feet!” Awei gave his reasoning.
The two began to argue.
Xia Yu slammed the table with a loud noise, stopping the two from arguing.
He extended his bear claw and pointed at the southern route.
“Look, even the bear knows to go south!” Awei said happily.
“What does it know!” The royal guard captain was indignant.
So Xia Yu used his bear claw to scratch a deep mark on the table.
The royal guard captain fell silent, and the soldiers quietly accepted the decision to go south.
However, Xia Yu wasn’t actually making a choice. He was completely inexperienced and had no idea about route selection. He was merely testing his psychic ability.
After choosing the southern route, the psychic ability issued a danger warning.
At this moment, Awei was excitedly talking about the southern route.
“There’s another village here. Once we leave the forest, we can immediately get food supplies here, and then…”
As he was speaking enthusiastically, a bear claw gently tapped the back of his head.
Xiong Yu placed his bear claw on the map again, this time pointing to the western route.
This time, it was the royal guard captain’s turn to feel smug.
Their future path changed, and Xia Yu received a new psychic signal.
The danger was still there, but this time, it was even more severe.
The west was more dangerous.
He then pointed to the north.
“The north is a dead end,” Awei said.
This time, he did not receive a new psychic signal, proving that the soldiers would never consider going north regardless.
He had no choice but to choose the south again.
The danger in the south was still considerable. He began to worry about Meimei’s future.
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