Chapter 912: They Are All In Cahoots

It was clearly midday, yet the sparse woods were eerily quiet.

There were no insect noises, no sound of wind, no rustling of dried leaves being crushed.

The male lion lay on the ground, and in its lower back, a slender, straight arrow was lodged, the dark red blood oozing from the wound matting its fur together, as if painted with thick clumps of black mud.

The lion's chest rose and fell violently, each breath seeming to require all its effort, as it tried to take in as much oxygen as possible to carry the scant blood through its veins to the rest of its body.

Hidden in shadow, Bi Fang made no superfluous movements. He stood silently, as if he could hear the injured lion's struggling breaths, like those of an old, damaged bellows on the verge of collapse.

Seeing this, Bi Fang did not act rashly.