Bad Luck

"Don't rely too much on luck when you're in trouble, it won't help the real situation get better" replied uncle Ao Qi.

"Arghhh, you guys hold it right, the longer you hold it the more damaged it will be."

The creaking sound became more frequent and louder.

"Hey Cang Yan come down, just slide, use your clothes as a protective layer" Ao Qi uncle shouted loudly.

"Ahh, I already thought of that but what about the heights?"

"Oh my! I mean you're an adult, why be afraid of heights?"

"Fear doesn't care how old you are, you know that right?"

While holding the fragile and badly damaged part of the tree, perhaps if we measured using the width of the hand, then 2/5 of the part has been badly damaged leaving fragments that are still attached as hard fibers of the pine tree core.

"Agh this tree, I thought this tree was very strong, it's very difficult to harvest but it's very fragile if you hold it like this" complained the uncle who was beside Su Meng, he was Yong Chun's uncle.

"It's them!"

"hey what's wrong with them?, gosh brother, look at that, uncle Cang Yan is trapped in there"

From a distance, the two brothers Hei Xing and Hei Tai realized the riot that occurred in uncle Ao Qi's group by following their echoing voices, they both saw a faint glimpse of uncle Cang Yan from behind the leaves of the dense pine trees.

"I told you, it's not a voice-mimicking mole" they debated for a while to verify what was going on.

"Yes bro you're right, let's get there, it's an emergency" in a flash they ran as fast as they could towards uncle Ao Qi's group behind the thick bushes from outside the path.

"igghhhh" Uncle Bei Shen was holding the most fragile part of the tree with all his might, while growling and expending all the energy he had, unconsciously biting his lip until it bled.

"Aghhh, how much longer do we have to hold back" Su Meng said.

"At least until Cang Yan comes down" Uncle Ao Qi replied.

"Hey Cang Yan, come down damn it!, if you want to die don't make trouble tor the others" said uncle Yong Chun shouting loudly from below.

"Hey, you idiot!, a fellow family member shouldn't do that," Ao Qi's uncle argued angrily.

"People do die, maybe it's time for Cang Yan."

"hey dammit if you do that once more then you're doomed."

"arghh dammit... hey it's the Hei Brothers"

A moment later Uncle Yong Chun saw the Hei Brothers coming out of the bushes behind Ao Qi.

"You two please help us, hurry!."

"Oh my, uncle Cang Yan please stay calm, try to go down slowly."

"Son, it's useless for you to say that, he won't listen to you." Uncle Yong Chun replied.

"Uncle Ao Qi, I want to report, we actually met two groups of silverback fur bears, they were fighting in that direction, not far, maybe only about 40 dozen steps" reported from Hei Tai with his deep voice.

"Oh my, if that's really what happened, then we are very unlucky." Uncle Ao Qi complained.

"That's exactly what happened uncle" said Hei Xing while inviting Hei Tai to hold onto the tree.

"Hey Cang Yan, I have good and bad news" uncle Ao Qi shouted from below.

"What? I want to hear the good news first."

"Okay, Hei Tai has come, for sure the tree will be less shaky now and there will be more time and safety, and the bad news is that there is more than one herd of bears that might be the same as the bear just now."

"Gosh can't you give me a break?"

"There's no time, you hurry down, do you want to die a loser up there?"

Uncle Cang Yan grimaced with fear in his heart and a clear expression of his current state was painted on his face.

("Is this the end?, is this the end?, my life is so short, it's not short, the truth is I'm of little use to others, gosh I regret living like this")

"Cang Yan what are you thinking about?"

"Okay okay I'll come down", replied Cang Yan groggily, as he slowly removed his hug on the branch, he slowly opened the collar of the right and left sleeves and then removed his top set of clothes but not his hair tie.

Uncle Cang Yan slowly lowered his legs while trying to reach a little gap, even he could only fantasize that there was a gap to step on.

("Go up and I'll die, if I go down it's not so guaranteed.")

"Good slowly, alright Hei Tai, Su Meng, Bei Shen, Yong Chun, Hong Ling, and Feng Ge, you guys hold it until Cang Yan comes down, I will go investigate the bears over there" said uncle Ao Qi, commanding firmly and clearly.

He was the only one who was the best of the rest, not only because his branch family had always been experts in the hunting lodge group section for generations, Ao Qi was also recognized by the extended family for his talent when do his duty.

While the other six held the tree until Cang Yan came down, Ao Qi walked after Hei Xing in front of him, Hei Xing was not as tall and impressive as Ao Qi, but he was also the best at navigating and scouting, you could say he was an equal rival for Su Chang.

After a few twelve dozen steps.

"Just a few hundred more steps and we..."

"stop! they're close"

"Ahh uncle, but they should still be about a few tens of steps away."

"They're approaching, right! This is the sound of their footsteps"

Slowly but surely, the faint sound of the silverback fur bear's footsteps could be heard from afar, stepping on scattered twigs, fallen pine tree leaves that dried up and piled up until they were a few fingers thick from the ground, and also the sound of body friction with shrubs.

"Uncle, we have to go back"

"Let's go before they smell us."

Moments later, Cang Yan could be seen passing a little more than halfway up the height he was at.

"Hey everyone, this is bad, the bear is less than 300 steps from here" uncle Ao Qi said.

"Yeah, and it looks like a silverback male bear with a lot of female bears around him."

"And what's worse, because they are going to have a long sleep, so they must need a large supply of food, so if they see us, they will be like seeing a free meat walking in their way" said uncle Ao Wi explaining succinctly.

"Alright alright be patient"

A few breaths later uncle Cang Yan was only 2 Zhang from the ground.

"Hey just jump, Hey Tai will catch you" said uncle Yong Chun.

"Stupid, really stupid, if he catches me, then this tree will fall down" Uncle Cang Yan replied from his current position.

So the other uncles laughed at what had just happened.

"It's bad, they're heading this way, the gentle breeze from this forest carries the smell of fresh blood."

After hear that, Cang Yan managed to get down with a few traces of tree bark on her body, and her hands and feet were badly abraded and wood chips entered her skin, the other uncles welcomed Cang Yan's poor body, then made her sit down under a tree.

"Hey Tai don't drop it yet, if we make it, they will come this way, hmm, because the forest area is winding and the wind almost passes randomly, they will not realize we are here, the others let's go back first, Hey Tai, wait for a while, when we are away you just fall the tree and immediately run fast".

"Okay uncle, Hei Xing my brother, don't worry, I will be fine."

"Uncle Ao Qi, I'll stay here to look after him."

"Hei Xing, you need to join the others to secure the area in front of way, this third layer forest is close to the fourth layer, I am afraid that there will be unknown dangers that meet them, just calm down, Su Meng and I accompany Hei Tai, and also you no longer call me uncle, soon you two will wear second-level blue"

"Brother, don't be sad, you are too dramatic just because of this"

"You stupid little brother, let's go."

The main group of 9 people then split into two, one group contained Uncle Ao Qi, Su Meng and Hei Tai who were holding the tree from falling so as not to make a loud noise.

The second group was filled with the remaining 6 people, Bei Shen in the front holding Cang Yan, Hei Xing watching the road ahead of them, Hong Ling, Feng Ge, and Yong Chun guarding the right, left, and back holding wooden battle spears in each of their hands.

As the hunting lodge group encountered misfortune in the border forest of the third and fourth layers, the day became overcast slowly since some time before, a dense wind blew softly through the forest gaps, carrying all kinds of scents of life and death, including the smell of blood from the carcass of a silverback fur bear mutated by Zhu's tattoo at the end of the small path, the path that Hei Xing's group was now traveling back home.

Meanwhile at the Wu tribe village grassland training field.

"Alright enough training for today, make sure you rest properly, and do your own development from what you received today."

"Thank you uncle for the teaching"

"No big deal, you shouldn't be too proud of what I taught you, what i teaching to you its just the result of my own trials and failures."

"Uncle is too humble, after I apply this method, I think my hands are getting easier to get used to" Said Wu Liang.

"That's right, I'm glad to hear that, you're free now, I'm going to see Uncle Jin Hao first."

Uncle Ge Wuan turned around while carrying his spear on his left shoulder, he walked leisurely towards the barn where Jin Hao was taking care of the sheep's fleece for slaughtering, his figure that had a great impression and full of meaning, plus his shoulder-length hair was really a character full of value.

"Ah the clouds turned cloudy, is it going to rain?" asked Wu Liang casually while counting.

"Looks like it" replied Ao Nan with a sad look.

"Hey what's up buddy, you don't seem to be in good spirits, are you really tired?"

"Oh really I look like that, I just imagined that I am with my father now, in the forest there, carrying out the task of village security from dangerous animals, I know my father is great but..."

"But what?! Come on this is not the Ao Nan I know, your father is the greatest of the greatest, he is the number one person in the hunting lodge, and the most reliable, he must be carrying out his duties with ease" said Wu Liang while comforting Ao Nan who looked weak and lethargic next to him.

"I hope so Wu Liang, I hope it will be like that too" Ao Nan replied softly.