Chapter 227: La Li Ai's Dilemma

It is obvious that La Li Ai's target is that male lion which has already assumed an attacking posture!

Seeing this, Liu Xiaotian's foot on the accelerator involuntarily pressed down a bit harder.

It's not that he values La Li Ai much, nor that there is any friendship between them; it's simply because this training mission was issued by him.

Moreover, he clearly knows that even if he arrives in time and rescues La Li Ai, he will not receive thanks;

On the contrary, if La Li Ai does not hate him, that would already be good.

For someone who has resolved to trade his life for something more important to him, those who stand from a god's-eye view to save the other person are, in the rescued person's heart, actually not a positive image.

Rather, it smacks of "a dog catching a mouse—meddling in others' affairs."

But Liu Xiaotian does not care whether La Li Ai will thank him; he is merely doing what falls within his responsibility.

I don't know whether all animals understand the principle of "knowing oneself and the enemy guarantees victory in a hundred battles"; anyway, if it were a wolf or two or three hyenas, that male lion would have already charged over by now.

In one, one look `no, one wrong version%!'

It assumed an attacking posture, its eyes fixed tightly on La Li Ai, and from its mouth came repeated hisses full of threatening intent.

For example, if he were to die under the attack of a wild boar, the Warrior School would ultimately judge him as having done it intentionally—that is, as suicide—and thus would not pay a single cent to his wife. Are you kidding? Not to mention soldiers trained by the Warrior School, even those who have merely obtained the opportunity to study at the Warrior School but have not yet received a second of training would absolutely not die from a wild boar's attack! If one lacks even this much ability, how could one possibly qualify to enter the Warrior School?

As for the actions that make Liu Xiaotian voice his doubts with a trembling voice, in the eyes of Westerners whose thought patterns are almost worlds apart from those of Easterners, giving up the two previous objectives is seen as bravery; abnormal gaze and expression are due to nervousness, and they would certainly not be judged as deliberate intent.

Different angles, different divisions of labor; different starting points, different desired results—it's as simple as that.

Just as Liu Xiaotian had guessed, La Li Ai simply wanted to trade his life for a sum of money.

However, the Warrior School has always maintained a strict system, handling every matter with utmost seriousness.

Having been bullied to its doorstep, if it does not fight back, then this male lion, which has been the leader of the pride for less than two years, is likely not far from being "removed from class."

To thoroughly provoke that male lion, La Li Ai also picked up a branch as thick as an arm and swung it a few times at the lion.

This time, the male lion absolutely could tolerate feces but not urine.

Yet La Li Ai did not retreat; instead, he slowly moved forward, which was a provocation.

Now, La Li Ai's position and his actions, in the male lion's eyes, constitute "intruding on territory."

Fortunately, this male lion has just eaten breakfast today, so its stomach is not hungry.

La Li Ai, who was struggling with having no solution, after hearing Liu Xiaotian's this training mission, after a short period of thought and inner struggle, finally decided to use this method to obtain that sum of money.

That mouthful of stark white teeth rapidly enlarged before La Li Ai's eyes, and after two or three seconds it was right in front of him.

In other words, the lioness not only has to bear and raise children and manage the household, but also has to earn money to support the family.

At this point, the distance between La Li Ai and that male lion weighing over two hundred kilograms has already dropped below thirty meters.

The male lion's duty is basically to bask in the sun all day, loaf around, and "take care" of his multiple wives. However, what the male lion thinks inside, La Li Ai does not know; he only knows that now he is walking toward death.

And the army he belongs to will not provide him with such a sum of money.

Thirty meters, for an adult male lion, is nothing more than a "launching" distance.

After La Li Ai continued forward and closed another three to five meters, the male lion, which had been in a good mood, seemed to become somewhat angry.

Because, just three days ago, he received a letter from his wife informing him that his daughter had fallen seriously ill and needed a large sum for medical treatment.

Therefore, La Li Ai had set his sights on the lion from the very beginning.

Emitting a low growl, the male lion's two hind legs exerted force simultaneously, its body leapt up, and it charged straight toward La Li Ai.

Of course, La Li Ai regretted it the very next second.

Moreover, he cannot simply provoke the lion and then give up resistance, waiting for death to come; he must engage in combat, leaving sufficient evidence that he fought the lion with all his strength, merely being overpowered, which led to his eventual death.

If La Li Ai were simply killed by a wild beast, that sum of money might not necessarily go to his wife.

(Isn't it that many people envy the male lion? In fact, many groups in the animal kingdom operate this way; among humans it is extremely rare, and even when it does occur, the one playing the "male lion" role is over ninety-five percent a "paid service," hahaha ^_^)

It is precisely because it has never encountered such a "creature" before that the male lion adheres to the principle of "courtesy before force," first issuing verbal threats, and only resorting to physical action if that fails.

This is also because this male lion, only about three years old, has never before seen a human being.

Besides that, their sole and most important task is to protect their own territory and pride.

Although La Li Ai had previously made up his mind to trade his life for his daughter's medical expenses, when the threat of death actually arrived, his body reacted instinctively before his brain could issue a command, and he dodged the lion's lunge.

He believed that he should charge forward to meet the lion, able to endure for ten or twenty seconds with an arm as the price, after which the lion's terrifying bite force would snap his arm, and then his throat would be bitten through.

Furthermore, in a lion pride, hunting is the lioness's primary duty.

If La Li Ai could retreat slowly at first, then at this moment the male lion, having just eaten its fill and planning to bask in a sunny spot, might not even mind his "intrusion into territory."

Only death could secure the funds for his daughter's costly medical treatment.

During this period, all of his struggling and resistance will leave traces on the ground, so the Warrior School will not consider it as him seeking his own death.

After missing once, the male lion, equally skilled at hunting but merely accustomed to eating "soft food," was not surprised; instead, upon landing it turned and lunged at La Li Ai again.

This time, because the distance between La Li Ai and the male lion was really a bit close, even if La Li Ai wanted to dodge, he could not possibly avoid it completely.

At the very least, he would definitely be bitten.

(End of chapter)