Chapter 35: Final Victory, Sudden Change

"Ah..."

Xu Ning's shrill scream echoed through the cave.

Xia Hong and the others hurriedly turned their heads to look, and their backs felt cold instantly.

His axe ultimately failed to hack down.

Not only did it fail to hack down, but his right eye seemed to have been plucked out of thin air by something, leaving only an empty hole. Blood flowed from the inside out all over his face, which was extremely gruesome.

"You all entangle it, I'm going to save him!"

Although Xia Hong felt terrified inside, he still made a prompt decision. After ordering the crowd, he gritted his teeth, grabbed the cold beast's mane, and leaped onto its back.

He didn't hesitate, went up to help Xu Ning up, and threw him directly down. Xia Chuan and the others immediately stepped forward to catch him.

"Leader, don't look at the eye on its back. My left eye was closed just now, so I'm fine. Something seemed to run out from inside and plucked out my eyeball."

Although he had lost his right eye, Xu Ning's consciousness was still clear.

Before coming down, he didn't forget to shout a warning.

Xia Hong took a deep breath, moved his body along the direction of the cold beast's struggle, and didn't dare to lower his head to look, only reaching out to grope on the cold beast's back.

In no time, Xia Hong felt the position where that golden eye was.

"You all disperse and control its four limbs, just for a moment, quick!"

Xia Chuan and the others, who had sent Xu Ning to the rear, heard this. Looking at the cold beast, although they felt their scalps tingle, they still quickly threw away their stone axes and rushed up empty-handed.

Stone axes couldn't break through the cold beast's defense and were useless; keeping them in their hands was a burden and would affect their exertion of force.

Lin Kai and Qiu Peng rushed to the rear of the cold beast and hugged its right hind leg together.

Yue Feng and Lu Yang hugged the left hind leg.

Yuan Cheng and Xia Chuan went to the front, hugging the two front legs, one on each side.

Roar...

This distribution was considered reasonable, but compared to the cold beast's strength, the six dispersed people were clearly not enough.

The cold beast struggled madly, basically dragging the six people to run wildly on the ground. The cave was originally very small, and there were only a few dozen meters of running back and forth. Xia Chuan, Yuan Cheng, and the others were hit several times.

All six of them had almost vomited blood, either injured by the cold beast's trampling or injured by being hit against the wall by the impact force.

Yet even so, the six of them didn't let go, still grabbing the cold beast's four limbs tightly, gritting their teeth, just to create that moment of opportunity for Xia Hong.

Xia Hong hadn't moved the whole time. It wasn't that he didn't want to move, but mainly because the commotion caused by this cold beast was too terrifying.

Compared to the six people hugging its four limbs below, the cold beast clearly felt that he on its back was a greater threat, so every time it hit the wall, it deliberately used its back and tail.

Xia Hong was also hit several times, but his left hand always grabbed the mane, not letting himself fall off, while his right hand was always placed on the eye position he had just felt.

"Don't let go, hold on for a little longer, it will be out of strength soon."

Xia Hong shouted at the crowd, his expression gradually becoming ferocious.

"I don't believe this beast has endless energy!"

The seven people just stayed in a stalemate with the cold beast for more than half a minute. Whether they were stepped on or hit, not a single person let go.

Finally, after hitting the wall once more, the cold beast suddenly paused.

Hu...

It was panting.

This was the moment.

Xia Hong's pupils constricted suddenly. He withdrew his right hand, took out a short knife no more than five inches long from his waist, and stabbed it fiercely at the eye position he had been feeling for a long time and had long since kept in mind.

Puchi.

"Everyone let go and get out of the way!"

Knowing he had succeeded, Xia Hong immediately spoke to let Xia Chuan and the others retreat.

The six people who were desperately hugging the cold beast's four limbs immediately let go and retreated wildly to the rear.

Roar...

Following the cold beast's shrill and painful roar, a warm current wrapped around Xia Hong's palm. The cold beast beneath him also began to struggle even more violently.

Xia Hong wasn't afraid now. Riding on the cold beast's back, he looked toward its golden eye.

It turned out that the knife had been stabbed with too much force just now; not only the short knife, but even his hand had been stabbed in.

That warm current was the feeling of his palm soaking in blood after the eye was pierced.

The golden eye on its back was pierced. This cold beast was clearly not just suffering pain. Xia Hong, riding on its back, had the most direct perception.

At first, when the eye was just pierced, although the cold beast erupted with even more terrifying power than before, as time passed, its movements were clearly constantly deforming and slowing down, and the power it could exert was becoming weaker and weaker.

Yet even so, Xia Hong didn't dare to be careless, still riding on its back, grabbing its mane tightly and not moving.

Until the end, the eye on the cold beast's back no longer flowed with blood, and its four limbs began to stagger, until it fell to the ground with a boom.

At this moment, Xia Hong finally breathed a real sigh of relief.

He could feel closely that the cold beast's vitality had been completely cut off.

After letting go, a strong sense of exhaustion surged into his heart.

"Dead?"

"Really dead?"

"Dead, everyone come over!"

Xia Hong's answer made the tense spirits of Xia Chuan, Yuan Cheng, and the others completely relax.

Realizing it was finally over, smiles appeared on everyone's faces.

"Hahahaha, we avoided it so many times before, who would have thought it would deliver itself to our door."

"Thrilling, if it weren't for the leader, the result wouldn't necessarily be this."

"I was hugging its hind leg just now, and several times I felt like I was going to be trampled to death. If it weren't for seeing you all persisting, I might not have been able to hold on."

"Hahahahaha, me too."

Fighting is the best way to unite people's hearts, especially this kind of life-and-death battle.

Although everyone had more or less sustained injuries, some even quite serious, the looks they gave each other clearly had more things than before.

Listening to everyone's banter about surviving a disaster, Xia Hong also felt much more relaxed.

However, there was still one seriously injured person, and he didn't know how the situation was.

"Where is Xu Ning? How is Xu Ning?"

Hearing this, everyone hurriedly looked toward the back of the cave.

"Leader, I'm fine. Let someone seal the cave first. Many adults' faces have already turned blue from the cold, and some children can't hold on much longer."

Although Xu Ning had lost his right eye, his consciousness had always been clear. At this moment, while answering Xia Hong, he didn't forget to remind them to seal the cave entrance quickly.

Xia Hong turned his head to look at the crowd, only to find that all the adults and children were blue-faced from the cold. He hurriedly stood up and led people to seal the cave and light a fire.

The battle just now actually lasted less than ten minutes from beginning to end.

But in these ten minutes, those ordinary people in the camp couldn't hold on anymore.

In fact, not only couldn't they hold on, but even Xia Hong himself, after detaching from the battle, quickly felt the cold.

Daytime, it really is this terrifying!

Xia Hong let Xia Chuan and the others who were more seriously injured go to rest first, while he led people to move things to seal the cave entrance. Xu Ning was also lying on the ground, so those who came to help were all other adults in the camp.

"Leader, you are injured, go rest first, leave this to us."

Xia Hong was moving things. Hearing the concern of others, he turned his head and revealed a hint of a smile, saying: "It's fine, I basically didn't suffer any injuries. Hurry up, once the cave entrance is sealed, we can light a fire, saving everyone from continuing to freeze."

Hearing this, the others' faces instantly revealed expressions of being moved.

"Leader, such a small matter, just leave it to us, don't worry!"

The middle-aged man who spoke to let Xia Hong rest was also the same. He walked two steps toward Xia Hong with a moved expression, wanting to help him move the wood in his hands.

Xia Hong's eyes flickered, and he didn't refuse, instantly handing the wood to him.

Unexpectedly, just as that person walked in front of Xia Hong.

A sudden change occurred.

He suddenly extended his right fist and attacked Xia Hong's head violently.

This sudden scene instantly made everyone panic.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 36 =====