Chapter 720: Two Leopards

"This way..." Chen Xun appeared to be walking slowly, but in reality, his speed had not slowed down; given their physical stamina here, even though it was deep in the mountains and old forests, it would affect their speed.

"That snake, it's not venomous." An Yinan pointed in a direction.

Zhang Qian was very fast, using a thin tree branch in his hand to pierce directly into the snake's seven-inch mark.

These would be their food in the deep mountains.

"Careful, I hear the sound of water." Chen Xun's eyes suddenly lit up; they hadn't had water for several days, and they had been eating things by skinning and roasting them directly. Sometimes when they couldn't help it, they would just drink animal blood. When a person is pushed to the brink, there is nothing they cannot eat, nothing they cannot swallow.

As long as they survive!

"Pay attention, where there is a water source, under normal circumstances, there will also be large animals. Stay alert at all times." An Yinan frowned, then said this to Chen Xun.

"Understood." Chen Xun did not turn back, but he said softly, his vigilance also dialed to the maximum.

At this moment, Chen Xun gently pressed his hand down, signaling the two people behind him to lie down.

After An Yinan lay down, she moved gently and crawled to Chen Xun's side; the grass on the ground scraped her skin until it stung, but she didn't even frown.

Zhang Qian also slowly crawled to An Yinan's side, and then the three of them lay side by side.

"There are two leopards ahead," Chen Xun said in a low voice.

An Yinan slowly parted the grass and saw the leopards by the river. No wonder there hadn't been any small animals along the way; the intuition of small animals is much more sensitive than that of humans, and their territorial awareness is also very strong, so they wouldn't dare intrude into the territory of large animals.

"Zhang Qian, the one on the left; Chen Xun, the one on the right. Zhang Qian is responsible for luring it away, Chen Xun is responsible for the hunt."

An Yinan quickly made the assignments, then took out the water bottle she had brought from the plane. The water inside the bottle had long since hit the bottom. Even though they drank cautiously, they had been walking all this way with the sun high above, and the moisture in their bodies was constantly being lost. If An Yinan hadn't collected some dew, they might not have even made it this far.

"Understood." The two of them spoke in unison.

For a moment, their eyes met; everyone gripped the sticks in their hands. Now, these sticks were their only weapons.

The two of them were like fierce tigers descending from the mountain, charging toward the leopards together.

Those two leopards hadn't cared at all at first, but those two little creatures were actually charging right at them.

One leopard let out a warning cry.

That sound was as hoarse as sawing wood, and in each cry, there was a sense of warning.

However...

The speed of those two people did not diminish at all; in fact, due to the momentum of descending the mountain, their speed was even faster.

Zhang Qian struck directly with his stick, but that smaller leopard was very agile, jumping to the other side in a single leap, circling around and watching Zhang Qian vigilantly.

Zhang Qian's brow furrowed; this leopard wasn't taking the bait.

Over there, Chen Xun had already made his move, the stick in his hand waving continuously, and every time the leopard lunged forward, it revealed its sharp claws and pointed teeth.

An Yinan came down from the side of the mountain and collected some mountain spring water.

The water here flowed out from the mountain body. Beside the water, there were some animal footprints, but there were very few varieties; the most numerous were the footprints of those two leopards.

"Do it." An Yinan walked in front of Zhang Qian, and the stick in her hand swung out without hesitation.

The task just given to Zhang Qian was to lure this leopard away, but this leopard was very clever and kept circling, refusing to leave the edge of the water pool.

An Yinan threw the water bottle to Zhang Qian and then fought with the leopard, sweat dripping continuously from her forehead.

"Smack." The leopard lunged forward again and grabbed An Yinan's arm, just for that split second.

On An Yinan's arm, it was bloody, with several claw marks constantly oozing blood.

Yet she seemed not to feel the pain; the moment her arm was grabbed, the sharpened wood pierced directly through the leopard's neck...

"Crack!" The leopard felt the pain and jumped outward, but the intense agony caused it to lose its sense of direction, and it crashed directly into a tree; the tree snapped...

An Yinan panted heavily, blood and sweat blurring together; one could no longer see what she looked like now.

Blood flowed down her arm to her fingertips, then dripped down, drop by drop.

Chen Xun's eyes turned red. He had been paying attention to the battlefield over there, but now he couldn't care about anything else. The stick in his hand swung so densely that not even a drop of water could pass through. He used the thin tree branch like a dagger, treating it as a hidden weapon, leaving trail after trail of wounds on the leopard's body.

"Nan Nan." Zhang Qian ran over quickly and blocked in front of her.

An Yinan felt a bit dizzy; she leaned on the thick stick against the ground so she wouldn't collapse.

"Go help Chen Xun," An Yinan said.

That leopard from before had first been pierced in the neck, then hit a tree, and no longer had any offensive capability.

As for the leopard on Chen Xun's side, its shiny fur was already covered in bloodstains.

Nature is like this: the weak are prey to the strong.

They needed water, and they needed to survive.

The leopard that Chen Xun and Zhang Qian were dealing with was an adult leopard; both in strength and technique, it was much more formidable than this smaller leopard.

Another ten minutes passed. Seeing the leopard lying on the ground motionless, Zhang Qian and Chen Xun collapsed onto the ground, gasping for air.

An Yinan handed the water to them. This time, the two of them didn't need to ration it and drank in large gulps. It had already been five days in the mountains; this time, there were no cameras in the mountains, nor was there any command center—it was a completely wild environment.

It was estimated that this deep mountain hadn't seen a human for at least several decades; there wasn't a single trace of human activity.

"How is your arm?" Chen Xun asked with a hint of heartache. Now, let alone medicine, there wasn't even a bandage. They had to get down the mountain quickly; the temperature on the mountain was sweltering, and there were many mosquitoes and insects. He feared Nan Nan's arm would fester.

An Yinan shook her head. "It's nothing."

She was just exhausted; if it were normal times, she wouldn't have been injured.

"How can it be nothing? Such a deep wound, you didn't have to take my place!" Zhang Qian felt somewhat guilty.

Originally, it was his job to deal with that leopard, but Nan Nan saw that his stamina was failing and took his place. The one who should have been injured was him, not Nan Nan!

An Yinan smiled. "You still need to protect me! How could I let you get hurt?"

"Hurry and drink some water, then process that leopard. We can't carry this one." An Yinan pointed to the smaller one.

They were in urgent need of food and water to replenish their strength; no one knew how much further the road ahead was.