"ah!…"

Qi Xiaoyan's feet slipped, and she lost all control of her body, falling headfirst from the tree.

She felt it was all over, everything was over…

That tree is over ten meters tall; if she fell in that position, she would surely die.

But at that moment, she suddenly felt her foot being grabbed by a strong hand, and her falling body suddenly stopped.

Qi Xiaoyan looked up and saw it was Ye Feng…

At this moment, the bow on his body had long since disappeared, and his right hand was gripping Qi Xiaoyan's ankle.

He was thinking of immediately using both hands to pull Qi Xiaoyan up.

But the force of the fall left him no time to react.

Ye Feng's body simultaneously lost its weight and he fell towards the tree.

However, he reacted quickly, and just as he was about to completely break free from the tree trunk, his left hand suddenly grabbed one of the branches, which was about the thickness of a forearm.

The combined weight of the two people and the eagle caused the tree branch to sway and bounce up and down.

They are all suspended in mid-air, and if the branch breaks, they will all fall freely.

The male eagle was still flapping its wings, trying to snatch Qi Xiaoyan away, its claws showing no sign of loosening their grip...

It also emitted extremely aggressive and menacing sounds.

As a result, the two swayed even more violently.

Leaves kept falling from above, and you could faintly hear a soft crackling sound.

This branch already shows some signs of breakage.

In fact, even if the branches keep breaking, Ye Feng won't be able to hold on for long.

He now feels a tearing pain in both arms, which is almost numb.

The fingers of my left hand, which was gripping the tree trunk, were gradually losing strength, and the signs of loosening were very obvious.

However, at this critical moment, Zhan Pengwu made his move.

A silver butterfly knife flew from his hand, growing larger and larger in Qi Xiaoyan's pupils.

Finally, it brushed past her ear and nestled into the wing of the male eagle on her shoulder.

"Gah!"

The male eagle let out a sound completely different from before, clearly in pain.

Upon seeing this, it immediately released its claws and prepared to fly into the air.

"Trying to run?"

Tang Weiwei had already prepared the arrows; several days of training had allowed him to master the shooting techniques of the compound bow.

Moreover, at this moment, he was less than ten meters away from the eagle, so his hit rate was at least 90%, if not 100%.

"Whoosh!"

An arrow flew out and landed squarely in the path of the eagle's ascent.

The arrow pierced through the eagle's body in the blink of an eye, kicking up a flurry of feathers...

It fell slowly downwards, like a kite with a broken string...

"Quickly, save them!"

Seeing that they had successfully hit the target, Tang Weiwei and Zhan Pengwu quickly climbed down the tree.

Instead of checking on the dead eagle, they threw away their bows and climbed back up the tree where Ye Feng was.

"Hold on!"

As Tang Weiwei climbed, she kept an eye on Ye Feng and Qi Xiaoyan's condition.

The two seemed to be fine, but Ye Feng's facial features were almost contorted in pain.

He gritted his teeth, his arms were almost numb, and he was clearly forcing himself to stay upright.

The cracking sound coming from that tree branch grew louder and louder.

Finally, after persisting for more than a minute...

"Click!"

The tree branch suddenly snapped, and the feeling of weightlessness swept over Ye Feng and his companion once again.

"It's over..."

Ye Feng felt a wave of despair. At this height, even if he landed on his feet, he would at least be crippled.

Qi Xiaoyan, on the other hand, is certain to die.

But what can I do now?

But just as the tree branch broke, two large hands suddenly grabbed his wrists.

Looking up, Zhan Pengwu was currently lying on Tang Weiwei's back, in a very suggestive position...

Fortunately, they managed to grab Ye Feng in time.

"Don't move! We'll pull you up."

After several minutes of effort, Ye Feng and Qi Xiaoyan were finally pulled up onto the tree trunk, albeit with great difficulty.

The four of them were sitting on a tree trunk, leaning against the main trunk, panting heavily with shock on their faces.

Tang Weiwei wiped the sweat from her face and realized that saving lives was much harder than killing them.

"Hey Ye Feng, are you here to fish for eagles, or to be fished by eagles?"

If we two brothers had arrived any later, we'd be collecting your corpses.

Ye Feng glanced at the blood-soaked male eagle under the tree and felt a surge of frustration.

His hunting plans had never gone wrong before, but today they almost backfired.

I thought I had everything under control, but I never imagined that I knew so little about harpy eagles.

"I don't know either, how dare this beast target us."

Harpy eagles eating people? I've never heard of that before. Generally speaking…

This kind of beast would never choose to attack prey larger than itself unless it was starving.

I think he must have mistaken us for giant monkeys.

But regardless, I was careless today, and I will never make the same mistake again.

"I guess you could say I learned my lesson."

Then, Tang Weiwei smiled and gave Ye Feng a thumbs up, seemingly quite happy.

What he just witnessed shocked him greatly…

Because Ye Feng was able to disregard his own life and decisively discard his bow to save Qi Xiaoyan, and he didn't let go until the tree branch broke.

Only someone with this kind of character deserves to be called a leader.

Ye Feng had no idea what Tang Weiwei was thinking; he only felt that the thumbs-up was likely a joking form of mockery.

He didn't pay attention, but turned to look at Qi Xiaoyan.

Are you alright? Are you hurt?

Qi Xiaoyan also looked terrified; thankfully, the male eagle's intention was to lift her up and smash her to death.

Otherwise, if they had struck her head directly with an eagle's beak, her head would probably have been torn to shreds.

She moved her shoulder and found that she did not feel any pain.

However, several holes were torn in the shoulders of the clothes, and most of the damage was blocked by the fish scale armor.

"I'm alright, thank goodness for this fish scale armor..."

As she spoke, Qi Xiaoyan gave another apologetic look.

This time, not only did she fail to help, she almost caused Ye Feng's death as well. She felt extremely guilty…

"I'm sorry, Brother Feng, I've caused you trouble again."

"No, no, no..."

Ye Feng waved his hands repeatedly, showing no sign of blaming him.

"This time, my plan completely went wrong. I was too idealistic and didn't know enough about harpy eagles."

Moreover... if you hadn't come, I would most likely have been the beast's target.

At its speed, my fate will probably be no better than yours.

Upon hearing this, Zhan Pengwu suddenly spoke up excitedly:

"Hey... bro, your fish scale armor is amazing! It can't even be scratched by an eagle's claws."

When will you make one for us too...?