Chapter 6 Encountering a Brown Bear Xu Nian: Dead leg! Run! ...

When a snow leopard is in bad luck, even drinking cold water will get stuck in its teeth, let alone a novice snow leopard like Xu Nian.

After encountering wild wolves, argali and even the grumpy snow leopard, Xu Nian thought that nothing could scare him anymore, until he was sleeping soundly and suddenly saw a pair of eyes staring at him not far away when he opened his eyes.

These eyes are not those of a wolf or a snow leopard, but those of a brown bear that has almost no natural enemies!

So less than half a day after being frightened, Xu Nian was frightened again and flew up. After his four claws were in the air for a moment, he turned around and ran without any hesitation.

He didn't even have time to think about why the brown bear appeared here. His mind just kept silently shouting: Dead Leg, run! Run! If you don't run, you will die!!!

The brown bear was also a little surprised. It didn't expect the snow leopard to turn around and run away, but it immediately caught up with it. It ran with all four paws on the ground. It didn't run as agile as the snow leopard. It looked honest, but in fact its speed was not slow at all.

If Los were here, it would be easy for him to get rid of the brown bear, but now it was Xu Nian who was being chased by the brown bear, so he could only run wildly.

There was also a snow leopard rushing towards this side, stopping and starting. Los was sniffing his way here, and from time to time he would stop to look at his tail, and the more he looked, the angrier he became.

It kicked aside any rabbits that passed by. It had no intention of hunting anymore and was even too lazy to guard the half-sheep. If it didn't catch the stupid leopard that had a grudge against it, it felt like its lungs would explode.

There was no trace of the snow leopard's calmness and composure on it. No leopard could speak calmly after its tail was bitten and swollen.

A griffon vulture was perched on the rock it passed by. The bird shrank its neck and watched the snow leopard walk straight past it without looking at it. It lowered its head to look at the place where Los had walked, and its claws dug into the snow, leaving a series of deep claw marks.

This snow leopard is full of murderous aura!

However, just as Los approached the stone wall to sniff and was about to move forward, he suddenly heard the wolf howling again from a farther distance. In fact, he had also heard the wolf howling before.

But those wolves like to howl during the day and at night, and they have no time to rest. It has almost gotten used to it.

But this time the wolf howl was strange and unusual, with a hint of brevity, as if it was calling its friends to warn them of something. Los subconsciously stopped, raised his head, tilted it slightly, and twitched his round ears a little, so that he could hear the location of the wolf howl more clearly and identify what the wolves were going to do.

In the snowy night, there was almost no sound except the howling of wolves. Lost came down the mountain to hunt down the snow leopard. The wind here was much quieter than on the mountain wall, and it was even quieter, making the howling of the wolves more rapid. It seemed that something big had happened on the wolf pack's side.

The idea that the wolves could make such a sound quickly popped up in its mind. Before it could think about it, it heard a burst of sparse sounds coming quickly, and then a figure like a gust of wind pounced towards it.

"Run! There's a brown bear!" Xu Nian had never thought he would be so unlucky that he would encounter a snow leopard on his way to escape. He was so anxious to escape that he didn't have time to get a clear look at the snow leopard. He only had time to shout, "I'm running first!"

Los: ...

Even with just a quick glance, it recognized that this was the hateful snow leopard that stole its prey and bit its tail.

Los made a prompt decision and turned around to chase after it. Although the brown bear was scary, its speed and agility were no match for the snow leopard. As long as the snow leopard jumped onto the rock wall, the brown bear would have no way to deal with it.

No other beast can compete with the snow leopard on the high mountain cliffs. Los considers himself the undisputed king of the snow mountains.

It was undefeated until its tail was bitten.

Xu Nian ran wildly, fortunately his mind was still clear, and he climbed directly up the mountain wall. His previous fear of heights seemed insignificant in the face of life and death. He himself did not expect that he could climb so fast.

However, there was a snow leopard that was faster than him. When the road in front of him was blocked, Xu Nian braked in a hurry to avoid a collision. With a leopard in front and a bear behind, it was simply fatal.

"Run? Where are you running?" Los gritted his teeth, and subconsciously hooked up his tail. His back suddenly stiffened, and he carefully placed his tail on the ground slowly. This made him grit his teeth in hatred, and he glared at the insidious and cunning snow leopard in front of him who loved to bite the leopard's tail.

Xu Nian was in a very miserable state at the moment, his fur was messy, but his eyes were very beautiful. There was a hint of fear and timidity in his cyan pupils, and he looked at the snow leopard in front of him cautiously.

He didn't recognize this snow leopard as the one whose tail he had accidentally bitten earlier, but after seeing its tail dragging stiffly on the ground, he immediately guessed the reason. He cautiously asked, "Have we met before?"

"..." Los was almost laughing out of anger. He gritted his teeth and asked back, "What do you think?"

Xu Nian didn't know what to say. He was standing on the rock wall with the brown bear behind him. He was afraid that Los would kick him down in anger, and then he would be finished.

The two leopards were one above and one below, as if they were confronting each other. Xu Nian looked very aggrieved, his tail curled up slightly, and his furry ears were pressed back because of fear.

When it comes to admitting defeat and showing weakness, Xu Nian is second to none.

What's more, he was really scared. The snow leopard in front of him looked furious and seemed to want to fight with him.

The brown bear behind him also chased up in time. Xu Nian turned his head and saw the big brown bear on all fours, running towards the rock wall in a stuttering manner. Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to him, Los blocked his way in front of him.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong." Xu Nian didn't care about anything and just admitted his mistake first. This was his life experience all along, and it was not inappropriate to apply this to the animal world. It even caught Los off guard. The snow leopard had a furious expression on its face that was about to blame someone, and it had not had time to fade away. It had never seen a fellow creature admit defeat so quickly, and it was subconsciously stunned for a moment.

However, at this moment, Xu Nian had already quickly run in the direction where it was, shouting: "Run, it's too dangerous here!"

At this moment, even though Xu Nian was a little afraid of this bad-tempered snow leopard, he was even more afraid of the huge brown bear. He didn't care about anything else and bravely pushed Los forward, saying as he walked, "Even if I did something wrong and you want to beat me up, wait until we get rid of this bear! Let's go!"

Snow leopards are generally solitary animals. They will leave their mothers and live alone when they are over one year old. So as a snow leopard over two years old, Los is already a mature adult snow leopard. It has lived independently for more than a year.

It's not like we haven't seen other snow leopards before. Most of us would warn each other and then take a step back. If we encounter one with a bad temper, the worst that could happen is a fight, and the loser would naturally leave. We are all lone rangers, and each goes our own way.

But this is the first time I encountered a snow leopard and didn't forget to drag it along when running away, although...

Although it's not the location that is being dragged.

Because Xu Nian was in a panic, he had stepped on Los's tail several times with his claws. Los suspected that he did it on purpose, but when he looked at Xu Nian, the tension and worry in the other's eyes did not seem fake.

"Go up the mountain!" Los gritted his teeth and shouted angrily, "Go up!"

It decided to wait until it got rid of the brown bear before settling the score with the snow leopard.

It bit Xu Nian's back and dragged him to the cliff wall, then turned its head and roared at the chasing brown bear. The snow leopard's voice was low and hoarse, and its depressed body seemed ready to attack at any time. Its eyes were fierce, and it lay diagonally on the rock wall, presenting a situation of confrontation with the brown bear.

The brown bear stopped, looked at the snow leopard in front of it, then looked past it and at the snow leopard behind it, and roared.

Due to its animal nature, it could feel that the snow leopard in front of it was a real beast, completely different from the cowardly snow leopard behind it that could only run away.

It hesitated for a moment. It was not yet in the ice and snow where it could not find food, so there was no need to fight for its life at this time.

Finally, the two beasts stared at each other for a while. The brown bear looked at the difficult-to-climb rock wall and knew that the snow leopard would not be able to come down easily, and it had no way of winning the fight with the snow leopard on the rock wall. So after barking again, it simply turned around and left.

Xu Nian watched the whole scene from beginning to end. Even after the brown bear disappeared from his sight, he still hadn't come to his senses. His heart was still pounding. The feeling of walking on the line of death was not pleasant at all.

"What are you looking at?" Los turned his head and saw Xu Nian's appearance. He bared his fangs, stared at Xu Nian and said hatefully: "The bear is gone, and it's time to settle our accounts!"

"Okay, okay!" No matter what, the snow leopard in front of him saved Xu Nian's life. Otherwise, with the speed of a novice leopard running away, he might not be able to outrun the brown bear. Not to mention that rock climbing is not his strong point. Now that he was saved by this snow leopard, Xu Nian finally breathed a sigh of relief. With a smile in his eyes, he said, "Whatever you say is fine!"

Los frowned and looked at Xu Nian unhappily.

"You saved me, you are a kind snow leopard." Xu Nian's way down the mountain had been blocked by Los, and he didn't know whether the brown bear had gone far away. As for the way up the mountain, Xu Nian didn't even think about it. He had already remembered that the snow leopard in front of him was the snow leopard he had seen hunting blue sheep before.

The other party's agile hunting posture had left a deep impression on him. He was sure that he could not outrun the snow leopard, so he might as well be straightforward. He nodded sincerely and said, "I know I accidentally bit your tail before, but at that time I thought it was my own tail, so I bit it. I didn't mean to do it. I'm sorry."

Los narrowed his eyes and subconsciously tilted his head slightly, looking warily at the snow leopard in front of him who was very quick to admit his mistake.

"I'm sorry I stepped on your tail when I was running away just now." Xu Nian apologized again: "That's because I was afraid that the brown bear would hurt you and me."

Xu Nian looked at Los's expression timidly, as if he would continue to apologize if the other party yelled at him again.

But Los just stared at Xu Nian with a strange look in his eyes for a long while, and then said in a cold voice: "If you are so afraid of brown bears, you can just run away by yourself, why are you dragging me?"

When Los asked this question, his tone was slightly cold, even with a hint of doubt. Its tail seemed to want to move according to its mood, but soon the pain made Los sit up straight. The whole leopard looked like it was sitting in a very standard posture.

"Because..." In comparison, Xu Nian looked much thinner. He thought about it, but couldn't explain it for a long time. His ears were slightly pressed back, and his claws were scratching the snow a little anxiously.

He didn't think too much at that moment, he just followed instinct.

"You'd better think it over. This vendetta between us isn't easily resolved." Ross sneered. "You can't possibly resolve this with a simple apology. Unless you can give me a reason to let you go."

Xu Nian lowered his eyes and stared at his paws. His tail subconsciously wrapped around his four paws. He looked very aggrieved and was a little overwhelmed by Los's repeated questioning.

Finally, he suddenly noticed a scar on Los's side. It looked inconspicuous, but it was visible from a close distance. This made Xu Nian subconsciously stunned, because he remembered that the snow leopard he saw on the monitor had such a wound on its side, which was caused by being scratched by the edge of a stone while hunting.

That snow leopard was the one that knocked over the infrared camera, but that happened a year ago. At that time, the snow leopard was only one year old and was hunting with its brothers following the mother leopard.

Xu Nian looked up at the snow leopard again. Although all snow leopards were handsome, the one in front of him was obviously too handsome. It looked almost exactly like the very beautiful snow leopard in his memory.

"Do you have a brother?" Xu Nian suddenly said, "A year ago, your side was scratched by a stone, and it has healed now."

His eyes fell on Los's side, as if he was looking at the not-so-obvious scar.

Los frowned again, feeling somewhat uncomfortable being stared at. He subconsciously turned his head to lick his wound, which had long since healed. Suddenly, he froze, realizing that Xu Nian had diverted the conversation. He immediately asked, "Who are you? How do you know all this?"

Various excuses raced through Xu Nian's mind. Finally, he looked at Los very honestly and said, "If I say that your brother and I are good friends and that your brother asked me to come find you, can you let me go? Let's shake hands and make peace."

He was the first to raise his big furry paws and looked at Los with anticipation.

"My eldest brother?" Los frowned. He tilted his head slightly and looked at Xu Nian in confusion. Finally, he asked doubtfully, "Why did it ask you to look for me?"

"I don't know. It asked me to find you, saying it had something important to tell you." Xu Nian struggled for a moment, his obedient expression extremely deceptive. "Think about it, if I was lying, how would I know you were injured a year ago? And you even smashed a strange object with your claws. Your eldest brother told me all this."

Los was silent for a moment, then he wiggled his tail slightly in annoyance, then stopped moving when he felt the pain.

"Apologize to my tail." Ross turned his head, his furry face tense, and gritted his teeth, "Not only did you bite it, you bit it several times, and just now you stepped on it. Do you know how heavy you are?"

"I'm sorry." Xu Nian apologized immediately, and was very experienced in admitting his mistake.

It was the first time that Los encountered such a spineless snow leopard, and he was silent for a moment.