"No, I won't feel at ease if I go and see it with my own eyes." Yun Qi pried Liu Fengya's hands off and tried to rush out.
Wu Yong quickly blocked her way, "Wait a minute, let's get ready, I'll go with you."
After saying this, he shouted to Wu Qingquan and Zhao Dongwei, "Lend us your crossbows for a moment."
Upon hearing this, Wu Qingquan and Zhao Dongwei quickly handed him the crossbows and arrows they were carrying.
"Why don't we go with you? We can't let Brother Cheng block the way alone," Zhao Dongwei suggested, also indicating that they should go together.
“No need. You need to stay here and guard this area. If the tiger accidentally gets here, you’ll have a tough battle. We can’t let our guard down here either.” Wu Yong had just finished speaking when he heard a low growl. Even someone who didn’t know much about tigers could tell from the sound that the tiger had been provoked.
"Hurry up!" Yunqi snatched the bow and arrow from his hand and started running towards the direction of the sound. She knew that Cheng-ge had already confronted the tiger at this moment.
After the arrow pierced its head, the tiger was completely enraged. It recklessly lunged at Si Cheng with its gaping maw.
Si Cheng had anticipated this, and as it pounced, he quickly dodged to the side, raised his cleaver, and slashed at its other eye.
After both eyes were injured, the tiger began to run around aimlessly, pouncing on Sicheng by following his scent. Sicheng could only dodge and occasionally pull stones to smash its head.
Just then, Yunqi and Wu Yong arrived and saw the tiger pouncing on Cheng Ge from afar. Fortunately, Si Cheng dodged it. The two of them were stunned and didn't react for a moment.
The tiger probably felt it couldn't gain any advantage in Sicheng, and then it smelled the same scent again. Its anger immediately turned towards Yunqi and the others.
"Get out of the way!" Si Cheng was shocked to see this and shouted at them.
He grabbed a machete and quickly chased after the tiger, hoping to intercept it.
Yun Qi and Wu Yong were also brought back to their senses by his shout. The two of them rolled away in opposite directions, narrowly avoiding the tiger's fatal pounce.
It's unclear whether it was because Yunqi carried Sicheng's scent, but it began to target and attack Yunqi.
Wu Yong wanted to help, but he couldn't find a spot because both sides were moving too fast.
Si Cheng kept harassing them from the side, occasionally slashing at its four legs, and the tiger began to attack them aimlessly.
Perhaps due to the anesthetic applied to the arrowhead, its movements gradually slowed down, and its body sometimes swayed slightly. However, this did not affect its instinct to vent and retaliate, and it stubbornly tried to tear its enemy apart with its sharp claws.
Because of its relentless pursuit, Yunqi gradually became exhausted and was almost caught off guard several times, resulting in several claw marks on its body.
Every time Si Cheng saw Yun Qi injured, he couldn't help but increase the force in his hand. Until Yun Qi lost his footing because he stepped on a stone and fell to the ground. It looked like he was about to be unable to avoid the tiger's pounce. Si Cheng was so anxious that he dropped the machete in his hand, pounced on him and grabbed the tiger's tail.
The saying "Don't touch a tiger's tail" is absolutely true. Because its tail was attacked from behind, the tiger quickly turned around to retaliate against Si Cheng.
Si Cheng's strength was not enough to allow the tiger to easily pounce back. He pulled hard with his hand in the direction the tiger was pouncing, and then kicked the tiger's hind leg with his right foot, causing the tiger to fall directly to the ground.
Taking advantage of this moment, Yunqi quickly stood up from the ground, grabbed the machete in his hand, and plunged it into its other injured eye.
Just as the tiger was about to stand up and retaliate, Si Cheng had already stepped on its back, rendering it unable to move.
Even so, it let out threatening roars, constantly raising its gaping maw and baring its fangs to threaten the person pressing it down.
Seeing that there was no longer any threat, Si Cheng stared at Yun Qi, examining her injuries with his eyes. "How are your wounds? Have any vital organs been damaged?"
"It's alright. I was worried about you, but I ended up holding you back." Yun Qi felt a little embarrassed, thinking that he had not only failed to help but also caused trouble.
"I know you're worried about me too. After we take care of him, I'll take a good look at your wound." Si Cheng looked at his wife with some concern. He had just looked at the tiger's claws, and they were covered with some kind of black, unidentified substance. He wondered if it might cause an infection.
"What do we do now? We can't just keep suppressing it like this, can we? Didn't the anesthetic Fengya gave you work?" Yunqi saw that the tiger was still resisting and remembered what Liu Fengya had said about leaving the anesthetic for Sicheng.
Si Cheng pointed to the handle on one of the tiger's eyes and said, "I put anesthetic on the arrow, but the dosage might not have been enough, so the reaction was a bit slow. But I noticed it was moving a bit sluggishly before, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to hold out for so long."
Si Cheng paused for a moment, then added, "As for the powder he gave me, I didn't dare use it."
"Why don't you dare to use it? Are you afraid of hurting the tiger?" Seeing that the tiger had been subdued, Wu Yong mustered up his courage and went forward to check.
"I didn't take any protective measures. What if I inhaled the powder myself after I scattered it? What if I inhaled it before the tiger even got the medicine? That would be like feeding the tiger." Si Cheng only remembered this problem when he was unpacking the last piece of oil paper. He quickly wrapped the medicine packet again and put it in his inner pocket.
"That's right, I didn't think of this problem along the way." Wu Yong was also very glad that Brother Cheng hadn't used the medicine pack before, otherwise the outcome might have been very different.
Seeing that the tiger had been struggling to get up for so long, Si Cheng pointed to the large rock where the tiger had been hiding and said, "Wu Yong, go and get those bottles of potion next to that rock. Maybe the amount of potion we applied to the arrow was too low. Let's add some more."
Upon hearing this, Wu Yong quickly ran to the corner of the big rock and found several bottles and jars, bringing over several bottles of medicine.
"The mixing ratio is indicated on this. Let's use this one with a higher ratio." Wu Yong checked the label and handed one of the bottles of medicine to Si Cheng for inspection.
Si Cheng then noticed the marking at the bottom and looked at the bottle of potion in the other person's hand, which had only been partially used. He realized that the problem lay with him; he had definitely used the lowest possible version.
"Sprinkle this medicine on its wound and see its reaction." Si Cheng handed the medicine back to Wu Yong, gesturing for him to apply it.
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