On the morning of the fourth day, Ye Zi finally saw a glimmer of hope for victory, as the golden eagle's body swayed violently, and it even had to spread its wings to stabilize itself.
Although it remained standing steadily after folding its wings, Ye Zi knew that the golden eagle's physical and mental strength was nearing its limit.
This greatly invigorated Ye Zi, and her drowsiness disappeared.
But after the golden eagle stretched its wings, it seemed to regain its vitality, and it remained motionless while staring at the leaves.
The competition had reached its final moment. Ye Zi stuffed a piece of dried meat into her mouth with one hand, and held a lit cigarette between her other hands.
After dark, Ye Zi finally saw the golden eagle swaying again, but the movement was not significant, and Ye Zi couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.
"System, is my chance of winning slim? This guy is so badly injured, he hasn't had any food or water, yet he's still so energetic after four days."
For the past four days, I've had water to drink, beef jerky to replenish my energy, cigarettes to keep me awake, and you chatting with me to keep me from getting sleepy.
I feel like I've wasted some of my time.
"Don't worry, host, you're about to win. My investigation shows that the golden eagle's body is getting stiffer and stiffer. Victory is just around the corner."
"Are you sure?" Ye Zi perked up instantly.
"When have I ever lied to you?" the system said arrogantly.
I believe you.
After saying this, Ye Zi mustered her spirits and continued to stare at the golden eagle.
In the middle of the night, Yezi's eyelids started to droop as she tried to keep her eyes open and stare at the golden eagle.
This is a sign of being close to the limit. If even the eyebrows can't keep the eyelids up, Ye Zi will show the golden eagle what it means to fall asleep instantly.
On the morning of the fifth day, as soon as the sky brightened, Ye Zi and the golden eagle, with their keen eyesight, once again looked directly into each other's eyes.
Ye Zi frowned, trying to keep her eyelids open. The golden eagle's eyes were dull, the liveliness it had shown on their first meeting gone.
Not long after, Ye Qingshan drove his pickup truck over again to bring his son supplies, including a thermos with a straw.
Ye Zi sipped some hot water, keeping an eye on the golden eagle while talking to her father.
"A golden eagle can keep staring at you for seven days straight without sleep. Can you still hold out?"
"Don't worry, Dad. This golden eagle is injured and its strength has dropped a lot. I have a good chance of winning. I'm fine with both physical strength and mental strength. I should be able to hold out until it collapses from exhaustion."
"Okay, then you should keep an eye on yourself and don't overwork yourself." Ye Qingshan instructed his son while taking out a power bank to charge Ye Zi's phone.
"Understood," Ye Zi replied dryly.
In order to win, Ye Zi has been drinking water these past few days, but not much. She has only been eating dried meat to replenish her energy.
It's to prevent problems with going to the toilet.
Golden eagles have eyesight eight times that of humans and are equipped with night vision. From the moment a leaf makes eye contact with it, as long as the leaf's gaze shifts elsewhere, even for a fleeting moment, it will be able to see the eagle.
The golden eagle will assume the match is over, give you a disdainful look, and then fly away.
Even when you're on a grassland and there's no one around, it's inevitable that your eyes will wander when you need to use the toilet.
This is why Yezi never looks at the caller ID when she answers the phone.
During the five-day eye contact, Ye Zi didn't move her body much; she mostly sat on the bearskin coat, staring at the golden eagle.
As the king of the sky, the golden eagle spends very little time on the ground; it will flap its wings and briefly take off to fly over if the distance is too far.
Therefore, the main poses of the man and the sculptor did not change much; one was sitting and the other was standing.
Ye Zi knew very well that now was the best opportunity to realize his dream of leading a yellow eagle on the left and holding a falcon on the right, since the golden eagle's physical strength and spirit would decline when it was injured.
Ye Zi's parents also had no experience in taming golden eagles. If an experienced person had given Ye Zi some pointers, it would have increased his chances of winning, but unfortunately, they didn't.
Therefore, Ye Zi could only take advantage of people's misfortunes, no, take advantage of the eagle's misfortunes.
On the fifth night, after dark, Ye Zi still couldn't see the golden eagle, but the system kept telling him that the golden eagle was watching him.
Ye Zi didn't care whether she could see it or not; she just kept staring at that familiar spot.
In the latter half of the night, Ye Zi's mind had gone blank, and she even forgot what she was doing, just staring at the golden eagle's position, a state commonly known as daydreaming.
On the morning of the sixth day, just as the sky was becoming clearer, Ye Zi began to slowly regain her senses when a soft thud sounded as she fell to the ground. The system's notification promptly alerted her:
"Host, the golden eagle is tired."
Ye Zi instantly snapped out of her daze and looked at the golden eagle.
Sure enough, the golden eagle had already fallen to the ground. Ye Zi quickly asked:
"System, is this thing dead?"
"He didn't die, he just collapsed from exhaustion. He hadn't eaten for five days and was still injured. It's amazing that he managed to hold on until the morning of the sixth day."
Ye Zi nodded. Upon hearing that the golden eagle hadn't died but had just fainted from exhaustion, she instantly perked up and began to stretch her arms.
A series of crackling sounds rang out. After her hands, arms, shoulders, neck, back, and waist had all been stretched, Ye Zi slowly got up and walked towards the golden eagle.
Although the system had already said that the golden eagle was not dead, Ye Zi still reached out and touched the golden eagle's heartbeat after squatting down next to it.
Relieved that the golden eagle was still alive, Ye Zi then practiced her mace technique with her bare hands to warm up her body. After that, she took out her phone and called her father.
Then he whistled to call the horse to his side, picked up the bearskin coat, the dried meat and water on the ground, and returned to the golden eagle.
After setting up the tent, Yezi carried the golden eagle inside, prepared some dried meat and water for the eagle and placed them aside, then covered herself with a bearskin and prepared to sleep.
Given Ye Zi's current physical strength, he is not worried about the golden eagle causing him harm after it wakes up.
Golden eagles are indeed formidable; their sharp claws and beaks are highly lethal to rabbits and foxes. But Leaf's body can withstand the claws of a wild wolf.
Unless the golden eagle pries open the leaf's eyelids or attacks its nostrils.
Otherwise, the damage to the leaves will be extremely limited.
With the system's surveillance, Ye Zi wasn't worried about what the golden eagle would do to him.
The main reason we didn't take the golden eagle home immediately was because we were worried that it might react violently if it woke up and found out it was being imprisoned.
If it wakes up where it collapsed, the golden eagle will have more time to think.
With Ye Zi, the one who beat it, also around, its guard wouldn't be particularly high.
Another issue is that Ye Zi carried the unconscious golden eagle back home, which would raise suspicions of her attempting to capture and tame it if seen by the workers at home.
To avoid unnecessary trouble, Ye Zi felt that bringing back a sober golden eagle was the best solution.
Finally, Ye Zi wasn't sure if the golden eagle would submit. If the golden eagle woke up and flew away, then she could just consider it an experience of life in the grasslands.
If the golden eagle is willing to follow him, that would be ideal.
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