parentshiftbook Chapter 35 Chen Fei's Desolation
Chapter 35 Chen Fei's Desolation
After confirming the information on the western front, Chen Fei shifted his focus to the eastern front, and then he saw something he didn't want to see.
The lion king, with his dark brown mane, had been forced to the edge of the rock face by the rocks on the right side of the valley entrance.
The dark brown mane's size advantage was fully amplified in the canyon, allowing it to advance head-on and gradually push the lion king backward.
The old injury in the lion's right hind leg began to flare up after continuous stress, making him increasingly unstable.
Chen Fei could smell the pain and stress in his breath, and the concentration was rising rapidly.
Then the dark brown mane bit down.
When a male lion faces off, its bite target is almost never the opponent's face.
The reason is simple: the mane is a natural protective covering the sides of a lion's face and most of its neck. The actual damage from a frontal bite to the face is far less than expected, as most of the force is absorbed by the thick mane. The real effective braking target is the neck and back.
There are dense muscle groups there, and the nerve bundles that control the head and spine are concentrated there. Biting into this spot can directly lock down the opponent's ability to counterattack.
The deep brown mane snapped its jaws onto the right side of the lion's neck and back, precise and ruthless, locking the lion's entire right side and center of gravity in one bite.
The lion's right hind leg endured an excessive lateral torque, and a dull thud came from its knee joint.
The Lion King fell down.
It wasn't knocked down, it just couldn't hold on any longer and fell. Its right hind leg completely gave way, and its whole body collapsed to the right. It was pressed to the ground by the bite of the dark brown mane, letting out a low, muffled growl squeezed from the depths of its throat.
Sel is positioned in the rear cub position.
Her ears perked up sharply in the direction of the lion king, she lunged forward half a step, then stopped, pinning the stingy boy to the bottom of the rocky slope, and remained motionless.
Chen Fei took all of this into his peripheral vision, while simultaneously reviewing the information from the western front.
There's a problem on the western front.
The positioning of a light "feint attack" is much stronger.
It was suppressed by Meimei and Datou working together.
However, its size and energy points have an absolute advantage here. The direction that Meimei's flank was blocking began to loosen, and its light right forefoot had broken free from the suppressed position and advanced towards Meimei's side.
Big Head noticed.
It made a move that Chen Fei hadn't anticipated: abandoning flank suppression, it directly lunged at the light and agile front.
This was a completely wrong tactical choice.
Big Head's size is simply not enough to withstand a head-on confrontation; if he lunges at it like that, there will only be one outcome.
But Big Head lunged forward!
It slammed its entire body onto the light front, using its weight to create a complete pause for the light, holding the breached flank position for a full second.
The light bite lands on the back of the left shoulder of the large head.
Big Head let out a short, painful roar, his body tilting to the left and his limbs digging into the ground, trying to withstand the torque from the light bite with the strength of his limbs. After about two seconds, his right foreleg knee began to tremble.
It still hasn't retreated.
With a light and forceful flick, the large head breaks free from the biting position.
Big Head staggered three steps to the right, blood staining its yellowish-brown fur on its left shoulder. It steadied itself and raised its head back towards the light.
It did not take a step back.
Meimei can't hold out for long on her own, and Datou's current condition can't withstand a second head-on collision.
This is a signal that he must go.
Just as he was pressing the heat into his limbs with all his might, a scent exploded from the bushes deep in his anus.
The mixture of resin and shrub leaf sap, concentrated into a sharp odor signal in the enclosed canyon, hit Chen Fei's nostrils directly.
Leopard!
It emerged from the bushes behind Dark Brown Mane without warning or a sound, right behind the spot where Dark Brown Mane was suppressing the Lion King, close to the shadowy area of the rocky slope, and slammed its entire weight down from a height, landing precisely on the back of Dark Brown Mane's neck.
The dark brown mane staggered forward two steps from the sudden weight, loosening its bite on the lion king.
The lion king took a breath and moved towards the rocky slope, temporarily escaping the position where he had been suppressed.
The dark brown mane reacted faster than Chen Fei had expected.
As it staggered, it began to twist its body, trying to fling the leopard off its neck and back.
The leopard didn't linger. It took a bite, tearing open the skin and flesh of the dark brown mane's neck and back, and before the mane could fully twist back, it loosened its grip, landed, and disappeared into the shadows on the other side of the rocky slope.
The entire process takes no more than five seconds.
They come without a trace and go without a trace.
For the first time, stress was present in the scent of the dark brown mane.
This is the window for Chen Fei and others!
He pressed all the heat from his limbs into his fingertips, and every toe bone turned into burning charcoal.
The claws in the sheaths fully extend as the heat flows through them, plunging into the sandstone ground and borrowing the momentum for their initial movement from the ground.
His entire body was launched out!
Speed was the first complete release after the heat flow was fully activated, and Chen Fei felt an unprecedented sense of acceleration at the moment of starting.
It's not the gradual acceleration of human running; it's the explosive speed that takes only two steps to go from a standstill to full speed, like the instant a slingshot is released.
He arrived at the western front first.
They advanced nimbly on Mei Mei's flank, unaware that Chen Fei had turned around from the eastern front.
By the time it sensed the sudden increase in the concentration of Chen Fei's scent, Chen Fei was already on its right.
Activate the speed advantage by fully utilizing the heat flow from all four limbs, and firmly plant the right hind leg before smoothly completing the turn, while simultaneously shifting your weight onto the light right hind leg joint.
This position is not for biting, but for disrupting its center of gravity.
Without anticipating the direction of the attack, Qingqiao's right hind leg was subjected to a sudden lateral force, causing it to lose its balance and tilt half a body length to the right.
Meimei climbed up from the left.
By working together from both ends, they completely disrupted the lightweight center of gravity.
She stumbled four steps lightly on the rocky ground of the canyon, her back hitting the rocky slope, and she slid halfway down.
It caught Chen Fei's scent, turned its gaze away from Mei Mei, and faced Chen Fei directly for the first time.
Chen Fei stood in front of it, his limbs burning steadily with heat, and he dug his claws into the ground one toe bone after another without making a sound.
In that light scent, the stress level rose to the highest it had ever detected in Chen Fei that night within those three seconds.
It is being evaluated.
Chen Fei didn't give it much time to assess the situation. He took two steps forward, reducing the distance to five meters.
When his heat was burning at full power, the concentration and texture of his aura were completely different from usual, and completely different from that of an ordinary sub-adult male lion.
She took a step back deftly.
Chen Fei cleared a path on the right, which pointed directly towards the southern exit of the canyon and was the only route for a light-footed escape.
He lightly sniffed the scent in that direction, didn't linger for long, and walked in that direction. After taking three steps, he glanced back at Chen Fei, then sped up and disappeared into the shadows of the south exit.
The alliance between the two powers has completely collapsed!
After confirming the information on the western front, Chen Fei turned around.
On the eastern front, the dark brown mane is still there.
The stress caused by the leopard's back stabs has begun to subside in the scent of its dark brown mane.
It regained its footing. It had injuries to its neck and back, but they did not affect its movement. It turned its attention away from the lion king and scanned the depths of the valley again.
Chen flew to the eastern route.
The distance between him and the dark brown mane began to shrink from forty meters, as the heat flowed at full power.
The dark brown mane launched its charge from a distance of twenty meters.
The two lions collided head-on, and the impact Chen Fei felt far exceeded his expectations. The weight and energy advantage of the dark brown mane were clearly demonstrated in the head-on collision. Chen Fei was knocked back a step, and his right forepaw carved a deep mark on the sandstone ground.
But the heat flow sustained it.
He channeled all the heat from his limbs into his joints and muscles, transferring the impact from his bones to the ground, and he didn't fall.
The dark brown mane bit into Chen Fei's neck and back!
Chen Fei shifted his body slightly to the side, directing his bite from the back of his neck to the left side where the mane was thickest. The bite landed on the mane, absorbing most of the force. Chen Fei felt the pressure, but not the pain.
He concentrated the heat from his right forefoot and pressed it down onto the joint of his left forelimb, which was covered in dark brown fur.
The left forelimb of the dark brown mane underwent a lateral force under this pressure, and its knee joint made a slight clicking sound as its bite loosened slightly.
Chen Fei pulled his neck and back out of that looseness, changed position, cut in from the right side of the dark brown mane, used speed to regain his position, and disrupted the frontal angle of the dark brown mane.
The two lions circled in the canyon for about fifteen minutes.
The wound on the back of the neck of the dark brown mane began to bleed during the continuous movement.
The leopard chose its bite spot perfectly—not deep, but precisely on the muscle bundle on the back of its neck that most affected its head movement. Every time it attempted a large lateral bite, the pull of that muscle bundle slowed its movements down by half a beat.
Half a beat is everything in a fight of this level.
At this moment, Chen Fei's heat flowed entirely to the fingertips of his right forepaw, and his claws extended fully, slicing down across the right side of the dark brown mane's neck and back.
It wasn't a fatal depth, but it was deep enough for it to sense that the location had been locked.
The dark brown mane stopped.
The two lions stared at each other in the canyon, and the stress in their dark brown manes rose to the highest level Chen Fei had seen all night.
Chen Fei sighed inwardly.
He had to admit that unless it was a life-or-death struggle, he could not completely defeat the lion before him.
But if it's a life-or-death struggle, even if you win in the end, you will definitely be seriously injured.
It seems that the current energy point bonus can only make up for about two thousand points of combat power.
Its overall combat strength is higher than that of the opposing lion, but not by much.
But he has achieved both of his objectives.
Chen Fei moved aside on the right.
The direction is outside the valley entrance, the way we came, and the way we're leaving.
The dark brown mane sniffed in that direction, stood there for about five seconds, and then walked in that direction with steady steps and without lowering its head. When it reached the mouth of the valley, it paused for a moment, did not look back, and continued walking out, disappearing into the dawn meadow.
Chen Fei turned his gaze away from the valley entrance.
Then he did something he didn't want to admit he had done.
He went to find the Lion King.
He walked toward the rocky slope where the lion king was.
The lion was still alive, but its right hind leg had completely lost its ability to bear weight. It lay at the bottom of the rocky slope, bleeding from the bite wound on its neck and back. Its breathing was shallow, and the rise and fall of its ribs was getting smaller and smaller with each breath.
Chen Fei squatted down next to him.
The Lion King opened his eyes and looked in Chen Fei's direction.
Chen Fei didn't move or make any sound; he just squatted there.
Big Head walked over from the side, his left shoulder wound still bleeding.
It walked with a slight limp, walked to Chen Fei's side, sniffed the lion king's scent, and then sat down on Chen Fei's other side without making a sound.
[Host: Chen Fei]
[Identity: Sub-adult male lion]
[Energy Points: 710↑]
Sel led the stingy boy out from behind the rocky slope, walked to the Lion King's side, sniffed him, sat down on his other side, gently rested his head on him, and did not move.
The canyon fell silent, save for the sound of the lion king's breathing, each breath softer than the last.
Chen Fei stayed by his side and didn't leave.
The lion king's breathing grew shallower with each breath.
Chen Fei focused all his sense of smell on the Lion King's scent, tracking its concentration and texture.
Living animals have a scent that is hard to describe. It's not the smell of blood, nor the smell of sweat. It's a complex scent produced by cells during continuous metabolism, mixed with body temperature and respiration. It has a stable concentration and a fresh texture, like something that is always burning.
The mass on the lion's body is slowly thinning.
Chen Fei had seen death in his previous life, but it was always from a distance—in the news, on a hospital bed, in a disinfected white room—not in this way, where he could directly sense death through his nose and feel the breath gradually dissipate at his side.
He didn't move and continued to guard.
The Lion King opened his eyes, this time more slowly than before, as if he were calculating the weight of his eyelids to keep them open. Finally, he managed to open them and moved his gaze toward Chen Fei.
Chen Fei met that gaze.
He waited a second in that gaze, and what he thought wouldn't appear happened.
Accusation.
Before he came here, he had prepared himself for the accusation, for the painful and questioning gaze that would pin him to the spot.
But there was no accusation in that gaze.
It's a sense of relief.
It's not that kind of lighthearted relief of "everything is fine".
It's the kind of feeling where you unload everything after you've carried it all.
Like a beast that has carried a heavy load for too long, finally able to put down its burden, the look in its eyes is not one of relief, but of complete and clean release.
The Lion King's gaze lingered on Chen Fei's face for about five seconds before moving further away.
Move behind Chen Fei, and move in the direction where Sai'er and the stingy guy are.
They stayed there for a longer time.
Chen Fei sighed.
He achieved all his goals.
After the Lion King died, there were no more internal struggles.
With a significant increase in energy points, the two heroes will no longer be a threat.
Clearly, he killed two birds with one stone.
Yet, a sense of loneliness welled up inside me.
In those five seconds, the concentration of the Lion King's aura dropped a level, very smoothly, without any struggle, it just dropped one level.
Then her eyes slowly closed.