Trembling At A High Altitude

Liu Hui entered a reckless state under the influence of the Angry Halo.

However, she was not as strong as she had imagined.

She was still far from Li Teng's level.

By the time she faced the fourth and fifth zombies, she was starting to panic and was running out of stamina.

Fortunately, Li Teng always showed up at the critical moments, helping her out of immediate trouble as well as potential dangers.

The two of them blasted their way through the zombie-infested mountain trail in one go.

Leaving a trail of corpses behind, they both collapsed from exhaustion in the snow.

"Am I very weak? Could that coward have made it out with you?" Liu Hui challenged Li Teng, gasping for breath.

"Her physical stamina is no worse than yours now, but to be fair, you fight better than she does," Li Teng gave Liu Hui a relatively fair assessment.

"Hmph!" At this moment, Liu Hui finally felt more balanced in her heart, just like when she had received her father's approval.

"You're an older sister, why are you always comparing yourself to your younger sister? Aren't sisters supposed to be cherished?" Li Teng sat up, looking at Liu Hui with some puzzlement. "Besides, Little Bunny is so cute and adorable."

"Don't even start. You, a grown man, have never given in to a girl either, always nitpicking about every little thing and word, and you still have the nerve to criticize me?" Liu Hui immediately retorted.

"It depends on who it is. I've never been picky with your sister. From the moment we met, she treated me to a big meal, and because of that meal, I've always looked after her. If it weren't for this incident, we probably wouldn't have parted so soon," Li Teng sighed.

"Did you and she... do it?" Liu Hui finally began to show concern for her sister.

"Do what?" Li Teng was confused.

"You know, got together, what else?" Liu Hui gave Li Teng a sideways glance.

"No, I'm a responsible man. I wouldn't do that with her until I can provide a woman with a secure and stable life," Li Teng shook his head.

"Has she fallen for you?" Liu Hui continued to probe. It wouldn't be strange if her sister was charmed by Li Teng, if he wasn't just acting tough and really was as outstanding as he seemed.

In her eyes, she never considered her sister Liu Yin to be smart. She thought of Liu Yin as both naive and foolish, doomed to be eventually conned by some scumbag, leaving nothing left of her.

Not to mention, like her, she had been thrown into the perilous world of Film and Television City.

"I don't know. She just hides in my embrace seeking protection when she's scared," Li Teng recalled the warm moment in Time Prison.

"Hmph! She's always playing the victim," Liu Hui recalled the few times she was with her sister. Every time she ended up beating Liu Yin, who would then run to their parents with a bruised face to tattle, hiding in their arms and playing the victim.

And each time, she would be scolded by their parents.

"Women are women. Don't be too assertive or too aggressive, or you won't be loved," Li Teng pinpointed Liu Hui's issue.

"Why do I need to be loved by someone else? Loving myself is enough," Liu Hui stood up and walked towards the snowy field ahead.

Li Teng followed.

...

Although the blizzard hadn't moved in yet, the wind was getting stronger.

The two of them trudged forward sideways against the wind, which blew from the side in gusts, pushing against them forcefully.

And with some areas of the ground being very slippery, a moment of inattention could send them toppling over.

Even resulting in Liu Hui taking a nasty fall face first.

"Clumsy to death!" Li Teng didn't miss any opportunity to tease her as he helped her up.

Liu Hui's teeth hurt with anger.

After walking several hundred meters, they arrived at the site of the previous explosion.

At the edge of the forest.

A crater had been blasted into the ground, and although it had been partially filled in by the wind and snow, some traces were still visible.

There was blood on the ground, drag marks, and what appeared to be the hoof prints of a wild beast.

The drag marks led into the forest, which was exactly the direction Li Teng and his companion intended to go.

"Could it be a bear?" Liu Hui, who often followed her father hunting when she was seven or eight years old, was still quite familiar with the shapes of animal tracks.

"Are you sure?" Li Teng, on the other hand, didn't have much experience in this area.

"It looks like it, probably a very large bear," Liu Hui said, frowning in the direction of the forest.

After a more careful inspection of the site, Liu Hui almost understood what had happened here.

It must have been one of the people who had escaped from the outpost who encountered a black bear attack here. He didn't have a gun, and only carried a grenade. In desperation, he tried to use the grenade to blow up the black bear, but evidently, he had not succeeded.

In the end, he became prey under the bear's claws and was dragged into the woods.

If the two of them entered the forest ahead, they were also very likely to encounter this black bear.

But this forest was the only way they had to go.

On both sides were continuous snow-capped mountains, impossible to climb without tools.

"That director surnamed Yuan is too ruthless! He actually released a black bear here!" Liu Hui couldn't help but curse.

Even if Li Teng was extremely tough, there were limits to what a human could do.

The limit of humans is that no matter how strong a man is, he cannot win against a grown black bear. If he got injured by the bear in a fight, even if he escaped by luck, the wounds could be fatal.

And it's still hiding in the forest, you never know when it will appear and launch an attack.

By the time you notice it, it's usually too late to escape from its jaws.

"What should we do?" Liu Hui asked Li Teng.

Going back now, they could only hide in that outpost with no supplies.

Going forward, the black bear in the small forest could claim their lives at any moment.

Standing still, they would just wait to be frozen to death by the coming blizzard.

"To the east, where the wind is coming from, about five hundred meters away, the camp is marked on the map as a high-risk area with a presence of zombies," Li Teng said as he took out the map and, backing against the wind, unfolded it to show Liu Hui.

"Okay, and what's that got to do with this bear-hiding forest in front of us?" Liu Hui didn't quite understand.

Li Teng looked around.

"See that rock over there? Hide behind it for a while; I'll be back in about half an hour. If I'm not back in half an hour, you find your way back to that outpost we just left," Li Teng said to Liu Hui, glancing at the overcast eastern sky.

"You're going to the zombie-infested area in the east? What for?" Liu Hui was utterly puzzled.

"You'll find out soon enough." Li Teng didn't say anything more and ran against the wind toward the east.

"Can you even run that fast in the snow?" Liu Hui was shocked once again.

After Li Teng had run off, she had no other choice but to head to the back of that rock, taking shelter from the increasingly fierce wind and snow.

When she got to the side of the rock, Liu Hui looked eastward again.

The figure of Li Teng had disappeared into the snowstorm.

What on earth does he intend to do?

This strong and mysterious man made her more and more curious.