Chapter 48: The Appearance of the Bear

  All that can be seen is a pile of pine cones in the tree hole, with some crushed fruit pulp mixed around the pine cones. The entire tree hole is cool and uninhabited by small animals.

  Wang Yang was stunned, there were so many pine cones here, it should be a certain nest, why wasn't there any animal inhabiting?

  Take out a pinecone, shake off the loose scales, and start peeling the pinecone.

  The pinecone is a brown fruit, with an outer shell consisting of hard scales that resemble a lotus flower bud or a miniature pineapple.

  Peel off the outer layer, and a hard shell thing about half the size of a thumb will appear. Then bite open this layer of shell to reveal the fruit inside.

  Wang Yang bit open one, threw it into his mouth, and sucked on it twice. He felt a bit bitter, but he was sure it wasn't bad.

  There's no reason for little animals who like nuts to abandon their food and go.

  And looking at these animals hoarding food, they should be of the squirrel kind.

  "It's strange, if squirrels live here, it's impossible that they wouldn't be seen for three days."

  Wang Yang furrowed his brow and suddenly thought of whether it was the big black bear that killed them.

  It's highly likely that the big black bear is very agile and intelligent, really wants to eat squirrels, and can actually catch them.

  "Whatever."

  Don't think so much, Wang Yang hastily picked up the pine nuts.

  Because of the considerable number of pine cones, he went on a trip to White Bone Forest, buried them well, and then came back.

  He walked and walked, unknowingly advancing tens of meters, deep into the center, where he could run into a large black bear at any moment.

  He walked even more slowly and carefully, observing his surroundings meticulously.

  In the central area, the trees in the forest are very dense and tall, with thick trunks that take a lot of time to cut down.

  Their jagged branches tore the sky above into countless fragments, and sunlight fell through the cracks, cold and clear, without a hint of warmth.

  Walking here, still no tree hole was found, nor any movement of bears was heard, very quiet.

  Wang Yang exhaled a mouthful of white air and rubbed his hands together before continuing deeper.

  He arrived at the last unknown place without any gains or dangers, the cliff on his right.

  The cliff on the right and the upper left are vastly different, its surface is extremely rugged, uneven, looking like an old man's face full of wrinkles.

  And every prominent point will be covered with white snow, just like an old man's white whiskers.

  On some steep cliffs, a few weeds grew tenaciously and were not knocked down by winter.

  Wang Yang took a look at the weeds and secretly kept an eye on them. The vines liked to twine around big trees to grow, and also liked to grow down from cliffs. Since there were weeds growing on this cliff, it was possible that after winter passed, some vines would grow out.

  He silently took note of it and then shifted his gaze around him.

  There are fewer trees here, but the height of the trees has not decreased, and the quality is still high despite the small quantity.

  The tall ones can be as high as ten meters, and the short ones are also three meters.

  A tree soon caught Wang Yang's eye.

  That tree is over four meters tall, all its leaves have fallen off, and its branches are bent down by the wind and snow.

  Looks like it's going to become a "willow tree" soon.

  Of course, what attracted Wang Yang was not because it looked too strange, but because Wang Yang recognized at a glance that this was a dead tree! A big dead tree!

  Before that, he had encountered almost all withered trees that could not compete with other opponents and died early, which were not tall, the tallest being only three meters.

  This tree has reached an astonishing four meters in height, towering above all else.

  And on the tree one meter above, there is a one-meter-wide entrance

  A one-meter diameter hole, the tree hollow inside is at least two meters wide, no need to say how big it is.

  It's hard to say exactly how many small animals live inside, but it won't be a small number.

  Wang Yang hid with a burst of anger and frustration.

  "This time we're going to make a big profit."

  He followed his usual method, setting traps in the vicinity and then lying in wait nearby.

  This wait is just one day.

  The next day, he waited another day.

  On the third day, he waited for another day.

  It was the fourth day and Wang Yang fell silent. Wouldn't it be another abandoned hollow tree? How come there were no signs of animals coming and going?

  He didn't plan on waiting any longer, so as to avoid wasting his time like last time.

  He emerged from behind the tree, Wang Yang stood on the snowy ground twenty meters away, holding a wooden spear in one hand and a bone spur in the other, lightly jumping up and down, shaking his head, warming up for a while, then suddenly stomped his foot on the ground.

  Just as he was about to exert his strength, a huge black shadow crawled out of the tree hole.

  That black shadow came very suddenly and quickly, in an instant it jumped to the front of the tree hole, its huge body blocking the tree hole.

  It is all black, with a stout body, thick and round limbs, very meaty, looking silly and cute.

  Wang Yang suddenly stopped in his tracks and looked up as soon as he saw the black shadow.

  That huge black shadow seemed to have not expected that it would encounter other creatures as soon as it came out, and stared blankly over.

  "Hmm..."

  The cold wind danced wildly, wreaking havoc on all living things, even causing the earth to tremble.

  The two of them didn't need to say anything, their eyes intersecting at this moment, like two flashes of lightning shooting out from their eyes, emitting a "sizzling" blue light.

  Wang Yang's eyes gleamed like lightning, his eyebrows furrowed sternly, and he let out a cold hum.

  "Big bear dog!"

  The black bear panted heavily, its face twisted for an instant, thinking secretly in its heart.

  "Little monkey!"

  The flames of war rose quietly at this moment, the atmosphere suddenly reached the critical point of a volcanic eruption, and two people met unexpectedly, a fierce battle was inevitable.

  Wang Yang's long hair fluttered in the wind, his eyes gleaming fiercely. Suddenly, he recalled that this scene was just like a narrow road encounter from a classic novel, where two swordsmen meet and the heroic protagonist, with a few elegant moves, lightly defeats his opponent. After winning, he nonchalantly says: "Ten years ago, I had already looked down on you, because I knew that I would eventually surpass you."

  He thought of this, picked up a big stone and threw it at the black bear, then turned around and ran away without looking back, crying: "No one told me that big dogs also live in tree holes!"

  The big black bear stretched out its paw, "slapped" the stone with ease, and threw it aside. It wanted to proudly roar a couple of times, but saw that the little monkey had no backbone and turned around to escape.

  It let out two loud roars and chased after him with large strides.

  The black bear ran very fast, much faster than Wang Yang. Wang Yang didn't even have time to look back and found the small tree he had been remembering, and in three or two steps, he rushed up.

  "Hmmph!"

  The sound of the black bear was right behind him, very close.

  Wang Yang climbed up about four meters, near the top of the small tree, where there were many branches. It was easy for him to climb up because he was small in stature, but a black bear would have some difficulty climbing up here.

  As expected, the black bear has started climbing up the tree, but it's not moving very fast. It climbs a bit and then has to push aside the branches above it.

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