Chapter 12 Man-eating Black Bear
Zhou Chen gently raised his right hand, and at this moment a faint gust of strong wind appeared in his hand. The range of this strong wind was very small and only appeared within the range of his five fingers.

As an ordinary person, Leng Yiyao naturally couldn't notice it. Then Zhou Chen looked out the window and saw a big tree outside the yard. Zhou Chen's mind moved and the strong wind in his palm instantly turned into a wind blade.

Zhou Chen just moved his right hand lightly and the wind blade flew directly out of the window, and a branch as thick as an arm was directly cut off by the wind blade.

The sound of branches falling to the ground startled Leng Yiyao and asked, “What happened?” and was about to go out to check. Zhou Chen quickly stopped him and said, “It’s okay, no need to go out.”

Although he was confused, since Zhou Chen said everything was fine, he had no intention of going out to check.

That night, Zhou Chen, who was sleeping soundly, heard a bear roar, and then heard someone howling. However, he did not pay any attention to this matter and continued to sleep.

It was not until early the next morning that he heard about what happened last night. It turned out that a black bear had sneaked into the village last night, broke into a house and took away their six-year-old child as food.

At this time, several hunters in the village, except the injured Li Ergou, were preparing to go up the mountain to hunt bears and rescue the child.

"Brother Chen, aren't you going?"
Zhou Chen asked back, "Do you think the child has a high chance of being alive after a night? Besides, there are enough people like Hunter Bear, and one more person won't make much difference."

Incidents of bears entering villages and eating children have happened before. Generally speaking, they will eat the children soon after taking them away, and the chances of the children being alive are almost zero.

So the four hunters took food and bows and arrows and went up the mountain. They did not come back until the evening. However, there were four people when they went up, but only three were left when they came back, and all three of them were injured.

After the three men came back, they warned the villagers to lock their doors and windows at night. This black bear was not an ordinary wild beast and ordinary people had no way to deal with it.

Zhou Chen, who had reached the ninth level of martial arts, was naturally not afraid of a bear, but he still reinforced the gate of the courtyard. Before going to bed at night, he moved some heavy objects to block the gate, and also found a thick branch to prop up the door of the room.

Soon it was getting dark. After an unknown amount of time in the night, Zhou Chen heard the screams of the villagers again. He originally wanted to go out to check, but he held back because he was afraid that Leng Yiyao might have an accident.

At this time, there was a knock on Zhou Chen's door, "Is Brother Chen asleep?"
Zhou Chen opened the door and Leng Yiyao asked, "Brother Chen, I'm scared. Can I stay in your room tonight?"
"Okay, come in quickly." Then Zhou Chen let Leng Yiyao lie on the bed to rest, and he sat beside the bed and looked at him, "Go to sleep, I'll be right next to you, it's okay."

Leng Yiyao hummed and closed her eyes. She soon fell asleep. Seeing Leng Yiyao sleeping soundly, Zhou Chen couldn't help but go up and kiss her. Just when he was about to touch Leng Yiyao's forehead, he suddenly noticed a dark shadow outside the window.

Zhou Chen was startled and then quickly adjusted his mentality. His right hand was placed on the hilt of the knife. Zhou Chen had a habit of putting amber where he could easily reach it when he slept.

Just as he touched the handle of the knife, he suddenly looked up. Although the window paper was not as transparent as the glass in his previous life, he could vaguely see a bear head crawling on the window through the moonlight, and Zhou Chen saw that there was obviously a hole in the window paper.

Through the hole, Zhou Chen saw an eye. It was a bear's eye. If it were anyone else, they would probably faint from fright. However, Zhou Chen was different because he had experience in killing bears.

Amber immediately left his body and slashed at the window diagonally. The force of the knife was so strong that the window was split into pieces, and even a transparent hole appeared on the wall. At the same time, the black bear outside the house also let out a scream.

Leng Yiyao was also awakened by the bear's roar at this moment. Zhou Chen did not go to look at him but instead held the knife in one hand and pulled Leng Yiyao off the bed with the other hand and blocked him behind him. "Yiyao, don't be afraid, I'm here. Just watch how I kill him."

Blood was dripping from the black bear's face. Although he dodged in time, he was still scratched. At this moment, his eyes were red as he looked at Zhou Chen, and his eyes seemed to want to skin Zhou Chen alive. As a ninth-rank warrior, Zhou Chen would not be afraid of this black-haired beast, but this black bear gave him a stronger aura than the previous black bear.

The black bear roared and pounced towards Zhou Chen. Leng Yiyao behind him nervously grabbed Zhou Chen's arm, "Yiyao, let go." Then he took a step forward without any fear. As a result, he forgot where he was and ended up collapsing the bed with one foot.

But now is not the time to worry about this. Seeing that the black bear was about to pounce on him, Zhou Chen changed to holding the knife with both hands and swung it fiercely. The black bear also slapped the amber blade.

In an instant, Zhou Chen felt the huge force coming from the long sword, but the black bear's strength was not enough to change the trajectory of his sword. Zhou Chen gritted his teeth and continued to chop forward.

Only then did the black bear notice that Zhou Chen was not one of those ordinary villagers, but it was too late. The amber directly penetrated into the black bear's body.

What surprised Zhou Chen was that his sword did not cut the black bear in two. Logically, with his current strength, he could easily cut even a black bear in two.

At this time, the black bear let out a shrill scream, "Yi Yao, step back quickly." Zhou Chen stepped on the black bear and then used both hands to pull out the long knife.

In an instant, a large amount of blood spurted out of the black bear's abdomen. After retreating a few steps, Zhou Chen gathered his strength again and cut off the black bear's head with a knife. From then on, the black bear fell down completely.

Then the black bear's demon pattern also flew into Zhou Chen's body. Looking at the room at this time, his bed and the wall next to the bed were already in ruins due to the previous battle.

Leng Yiyao also came behind Zhou Chen and hugged her. Zhou Chen held Leng Yiyao's outstretched hands and comforted her, "It's okay."

Because of what happened just now, the two of them were no longer sleepy. They sat by the fireplace all night, and Leng Yiyao also leaned on his shoulder all night.

Leng Yiyao finally fell asleep at dawn the next day. Only then did he open the equipment panel, "Bear Pattern (Ninth-grade excellent strength plus 8 on the left arm)".

"It's not ordinary, no wonder it's so hard to kill." Zhou Chen then removed his deer pattern, and then a white light flashed, "Congratulations on obtaining the bear pattern (excellent strength on the left arm +9)."

Looking at the prompt in front of him, he thought to himself, "Sure enough, my luck isn't always that good." He then put on the new bear pattern, and his strength now reached 78 (54+24).

The villagers only came out to move around after it was completely light. Several families close to Zhou Chen's home also heard something strange here last night, but they were afraid and did not come out to check. They only came to check after daybreak.

Since the outer wall was not very high, a normal person could see inside by just standing on tiptoe. In addition, there were traces of a bear crawling on the wall, so the villagers quickly determined that Zhou Chen's family had been attacked by a black bear last night.

As everyone looked towards the yard, they suddenly screamed, "Oh my God, the black bear was killed." Zhou Chen did not clean up the black bear's body last night, so it was normal for the villagers to be shocked when they saw it.

At this time, someone shouted, "Brother Chen, are you okay?" Leng Yiyao, who had just fallen asleep, was awakened by the shouting. Zhou Chen patted his shoulder and said, "Okay, it's dawn, go back to your room and rest first."

(End of this chapter)