A dark little guy shook his head. I don’t know if it has never seen humans or it is too well protected, but it is not afraid of people at all. It is a little smaller than an elementary school student, and it makes a sound like a kitten, which is so cute that it makes Xiao Ai smile.

Just like finding a familiar puppy, Xiao Ai squatted in front of it.

“It’s so cute.”

Miss Winnet pouted.

Even bears have to be a little jealous.

uh-huh!

“ordinary.”

Winnett commented stubbornly. However, she was not worried that the little bear would attack Ai. As early as when she was a child, she had learned about various animals when she drew pictures of animals in Deuteronomy; when the season came, she loved to run into the woods and find some wild strawberries to eat. She got along well with wild animals and even dug out a beehive.

Although it was still okay in its cub form, it wouldn’t be cute when it grew up a bit, she thought.

Judging from its fur color, it is a black bear, which is a species of bear.

It is small in size and its staple food is plant leaves, buds, fruits, seeds, etc. It usually does not attack humans unless someone is neurotic and actively provokes it.

But Winnett was not sure because this was a hunting area. Once a bear was attacked by a human once, it would regard humans as predators and would become alert and attack.

“Well, you’re cute too! But we’d better be careful because its mother should be not far away.”

Winnet felt that the little bear was a little more pleasing to the eye.

“Then it’s very likely that Yuantai will be encountered. We have to speed up.”

If Yuan Tai really went to the hunting area, he might not only encounter bears, but also humans with hunting rifles. If he moved around in the bushes like the little bear just now, he might irritate the nervous hunters and be shot.

At this moment, as if to confirm her guess, the sound of a shotgun firing rang through the forest. The black bear reacted earlier than them, running on all fours, still as agile as a puppy.

“No, you can’t go there.”

Xiao Ai is worried about the little bear’s safety and wants to chase after him.

Winnet frowned, and took action to comfort Xiao Ai. She flashed like a shadow, and with a speed and lightness that Xiao Ai did not react to, she grabbed the fur on the back of the bear’s neck. Seeing this, Xiao Ai also slowed down her pace, but her worry did not stop.

She and Winnet noticed the dark shadow in the distance at the same time. With the change of the sky, the visibility in the forest has become lower. Although there is still a faint orange-red scenery nearby, the shade of the trees in the distance is not clear. Not to mention Winnet, even Xiao Ai herself can’t see clearly.

However, the bullets were coming this way.

The pine trees not far away sprayed sawdust.

The moment he shot, Winnett realized that the man was not aiming at them. The key was the location of the tree. Compared to the denser pine trees closer to them, he chose to shoot a tree slightly away from them in a relatively open area. She judged that there were only two possibilities: too good shooting skills or too bad shooting skills. If it was a hunter, it must be the former. Moreover, it was more likely to warn them than to attack them.

She controlled the little bear and did not call out to Xiao Ai loudly. She saw Xiao Ai move slightly forward.

Then, she heard Xiaoai’s surprised cry.

Although it was faint, it was tinged with the scent of fear.

……

524 The Fallen Angel’s Pursuer

Winnet was afraid that something might happen to Ai, so she immediately ran to her side and pulled her behind a tree.

The thick pine wood is impenetrable to shotguns and makes a good cover.

After the body reacted, Winnett noticed that Xiao Ai’s expression was not right, as if she had seen something terrible. Xiao Ai grabbed her hand and leaned slightly behind the pine tree. Winnett followed her line of sight and saw a man with a gunshot wound in the abdomen lying on the ground. His clothes were soaked with dark red blood. As for the location of the wound, it was not clear. She only knew that he should have died from the gunshot just now.

Die quickly.

After seeing his body, doubts filled Winnet’s mind. Did he fire a warning shot to prevent them from finding him? Winnet did not risk subduing him. When Xiao Ai calmed down a little, she thought to herself:

“Ai should have seen his face. If he wanted to silence them, he should have waited until they were within range before shooting. However, given the current situation, it’s hard to figure out his purpose.”

However, Xiao Ai pulled her and started moving.

“He must have targeted us. He thought we saw him kill someone, so he wanted to kill us to silence us!”

She didn’t give Winnet a chance to speak, and pulled her away from his shooting range. Afterwards, there was no follow-up gunfire. On the contrary, in her perception, he did not move.

They stopped behind a tree only when Ai started to breathe heavily.

Winnet looked at Xiao Ai with a smile:

“You are so worried about my safety! Don’t worry, I am confident that I will not be shot.”

Ai calmed down and pinched Winnet’s leg. “Silly, why are you trying so hard? Even if you are, you can’t avoid the gun from such a long distance.” She turned her head to look out from time to time, looking anxious. Finally, she relaxed a little after confirming that the hunter didn’t catch up. Winnet felt great to be protected by Ai, so she didn’t say anything to show off her strength.

In fact, let alone in an environment with many shelters like the forest, as long as there is an open space without any shelter and a gun other than a shotgun, she has a considerable degree of confidence. Her abnormally fast reaction and perception allow her to accurately judge the trajectory and take evasive measures. However, Xiao Ai has never performed a mission with her, so it is normal that she is not clear about her true strength. At the same time, it is also a happy thing to be stopped by the person you like. She could not understand this kind of happiness before, because it was too thin compared to the pleasure between life and death. She said:

“Maybe he didn’t mean to shoot us.”

“How is that possible?” Xiao Ai said, “He hit the tree next to us.”

She hugged the bear and said:

“He neither continued to shoot nor pursued us. In fact, there is another possibility.”

“Just tell me now and don’t keep us in suspense!” Xiao Ai urged.

Winnett felt that the little bear did not run in that direction just because it heard the gunshots. Although it was still a cub, it would not actively look for the direction of the gunshots. Even the roe deer just looked back at most. There was something else that attracted the little bear, and bears have an extremely sensitive sense of smell.

So Winnett concluded that it had discovered her mother’s traces, and said:

“At the time, the little fellow’s mother might have been nearby besides us. Maybe the hunter was warning us not to get close.”

After hearing this, Xiao Ai thought calmly and nodded.

“If it’s like what you said, then he just fired a gun to let us leave and stayed to deal with the bear himself. Isn’t he still a good person?” Xiao Ai looked at her with strange eyes.

“I didn’t say that!” Winette smiled. “Anyway, he killed someone; it was so muddleheaded.”

“You say it too easily!” Xiao Ai said, and at the same time she remembered that Winnet was the most vicious and evil murderer, and she couldn’t help feeling depressed.

However, Winnet said with her usual gentle smile:

“Yeah, I’m starting to get scared.”

Xiao Ai’s body trembled. For some reason, she suddenly felt like crying. Even when she was in despair before, she never thought of using crying to commemorate her fate. She still remembered that the woman she was holding had no universal sense of right and wrong, and would not feel guilty about killing people. She seemed greedy but actually had no interest in anything, and put herself in danger crazily; in order to find the pleasure of fear between life and death, even such fear, she never called it fear. Because it was just the influence of body hormones, not the state of mind. Although she was still skeptical about Winnet’s words, she smiled and said:

“Hold my hand, and let us go with fear in our hearts to the gate that leads to destruction.”

Then, she saw Winnet’s tangled expression. That was the rejection in the bones of a theological student, who believed that one should go to the narrow gate, cross the suffering, and walk the thorny road. Xiao Ai liked to see her such a human expression, so she just smiled and let the topic stay here for a while. She secretly hoped that one day: every expression of Winnet would be deeply from the heart.

“You must not abandon me.”

At this time, she turned around and squatted, unpacking her small backpack. There were spare tracking glasses inside. After what happened before, she was also prepared for emergencies. Although Dr. Agasa said that he would equip her with a detective armband, it has not been manufactured yet. She looked at the transmitter in the armband through her glasses. The red dot was still in the middle area, so she said:

“It seems that we have missed Kojima-san perfectly.”

Because they gathered together, they obviously stopped searching for Yuantai, thinking it was natural that the person had been found.

Then, Winnett looked at Xiao Ai’s back in a daze. She thought she was going to bring the murderer to justice. Then, Xiao Ai turned around and looked at her:

“I guess you’re wondering why I’m just ignoring this, right?”

Seeing Xiao Ai’s playful smile, Winnet nodded.

“I’m not a righteous partner, but a pursuer of fallen angels. Let us hide in the dark shadows and hide the traces of sin in the dark night. What do you think? I have a talent for acting.” Xiao Ai smiled playfully, and then returned to a deep expression. “Besides, the corpse I saw had a gun in his hand. He must have been aiming at something… After you reminded me of this, I thought of it – it was the child’s mother. Do you know how to lure the mother bear to appear?”

“what way?”

“Use her baby. Whether it’s blood or honey, it’s all random experimentation, but there is one way that will definitely make it show up. A mother bear who has lost her baby will look for it everywhere, and bears have a keen sense of smell, especially for familiar creatures. However, using the baby as bait is not enough, because the mother bear will be alert. However, killing the baby is a different story.”

“Ah, that’s right. The dead cubs will make the mother bear so angry that she loses her mind. That’s when the cruel hunter will smile.” Xiao Ai’s expression was gloomy. “Although I’m not an extreme egalitarian of life, I won’t mourn the death of such a person. The reason I think so is because I saw the footprints of an adult bear on the way I escaped just now.”

“But it’s just a guess. Killing humans for a bear is a little too far-fetched, isn’t it?”

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525 Return and Departure

Winnet didn’t know there was such a method. She didn’t care about other people’s thoughts, but the world of fame and fortune in the mountains still surprised her.

Hunters will do anything to become famous.

No wonder those pioneers at the forefront of enlightenment always look dejected. It must be difficult for them to create a pure land in this secular world and sow lilies in the fields of heaven. She followed Xiao Ai quietly, letting her pull her, but halfway through, she was given a look of “trouble”.

Xiao Ai looked back at Winnett and said:

“You can even look for traces of Kojima-san, yet you still need me to hold your hand to move?… You’re so clingy.” She said this without any disdain.

Winnet was very pleased with this.

“Did your sister give you some kind of love potion again?” Xiao Ai said again, “She is always interested in this topic, especially when it comes to other people.”

Winnet added in a gentle voice:

“It’s not someone else. It’s you.”

“Okay, me.”

“But it’s not that Mingmei wants me to do this. I feel very relieved, and you’re very reliable, Ai-chan. You worry about me and analyze the situation calmly. And, in the end,… it’s because we’ve been together for a short time.”

“It also depends on the time.” Xiao Ai said.

She had no intention of resisting, she was just telling the truth. Obviously, this was not the right time to talk about love.

“If there is any problem, I will protect you.” Winnet said puzzledly.

Xiao Ai smiled helplessly.

It seemed that whenever there was a chance, Winnet would cling to her like some kind of fanatical nerd. Well, this feeling wasn’t bad, because she was also a science nerd.

Besides, she was quite sensible and at least she wouldn’t disturb her when she was doing research.

Xiao Ai was upset about the little bear that Winnet was carrying, and said:

“How should we deal with it?”

The little bear let out a howl, as if responding to Ai’s caress, making a sound that seemed to be comfortable.

“It’s coming. It looks like you chose the correct answer, Ai.” Winnet said.

At the same time, the ground vibrated like a hum.

A huge creature is approaching.

Before Ai could react to what Winnett said, a huge, upright creature emerged from the bushes behind him.

“Don’t be afraid!” Winnet protected Xiao Ai behind her.

“Bear……”

“Well, it’s very angry. It seems that the hunter did use inappropriate methods.”

The upright bear in front of her was more than two and a half meters long, and was a fairly large individual of the same species. Winnett saw that it had scars on its face and its right eye was blind. These were traces of gunshot wounds, but they had been there for a long time. This was why it was fully alert and aggressive towards humans. Winnett protected Xiao Ai behind her, gently placed the bear on the ground, and then backed away slowly with her right arm blocking Xiao Ai. She originally thought that it would come forward and attack without explanation, but this mother bear did not show its brutal side.

It held the little bear up, and the little bear made happy noises and rubbed against it.

“It seems that it also has good intentions towards humans, what do you think?”

Xiao Ai looked at this tender scene and a smile appeared on her lips.

“Yeah. It gave up very easily. I didn’t even start to retreat. It seems that it is very intelligent and understands humans.”