The cheetah licked its lips, shot Jella a look as if she were an idiot, then turned its head and went back to dozing.
Jella froze slightly. Something was wrong with this plot. Just now, she had clearly scared off so many animals with the necklace without even getting close.
Why was there no reaction at all now?
After turning it over in her mind, she raised the necklace and poked it forward again.
"Maybe I didn't use enough strength."
She adjusted the pendant's angle, aimed its sharpest point at the cheetah, and viciously jabbed it over.
Awooo!!
The cheetah sprang to its feet, every hair standing on end. As though it had seen a ghost, it spun around and fled.
Jella let out a slight sigh of relief. So it still worked! She turned to look at the three people behind her.
"Hey, hurry over! I chased the cheetah away over here!"
Jack and the others all breathed sighs of relief. That moment just now had truly left them on tenterhooks, terrified that Jella might accidentally be torn apart alive by the cheetah. But now, it seemed the outcome was not bad.
The three hurriedly got up and continued on their way, not daring to delay for even a moment.
They had not gone far when rustling sounds came from the bushes behind them.
Large swathes of dark green brush were pushed apart from both sides, and a somewhat familiar man stepped out from the middle.
The man carried a broken axe in his hand. Only a short piece of the axe remained in his grip, making it look much like a sharpened wooden stick.
"Those people are still here?" Lu Sheng swept his gaze around, paused at the place where the four had stayed, then finally looked toward