Traveling Together

A few minutes later, Zhang Tie, wearing a satisfied smile, hoisted the heavy repeating crossbow onto one shoulder with one hand and sauntered back to where he had seen the boys.

At that moment, Zhang Tie felt like a gourmand encountering a rare delicacy, like a whoremonger meeting the top courtesan—he was so happy he almost wanted to sing.

This time, the harvest had been good. All twenty-eight Iron-Fanged Hyenas had been killed without a single one escaping. Adding those he had killed yesterday and this morning, another Iron-Fanged Hyena Seven-Power Fruit on the Little Tree would ripen. At the thought of eating another Seven-Power Fruit tonight, Zhang Tie felt as refreshed as if he had soaked in an icy spring on a scorching summer day.

He had indeed come to the Ice and Snow Wilderness at the right time. He had only been here for three days, yet his second Seven-Power Fruit was already about to go down his throat.

Because he was in such high spirits, the smile on Zhang Tie's face looked exceedingly strange in the boys' eyes. When they saw him walking back toward them, they all watched him nervously. They had not relaxed their guard just because he had killed those Iron-Fanged Hyenas and rescued them.

This was the wilderness of the Ice and Snow Wilderness. When a strange man suddenly appeared out of nowhere, every one of the boys felt uneasy. Since that man could slaughter twenty or thirty Iron-Fanged Hyenas in the blink of an eye with the terrifying weapon in his hands, killing the few of them would be no difficult task either.

Who knew whether this man was friend or foe?

As Zhang Tie approached, one look at the expressions on the boys' faces told him roughly what they were thinking.