Eyeball Fruit and Pearl-Mixing Fish

Let it be emphasized again: Xiliu was a professional assassin!

When Owl and Sa failed to pursue him according to his plan, he realized something was wrong. Something must have gone awry.

From the fact that Owl and Sa had headed toward the spot where he had just bandaged his wound, it was clear that they had not intended to spare him, at least not until just now. They were obviously locked in a fight to the death—how could they possibly let him leave alive?

Putting himself in their shoes, if he held an absolute advantage, he would not have spared Owl and Sa either. He might even have done something crueller and more vicious.

Then why had they not chased after him?

Suddenly, Xiliu thought of one possibility: they knew there was a Monster Bear ahead of him.

Thinking more carefully, he realized there had been something odd about their earlier ambush. It was as though they had known for certain that he and Klein would pass through there. At first, he had thought they had deliberately left footprints to lure them over.

But upon reconsideration, perhaps the footprints had not been deliberately left behind, because that had not been where they ended. And according to the image in his memory, he discovered there had been two rows of footprints in that patch of ground.

"Are those two little brats even human? How could a person possibly..."

Gradually, he thought of a possibility—but it was far too unbelievable, utterly impossible, unless they were not human.

At that moment, the ground began to tremble. He turned and hid behind a tree. The vibrations grew closer and closer, and then he slowly adjusted his position, hoping to fool the Monster Bear.

He had begun avoiding the Monster Bear before he even