"Ah!"
With a startled cry, Talihaal sat bolt upright on the wooden kang.
He looked around in panic. Everything was pitch-black. Only after resting a hand on his Type 56 rifle did he relax a little.
Another nightmare.
In the dream, he had once again seen that bear's head, which seemed bigger than a cooking pot, its jaws gaping as it lunged to bite him. Its mouth stank, and its yellow teeth were so sharp that they seemed capable of biting straight through his head!
He had been having nightmares on and off lately. To avoid disturbing his family's sleep, he had moved into the room at the very edge of the winter camp.
Sleeping alone with a rifle beside him helped him feel a little safer.
Talihaal blushed at his own cowardice, but honestly, he had been completely stunned when he saw that enormous brown bear. If it hadn't been in a hurry to chase those wolves, and if he hadn't had a gun, he would probably have been dead by now.
After encountering that enormous brown bear, Talihaal no longer wanted to be a hunter. Only then had he realized that he truly had no talent for it.
He had heard that Li Long had encountered a brown bear sleeping in a cave and had even managed to lure it out and shoot it dead. And him? The bear had been right before his eyes, yet he hadn't even had the courage to fire.
Of course, he didn't know that the brown bear Li Long had encountered might not have weighed even half as much as this one.
This brown bear had simply been too big. When it stood up, Talihaal felt he barely reached halfway up its body, and his entire body wasn't as thick as its