Chapter 2044 — Now This Is a Tragedy
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Could a lion really tell who was the stronger? And besides, Wei Zhao had not even traded a single blow with the lion after getting out of the car—so on what grounds would the lion fear him? It made no sense at all.
"You... you played dirty!" Zhang Duopan's tears were nearly spilling from the pain, but he knew that if he wept now, He Meiyue would certainly look down on him. So he fought down the agony and accused them: "Did you do that on purpose?"
"On purpose? Are you brain-dead? I warned you plainly enough—it's Arrowbrand the lion's afraid of. If you didn't believe me, you were welcome to stand there and get yourselves killed. But you wouldn't believe me, so whose fault is that?" Shen Yushu said, all innocence.
"You..." Zhang Duopan wanted to say more, but on reflection, what Shen Yushu said was true enough—it really had been he and Fan Ganhe who refused to believe.
Yet the more carefully Zhang Duopan thought it over, the more something felt off. Why would the lion fear Wei Zhao? That hardly seemed possible. A lion was not a man—how could it fear a mere tourist? And it was not even scientific.
So Zhang Duopan's mind raced on. It was probably not that the lion feared Wei Zhao, but that Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu had somehow grasped its pattern of behavior. Yes—that had to be it!
Earlier, they had been provoking the lion all along. But since that lion was the Lion King, it surely had its limits. Perhaps it had simply not deigned to take their earlier provocations seriously, disdaining to stoop to the level of Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu.
And then, as everyone joined in tormenting and offending it, the lion had been provoked past a certain point. Even a Lion King could endure only so much—and at last it had exploded.
But before it exploded, Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu must have noticed something, and so they had gotten into the vehicle first, then deliberately said things like the lion being afraid of Wei Zhao. As a result, he and Fan Ganhe had failed to catch on in time and suffered for it!
That had to be it! Otherwise, why would the lion have taken only a single chunk of flesh from each of them? If it had wanted to kill them outright, that would have taken a matter of seconds—but the Lion King had not done so, which proved that it was a proud beast, with no wish to lower itself to quarrel with creatures as harmless as they were. Only when pushed to the limit had it bitten out to give them a good scare.
At this thought, Zhang Duopan felt he too had grasped the pattern. Unwilling to be the only one to suffer, he said to Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu: "Didn't you say the lion's afraid of Wei Zhao? I dare you—why don't you get out of the car now and try it?"
"And why should we get out? You tell us to get out and we get out? Getting in and out of the car is exhausting!" Shen Yushu said scornfully.
"Ha, you're scared now, aren't you? The lion's on the rampage now, and of course you're too scared to get out!" Fan Ganhe jeered. "Didn't you say Wang Xinyan likes brave men? Wei Zhao, if you dare get out of the car right now, then I'll admit you're a brave man!"