Chapter 893 - Fighting Back (1/2)

Before The Cataclysm, brown bears could already grow to a length of 2.8 meters. How terrifying was it now that they could grow up to 6 meters after The Cataclysm?

Most mattresses used by humans only measured 1.8 or 2 meters in length.

When these brown bears ran madly in anger and hunger, even the ground trembled.

After the brown bears evolved, they gained stronger muscles, internal organs, and even tougher bones. When one of the brown bears broke free from its cage, the barbarian who got crushed under its paw was like a baby in front of it.

That white smoke was produced by igniting an unknown material. While it enraged the brown bears, they did not break through the white smoke to attack the barbarians to the north. Instead, they quickly rushed in the southerly direction of the Pyro Company troops.

Just like back on Mt. Dashi, the barbarians were able to disperse schools of fish with a small bone fragment from an unknown creature. And now, the barbarians mastered a way to drive away bears. This northern tribe seemed like they only knew how to fight savagely, but they secretly had a unique trump card.

The Pyro Company troops kept pursuing north without stopping. They were still separated from the brown bears by thousands of barbarians who had been chased here from the forest.

However, when the barbarians heard the sound of heavy footfalls north of them, several dozen old barbarians took out goatskin pouches.

The goatskin pouches were meant for storing water. But when they opened the stopper and poured the contents on the ground, it was all blood!

This was the blood of brown bear cubs!

The barbarians had been plotting this for a long time. They first replaced their elites on the battlefield with the elderly barbarians and misled the Pyro Company troops into thinking the expeditionary army was close to defeat. Then they lured them north before releasing the brown bears that had been starving for days.

But this was still not enough. The barbarians took the brown bears’ cubs they had captured and killed them in front of their parents. This was to make the brown bears remember the scent of their cubs’ blood. After that, they quickly injected an anesthetic into them before they became completely enraged.

When the barbarians poured the brown bear cubs’ blood onto the ground, the Pyro Company troops behind them did not think too much about it. They simply believed the blood was from the barbarians.

When the Pyro Company troops stepped on the blood as they pursued the barbarians, their boots were stained with the scent of the blood.

The Pyro Company troops could already hear the sound of heavy footsteps approaching from in front. After the 6th Division’s P5 commander received this news, he immediately ordered his troops to be on the alert and slow down their pursuit.

He suddenly remembered P5092’s warning and thought to himself, ‘Could the barbarians really have laid an ambush for us?‘

For a moment, he felt a little regretful. Actually, he knew the 6th Division had already pursued too far. The five Pyro Company divisions had separated from one another.

But not everyone could remain calm and collected at all times like P5092, Zhang Jinglin, and Qing Zhen. Otherwise, there would be famous military leaders everywhere.

As the saying goes, time makes the man. Such heroes emerged among tens of millions of people. In the annals of history, others could only serve as these heroes’ foils, and some would not even qualify to serve as their foil.

A moment later, the Pyro Company soldiers farthest ahead could see the brown bears. When the brown bears caught a whiff of the scent of blood on the soldiers’ feet from a distance, they wholly ignored the barbarians running in front of them and rushed straight for the Pyro Company troops with a furious roar!

This made P5031 of the 6th Division wonder why the brown bears did not attack the barbarians but headed for them directly instead. Could the barbarians control the brown bears?

Normal humans were unable to differentiate between the scent of bear blood and human blood, nor could they guess at what the barbarians were trying to do. However, the scent of the cubs’ blood was like a constant stimulant to the brown bears’ nerves with every second that passed.

The Pyro Company troops did not bother with the fleeing barbarians anymore and focused their firepower on the brown bears instead.

However, even the heavy machine guns could only penetrate about 20 centimeters into the brown bears’ skin. At this stage, it could not even pierce through the fat layer of the bears!