Chapter 54
After treating Qin Ye’s wound, Shen Jinfeng stood up from the ground and looked toward the pack of wolves lying crookedly all over the place not far away.
“How do you want to deal with this pack of wolves?” he asked the others.
Mo Fan and the others froze for a moment and looked at one another.
Shen Jinfeng beckoned to them, his tone light but full of temptation. “Don’t you want revenge?”
How were they supposed to take revenge?
He Erwang, who had just boasted shamelessly that he definitely wanted revenge, was pushed out by the others. “You go first. Give us a demonstration.”
He Erwang scratched his purple hair and did not decline. He walked straight over to one of the wolves.
He was still holding a knife in his hand, and he deliberately raised it high in the air with a fierce expression. But the knife paused in midair. He wanted to stab down, yet no matter what, he could not do it.
He tried several times, but the moment he lowered his eyes and saw the wolf lying on the ground with its eyes closed, looking completely harmless—
This was also a living, breathing life. It was not exactly sympathy, but he had never even killed a chicken before. He truly could not bring the knife down.
He smiled awkwardly and asked Shen Jinfeng at the side for psychological comfort. “Boss, say something?”
Shen Jinfeng did not understand. “What should I say?”
He Erwang said, “Boss, encourage me a little. Then I’ll slaughter this wolf on the ground with one stab.”
Shen Jinfeng: “…”
Goddamn needing encouragement for that.
He was silent for two seconds. “Then let’s go back.”
He Erwang’s eyes widened into perfectly round circles. QAQ.
No, that was too cowardly.
Behind him, Qi Xiu could not help laughing at him. “He Erwang, Wang-ge, what are you dawdling around there for? If you don’t dare, just come back.”
He Erwang gritted his teeth and asked Shen Jinfeng with imposing momentum, “Boss, will they wake up if they hurt?”
Shen Jinfeng shook his head and replied with certainty, “No.”
Within one hour, they definitely would not wake up.
He Erwang seemed reassured. He began doing little jumps on the spot, rotating his ankles and loosening his muscles.
After a long while, he was finally ready.
He used his “primordial” strength and kicked the wolf by his feet, moving it a few centimeters.
“Hm? That’s not right, is it? Only that little distance?”
Didn’t Boss and Qin Ye both send wolves flying with one kick just now?
Miraculously, Shen Jinfeng actually understood what he was thinking and helplessly explained, “When a wolf is standing, the force-bearing area is smaller, so the force it receives is greater. When it’s lying down, it takes more effort.”
Although, ultimately, it was probably simply because He Erwang did not have enough strength.
Still, better not to discourage him.
Sure enough, after hearing this explanation, He Erwang felt a little better.
He thought about it, then moved forward one more step and viciously kicked the wolf’s butt twice.
“Woohoo, that feels good!”
Shen Jinfeng did not know whether to laugh or cry.
After kicking one wolf, He Erwang kept up his momentum and did not give up. He repeated the same method and kicked the remaining wolves one by one.
Only after finishing did he proudly report to Shen Jinfeng, “Boss, I’m done taking revenge!”
Although his foot hurt now, and his butt hurt too, his heart felt wonderfully pleased.
Awesome. He had actually kicked wolves, and he had kicked them until they had absolutely no power to fight back!
After he returned, he could properly brag about this to his family.
This was probably a grand feat he could bring up as conversation material even fifty years later!
Of course, at this moment, he did not know that exactly how he had kicked the wolves and what kind of wolves he had kicked had already been pushed across the entire internet in high-definition livestream.
He Erwang marched back to the group with great pride and confidence. “I’ve demonstrated it for you! Go on, underlings.”
The others, who had been called “underlings”: “…”
The corner of Shen Jinfeng’s mouth twitched, but he said nothing.
He only nodded at the others.
“Mo-ge, do you want to go vent your anger?”
Just now, the first to charge forward had been Mo Fan. He had probably been the most frightened too.
Mo Fan nodded with a solemn face.
[Here it comes, here it comes. I feel like Mo-ge can be a little more promising than little purple-hair. After all, he was the first one who wanted to go up and fight the wolf earlier.]
[Don’t say that. If it were me, I wouldn’t dare use a knife to stab a wolf either… Wuwu, although I eat all kinds of meat, that meat has to be processed first. Even scraping scales off a dead fish requires me to do some mental preparation.]
[Exactly. Speaking of which, I’m a rural kid. Every year, every household in my village kills chickens and ducks themselves, but whenever my parents killed them, they never let me watch. They said scholars shouldn’t watch killing. Seriously, if you made me take a knife and kill a chicken, I’d be more scared than the chicken. So I feel like even though they were scared to death by wolves earlier, it’s normal that they don’t dare kill wolves now.]
[I feel like Big Boss Shen letting them vent is helping them recover from the psychological shadow, making them feel: Eh, wolves aren’t that much after all.]
[So… little purple-hair thinks kicking them a few times counts as fighting and that’s enough, right? Hahaha.]
[But Mo-ge should have killed chickens, ducks, and geese before, right? He shouldn’t be that cowardly. Don’t they want to eat wolf meat? They were clearly drooling over food before.]
[I know this one. It’s because carnivorous animals’ meat actually isn’t that tasty. It’s not as good as herbivores. So they’re scary and not delicious. There’s really no need to eat them.]
Under everyone’s attention, Mo Fan walked toward the wolf pack.
He carried a knife and hesitated for several minutes, but he still did not make a move.
“Fuck you bunch of bastards, you even wanted to eat me! I’ll send you all to King Yan right now!” He cursed fiercely and filthily, so much that even Shen Jinfeng could not help glancing sideways.
But it was all thunder and no rain.
Basically, he was on par with He Erwang.
He only rushed up and kicked the wolves a few times.
Qi Xiu cheered him on from behind. “Mo-ge, good luck! Beat back the share of fear we suffered! Punch and kick! Don’t only kick!”
Mo Fan heard this and thought it made sense. He crouched down, raised his fist, and looked the wolf up and down.
In the end, he punched its fleshiest body area.
It was also one of the least painful places.
Shen Jinfeng: “…”
Forget it. Hitting like that would not hurt his hand either. That was good.
Mo Fan properly served every wolf, and by the end, he had worked himself into a sweat from punching and kicking.
“Comfortable!”
“This is the price for daring to attack us!”
After he exited, he gestured for Qi Xiu and Gu Shengsheng to go.
Qi Xiu stepped forward first, and Gu Shengsheng quickly followed. “Qi Xiu, I’ll beat the wolves with you.”
Letting him go beat wolves alone while everyone else watched him beat wolves—
That was really a little socially fatal.
It was too violent. Gu Shengsheng felt that he was not such a violent person.
But beyond everyone’s expectations, the moment Gu Shengsheng saw the wolves, he became afraid, and his heartbeat instantly soared to the highest point.
However, turning around and leaving just like that would be too cowardly.
Therefore, after Qi Xiu kicked a few times, he discussed it with him.
“Qi Xiu, help me watch the wolf’s position. I’ll close my eyes and beat them!”
Qi Xiu: “? Close your eyes?”
Amazing.
As a result, after closing his eyes, Gu Shengsheng’s combat power truly increased greatly.
He faced one wolf and punched and kicked it for five or six minutes before stopping, panting.
“No more. I don’t have strength left. Let me recover.”
Qi Xiu was expressionless. “You really are kindhearted. You only grabbed one wolf and beat it.”
This wolf’s face was visibly swollen compared to the other wolves.
Yes, only Gu Shengsheng had closed his eyes and punched and kicked directly at the wolf’s face.
After Gu Shengsheng opened his eyes and saw the miserable state of the wolf in front of him, he was stunned.
Shen Jinfeng held back his laughter and patted his shoulder. “Gu Shengsheng, you’re the most impressive one.”
Only this wolf had been beaten into a visibly different shape.
Gu Shengsheng’s originally embarrassed feelings instantly disappeared.
He happily nodded. “Mm.”
He was the only one who had received Boss’s praise!
As for Qin Ye, the last one, after watching round after round of “revenge” with no real lethality, when Shen Jinfeng asked him—
Under everyone’s expectant gazes—
He pointed at his own hand. “Forget it. Little Captain already avenged me just now.”
“Hm?” The others reacted.
Indeed, the wolf that Shen Jinfeng had struck with a knife just now was the most heavily injured one.
“Boss, how do we deal with this pack of wolves?” He Erwang asked.
Gu Shengsheng’s eyes went a little unfocused. “Are we going to chop them all up? I-I’m a little afraid to do it.”
Mo Fan was worried. “But if we just let them go, it feels a little like a loss.”
“What if they come after us again later? I heard some animals are very spiritual. What if they follow our scent or something and bring their companions to find us and cling to us?”
They did not dare kill the wolves…
But they were also afraid of the wolves taking revenge.
Shen Jinfeng was truly amused by this group of teammates.
He rested one hand against his chin and thought for a moment, then came up with a method.
“He Erwang, how about I avenge you again?” He looked at He Erwang and teased with a smile.
He Erwang froze. “What? Boss, are you going to beat them up again for me?”
Shen Jinfeng could not help it. A smile appeared in the corners of his eyes and brows.
“Can you open up your imagination a little?”
He Erwang tried hard to think, but still could not come up with anything.
Suddenly, he felt his faintly aching butt.
He subconsciously reached out and rubbed his butt.
Then he asked foolishly, “Are we going to cut off all their butts?”
[What? Little purple-hair, that answer really was beyond my expectations. It is indeed imaginative hahahaha.]
[I’m genuinely fainting. Bro, you’re an idol, an idol. Before, you clearly always paid attention to your image. Stop touching your butt!!! How did Boss asking you a question make you think of butts?]
[LMAO, I’m really laughing like crazy hahahahahaha. Goddamn cutting off their butts. He Erwang, you really are a ghostly genius.]
[Look at Big Boss Shen’s expression. Little purple-hair, you’ve made progress. You shocked Big Boss!]
[How did he think of that? I feel like little purple-hair’s focus all day today has been “my butt hurts” hahahaha.]
Shen Jinfeng truly had not expected this answer.
He pondered for a moment and was just about to speak.
But then he saw He Erwang frantically wave his hands. “No, let’s not! Boss, don’t do that!”
Shen Jinfeng: “…”
No, what had he said? What had he done?
He Erwang tried his best to persuade him. “Boss, cutting off butts is a little too, too bloody and also not elegant.”
Just now, he had thought about it in his head for a long time. He usually did not understand wolves.
But surely, they should be a little similar to humans, right?
He said with a face full of disgust, “What if we cut off the wolves’ that, mm, that excrement thing along with it?”
As he spoke, he even covered his nose, as if he had already smelled that stench.
After he finished saying this, everyone on the scene looked at him in unison. Without exaggeration, they all fell into stunned silence together.
After a long while, Qi Xiu spoke with a dazed gaze. “Brother, there are some things you really don’t have to say out loud.”
Gu Shengsheng swallowed, but because of the image he had imagined in his mind, he felt so nauseous he almost vomited. For a moment, his expression became painfully twisted.
“Brother, I’m begging you, stop talking.”
Qin Ye frowned tightly.
Mo Fan silently covered his nose and joined the persuasion. “Boss, let’s use another method to deal with this pack of wolves?”
Shen Jinfeng: “…When did I ever say I was going to cut off their butts?”
Hm?
The others looked at one another. In the end, they collectively glared at He Erwang.
It was all this purple-hair’s fault. By himself, he had led all of them astray!
He Erwang abruptly slapped his own head and smiled awkwardly.
“Aiya, sorry. That was purely my own guess and imagination. Boss hasn’t said anything yet.”
“No, Boss never thought that at all.”
Shen Jinfeng: “…”
He Erwang really was a talent.
He had never thought that in the first place, but after this explanation, it sounded like he really had thought that.
He let out a deep sigh.
888 had really found him a group of good teammates.
Shen Jinfeng moved forward two steps.
Very easily and casually, he picked up one wolf with one hand, one in each hand, looking as though he had picked up two bottles of soy sauce.
“Is this wolf very light?” Gu Shengsheng was a little dumbfounded.
It was clearly a very large wolf. When Shen Jinfeng held it, its width was even greater than Shen Jinfeng himself.
“Boss, what are you going to do?” Mo Fan wanted to step forward and help.
Cough, cough. Actually, he also wanted to see how heavy the wolf was.
Then, no matter what, he could not lift it with one hand. In the end, he had to hold the whole wolf in his arms before he could pick it up.
Coincidentally, the wolf’s body suddenly moved.
Actually, it had been jolted by him.
Mo Fan lowered his head and came face-to-face with the wolf’s closed-eyed face.
Suddenly, he felt as if his breath froze.
His eyes widened, his hands loosened, and with a bang, he threw the wolf back onto the ground.
In that instant, his legs almost went weak.
Shen Jinfeng heard the movement and looked back. After watching for two seconds, he silently turned back again. “Just leave it.”
Mo Fan smiled awkwardly, retreated back to the others, and muted himself.
Qi Xiu, who had originally been eager to try and experience it too, stood still with great self-awareness and no longer moved.
They saw Shen Jinfeng carrying two wolves, one in each hand, toward a tall peach tree.
It was the tree He Erwang had just picked peaches from. Now the peaches on the tree had basically been picked clean, leaving only green leaves as far as the eye could see.
First, he held one wolf in his left hand and seemed to weigh it.
Not bad. The peach tree should be able to bear two wolves.
Shen Jinfeng raised his head, squinting slightly as the glaring sunlight shone directly into his eyes.
He looked toward the most leafy, thickest branch of the peach tree. His left hand swung back and forth slightly, accumulating strength.
Then, with a sudden motion, he threw the wolf in his left hand upward.
It landed on the branch, and the wolf’s body happened to become half suspended in midair, stuck between the branches.
It was firmly stuck, hanging in the air, yet unable to fall.
A very tricky angle. Just looking at it felt uncomfortable.
One wolf, success.
Shen Jinfeng moved his right hand. In the same way, he swung it back and forth a few times, then exerted strength and tossed the second wolf up too.
Likewise, it got stuck at another tricky angle.
Likewise, it hung in midair and could not fall, facing the ground.
If someone with a weak heart and a bit of fear of heights opened their eyes and saw this scene, they would probably faint from fright.
Who knew whether wolves were afraid or not, but when they opened their eyes, it should be quite exciting.
Shen Jinfeng looked at his masterpiece in the tree with satisfaction and clapped dust that did not exist off his hands.
He turned and asked everyone, “How is it?”
He looked at He Erwang with a smile. “Specially avenged you. Satisfied?”
He Erwang’s eyes widened, and his mouth unconsciously opened slightly.
Hearing Shen Jinfeng’s question now, it took him a few seconds to react. He raised his thumb. “Sat-Satisfied.”
Gu Shengsheng had not spoken the whole time. Now, before the others could react, he suddenly screamed without warning, “Ahhhh!”
Shen Jinfeng was startled. “What’s wrong?”
Gu Shengsheng was relatively timid. Did he think Shen Jinfeng’s method was cruel?
Gu Shengsheng looked at the wolf, then at him, his face full of admiration overflowing through his expression. “Boss, you’re really too awesome! Super, super, super amazing!”
“Boss, may I ask how I can be your underling for life?”
Shen Jinfeng closed his eyes. His lips curved, then pressed tight, then could not help curving again.
He laughed. “Gu Shengsheng, do you have any ambition at all?”
Gu Shengsheng smiled until his brows and eyes curved. “No.”
Qi Xiu, who was at the side, heard their conversation and finally came back to himself.
He subconsciously added, “How is that not ambitious?”
“Hugging the right thigh is Gu Shengsheng’s greatest ambition.”
Shen Jinfeng blinked in confusion.
He tried to explain, “I’m not a thigh.”
He pointed at Qin Ye and He Erwang. “Those two are.”
He was merely an ordinary retiree who wanted to lie flat and retire, and if possible, casually fall in love.
But Qin Ye and He Erwang, whom he had named, immediately shook their heads hard.
“No, Boss/Little Captain, you’re the thigh.” The two spoke in unison.
Shen Jinfeng: “…”
Fine.
[Laughing to death hahahaha. What a group of unpretentious underlings. They want to hug the thigh, so what?]
[Fans are really looking up at the sky. Although I also support my Wang-ge’s decision, hugging Big Boss Shen’s thigh is absolutely an incredibly correct choice… But! But He Erwang, do you even remember something you once said: Who’s stronger than me? I’m the most awesome!]
[I really want to put his arrogant appearance back then next to his current fawning appearance and make a comparison picture to throw in his face!]
[Come on, why don’t we sing together? He’s no longer that young man from before, every little thing has changed! Time is nothing but a test, the faith planted in his heart has completely disappeared~]
[Pfft, toxic, hahahaha. To be fair, isn’t Qin Ye the one? I feel like after coming on this show, his lofty aura has shattered all over the ground. I really never imagined that one day he would blurt out: You/I are/want to be/hug the thigh.]
[Cough, cough. Well, losing to your wife, uh, or maybe husband, isn’t embarrassing at all, hehe.]
[I’m now truly incomparably curious about their reactions after they leave the show hahahahaha.]
Shen Jinfeng examined his masterpiece hanging in the tree and was fairly satisfied.
He then chose a few taller trees, not peach trees.
Because when his gaze turned toward the peach trees, the others protested. “Boss, let us pick the peaches first, then you can hang the wolves!”
Shen Jinfeng looked at the many peaches in their leaf baskets. “Isn’t this enough to eat?”
He Erwang nodded heavily. “I’m not coming to this damn place a second time. I probably won’t see my beloved peach trees again later either. Let’s pick more this time.”
The others deeply agreed.
This lousy place had wolves hanging around too. After they went back, they would not come again.
Fine.
These people were still thinking about peaches at a time like this.
Shen Jinfeng felt it was not that surprising either.
He casually sent He Erwang up the tree directly. “All right, pick them. Once you finish picking this tree, I’ll bring you down again.”
He Erwang shot into the air with a whoosh, experiencing an unprecedented tree-climbing speed.
“So awesome!”
Shen Jinfeng ignored him after that and landed back on the ground, finding “destinations” for all the remaining wolves.
Qin Ye finally found an opportunity to praise him wildly. “Little Captain, this idea of yours is simply genius.”
Because, without question, the people in the team were all kindhearted ordinary people.
Although this pack of wolves had regarded them as prey, that was animal nature, and the wolves had not succeeded.
Letting them directly kill the wolves still crossed a line in their hearts that they could not get over. Perhaps they were also afraid.
But letting the wolves go so easily also felt unwilling.
Therefore, hanging the wolves in the trees—
A peach tree over seven meters tall was already nearly two stories high. Without exaggeration, looking down was still somewhat frightening.
No one knew how these wolves would react when they woke up. Although wolves were more agile, if they moved carelessly and fell from the tree, at the very least, they would be half crippled.
Or perhaps, they might be quite clever and learn to hug the tree and slide down like He Erwang.
But this would be a huge test of their intelligence and mobility.
Because the angle they were hanging at was still a little tricky. Even a slight movement made one’s heart tremble.
Qi Xiu’s focus was different.
Qin Ye praised the idea, so he praised the strength.
“Boss, when you threw those wolves, it was exactly the same as when you threw stones before. Absolutely amazing. So damn handsome. Simply a legendary man people can only look up to!”
However, he did not think too deeply about it.
How much arm strength did one need to throw a wolf over seven meters high with one hand?
It was simply unscientific.
He did not think much about it.
But Su Chunjun, who was always paying attention to Shen Jinfeng and later watched the replay of this scene, became excited again and thought too much.
He once again, again, and again excitedly carried his phone to show the company commander.
“Company commander, if we train strength every day now, can I one day casually throw something over a hundred jin into the sky like Big Boss Shen? If I go to the battlefield later and casually throw an enemy soldier into the sky, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, making him eat up all the enemy’s bullets, that feeling of flying would be even cooler than the phrase ‘strength enough to pull mountains, spirit enough to cover the world’!”
Yes. The average weight of wolves was generally around fifty to eighty kilograms. Especially large ones could even reach ninety kilograms.
The wolves on screen looked medium-sized, but they should at least be sixty or seventy kilograms.
Many men in their army were about that weight.
Su Chunjun imagined not only enemy soldiers, but also during future training exercises, if he could throw opposing teammates up like this too—
Hehe, he would definitely force those people to call him daddy!
Therefore, he asked the company commander with great expectation, “Company commander, can you do what Big Boss Shen did?”
“You usually say you were first in the recruit company back then. You must be able to do it too, right?”
“Company commander, you’re usually too low-key when guiding us.”
The company commander received the phone with a baffled face.
With a very solemn expression, he watched the video several times.
Then, with a very calm and effortless expression, he patted Su Chunjun’s shoulder. “Chunjun, train more. You’ll be able to do it in the future too.”
After Su Chunjun received an affirmative answer, he went back as if injected with chicken blood.
Full of energy, he prepared for a new day of training.
Only, after he left, the company commander wiped the sweat from his forehead.
With grief and indignation all over his face, he opened his own phone, found the original video, and forwarded it to his old squad leader.
“Old squad leader, isn’t the gap between people sometimes a little too much!!!”
At the same time—
A national weightlifting team coach, who had only happened to pass by and see his wife watching the Being Human livestream, casually glanced at the screen and stopped in his tracks.
He happened to see the scene of Shen Jinfeng lifting a wolf with one hand in each hand, then casually throwing them into the tree.
His eyes widened like bronze bells.
“A genius!”
“No, a rare talent!” He excitedly slapped his thigh and shouted.
His wife was startled by him. “Liu Dashu, what are you going crazy about?”
Liu Dake looked at Shen Jinfeng’s figure on the screen as if looking at the lover of his dreams, with such blazing passion yet such tenderness.
“My world champion! This young man, with just a casual move, can break the world record!”
“Huh?” His wife did not react to what he was saying.
Liu Dake’s eyes shone with excitement. “If this were ancient times, wouldn’t he be the legendary martial arts prodigy?”
“There are always people in history born with divine strength. I’ve been a coach for so many years and never encountered one, so I thought the history books were lying. But today, seeing this young man, I finally know that the history books did not deceive me!”
After shaking his head and sighing emotionally, he finally remembered to ask, “Wife, what show are you watching?”
“Who is this young man?”
His wife froze for a long while before reacting. “Right! Big Boss Shen’s arm strength feels even more amazing than a weightlifting world champion’s!”
It really was. She had gotten used to Big Boss Shen being amazing in every way with no blind spots.
For a moment, she had actually failed to notice that Big Boss Shen had suddenly become heaven-defyingly amazing in yet another area!
What in the animal-abuse is this chapter??? Idk what to think of it… ?