"It's been almost half an hour. You don't think something happened to Yang Qi, do you?"
Wang Gu said, staring toward the ravine where Yang Qi and the clouded leopard had disappeared. He couldn't hold it in any longer.
"What are you talking about!"
The moment Chen Ze heard this, he immediately shot back, his tone full of displeasure, "Brother Qi went to help it. The clouded leopard asked *him* for a favor. How could anything possibly happen?"
"I don't want anything to happen to him either."
Wang Gu explained, "But a clouded leopard is a predator, after all. They're wild and untamable. What if..."
"There is no 'what if'!"
Chen Ze cut him off, his tone exceptionally firm. "Nothing will happen to Brother Qi!"
"That's not it..." Wang Gu tried to argue.
"That's enough!"
Deng Lei barked, cutting off their heated exchange. "Let's not hear any more of that."
Though he had put a stop to it, an undeniable thread of worry was knitted into his brow.
