Chapter 12

Although it can be almost concluded that the snow mane is asleep.

When Xia Hong came down from the tree, he still tried his best to be quiet.

After going down to the ground, he first moved carefully towards the south.

He stopped when he walked to the side of an oval stone with a diameter of two or three meters.

After observing the surroundings, Xia Hong dug a snow pit the size of a human next to the stone with his bare hands.

After digging, he went down and lay down to test the size.

After confirming there was no problem, he walked to fifty meters away from the stone and took out a piece of black wooden stick that had been carried behind his back.

This is naturally not an ordinary small wooden stick.

Small torch: Can be generated for every 10 units of wood burned by the bonfire, can be carried around, has a strong attraction to cold beasts.

Bringing this out, I didn't expect it to really come in handy.

"Whether it can be done or not depends on this thing!"

Xia Hong turned his head and looked at the Ice Master tree, inserted the small torch into the ground, and then took out the fire stone and knocked it twice, and sparks suddenly shot out.

The front end of the small torch is white, and the sparks splashed on it, immediately igniting it, rising a red flame more than half a meter high, exactly the same as the flame that burned the strange monster in the cave earlier.

And the moment the flame came out, Xia Hong ran towards the stone side quickly.

Running to the side of the stone, he quickly drilled into the snow pit he had dug earlier, and then manually pulled the white snow from the outside to bury himself well.

After burying, only a pair of eyes were left exposed on the snow, and he began to observe the torch side motionless.

Xia Hong still trusted the system items very much.

After all, the scene of that strange monster being burned to wails and screams is still in his mind.

But how strong the attraction of this bonfire to cold beasts is, he didn't know yet.

Will that snow mane be attracted?

Xia Hong's question soon had an answer.

Step... step... step...

In a while, the light and tentative footsteps came from behind.

The footsteps came from far to near, although Xia Hong didn't dare to look back, these tentative footsteps were already enough to explain the problem.

Sure enough, when that snow mane covered with ice thorns on its back walked past from less than ten meters away from him, Xia Hong held his breath, and didn't even dare to move his eyeballs.

The snow mane's eyes were still stuck with two black arrows, it should be too painful, causing it not to dare to pull them out.

Because it couldn't see, the snow mane's pace was very slow, basically stopping every few steps.

But strangely, the closer it got to the torch, the more excited the snow mane seemed to be, and the speed of marching gradually accelerated.

Until it walked in front of the torch, the snow mane suddenly stopped.

It brought its face close to the top of the torch, clearly in contact with the flame, but there was no reaction of being burned, instead, as the firelight enveloped its body, its breathing became increasingly stable.

It even felt a bit... a bit...

Feeling of enjoyment?

On the snow, Xia Hong's two eyes were full of confusion and incomprehension.

The snow mane's face actually showed an expression of enjoyment.

But with the increasingly detailed observation of the snow mane's body.

The expression on Xia Hong's face changed from confusion to solemnity.

Just now, the crowd of the Da Shi camp not only shot the snow mane blind, but also cut many wounds on its body with arrows and big knives.

Although separated by fifty meters, Xia Hong saw very clearly that the bleeding wounds on the snow mane's body not only stopped bleeding under the illumination of the firelight, but were also healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Even, Xia Hong had an illusion.

The momentum of that snow mane was slowly improving under the illumination of the firelight.

Can this torch heal cold beasts?

Can it also let it practice and become stronger?

In an instant, Xia Hong only felt ten thousand horses galloping in his heart.

Originally, he wanted to use the torch to attract the snow mane, let it continue to be active.

The snow mane was already injured, as long as it didn't rest well in the tree, and the wounds kept bleeding, it would sooner or later die of exhaustion.

At that time, he would be able to pick up a leak.

Didn't expect to send warmth to it now.

Now not only can he not pick up the leak, but he also helped it heal its wounds, and he himself is also in danger.

Now that it has come to this, Xia Hong doesn't think about picking up the leak anymore, just hoping that the torch will extinguish quickly, and this snow mane will roll away quickly, so he can leave.

But just at this time, an accident happened again.

Roar…………

A low and hoarse beast roar suddenly came from behind.

The snow mane that was enjoying immediately turned around, its expression becoming extremely vigilant.

Bang...

A cold beast shaped like a wolf jumped down from the tree and bounced to a position less than ten meters in front of the snow mane.

That cold beast had a blue mane, a body length of about two meters, a circle of barbs around its neck, a mouth full of dense fangs, and a pair of bloodthirsty pupils, first staring fixedly at the torch, then let out a low roar at the snow mane in front of it.

"It's a bone-piercing frost wolf!"

Xia Hong recognized the breed of the cold beast at a glance.

The two most common cold beasts on the outskirts of Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, snow mane and frost wolf.

They actually both appeared.

Xia Hong felt a bit solemn in his heart, he naturally wouldn't think it was his good luck to run into two kinds at the same time on his first outing.

It is clear that with the expansion of Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, the activity range of cold beasts is also constantly expanding.

The Da Xia camp is only about five kilometers away from here.

If these cold beasts go out a little further, they may break into the camp at any time.

If they were really found by these cold beasts by mistake, it would be a devastating disaster for the current camp.

Bang…………

A loud noise pulled Xia Hong's thoughts back.

The snow mane and frost wolf over there had already entangled together.

Obviously, even if the snow mane was blind in both eyes, it was unwilling to give up the torch.

And the frost wolf was determined to get the torch, so the two naturally fought.

The body of the snow mane is larger than that of the frost wolf.

And just as Xia Hong saw, after staying by the torch for a while, the wounds on the snow mane's body were almost healed, and the entanglement and collision with the frost wolf did not fall into a disadvantage for a while.

But once again, Xia Hong had a new understanding of the intelligence of cold beasts.

That frost wolf, after colliding twice, immediately changed its tactics.

It relied on its flexible posture to constantly dodge the snow mane's charge.

Sometimes it would even lie down and drill through the snow mane's crotch.

And every time it successfully dodged by lying down, it would leave several deep wounds on the snow mane's abdomen with its sharp claws and the barbs on its neck.

The snow mane, which had been healed by the torch, soon became covered in wounds, and the wounds on its abdomen kept bleeding green blood, staining the surrounding ground green in a while.

This wasn't over.

After a while, the frost wolf suddenly stopped moving its claws.

Not only did it stop, it moved in circles on the ground extremely slowly, and its claws were all gathered together, only walking on the snow with its meat pads.

This frost wolf actually saw that the snow mane was blind.

Xia Hong's eyes exposed on the snow were full of shock at this moment.

If the snow mane feigning death and luring the enemy deep just now was because the will to survive was stimulated to exceed its instinctual intelligence.

Then at this moment, the frost wolf's performance completely indicated:

Cold beasts of this kind have intelligence, and it is absolutely not low.

This completely refreshed Xia Hong's previous cognition of beasts.

Finally, after circling a few times, the frost wolf seized an excellent opportunity, its four claws exerted force violently, pounced from behind, pressed the snow mane under its body, and bit the snow mane's neck.

The snow mane struggled on the ground, and that tongue that caused heavy damage to the Da Shi camp just now was sacrificed again.

It's just a pity that the frost wolf's speed was really too fast, even if it was biting the snow mane's neck, it could adjust its position to dodge the snow mane's sharp tongue.

After stabbing more than ten times without hitting, the snow mane changed its strategy, and after the tongue became soft, it wanted to wrap around the frost wolf and strangle the opponent.

However, the frost wolf's neck was surrounded by a circle of barbs, and the sharpness of those barbs was no less than its tongue, so it couldn't wrap around at all.

The two cold beasts struggled on the ground for more than a hundred breaths.

This battle finally ended with the snow mane bleeding and dying of exhaustion.

The frost wolf got up, spat out two mouthfuls of dark green blood, the ferocity on its face gradually faded, and instead brought a bit of pride, looking at the torch that was still burning.

It walked to the torch, put its head directly on the fire, and its face showed an expression of enjoyment just like the snow mane just now.

But soon it turned its head and looked around, its expression became vigilant, first turned its head to look at the snow mane corpse on the ground, and then looked at the torch.

Almost without hesitation, the frost wolf tilted its head, bit the torch, and ran towards the snowy ground in the depths of the dense forest.

The snow mane was defeated and died, the frost wolf retreated, and the surroundings of the snowy ground were suddenly silent.

Only the pair of eyes by the big stone were full of astonishment and surprise at this moment.

(End of chapter)