Chapter 1120: Number Four Combatant

The wolf pack on the northern front of Mountain 60 is made up of eight adult wolves and thirteen half-grown wolves.

Apart from the seven honey badgers, who look askance at everyone and have the nerve to stand behind the wolves waiting to freeload, countless vultures, snake eagles, meerkats, weasels, hedgehogs, and small animals Xia Qing doesn't recognize are perched on the trees, rocks, and crevices around this front.

The battle between wolves and snakes is a feast for the scavengers and the snakes' natural enemies.

The first round of this feast has ended, the second has yet to begin, and all the animals are staring fixedly at the seemingly endless lake, waiting for the pythons to launch their second assault.

"Awoo, woo, awoo!!!"

The broken-legged girl standing in front of Little Flat-top saw that Xia Qing had arrived so late, opened her mouth to break the suffocating atmosphere, and roared furiously at her.

Little Wolf Brother and Little Wolf Sister saw that Xia Jingwei had arrived, and simultaneously raised their not-yet-thick front paws, pointing toward the river channel entering the lake beside them.

This river channel entering the lake is formed by the convergence of streams from Mountain 60 and Mountain 59 to the south; the water is over two meters deep, and pythons, qiang-snakes, and other types of snakes can swim through this channel into Mountain 60.

This river channel is the reason the wolf pack has drawn up its battle line here. The wolf pack certainly won't defend passively; four wolves are digging at stones on the slope beside the channel, trying to block it with rocks.

Xia Qing, who was in a hurry to find the Head Wolf and Wolf Lao Er, took in the situation clearly, reached into her backpack and pulled out a folding pry bar, extended and tightened it, scrambled up the hillside, and skillfully pried loose several large, nearly round stones.

The stones, having lost their support points, rolled thunderously down, smashing into the river channel below and sending up huge splashes, startling the birds into chaotic flight, while the hedgehogs, lizards, and other small animals waiting to freeload scattered in all directions.

Two weasels mixed in with the small animals didn't run; they trembled as they hid behind the stones, poking out their little heads to look at Xia Qing on the slope.

The commotion carried to the other side of the mountain; the broken-waist wolf bounded over in a few leaps to investigate, then bounded back to the main battlefield in a few more.

More than ten minutes later, the large and small stones Xia Qing had pried loose blocked the not-particularly-swift river channel entering the lake. The blocked water seeped through the gaps between the stones, gurgling down into Python Lake and forming several small waterfalls.

Any small snakes in the lake wanting to enter Mountain 60 now have to leap through the dragon gate!

The broken-legged girl and Little Wolf Brother leaped up at the same time, landing on the two largest stones in the channel respectively, struck a pose, and stared with murderous fury at the boundless lake surface.

Xia Qing put away the pry bar, shoved it into her backpack, turned, and charged toward the direction where the broken-waist wolf had poked its head out. The wolf pack's main fighting force was all over there, which meant that was the main battlefield.

Rounding a mountain peak, when the main battlefield appeared before Xia Qing, her pupils trembled and she involuntarily held her breath.

She had seen this scene before.

In mid-November last year, when the northern wolf pack hunted a high-hardness evolved Green Lantern Python and brought it to Mountain 49, asking Xia Qing to make python-skin protective clothing for them, Xia Qing received two post-battle photos from Yang Jin of the wolf pack hunting the Green Lantern Python.

That great battle took place in this very valley, which has an even wider river channel entering the lake; the photos showed the same toppled trees and shattered stones, and the leaders of the wolf pack and the Xiong Qun also stood in the same positions as today.

The difference was that this year's battle had come two months early; the Head Wolf was wearing protective clothing, and the handsome giant wolf beside it had medical tape stuck to its flank.

Also, the bear corpses, wolf corpses, and snake corpses lying scattered across the battlefield by the river channel in the valley below were not last year's lot.

Confirming that none of the fallen were Wolf Lao Er, the broken-waist wolf, or the others, Xia Qing's suspended heart settled a little, and she quickly checked the wolf pack's positions.

The broken-waist wolf standing at the high ground controlling the overall situation, the broken-leg wolf at the left-flank attack position, Wolf Lao Er at the left flank, Black Wolf at the right flank...

As Xia Qing moved forward to rendezvous with Wolf Lao Er, the Head Wolf standing at the very front, whose left ear was missing a chunk, twitched, and turned its head to look precisely at Xia Qing.

In a flash, Xia Qing, the northern wolf pack's Number Four combatant, understood what the Head Wolf meant.

She changed her direction of advance, came to the wolf pack's first echelon, stood at the Head Wolf's left side, and together with the Head Wolf and the handsome giant wolf, stared at the two giant bears opposite, all four abilities fully activated, radiating murderous fury.

Four hundred meters away, the largest bear leader on Mountain 61 glanced at Xia Qing, then also turned its head to look behind.

Seeing its movement, Xia Qing had a very bad feeling.

Sure enough, the greedy little bear, two sizes smaller than the giant bear, hoisted Daigua on its back, crawled out from behind a rock, stood up on its hind legs at the giant bear's right side, and a pair of murderously fierce bear eyes locked onto Xia Qing, who was wearing her protective mask.

This is...

Another roar?!

Xia Qing's gaze shifted to Does Daigua beside the greedy little bear's big head. She had heard this greedy little bear roar on Mountain 50, and that sound was earth-shaking too. If it really roared, her voice could only overpower Does Daigua; facing two at once, she definitely had no chance of winning.

What to do when you have no chance of winning?

Xia Qing raised her hand, took off her protective mask, drew her black long blade, and fixed the greedy little bear with a pair of equally murderously fierce eyes. But before the roaring began, she absolutely could not let down the aura of the wolf pack's Number Four combatant!

Why take off the protective mask?

Because Xia Qing had communicated with the broken-waist wolf about the issue of the protective mask; the fierce beasts in the Evolution Forest considered humans wearing protective masks to be a sign of cowardice.

Although the valley was filled with water vapor, the air toxin detector showed green, indicating the air here was non-toxic, so the protective mask could be removed.

Bring it on, let's compete, let's fight; whoever chickens out is the loser!

Does Daigua was so frightened by Xia Qing that it hugged the little bear's neck tight. The giant bear in the center didn't move, but the giant bear to its left—the one that had lost to Xia Qing in the last battle—bared its fangs, and Xia Qing also took a deep breath, poised to strike.

At this explosive moment, the Head Wolf and the bear clan's leader simultaneously turned their heads, looking toward Python Lake outside the southern valley.

The pythons are coming? Xia Qing turned her head as well.

On the misty, boundless lake surface, rings of ripples spread out, and a giant python entwined with bright red qiang-snakes slowly surfaced.

One, two, three...

One meter, two meters, three meters...

Besides these giant pythons, one after another snow-white medium-sized snakes poked their heads out at Wu Huan's shore and came ashore; the bright red qiang-snakes coiled around them were especially glaring!

"Awoo—woo—"

"Roar————"

The wolf pack and the bear clan roared at the same time, but they weren't roaring at each other—they were roaring at the snakes crawling ashore. What struck Xia Qing as strange was that this roar actually contained... excitement?

The wolf pack and the bear clan being excited over the snow-white medium-sized snakes crawling out of the water to invade their territory was truly abnormal.

Behind any abnormality, there may lurk enormous risk.

Xia Qing immediately raised her guard and quickly glanced at the air toxin detector on her arm, which was still showing green.

The green light was on, proving there were no toxins harmful to humans in the air here.

Just as the naturally cautious Xia Qing took the protective mask from her waist and prepared to put it on, she suddenly felt her heart rate spike, and a familiar wave of irritation surged into her brain!