Chapter 1387: Tamed Beast of the Wolf Family

The animals in the Evolution Forest are more active at night than during the day. The smell of blood in the Slaughter Grass attracted not only beasts on the ground but also flocks of birds gathering toward this fragrant area. If it isn't cleared soon, more and more animals will gather here, and it will turn into a battlefield where out-of-control animals tear each other apart.

So, less than two minutes after the enemy sniper appeared, a person carrying a stick walked out from behind him, climbing upward with great caution.

There were several nearly oval-shaped stones in the direction he was advancing. Once these stones were pried loose and sent tumbling down, they could pin the animal corpses killed by the wooden spikes.

Based on the size of the stones this person chose, Xia Qing judged that the opponent was a strength evolver between levels five and six.

None of the birds below fighting over the carrion took flight to attack this human who had suddenly appeared. It was obvious that this person must have been coated with some kind of agent. The Blue Skin Wanderers' agent kit contained three different agents that served this function.

However…

Not all animals ignored him.

The Broken-Waist Wolf was already crouched in a hollow in the rock face ten meters above the selected stones, waiting for him to approach.

The reason it could pick its position so precisely was that when Xia Qing was filling the pool on Mountain Fifty-Five, this fellow had been supervising the whole time, and was very familiar with which kinds of stones could be pried loose and sent tumbling.

It lay low without moving, quietly waiting for its prey to enter its attack range.

On the distant snow-capped peak, a silver-gray giant wolf and a mottled fierce tiger came charging toward them. Wearing her faint-glow night-vision lenses, Xia Qing couldn't see any movement from the Broken-Waist Wolf hidden on the opposite peak six hundred meters away, but she knew this fellow's ears must be working.

The strength evolver who was climbing the mountain might have evolved hearing as well. When the Western Wolf King and the Blind Tiger reached the top of the peak, he stopped, apparently using a walkie-talkie to report the situation.

The optimal moment to strike had arrived!

The ambushing Broken-Waist Wolf rose, bounced to a new position, then leaped down. Its sharp front paw landed precisely on the back of the neck of the enemy who had turned to flee back down into the cave.

Killed in one strike!

"Crack!"

"ROAR——————"

The Blind Tiger dropped down in a leap and landed beside the Broken-Waist Wolf, lowered its head to sniff, whipped the rock with its tail, and let out an angry tiger's roar.

The sniper hiding at the cave mouth on the mountainside was so startled he pulled his head back inside. Among the beasts below fighting over the food, those birds and beasts that still had their senses scattered in all directions,

and Xia Qing's heart couldn't help but tremble along with them. The shock the tiger's roar gave her was far less than the impact of the Broken-Waist Wolf's fierce killing move.

In the ninth year of the Calamity, in May, Xia Qing had hidden in a large tree in the Evolution Forest and watched this number-two combatant of the northern wolf pack use the same technique to kill two core members of the Fengyun Squad.

The dull, short "crack" of those two men's neck bones being crushed echoed once more in Xia Qing's ears, and an indescribably complex emotion welled up from deep within her.

She slowly drew in a breath to dispel the distracting thoughts, regained her composure, and quietly issued orders to the Broken-Waist Wolf, which had already retreated to a safe area and was looking at her.

"Broken-Waist, good work. Next, the surviving Wanderers may release their tamed beasts—those purple-black meat worms with a strong meaty fragrance—to lure the Blind Tiger and the animals gathered below away. If the Blind Tiger gets lured off, have the Western Wolf King sneak it back as quickly as possible, so we can hunt the next target."

This group was using the same Evolution Bai Mao Grass as the Blue Skin Wanderers and agents with similar functions, so Xia Qing judged that even if they weren't the Blue Skin Wanderers' allies, they were closely connected to them.

There was a good chance this was the very group that had injured the Blind Tiger before the third Slaughter Rain, causing the Slaughter element in its body to surge to 35‰ during the rain, bringing it to the brink of losing control and nearly biting Xia Qing to death.

This group had to be wiped out.

If her judgment was wrong, would that make it killing innocents?

Yang Jin had already confirmed that no official or squad personnel from Hui-3 Base were on missions within the tiger clan's core territory, so the humans appearing here could only be one of two things—invaders or Wanderers.

As far as Hui-3 was concerned, they were lawbreakers, unstable elements that posed a major danger, and could be killed on the spot according to relevant laws.

The Broken-Waist Wolf on the opposite peak didn't reply out loud, but gave Xia Qing a heavy nod in her direction. Probably afraid she couldn't see, it nodded twice in a row.

Even though the fierce tiger was roaring, the cautious Broken-Waist Wolf still didn't make a sound, to avoid letting the humans in the cave below detect its presence.

Xia Qing lowered her voice and replied, "Broken-Waist, I saw you nod. Hide yourself now, and stay concealed."

Half a minute later, Xia Qing reported the situation again, "Broken-Waist, the Wanderers' sniper has come out again. They're about to start moving."

Seeing the tamed beast the enemy had released, Xia Qing's heart sank sharply. "The Wanderers' tamed beast is out—it's a large wolf-family animal. Broken-Waist, you must stay calm."

Two months ago, at three in the morning, the Broken-Waist Wolf had stormed into Xia Qing's territory in a fury, carrying its notebook. It expressed strong dissatisfaction with the educational video on evolutionary biology that classified wolves under Carnivora, family Canidae, genus Canis.

After negotiation between the one person and one wolf, canids were officially renamed as wolf-family animals. At the Broken-Waist Wolf's request, Xia Qing very formally called Zhang San to inform him of this momentous decision.

Then, Zhang San, sporting an afro, immediately called Zhang Song to wake him up and have him remake the educational video.

Below, the collared wolf-family animal that had been released had already run from halfway up the mountain into the valley, heading toward the peak where Xia Qing was hiding.

Lured by the meaty fragrance of the purple-black worms, quite a few of the animals that had been fighting over and tearing at the corpses shifted their target and began chasing this wolf-family animal.

The enemy sniper poked his head out from behind the rocks, searching for the Blind Tiger. Xia Qing confirmed that the weapon in his hand was not the gun from earlier.

The Wanderers were going to make a move on the Blind Tiger!

Xia Qing immediately changed her plan and ordered in the sternest tone, "Broken-Waist, I'll shoot the enemy sniper and save that wolf-family animal. You immediately lead the Western Wolf Pack and the Blind Tiger in a five-hundred-meter retreat—retreat now!"

"BANG!"

At a distance of six hundred meters, Xia Qing's first shot broke the neck of the enemy sniper who was peering outward. With her other fist she smashed a few arm-thick icicles at the cave mouth, leaped out of the cave, landed on one knee, and aimed at the wolf-family animal that was running. Judging by its running posture, this was a wolf or a wolf-dog.

"BANG!"

Under the faint-glow night-vision lenses, the bullet accurately struck the collar on the wolf-family animal's neck, which flared with a bright light, then the collar shattered, broke apart, and was trampled into the snowy mud by the beast tide.

After witnessing an evolved wolf's collar being detonated a few months ago, Xia Qing had added a new sniper training drill—shooting off a tamed beast's collar without harming the beast itself.

The results of over a thousand rounds of practice were on perfect display in this moment. Xia Qing, gripping a handgun in one hand and holding up a soft shield in the other, charged at full speed toward the Wanderers.

Twenty seconds—as long as she had twenty seconds, that would be enough!

The people in the cave on the opposite side were shocked and shouted, "How can there be a sniper here! What is he trying to do? Stop him, block the cave mouth and pack up the gear, quick, quick, quick!!!"

"BANG!"

From the flash of light on the opposite mountainside to the bullet striking her soft shield, there was almost no time between them. Xia Qing didn't pause for an instant and kept charging forward.

"He's just one person—use a bomb to blow him up, quick!"

Another person inside the cave objected, "No, a bomb will trigger a Slaughter Explosion. Old Liu, go finish him off!"

"Yes." A dark figure leaped out from a cave halfway up the mountain.

"BANG!"

While running, Xia Qing raised her gun with one hand, accurately shot her target dead, and continued charging forward without slowing down.

Immediately after, another person holding a soft shield leaped out of the cave and, upon landing, rushed quickly toward Xia Qing.

Xia Qing, a level-nine-and-a-half visual evolver, immediately confirmed that the opponent was a high-level speed evolver!