City's Best Divine Doctor-Chapter 1553 - 1552: Encountering a Wolf Pack at Midnight
Down the mountain, those soldiers were still separating to search, but after eight hours, they still hadn’t spotted Ye Qiu and the others, these three seemed to have vanished into thin air.
If it were other villagers, they might have escaped from the quarantine area on their own, but Ye Qiu and the others couldn’t have escaped; they must still be on this mountain, but the surrounding hundred miles are all high mountains, dense forests, almost completely undeveloped.
These soldiers most feared that Ye Qiu and the others came from the big city and didn’t possess survival skills in the forest, encountering any sudden situations like meeting wild wolves, falling into a ravine, dead or alive unknown.
The longer they go undiscovered, the more troublesome it becomes.
After searching for half an hour without finding anything, they returned to the grassland two hundred meters high, gathered there to set up camp, then took out a map and marked the approximate locations they searched all afternoon.
They had searched this radius of several kilometers, but still no sign, and they didn’t know how far Ye Qiu and the others could have traveled in a short time, so they thought the prospects were grim.
The two women leaned on Ye Qiu’s shoulder to rest, while Ye Qiu sat there, neither sleepy nor drowsy. If the two women weren’t here, Ye Qiu could have climbed to treetops to absorb Moonlight Essence, but now he couldn’t, he could only sit quietly here.
The surroundings were very quiet, except for the dancing flames around several fires, with the wind passing through, like dancing, hearing only the calls of unknown insects beside.
Ye Qiu, with his eyes closed, could still feel it.
As for those venomous snakes, Ye Qiu also heard them slithering nearby, but not approaching, just swiftly passing by.
Late at night, Ye Qiu suddenly heard the sound of wolves howling and opened his eyes, waking up.
He felt the wolves’ howling didn’t seem far away, Ye Qiu didn’t fear encountering wolves, but feared the trouble of encountering a pack.
Generally, these wild wolves hunt at night and are not likely to hunt alone, usually several, even tens come out to hunt food bigger than themselves.
Thus, Ye Qiu thought that there might be plenty of wildlife on this mountain; otherwise, they couldn’t sustain these wild wolves.
Unsure how much time had passed, after the silence, footsteps became more frequent.
These were the sounds of four-legged footsteps, and as Ye Qiu saw the menacing eyes staring at him coming over, looking in the firelight at night, he saw several wild wolves, all baring fierce teeth, saliva dripping, those eyes shining red.
Ye Qiu nudged Wen Xin and Zhou Wenting beside him.
These two women were sleeping sweetly, as they were truly exhausted. Wen Xin, accustomed to waking, due to working night shifts at the Affiliated Hospital, would awaken immediately even if napping in the office upon hearing alarms from the wards.
Following Ye Qiu’s gaze, at first, thinking they saw dogs but realizing they were wolves, Wen Xin immediately asked, "Ye Qiu, are those wolves?"
"Yes, wolves. These wild wolves are starved and see us as prey."
"What should we do?"
Faced with these real wild wolves, Wen Xin was really scared. Though their size appeared similar to pet dogs, and not even as fat, they were exceedingly fierce.
In the wild, many people fear most encountering packs of wild wolves.
Zhou Wenting was also awakened by Ye Qiu, Zhou Wenting rubbed her eyes, following Ye Qiu’s gaze, saw several fierce creatures staring at them.
Looking further, even more wild wolves were behind.
Seeing this, they were surrounded by these hungry wolves from all sides, probably ten or more, a big wolf family, with presumably a Wolf King commanding at the back.
"Ye, Ye Qiu, what do we do?"
Zhou Wenting was already wide awake.
He didn’t expect to really encounter a wolf pack.
"You can’t climb trees, let me handle these wolves."
Ye Qiu first mimicked wolf howls, trying to scare them away, but unexpectedly, they bared their vicious teeth, coming closer.
Clearly, these wolves had high intelligence, unlikely to mistake Ye Qiu and the others as kin; their wild instincts destined them to see Ye Qiu and the others as food only.
Since mimicking wolf howls didn’t work, Ye Qiu then mimicked tiger and boar sounds respectively.
Generally speaking, wolves fear tigers and boars, but tigers were long gone from this area; they might not even have seen tigers, while they had seen plenty of boars, sometimes catching lone ones to eat.
Thus, Ye Qiu knew he couldn’t scare these wolves away.
Picking up a not-so-large stone from the ground, he threw it at the wolves with the help of Spiritual Energy. When hit by the stone, they bled, falling in pain to the ground but didn’t run away.
As the saying goes, strike the leader first to capture the bandit chief, now it seemed the leader wolf was the target.
Among these wolves, the mighty wolf leader was in the pack, continuously commanding them.
If Wen Xin and Zhou Wenting weren’t present, dealing with these wolves would be akin to disciplining children for Ye Qiu; but now, with the women there, Ye Qiu had to ensure their safety first.
Otherwise, if the women were bitten, it would be extremely painful, and these wolves always target the throat, biting food’s throat directly.
Ye Qiu stood up, noticing the leader wolf at the back of the pack.
As he picked up more stones, knocking down surrounding wolves, the two women saw Ye Qiu suddenly walk towards the wolves, grab a wolf by its legs, and throw it fiercely downhill.
Within moments, he tossed those wolves far away.
The commanding wolf didn’t expect such ferocity from prey before it, tried to flee as Ye Qiu approached, punched its head, causing the Wolf King to howl in pain and collapse, struggling as Ye Qiu caught it, asking the two women, "Fancy trying wolf meat?"
Wen Xin and Zhou Wenting shook their heads.
The women certainly didn’t dare eat.
Ye Qiu used vines to tie up the dozens-of-pounds heavy wolf, hanging it in the treetops, planning to release it when leaving tomorrow.
Now, with this situation, the outside wolves dared not come close, only howled from a distance. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
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In the camp below the mountain, rescue personnel, including soldiers and medical experts, had just heard wolf howls, and even tiger roars.
At this, they were curious; could there be tigers on this mountain?
Talking of wolves and boars was normal, as boars often frequented village vegetable plots, but tigers were supposed to be South China Tigers, virtually extinct in the wild, with very few in conservation bases, possibly scarcer than pandas.
If encountering pandas on the mountain, they thought it plausible given the border with Yunnan and Sichuan, but tigers were truly unlikely.
Yet, having heard unmistakable tiger roars, could they have misheard?
