Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 185 - 129: Reconciliation with the Snake and the Wolf and Snake’s Time Schedule
But it seemed her hopes were dashed.
Whenever Gu Yin was in a bad mood, he liked to eat his fill and then go to sleep. She guessed that the snake was probably hiding from her, fast asleep in some cave right now.
An Jin rubbed her aching temples and withdrew her spiritual power. Her sore shoulders strained as she readjusted the heavy, overflowing basket on her back, preparing to turn and head back to the tribe.
RUSTLE, RUSTLE.
A rustling sound came from the dense jungle. She glanced back warily, only to meet a pair of sinister, glowing green beast eyes.
An Jin was speechless.
’What kind of rotten luck is this?’
The color of these eyes was very similar to Ling Hong’s, yet they made her blood run cold and a cold sweat break out on her skin.
It was a wild wolf!
’No, wait. Wolves never appear alone; they hunt in packs.’
As if to confirm her fears, a dozen more pairs of ferocious, glowing green wolf eyes appeared in the forest. One by one, they shot out from the trees, completely surrounding her. She clearly looked like easy prey.
The dozen or so wild wolves looked like they had been starving for a long time. Their eyes glowed with green light, their fur was so matted and filthy you couldn’t tell its original color, and their sharp fangs were caked with grime.
The hungry pack stared intently at her, drool dripping in long strings from their gaping mouths to the ground below. Guttural, thirsty growls rumbled in their throats.
The standoff between her and the advancing wolf pack lasted only a few seconds.
One of the strong, ferocious Wolf Beasts lunged at her, its bloody maw gaping wide as if to bite her head off in the next second.
An Jin could even smell the overpowering, foul stench coming from its mouth.
On the verge of life and death, she subconsciously used her spiritual power, and everything around her instantly changed.
In the brief moment the Wolf Beast lunged to attack her, time suddenly slowed down several times over—or maybe even hundreds of times over...
It was so slow it was as if time itself had stopped.
The Wolf Beast, fangs bared, hung in mid-air like a suspended bird, not falling for a long moment.
This scene lasted only a few short seconds.
A sharp pain stabbed through An Jin’s mind. The next moment, the flow of time returned to normal. The hungry wolf slammed into the ground, its heavy body carving out a shallow crater and sending up a cloud of dust.
"AWOO?"
It clutched its sharp claws, then opened its paw to find only a few small pebbles.
’The juicy meal that was right in its grasp got away?!’
"ROAR!"
The Wolf King roared in fury. It whipped its tail, spun around, and fixed its eyes on the small figure sprinting into the distance, leading the pack in swift pursuit.
An Jin ran, clutching her chest. Her face was flushed, her disheveled hair was plastered to her face with sweat, and the cold wind scraped against her skin.
She even had the presence of mind to spare a glance back at the relentlessly pursuing, hungry wolf pack.
Strangely, even though she hadn’t used a large amount of her spiritual power again, it seemed to her that the pack’s speed had been somehow reduced.
’Wait, were they slower?’
’Or was I faster?’
Annoyingly, there was nothing to use as a point of reference, so An Jin couldn’t make an accurate guess.
This pack of starving wolves seemed to have fixated on her—an easy target—and chased her relentlessly over half a mountain without any sign of giving up.
Unlike the frenzied, starving wolf pack, An Jin was an ordinary person. Her stamina was already at its limit.
Her head was pounding, her vision was going dark, and her chest felt tight...
She had thrown the basket from her back somewhere to hurl at a Wolf Beast, but she didn’t know where.
It had grown so dark she could no longer see what was in front of her.
"HUFF..." She dug her hands into the trunk of a nearby tree, gasping for breath. Finally, her stamina gave out, and her pace slowed to a crawl.
Sensing a familiar presence nearby, An Jin’s eyes lit up. She stopped trying to run and, with the resolve of someone facing death, turned to face the furiously approaching wolf pack.
The Wolf King stared at her warily with its glowing green eyes and let out a huff of air. It didn’t seem to understand why this female Beastman, who had been fleeing all over the mountain just moments ago, was suddenly looking at it with such a confident, mocking gaze.
"ROAR!"
The Wolf King’s authority would not be mocked.
But before the pack could lunge as one, a long, powerful black-and-red snake tail flashed out from the jungle, swatting them all dozens of meters away.
The force of that single strike instantly shattered the internal organs of these ordinary wild wolves.
Without a doubt, they were all dead.
The thick stench of blood filled the air. If the bodies weren’t dealt with quickly, it would very likely attract other nocturnal predators from the area.
But at this moment, An Jin wasn’t the least bit worried about her own safety.
Gu Yin, who had suddenly appeared, swept her into his arms. His cool fingertips tilted her chin up, forcing the female to look at him.
"Why weren’t you staying put in the tribe? What were you doing wandering around the forest at night?" Gu Yin looked down at her, his voice low and cold.
