Rebirth: Pampered by the Lord-Chapter 1720: Don’t Want to Die
The carriage driver trembles with fear beside them, deeply regretting his choices. For over a hundred taels of silver, he took on a journey that risked his life – a huge loss indeed. If only he had not been greedy for the money from the start.
At home, driving a carriage for an entire year only earned him several taels of silver. When Madam Xie approached him about taking Xuexue to the Capital, offering him one hundred and fifty taels of silver, he was overjoyed. More than a hundred taels of silver—a fortune far beyond his lifetime earnings—felt like money falling from the sky, and he agreed immediately.
However, he never dreamt that the road would be so perilous. Barely escaping bandits during the day, scarcely a few Shichen passed before encountering Wolves Pack. Thinking he was doomed, and lamenting never seeing his wife and children again, he collapsed on the carriage and began crying aloud.
Long Rui frowned and said unhappily, "Why are you crying?"
"I’m about to die, can’t I cry?" The carriage driver, usually submissive to Long Rui, replied gruffly.
To hell with Master! At the brink of death, everyone is equal.
"Who said you were going to die?"
"So many wolves—you think we can escape?" the carriage driver said, crying.
"What a useless person," Long Rui mumbled, ignoring him.
Just then, Zi Xia suddenly cried out, "Oh no! Wolves are coming in!"
Turning their heads, they saw that a fire had gone out, and some wolves rushed in through that gap.
Long Rui swept his palm out, and one wolf met its doom instantly.
Xuexue wasn’t idle either; she pulled out a dagger from her coat and charged forward...
In just a few moves, another wolf was dead.
Yet wolves continued to pour in through the opening, incessantly, one after another, these wolves seemed like fearless warriors willing to die for food.
Xuexue kept slaughtering the incoming wolves while yelling at Zi Xia, "Zi Xia, quickly block the gap and stop more wolves from coming in."
Outside, there were thousands of wolves; if this continued, they’d be worn out.
Zi Xia realized immediately, stabbed a nearby wolf to death, and ran over to block the gap.
In her haste, she saw the carriage driver trembling away and kicked him, saying, "If you don’t want to die, hurry up and help."
"Help... help... help! Help with what?"
"Block the gap! Otherwise, if more wolves get in, you’ll certainly die."
The carriage driver shivered, stood up trembling, "Ho... how... how to block it?"
"Light the firewood and place it there at the gap."
The carriage driver trembled as he did it several times, feeling less afraid once he managed it.
At that point, Long Rui and the others finished off all the wolves that had come in, counting the bodies—more than twenty wolves.
The wolves’ corpses lay in the fire pile, blocking their space.
Xuexue grabbed a wolf corpse and tossed it out...
With a swoosh, it flew into the Wolves Pack, and instantly the pack scrambled to snatch at it, devouring the wolf corpse within seconds, leaving only a few bloody bones.
This scene sent shivers down everyone’s spine. How starved were these wolves to act like this? No wonder, knowing they couldn’t get in, the Wolves Pack chose to linger outside the fire, watching.
Following suit, everyone began to throw wolf corpses out again; similarly, in just seconds, the corpses were fought over and swallowed up by the other wolves.
Everyone was horrified; they realized that if they fell among Wolves Pack, they wouldn’t even fill the wolves’ gaps between teeth.
