Chapter 466: Chapter 466: Wolf Child? (4 Updates)
Ah Yong looked at the two beast skins hanging at the cave entrance, astonished by the combat prowess of Yang Xiao and Monk Ben Yin, filled with envy. If he possessed such strength, he could defeat the Wolf King and protect his woman.
He watched from outside the cave for a while, then sat down beside the extinguished campfire. He noticed some roasted meat near the fire, and without a second thought, he grabbed it and put it into his mouth.
Yang Xiao had sprinkled some salt on the roasted meat, making it taste distinctly different.
After taking a bite, Ah Yong was pleasantly surprised and immediately started to chew enthusiastically.
Just after finishing one piece and about to eat another, he heard the cry of a Giant Eagle from a distance and was startled.
He had seen Yang Xiao’s Giant Eagle before and knew it was extremely powerful.
Ah Yong, clutching a piece of roasted meat, sprinted like the wind towards the distant forest, quickly hiding himself.
The Giant Eagle slowly landed on the open ground outside the cave, and both Yang Xiao and Monk Ben Yin jumped down.
Yang Xiao walked over to the cave entrance and bent down to glance at the ashes near the campfire, then suddenly stopped.
"What’s wrong?"
Monk Ben Yin saw Yang Xiao standing in front of the campfire, looking at the ground with a pensive expression.
"I deliberately dropped a bag of spicy fish on the ground this morning, along with a few pieces of roasted meat. Look, the spicy fish is gone, but there are still two pieces of meat left. How do you explain this?"
After hearing this, Monk Ben Yin was also taken aback.
Logically, if it were an ordinary wild animal, it would have eaten all the roasted meat, but now two pieces were left untouched, with only the spicy fish taken from the ground.
"An ordinary wild animal would directly rip open the packet; we should be able to find the packaging nearby."
Yang Xiao said. The two of them searched around but found no trace.
After a moment of thought, Monk Ben Yin suggested:
"Could it be a monkey?"
"It’s unlikely. If it were monkeys, they would have taken all the roasted meat. Besides, look at the ashes of the campfire. They are intact, with no signs of being disturbed by trampling. If an ordinary monster came to take the roasted meat, it would have destroyed the shape of the ashes. This indicates that the monster took the meat very gently, and its movements were also swift."
"Could there be people nearby?"
Monk Ben Yin uttered thoughtfully, then scanned his eyes around.
Yang Xiao also glanced around; he couldn’t be sure whether there were people around, or some other mutated creatures.
"Anyway, we need to be careful. Let’s take turns keeping watch tonight, so we don’t get harvested by a monster without knowing."
"Alright."
Monk Ben Yin nodded.
The two of them went to the nearby forest again and chopped down two trees thick as a bowl, dragging them to the entrance of the cave.
When Yang Xiao was chopping trees, Ah Yong was inside the forest, just concealed behind the dense tree branches and leaves, invisible to Yang Xiao.
Today Yang Xiao and his companion had killed more than thirty monsters of the Enhanced Gene Intermediate level, and their hunting path was getting closer to the core area of Shenlongjia.
Yang Xiao took out a python over twenty meters long from his Space Ring and threw it to the Giant Eagle, then took out a three-meter-long frog, skinned it, and started roasting it over the campfire.
The huge frog weighed over a hundred pounds, its meat tender and delicious. After being seasoned with chili powder and salt, it was absolute delicacy.
The time was still early, with clouds on the far horizon dyed blood-red by the setting sun, which still hung high above the summit of Shan Feng.
Ah Yong stood atop a giant tree, peering through the dense foliage, and was amazed to see Yang Xiao tossing a twenty-plus-meter-long python to the Giant Eagle, almost dumbfounded by the sight.
Such pythons, when encountered by them, would always result in immediate flight; they wouldn’t dare to touch one.
All of the tribes lived on the outskirts of Shenlongjia, not daring to venture into the central areas, let alone the core region.
Ah Yong and his companions were unaware that it was the apocalypse; they only knew that the various animals in the forest had undergone enormous mutations overnight, their bodies swelling and their offensive power growing stronger.
As tribespeople, they too began to feel changes in their own genes, gaining more strength, faster speed, and even powerful defense.
However, their Combat Power was still a lot smaller compared to the Mutated Creatures, which is why they dared not delve deeper into Shenlongjia. A few tribes that had previously lived deep in the mountains had also relocated.
Ah Yong sat on a tree branch, biting into a piece of roasted meat, savoring it with relish, already forgetting that Ah Chun was about to be taken away by the son of the Wolf King; the sorrow in his heart had long been replaced by the shock before his eyes.
That night, Yang Xiao and Monk Ben Yin took turns on watch, rotating every two hours.
The night was peaceful and no monsters came to disturb them.
In fact, with the Giant Eagle, a high-Level monster, perched at the mouth of the cave, other monsters in the vicinity had long been scared away.
Early the next morning, Yang Xiao and Monk Ben Yin, as usual, lit a fire to roast meat. After consuming the meat, they rested briefly inside the cave before mounting the Giant Eagle and soaring into the sky.
Early in the morning, Ah Yong lay on a tree branch watching the movements of Yang Xiao and his companion. Seeing them start a fire and roast meat, he couldn’t help but drool, anxiously waiting until the two men leaped onto the Giant Eagle and took off. The instant they left, Ah Yong couldn’t wait to jump down from the tree and dashed toward the cave.
Could he find another pack of spicy fish and some more roasted meat like he did yesterday?
With hopeful thoughts, Ah Yong rushed to the mouth of the cave like a gust of wind and saw, from a distance, indeed there was a pack of spicy fish on the ground. Overjoyed, he shouted out and grabbed the spicy fish from the ground.
Then he saw two pieces of roasted meat still on the campfire, his heart pounding with excitement. Just as he was about to reach for the roasted meat, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.
A cold sword pressed against his back, and he could even vaguely feel the tip piercing his skin, causing some pain.
"Don’t move!"
An icy voice came from behind him. Ah Yong felt a Killer Aura and thought of Yang Xiao’s ability to kill those massive Fierce Beasts, his heart fraught with terror, quickly saying:
"Not moving, not moving, I’m not moving!"
Yang Xiao held the sword against Ah Yong’s back. Hearing Ah Yong’s words, he was quite surprised; was there really someone hiding out here?
However, looking at the back covered in black hair, standing two meters tall, with a muscular body, and only wearing a Beast Skin around the lower body, this did not look like an ordinary person.
In a flash, Yang Xiao remembered stories of "wolf children," those village kids who were carried off by wolves into the mountains when they were very young. The wolves did not kill them but let the human children grow up with the wolf cubs.
As the wolf children grew up, they lived just like wolves, hunting prey and drinking blood, inhabiting the mountains for years.
Could this hairy creature before him actually be a Werewolf?
Yang Xiao, holding the sword, said:
"Turn around slowly, don’t think about running, or I’ll kill you."
With trembling legs, Ah Yong nervously said:
"Not running, not running,"
Then he slowly turned to face Yang Xiao.
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