Chapter 30: Surrounded and Fleeing for Our Lives

In the vast snow-covered forest, it is not easy to spot a wolf with light fur, but in the dark of night, its small, bulb-like green eyes are hard to miss. It is on a hillside not far from us, looking like two light bulbs.

“This calf!” The word “calf” has appeared frequently in the mouth of the honest man Lao Zhang in the past two days, showing how angry Lao Zhang is with this “persistent” wolf.

When he spoke, he had a bullet in his mouth and kept on loading his single-barrel shotgun. This “persistent” guy should be shot!

I have great confidence in Zhang’s marksmanship. Watching Zhang’s series of actions, I deeply believe that this is the right thing to do. I said to Ruixue, “Why don’t you let your poisonous bees go out to help?”

Ru Xue glanced at me and said, “No, the whistle is ruined, and the poisonous bees can’t help.”

“That’s right. It’s freezing cold. The poisonous bees can’t fly far, and they’ll freeze to death, right?” I said with a smile, and at the same time I heard the sound of Zhang pulling the gun bolt. I thought to myself, “What a powerful weapon! A real man’s weapon! A knife or a gun is the perfect match for a man. I thought about the look of the talisman in my hand, and I always felt that it wasn’t shocking enough. In movies, when a heroic character appears, they’re not holding a gun or a knife, saving people in danger, and I’m holding a talisman…

I admit that I was thinking too far ahead, but thinking about that scene, I couldn’t help but shiver.

Xue wanted to say something, but Zhang’s gunshot had already sounded. But the next moment, I heard Zhang curse, “This calf is too fast, I didn’t even hit it, fuck!” While talking, Zhang couldn’t help but spit in the snow to express his anger, and then he was busy reloading. I looked around, but I didn’t see the little wolf’s bulb-like eyes. I guess it went to the other side of the mountain.

It was so cunning that it only needed to take one step to hide from Zhang’s bullets by taking advantage of the terrain of the mountain.

“It should have scared the calf away. We have to be careful in the future. This wolf is the most cruel, cunning, and vindictive. If we are not careful along the way, it will come up and mess with us.” Old Zhang loaded the bullets, put the gun on his back, and continued to drive us along the road, but he was still worried and told us.

We were naturally convinced, and Ruoxue also said to me in passing, “These poisonous bees naturally cannot survive in the freezing cold, but they have been deliberately cultivated. Once they are released, they will fight to the death. They will sting others and die themselves. Stimulated by this, they will chase after their targets and fly for a mile or two without a problem. They will not freeze to death.

Ru Xue said so much, as if tired, he let out a long sigh, and I didn’t argue too much about this issue. After all, the art of breeding insects in Miaojiang is full of wonders. It is not impossible that many insects are bred to go against their own instincts. In short, just as ordinary people cannot imagine the magic of Taoism, I cannot imagine how magical the art of poisoning is.

We chatted casually for another five minutes, and then Lao Zhang said, “The calf appeared tonight, so let’s not rush all night. Let’s find a safe place to camp. A pile of fire will scare away many wild animals.”

We agreed, inexplicably feeling that after what happened last night, we would be scared to walk in the woods at night, so it was better to just rest.

Wu Laogui’s ‘outfit’ had changed again. Instead of a flower suit, jeans, and leather shoes, he had a certain matching ear hat and a thick leather jacket. He was wearing a very strange pair of trousers and sneakers underneath. He kept his hands in his sleeves all day long, saying that it was to match the occasion. When he heard that Lao Zhang was going to rest, he was very happy and smiled in a very ‘mysterious’ way, not knowing what he was thinking.

Chengxin looked at him strangely and couldn’t help but ask, “Wu Laogui, what are you thinking about?”

“Haha, hahaha… I remember before we left, Miss Ruoxue said that we couldn’t be so particular in the old forest, and she also asked if there was a way to take a bath once a week. It’s been almost a week since we left.” Wu Laogui was beaming with joy, probably too pleased, and accidentally said what he was thinking.

When I heard this, my face turned green. What was it doing so happy taking a bath? I thought again, this spirit body was originally a guy who floated around, and Ru Xue was not a nun, if it deliberately did not want Ru Xue to see… I did not speak, but instead took out a talisman and ran towards Wu Laogui without saying a word.

Wu Laogui screamed and floated high in the air. I roared from below, “Don’t think that just because you’re floating high, I can’t get you.”

At first, Ru Xue was not so calm, but when she saw me so angry, she calmed down and sat down in the snow, looking at me with her chin hanging down and her eyes not blinking, very satisfied.

Chengxin brother was helpless, and his face twitched. I guess this honest man never thought that ghosts were such unreliable guys!

But at that moment, Wu Laogui suddenly exclaimed, “Cheng Xiaojie, Cheng Xiaojie, I was wrong, but I think we’re finished!”

“What do you mean we’re finished? You’re finished!” I was still angry, and I didn’t think about what Wu Laogui meant at all.

“Chengyi, wolves, so many wolves, they’re going to surround us from all sides.” Wu Lao Gui’s voice had become shrill, showing how terrifying this “scare” was.

“What did you say?” My face changed immediately. Wu Laogui and I could be summed up as ‘playing around’, but he would never joke about this.

Wu Laogui floated down all of a sudden, dancing and gesturing, and said incoherently in front of me, “I was floating high, and the forest was full of green. The wolves from all directions, from all directions…”

My face suddenly turned ashen. In fact, it didn’t matter what Wu Laogui said, the main thing was that we all saw that from the forest in front, behind, and on all sides, many “small green light bulbs” appeared, and it looked like there were no less than two or three hundred wolves.

“Bah!” Old Zhang spat out a mouthful of saliva and said, “I’m afraid all the wolves in the entire forest have come.”

Chengxin said, “That’s an exaggeration. There are probably thousands of wolves in the whole forest. That’s not much.”

Xue, who is usually calm, was also shocked and stopped moving. But she was still relatively rational and said, “It seems like we’re surrounded.”

Wu Laogui quickly added, “Yes, look at the terrain. It’s a small hill, and there happens to be an open space with no trees. This is a conspiracy, a conspiracy.”

There are no trees. I suddenly realized what was going on. Someone once said that wolves would send scouts to follow the enemy from a distance, and then surround the enemy at the right time. I thought it was a lie, but the lesson from last night to tonight has taught me that this is not a lie at all.

It’s a good thing we’re a bunch of bachelors, and we can still discuss how many wolves there are in the forest. In the face of this situation, I can only yell, “Run, run to a place with trees and climb a tree!”

This is the only way out. As soon as the wolves surround us, there will be no place for me to use my poison, and I don’t think I can be so cool as to step on the wolves. As for Zhang, even if he is armed with a Tyrannosaurus machine gun, he can’t kill all the wolf cubs.

When I shouted, everyone reacted and started to turn around and run. There was nothing else to do but run towards the nearest tree. As long as one person could get up there, the rest of the people could hold on for a while, even if they were leaning against the tree.

Lao Zhang immediately darted to the front, shouting, “Follow me. It’s late at night. If you fall into a snowdrift, you’re done for. I’m not familiar with this area, but I can still judge it by experience.”

We didn’t say anything, we understood the seriousness of what Zhang was saying, but we just followed him in silence.

As soon as we started running, the wolves also started to move, and began to come out of the forest from all directions, chasing after us at high speed.

Compared to the wolves, we didn’t have an advantage in running. The snow hadn’t yet reached its deepest point, but even a single step could cause the top of our feet to be submerged. As for the shallow places, stepping on the ground was also a bit slippery. How could we call it running? It was basically rolling and crawling!

The wolves’ big paws were better suited to running in the snow than ours. We could see that the distance was getting closer and closer…

What’s worse, even in this deep forest, there is a fixed route. This is the safest route recorded on Zhang’s map. We ran in such a panic that we deviated from the route and ran further and further away towards an unfamiliar mountain pass!

“Woof, woof, woof,” the sound of the wolves behind me was like an ocean of barking. I was still thinking to myself that these wolf cubs weren’t acting like Bs, and they weren’t howling at the moon. In fact, they were barking just like dogs.

I wanted to use this to relax myself, but at that moment, I heard a cry of alarm from Ruoxue. I watched as a large area of snow in front of me sank in鈥攁 snow cave?!