Chapter 52: The Uninvited Guest
I don't know how long it took, in a daze, Dekang seemed to hear a faint strange sound mixed with the cold wind whistling in the distance, and he was stunned for a moment, he suddenly opened his eyes, turned over and raised his head to prick up his ears to listen carefully. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Outside the snow cave, in addition to all kinds of whistling and strange winds, there was also the occasional noise of snow falling from the cliffs, but Dekang listened to the boss for a while, and did not notice the slightest strange sound.
Dekang stared out of the cave for a while, then turned his head to look at the sleeping Baoyue, blinked his eyes a few times, and he couldn't figure out if what he heard in the confusion was a hallucination.
'The first time I brought Baoyue out, I should be cautious. Dekang thought to himself.
He turned over and half-knelt and twisted his body a little, moved a small half circle and raised his head to get up and walked towards the outside of the cave, who knew that the long tail behind him still swept to Baoyue's neck, when Dekang stared left and right at the entrance of the cave, Baoyue raised his head and asked with half-squinted eyes: "Second brother." What are you doing? ”
Dekang turned around and poked his head into the snow cave: "The second brother seemed to hear a little movement just now, but now he can't notice anything." The second brother was going to rush over to take a look. ”
"Second brother is going to rush over and have a look." Baoyue opened her eyes suddenly: "Baoyue is going too!" ”
Dekang didn't think there was any need for Baoyue to follow.
"The second brother didn't know if there was a situation, just to check and check, the direction is not certain, if you cross the valley, the snow is too deep, Baoyue will stay, maybe the second brother will come back in a while."
Baoyue looked at Dekang, thinking that the snow in the river valley could drown herself, so she had to nod: "Second brother." You're checking nearby, and don't forget to call Baoyue if you have something. ”
Dekang nodded: "Baoyue will stay in the cave, and the second brother will greet you if there is something." ”
Dekang pulled out the sword from the entrance of the cave and put it on his back, glanced at the east and west sides of the Haxia River Valley, and ran towards Lake Belik.
He knew that this faint, vague sound was unlikely to come from the upper wind, it should be much clearer, and it would have a little echo, not the abrupt end that he had just felt.
Dekang still runs along the foot of the mountain, which can not only save physical strength, but also observe the movement of the entire river valley from a high distance, if there is really any situation, it will definitely not escape Dekang's eyes and nose.
As Dekang ran over two gentle slopes and approached a small canyon, he suddenly stopped, stared at the mouth of the canyon for a moment, and then took a deep breath with his nostrils pointing upward.
The cold wind was inhaled into his nose, and the hairs on Dekang's head stood on end, and Dekang closed his eyes and carefully distinguished, although it was blown away very, very lightly, he could still distinguish the existence of a strange smell.
Intuition tells Dekang that this is a dangerous smell.
Since the tragedy of the family, Dekang no longer has the strength to patrol the territory, and the wind and snow of the whole winter will blow away and drown all the smells and marks left by the Dekang family on the border.
Perhaps this time something happened that had always feared Dekang the most: an opponent broke in.
Dekang glanced at the road behind him, lowered his body and ran to the junction of rocks and sand at the foot of the mountain, and leaned towards the mouth of the canyon under the cover of large and small rocks.
Standing behind a large rock twenty paces away from the mouth of the canyon, Dekang poked his head out and took a deep breath again, this time he easily recognized the strange smell, the opponent was in the small canyon, and there was more than one coming.
Dekang retracted his head and faced the river valley and quickly thought: , Who is the sacredness who came, he just left Lake Belik with Baoyue, and a dangerous opponent followed, is this just a coincidence or is it aimed at himself? ‘
Let's go and find out what is real and what is false.
After walking from one rock to another, Dekang came to the mouth of the canyon step by step, staring at the snow on the ground of the valley mouth little by little, gradually, Dekang's eyes stayed under the cliff on the east side of the canyon mouth, and there were rare footprints on the snow between the scattered rocks.
Dekang glanced into the canyon, found no characters, and ran down the opposite cliff.
In the leeward of the rocks in front of Dekang, there were sparsely left messy footprints of different shades, which seemed to be slightly larger than those of the little fox, such footprints must have been left by a small group not long ago, winding from the rocks to the west, turning a corner at the mouth of the small canyon and heading north.
Since it was not the footprints of the wolf clan, Dekang breathed a sigh of relief and was a lot more relieved.
Maybe a group of little foxes came out hungry to feed. I knew that this was the case, and I should have let Baoyue come out with me. Dekang secretly guessed.
He looked up and looked into the small canyon for a moment, and saw that it was a canyon similar to that of the eagle's nest, and the canyon meandered up the mountain mass of the Alka Mountains, and in the middle was a small stream washed by the summer snow, and although it was now covered with snow, the general outline was recognizable at a glance.
Dekang turned his head and searched inside and outside the mouth of the small canyon again, but did not find the footprints of the little sheep, took a deep breath again and carefully identified, and finally scratched his scalp and thought: "It seems that there is no delicious food here, why did a group of little foxes run out in the middle of the night, this is unreasonable?" ”
Dekang stared at the canyon with a flash of light in his eyes, and ran inside.
After running a few hundred steps along the edge of the cliff, Dekang stopped again, staring suspiciously at the messy footprints behind a large rock, and then stepped forward and sniffed.
Gradually, Dekang's neck fur stood up and his tail began to straighten: 'These are not the footprints of the little fox. ’
Dekang turned to the canyon and showed his sharp fangs viciously: "Although the Dekang family has suffered a catastrophe, it is not something that a dog-legged like the jackal can break in and bully, I want to teach this group of bastards a hard lesson." ’
Dekang resisted the urge to raise his head and scream, and his body deftly scurried from one rock to another against the cliff wall, and soon ran through three side streams, approaching the end of the canyon.
Dekang lowered his body before the last gentle slope and slowly poked his head out, and found that the messy footprints were three or four steps ahead and turned to the east, and there was a rare scream coming from the small ravine to the east, Dekang got up and pricked up his ears to listen.
The swirling cold wind was interspersed with the sounds of a fight.
'Is the jackal fighting in the nest or is it besieging which powerful character, and I don't see any other footprints?' Hey, hey, hey... Dekang's eyes rolled a few times, and soon he had an idea, and a hint of fierceness flashed across his face.
Dekang walked to the end of the footprint step by step, shrunk behind the cliff, pricked up his ears and listened for a while, and quickly poked his head out to glance.
A few hundred paces away, on the edge of a cliff at the end of a ravine, a group of jackals were fighting, and it seemed that several characters were besieging an unlucky man.
'A godsend. ’
Dekang lay down and slowly stretched out his head to inspect the terrain in the ravine, although the ravine is rocky and rugged, but there is still a passage in the center where the snow water washes can be smoothly entered, but if you rush directly from here, you will definitely be discovered by the fighting jackals.
Dekang rolled his eyes a few times, stared at the place where the jackals were fighting, reflexively ran back towards the way they came, and when he reached the small ravine he had just passed, that is, the back of the mountain where the jackals were fighting, Dekang looked inside, and ran in with a smoke.
Near the end, I vaguely heard the roar and screams coming from the other side of the mountain.
Dekang paused and listened for a moment, confirming that it was the jackals fighting in groups, not besieging their prey.
Before leaving Belik Lake, Dekang could confirm that there were absolutely no jackals in the area from Whale Lake to the three-way junction of the Haxia River, which he often hunted.
In such a cold weather, the group of jackals fought from the outside of Altyn to this point, which shows that this group of samples broke in in a hurry, and it may be that the unlucky guy who was besieged fled in a panic, and the characters behind him naturally chased after him.
They forgot whose territory it was! Dekang stared at the cliff with a fierce look in his eyes, and climbed up.
Because the mountain here is located at the end of the western end of the Alka Mountains, the small mountains inside are generally not high, and the mountains are not very steep, there is always a place to climb up, compared to climbing the mountain with Baoyue in Lake Belik, this is simply a small mound, but there is a lot of snow on the mountain, and you have to avoid making a loud noise, Dekang also used enough energy when climbing the mountain.
It didn't take long for Dekang to climb to the top of the mountain, and he didn't stop at all, straightening his tail and lunging towards the fight between the jackals.
Dekang knew very well that the cold wind swirling in the valley would blow his smell into the nostrils of the jackals in the blink of an eye, and he had to block the jackals' retreat before they could react.
When Dekang emerged from the ridge line at the top of the mountain, the small leader who was besieging the jackals and guarding the back was stretching his neck and squinting his eyes to discern the air, he was a little aware of the approach of a wolf clan, but the whirling wind made him unable to judge the location of the wolf clan, and wanted to wait for verification to beckon his subordinates to stop fighting, send two guys to watch the fugitives, and take his men down to inspect it.
Since only one wolf clan came, the little leader thought that the strength of the two sides was roughly equal, and he should not fight, and when the time came, he would bring out the name of the big leader, so that the wolf clan would retreat.
The location of the jackals' fight was at the cliff at the edge of the small hill, about fifty or sixty steps away from the end of the small ravine.
Turning his head to see Dekang pounce viciously, the little leader couldn't figure out Dekang's intentions, so he hurriedly beckoned his subordinates, and at the same time rushed into the jackal group with all his limbs, and commanded his subordinates to let out a threatening scream at Dekang with his fangs exposed.
Several ups and downs Dekang rushed to a place more than ten steps away from the jackal group before stopping, which happened to be stuck in the retreat of the jackal group.
Although the jackals are very bounced, if they want to jump out from the other side of the steep side to escape, the snow covered is likely to become a trap for the escapees, and if they are unlucky, they will slide down the boulder and fall into the ravine, which is close to 20 steps of ups and downs, and there is no way to survive if you fall.
In front of Dekang are six adult jackals, and the five in front have been arranged in formation under the command of the small leader, which is a double-frett shape commonly used in the attack of the jackal group, with two in the front and three in the back, and the small leader in the middle of the back row.
This formation can be both offensive and defensive, especially in the position of the small boss, and when defending, he can be deployed left and right, and when he has the opportunity, he will jump on the back of the previous guy, and then lift the volley to the prey to deliver the final blow.
There is also a guy behind the formation, half-squatting on the snow with his ears drooping, the fur on his body has long lost its luster, the east and the west are sticking together, and there is blood flowing out of some parts, it seems that this unlucky guy has been running for his life for a long time and night, this time he was finally blocked on the cliff, the injury was not light, and he had no ability to attack.
He glanced at the opponent in front of him, and then raised his head and stared at Dekang viciously, with a rebellious look on his face.
This unlucky guy knows very well that no matter who wins, the unlucky one must be him, and the wolf clan will never let go of the injured jackal, and he is still a fugitive.
The rapid response of the jackal group also surprised Dekang secretly, it was definitely not a rabble that could make this kind of reaction, it was likely to be a well-trained warrior of the jackal group, but seeing the jackals become a turtle in the urn, Dekang was still very proud in his heart, which was much more effective than the stragglers.
'To deal with jackals, you have to rely on great strength to subdue them. Dekang condescended and said nothing, staring coldly at each jackal, forcing a powerful momentum into the jackal's eyes.
When Dekang stood still, the little leaders saw Dekang's appearance clearly, and everyone couldn't help but gasp.
There is a wolf clan that looks like a snow leopard, is there really a legendary giant wolf here in Altyn who dares to provoke the yak!
The two characters next to him turned their heads and glanced at the little leader, and the little boss also felt that everyone's hearts were weak and their faces were pale, which was not a good sign, looking at the size of the wolf clan in front of him, no matter how he fought, it was unlikely that he wanted to retreat with his whole body.
Doing things for the big leader, ordinary wolf groups don't dare to intervene when they see it, if they don't come up with some means this time, they will really be planted here.
The little leader licked his lips, took a big breath of cold air to strengthen his dantian, and asked loudly: "We are the Jinshan Jackal Group tribe under the command of the Western King Flying Falcon, and we are ordered by the great leader to capture the fugitives. Which clan are you a warrior from? ”
'King of the Flying Falcon? Dekang was stunned for a moment before reacting, staring at the little leader with more sinister eyes, and after a while asked, "Is the Falcon tribe king?" ”
The flying falcon tribe to which the little boss belongs, that is, the western wolf tribe sealed by the Golden Wolf Khan King, is currently the largest tribe among the three wolf tribes, with thousands of warriors under his command.
The Jinshan Jackal tribe where he belongs is the most brave and warlike jackal tribe in the Falcon tribe, and even the current leader of the Falcon Group has a high opinion of the Jinshan Jackal Group tribe and often envelops it.
The little boss wanted to raise his name to bluff the giant wolf in front of him, but after seeing Dekang's indifferent expression, he secretly exclaimed, Dekang's eyes that attacked the prey made the little boss more and more frightened, and his disdainful tone also taught him to be even more unconfident.
He listened to Dekang's question and quickly replied with a smile: "The great leader of the flying falcon has not yet summoned the public to declare himself king, but the cubs under his command have already called out, and the great leader of Sangsang in the east also calls him king." ”
"What about the northern wolves?"
The little leader still accompanied the smiling face: "The white-tailed tribe has always been alone, how dare you be the king under the pressure of the two major tribes in the east and west." ”
Although the little leader's words were not much, the information revealed was enough to shock Dekang.
The two major tribes of the East and the West have joined forces to squeeze the northern tribes, although they do not know the specific reasons and processes, but it is an indisputable fact that the East and West tribes are kings internally, and it seems that the wolf clan is about to split, and their summer trip to the wolf's den may be more severe than imagined, and everything must be considered carefully.
"What about the communities in the southeast?"
"The southeastern communities?" The little boss looked at Dekang in surprise, a little confused about what Dekang meant.
"Talk back?" Dekang's raised voice.
The little leader glanced at the two subordinates on the left and right, and said hesitantly: "We are in Jinshan, and we are not very clear about the south, I only heard that there are very, very many humans there, and they used to treat the wolf clan and the jackal clan with great ferocity, and the surviving wolf clan and jackal clan are basically invested in the two major tribes of the east and west, and there should be no large community." ”
'! Dekang sighed secretly.
According to Dekang's original plan, when the investigation of Aqi Lake is completed, he will take Baoyue south to recruit troops.
It is the direct territory of the Golden Wolf Khan King, and the leaders of the divided communities do not belong to each other, and the loyalty of the wolf clans in each community should be higher than that of the three major tribes.
Who would have thought that the situation in the southern territory would be so bad, and the community had fallen apart, and Dekang was stunned for a while.
The little leader waited for a while, but didn't see Dekang speak, knowing that Dekang was in a daze and didn't dare to launch a surprise attack, he swallowed his saliva and said cautiously: "This warrior." We don't want to offend, we will leave when we are done, and raise our noble hands lightly! ”
"Raise your hand? Hey, hey, hey... Dekang's eyes were as cold as a blade.
Seeing that Dekang's face was not good, the five jackals stepped forward in unison to show their fangs.
The little boss roared as a final threat: "We are running an errand for the Falcon King, and if we offend the western tribes, you will be left with no bones left, and you will be wiped out." ”
"Trespassers on Altyn - Dead!"
After saying that, Dekang pounced on the jackals.
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