Chapter 412: Engaging the Enemy
Hunting winter wolves is not a simple task, they are social creatures, and most of the time, five to six adult winter wolves will form a pack and hunt together to survive in the harsh environment.
With a height of 1.4 meters at the shoulder, a body length of 2.4 meters, and a weight of 225 kilograms, the adult winter wolf is the largest known wolf species!
Sometimes several packs of wolves will band together to deal with more powerful prey, but such large packs tend to break up because they can't find enough prey consistently.
Compared to normal wolves, winter wolves are more intelligent. They have an intelligence of 2 or more, and most of them can speak two languages: lingua franca and giants, and can also communicate with wolves, ferocious wolves, wolves, and even domestic dogs.
Winter wolves usually have ice-blue or silver eyes, and their eyesight is much higher than that of humans. The Winter Wolf has dim vision, and also has a range of 60 feet. So the winter wolf can see as much as daytime, both in the moonlight and in complete darkness.
On the one hand, the winter wolf has an excellent sense of smell; On the other hand, their white or silvery-white fur blends in with the surrounding icy environment, which also makes it difficult for Yang Hao to spot them.
According to the cases documented in the book, the winter wolves often spotted the apprentice long before they could spot them, and relied on the terrain to set up an ambush in an attempt to ambush the apprentice.
Even some cunning winter wolves will shout "help" to lure humans to lure apprentices into their ambush enclosures.
Winter Wolves are completely immune to cold attacks, but will take twice as much damage when attacked by fire. Therefore, the winter wolf is very sensitive to fire, and will attack Yang Hao first in battle to prevent him from using fire-based spells.
Several winter wolves will often attack a target at the same time, making it difficult for the target to defend against attacks from all directions. When a winter wolf bites its target, it can immediately attempt to throw them into the snow using a stumbling block.
Winter wolves hunt in the same way as normal wolves, they like to circle around their opponents, and each winter wolf attacks in turn to drain the target's energy. Once the prey falls to the ground, all the wolves rush up to bite the prey and eat the bones and flesh together.
Approximately every ten seconds, the Winter Wolf can exhale a cloud of chill with a radius of 15 feet, dealing 24 sorcery damage to the target.
Since the Winter Wolves themselves are immune to cold, they do not take damage from their own spit attacks. It is worth noting that because the Winter Wolf's spit attack is no more strenuous than taking a breath, the Winter Wolf can perform a spit attack while biting the enemy.
The Winter Wolves use most other races as a food source, with the exception of the Frost Giants, one of the reasons being that it is difficult for the Winter Wolves to kill the Frost Giants who are also immune to cold and spitting attacks.
The two often hunt in tandem: the Winter Wolf usually acts as a scout and tracker, and acts as the main force on the flank in battle; Frost Giants, on the other hand, throw rocks from a distance, or strike at close range with a battle axe in hand, occasionally using powerful magic.
Yang Hao's ability in reconnaissance is outstanding, and the skyrocketing total amount of mana allows him to use ultrasonic reconnaissance more frequently, so it is almost impossible to be ambushed.
All they have to do is to get rid of the smell of their bodies, pick the right target in the vast snow-capped mountain area, and it is best to be able to meet a lone target, if they are not lucky, they can only take risks.
After using props to cover up the smell on their bodies, the two stepped into the snowy mountain area.
The weather was not very good at this time, and there was a whirlwind mixed with ice and snow all around, and although the cold spider suit of the two could resist damage, their exposed faces were still frozen and stiff.
The surrounding area is white, the snow-capped mountains are too big, and the results of ultrasonic reconnaissance are only barren.
Even though he had done some research beforehand, Yang Hao was still surprised by the difficulty of this mission.
This is not to blame, his combat power has been consumed by the cruel natural environment is only half left, and it is really remarkable that the Winter Wolf can survive here.
Finally, when it was close to noon, Yang Hao made a discovery.
The echo resembles an animal-like shape, but it looks like it's missing a head and tail, and it's supposed to be a dead body.
Yang Hao and Gale outflanked left and right, approached cautiously, and after making sure that it was not a trap, the two stepped forward to check.
It was the corpse of an elk, with only the upper half of its body remaining, frozen as a stone, covered in snow with blood and ice, apparently dead for some time.
Judging from the wounds, the hunters bit off the elk's body with only one bite and discarded the head with two front legs.
Hunters are giant creatures that are at the top of the food chain and do not lack food, which can be ruled out as being done by winter wolves or frost giants, and they will definitely not waste food.
Yang Hao took a moment to search the area of a kilometer around the corpse and found a similar elk carcass again.
This time it's not one, but a dozen of them, big and small, and it should be a herd of elk.
The snow covered the traces of the battle, and Yang Hao didn't get much information.
"The winter wolf seems to be in trouble." Yang Hao patted the snow off his hands and got up from the corpse.
"Brother Hao, what do you see?" Dafeng was wondering in his heart what kind of creature had such a good appetite, how could it have something to do with the winter wolf after eating a dozen elk at a meal?
"The resources of the snow-capped mountains are limited, and food is always a scarce resource, so it's so unusual for these corpses to be discarded here!
With the smell of the winter wolf, it should be able to smell the blood for the first time, and now the corpse is still there, which means that the relationship between the winter wolf pack and the hunter is hostile, and a conflict broke out after the two sides met.
However, no carcass of the winter wolf was found nearby, and the two sides may be evenly matched. ”
"Then we just fish in troubled waters and finish the task early, this place is too cold!" Gale rubbed his face.
"Yes." Yang Hao said yes, and with a glance of his eyes, a black shadow hit like lightning in the vast snowflakes!
"Bend over!" Yang Hao reminded loudly, pulling Gale by the collar to dodge together.
A rough arrow flew past the windy sideburns, nearly headshot!
After dodging the arrows, the two didn't look at them, and immediately rolled away from their original positions, just in time to dodge the next three arrows.
With a burst of magic, a purple shield of light appeared on the arms of the two, vigilantly looking at the enemy in the wind and snow.
The four strong men with their shirtless bodies looked at them coldly, their eyes full of fierce light.
Their sturdy bodies were covered with countless scars, and they were armed with rough iron tools, and one of them roared:
"Human! Lay down your arms now! ”
These people behaved like uncivilized savages, but they did not stutter and spoke clearly.
Of course Yang Hao won't listen to them lay down their weapons, these people should be the so-called wolf children!