12. Wasteland hunting
The midday sun roasted almost all the creatures of the wasteland listlessly, but the demon wolf head wolf who was leading his younger brother to tour his territory was obviously not among them.
The wolf king who ruled the demon wolf pack in this wasteland died a few days ago, and in order to compete for the position of the wolf king, the originally thriving wolf pack was divided into several groups of different sizes. The current head wolf was the new leader of their pack, having just defeated the crippled wolf and had become the new master of the wasteland, and the heat did not dampen his interest in patrolling his territory, and the young head wolf couldn't help but want to sing at the thought of the upcoming mating season.
Looking up at the sky, it was almost noon, and the head wolf, feeling hungry in his belly, planned to organize a hunt to hunt several antelope in his territory to fill his stomach. However, it doesn't seem to be very lucky, and there don't seem to be any foraging deer nearby. However, a few short-eared rabbits that were startled by the demon wolf jumped up and fled back to their rabbit holes in a hurry. In the eyes of the devil wolf's head wolf, although this rabbit is delicious, the portion is too small. Although he can feed himself, the dozen or so little brothers around him are not enough. As the head wolf of a wolf pack, although he can enjoy the most delicious meat of his prey, and can have the most beautiful and robust females in the pack to reproduce for himself, he must have the strength to surpass the other wolves in the pack, and be able to shelter his group and let the younger brothers in the pack have enough food to eat - with power often comes responsibility. The young wolf is not blindly arrogant, and he knows very well that if he always eats alone and does not take care of his subordinates, sooner or later he will be angry.
Suddenly, it snapped to a halt in its leisurely steps, and a limb looming out of the bushes in front of it caught its attention. It looked like it was a torn animal limb, like the stump of an antelope.
The head wolf raised his head and sniffed around alertly, and there was a faint smell of blood in the air. Apparently there had been a killing in the vicinity, and the victim was clearly the owner of the stump.
"Uhh In a few moments, a demon wolf returned to the head wolf. Whimpering and reporting what he saw to his leader. The head wolf frowned after listening to the little brother's report, and walked behind the bushes to check.
Behind the bushes lay the corpses of several antelopes, covered in claw marks, as if they had been scratched by some beast. The fatal injuries were all in the neck, and it appeared that the arteries and trachea in the neck had been torn open by a single claw. However, the wolf is very strange why it is claws and not teeth, you must know that if it is hunting by itself, then after pounceing on the antelope, it should bite the neck of the antelope and kill the prey instead of tearing the neck with its claws. Moreover, the abdominal cavity of these antelope carcasses was all dissected, and only the flesh and skin of the corpses remained, but the bones were strangely missing.
It's just that such a strange phenomenon is difficult to understand with the IQ of the demon wolf, and when the head wolf saw the situation in front of him, his first thought was that some unknown magical beasts appeared in his territory.
Judging by the Devil Wolf Head Wolf, the wounds of these antelope deer were clearly not caused by human weapons, and the head wolf had never seen a human hunt with sharp claws. Besides, humans hunt antelope for nothing more than to eat, but these antelope are only missing bones that cannot be eaten, but their skin and flesh are almost intact. If it is said that he just evacuated after a successful hunt because he found a wolf pack, there is no reason to give up the loot. So it can only be some kind of demonic beast roaming this wasteland hunting in their own territory, and then they find themselves patrolling with their little brother and then give up their prey and flee when they see that the situation is not good.
Intruders in your territory? Could it be that you are here to grab the land? The head wolf decided to take a good look at his territory and find out the guy who had come to grab the territory.
Thinking of this, the head wolf was impatient to lead the wolves to continue the inspection, but found that his little brother was drooling at the dead bodies of those antelope. The head wolf then thought that his group had not eaten until now, and it seemed that his little brothers were a little hungry, but without their own orders, they did not dare to fight the idea of these antelope carcasses.
So the wolf snorted, dragged over the carcass of an antelope, tore off the most delicious piece of meat from his breast, and began to feast on it. Seeing this, the wolves immediately swarmed up and ate the rest of the antelope.
All of a sudden, all the demon wolves in the pack let their guard down.
That's when the mutation protrudes!
With a "whoosh-" sound, a piece of turf in the wasteland was suddenly turned over, and a skeleton jumped out of it, raising the bone knife in its hand and stabbing it fiercely into the stomach of a demon wolf. The wolf was caught off guard by a knife in the stomach, and fell to the ground with a wail.
Immediately after, piece after piece of turf was lifted, and more than a dozen skeletons jumped out of the ground, brandishing bone knives and stabbing at the nearest demon wolf.
In just a split second, the demon wolves, who were busy fighting for food, were stabbed four or five under the sneak attack of a dozen skeletons. The rest of the wolves roared and lunged at the skeletons that had wounded their companions.
At this time, several figures suddenly appeared out of thin air around the wolves, surrounding the demon wolves.
The wolf was taken aback by the sudden appearance of a human, but when he spotted one of them wearing a pair of claw-like gloves, it immediately understood what was going on - it was clear that it was a trap to lure other beasts to the bait with the carcasses of the slain. I didn't expect to be fooled.
"Whew!!" The head wolf was unwilling to be restrained, raised his head and roared, leading the wolves to resist.
"Do it!" Yang Qianyu shouted, raised his stick and smashed it at a demon wolf that rushed towards him, and the rest of his companions saw Yang Qianyu make a move, and they all showed their magic skills to fight with the wolves.
Liu Chang (Arcane Witch), dressed in a red robe, reached out and cast a 'sluggish technique' (level Lv0, which slows down enemies in a small area for a short period of time) at the wolves, and then began to fly a kite at the wolves whose speed had dropped sharply while throwing magic missiles while retreating and dodging.
Zhao Ke (cursed wizard) holds a staff with a skull carved on the top, and methodically directs the skeleton soldiers to besiege and kill the lone demon wolf one by one, and every time a new demon wolf is killed, he raises his staff to cast the 'summon skeleton' (level Lv0, using the bones of a corpse to summon a skeleton soldier), and then sees the wolf corpse's belly 'bang' open, and a skeleton holding a bone knife and bone shield crawls out from it, joining the battle group that besieges and kills the wolves.
Zhang Boyin rushed into the wolves, the claw covers on both hands flashed with a sharp cold light, and the wolf claws of the demon wolf and his claws were as weak as the praying mantis blocking the wheels. The final result of any demon wolf who fought with Zhang Boyin was to be torn to pieces by him.
The battle was almost one-sided, although the wolves were quite numerous, almost three or four times as many as humans. However, under the strong force and combat skills of Yang Qianyu and others, there was no resistance at all. Soon, all the ordinary demon wolves fell to the ground and died, and even those demon wolves who were seriously injured by the skeleton sneak attack were killed by everyone one by one.
As for the head wolf, Yang Qianyu broke his limbs and jaws, and fell to the ground whimpering like mud. Yang Qianyu looked at his 'masterpiece', and then picked it up with a stick and flew it in front of Ruan Kunpeng, who was holding an arc-shaped blade in each hand.
"Kun Peng, you come and slaughter it." Yang Qianyu said with a smile. "This beast's strength is good, it seems to be the leader of this group of demon wolves, after slaughtering it, the energy you get should be enough for you to advance."
Ruan Kunpeng didn't say a word, swung his blade and cut off the head of the wolf, then closed his eyes and condensed.
"How?" Yang Qianyu asked with concern. Everyone looked at him with attention.
After a while, Ruan Kunpeng opened his eyes and said excitedly. "It's done, I feel the feeling you said. The energy in the dantian began to spread to my limbs, and it was very comfortable. I feel like I can progress at any time."
"Good." Yang Qianyu nodded and said, "After we go back, you need to retreat for a period of time to condense your energy, so that you can better exert your combat power." ”
"Got it." Ruan Kunpeng nodded solemnly.
"Great!" Everyone cheered, "Dapeng is also about to advance to the second order." Now our combat power has increased again. After you go back, you must have a treat! ”
"Definitely, definitely." Ruan Kunpeng was extremely happy after advancing, and he naturally gladly agreed to the congratulations and 'blackmail' of his partners.
"Alright, everyone." Yang Qianyu clapped his hands. "If you want to celebrate, we'll be celebrating when we get home, now we'll gather the loot and get ready to get out of here. lest the smell of blood attract any powerful monsters. Everyone's fast! ”
"Okay." After everyone agreed, they began to scatter and collect various loot on the wolf corpse.
Yang Qianyu also came to the corpse of a demon wolf, took out a knife from the storage space, and began to cut the skin and bones to dig out the demon core.
The demon core is a kind of spiritual energy crystallized into the body of a demonic beast, similar to the 'demon beast inner dan' in Xiuzhen's novel. It is one of the important sources of spiritual energy used by human warriors, and aboriginal warriors rely on absorbing and refining the spiritual energy in these demon cores to improve their strength realm, so the magic core of Warcraft on the market is very valuable, even the lowest-level Warcraft core can be sold for the price of a gold coin, which is enough to cover half a month's income of a farmer family of three. Therefore, the mercenaries like to hunt monsters to exchange magic cores for money.
According to the different innate element attributes of Warcraft, the core of Warcraft is also divided into many different attributes, such as the four basic attributes of 'earth', 'fire', 'water', and 'wind', 'poison', 'inflammation', 'ice', 'thunder' and other mutated attributes, and 'light', 'dark' and other special attributes. The most common is the 'none' attribute core that does not contain any elemental attributes and is condensed by pure energy. The magic core of the demon wolf is like this, because the demon wolf is an attributeless magical beast, so their magic core is naturally also attributeless. The attributeless magic core is the magic core that most fighters need most, because in this way, pure attributeless energy can be absorbed and transformed by any warrior. The magic core with elemental attributes is the favorite of some fighters who specialize in certain elemental attribute combat skills and magic, and it is also an excellent raw material for adding elemental attributes to weapons, plus the number of elemental attribute magic cores is much smaller than that of non-attribute magic cores, making it not as widely used as the non-attribute magic core, but the value is still high.
Although these demon cores are tonics that can improve their personal strength, they have little use value for Yang Qianyu and them. Because everyone had tried to refine, but as a result, their bodies did not seem to accept the energy of the demon core, that is, the power that everyone had was not the same as the ability of the warriors in this world. Therefore, everyone can only rely on killing demonic beasts to accumulate energy for advancement. However, this is not without benefits, the long-term battle has made everyone's combat skills and experience improve rapidly, and everyone can also feel that their strength is gradually becoming stronger with the fight again and again.