Chapter 10: The Wolves Attack
Professor Granger didn't take any of this to heart, he made new discoveries every day, his mind was full of surprises, and he couldn't hold anything else. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
But this was not the case with Magellan, who once tried to return to the place he had walked but found that he could not find the way. If it weren't for the Essence Detector to point out where the Essence gathered, they would have been lost long ago.
Still, Magellan was concerned if they were spinning in circles, and he wasn't sure if the essence of the Black Forest had affected the compass and made it point in the wrong direction. The forest began to hide its malice, and Magellan was convinced that it was getting darker and darker, and that the howl of the wolf that had been plausible was clearly audible.
"It shows that we are going deep into the Black Forest, and we are going in the right direction, which is great news!"
When Magellan mentioned this to Professor Granger, his answer was this, completely ignoring the dangers that lurked in it.
In desperation, he lit up the "sun".
But it didn't work, the light illuminated only a small area, and beyond that range it seemed even darker, and there was an unsettling sound from the depths of the darkness, as if the forest had been enraged.
Magellan took out his pocket watch from his pocket, and it was still noon, but it was like a cloudy twilight.
It's been half a month since they walked into the Black Forest. Food was getting harder to find, the nights were getting colder, the days were getting shorter, and they were struggling, and while Professor Granger was optimistic, Magellan had determined that it was the Black Forest itself that was unleashing malice and wanted to trap them here.
And they have no resistance to it. The path behind him to leave the forest has quietly disappeared, and with each step forward, the power of the forest is stronger.
Soon after, they encountered their first crisis.
On a gloomy twilight, the forest was already dark, like late night. The howl of the wolf, which could be heard every day, was mixed with new sounds, the sound of something running through the woods and stepping on dead leaves.
Magellan lit the "sun" and pulled a burning branch from the campfire.
Professor Granger came to his senses in a rare way from his research, and he also raised a torch and stood up.
"The wolf is coming......
The fire flickered, and a little green glow appeared among the trees outside the camp.
"Is there any magic that can deal with wolves?"
"No, how could it be, the wolves in the Black Forest are magical creatures themselves......" Professor Granger gasped and didn't say the second half of the sentence.
"So what do we do?"
"I don't know...... You are the one who has goblins friendship, and the Black Forest should have sheltered us!"
Magellan wields a torch at the eager wolves, driving the gray wolves back into the darkness as they rush into the light. Although it was only a glimpse, he was sure that these were not ordinary wild wolves, but had mutated into some kind of terrifying monster under the influence of the essence. In the villages on the edge of the Black Forest, there is a story about the big bad wolf who put on human skin and ate a family of three, which may not be a story at all, but a fact.
"Don't hurt them, or you'll anger the forest!"
Magellan was just about to pull out his handcuff when he heard Professor Granger's sudden words, and even spewed out of his heart.
"And how do we survive?"
"I ...... I don't know ......."
It was dusk, and the thought of that made Magellan despair, and the long night that followed, the wolves drew strength from the darkness, and the two were small boats in the storm, and it was almost impossible to survive.
It seemed that the wolves were very afraid of the torches in their hands, but they did not want to take any chances, and every time a wild wolf rushed to the campfire, they had to scream and wave the torches, and it would not be long before they had no strength to do so, when the wolves could bite their throats unscathed and drag them into the darkness.
"Get inside the tent!"
Magellan felt that the wolf might not be able to take his tent, his tent was small because it was reinforced with a lot of valuable materials, and even if the wolf was smart enough to know that entering through the door, it would be much easier for the two to guard it.
Professor Granger, though unaware of Magellan's confidence in his tent, understood that it was easier to guard the door, so he found a gap and got into Magellan's tent, then raised the curtain and stood behind it.
Magellan tucked the sun into his bosom with his left hand, pulled out his handcuff, and pulled the trigger on the top of his head, and with a loud bang, the wolves retreated into the darkness, and took advantage of this opportunity to get into the tent.
The wolves did not rush up for a long time, they were frightened by the loud noise, and they did not want to go to the campfire.
Taking advantage of this moment, the two took a sip of water, and then pulled out the handcuffs and gunpowder from Magellan's salute. Magellan brought two handcuffs, one as a spare, for Professor Granger. The two of them spent a long time loading the handcuffs with ammunition, but they didn't think they could be of any use. The wolves are as cunning as humans, and by the time they rush up, they will have already guessed that this is a weapon that can only be attacked once.
Magellan turned his salute upside down, but did not find a second weapon. The powder of the magic gem used for the primer of the revolver bullet he used in his last attack on the Monty Python had not been enough to make up a single bullet until now, and this expensive and powerful weapon was now a beautiful ornament. There was really no way, he took out the long sword Glory Jade and put it within reach, ready to use it for the last time.
As the minutes passed, the two of them were tormented, but the wolves eventually surrounded them.
Leading the way was a giant gray wolf, its head reaching Magellan's shoulder, a terrifying behemoth. To its right and left were terrifyingly large wolves, with human-like expressions, around the small campfires and around the small tents.
The wolf lowered his head and leaned in front of the tent, Professor Granger waved his torch, and the wolf dodged with ease, but did not retreat, with a mockery in its eyes, and as soon as it shrank its shoulders, it was about to get in.
Magellan gritted his teeth, raised his handcuff and shot the wolf in the nose.
There was a loud bang, and a gust of wind blew in the tent. The moment the gun was pointed at it, the giant wolf withdrew from the tent in the awkward position of this hole, bringing up the gust of wind, and Magellan's shot was missed.
Professor Granger saw that he also raised his handcuff, but the wolves outside seemed to be no longer afraid, and slowly but surely came up.
Magellan was filling his handcuffs with gunpowder when he heard Professor Granger shooting. He threw away his handcuff and picked up the long sword on the table with his left hand.
In the midst of the raging wind, a huge wolf's head stopped in front of him.