Chapter 144: White Wolf
Fresh off returning to Ravenwood, Lyon gets bad news. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Your Highness, the white wolf that Miss Diana cared for is gone. "Chris was on official business in the Executive Hall, and when he saw the prince returning, he told him about it directly.
"What's the matter? Isn't it in a cage?" Leon hurriedly inquired about the situation, and the white wolf was vicious, and he ran outside and didn't know how many people would be injured.
"Yesterday Miss Diana noticed that the white wolf was not in a good state, so she opened the cage to observe, but suddenly it ran out and disappeared. "I heard Diana say it later, and he was just in charge of relaying it.
"How many people have been injured so far?" Leon clenched his fists, it seemed that Diana's taming ability was not strong enough, and he still had to be careful with the beast in the future.
"So far, there have been no reports of casualties, but patrols and archers have begun to look around. Chris shook his head, when he heard the news, the prince and the knight were not in the town, so he improvised and sent someone to look for him.
"Well, keep looking. "Leon didn't dare to relax, the white wolf didn't hurt anyone, maybe there was still Diana's strength in his body, once he was freed, the town would be more dangerous.
Leon, who had planned to have a good rest, had no time now, and he left the castle to learn about the latest situation.
The patrol members searched carefully from the inside to the outside, and the white wolf was so big that it was easy to be discovered by the people in the town, and there was no trace until now, probably fleeing outside the town and hiding.
Leon arrives at the stables, riding the white horse he has long kept, intending to search the outskirts of the town.
To the north of the town is the Dogne, and Leon doesn't know if it can swim, but on such a cold day, it shouldn't be stupid enough to swim through.
To the east were large vegetable fields and spare grain fields, and there was basically no place to hide, so Lyon simply gave up.
There are already patrols to the south, and it is worth investigating only to the west, where there are wastelands overgrown with weeds that can easily obscure people's views, not to mention the residential areas and lumberyards further west, if it goes there it will cause a lot of trouble.
Leon made up his mind, and rode his horse to search.
The soil is hard and there are many weeds, so you can't find any traces of footprints or anything like that, so you can only look at it slowly with your eyes.
"Your Highness, you're back. On the periphery, he met Diana and Emma.
"Did you find anything?" Leon was anxious about the white wolf, so he didn't mention the content of this trip for the time being.
"No, not a trace of it. Emma was sure that she had lived in the mountains and forests and had some experience in tracking wild animals, but she had no clue now.
"Your Highness, I'm sorry, I was careless. Diana on the side was very sad, if it weren't for her carelessness, the white wolf wouldn't have run out at all.
"Your Highness won't blame you, don't be sad. Emma hurriedly comforted that Diana had often blamed herself in the past two days, and she was responsible for guiding her. No one really expected such an accident, how could there be such a cunning beast.
"There have been no reports of casualties yet, and you don't have to blame yourself too much. Leon turned over and dismounted, it was useless to blame now, he should have taken into account such a situation when he left the white wolf in the first place, and calculated that he was negligent in this matter.
"I will find it as soon as possible. Diana bit her lip, the white wolf was let go by her, she had to catch it herself, otherwise she would always feel guilty in her heart.
"I heard from Chris that the white wolf was not in a good state at that time, so you opened the cage?" Leon wanted to know the whole process of the incident, and maybe be able to find a clue from it.
"Yes. Diana nodded, explaining the place before and after.
Yesterday at noon, Diana took a piece of raw meat to feed the white wolf, and when she walked to the cage, she found the white wolf lying in the cage with her eyes closed, she thought that the white wolf was still resting, so she didn't pay attention to it, put the meat slice in and left.
When she went to see it again in the afternoon, the white wolf still maintained that movement, and there was no trace of the piece of meat being moved, and then Diana realized that something was wrong.
She crouched down to take a closer look.
"What's wrong with you?" said Diana. A few days ago, the white wolf was very lively, and when he saw her coming, he walked around the cage and looked very excited, but today he was particularly abnormal.
The white wolf still did not react, and continued to remain asleep.
Diana picked up the slice of meat and put it to its mouth, hoping that the smell would attract it, but in vain.
She hadn't been in the same situation before, and as far as she knew, there were no wolf breeders in the town, and it was unrealistic to ask someone to help. She was in a hurry, so she could only open the cage and go in to take a look.
Diana entered the cage and squatted beside the white wolf and stroked its forehead: "Are you sick?"
The white wolf seemed to understand her words and looked up at her.
"Ah, are you alright?" Diana was a little surprised, and the white wolf finally woke up.
But things didn't happen to her, and the white wolf quickly got up and fled.
After that, everyone began to search without a clue, and did not return until it was dark, and set off again early this morning.
"The white wolf seems to have done it on purpose. Leon listened to the whole process, and felt that he had underestimated the white wolf, which had shown amazing intelligence and knew how to find the weak. Now it seems to be tamed, but the cunning in the bones still exists.
"You say it's pretending to be unconscious, waiting for me to go in?" Diana looked incredulous, how could a beast be so smart, let alone a beast, how could it be sure that it would definitely open the cage. If the cage never opens, will it starve to death?
"From what I've heard, that's true. Leon couldn't think of a second possibility, he believed that Diana would open the cage, which should have been analyzed from a few days of getting along, so it can be seen that don't underestimate it because it's a beast.
"What to do, it's so clever that it will hide in a hidden place so that we can't find it. Diana was a little anxious.
"Maybe that's a solution to a problem. Leon guessed that it should have returned to its own mountain forest, and after being imprisoned for so long, it must have missed the taste of freedom in the mountain forest, but this also avoided the possibility of hurting people.
"Shall we not look for it anymore?" Diana was a little reluctant, and in just a few days together, she and the white wolf already had a friendship-like relationship.
"If you can't find any trace of it around, you can give up, and if you want to go back to the mountains and forests, let it go back, it doesn't belong here. "Leon is no longer obsessed with raising wild beasts, there is an untamable element in their nature, and forcing them to stay is only a bad thing.