Chapter 29: The Wind Rises in the Wilderness (I)
Life in the wilderness is far less romantic than the people who live in the two heavenly domes or wilderness settlements think, and when the literati living under the heavenly dome take time out of their busy schedules day after day to write down the beautiful life of the heavenly dome or praise the strong and indomitable spirit of the wilderness people, the desolate warriors they praise as "the shroud of the warriors in a hundred battles" have often become the food of the desolate beasts.
The number of human settlements in the wilderness is decreasing, and although no one has published this data, the most intuitive feeling for people living in the wilderness is that there are more and more unfamiliar faces in the bars of each settlement, and there are fewer and fewer familiar faces, and the number of the former is much smaller than that of the latter.
The members of the three groups were also reduced from twelve to nine at the time of departure, and they were lost in a desert scorpion attack, and two of the three were the two members of the Black Tiger who were nervous at the beginning. One of them was staring at the desert in the distance at the moment when the desert scorpion emerged from the bottom of his feet, and never came back to his senses.
What Feng Xia and the others didn't expect was that the desert scorpion quickly sucked it into a dry corpse after killing the black tiger member, and everyone didn't even have time to react, so they watched the sand scorpion burrow into the ground again, leaving only the black combat uniform fluttering in the air in the wind for a long time and then slowly falling, without even stirring up the dust.
In the next three days, the desert scorpion seemed to have gained the ability of the other party after absorbing the Black Tiger member, and actually evolved a hard shell that even Ink Life could not cut through, and successfully ambushed a lieutenant who majored in spell-like domain abilities late at night on the third day. It's just that this time, he didn't have time to absorb the other party's ability before he was slashed back by Feng Xia.
On the fifth day, the desert scorpion that succeeded in ambushing again finally died under Chen Zhi's desolate energy sword, and when it was found trying to escape, it was held by another member of the Black Tiger who was so frightened that he lost control of his spirit, allowing Chen Zhi to pierce the desert scorpion's head with a sword, but he himself was also pierced through the body by the scorpion tail. At that time, Feng Xia knew that Chen Zhi's main ability was actually the Battle Domain, and although the ability in this field was powerful, it was also recognized as a huge consumption, and it was quite difficult for each ability to evolve to a higher level, and it often required to consume more ability points than the ability of the same level.
However, Chen Zhi's strength could not make up for the fact that the three hunting groups had once again faced the fate of being half-disabled, and the remaining nine people would not be able to complete the purge order issued by the War Department no matter what. After weighing, Feng Xia sent a report to the War Department, asking for support from the Desert Battalion, and at the same time the team was divided into two, Chen Zhi led the rest of the people to patrol around the area near the northwest of Suyang, and clear the encountered wild beasts, while Feng Xia served as a scout, to investigate the situation in the area three kilometers away, which is also the practice of the hunting group, when the team is seriously damaged, the team enters a state of rest, and the strongest team leader acts as a scout to explore the situation ahead, in order to determine whether the hunt will continue, and whether the route needs to be changed.
In the thirtieth year of Starfall, on April 29th, the sixteenth day of the hunting of the three groups.
The blazing tongue of fire suddenly rushed out of the hand of a young man in a black combat uniform, igniting a horned wolf that was about to pounce on him, and before the horned wolf could escape, the young man suddenly stepped forward, completely ignoring the movement in his hand, the water-blue short knife that was originally tied to his waist had slid out of the scabbard, and the sharp blade slashed through the fragile belly of the horned wolf, and the horned wolf whimpered weakly, and then fell down softly.
The boy did not let his guard down because of this, after completing this series of actions, he immediately stepped back, until he was nearly two meters away from the horned wolf, then he clenched his left fist, and another tongue of fire rushed out, hitting the horned wolf straight on, igniting the flames that had been almost extinguished again.
The horned wolf, which was already on the verge of death, suddenly jumped high with a force, but fell in vain in front of the young man's feet, a pair of sharp wolf claws weakly bent forward, but it was difficult to reach even the young man's combat boots.
Feng Xia, who had predicted success, did not have much joy on his face, and after bending down to cut off the two long gray horns of the horned wolf, he took a serious look at the corpse of the horned wolf, and several small packets had obviously bulged up near the second horn, and it seemed that if it was not long after, this horned wolf would evolve into a third or even fourth horn.
It is common sense that a normal horned wolf has only one horn.
This is the fifth day that Feng Xia has begun to act alone, according to the information provided by the Desert Battalion, before that, these horned wolves entrenched in the northwest of Suyang City were just idiots who only knew how to kill, and they would frantically attack all living creatures that came into their field of vision, doing their best to turn them into their own food, even if they were of the same kind, they did not have the concept of food distribution. The Suyang Research Base once conducted experiments with captured live horned wolves, if you provide it with ten days of meat in one go, it will eat the meat in one go, and then support itself, if you don't give it food, after feeling hungry, these beasts will eat their own children.
Because of this, the horned wolf pack has not been listed as the main object of observation by the War Department, in fact, without the hunting team to hunt these horned wolves, their population has been difficult to grow by cannibalism within their group.
However, since Feng Xia led the hunting three groups into the wilderness, more than ninety percent of the wild beasts encountered were these horned wolves who were assessed by the War Department as "difficult to pose a threat to Su Yang in terms of numbers within ten years", they not only attacked fiercely, but even reproduced the teamwork inherited by the blood of the ancestors in the old era, and when Chen Zhizai led the team to rest and patrol, after leading six lieutenants to kill a group of horned wolves that could almost be said to be crazy, they found a hidden cave that was almost filled with food, And in the safest and warmest depths of the cave, more than a dozen young horned wolves with two horns on their heads slept soundly.
Everyone who saw that scene recognized the seriousness of the problem, and they invariably remembered the joking phrase that spread many years ago, when the Path of the Wild Warrior was first discovered, "Everything can evolve".
And the horned wolf that Feng Xia met today has even learned to show weakness.
Feng Xia was speechless, lowered his head, and Shui Mosheng retracted his waist, facing the horned wolf that would evolve in a year if nothing else, and might even create a new group of horned wolves, as if he was mourning the death of a sage.
There is a wind blowing, like weeping and complaining.
The small, almost negligible footsteps were muffled by the sound of the wind in the wilderness, and when the wind passed, the fishy smell that could almost stun people was accompanied by the violent wind brought by the giant wolf's pounce, and suddenly attacked from behind Feng Xia!
The male wolf, who had endured for a long time, had blood-red eyes, his mouth was open to the limit, and his sharp wolf teeth still had a little bit of minced flesh on them, and he bit towards the head of his prey, and he wanted to bite this bastard who had just killed his own child!
A dull gunfire rang out from the male wolf's belly, and the massive kinetic energy brought by the desolate energy bullet fiercely repelled the male wolf at least a hundred kilograms. In any case, the soft belly of the horned wolf will always be the Achilles' heel of this group until it has evolved out of bounds.
"Is this evolution?"
Feng Xia looked at the three-horned wolf that was struggling to pounce on him with a hideous face, muttered to himself, and kept modifying the pistol in his hand, sending a full clip of seven desolate energy bullets into the belly of the horned wolf, and then ending its life with a knife.
The communicator made a dripping sound, Feng Xia touched the screen, and Chen Zhi's stereoscopic projection appeared directly above the communicator.
"Report team leader, we have completed the elimination of desolate beasts within three thousand meters northwest of Suyang, and a total of forty-three horned wolves, three desert scorpions, and five mutated red snakes have been strangled......
"How's the damage?" Feng Xia looked up at the sky that had begun to dim and asked.
"Three lieutenants were killed and two wounded." Chen Zhi said the battle situation with some difficulty.
Feng Xia frowned, after discovering that the horned wolf had the possibility of evolution, he immediately sent the weak desolate warriors in the original team back to Su Yang, and applied for reinforcements from the desolate battalion, and now there are fifteen desolate warriors in the hunting group, not counting Feng Xia, and five of them, including Chen Zhi, are still second-order desolate warriors, such a lineup is not much worse than the hunting group, there is no reason to lose so many people near Su Yang......
Wait, show weakness?
Feng Xia remembered the two horned wolves he had just killed, and suddenly had some realization: "You were ambushed by the wild wolves?" ”
Chen Zhi nodded wordlessly, and Feng Xia took a breath: "Dead?" ”
"Lieutenants Hu Le, Sun Jing, and Lin Di under Sergeant Sun Liang, and the injured ones are Sergeant Sun Liang and another lieutenant he brought."
Feng Xia was silent, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Let Sergeant Sun Liang take his lieutenant and escort the two lieutenants of the original hunting group three to return to Suyang together." ”
Chen Zhi's face became more and more difficult to look at: "Report to the team leader, I'm afraid it's unrealistic to only send two lieutenants to escort us, we just found out that our team with two-horned wolf cubs did not return to Suyang, they entered the ambush circle of the horned wolves on the way back, and after we broke through the encirclement, we found their remains in another den of the horned wolves......"