Dean's journey turns into two people.

But Cayden has been living a normal life as a human for the past eighteen years, and his unruly wolf nature has been suppressed to a minimum, and he has accepted Dean's advice and guidance throughout his journey.

It's clever that the main mission to find Lena coincides with the general direction of "Call of the Wild" and can be carried out at the same time.

So the two of them switched from Highway 65 to Highway 40 in Nashville, heading west, stopping at each town they passed, searching for bars and strip clubs together.

Kayden is intrigued by Dean's persistence,

"Who is this woman you are looking for? Girlfriend? ”

"No, it's my mother." Dean looked at the shadow floating in the co-pilot, and didn't hide it, "She disappeared nine years ago, and I vowed to find her." ”

"Where's your father?"

"Also missing, but I already have a general direction of investigation."

"Then we have a lot in common." Cayden's eyes softened as he looked at Dean, "Both have lost their parents and are alone. ”

"I'm not alone," Dean winked in the rearview mirror, "I have a lot of friends I can trust, including a couple of girlfriends... I can always visit them, have a meal, do some wholesome entertainment, and be in a much better position than you. ”

Cayden couldn't imagine that this mysterious Asian was a big carrot, and asked in surprise, "Your girlfriends are all ordinary people?" ”

"Of course."

"Aren't they afraid of a dangerous alien like you?"

Honk!

Dean slapped his horn to warn the black man crossing the road in front of him,

"God has never forbade aliens to keep in touch with human society,"

"But once humans know our true identity, they will immediately be scared and treat us as monsters, just like Selena." Kayden thought of his ex-girlfriend with a burst of regret,

"The typical young man's mind!" Dean turned his head and patted Kayden's shoulder earnestly, "As long as it's well hidden, who knows?" ”

Kayden was thoughtful.

Dean warned, "But remember, don't spend too much time with a group of people in the same place, you have to learn to 'shoot and go.'" ”

"Why?" Kayden straightened his body like a well-attended representative of a philosophy class.

"There is a rule in this world called the Law of Convergence, which will constantly bring supernatural creatures together, and I met you because of the arrangement of the Law of Convergence." Dean said with a look of jealousy, "And most of the time this kind of collision is dangerous and can bring disaster. ”

"It's rare to have a peace-loving and principled outlier like ours, and if you crash into a less kind one... It doesn't have to be turned into a yakitori. ”

Dean threw a tome to Cayden himself all the way from Las Vegas to a small tome,

"I have a supernatural encyclopedia here that records all the supernatural things that have happened to me, you can check it out if you are interested,"

"Shet, why am I still up there? What the hell is werewolf rookie Cayden? ”

"Woo-woo - and the glamorous female vampire Monica..."

For most of the drive, Cayden asked Dean questions like a baby, absorbing supernatural knowledge like a sponge, and he also learned that this powerful and mysterious man was only a year older than himself!

In addition, Kayden was also arranged to have a fixed special training session every morning and evening.

At 5 a.m., in a leafy pine forest on the side of Route 40.

Dean, who was dressed in a tracksuit, hooked his hand at the blue jaguar on the grass,

"It's training time! Come out quickly, don't bother. ”

Then, the unclothed Kaiden pushed the car door and walked to the glade, his hands hanging down at his sides, slightly bent and sturdy and slippery, and made a vigilant gesture.

"Are you sure you want me to take the initiative to transform?"

"Why couldn't you control yourself before? Because the frequency of deformation is only once in ten days and half a month, the frequency is too low, so it can't withstand the impact of wolf nature, and it becomes irrational," Dean Zhengse, "As long as the frequency of deformation is greatly increased, and you continue to accept the grinding and impact, you will quickly adapt to this force... Well... It's called cramming. ”

"It seems to make sense," Cayden showed a hint of confusion on his face, obviously very resistant to active transformation in his heart, but sighed after a moment, "I will most likely attack you out of control, but can you stop when you fight back, don't beat me too badly?" The process of self-healing is itchy and uncomfortable. ”

Dean smiled slightly, "Just let the horse come, I'll be very gentle." ”

Kayden takes a deep breath, breathes... More and more urgent.

Breathing heavily, in the dim light, he bent over and groaned in pain.

The joints and bones pierced the skin like a frantically growing bush, stretched outward and thickened with a miserable white and scarlet, and swelled all over the body as if inflated, burrowing patches of dark golden fluff, and cheeks began to change towards the rugged beast, and the eyes became almond-shaped—

Less than ten seconds.

Kaiden in the woods turned into a beast more than two meters tall and standing upright, with a wet black nose spewing rough air, and a pair of amber eyes staring at Dean not far away, as if he saw prey, full of desire to attack, without the slightest human reason and emotion.

"Man, do you still recognize me? If you stop now, I'm not going to beat you. ”

Dean jokingly snatched the M1900 out of fantasy space, his fingertips flashing lightning for .44 Magnum bullets.

Whew—

Cayden let out a long wolf howl as he looked up to the sky, his limbs propped up on the ground, his thighs arched tightly, and as soon as he loosened, he pounced on him with a gust of fishy wind.

Bang bang bang!

As the guns roared through the woods, Dean pulled the trigger in succession, and several rounds of bullets turned and poured into the same part of Cayden's right chest, tearing through its fur and flesh with a powerful impact, creating a terrifying hole in his chest and back.

But as it sprinted, the flesh and blood from the wound bonded to each other, and in the blink of an eye, it was restored to its original state.

"The self-healing ability of the heyday werewolf is at least four or five times that of mine, even if I use my life energy to cooperate with the abnormal self-healing, I can't reach the level of this metamorphosis."

Dean muttered and dodged to the side, easily dodging the mountain-like figure, tiptoe around the werewolf, and slammed two more shots through the knee sockets of its left and right legs.

With a heavy knee blow, the werewolf turned slowly, and as he stepped back, he pulled the trigger and shot his abdomen, like he was sliding backwards on a nimble space step in a dark forest, accompanied by the sound of gunfire.

Bang bang bang!

The bullet burst through the werewolf's belly, and a large chunk of internal organs flowed out of the gap, and the stench of heat rose.

But the werewolf didn't feel any pain at all, roared angrily and dragged a lot of intestines to continue to attack!

Dean stopped retreating, threw away the pistol that had been emptied of the magazine, twisted his neck, bent his legs apart, stretched his arms forward, and hugged the werewolf by the waist and abdomen.

The white-gold glow-wrapped figure collided violently with the black-haired figure.

Bang!

Dean wrapped his hands around the werewolf's waist like steel pincers, letting a pair of sharp claws blow his back, crescent teeth gnawing at the top of his head, leaning back with it, crushing to the ground, and a human-shaped pit appeared in the ground.

Flying leaves and dirt swirled in mid-air - a small man of 1.8 meters completely crushed the 2.2-meter humanoid beast!

But Dean took it when he saw it, let go and got up, slid back ten meters, and defiantly hooked his finger at the werewolf who was struggling to get up.

The werewolf stuffed the intestines on the ground back into his stomach and stepped on the blood on the ground to continue to pounce on Dean!

……

The glade erupted with bursts of air, fists and kicks into flesh, and heavy objects smashing into the ground.

The tall pine trees and birch trees were accidentally injured by their fists and feet, broken in two and smashed to the ground, and an invisible wave shook in the forest, the leaves flew all over the sky, and the birds and small beasts fled frantically.

And the center of the fierce battle.

Dean, who is sensitive and bursts out with all his might, blasts around the werewolf... Dive and grapple, half-step collapse punch to hit the heart, amputated leg kick and break the shinbone, flirting leg kick burst bell, double-peaked piercing ear door... All kinds of hand-to-hand combat skills were displayed like clouds, leaving several platinum afterimages in the air, and the werewolf Cayden only had the power to parry under the sensitive suppression.

His feet stiffened and kept retreating, and his trembling body burst into bloody holes one after another.

But this time there was no infusion of life energy, and the wound was extracted from its physical energy to heal quickly.

A quarter of an hour later, all movement came to an abrupt halt.

The werewolf, soaked in blood and sweat, knelt weakly in front of Dean, his breath was like a broken bellows, the animalistic features of his swollen pig's face quickly faded, and the fury and blood in his eyes faded away, but with a thick sense of complaint,

"Falk Squid, what about the gentleness you said?"

Poof, Cayden fell on his back and fell unconscious.

"Removing the werewolf transformation before the coma is not progress!" Dean snapped his fingers in satisfaction, and the cleaner "Shadow" began to sweep the woods that had been hit by a "mini-earthquake".

He glanced at the system again, Martial Arts LV4 (6→7/500).

"Beat the werewolf to improve a little proficiency, and by the way, exercise the werewolf's self-control, killing two birds with one stone."

……

It was just a fixed martial arts training in the morning, to be precise, Kayden was beaten unilaterally, because his strength, speed, and fighting instinct were crushed by Dean in all directions, so he was beaten all over his body every time, and he was so exhausted that he fell into a coma.

And at night, Kayden will be tortured by another set of tricks.

Dean sometimes creates a viscous darkness like paint, clouding his five senses, and an abyssal golden pupil rises from the darkness, absorbing all of his mind and thoughts.

He was unconscious in ignorance, retreated into human form, and became an empty shell, unable to recover for a long time.

Other times, Dean would freeze, ignite, electrocute, and take turns attacking various parts of him, such as his lower body, eyes, mouth, nose... Although he couldn't do much damage, he was annoyed like a mosquito, and his temper became more and more crazy, but there was nothing he could do but be incompetent and furious.

But Dean's most terrifying method is to wrap the werewolf's body layer by layer with a powerful invisible force, lifting it to a height of one or two hundred meters, and blowing a cold wind like a mummy that is enough to freeze people into popsicles.

The power of this restraint is as vast as the ocean.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break free, he couldn't make a sound, he couldn't move a finger, he could only grin boredly at the empty sky and white clouds for at least an hour.

……

Although the werewolf form is difficult to control itself, after returning to human form, these harrowing memories still exist, almost breaking Cayden.

"Man, did I offend you somewhere?" With a look of desperation, Kayden asked the driver in the front seat, "So you let me experience the feeling of hell every day?" ”

"Hold on, buddy," Dean said earnestly, throwing back a piece of candy, "the process of mastering power is excruciatingly painful... But after the pain comes the surprise. ”

"I don't want surprises, can you give me two days off, please?"

"You can't interrupt your training, and you'll see results right away."

"Shet!"

……

Dean is like a stern teacher, imparting knowledge of the supernatural world, training him in combat and self-control,

will also take him around to forage for food every day, Dean is never stingy with money, always let him enjoy all kinds of food, eat until his stomach is about to burst. This was when Kayden was at his happiest.

But overall, Cayden was beaten up by Dean with respect and fear

This fear slowly penetrates into the bone marrow and becomes an instinct.

……

Some time later, on a full moon night, the two men passed through Memphis, southwest Tennessee, and encountered a group of robbers who were armed with guns to intercept and kill passing vehicles on the side of a secluded road.

With Dean's permission, Cayden did not hesitate to transform into a werewolf, unleashing the anger and grievances of the abuse he had been inflicted on this time, and tore the two robbers to shreds with his claws.

But when his bloody eyes turned to the only survivor of the victim's vehicle, a little girl of five or six years old, who was about to go on a killing spree, his mind suddenly flashed through the endless torture he had suffered in the previous period, and the weariness, pain, and emptiness that he had endured that touched his soul.

Panicked fear replaced the boiling murderous intent and anger in his chest for a moment.

Under the bright moonlight.

Werewolf Cayden shuddered, and he let go of his furious nightmare, and his plush face, the blood in his beastly vertical pupils faded like a tide, and he regained his sobriety.

"I—I'm Kayden! I can control myself!? As he looked at his sickle-sharp claws, he felt that he was filled with infinite power, that the world in front of him was as colorful as it had come to life, that the smell of blood in the air was disgustingly strong, and that everything was full of novelty.

He excitedly turned to look at the man in the jaguar and grinned, baring his fangs, "Dean, I made it!" ”

The monster with the body of a furry beast let out a hoarse and gruff human voice, and showed a terrifying grin,

The little girl in the car was instantly frightened and screamed and passed out.

"Congratulations, man." Dean snapped his fingers, and Shadow began to gather the corpses all over the ground, "From now on you truly master this power, and you begin to turn curses and diseases into talents. ”

"But why, after being tortured by you for so long, I will wake up from the wolf form, cramming training is really useful?" Kaiden slapped himself on the cheek with his claws, suppressing the killing intent that rose again in his heart,

Dean replied, "I've studied your situation over and over again during this time, and you've been tireless and fearless of pain and death since you turned into a werewolf, so it's hard to control. ”

"But if I keep beating you and make you instinctively afraid of me and fear me, then there will be one more limit in your heart, and you will know that this world is not a hunting ground where you can unleash your wild and murderous intent as you want, this world is more dangerous than you think!"

"When you have a sense of awe, you will instinctively retain a bit of sanity when you are transformed, and you will be able to control the beastly nature!"

……

With reverence, you can control your bestiality.

A deep look of realization flashed in Cayden's amber pupils, followed by guilt,

"I'm sorry, man, I shouldn't have doubted you in the past."

Dean shook his head indifferently, "Let's go, get in the car quickly, so as not to cause more trouble." ”

"What about this little one?" Kaiden's furry face turned to the little girl in the carriage, revealing a trace of unbearable expression, "His parents were killed by robbers, so he left her like this?" ”

"There are people dying every moment in this world, there is nothing we can do, there will be others to save her." Dean stared at his unwilling face and persuaded, "Life is like an onion, the more you peel it, the more tears it makes, and all people will become strong in tears." ”

"Let's go."

The werewolf got into the car and continued west through Memphis.

……

They crossed the Mississippi River and entered the borders of Arkansas.

The daily training continues.

Dean noticed a major change - perhaps the distance was shortening, and his perception of Lena became much clearer, and through God's perspective "searching", it was obvious that she was somewhere in the southwest.

And the "Call of the Wild" is to the mountains of Arkansas in the northwest, and the routes do not intersect, so there is no way to do it at the same time.

Dean simply stopped the task of searching the bar club first, only occasionally refueling and replenishing food, and the speed of the march became several times faster,

At this time, Cayden has been able to perform werewolf transformation and detransformation very smoothly under Dean's training, and will not lose control again unless he is heavily stimulated.

And Dean, with the assistance of senior sparring partner Kaiden, has made great progress in his proficiency in telekinesis manipulation energy and the use of life energy, and his skills have also been honed-

Fighting lv4 (7→17/500).

Shot Lv4 (346→352/500)

Shadow of the Past Lv2 (111→121/300)

Red Dragon Meditation Lv3 (39→49/400)

Mimic lv2(25→30/300)

Abyss Lv0 (52→62/100)

……

In late October, the two men entered an inaccessible mountainous area in northwestern Arkansas, driving along a winding mountain road covered with greenery.

An indescribable smell gradually became in the air.

"The call in my head is getting smaller, and it's coming soon, man." Kaiden, who was sitting in the back row, clenched his fists and couldn't suppress his excitement and said,

"Don't be too happy, I'm afraid there will be a bad battle waiting for us when we get to the place." Dean glanced at "Call of the Wild", the progress was 10 percent, and there were still twenty days left in the time limit, and he had a hunch that the hard things were still to come.

"What do you mean?"

Dean didn't answer, his eyes looked at a street sign on the side of the road in the distance, the name of "Dog Town" came into view, and the two couldn't help but look shocked,

"The answer to everything is in it."

(End of chapter)