Mercenaries and Adventurers

Although it didn't know the meaning of the last challenge set by the Wolf King, it also knew that it was not an easy thing to handle.

It is not too difficult for adult northern wolves to hunt and kill a human, because except for some hunters who specialize in walking on country roads, other humans really have no ability to resist their attacks.

The only problem is that it is not difficult to attack and bite a human to death, but it is not easy to bring a living human to the cold cave where the Wolf King is.

Especially since it can only rely on itself, a northern wolf, to accomplish this.

Will humans follow its request and enter the forest? What does it eat with humans? Why not ensure humans escape? What should I do if I drink water on the road? When you encounter other beasts on the road, do you want to fight for human life?

After proudly delivering the huge bear head to the entrance of the cave where the wolf king lived, it was deeply troubled by these difficult problems on its way back to the wolf den where it huddled.

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After returning to the wolf den, other companions who followed to watch the battle took a piece of the big black bear's arm. The thick bear skin had been torn off by it and could be eaten directly by it.

The fresh smell of blood stimulated it, and after driving away a few naughty young wolves who wanted to lick the bear's arms, it pounced on it and enjoyed the hunting fruits of its own creation alone.

The next day, it took advantage of the cool time before the scorching sun of midsummer rose to call out to its companions who had gone out to hunt last night. They exchanged howls and moans, which had been bothering it since yesterday. The problem was told to the companions.

Although everyone is very tired after a night of hunting, and the always energetic young wolves are noisy in the den, the challenger's request for help still needs to be taken seriously. After all, the opponent's performance yesterday has conquered them all.

After an exchange of low barks, the Northland wolves sitting around the pond in the center of the wolf den came up with many ideas, but most of them were immature and simple, so they kept shaking their heads to reject them.

Until an old wolf, which had survived many human killings protected by a metal outer shell, whined and told an incident that happened to it a few years ago.

At the northern end of the forest, near the huge glowing stones, there are some vines that also glow. A few years ago, it was sent by the Wolf King to scout and wander in the north. Once it could not find a source of water to quench its thirst, it had to venture to search for water near the luminous stones that were often guarded by strong humans.

As a result, there was no water there, so it had to gnaw on the buds of the glowing vines to quench its thirst.

Unexpectedly, after eating and swallowing the food from those glowing vines, it actually showed itself to be full of energy without being hungry, thirsty or sleepy for more than ten consecutive sunrises and sunsets. So that time it completed the task assigned by the Wolf King very well.

By telling this experience at this time, the old wolf saw if he could help the bravest and wisest warrior in their den.

After it heard the news, it was overjoyed and howled uncontrollably, causing the surrounding wolf pups to also howl.

After having the foundation method, it started to make some other preparations.

After explaining to his companions, he ran out like the wind, first to the cold cave where the Wolf King was, and then started from here, heading all the way to the south of the forest.

It will not only drive away humans after becoming familiar with this route, but also remember some dangerous areas on this route. When the time comes to drive humans away, it must let weak humans avoid these places.

Naturally, there are no ferocious animals in the large area near the cave where the Wolf King is, and there are no monsters known to the Northland Wolf. After all, in this vast forest, in addition to the Wolf King, there are Those guys dare to claim the throne?

Although the wolf king doesn’t know why he always stays in that cold cave, every year during the coldest winter, the wolf king of the northern wolves will come out of the cave and lead all the northern wolves to gallop through the forest and hunt wildly. All animals, or against female metal humans who have become more and more dangerous and annoying in recent years.

After running for a long time, it finally left the area where the Wolf King was threatening. Along the way, it discovered many dangerous areas and nests of ferocious animals.

For example, that mud pond is the territory of a large family of forest wild boars. Although they occasionally hunt some young pigs in the wild boar group, they are not able to cope with the huge tusks of the other owner.

The opponent was larger than three of them, and weighed ten times more than the average northern wolf. In the forest, except for the towering trees, no big tree could withstand that guy's raging for half a day.

Going further south, there is a group of fruit trees that are connected together. There lives a group of flower-faced monkeys who live on the fruit trees all day long. They are very grumpy and hateful. The northern wolves will be eaten by those guys even if they are even slightly close to the fruit trees. Throw the accumulated fruit cores away after falling. hateful! When it gets the magical power rewarded by the Wolf King, it will definitely look good to you.

The sweet fruit pulp is also something that Northern wolves like. In other words, all the animals in the forest like those fruits. It's a pity that the flower-faced monkeys are very stingy and won't even let them eat the rotten fruits that fall on the ground in autumn. Sometimes they will even squat on the fruit trees and urinate to drive away the northern wolves who pick up the fruits.

Generally speaking, only those rough-skinned and undignified wild boars don't care about the teasing and insults of the flower-faced monkeys. Even the big black bears with high status in the forest rarely come here because they cannot accept the insults of the flower-faced monkeys. This is a place where fruit trees grow continuously.

However, these monkeys also have natural enemies, which are lynx and leopards that never eat sweet fruits.

These silent attackers like to eat sleeping little flower-faced monkeys, and they are also nocturnal. Those flower-faced monkeys will rest at night, so they are naturally restrained.

It bypassed the fruit forest amid the ridicule of the flower-faced monkeys and continued running south.

After bypassing several suspicious haystacks, it avoided several large trees connected by spider webs.

These are dangerous areas, especially in midsummer. Northern wolves who are out alone know to avoid these areas that look suspicious at first sight. After more than two days, it finally found a route that would not encounter danger and arrived at the edge of the forest.

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In front of him is a wide passage covered with large and small stones. At the end of the sight to the left, there is a tall, airtight nest built by humans. On the opposite side is another smaller forest, compared to the large forest behind it.

On the right is the far distance that this stone-strewn passage leads to. It has never been there, but it has heard from the Northern Wolf living on the west side of the forest that there is a large, fast-flowing river connected there. However, it is different from here. There are many humans traveling from north to south on the other side of the river, and they often encounter to some very dangerous guys.

There are also some dangerous monsters in the river. They specialize in eating these four-legged creatures that come to the water's edge to drink. Humans are rarely attacked by those monsters in the water.

After thinking about it, it didn't think it was possible to swim across the river to the other side and capture a human without being attacked by the river monsters that attacked them at the turnstile. And it can ensure that you can take a person across the river again, then walk for a long time in the stone-strewn passage, and then enter the forest that is dangerous for humans.

After careful consideration, it went straight through the stone passage and headed south into the smaller forest.

Here, it bypassed some strange mushroom circles, and quickly passed through the forest of strange mist, disturbed by some strange sounds that it couldn't understand.

This doesn't work. It knows that it can leave this weird place quickly, but it can't do the same with humans later.

Therefore, it repeatedly passes through the mushroom circle area that can bring up fog, and accurately finds the opponent's boundary of influence. It finally heard a sputtering sound that it couldn't understand, urinated vigilantly and left a mark on these spots, and then continued south.

On the way, he keenly spotted some huge moose with huge horns on their heads. He knew that they could not be enemies of this size, so he carefully avoided them.

Continuously running, in the quiet forest in midsummer, it saw a human house with long white hands and feet, which was stuffing the trunk of the tree with its branches removed into the door, devouring nourishment. On alert, it carefully lay down in the distance and observed the thing for a while. Although it seemed to have been discovered by the huge strange thing, and waved to it in a friendly human way, the Northern Wolf cautiously lay on the ground a little bit. He rubbed it hard and left the thing's sight.

Didn't chase him.

Regardless of the human house, it finally walked out of this seemingly small, but quite strange forest.

Arriving at an open area, the terrain here is gradually lowering, and a river from a large lake in the north is rumbling all the way down. In the river, some stubborn slender fish with silver backs and red bellies were jumping upstream against the river.

It found some exhausted big fish resting against the rocks in the water beside the river. It waved its strong furry claws and flew one of the weak fish to the river bank.

As a northern wolf that often swims in the large lake not far from the wolf den, its fishing skills are not inferior to those of the big black bears.

The belly of the big fish is full of fishy fish roe, which the big black bear may like, but it is not satisfied, so it just gnaws the other white and tender fish meat of the big fish.

After eating, it continued to run south along the river.

There are many large and small undulating hills along the way. There are many rabbits and mice in these places with lush shrubs, trees and flowers, and there are also many colorful and slender venomous snakes. It carefully avoids those guys. Even after it is full, it will not bother to hunt those silly long-legged rabbits.

Sometimes, it will specially run to the high places of some hills, trying to observe the surrounding terrain and dangerous areas from a high place.

It was lucky enough to meet some northern wolf companions in the southern forest. These guys who lived far away from the wolf king were very rude to see it, but in its special high-pitched roar, it revealed that it was responsible for the challenge given to it by the wolf king. Finally, the guys calmed down.

It told the guys about a challenge it had yet to complete, only to be ridiculed by the guys. They actually think that attacking humans, something they would spontaneously do as adults, is considered a challenge by the Wolf King. It is really not difficult.

In this regard, it had to carefully tell these arrogant guys that it is really easy to attack and kill humans, but what is really difficult is to capture a living human from the human nest and then drive or carry it all the way. Go north and bring it to the Wolf King alive to be considered complete.

This moment left those arrogant guys speechless. They could only open their mouths and gasp with their tongues hanging out.

They asked him if he could finish it, and he strode away with his head held high.

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After leaving its kin, the terrain changed quickly, from undulating hills and mountains to flat grasslands and wheat fields.

Looking from a high place, it could already see a large nest formed by the gathering of humans at the intersection of two rivers in the distance. Many people who go out come in and out from there, going to and from the fields.

And further away, on the sparkling wide river, things that humans made from trees that can float on the water are going back and forth to various places on the river bank.

The house where humans live and hide is somewhat different from the house it has seen in the forest. It looks smaller. But it doesn't find it strange. After all, it has heard from other companions that humans are also divided into different classes, but unlike them, strong and powerful guys may not necessarily live in tall houses, but use some of their obstacles to get in the way. Got it from a small piece of metal.

What's interesting is that most humans get together in a few groups, dig the ground together, enjoy food together, and even breed in the same house. The cubs that are born will not be raised together, but whoever gives birth will raise them.

This makes them northern wolves a little strange. As a result, many pups will die due to lack of food, which will greatly affect the survival of the population.

In this regard, the Wolf King explained to them that because there were too many humans, their strong ones did not care much about the survival and death of their cubs.

Although everyone doesn't know if this is the case, but the Wolf King said that it is the reason, then it must be it.

It hides in the trees on the edge of human fields, carefully hiding itself, and secretly observing humans. It found that humans often had disputes over those fields, and sometimes fought with other guys, resulting in bloody blows. At this time, humans will soon come out of the human lair riding delicious-looking horses to scold and punish the quarreling humans.

Sometimes some humans are locked in wood outside the thick and tall wooden walls of the lair.

It looked at it for a long time and felt that those humans who were locked away from the nest and left unattended could be safely attacked by it.

After thinking for a long time, it quietly retreated away, and then set off back to the big forest.

There is no need to take a straight line from north to south on the way back. It goes all the way up along an unknown river. After walking for many days, we came to a large lake next to a large forest.

Jumping into the lake with a splash, the hot summer is finally gone under the coolness of the lake.

With its four legs pumping freely in the water, it swam northward along the lake in a leisurely manner. What's interesting is that in the large river to the west, there are monsters that do not attack humans but only attack animals. In this large lake, there is a group of smart big fish that specifically attack humans but never attack forest animals.

These big fish have hard skulls, and they especially like to overturn the wooden boats of human beings living on the lakeside, and then continue to injure and stun the humans who fall into the water.

This is very interesting, and the Wolf King also said that this may be retribution for humans to catch lake fish.

After arriving on the shore of the lake, it swung its body and then scratched its body to pull away some drowned parasites. After basking in the bright sun for a while, it dried all the hair on its body, and then ran vigorously into the forest near the lake shore.

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It first returned to the wolf den where it belonged, rubbed its body with everyone, then rested for two days, and shared what it saw along the way with its companions.

Afterwards, after a thorough rest, it officially set off.

Heading north, through the entire forest, carefully avoiding some ferocious animals and monsters along the way. Sometimes it moves quickly through dangerous areas, or areas where the animals feel uncomfortable.

For example, in the very center of the forest, a tall rocky mountain appears suddenly. Animals don't like to come here very much, the wind is strong, and there are no plants growing on the entire rocky mountain.

It glanced at the rocky mountain protruding from the forest and walked quickly through it.

It is very dangerous in some spacious places in the forest, because there are some huge flying eagles in the sky. Those flying eagles can catch the largest animals, ignore the resistance of the animals, fly to a certain height, and then drop the animals. Just throw him to death, then grab the body and fly away to eat it.

Moreover, even some monsters and ferocious animals will also be attacked by them. The talons of those flying eagles have magical thunder. As long as they are touched by the talons, except for a few monsters, all life will be killed by the thunder or Stun.

Fortunately, the number of these flying eagles is very small, and the large forest is just one of their hunting grounds in autumn.

After many days of running, it passed through the northern part of the big forest and came to the border of the forest.

It's said to be a border, but in fact the forest still extends a little bit, but there are some tall raised hills here. On the top of each hill, there are some huge stones that shine no matter day or night.

It seems that this is none of the animals' business, but even animals pass between these luminous stones and pass through an invisible border that connects them.

In the mind of every passing animal, there will be a clear voice telling them that they have officially crossed this border and walked out of the area controlled by human gods.

Animals entering and exiting have no effect, but any life outside the boundary will be greatly damaged if it enters the boundary. This is something that animals living in border areas know very well.

Our northern wolf also learned about this situation from the old wolf, so it is absolutely impossible for it to cross the boundary established by the glowing stones.

Coming to this area carefully, it secretly looked at the huge luminous stone on the top of the hill in the distance. For some reason, it crawled on the ground. When it came back to its senses, it quickly shook its head to wake itself up.

It secretly observed the surrounding sky. If there was a huge eagle-headed monster with flapping wings in the sky, it would have to hide. Because those tamed monsters definitely have very powerful and dangerous humans on their backs.

Make sure there is nothing in the sky except the sun. It ran quickly to the nearest hill.

At the bottom of the hill, there is a stone road built by humans, and it naturally runs up through this road.

Along the way, there were many things left by humans beside the stone slabs, with many messy claw marks drawn on them, which it couldn't understand.

When we came to the luminous boulder on the top of the hill, we could easily see many thick vines on the ground next to the luminous boulder that also glowed during the day.

The northern wolf licked its mouth and teeth, found a vine shoot, bit it, tore it, and swallowed it into its stomach several times. After a while, as the old wolf in the den said, the hunger and fatigue from the journey disappeared.

It was full of energy and was about to howl wildly, but immediately realized what was going on here and quickly shut its mouth.

It found another vine shoot. It carefully bit off a section of the vine, held it under its tongue, and then quickly left here and ran south.