pjbooks Chapter 79 Hunting the Wolf King
Chapter 79 Hunting the Wolf King
Before Li Xiangyang could finish speaking, the wolf pack darted over from not far away, and this time they were running much faster than before.
Just like a rocket,
It was so fast that he could only see a few afterimages under the moonlight.
But at that moment,
Wangcai, inside the sheepfold, started howling wildly again.
But the voice didn't sound loud or cheerful; it didn't sound like the joy of sensing a companion at all. Instead, it sounded like someone who had been frightened by some great terror.
It let out a whimper of submission.
At that moment,
Li Xiangyang's back hairs suddenly stood on end. He sensed danger rapidly approaching from behind, followed by a strong, foul, bloody stench that pressed down on him like a thick city wall.
It's obvious that something has gotten into the sheepfold.
Is it a person?
impossible!
The three brothers' legs are still weak, how could they possibly climb up in one go!
Not human,
Was it a wolf? Or a bear? Or some other carnivore?
But there was no time for him to think; the thing was right there.
Li Xiangyang quickly rolled over and lay down, simultaneously firing a burst of bullets at the dark figure behind him, emptying the entire magazine in the blink of an eye.
Bang bang... bang bang... bang bang bang bang...
After firing the gun, the enormous recoil caused his entire body to slam heavily onto the sheep pen.
It made a muffled sound.
"ah."
Li Xiangyang couldn't help but cry out, feeling as if his internal organs were being torn apart, with waves of excruciating pain emanating from his spine.
His pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints.
Then a huge, fluffy figure was seen rolling off the sheep pen.
With a loud bang,
It smashed a crater more than a meter long in the ground.
The three people guarding the sheepfold below were startled.
"Wolf... wolf, a wolf has fallen!" Someone shouted in the chaos.
Then, almost simultaneously, pitchforks, hoes, and axes all came crashing down on the wolf king.
Thorn, hoe, chop, smash.
In a short while,
The wolf that attacked Li Xiangyang had already lost all its life.
He lay dead in a pool of dark blood.
Li Xiangdong and his two companions were exhausted and slumped to the ground like soulless puppets, panting heavily.
While the others were killing the wolves, Li Zhenshan fired several bursts of bullets at the wolves that were rushing towards him from the east.
Li Xiangyang didn't dare to rest. He quickly got up and shot at the wolves attacking from the other three directions, causing them to scatter in all directions.
Once he was sure the wolves had been driven away, he collapsed onto the sheep pen.
Liu Jianguo then took charge of guarding the area, while the other three worked together to lift Li Zhenshan off the sheep pen.
In the dead of winter, he, a patient, had to lie on the sheep pen for several hours. It was truly a terrible ordeal for him.
"Wow, what a big wolf!" Liu Jianguo exclaimed.
He was too nervous when he was hunting the wolf to take a closer look, and only now did he realize that the group had just killed such a large wolf.
How big exactly?
Beneath its yellowish-brown fur lies a height of 75 centimeters, a body length of over 1.3 meters without its tail, and a weight of an astonishing 100 kilograms.
Keep in mind that an ordinary wolf weighs only seventy or eighty pounds.
The other three then carried Li Zhenshan over, all of them shocked by the enormous, furry body on the ground.
"This guy, he's probably practically a wolf king, right?"
Li Zhenshan couldn't help but say.
He had herded livestock on the grasslands for decades and had seen many wolves, but this was the first time in his life he had ever seen a wolf this big.
"Yes, that should be it! And it's extremely intelligent."
As Li Xiangyang spoke, he recounted how the wolf king had used feints to ambush him and Li Zhenshan in the sheepfold.
"Xiangyang, you mean that the small pack of wolves that first appeared from your direction, then the nine wolves that suddenly darted out from Dad's direction, and finally the large pack of wolves that surrounded us all, were all feints orchestrated by the wolf king...?"
Looking at the huge, furry wolf carcass on the ground, Li Zhendong felt a chill run down his spine, and a hint of fear flashed in his eyes.
I can't imagine it.
What would have happened if Li Xiangyang hadn't noticed that the wolf king had already entered the sheepfold...?
After the wolf king pounces on Li Xiangyang, will the other twenty wolves swarm him and tear them to shreds?
Bang...bang bang...bang bang bang...
As everyone sighed in amazement, several more gunshots rang out in the distance, intermittently for over an hour.
It's possible that the wolf pack that Li Xiangyang and his group just drove off went to attack other herders' sheepfolds.
But this possibility is relatively small.
After all, they had just lost their wolf king, and without the wolf king's leadership, the wolf pack would find it difficult to launch an effective attack.
of course,
Wolves typically do not organize large-scale hunting activities before a new alpha wolf has been chosen.
Except when you're starving!
but,
In contrast, Li Xiangyang was more inclined to believe that multiple wolf packs had attacked their team's ranch simultaneously!
That would be terrifying.
But none of that mattered to them anymore. Having just gone through a major battle, they were all exhausted and had no time to worry about anything else.
The group then carried Li Zhenshan home. Along with them, a wolf king and three ordinary wolves were also brought back to the Li family home.
Wolf pelts and wolf meat should fetch a good price.
Unfortunately, the wolf king's pelt had several holes smashed in it, so it probably won't fetch much of a price.
They only found out the next day after dawn.
It turns out that last night,
Three wolf packs suddenly appeared in the team. In addition to the Li family's ranch being attacked by wild wolves, the ranches of herdsman Lao Zhangtou and Sun Caimi were also attacked to varying degrees.
Sun Caimi was lucky; just as the wolves attacked their ranch, the militia team happened to be patrolling near their ranch.
They arrived shortly afterward and together they repelled the pack of wolves that had attacked Sun Caimi's ranch.
It is said that one wolf cub was killed, but how many were injured is unknown.
However, Old Zhang's ranch wasn't so lucky.
At that time, the militia was busy fighting off wolves at Sun Caimi's ranch and had no energy to help them.
By the time the militia arrived, the wolves had already run off with the sheep.
Old Zhang's eldest son, Zhang Dayong, was bitten on the arm by a wolf, and his younger son, Zhang Daqiang, was frightened. The worst off were the twelve sheep in the sheepfold; it is said that eight were killed and six were carried away.
The losses can be described as extremely heavy.
Old Zhang's wife fainted on the spot and was sent to the town's health center for treatment overnight along with their son, Zhang Dayong.
Meanwhile, the shocking news that the Li family had hunted down a wolf king and killed three wolves last night quickly spread throughout the village.
Many herders' first reaction upon hearing the news was disbelief. They thought that Li Zhenshan and his two sons would be lucky to repel a pack of wolves, let alone kill the wolf king.
Opinions varied, but in the end, it was decided to visit the Li family together, since we were just killing time during the winter anyway.