These towns were not completely cut off from one another. Although Red Mad Wolf could appear at any time, according to Du Hong and the others, large wolf packs generally appeared before winter. After winter began, the number of wolves decreased, and by the following spring, they disappeared completely.
During the summer, Red Mad Wolf appeared in small packs of a dozen or so. By winter, their packs often numbered in the hundreds. As for massive packs numbering in the thousands, they only appeared once every few years.
Jiang Yan Hai kept flipping through the documents in his hands. These materials had been collected bit by bit. Red Mad Wolf's appearances were not without a pattern, but Jiang Yan Hai found that those patterns all seemed to fit biological characteristics.
For example, wolf packs appeared in winter, and those packs often numbered in the hundreds. Major wolf disasters involved thousands or even tens of thousands.
As everyone knew, when winter temperatures dropped to extreme lows, finding food was incredibly difficult for wild animals, especially carnivores. Without food, death awaited them.
Seen that way, the wolves' frenzy before winter was like one last mad struggle. If they won, they survived the winter. If they lost, they died.
Moreover, Red Mad Wolf's breeding ability was somewhat absurd. So far, they had found that the vast majority of other wild animals in this world were birds. Wild animals that should have been common, such as hares, had not been seen at all.
Could those wild animals have been driven extinct? Even if they had not, they had likely been forced elsewhere.
Du Hong and the others had relatives in seven or eight towns to the west. Though those relatives did not visit one another often—after all, unless it was necessary, no one would