Planning to Strike Out on His Own

Wolf Dad helped drag the musk ox's corpse back to the cave.

Throughout the process, he remained silent.

Wolves had always possessed exceptionally keen senses of smell.

The moment they caught the heavy scent of blood, the wolves sleeping in the cave all woke up.

"Awoo!"

"Awoo!"

Low wolf howls rang out one after another inside the cave.

Clearly,

they were also somewhat stunned as they looked at the musk ox's corpse.

What was going on? Had the alpha gone out hunting alone?

Confusion filled their wolf eyes.

Wolf Dad said nothing, nor did he let them begin eating.

Within a wolf pack, if the alpha did not eat first, the other wolves did not dare take a bite.

In the end, Wolf Dad let out a low howl and looked toward the pup, Su Lin.

Only then did the wolves learn that Su Lin had hunted this musk ox.

They had watched Su Lin grow up.

For him to have grown from a little wolf pup who could barely stand into what he was now was simply far too fast.

This also caused the wolves to stop treating Su Lin as a pup and instead regard him as an adult Arctic Wolf.

He was even a powerful adult Arctic Wolf. The way the wolves looked at Su Lin carried more or less a hint of reverence.

Quite a few female wolves also let out low howls,

then came to Su Lin's side and helped lick the bloodstained fur on his body.

They even gently wagged their tails.

They were subtly expressing their affection for Su Lin.

"Grrr!"

Only after Wolf Mom showed her teeth and glared at them did the female wolves tuck their tails and leave dejectedly.

Within the pack, Wolf Mom and Wolf Dad still held very high status.

Fortunately, Wolf Mom had come to his rescue. Otherwise, Su Lin truly would have been at a loss.

Although he had fully accepted the fact that he had been reborn as a wolf, he still could not accept getting lovey-dovey with a pack of female wolves.

Just thinking about such a scene made a chill run through him.

"Awoo! Awoo!"

Wolf Mom came over and howled repeatedly.

Wolf Mom meant that she was proud of him.

"Awoo!"

Su Lin answered with a howl as well, calling Wolf Mom and Wolf Sister over to eat the prey.

Wolf Sister was still young and did not understand anything.

Seeing that Wolf Brother had brought back food again, she carefree came to the musk ox's corpse and began eating.

Wolf Sister was now more than two months old.

Little wolf fang had gradually grown in, allowing her to gnaw at some of the softer parts of the musk ox's corpse by herself.

She still stumbled a few times while gnawing at it.

But she quickly got back up and continued eating.

Cousin Sister was also still growing. After letting out low howls and communicating with her mother, she came over to eat as well.

As for the other wolves, without an order from Wolf Dad, the alpha,

none of them moved. They merely watched.

The strict hierarchy among wolves was on full display for a moment.

Wolves possessed limited intelligence, with most of them roughly comparable to two- or three-year-old human children.

Even an alpha like Wolf Dad, who led the pack and had seen much more, was only somewhat smarter.

With their intelligence, they could only obey orders and rules. It was difficult for them to even entertain thoughts of breaking those rules.

At most, if they wanted to resist, they could challenge Wolf Dad.

But Wolf Dad's strength and ferocity were obvious to the entire pack.

In the end, after waiting for Wolf Dad for quite some time without hearing an order to eat, the other pack members could only swallow their saliva, return to their spots, and close their eyes.

Wolf Mom, meanwhile, came to Wolf Dad's side and licked his fur, silently comforting him.

"Awoo!"

Su Lin let out a low howl, taking the initiative to invite Wolf Dad to eat.

Wolf Dad remained silent. Without saying anything, he simply lay down to sleep.

This made Su Lin, who had kindly brought the food back to share with everyone, unable to stop himself from sighing.

Many notions among wolves were still too deeply rooted.

The strong were respected.

Within the pack, Su Lin's current strength already threatened Wolf Dad's position.

That was the reason Wolf Dad had remained silent ever since seeing the musk ox's corpse.

Even Wolf Dad's biological children, once they had grown up,

often had to leave and strike out on their own, establishing a wolf pack of their own.

"Awoo!"

Su Lin howled at Little Gray.

Little Gray had already eaten until his belly was round. Just as he was preparing to return to the Gray-White Little Wolf and use wolf meat as a pillow for another nap, he heard his boss calling and hurriedly scampered back to Su Lin's side.

Wolf Dad's gloominess had now made Su Lin decide to strike out on his own.

And as his die-hard little brother, Little Gray naturally had to come with him.

As for the other wolves, if Wolf Dad permitted it, Su Lin would take all the pups in the cave with him.

After all, these pups were also a burden on the wolf pack now.

As the polar night continued to expand across the Arctic Circle, food would become increasingly scarce.

By then, the pack's living conditions would worsen day by day.

There was even less need to mention the pups in the pack.

In the blink of an eye, another half month passed.

Over this half month, daytime on the Arctic Continent grew shorter and shorter.

In Su Lin's region, there were only four or five hours of sunlight each day. The rest of the time was shrouded in darkness.

Farther north, in areas closer to the North Pole, everything had already been enveloped by the polar night.

The polar night and Polar Day were natural phenomena unique to the Arctic and Antarctica.

During this period, Wolf Dad and Wolf Mom went out hunting four or five times, but the results were unsatisfactory every time.

Their only relatively good catch was a young sea lion resting on the ice sheet near the shore.

But a young sea lion weighing only forty or fifty jin was nowhere near enough to fill the bellies of eight adult Arctic Wolves.

Therefore, in the end, they could only swallow their pride and share some of the musk ox the pup had hunted with the group of pups.

This musk ox had four to five hundred jin of meat.

A group of pups alone would have a hard time finishing it all.

Su Lin did not immediately leave the pack these days.

He merely went out with Little Gray first to search for a cave with a high degree of safety.

On the other hand, during this time, he ate another fifty or sixty jin of musk ox meat. Although the meat was delicious,

the reduction in Evolution Points was substantial. After eating fifty or sixty jin, the Evolution Points he gained had already fallen to 0.1.

This left him with little interest in continuing to eat.

Little Gray, on the other hand, ate more.

In order to make Little Gray grow faster, Su Lin never restricted his appetite.

Every day, he wolfed down food ravenously until his belly was round.

Little Gray also successfully broke through to Level 3.

At Level 3, Little Gray was already two or three times larger than Cousin Sister and nearly the same size as Wolf Mom.

His strength was even greater than that of an ordinary Level 4 Arctic Wolf,

and he could already help Su Lin with some minor tasks.

During this time, Su Lin also checked the potions rewarded by the system.

Evolution Potion: While consuming prey, gain triple Evolution Points. Duration: 72 hours.

The Evolution Potion was a newly acquired potion. Its effect was also simple: it increased the amount of Evolution Points gained.

Moreover, it lasted for three days, making it a highly practical potion.

As for the Potential Potion, there was no need to say more. It could develop the body's potential.

Over these days, Su Lin drank another five Potential Potions. The fur on his wolf body became smoother, while the bones inside his body became sturdier.

His internal organs also felt warm. His lung capacity increased, his breathing became deeper and steadier, and his heart's blood-pumping ability became stronger, allowing him to endure longer in battle and during exercise.

Su Lin could now maintain a full-speed sprint of thirty meters per second for a full ten minutes.

However, the more potions he used, the weaker their effects became. After using five Potential Potions, they had almost no effect at all.