Dead Thing

"We're not all going to die here, are we?" Liu Liqun said worriedly, sitting in the valley and looking at the snow outside the Yamaguchi.

Everyone could see that more than twenty magnificent wolves had not left the Yamaguchi, but were huddled in the snow, cautiously watching them.

Gradually, even when the heavy snow buried their bodies, they remained motionless.

Seeing this, Qing Li pretended to rush out of the ravine.

The next moment, the twenty-odd wolves stood up at the same time, shaking off the snow on their bodies and staring coldly at him.

After a moment's thought, Qing Li picked up his automatic rifle, intending to fire a few shots at the wolves.

However, the wolf pack immediately distanced themselves, only lying down again after they had spread out to within 300 meters.

Qing Li fired several shots, but the wolf pack remained motionless.

This made Qing Li realize something was wrong. He whispered to Qing Yi, "Young Master, this pack of wolves... is defying common sense. They seem to know the effective range of automatic rifles, and they don't seem that afraid of gunfire. In the past, wolves would have run away long ago at the sound of gunfire."

Qing Yi frowned. "You mean to say that this wolf pack... is actually being controlled by someone?"

Qing Li said in a low voice, "In the history of the Federation, there have been quite a few extraordinary individuals who could get close to wild beasts. Although there is no clear evidence yet, we must be on guard."

"Then it's all over," Qing Yi sighed. "Even real wild beasts are afraid of death, but wild beasts controlled by humans are not. A pack of wolves that has overcome its instincts is enough to wear us down here."

They still have plenty of ammunition, but after killing the wolves, will there be other dangers ahead?

"Let's wait and see," Qing Yi said. "Perhaps things will turn around."

The valley is quite spacious, probably around three or four hundred square meters.

But there was only one campfire, and only a few people could gather around it.

Qing Yi others were the first to arrive here. The firewood they chopped was only enough for themselves to use until dawn, so they couldn't share it with anyone else.

As a result, everyone could only watch helplessly from afar, shivering from the cold.

Qing Li did a quick calculation and said to Qing Yi, "Young Master, this pack of wolves probably wants to trap us here. We'll run out of firewood by morning, and if we can't leave by tomorrow night, tomorrow night will be very difficult."

"We can't worry about others, let's get through tonight first," Qing Yi said.

At this moment.

The valley became noisy.

Li Yu's male assistant said to his colleague, "That shirt you're wearing is clearly mine, take it off and give it to me!"

"In a place like this, why are you still saying the clothes are yours? If you call it, will it answer?" the companion said.

Everyone was in a hurry when leaving the camp, and it was normal for some people to wear the wrong clothes.

It was just too cold right now, and everyone was so cold and hungry that they really couldn't take it anymore.

In an instant, the two started fighting, and their clothes were torn.

Qing Yi glanced at it but ignored it, and the others watched coldly. Only the actress stood by, constantly urging, "Now that we're here, we have to be like family. Please don't fight anymore! Listen to me, in this harsh environment, we have to work together like brothers and sisters to have any chance of survival..."

Qing Chen remained silent.

The style of the Parent's Association was indeed quite different from everyone else's.

He and Liu Liqun and the other stagehands sat leaning against the rock wall in the ravine. Although Qing Yi took care of them, there was only one campfire, and it was very crowded for Qing Yi, Sun Chuci, Song Niaoniao and the others.

Therefore, it was naturally not the stagehands' turn.

Liu Liqun looked at those people. "Wasting your energy to fight now will only lead to your death... Speaking of family, I've heard that there's a new organization called the Parent's Association' Association in City No. 10, which seems to have originated from City No. 18."

"Oh?" Qing Chen turned his head to look. "What kind of organization is it?"

"I don't know either," Liu Liqun shook his head. "I've only heard people mention it. This organization seems to be different from ordinary gangs. They like to do good deeds, don't bully others, and don't collect protection money. They just help each other internally. It sounds quite interesting. I heard that a member of the organization got sick, and a group of poor Parent's Association members pooled their money to treat him. Many people who heard about it are planning to ask how to join."

In a federation rife with malice, the emergence of an organization truly dedicated to mutual assistance is like a breath of fresh air, attracting considerable attention...

Liu Liqun said, "Alright, let's not worry about that for now. Let's all go to sleep. We still have to go on guard duty later."

Qing Li assigned tasks to everyone, and they took turns guarding the Yamaguchi to prevent the wolf pack from getting close without anyone noticing.

The workers set up the tents they had painstakingly dragged over and laid them on the snow. Since there were no frames, they could only wrap themselves in them as sleeping bags, which at least provided windproof, waterproof and warm protection.

This move made many people in the mountain valley envious.

Li Yu's agent even walked over to Liu Liqun and whispered, "Your tent still has a lot of space, could I squeeze in too...?"

The workers were stunned. The tents they had dragged over were indeed big enough for two people to squeeze together.

The problem is, wouldn't it have to be very tight?

Li Yu's agent used to be a minor celebrity, but because she takes good care of herself, she looks like she's in her early thirties even though she's almost forty.

If it were someone else, they might actually be tempted.

In this wilderness, who knows if we'll die tomorrow? Why not enjoy this moment while we can?

But Liu Liqun simply disliked women. "Get lost..."

The agent then looked at the stagehands, while Li Yu sneered behind him, "Don't you feel ashamed of yourself? At least you used to sleep with directors and screenwriters, and now you're sleeping with stagehands?"

The agent turned around angrily, no longer bothering to hide anything. "Wasn't I trying to get you resources before?! And how did you survive? I clearly tied the rope tightly, how could you possibly break free alive? There's definitely something fishy going on!"

Qing Yi looked over.

Li Yu sneered, "You probably wish I were dead, but I just happened to run into a cameraman who got lost in the snow and he helped me untie the ropes."

"Where is he?" the agent asked.

"He was bitten to death by wolves," Li Yu replied.

"Consider yourself lucky!" the agent sneered. "But I'm sure you won't make it back to the Federation alive."

Just then, another of Li Yu's female assistants approached Qing Chen: "Can I share a tent with you?"

Qing Chen glanced at her, then tossed the tent he had dragged over to the actress at the Parent's Association, while he himself leaned against the stone wall with his gun and closed his eyes to rest.

Liu Liqun sighed from the side, "Zhou Cang, why are you trying to be a good Samaritan at a time like this? Without anything to keep you warm, you'll soon suffer from hypothermia."

Qing Chen smiled and said, "It's alright, you guys go to sleep. It'll be very inconvenient for us all to move around in the tent, and we'll be vulnerable to being ambushed."

Liu Liqun was taken aback for a moment. "That makes sense. You can keep watch for a while, and you can use my tent when I go to stand guard."

Qing Chen squinted at the mountain hollow as if nothing had happened.

There are a total of 87 people here.

But he only heard 86 heartbeats.

It wasn't that someone froze to death, but rather that an inanimate object scurried into the ravine.

It was already 4 a. m.

Everyone in the valley was starving, but eventually they couldn't resist the exhaustion and fell asleep in the snow.

These people trekked nearly twenty kilometers through the snow, their shoes filled with snow that then melted into water.

At that moment, they felt as if their soles were frozen solid.

It is foreseeable that when they wake up again, most of them will be sick.

Just before dawn, in the darkest hour, it was Li Yu's turn, along with the film crew's cameraman and others, to stand guard with Sun Chuci and the others.

Li Yu reluctantly walked behind everyone. When the previous shift of guards returned to the ravine, Li Yu suddenly pulled out a dagger from his sleeve and viciously slit the throat artery of a cameraman from behind.

Immediately afterward, he lunged at Sun Chuci without stopping, and watched as Sun Chuci, completely unaware, was about to have her throat slit.

With a bang, Qing Li fired a single shot without expression, piercing Li Yu's thigh and breaking his thigh bone.

It also startled everyone in the mountain valley.

However, Li Yu did not collapse and wail. He only tilted his body slightly before continuing to swing his knife at Sun Chuci's neck.

Bang, another shot.

Li Yu's arm was also broken, and the dagger in his hand flew out.

Qing Li wanted to spare his life, but Li Yu seemed to have gone mad and was completely oblivious to the pain.

Bang.

Qing Li had no choice but to pierce his skull.

Before Sun Chuci could even check his back, he roared, "The wolves are coming!"

Suddenly, a pack of wolves approached from outside the Yamaguchi, rushing towards them as if in coordination with Li Yu's actions.

When the wolf pack charges, their strong, powerful limbs create huge waves of snow on the ground, making a truly astonishing sight.

It was as if they had known all along that chaos would break out at this moment in the Yamaguchi.

Qing Li, who was resting, immediately got up and opened fire on the Yamaguchi pass with his automatic rifle, working with Sun Chuci to repel the wolf pack with concentrated firepower.

In the ravine, everyone watched this scene in shock until the gunfire stopped.

They saw the bodies of Li Yu and the cameraman, and for a moment they didn't know what had happened.

Qing Li turned Li Yu's body over and found that the other person's face turned bluish-purple instantly, and lividity appeared on the face.

Qing Li exclaimed in astonishment, "Lividity spots? Those only appear after two hours of death."

Qing Yi looked at the others and calmly explained, "I felt something was wrong with this person as soon as he entered the mountain valley. If what the agent said is true, he should indeed have died in the snow."

Qing Yi deduced from logic that Li Yu was problematic, so he instructed Qing Li to keep a close eye on him.

Only Qing Chen knew that Li Yu's heart had stopped beating the moment he entered the ravine.

Li Yu had died long ago.

The reason Qing Chen ignored him at first was to see what the person controlling Li Yu was up to. Now he realized that the other party wanted to use Li Yu as an inside man to break through the defenses of the mountain pass from the inside and create chaos that would destroy the defenses inside.

So who is controlling Li Yu and the wolf pack?

The other party was targeting Qing Yi. Among everyone present, only Qing Yi was worth the effort of a superhuman of this level.

Is it Qing Yuan?

Was it the work of Kamishiro and Kashima?

Qing Chen frowned. If Qing Yuan could turn the entire wolf pack into puppets, then this person would be a huge threat.

The snowstorm didn't stop; in fact, it got even heavier.

They can't hold out in this ravine for long; they don't have enough food.

Qing Chen looked into the mountain valley. If everyone went hungry for three days, there would probably be no need for the wolves outside to attack; infighting would break out in the valley first.

There will be another chapter at 11 PM.