They Were the Wolf Guard!!!

A day later, at the Cangxi City Enforcement Guard.

Zhao Guoyan hurried back from the Great Wilderness Mountain Range.

Liu Chengchao accompanied him at his side.

At this moment, Zhao Guoyan's expression was extremely grim.

Yesterday, after discovering more bones beneath the mountain wall, he had immediately dispatched excavation machinery and workers to dig them up.

The more they dug, the colder Zhao Guoyan's heart became.

More and more bones were discovered, their number already close to three digits.

He had spent the entire previous night in the Great Wilderness Mountain Range without sleeping.

His eyes were bloodshot now, yet he did not feel the slightest bit sleepy.

It was now certain that the bones in the Great Wilderness Mountain Range numbered in the hundreds, perhaps even...

"If there are more than a hundred victims, this will absolutely be the largest heinous case since the founding of the nation." Zhao Guoyan rubbed his head, though there was not much hair on his buzz cut for him to rub.

"Guoyan, perhaps those bones really are from decades ago, maybe even a century ago?" Liu Chengchao consoled him from the side.

A lingering doubt had always remained in his heart.

"With my many years of investigative experience, those bones couldn't possibly have been there for decades." Zhao Guoyan frowned.

Zhao Guoyan entered the Enforcement Guard office, and his phone immediately began to ring.

"Zhao Guoyan, what the hell is going on? More than a hundred sets of bones were found in your jurisdiction!"

"Your report is utter nonsense!"

"Superintendent..."

"My flight is today. When I arrive in Cangxi City, you'd better explain this matter clearly to me!"

After hanging up, sweat trickled down Zhao Guoyan's forehead.

The report on the Great Wilderness Mountain Range had gone up the chain and immediately shaken the higher-ups.

Zhao Guoyan's direct superior, the Tianbei Province Enforcement Guard Superintendent, personally took the lead in forming a Special Case Guard Unit, gathering talents from every field.

At this point, news of the bones in the Great Wilderness Mountain Range had already begun to ferment online.

"Boss, the examination results for the bones are out." At that moment, a young woman ran over, holding a thick stack of reports.

She handed one report each to Zhao Guoyan and Liu Chengchao, then quickly said,

"The owner of the bones was male, estimated to have been between thirty-two and thirty-five years old.

"The test results are very strange. This person was not one of our Great Xia Clan."

"What, could he have been... an immigrant?" Zhao Guoyan let out a breath of relief, but his furrowed brows tightened even further.

He was relieved because the dead person was not one of his own compatriots.

He frowned because if it had been an immigrant, it would involve diplomatic disputes, making the matter even more complicated.

"Not an immigrant." The young woman hesitated for a moment. "They are the bones of the Wolf Clan, a clan that has already been exterminated."

"What?" Zhao Guoyan froze.

He could not help recalling that stone stele, engraved with the words: Great Demon Hei Ze.

Could the two truly be connected?

"These bones have existed for nearly a thousand years.

"Boss, did you discover an ancient tomb? These bones have been preserved quite well." The young woman worked in the forensic department. She had been conducting examinations all night and still did not quite know what had happened in the Great Wilderness Mountain Range.

"What!" The thermos in Zhao Guoyan's hand fell to the ground with a clang.

A thousand years—how could that be possible!

He flipped open the report and hurriedly read through it, his hands trembling nonstop.

Only after a long while did Zhao Guoyan finally calm down.

He let out a breath of relief. "Thank goodness. A criminal case has turned into an archaeological discovery."

He looked at Liu Chengchao beside him. "Old Liu, how could the bones in the Great Wilderness Mountain Range have been preserved for a thousand years?"

"Maybe... perhaps... because the environment is dry?" Liu Chengchao said uncertainly.

But even if they had been left out in the open in the driest conditions, they could not have been preserved for a thousand years!

"Maybe? Perhaps?"

The conference room was filled with experts and talented individuals.

Originally, they had treated the Great Wilderness Mountain Range matter as a criminal case, but now it seemed the nature of the incident had changed.

The Tianbei Province Superintendent wore a smile. "Originally, I should have chaired this meeting. Now, Old Liu Chengchao should preside over it."

Since it was not a heinous incident, he heaved a tremendous sigh of relief.

First, no innocent Great Xia citizens had died. Second, he no longer had to worry about losing his position.

He patted Zhao Guoyan, the Guard Chief, on the shoulder. His gaze swept over the other Enforcement Guard personnel, a brilliant smile on his face. "We'll sit in."

For the investigation into the Great Wilderness Mountain Range case, specialists had been drawn from every field.

But with this unexpected twist, the members of the investigation team had changed. Many historians, archaeologists, Wolf Clan researchers, biologists, chemists, and others had been brought in.

Now, all these people were gathered together, their expressions solemn.

"According to the notice we received, 272 human skeletons have currently been discovered."

"There are other skeletons?"

"There are 122 Giant Wolf skeletons."

"What? Giant Wolves? One hundred and twenty-two of them?!"

Several Wolf Clan researchers were utterly shocked, as were the biologists.

"There are actually Giant Wolf remains—and over a hundred of them!"

Some people looked utterly bewildered, clearly having never heard of Giant Wolves.

One Wolf Clan researcher explained, "The Wolf Clan's strength was closely tied to Giant Wolves. To the Wolf Clan, Giant Wolves were their most precious mounts. With Giant Wolves, the Wolf Clan was immensely powerful in the world of that time, repeatedly invading the borders of the Great Feng Dynasty.

"However, after Great Feng, the Wolf Clan declined.

"According to legend, the Wolf Clan's Giant Wolves contracted a rare disease called Blood Eye Disease. It was extremely contagious, but its mortality rate was also exceptionally high. That was highly unscientific.

"The number of Giant Wolves plummeted, and the Wolf Clan began to decline.

"A hundred years ago, the Wolf Clan was exterminated. The remaining hundred Giant Wolves within the clan were also slaughtered, and both the Giant Wolves and the Wolf Clan became extinct."

Everyone sighed with emotion upon hearing this.

They had now actually seen a race that had already gone extinct.

What exactly had happened a thousand years ago?

What had happened that caused so many members of the Wolf Clan to perish in the Great Wilderness Mountain Range?

"If I'm not mistaken, these Wolf Clan members should be the legendary Wolf Guard."

"The Wolf Guard?"

"At the height of the Wolf Clan's power, they were tremendously strong.

"The Wolf Guard were cavalry. Giant Wolves were their mounts, and battle-hardened elite soldiers were their riders.

"There was a saying: when the Wolf Guard numbered fewer than ten thousand, they were manageable; once they reached ten thousand, none could stand against them.

"The Wolf Clan relied on the Wolf Guard to invade the Great Feng Dynasty, and they had even nearly seized the Nine Cauldrons and entered Great Xia as its rulers.

"Historical records state that the Wolf Clan once used three thousand Wolf Guards to wipe out the Ten Kingdoms of the Northern Domain.

"At that time, there was a Northern Domain nation named the Rufa Kingdom. The Wolf Clan dispatched three thousand Wolf Guards, and before they had even reached the Rufa Kingdom, the King surrendered by offering thirty concubines and princesses.

"Legend says that at their peak, the Wolf Guard numbered over ten thousand. Historical records put their numbers at a full twelve thousand."

"They were that powerful? Then how did the Great Feng Dynasty defeat the Wolf Clan?"

"They didn't win!" A historian grew excited, his voice trembling. "Back then, without even deploying the Wolf Guard, the Wolf Clan had already fought their way to the Great Feng capital.

"So long as the Wolf Clan's Grand Commander led the Wolf Guard into the Central Plains, Great Feng would certainly have fallen!

"But the Wolf Clan's Grand Commander and the Wolf Guard vanished. They suddenly vanished! They disappeared into thin air!"

"There are many different accounts. No one knows how more than ten thousand elite Wolf Guards vanished. This is also a mystery, one of the ten greatest unsolved mysteries for historians!"

"Because of this, our Great Xia Clan was able to avoid a catastrophe," another person added with a sigh.

"Now, the remains of Wolf Clan members and Giant Wolves from a thousand years ago have appeared here." The history professor's voice trembled. "I suspect they are the missing Wolf Guard. We are about to uncover history!

"We will learn where the Wolf Guard, who once rode roughshod across the world, truly went!"

The ordinary Enforcement Guard officers felt nothing at all from these words.

Those researchers, however, were deeply interested in all of it.

Especially since these bones had remained intact for a thousand years, carrying an aura of mystery.

"How do you think the Wolf Guard were destroyed?" The history professor swept his excited gaze across the crowd.

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