"Xiaomeng, do you think he ran off on his own..."
"No, he wouldn't. I believe in him!"
Sun Yameng immediately rejected her companion's suggestion, her stance unwavering.
"Ah!"
A scream suddenly rang out. Under cover of its companions, a wolf had broken through the blockade and ripped open the nearest unlucky person's belly with one swipe of its claw.
A thousand-mile dike could be destroyed by an ant's nest. Once a breach appeared, it often meant the collapse of the entire line.
Casualties began to mount, and the situation grew harder to control.
Reincarnators were torn apart by wolves one after another, while wolves were shot dead in turn. The scene was utterly horrific.
"Help! Help! I don't want to die! I..."
"Save me! Ah!"
When death arrived, all the evil in human nature was laid bare.
Some pushed their companions in front of them; others snatched weapons from the wounded.
The shameless went even further. As they lay dying, they threw grenades into the crowd and clutched their guns, spraying the other reincarnators with bullets.
"Some Long Aotian he turned out to be! When it mattered, he abandoned all of us and ran away! Fuck, what a piece of shit!"
"Fuck off! Didn't you see the great master left all his weapons behind? What use is trash like you, other than whining?"
When Zhang Dawei heard someone curse Xu Long, he was immediately displeased.
His idol was an upright man of both courage and cunning. How could he be insulted for no reason?
"Huh? Weapons?"
The speaker hadn't meant anything by it, but the listeners took it to heart. Everyone immediately turned their eyes to the Vulcan Machine Gun.
Of the four directions-front, back, left and right-only where Leng Feng stood were the wolves held firmly thirty meters away. No matter how frantically they charged, they couldn't advance another step.
It wasn't that Leng Feng, the protagonist, was particularly formidable. The Vulcan Machine Gun's firepower was simply strong enough.
"If I can just get that gun..."
Greed flared in everyone's hearts. A few even began quietly edging toward Leng Feng.
"Ah!"
Just as the situation grew increasingly delicate, with a fight threatening to break out at any moment, screams suddenly erupted from nearby.
This time, it wasn't just one or two screams. They rose into a continuous chorus.
The situation was already precarious, and some people were distracted on top of that.
The teetering defense line collapsed outright. Countless wolves poured into the crowd, biting everyone they saw.
"Damn it! Grab that gun!"
Someone shouted, but his voice was drowned out by screams and roars.
"Xiaomeng, run!"
That companion told Sun Yameng to run, but did the exact opposite.
Sun Yameng felt a powerful shove, and her whole body pitched forward beyond her control.
Hot, foul, nauseating breath washed over her face, bringing only despair.
Sun Yameng looked at the vicious wolf in front of her. She knew she was truly finished this time.
I don't want to die! Someone, save me!
Countless images flashed through Sun Yameng's mind: her powerful father, her gentle mother, and Xu Long, ordinary but a little bad.
But in the end, they slowly overlapped with the figure of Long Aotian!
You'll come save me, won't you? Just like when we were little!
"Awuuu!"
Just as the last hope in Sun Yameng's heart was about to crumble, a clear wolf howl rang out in the distance.
The next instant, the frenzied wolves abruptly stopped attacking, then withdrew like the tide.
It happened so suddenly that one wolf failed to stop in time and slammed hard into Sun Yameng.
"Roar!"
The sound reached the wolf's ears. It gave Sun Yameng a hard lick across the face before reluctantly leaving.
"We're saved! We're saved! The great master must have saved us!"
The feeling of escaping death left everyone sitting on the ground as though drained, giving free rein to the fear in their hearts.
But even more people descended into madness!
Killing and snatching, all for that one Vulcan Machine Gun!
"Human nature! This is human nature!"
Watching the crowd slaughter one another in a frenzy, Zhang Dawei sighed and silently retreated into the distance.
These people had gone mad. With his strength, joining them would mean death.
So Zhang Dawei, who knew his own limits very well, decided to leave.
If he lay low in the jungle, he might be able to hold out until the mission ended, but staying with these people meant certain death.
"Good. I wasn't wrong about you!"
Just as Zhang Dawei had retreated more than fifty meters and was preparing to make a quick escape, a voice came from behind him.
Zhang Dawei turned and found a huge wolf's head thrust right up against his face, its foul stench constantly drilling into his nostrils.
"Holy shit!"
Zhang Dawei let out a scream and fell on his backside in fright.
But the expected attack never came. The wolf gave him a disdainful glance, then raised its head to look ahead.
Zhang Dawei looked up and saw the man sitting on the wolf's back, the man he would never forget for the rest of his life.
"Idol! Great master! You really came back!"
"Yeah, I'm back! I thought I could save a few more people, but things turned out worse than I expected!"
Xu Long sighed. He didn't intend to intervene and stop them. He would let them kill each other for a while first.
"Ah, human nature is inherently evil."
Zhang Dawei sighed, looking deeply dejected.
"Why didn't you go and fight for it?"
"I couldn't beat them!"
Xu Long: "..."
Well, that's honest!
Zhang Dawei gave an embarrassed chuckle, and his attention soon fell on the wolf king.
"So this is the wolf king? He really is handsome! I never thought you'd actually subdue the wolf king, great master. That's fucking awesome!"
Zhang Dawei reached out to touch him, but the wolf king bared his teeth, frightening him into pulling his hand back.
"Go kill all those people."
Xu Long patted the wolf king on the head, and the fellow scampered off.
To be honest, Xu Long regretted it a little.
The wolf king of his imagination: dashing, eye-catching, handsome, powerful, and majestic!
The wolf king in reality: woof!
That was right. Once the Dog Collar had been fastened around his neck, the wolf king had turned into a silly, stupid dog.
But watching him slaughter his way through the crowd, he did seem a little like a wolf king.
"If only I had a pet like that!"
Zhang Dawei murmured, his face full of envy.
The wolf king was indeed worthy of being the overlord of this region. Before him, these reincarnators were like chickens two and a half years old, utterly unable to fight back.
"Damn it, stop him!"
An angry roar rang out. Unfortunately, the moment this clear-headed person spoke, the wolf king reduced him to minced meat with one swipe of his claw.
"They really are a bunch of trash!"
Xu Long sighed. Just as he took out a sauce-braised pork knuckle to fill his stomach, a figure suddenly threw herself at him.
"I thought... I thought..."
Sun Yameng wept like pear blossoms in the rain. Her frail, helpless appearance stirred pity in the heart.