After returning to the safe house, Jiang Ziliu first sealed off this local base, ensuring that the smell of blood would not escape through the entrance.
It did not matter if the smell escaped through the ventilation shafts. Those passages were all rock, and people outside could not get in.
Only after making thorough preparations did Jiang Ziliu take out the bodies of the seven werewolves and their riding wolves to inspect and process his spoils.
These riding wolves and werewolves were all Black Iron Grade!
Werewolves were quite valuable. Their hearts could serve as a special supplementary medicinal ingredient for enhancement.
Their bone scimitars, bone bows, and bone arrows were also C Grade weapons made using special supernatural beastman techniques, and the Human Race could use them as equipment.
Jiang Ziliu collected seven werewolf hearts and kept two sets of bone blades and bows for himself, planning to sell everything else.
He also collected a kind of dark-brown pill from the seven werewolves.
These were the werewolves' reserve food and medicine during wartime, containing powerful vitality and healing effects.
Humans called them Beastman Treasure Rations.
They were harmful to humans, but could readily serve as high-energy food for contracted beasts, whether carnivorous or herbivorous.
These special Beastman Treasure Rations were what allowed werewolves to sustain high-intensity combat.
They were somewhat similar to the Soldier Pills in a certain ninja world.
Those were relatively ordinary gains. There were also some very good finds, including a number of C Grade and D Grade human weapons.
These were the spoils this band of werewolves had gained from hunting human beast tamers.
Werewolves did not like other human possessions, but they liked collecting human weapons.
The most valuable things he obtained from these seven werewolves were fifteen D Grade wind Elemental Crystals, seven C Grade wood Elemental Crystals, and one B Grade Elemental Crystal each of the wind, earth, and light elements.
These could be considered the greatest wealth the werewolves carried, and were very likely their most treasured spoils.
As for the seven riding wolves, Jiang Ziliu skinned them.
The hides of these riding wolves could be used to make C Grade defensive leather armor that provided a certain speed-boosting effect.
Their spines were also excellent materials for making weapons.
Had their spines not been tough enough, they would not have been able to carry the heavy werewolves over long distances.
There were also the riding wolves' Beast Cores. After processing the riding wolves, he obtained seven C Grade Beast Cores in total.
These were all his gains after processing the bodies.
He also collected the riding wolves' meat, which could be fed to his contracted beasts, the Mutated Lightning Snake and the Green-Skinned Shapeshifting Spirit.
His final gain was that werewolf head, a token of military merit.
After clearing away the remains, Jiang Ziliu quietly left the underground safe house through another emergency passage and headed back toward the base.
Near the gates of Base No. 12 stood a military building, which housed the military merit exchange for this operation.
Using the alias Zhang Feng, Jiang Ziliu walked inside and placed the bundle on his back before the exchange officer at the military merit office.
He also took out some other resources and weapons he had obtained but did not want.
This place did not just tally military merit; it also collected certain special resources related to beastmen.
He dared not reveal that he possessed a spatial treasure.
"Seven werewolves, and you're a lone wolf yourself! Impressive! Give it some thought. The military is recruiting right now, and someone with your combat strength could get a pretty good deal!"
As the military personnel sorting the spoils appraised them, he extended an invitation.
Jiang Ziliu shook his head. "Sorry, I'm not considering that for now!"
His refusal was very direct. The Zhang Feng he was playing looked like a cold, stern man, so the bluntness of his words naturally had to match.
"All right, everyone has their own aspirations! You can get fifteen C Grade military merit points for all this! Anything you want to exchange them for?"
The man was not annoyed. He invited many people every day and was turned down just as often.
That invitation had been an assignment from above, a matter of giving the jujube tree a couple of whacks whether it had fruit or not.
Jiang Ziliu looked over the exchange list and ultimately chose fifteen C Grade earth Elemental Crystals.
Elemental Crystals were the truly valuable form of supernatural wealth.
Any resource could be purchased with Elemental Crystals.
He also noticed that a special spatial-attribute resource called Space Dust Powder was actually available here.
But exchanging for it required one hundred A Grade military merit points.
He wanted it badly, but after calculating carefully, he discovered that even killing three hundred ordinary werewolves would not earn him enough to exchange for this Space Dust Powder.
Actually exchanging for it would also be rather risky, making it easy for someone to set their sights on him.
Still, he committed Space Dust Powder to memory, because it was the only spatial-attribute resource available for exchange here.
After completing this exchange, Jiang Ziliu glanced at his family's workshop from afar. Seeing his parents busy at work, he did not approach.
As long as they were safe!
If possible, he would also find a way to restore one of his mother's contracted beasts, so that both his parents would have powerful means of protecting themselves.
His father's contracted beast could fly, allowing him to escape quickly under certain conditions.
His father was clever, too. He had never revealed to outsiders that his contracted beast had recovered.
After taking a look at his parents, Jiang Ziliu once again set out to hunt the beastmen.
He used the same old tactics and the same old method of choosing targets.
In the second week, Jiang Ziliu hunted down two more werewolf squads, one with five werewolves and the other with seven.
This time, he exchanged his gains for forty C Grade lightning Elemental Crystals.
He was stockpiling earth and lightning Elemental Crystals to prepare to raise his two contracted beasts, the Azurite Rock Man and the Mutated Lightning Snake, to Bronze!
In the third week, Jiang Ziliu used the same tricks to hunt down twenty-three werewolves and obtained fifty C Grade earth Elemental Crystals.
Over two consecutive months, Jiang Ziliu killed at least a hundred of the werewolf race.
All of them possessed Black Iron Grade strength.
This made his alias, Zhang Feng, renowned throughout the wilderness. Everyone knew he was an expert at hunting werewolves.
However, his enormous gains and reputation also gradually drew covetous eyes.
The werewolves were a Wisdom race, after all. They had also bribed Human Race beast tamers with high-grade resources to act as spies, learning of the existence of "Zhang Feng," this terrifying werewolf hunter.
Werewolves lived in tribes.
Their numbers were not large, either. In fact, werewolves were not the only ones to emerge from that beastman Dungeon Space; there were other beastman races as well.
It was simply that the werewolves were responsible for the direction of Base No. 12.
The beastmen had invaded this world not for resources, but for humans themselves.
They captured humans directly, but what happened to those humans once they fell into beastman hands was a secret known only to the true upper ranks of the Human Race.
One man had hunted down over a hundred werewolves. This was something the werewolf tribe could not tolerate.
They, too, began preparing to take action against this hunter, "Zhang Feng"!