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Tena’s eyes suddenly widened, and within his deep brown pupils, they were filled up with Decayed Wolves!
“Lord! there are at least three hundred Decayed Wolves!” Tena’s heart suddenly tightened up and he almost couldn’t breathe.
Suddenly, Tena smelt a faint stink with his nose, and the instinct raised up by many years of battle made him immediately leap back. At the same time, he shot a burst at the air above the cave entrance.
A black shadow swept through the air like lightning, and sharp teeth closed in at the location in which Tena’s neck should have been. Five rounds of red-hot bullets lifted its entire belly open!
That was a strong, male wolf that weighed a good thirty kilograms. By the force of impact made by the bullets, it flew several meters away, and after landing it rolled a few times. It could still struggle to stand up even with its organs that were almost completely loose from its body. It lowly roared with deterrence while shaking towards the cave entrance until another male wolf stopped it by biting it on its neck.
Poof! Tena heavily fell on the ground, knocking two other soldiers along the way. When he was propped back up, he discovered that his cold sweat completely soaked through his outer clothing!
A veteran looked out the cave, and his face instantly paled and said, “Boss, it seems that we’re surrounded.”
Another person looked at the walkie-talkie in his hand, then shook his head and said, “Absolutely no signal from the base.”
“Our food and water can support us for ten days.”
“We only have roughly three hundred rounds for our ammunition supply, and it won’t be enough to kill them all.”
A few veterans automatically reported the circ.u.mstances of their supplies, and Tena’s face looked more and more ugly as he listened. He carefully stood one meter away from the entrance of the cave, looked out, and as he looked, his heart became heavier and heavier.
The strong Decayed Wolves circled back and forth outside, and their saliva dropped on the burning hot rocks in the valley as they became white steam. Although they were all hungry, they all stayed five hundred meters outside of the cave. It was as if they also knew after this distance, the accuracy and power of the automatic rifles would decrease significantly. The over three hundred Decayed Wolves in the valley made Tena’s little team despair. If they left the protection of the cave, then the fast Decayed Wolves would completely surround them and with one attack they could completely shred the entire team.
Tena returned back into the cave, leaned by the cave wall, sat, then said, “It seems like these Decayed Wolves want to surround us to death in here. Two people guard the entrance, and every two hours switch. Lucas, Berg, you two first. Everyone else rest. Let us hope that we have good luck and the reinforcements from the base can find us.”
The soldiers sat down against the wall one after the other and took a nap. No one knew how long they had to stay in here.
But pretty much no one was able to sleep, since in everyone’s heart, there was a question that never went away. When did the Decayed Wolves become so smart? They knew how to set the trap, and they even knew the range in which the automatic rifle had the most killing power. And even though they were hungry, not one single wolf pa.s.sed that invisible boundary. With this behavior, it seemed just like an…
Army!!!
“Boss! Quickly look!” Lucas suddenly urgently yelled out. He instantly lowered his sound as if afraid of alarming something.
Tena carefully moved to the cave’s entrance and looked out. Along Lucas’s finger direction, he finally saw the head of the wolf crowd.
That was an unordinary wolf. The huge body, smooth, black fur was extremely rare for Decayed Wolves, but the most shocking thing was that the wolf was standing!
Occasionally, the wolf head would land on four paws, then for most of the time it stood like a person and used long, short, high, and low growls and front paws to command the crowd of Decayed Wolves.
A experienced veteran listened for a while, then sighed with surprise, “There are at least thirty different syllables! If those syllables were combined, it would just simply be a language. Is it really a Decayed Wolf?”
Tena was already sitting down while leaning on the cave’s wall. He closed his eyes and said with a heavy voice, “Of course it’s a Decayed Wolf. There’s nothing strange about Decayed Wolves talking. In this year, anything can happen. ……We must think of ways to kill it!”
Berg was the sniper in the small team. He had a SVD sniper rifle and he slowly used the cross on the scope to aim at the head wolf. The head wolf was a good thousand meters away from the cave’s entrance, and it was obviously more alert and quick than regular Decayed Wolves. To want to kill in one shot at this distance, you had to be a sniper specialist that had been genetically modified two times while also using the new age’s corporation’s newest sniper rifle. But, Berg wasn’t a sniper specialist that had been modified two times, and he was holding an ancient sniper rifle from the old times. Whether or not he could land the hit depended on luck.
“…I must find a way to kill it!” Berg constantly repeated that in his heart, and the cross patiently followed the head wolf’s movement.
Finally!
The head wolf straightened its body, extended its nose trying to sniff something from the air. Berg would obviously not miss such a good chance, so he decisively pulled the trigger!
Bang! The huge knockback heavily hit Berg’s shoulder and pushed him back centimeters. And Berg clearly saw in his scope, at the instant the gun sprayed sparks, the head wolf used an unimaginable speed and leaned down then disappeared within the crowd of wolves. One second later, a huge flower of blood spread from the body of a Decayed Wolf, and its tough spine was almost cut off. Berg’s heart sank to the bottom of the valley. A chance like that would only happen once, and since he missed it, there would be no next time.
Berg weakly buried his head into his arms.
A rough, powerful, yet warm huge hand patted Berg’s shoulder, and after that Tena’s unique calm voice rang in Berg’s ear, “In the past twenty years, the things that I’ve messed up were a lot worse than this. Don’t think about it too much. If you can’t do this, then none of us can. For most of the time, we can only try our best, and whether or not we succeed, we hand it over to fate.”
Three days pa.s.sed.
The head wolf was still commanding the movements of the wolf crowd and kept order. The Decayed Wolves that did not obey were killed by it. When it needed to, it would walk like a human, but it would never stay in the same place for too long. There were even more times when it completely disappeared into the crowd of wolves. Other than the shape of the wolf, if you look at it in any way, it seemed more like a calm, cruel, and cunning human commander.
“Must find a way to kill it…”
On the mountain ridge, a pair of green jade with a gray stripe eyes were staring at the head wolf. No one knew when he concealed himself on the mountain ridge that could look over the entire valley. A heavy tan blanket was over his entire body, allowing him to completely melt into the surrounding rocks. After observing for who knew how long, finally, he slowly pulled out a brown covered gun from the blanket, and on top of the muzzle of the gun was an old-fas.h.i.+oned front sight that slowly aimed towards the wolf head of the head wolf.
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