Chapter 1637 - Air Strike (1/2)

Chapter 1637: Air Strike

The moon was bright and there were few stars out, but the night sky reflecting off Angikuni Lake was beautiful.

There were no industrial buildings, not even traces of humanity from ages ago. There was no pollution, so the night sky seemed extraordinarily clear and beautiful.

What really surprised Li Du was that the island was populated by quite a lot of animals, insects, and birds. He listened to the sounds of insects and birds alike chirping. Ah Meow and the rest went out to hunt and brought back a few wild rodents and birds back with them.

The bonfire crackled as it burned. They had to take precautions against unforeseen dangers since this was a foreign island, so the bonfires that surrounded the camping ground burned fiercely.

They collected a lot of dry firewood in the evening, but it was not enough to last them past midnight.

Brother Wolf brought a few people who circled the area and they found a few dried trees to cut down and bring back to use as firewood. Like this, they managed to hold on until daybreak.

Ah Ow, who had been sleeping by the entrance of the tent, suddenly leapt up at dawn with its ears perked up and cried out a few times.

Li Du was on his toes the whole time. He immediately leaned forward at the sound of the wolf howling. He asked, “What’s wrong?”

A few of the little ones stirred from their sleep. Ah Fei got its head from under its wing, then stared up at the sky in a trance.

Vampire, who had been on duty, walked over and said, “I didn’t get a good look at what happened but it seems like something flew down. It could just be a large bird, there are many of them on this island.”

There were no injuries, deaths, or losses. Realistically speaking, they were not attacked either, so this could have just been a fright. Li Du patted Ah Ow’s head to soothe it a little before going back to nap.

Some time passed before Ah Ow started howling again. At the same time, Ah Meow was roaring and Ah Bai was chirping.

Li Du was roused from his slumber yet again, and he hurriedly stuck his head out to look at what was happening. He saw a shadow on the tent door that was slowly shrinking. Ah Meow and Ah Ow were growling with their heads tilted up, and a strong gust of wind hit them full-on at the same time. Ah Fei flapped its wings and flew up into the sky!

Some of the other people had already woken up and were preparing to fetch some water so they could wash up.

The bunch of them scuttled back at the sight of this. Madman bellowed, “F*ck, what kind of bird is this?”

A large bird was circling around the area from up in the sky. Li Di could not see very clearly, but he saw for sure that the bird was clutching a white blob in its claws, and that white blob was Ah Bai!

The realization sent him into a panic. He called out, “Hurry and take it down, it’s got Ah Bai!”

Madman raised his gun and pulled the trigger. With the sharp sound of a gunshot, the white bird tilted its body. Just when Li Du had thought the bird was shot, it swerved to fly westward instead.

The shot missed and the white bird flew higher yet.

Opening fire was not a good move because the bird had Ah Bai in its claws, so one wrong shot and Ah Bai could easily get hurt.

It was a good thing they had their own air force here. After Ah Fei took off, it flapped its wings with all its might and stretched out its hairless neck as far as it could go, looking very much like a large plane chasing after the white bird.

The white bird was a large one, but it was not as big as the Andean condor, which was terrifyingly huge. The white bird’s wingspan was half as long as Ah Fei’s at most.

Nevertheless, it was fast. Andean condors were famed for their stamina, not so much for their bursts of speed. On top of that, a larger bird would take a longer time to warm up, so Ah Fei could not catch up with the white bird in time.

It was a good thing Brother Wolf had returned at this time. He brought a few men with him, who raised their guns towards the white bird and opened fire as well. The white bird turned back at the sound of gunshots and changed its direction again.

The rest of them had noticed something: the white bird was afraid of the sound of gunshots. Either that, or it was extremely sensitive to the flow of air, so much so that the mere presence of bullets in its flight path was enough to scare it into changing directions.