Chapter 126 – Hatred (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

The next day, the hunting group saw the pack of wolves in the area where the giant-antler deer herd was active.

Yesterday, they stood quite a bit away that they failed to see those wolves clearly, so today they observed them carefully.

These wolves didn’t look different from those living here before, but their sizes were bigger, and the color of their fur was different. They had a patterns on their bodies and some darker spots close to the back.

Since first entering the wild, Shao Xuan had seen many wolves of various colors. According to Mai and the others, there were some special packs. The pattern was the symbol of the pack, so a wolf with a different pattern might be an outsider.

Shao Xuan had never seen the wolves but Mai and the others might have seen them.

“Why do I feel that this wolf pack is familiar?” A warrior said.

“I also think that I have seen this pattern.”

“We came across them when we surrounded a cave bear along our hunting route,” Mai recalled and said.

At that time, Mai and the others met a huge cave bear with wounds, possibly caused by a fight with another ferocious beast. So they took the opportunity to surround it and kill it.

However, even though the cave bear was injured, it was difficult to defeat. The hunting group chased it for such a long time that they had nearly deviated from the hunting route before they succeeded in killing it. At that time, there was a battle between two wolf packs. A pack massacred the other, and it was a real brutal massacre. The defeated wolves were not just bitten to death, many of them were even gnawed into pieces. Their blood covered the ground.

After killing the bear, Mai and his group members hurried away from there. Meanwhile, the massacre was over and a few wolves were wandering around, dragging the dead wolves on the ground. When the hunting group finally arrived there, they were already full. Among them, some were also wounded, so they avoided going into conflict with the hunting group, and the head led its members to leave.

Lang Ga was also there and caught Caesar, who was still a cub at that time.

Caesar was the sole survivor of the massacred wolf pack, probably because he left his den for fun to roll down from the steep slope not far from the den. The wolf guarding the den might have found the other wolf pack and have been very vigilant against them that he did not pay attention to Caesar.

When Mai and the others reached there, they found Caesar lying under a stone. After waking up from a coma, he kept howling. Hearing his howling, Lang Ga found him. He was blocked by a stone and surrounded by high bushes. If he stayed silent below the steep slope, no one would have ever noticed him. Fortunately, no wolves of the winning pack picked up the smell of the cub at the edge of the steep slope.

As they were recalling, Lang Ga and the others could not help laughing, for Caesar was indeed small then, but soon they all became serious. Obviously, everyone had witnessed the massacre together with Mai and Lang Ga and felt uncomfortable.

They weren’t actually being sentimental. Because as warriors hunting in the wild for so many years they had witnessed many battles among groups of beasts like this. In addition, who hadn’t killed beasts or ferocious beasts as the hunting warriors? Could those with kindness survive here? That was impossible.

The reason why they felt uncomfortable was at the thought of the scene of how cruel the wolves were. That massacre could even be called a brutal murder.

“Unless you slaughter them all, don’t mess with those guys, especially you few.” Said Mai as he looked at the new members.

They nodded at once.

This year, there were also new members in the hunting group. Those new members always easily drew the attention of beasts and ferocious beasts in the woods who intended to attack the weak.

They had to go through what Shao Xuan had experienced.

“Ah-Xuan, keep an eye on Caesar.” Whispered Mai to Shao Xuan.

“Got it.” Shao Xuan shared the same idea.

Then during the hunting missions Shao Xuan paid a lot of attention to Caesar. The fact that Caesar behaved as usual reassured him.

After hunting a giant-paw beast, a few people in the group were dealing with the game while Lang Ga was checking the trap. He asked Shao Xuan to repair it, because the important role of the trap could not be ignored.

Finding Caesar lying not afar, Shao Xuan came to help Lang Ga repair the trap.

“Lang Ga, when you got Caesar, did he see his pitiful wolf pack?” Shao Xuan asked.

Lang Ga carefully recalled and said, “Yes, he did. I picked him up from the slope, and put him on the ground. He smelled the surroundings as he was howling. He tried to bite two different patterned dead wolves, but failed to bite the wolf skin with his baby teeth.

[So sad, and yet so cute!]

In order to massacre the other pack, the winning pack also suffered losses. Two wolves of this pack lost their lives, but it wasn’t a loss as serious, because the defeated pack was completely wiped out.

“Those wolves with spots were very strong, and compared to the others, they had a stronger bite and a brutal nature. They often killed other wolves and attacked other beasts.” When he saw Shao Xuan frowning, Lang Ga laughed and said, “Are you worried that Caesar would take revenge? Back then he was just a cub. It is impossible.”

While talking, Lang Ga raised his head to look at Caesar lying not afar. Seeing him looking at them, Lang Ga lowered his head to continue repairing the trap. Each time he repaired the traps with Shao Xuan, Caesar always fix his eyes on them, lying not far from them.

“I didn’t think you would have kept it, I had intended to cook him for you.” The thought that Caesar had been almost been cooked amused Lang Ga, and he got mixed feelings.