Chapter 13 Dancing with Wolves

"Wow--"

As soon as I walked out of the swamp and stepped into the southern wilderness forest, I heard a wolf howling from the depths of the dense forest. The summer wind couldn't help shrinking its neck and faintly felt a trace of coolness in the back spine. Kunel, who peeked at her, saw that her face was as calm and indifferent as ever, as if she didn't know what she was afraid of. Xia Feng secretly rejoiced in his heart: Fortunately, I knew all the heavenly opportunities, otherwise I would really be compared by this female Zorro.

The primitive jungle is dense to cover the sky and the sun. Not long after noon, only a little sunlight occasionally leaks from the shade. Unknown birds sing on the branches within reach, and occasionally one or two hares flash in front of everyone, making people full of expectation and surprises along the way. Except for occasionally hearing a long wolf howling, the southern wilderness forest that everyone talks about is completely a peaceful and quiet atmosphere.

Gu Feng, a thin and vigorous guide, led the way in the jungle where there was no road at all. The wingman prince jumped and gliding between the trees and branches above, which was much easier for him than walking on the ground. Kunel and the three surviving imperial guards, Horry, Rona and Anthony, silently followed the old man Gufeng. Everyone didn't say anything. Only Xia Feng hummed a poem or two sporadically, but was blocked by the quietness in the forest to block the following sentences. Finally, only the monotonous footsteps, heavy breathing and the occasional crisp sound of breaking the dead branches were left in the team.

"Ah--" The wolf's howling seemed to be much closer. The old man Gu Feng, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped, fell down and put his ears to the ground to listen carefully. After a long time, he raised his head in the eyes of everyone's inquiry and said worriedly to Xia Feng and Kunel, "It seems that someone in front of him has encountered trouble and was entangled by the wolf. I'm still. The wolf howling just now is the sound of their gathering of the same kind.

"Wolf? Is that a man or a wolf? Xia Feng frowned and asked, "What does it have to do with the legendary werewolf?"

"Human wolves are wolves," explained by an old man Gu Feng. "They can walk upright like human beings, and their forelimbs are a little close to human hands, like ape's claws, and they are much smarter than ordinary wolves, so they are called human wolves. It is said that after eating enough people and absorbing enough human souls, wolves will become more and more human-like. In the end, they may mix into the crowd and have sex with human women**, and may make them pregnant. The human wolf hybrid born is a rare human with wolf nature, which is the legendary werewolf.

"So that's how the werewolf came from," Xia Feng suddenly realized, looking forward to the direction of the wolf's howd sound and muttered to himself, "Let's go and see the ancestors of these werewolves. We can't see them anywhere else. Don't we have Dragon Ball? There is no need to be afraid of these monsters.

"Don't!" Gu Feng's old man quickly stopped him. "The dragon ball of the blind dragon can only scare off the animals in the swamp and is useless to the beasts in the forest. Wolves are extremely ferocious and can never be dealt with by ordinary people. In addition, they all want to become human forms earlier, so among all prey, wolves have a special hobby for people. Once people encounter human wolves, it is difficult to escape the fate of being arrested and killed. We'd better wait until they finish their food and leave. Please bless us not to meet them.

"Do you want us to die?" Xia Feng asked. Gu Feng's old man nodded: "I'm afraid that few people who are far away from their hometown and come to take risks in this southern wilderness are good. Not to mention whether they can be saved or not, even whether they are worth saving is a question."

Kunel also said coldly, "We are looking for the 'Maple Star', not all the way to save people."

"Is it worth saving people?" The modern instinct in Xia Feng's heart emerged again. I don't know whether it was because of dissatisfaction with Cunel or for some other reason. The less strong desire to save people in his heart was stimulated by Cunel's indifference. What else to say, Alette above the branch interrupted him: "Don't argue, I'll fly first. Look, wait to see the situation ahead before making plans.

"Then you must be careful. Those wolves are the best at climbing trees!" Gu Feng's old man hurriedly told the wingman prince's back that after getting along with him in the past few days, everyone no longer regarded the flying Alette as an alien.

Alette waved his hand to the old man far away to thank him, and then glides forward among the trees like a giant eagle, sometimes jumping from one tree to another, and disappearing into the depths of the dense forest in a blink of an eye.

"Let's rest in place!" With a greeting, the three imperial guards immediately sat on the ground. With a long journey and fear of the unknown way forward, even these most powerful warriors of the Great Western Empire were a little overwhelmed. As soon as they heard the order to rest, they were suddenly like a sound from the sky. How could they care about the lives of others and risk to save anyone? Seeing this, Xia Feng had to sit down and suppress his curiosity about the wolf.

In a short time, Alette flew back and gasped on the branches and said to the crowd, "Two or three miles ahead, more than a dozen warriors were entangled by five or six half upright walking wolves. They are exhausted, and many people have been injured and probably won't support for a long time."

"What kind of people are they?" Xia Feng asked casually and thought to himself that more than a dozen people could not deal with wolves. In addition, he and Kunier may not help. Besides, he may not be able to persuade Kunier to take risks.

Alet tilted his head and recalled when he saw Xia Feng's question, "I heard that the warriors in black call the leader 'King of the South', and there are two women, one of whom is the 'Princes of the South'. She can give some shallow spells, which is that she is barely protecting the people with spells. Another girl is called 'Miss Ji' by her, what is her name 'xuanxuan'.

"xuan?" Xia Feng jumped up and didn't care to greet others. He drew his knife and ran forward alone. He didn't even hear the call of Kunier behind him. Seeing that he disappeared into the dense forest in front of him in a blink of an eye, Kunel had to chase him and hurriedly greeted his companions to follow him immediately.

Under the leadership of Alette, several people ran forward for two or three miles, and gradually could hear the heavy breathing in the depths of the dense forest and the deep roar of rolling between their throats like vicious dogs protecting food. Xia Feng, who rushed to the front, stopped in dismay and saw a human wolf, who was a whole head taller than himself, suddenly turned around and stared at him. Its head is not much different from that of a wolf, but its body is somewhat similar to that of an ape. Its legs are half curved, and its front paws are clenched like an ape. It's just that its body is much thicker and more powerful than that of an ape. Just by looking at its burly and strong body, you can know that its body has amazing power to tear the tiger, leopard and bear into pieces.

The wolf and Xia Feng are about ten feet away, and there are several towering trees in the middle. One person and one beast are looked at each other like this. About a few breaths later, the wolf suddenly rushed to Xia Feng, as agile as a mountain demon and ghost, as fierce as a tiger. Two or three vertical jumps more than ten feet away, and in a blink of an eye, they jumped in front of Xia Feng.

Xia Feng was shocked. The wolf's agility and speed far exceeded that of humans. Even Xia Feng, who was quick to react, almost didn't have time to react. He hurriedly rolled sideways and dodged, and did not forget to cut the wolf's waist with a knife. Although it was dodged by it, it also blocked its subsequent kill.

Kunel, who followed Xia Feng, quickly raised his crossbow and fired it at the wolf. At a distance, the electric crossbow was easily dodged by the wolf. Its agility was far beyond ordinary people's imagination. The three imperial guards who followed Kunel also picked up their crossbows and shot at the wolf. The wolf immediately jumped on the branch and fled flexibly like an ape. None of the dozens of arrows touched it and not a single wolf hair.

Seeing that it had disappeared in the depths of the dense forest, everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief and suddenly heard Alette above suddenly shout, "Be careful, it's in the crown above!"

As soon as the words fell, the wolf had just flown down from above like an ape. Anthony, the guardian of the empire, was slightly dull for a moment, and was scratched by the wolf's claws and then flew to the tree by it in his mouth. Kunell quickly raised his hand and shot an arrow at it. This time, because of a person in his hand, it was far from being flexible. He did not completely avoid the arrow shot from behind and was nailed into his thigh by the arrow. It paused slightly, still holding more than 100 catties of prey in its hand and quickly disappeared into the thick shade.

"Anthony!" Kunel called his companion's name and angrily shot the crossbow arrow blindly into the shade of the disappeared human wolf. It was not until Xia Feng stopped her that she shouted at him hysterically, "It's all you who act as a hero and let my partner die because of your stupidity and recklessness again and again!"

"What's your empire's 'Maple Star' that we have to take risks in this southern wilderness!" Xia Feng roared at Kunail without showing weakness, and then left the speechless captain of the Imperial Guard and turned to run to the depths of the dense forest, where those people were trapped just now, and Xuanxuan was with them!

As soon as Xia Feng rushed out of a bush, there was a rain of arrows on his face. Fortunately, Xia Feng responded quickly, and those arrows were not accurate enough, so he finally dodged it. Xia Feng hurriedly retreated into the woods and saw a rare open area in the jungle in front of him. More than a dozen warriors in black were like frightened birds, looking around with bows and arrows in their hands. As long as there was a slight movement in the bushes, they would randomly shoot arrows, and there was no time to pay attention to what the target was. They formed a circle, and there was a circle of flames burning outside the circle. In the center of the circle, in addition to Shen Dan, the princess of the South, and Yan Gonghai, the king of the South, who is still majestic, there is also a girl in a blue samurai uniform.

" Xuanxuan!" Xia Feng recognized Ji Xuanxuan from afar and hurriedly shouted at the warriors in black, "Don't shoot arrows! I'm not a wolf, I'm here to help you!" With that, he raised his hands and slowly walked out of the trees.

"Ugly? You are ugly!" Ji Xuanxuan also recognized Xia Feng's voice and waved to him in surprise, "Don't come here. These are not good people!" They kidnapped me!"

The more Ji Xuanxuan said this, the more worried Xia Feng was. He couldn't care about his own safety and quickly shouted to the warriors in black: "I don't care who you are. Now I will come here first. You are besieged by wolves now. The most important thing is to escape the wolf kiss first."

"Good! Put away the knife first, then raise your hands and come slowly!" Yan Gonghai, the king of Nan, stared at this bold young man with bright eyes. The king of Nan also heard the cry of the wolf when he fought with him. He really didn't understand what made him dare to save people surrounded by wolves. It was not until he came close that Yan Gonghai was shocked to find that he was younger than he thought and not like a warrior with strong martial arts at all.

"Who are you?" Yan Gonghai kept looking at Xia Feng and wanted to see his origin from his clothes, but in the end, he still failed. The other party had the skin color of the Dongxuan people, the appearance of the Daxi people, and the clothes were similar, which made it difficult to see his true identity.

"It doesn't matter who I am. The important thing is that we must work together to escape the hunting of wolves!" Xia Feng did not directly answer Yan Gonghai's question, but looked at Ji Xuanxuan, who was imprisoned in the saddle. After not seeing each other for more than a month, she was obviously much thinner and weaker, and her originally bright face had a lot of servants and dust, which made people feel pity. Xia Feng couldn't help asking softly, "Didn't you go back with your uncle? Why are you here?"

Xia Feng's question finally made the tears in Ji Xuanxuan's eyes unpress and rolled down. The hardships and grievances of being kidnapped on this road broke out at this moment, turning into tears and gushed out. She immediately counted all the accounts on Xia Feng and complained to him hatefully: "It's you! It's all your fault! It's all caused by your ugly!"

"Is it my fault? Why?" Xia Feng was inexplicable and looked aggrieved. Ji Xuanxuan's face turned red. Of course, she couldn't tell the secret in her heart, so she had to continue to complain rudely: "It's your fault! What else did you come to save me for? Just let these robbers sell me to distant Greece as a slave, or let me feed the wolves!"

Xia Feng, who has always been unable to tolerate others to make a bad mood in front of him, showed unprecedented patience. Just as he was about to explain carefully, Yan Gonghai, who was beside him, interrupted them and said, "It's not the time for you to talk. We are still surrounded by wolves. It's not certain whether we can survive tonight. In the underworld You have plenty of time to talk slowly.

"Good! Let's escape from the siege of wolves first!" Xia Feng immediately showed his decision and turned to Yan Gonghai, "I still have a few companions, and we will have more chances to win together. But before cooperating, I hope you can return this girl to me.

Yan Gonghai meditated slightly. Originally, it was a big trouble to hold Ji Xuanxuan in his hand. Originally, he wanted to kill her mouth so that she would not reveal her whereabouts, but it was difficult for the princess to do it. However, now that she is far away from Nanling City, there is no need to hide anything. It is a good choice to return her to the young man in front of her to win an ally. Thinking of this, he raised his head and nod his head slightly: "No problem. We didn't want to give her anything to her trusted friend. Of course, this is the best." With that, he wink at an attendant, and the attendant immediately untied Ji Xuanxuan from the saddle.

"Come here!" Before he could ask Ji Xuanxuan about the situation, Xia Feng immediately waved his hand into the jungle in the distance. Kunail immediately took the two imperial guards Horry and Rona, as well as the guide Gufeng old man and wingman Alette, and carefully leaned over to the crowd. Before approaching, several of Yan Gonghai's followers saw their appearance and couldn't help exclaiming, "It's the Great Westerners!" With that, they picked up bows and arrows, and Cunel and her two companions immediately fell to the ground. Yan Gonghai quickly shouted and scolded his entourage to put away his bow and arrows. He looked at Alette, who was flying between the branches with great interest and said, "Now both the Great Westerners and the wingers are our allies, and everyone's common enemy is human wolves!"

Seeing that those Dongxuan people put away their bows and arrows, Kunail came to Yan Gonghai with everyone with warning. Yan Gonghai looked at the cold and gorgeous Western beauty in front of him, and then punched her: "Yan Gonghai, the southern king of Dongxuan, hasn't asked the lady's name yet?"

Kunel has always been not interested in Dongxuan etiquette, and he is not very proficient in Dongxuan's language, so he nodded randomly and simply reported his name: "Daxi Kunail."

"Wow--" The wolf howled again, and suddenly there were responses one after another around. As soon as everyone heard the wolf howled, they couldn't help but change their color. Listening to the wolf howled around them, they were no longer five or six wolves, and the number had been at least ten. Even Xia Feng suddenly changed his color. From the fight with the wolf, he knew that the fierceness and agility of the wolf were far from being comparable to human beings. More than ten wolves were enough to kill the team of less than 20 people on the field.

"They are still calling for their peers. We really have nowhere to escape this time!" The old guide's face was as pale as earth, and he couldn't help talking to himself. Yan Gonghai couldn't help turning his eyes to Shen Dan beside him and asked in a low voice, "Princess, how long can your spell last?"

"Support it until dark at most," Shen Dan's voice also trembled, pinching the fake flames outside the circle, and replied, "The more this blinding method goes behind, the more it is, the more it can't deceive those smart beasts. They are much smarter than we think!"

When everyone was worried about their lives, Ji Xuanxuan was immersed in the joy of reuniting with Xia Feng. She didn't even have time to talk about the story of her kidnapping, so she only pulled him to ask questions sadly and happily, completely ignoring everyone's strange eyes and forgetting the girl's reservedness until she saw Xia Feng. She looked a little strange, and she suddenly realized her gaffe. When she wanted to regain her face, it was too late. Ji Xuanxuan knew that the secret in her heart was completely exposed to the other party.

Seeing that Ji Xuanxuan suddenly blushed and closed her mouth, Xia Feng touched her cheek thoughtfully and pretended to say to herself, "I suddenly found that I was not ugly at all!" It seems that someone still cares about my ugly!"

"Bah! You are beautiful! Who cares that you are so ugly?" Ji Xuanxuan clenched her fist and wanted to fight, but in the end, she was still embarrassed. She had to stare at Xia Feng with hatred. Her heart was a little angry, two points shyness, three points of joy, and four points of sweetness. Gathering in her heart made people confused whether it was happy or angry, sweet or ashamed.

While the two whispered as if no one was around, Kuner had commanded several people to ignite a bonfire around the crowd to replace the magic fire condensed by Princess Shen Dan of the South. Shen Dan was finally able to put away his spell and relax. Suddenly, he was tired and leaned in the arms of the king of Nan and couldn't speak for a long time.

The sky gradually became hazy, and everyone chewed and shared dry food in the middle of the circle of fire. In the depths of the woods outside the circle of fire, it was faintly visible that the wolf's hazy body was flashing. As the sky was getting late, their faint eyes gradually became clear in the dark, like a pair of fireflies swaying in the shadow of hazy trees, thick There are as many as twelve or three pairs.

"There is no way to consume like this." Yan Gonghai looked worriedly at those approaching dark eyes, as if talking to himself or asking others for answers. At this moment, Xia Feng's mind was on Ji Xuanxuan. He didn't notice what Yan Gonghai was saying at all, and the other attendants did not dare to interface easily. Only Kunail said indifferently, "Only get through tonight and then think about moving forward at dawn."

"That's all we have to do!" Yan Gonghai sighed gently, and then assigned his samurai to guard at night in batches. Once the wolf was too close, he would deal with it with bows and arrows, and the rest would seize the time to rest and wait for tomorrow's fierce battle. Only Ji Xuanxuan didn't want to sleep, and even didn't care about the danger in front of her. She pestered Xia Feng and asked him to recite poems for her. Xia Feng was full of poetry all the way, and now he finally has a chance to vent it. Naturally, he was full of excitement and whispered all the poems he didn't remember in Ji Xuanxuan's ear, and even patiently taught Ji Xuanxuan a few affectionate lyric poems.

The night passed in peace. At dawn, the wolf finally took advantage of the weaker bonfire to launch an attack. Several bold wolves jumped over the bonfire and rushed into the circle of fire one after another, taking away three warriors in black from under everyone's eyes. They roared and sharp teeth when they fought for the three corpses not far away. The sound of biting the bones made the survivors' scalp explode and their hair stood up.

"Look! There is a man over there!" When it was dawn, Alette's eyes gradually regained their sharpness, and Wingman only had eagle-falcon-like eyes during the day. Everyone followed Alette's expectation and saw that in the dense forest far away from everyone, a man dressed in Dongxuan was wading to everyone. There was a mist in the dense forest before dawn, which made people unable to see each other's face clearly, but it must be a kind of Dongxuan clan. It made everyone very excited to see a similar kind in a critical moment. No one noticed such a strange phenomenon. None of the human wolves showed any interest in the man who had an extreme preference for human prey.

"He is greeting us!" A warrior in black pointed excitedly at the man and said to everyone, "We should follow him. Maybe he can save us!"

Everyone stood up one after another and stared at the man. They saw that he was indeed wave to the crowd and clearly asked everyone to go with him. Yan Gonghai and Kuner looked at each other. Obviously, neither of them had a good way to get rid of the wolf, so they had to follow everyone's wishes. Kunail also wanted to ask for Xia Feng's opinion, but seeing that he was still focusing on teaching Ji Xuanxuan to recite poems and didn't care about herself at all, she had to turn around and wave to the two surviving companions, Holly and Rona: "Let's follow him. Everyone must be careful on the way and pay attention to the possible sneak attack of wolves!"

"I can still protect everyone with magic fire, don't worry." After a night's rest, Princess Shen Dan's mana recovered a little. She immediately pinched the seal and set up a fire wall around the crowd. Then everyone stepped out of the bonfire circle and squeezed together to lean against the hazy figure in the dense forest.

When the man saw that the crowd followed, he led the way in front of the crowd and kept a distance of more than ten feet from the crowd. Yan Gonghai asked the man several times and turned a deaf ear to him. He only silently led the way in front of him. From time to time, he stopped and waited for everyone for a moment. When everyone was about to catch up with him, he accelerated his pace to throw everyone away for a distance.

Although his behavior was a little strange, under the threat of wolves chasing around him, everyone had no time to pay attention to this strangeness. They only followed the man to touch the dense forest without any road. Only Yan Gonghai motioned a follower to leave a mark on the tree trunk along the way to avoid getting lost. On the way, the wolf overcame his instinctive fear of fire and launched several small-scale raids. Two warriors in black under Yan Gonghai were taken away by several wolves. They fought for the two warriors, which finally made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

The trees gradually became sparse, and people gradually climbed to a gentle hill. The trees on the mountain were sparse, and the weeds and shrubs were very rare. In the end, there was no grass, leaving only a mountain of strange rocks, which was a rare phenomenon in the primitive jungle of the southern wilderness.

"Look! There are still people ahead!" Alette, with sharp eyes, was the first to find the sparse figures on the mountain, including Dongxuan people, Daxi people, and even the dark-skinned Sam people. They sat or stood among the rocks, as if they were waiting for something boredly, or completely doing nothing. When they saw everyone from afar, they stood up, waved to the crowd attentively, and then began to look at the mountain, looking back and waiting while walking, as if they were diligently leading the way for the crowd. But strangely, none of them came to greet everyone, let alone say a word.

This situation was a little strange. Both Kuner and Yan Gonghai realized this, but when they looked back at the wolf who caught up again, they exchanged a look and had to secretly follow those people to climb the increasingly desolate hill. They didn't go far and noticed that on the bare rock on the hillside A huge cave, the first people to arrive waited at the mouth of the cave and waved to everyone from afar.

The hill has been bare from halfway up without a grass. After climbing here, Yan Gonghai and Kuner accidentally found that the wolves stopped when they chased to this grass-less place, staggered in the bushes at the foot of the mountain and walked back and forth irritably, but did not dare to cross the rocks that did not grow grass. He didn't seem to dare to take any further, but he was unwilling to leave and only stared at the crowd and roared in a low voice.

There are no trees and weeds on the mountain, the fog in the morning is much thinner, and the leading figures in front of them become clearer and clearer. Alette suddenly pointed to them and shouted in fear, "No! Those people walk without touching the ground, and their feet are always one or two high from the ground. They are people floating in the air!"