Chapter Ninety-Five Little Wolf Cub

  Such important intelligence, naturally did not escape Xiao Hong's ears. Looking at the silver bone horse dispersing a fluorescent beast gall being taken out, although Xiao Hong was still itchy in his heart, Jiao Qi Shan's strength had already made Xiao Hong hesitant to take action.

  Li Wen, who was standing beside him, lightly touched Xiao Hong and raised an inquiring eyebrow.

  Xiao Hong naturally understood the implication of this gaze, slightly shook his head, and gently raised his index finger to his mouth, then pointed behind him.

  The other four people nodded slightly and then quietly retreated backwards.

  They retreated dozens of meters before Xiao Hong and the others stood up, obviously the information just now was extremely important. If they had gone to An Rong Mountain like that without a clue, they would probably have died eight times without knowing how they died.

  "What shall we do now?" Li Wen asked aloud.

  "It's clear that the cave entrance is estimated to be eight layers deep, and there's also a hidden dragon. With just the few of us, don't even think about getting out. The top priority right now is to pass on the information to our other companions and come up with a plan to leave as soon as possible." Xiao Hong calmly analyzed.

  "Are you going further north?" Li Wen asked again.

  "That's right, this is also the best way to find companions, but we must not enter the Dark Fusion Mountain, and be extra careful along the way, because we still don't know how many masked men there are." Xiao Hong responded.

  Having spoken, Xiao Hong then led Li Wen and others to continue heading north, without a doubt, now they must seize the time.

  "Hey, you guys said that since the masked man wants to eliminate as many top-notch players in Taiwu City as possible, why didn't he attack us just now?" Hong Feng, who was walking at the front, asked in confusion.

  "Need you ask? In others' eyes, do you think we deserve the title of high-hand? In others' eyes, a high-hand should at least be at the level of a Rider." Yanshan responded.

  Such an answer is quite sarcastic, but it can't be denied that this kind of answer is the most reliable.

  "There's also another possibility, that the troublemakers in black clothes thought they didn't have a hundred percent guarantee to thoroughly get rid of us." Xiao Hong continued to say, after all, in his opinion, this group of masked people who stirred up trouble were not so kind-hearted. Moreover, Xiao Hong could feel that the three masked men he had encountered before did not have the same level of strength as Longfa and others.

  They proceeded cautiously on foot for nearly an hour, encountering many spiritual beasts along the way. Most were herbivores and posed no danger. Among them was a whip-tailed beast with combat strength of around level 10, which had already been taken down by Xiao Hong and his companions. Although it wasn't as valuable as a mount-level spiritual beast, its body could still yield over a hundred gold coins in value.

  Normally, I might consider giving up, but now it's better to gather everything, because the situation is changing and we may need to escape at any time, so plans also need to change, being able to bring something away is better than having nothing.

  Don't forget, today's opportunity is what Xiao Hong got a profit of 1,000 gold coins in exchange for, even if he loses money, he can't lose too much.

  Along the way, Xiao Hong and others also met some people, but none of them were from Shao Jiang's team. They included Chai Shuang, who seemed to have already lost contact with the team. Pi Haifei was nowhere to be found, leaving only two guys from Xizhen Magic Academy following behind, looking somewhat disheveled.

  However, Xiao Hong and others did not realize it and discovered it afterwards. They dodged it and hid far away before the other party noticed themselves. Moreover, Xiao Hong also had a bad impression of Chai Shuang, this arrogant and overbearing big sister.

  As for Yan Nan after the break, while paying attention to detect the magic thread, he also tried to contact his companions nearby with the communication magic thread, but unfortunately, it was always in vain.

  While Xiao Hong was carefully observing the movements around him, he was also thinking about the identity of the masked person in his mind. The woman who claimed to be Qiao Nan, who claimed to be a member of the Vanguard Team, what is the Vanguard Team? Xiao Hong had never heard of it, but vaguely, he always unconsciously associated it with the group of people he fought on the street with Belo back then.

  Of course, Xiao Hong had no evidence, just intuition, but why did they want to destroy the strong men of Tai Wu City? Was it to weaken the three major forces? And what else was there to consider?

  All of this was beyond Xiao Hong's comprehension, and he tried his best to restrain himself from thinking too much. After all, what the Vanguard team was going to do had little to do with him. For now, the most important thing was his own safety. It was estimated that An Rong Mountain could no longer be approached, and Xiao Hong's bottom line was to leave here safely.

  Hiss, hiss, roar!

  As Xiao Hong continued on his way, such a voice accompanied by a slightly childish low growl kept echoing in Xiao Hong's ears. This kind of growling sound was obviously not from some large spiritual beast.

  "What's the noise?" Ye Jiapolong, who had been silent in the team all along, suddenly asked.

  "Don't bother with it." Xiao Hong responded, at this time, it's absolutely better to have one less thing than one more thing, if you can avoid distractions, then don't get distracted. Moreover, judging from the degree of loudness of the sound, it's not a dangerous spiritual beast.

  But just as Xiao Hong had finished speaking, and they had passed through a thicket of waist-high shrubs, a deep pit suddenly appeared before them, shaped like a barrel, with a depth of about three meters.

  Just as he was about to walk past, Xiao Hong inadvertently saw a creature that looked like a squirrel with white fur and a chubby appearance at the bottom of the deep pit. It was leaning against one side of the pit, its body and two small paws pressed against the earthen wall, looking very helpless. Its white fur had been stained by the mud, becoming streaked and matted, with occasional sparks the size of a lighter flame bursting out.

  And right in front of it, there were seven or eight black lizards that were about the same size as it. However, these black lizards were not spiritual beasts, but ordinary carnivorous animals, and they apparently considered the squirrel-like spiritual beast in front of them to be their dinner.

  For the spirit beast in the deep pit, Xiao Hong naturally recognized it as a Qí Láng, a carnivorous beast that can secrete a flammable liquid from its mouth, which will ignite when exposed to air. It has sharp fangs and can also attack with flames. A grown Qí Láng is nearly two meters long and can exert the strength of a third or fourth-level Rider. Its intelligence is quite high, and it understands human nature. However, the Qí Láng in the deep pit was just an infant, probably only one or two months old, with its fangs not yet grown out, and the flammable liquid secreted from its mouth had little attacking power.

  At this moment, it is Xiao Qi Lang, a pair of round and bright little eyes are already filled with fear and despair. This deep ditch is so high that it's hard for him to jump out relying on his body shape.

  Seeing someone at the entrance of the cave, the little wolf instantly cast a pleading glance and put on a pitiful look.

  Xiao Hong naturally noticed the little wolf's reflection, and at this time, from an objective point of view, he tried to avoid trouble as much as possible. However, seeing the little wolf's eyes, Xiao Hong still felt a pang of sympathy. Almost at the same time that the three-headed lizard pounced on the little wolf, Xiao Hong shot out three rose petals like lightning, cutting off the heads of the lizards directly. The other lizards instinctively retreated.

  Without haste, he took out a thin rope from his backpack, tied a loop at one end, and then let the rope slide down, suspending the loop in front of the little wolf.

  The little wolf cub raised its small head, looked at Xiao Hong, hesitated for a moment, and still hooked its front paws into the rope loop. As it hung in mid-air, it didn't forget to stick out its tongue at the remaining lizards, as if it was a kind of contemptuous mockery.

  Get the little wolf out of it and put it on his palm, Xiao Hong can clearly see that there are some scratches on the little guy's arm, and the mud on the fur has already stuck to the skin, looking very dirty, just like a discarded domestic cat, it seems that it has been hungry for a long time, and its vitality is quite strong.

  At this moment, it was gazing longingly at Xiao Hong, as if craving something.

  Xiao Hong seemed to understand this kind of gaze, and randomly took off the water bottle from his waist, pouring some clear water into the bottle cap.

  Look at the little guy, without a hint of politeness, using his front paws to hold the water lid, drinking it all in one gulp, and then opening his front limbs towards the water bottle, showing a gesture that he wants more.

  "What is this thing?" Yan Nan looked at the little grey-headed and dirty-faced thing and asked.

  "Qí Láng, a very ferocious yet extremely intelligent spirit beast." Xiao Hong responded, directly placing the water bottle at the little guy's mouth, letting it drink big gulps.

  "Qí Láng? No way, I think he looks more like a fat mouse." Yan Nan said with an exaggerated expression. Lin Lang naturally knew that among the guards under Sang Hongyun's command, there was one who looked extremely ferocious and very protective of his master.

  "This is just a cub, it will be different when it grows up. As the saying goes, 'a girl changes eighteen times after she turns eighteen', some spiritual beasts are like this too." Xiao Hong continued to say, seeing that the little guy had drunk enough, he threw a compressed biscuit at it.

  He took over the compressed biscuits, and the little guy didn't hesitate, starting to gnaw continuously, obviously starving.

  "What about this thing, how are you going to deal with it?" Li Wen continued to ask.

  "Hmm..." Just as Xiao Hong was considering this, he looked at the little guy again. After eating a few biscuits, it fell asleep in Xiao Hong's palm, clearly exhausted. This kind of vigilant Lycan, who dared to sleep in someone's palm, could only prove one thing - that it had established enough trust with this person.

  Xiao Hong had saved it and was about to let it go, but at this moment Xiao Hong suddenly remembered Mu Xi'er and the casual promise he made back then.

  After a slight hesitation, Xiao Hong took out a wooden box from his backpack, carved several holes on it with a small knife, put the sleeping little wolf inside, and then fixed the lid on top of the backpack.

  Just as Xiao Hong finished all this, a fierce and chaotic sound of footsteps suddenly came from not far away, sometimes urgent, sometimes heavy, and even Xiao Hong could vaguely hear the low roar of beasts.