"Thump thump thump!"

As the wolf pack launched their attack, gunshots rang out around me.

Although the shot wolf howled incessantly, it did not frighten its companions. The strongest wolves, running wildly, carved a path through the flames with their bodies.

After firing a shot, Song Laosan opened the hinge to eject the spent cartridge case and was about to load a new bullet when a wolf pounced on him and knocked him to the ground.

Seeing this, I didn't think twice and instinctively stabbed the wolf with my knife.

At this point, both the human and the beast herd had completely descended into madness, and a life-or-death struggle between them was inevitable.

As soon as the knife struck, I felt scalding blood spray all over my hand, and I heard heavy breathing behind me.

Get out of the way!

Song Laosan loaded the bullets, kicked me aside, then pressed the muzzle of his gun against a wolf that pounced on him and pulled the trigger.

Thump!

A gunshot rang out, and the wolf was thrown two meters away, convulsing and howling on the ground.

"Help! Help me!!"

At this moment, Zhou Peng was also pinned down by a wolf. There were still some flames on the wolf's body. Most of its mane was burned off, and its exposed skin smelled burnt and was still bleeding.

Seeing that everyone else was entangled, I gripped my bayonet and charged forward again.

"Awoo!"

Before I could even get close, a wolf pounced on me, its immense strength pinning me to the ground and then biting my arm.

I've only ever heard of the incredible bite force of wild animals, but I've never been bitten by an animal in my life.

It wasn't until I experienced that blow that I realized how terrifying wild beasts can be.

In an instant, my arm became incredibly sore and numb, and then half of my body began to spasm, leaving me with no strength to resist.

"Bang!"

Sasha, who had arrived, swung his hunting rifle and smashed the butt of the rifle onto the wolf's head, throwing it off me. Then, he pressed down on the muzzle and shot the wolf that had attacked Zhou Peng, breaking its neck.

"Awooo!"

The mournful howls of wolves rose again, and the remaining wolves no longer swarmed forward. Instead, they retreated and formed a circle, staring at us as they circled and spun, waiting for their chance to strike.

Thump!

Sasha fired a shot into the air, then howled at the wolves in Russian. Song Laosan also took the opportunity to load his gun and warily looked around.

Thump!

Sasha roared at the wolf pack, then fired a shot into the air. As if the wolves understood him, they looked at the corpses scattered on the ground and slowly disappeared into the darkness.

"Gulp!"

Seeing that the wolf pack had retreated, the monkey sat down heavily on the ground, staring blankly at his blood-soaked hand. The others were also covered in blood, remaining silent and clearly having suffered severe injuries.

When Sasha saw what we looked like, he rattled off a long string of Russian. Song Laosan kicked Zhou Peng and asked, "Hey, what did he say?"

"I want to go home! I want to go home!"

Zhou Peng finally came to his senses, clutching his arm and wailing, "I'm only twenty-two! I don't want to die here, I want to go home! This place doesn't belong to humans! This is hell!"

"Smack!"

Song Laosan slapped Zhou Peng across the face, then grabbed his collar and forced him to look at Sasha: "Calm down! This is a primeval jungle. You'll only die faster if you fight alone. Only by staying together can we survive. Now, tell me what he's saying!"

Zhou Peng was a little dazed after being slapped by Song Laosan. Seeing Sasha pointing at us, he said, "He's worried that the smell of blood here will attract more wild beasts, so he's demanding that we move immediately!"

Old Song grabbed my arm and pulled me up: "Get up, we have to leave right away!"

When Song Laosan yanked me, I felt a piercing pain in my arm. Looking down, I saw that my clothes were soaked in blood.

The fight with the wolves left us all injured to varying degrees, but thankfully no one hurt their legs. To survive, we had no choice but to follow Sasha and continue our escape.

Sasha seemed to notice that everyone was exhausted, so he didn't take us too far. After finding a forest, he tied a few ropes to the tree trunks, then collected the snow in the woods, melted it with the campfire and cooking pot, poured a bag of potassium permanganate on it, and cleaned everyone's wounds.

After checking everyone's injuries, Song Laosan said, "Xiao Duan and Zhou Peng have both been bitten by wolves. They need to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Bring the rabies vaccine!"

"It's with me!"

Zhou Peng opened his medical kit, and then his eye twitched.

Inside the first-aid kit, all the glass ampoules had shattered during the fight. After searching for a long time, they only found one intact rabies vaccine.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Peng instinctively grasped it in his hand. His meaning was clear: Song Laosan and he were all in cahoots, and this kind of life-saving item certainly wouldn't be available to him.

Before Song Laosan could speak, the monkey behind him opened the medical kit, held up the ampoules, and said, "I have three more here!"

Song Laosan took out a disposable syringe from his bag, then snatched the ampoule from Zhou Peng's hand, smashed it, and injected it into me: "We're not good people, but we're not as bad as you think. It's true that this primeval jungle is a lawless place, but we also need to be restrained by humanity. Just like in that situation, if we don't trust each other, we'll all die here in the end, understand?"

Zhou Peng felt a little relieved when he saw the monkey walking towards him with a syringe: "I was just too scared. I can't imagine that in such a technologically advanced modern society, we still have to live like this."

Song Laosan used a cotton swab dipped in potassium permanganate to clean my skin and began to inject me with the vaccine: "Modern technology is very advanced, but the world is also very big. There are far more unexplored areas than you can imagine. We cannot live without technology, but we cannot be too superstitious about it."

After Zhou Peng and the other monkeys finished giving him the injection, he calmed down and said, "Yes, it is only when we leave behind our self-proclaimed high technology and are truly in the wilderness that we realize how insignificant humanity is."

"Don't be so pessimistic. Technology isn't useless." Song Laosan gestured with the GPS locator in his hand: "Our reinforcements will arrive in two days. They will bring more advanced equipment and firearms, and then the wolf pack will no longer be a threat to us."

"Slap! Slap!"

At this moment, Sasha clapped his hands and shouted, "We still have to travel after dawn, so everyone should take a break. Everyone should climb up the trees and tie themselves to the branches with ropes to take turns keeping watch at night. The temperature here is too low, and each person can only sleep for a maximum of one hour to prevent hypothermia."

I wrapped my arm where the wolf had bitten me with a bandage, then chewed two painkillers and was the first to climb the tree.