"Miss Wei, shall we go over and take a look?" Zou Yun looked down the dark hillside with worry in his eyes.
"Wait a moment." Wei Yunlan stopped her and listened carefully. The wild dogs that ran past the camp seemed to stop less than a mile away from the camp.
In addition to their occasional low roars, the night wind also brought up some rustling sounds of them paddling the soil.
Wei Yunlan suddenly remembered something and asked, "Chen Yan, where did you throw those bones today?"
"It was thrown down the slope, some distance away from here... and buried with soil." Chen Yan said as he looked down the slope, his mouth slightly opened in surprise.
"It can't be such a coincidence..."
The wild dogs stopped right where they buried their food scraps, chicken bones?
"Did those wild dogs follow the scent?" Tang Hai slapped his forehead in annoyance. It was all his fault. If he had known he was showing off, he should have just made some ordinary dishes instead of making beggar's chicken!
"Boss, what should we do?" Tang Hai asked worriedly, "If those wild dogs can't dig anything out of the soil, will they come back to look for us?"
"Don't think too much. We are numerous and we didn't deliberately provoke them. They may not attack us."
"But it's always a good idea to make more preparations." Wei Yunlan took out a few packets of powder from his bag and handed them to Zou Yun and others. "This is the powder we used to deal with wolves on the way north. It can make the fur of wild animals itchy and make them lose their attack power. If those wild dogs attack later, you can apply the powder on your weapons. Just be careful not to get it on yourself."
Zou Yun took the powder and suddenly realized: "Is this the powder you used before in the Nanjiao Forest Farm?"
The Beiguan Military Intelligence Department was able to successfully control the two Northern Barbarian spies, and this powder played a major role in that!
Knowing that the powder has effects on humans as well as wild animals, the guards of Tianshu Pavilion were more cautious when they took it.
In the woods, wild animals passed through the branches, leaves and grass of the bushes, making constant rustling sounds.
In the darkness, there were many more pairs of eyes staring at the camp.
In the temporary camp with a burning bonfire, everyone was ready, waiting for the beast hiding in the dark to leap forward, and several sharp arrows that had been coated with powder and were ready to be shot out at the first moment.
However, those figures in the dark paused for a long time, but had no intention of attacking forward.
Wei Yunlan didn't even sense any murderous intent from them, but remembering what was said in the miscellaneous notes, that these beasts had amazing endurance and could often wait all night long in order to catch prey, he did not dare to be careless and let his guard down even a bit.
The stalemate lasted for half an hour. Just when everyone was about to lose patience and was ready to launch an attack to disperse them, the wild dogs suddenly retreated a few steps together, led by a smaller one.
"Heiyun, come back." Seeing this, Wei Yunlan hurriedly called back Heiyun, who was humming non-stop and had already rushed out.
The leading wild dog shook its ears, which stood up like little fans, and glanced towards Wei Yunlan.
Then he retreated back to the forest with forty or fifty wild dogs behind him.
In just three to five breaths, they all disappeared. Their movements were so agile that they were worthy of being in the mountains and forests and were no less powerful than wolves.
"Could they leave on purpose and hide themselves to come back when we relax?" Tang Hai guessed.
"No." Wei Yunlan said with certainty.
It’s not that she knew much about the wild dog community, but she had heard these wild dogs bypass the temporary camp and retreat in the uphill direction from which they came.
After waiting for a while, there was no sign of the wild dog, and no sound in the woods was heard.
Zou Yun and his companions walked around the temporary camp and patrolled the area within two miles. They did not find any "slippery fish" and finally felt relieved.
"Those wild dogs really came for the place where we buried the bones."
Zou Yun's eyes were filled with confusion, "When we went there, the soil had been dug up and the chicken bones had been chewed into crumbs..."
"But they did leave, and there is no trace of them around anymore."
"Let's not cook any food with obvious smells when we set off tomorrow," Wei Yunlan suggested. She had thought that she had done enough, including burying the residue and spreading odor-isolating powder. But she didn't expect that even though they had done enough, the wild dogs' noses were more sensitive.
"We don't know how many wild animals there are in this mountain range, so be careful."
Wei Yunlan's proposal was approved by everyone. After the incident, everyone found it difficult to fall asleep again, so they simply redistributed the night watch tasks, with everyone split into two halves, each keeping watch for another two hours.
Wei Yunlan and his companions, who had been guarding for a while, were not assigned to the group again.
Wei Yunlan had a dreamless night and when he opened his eyes again, he was awakened by a scream.
“There’s blood!”
"What happened?" Wei Yunlan put on his winter coat, opened the curtain and rushed out.
What caught my eye were a few faces looking uphill with surprised expressions on their faces.
Wei Yunlan followed the gaze of the crowd and saw a clear trail of blood along the edge of the camp where the powder was sprinkled, all the way up.
Looking up again, Wang Lu, who had just screamed, was standing there with a look of astonishment on his face, holding a pheasant in each hand that was still flapping its wings.
At his feet lay at least ten chickens with their necks bitten off.
The bloodstains on the ground flowed down from the chickens that were bitten to death.
"This is……"
Wei Yunlan already had a guess in his mind, and he looked around. Sure enough, he saw a pair of bright yellow-brown eyes in the grass uphill.
"It was sent by those wild dogs last night."
The wild dogs in the bushes, seeing that they had been discovered, took the initiative to walk out of the darkness. Their black and yellow figures were exposed to the sunlight, revealing their complete appearance.
As described in the notes, these wild dogs were similar in shape to wolves, slightly smaller than ordinary wild wolves, especially the leading one, which was smaller, but the skin and flesh all over their bodies were very tight, as if filled with strength.
After revealing their figures, they did not approach Wei Yunlan and the others. Only the leading one stepped forward, nudged the pheasant corpse on the ground with its nose, and then quickly jumped away, making a low "woooo" growl from its mouth.
Wei Yunlan seemed to understand what they said, "These wild dogs want us to cook these pheasants on the ground like we did yesterday and feed them to them?"
As for the two living ones, they were probably their reward.
You know how to be polite!
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