"Thank you." Gu Yu took the cotton coat and thanked Shi Shuai. He hadn't really thought about these things when he came out, but now he realized that even though he hadn't gone up the snow mountain, he had already felt cold.
The two men put on cotton-padded coats, carried rifles, and headed towards the snow-capped mountains.
At this moment, there were not only Gu Yu and Shi Shuai on the snow-capped mountain, but also hundreds of people, all of whom were martial artists.
Even martial artists cannot guarantee their safety on the snow-capped mountains. There are cliffs, low temperatures, avalanches, and even mutated snow wolves. In addition, the higher you go, the lower the oxygen content and the stronger the wind. These dangers make most martial artists dare not go too high.
After walking for half an hour, Gu Yu and Shi Shuai saw five or six tents. There were some low-level martial artists around the tents, drinking meat soup and having a campfire in front of them.
"Do you want to take a break?" Gu Yu asked Shi Shuai.
After all, Shi Shuai's Origin Qi is not like Gu Yu's, which can be exchanged for with contribution points.
Once a martial artist's source energy is exhausted, if it is not replenished in time, they will be weaker than a normal person.
"Take a break." For safety reasons, Shi Shuai replied. Although he had filled 81 blood apertures, making him stronger than ordinary high-level martial artists, he was different from Gu Yu; he was not a grandmaster.
"By the way, you said the Dragon Clan also sent people. Have they already reached the summit?" Gu Yu looked at the vast, white snow-capped mountains, unable to see where the summit was.
"I don't know, our missions are different. I'm only responsible for killing the mutated snow wolves," Shi Shuai replied.
"oh!"
"Could you please give me a bowl of hot meat soup?" The aroma of the meat soup made their mouths water.
The two of them did not stop along the way, and drove for a day and a night without eating much. One of the downsides of using energy to fill their stomachs is that it cannot satisfy their taste buds.
“Sure, we’re all here to kill the mutated snow wolves, of course we can.” A middle-aged man immediately said when he heard Gu Yu and Shi Shuai’s words, “Gentlemen, please go into the tent and warm up. I’ll go and get you some hot soup right away.”
Upon entering the tent, they found two people sitting inside. One of them looked very unwell, clearly suffering from internal injuries. The two of them were somewhat wary when they saw Gu Yu and Shi Shuai enter.
"Well, we just want a bowl of meat soup," Gu Yu said.
“Okay,” the uninjured person replied, but the two remained vigilant.
Gu Yu and Shi Shuai found a place to sit cross-legged. A moment later, the middle-aged man came in with two bowls of hot meat soup and handed them to Gu Yu and Shi Shuai.
Gu Yu and Shi Shuai didn't stand on ceremony and started drinking the soup.
"Alas! Eight of us went into the mountains, but we never expected that only three of us would survive," the man, who had suffered internal injuries, said sadly.
"Alright, we'll go down the mountain once your injuries have healed a bit," said the man who served Gu Yu and Shi Shuai the meat soup.
"Did you encounter mutated snow wolves?" Shi Shuai asked. Judging from their conversation, there were originally eight people, but now only three remain. It is likely that the other five died at the hands of the mutated snow wolves.
"Sigh!" said the middle-aged man who served the two men the meat soup. "Yes! We encountered mutated snow wolves. The eight of us fought a battle. Although some of us were injured, we killed dozens of mutated snow wolves. Just as we were collecting our spoils, a group of people came. They claimed that the mutated snow wolves were theirs, but we clearly killed them. In the ensuing argument, a battle broke out. Five of my companions died in the fight, and only the three of us escaped."
At this point, the middle-aged man's voice choked up.
"Do you know who they are?" Shi Shuai asked.
"I don't know." The middle-aged man shook his head.
"This is outrageous!" Shi Shuai's face was icy cold. These people didn't die at the hands of the mutated snow wolves, but at the hands of their own people.
"The meat soup smells delicious." Gu Yu suddenly said something out of place, but no one said anything. "Your meat soup smells delicious. There's no such thing as a free lunch."
Gu Yu stood up and walked over to the injured man.
“The injury is quite serious.” After Gu Yu finished speaking, he suddenly reached out and pressed his hand on the injured man’s head, and the other two’s expressions immediately changed.
"Don't panic, you two. He's healing your companion," Shi Shuai said hastily upon seeing this. He then glanced at Gu Yu, thinking, "This guy is really something. He's healing, fine, but he didn't even say anything. It makes people think he's up to no good."
The source energy flowed into the injured man's body through Gu Yu's palm, nourishing his body. In no time, the injured man's originally pale and bloodless cheeks became rosy.
Gu Yu withdrew his hand, turned around and returned to his previous spot, sat down, and waved the bowl in his hand, "Another bowl of meat soup, please."
"Thank you, senior." After sensing the changes in his body, the injured man immediately clasped his hands in thanks to Gu Yu.
"No need to thank me. I already said this is for the meat soup, but you have to make sure there's enough meat soup for you!" Gu Yu waved his hand and said, "However, your injury won't heal so quickly; you'll need to rest for a while."
"Are you going into the mountains, senior?" the man suddenly asked.
"Let's start with a bowl of meat soup." Gu Yu continued waving the bowl in his hand. These people, really, can't they see such a big bowl?
"I'll go right now," the man who had previously served Gu Yu and Shi Shuai meat soup suddenly said, then took the bowl from Gu Yu's hand and went out to get the meat soup.
"We're preparing to go into the mountains," Gu Yu finally answered the man's question.
"Alas!" the man sighed. "It's a pity that my strength is weak and I'm injured. Otherwise, I would also go into the mountains to avenge my dead brothers."
Upon hearing his words, the other person was also somewhat impulsive, but they both understood that even if they went, it would be suicide.
“Senior, if you go up the mountain, you must be careful. Those people are not simple. There should be a grandmaster among them,” the man continued.
"It's alright. If they provoke me, you'll get your revenge too." At this moment, the middle-aged man brought in the meat soup. Gu Yu took the soup, drank a couple of sips, and said.
Upon hearing Gu Yu's words, the three of them fell silent, unsure of how to respond.
"My name is Li You, his name is Zhang Qiang, and his name is Wang Hao," said the middle-aged man who was serving Gu Yu the meat soup. "I don't know your names, senior."
"Gu Yu," Gu Yu said, taking a sip of the meat soup.
"Gu Yu?" The three exchanged glances, honestly, they had never heard of this name before.
"Senior, you're not from Huangbei City, are you?" Li You asked.
"Yes," Gu Yu replied. Mo City belongs to Huangbei City, so it's correct to say that he is from Huangbei City.
"This..." The three of them were stunned again. They knew all the powerful martial artists in Huangbei City, but they did not know Gu Yu. Moreover, Gu Yu looked very young.
"Aren't you from Huangbei City?" Gu Yu asked after finishing the soup in his bowl.
“Yes, the three of us are from Gucheng,” Li You said.
"Oh!" Gu Yu nodded. Then he stood up.
"How was your rest?" Gu Yu asked Shi Shuai.
"Yes, he's almost fully recovered," Shi Shuai nodded and said.
"Let's go up the mountain," Gu Yu said, stepping out of the tent.
"Farewell, thank you." Shi Shuai cupped his hands in farewell to the three of them, and then walked out of the tent.
As soon as he stepped out of the tent, the biting cold made Shi Shuai shiver.
"Who do you think would be the people who stole their spoils?" Shi Shuai asked, walking up to Gu Yu.
"How would I know?" Gu Yu rolled his eyes. This Shi Shuai, he asks him about everything. He's not an omniscient person.
"These people's behavior is truly hateful. If they are not restrained, countless people will die at their hands," Shi Shuai said angrily. If these people were in front of him right now, he would probably kill them immediately.
"How do we discipline them?" Gu Yu asked upon hearing Shi Shuai's words. It wasn't that he disagreed with Shi Shuai's point of view, but rather how to discipline them.
Such things as past lives are commonplace; who can possibly manage them all? Faced with an invasion by alien races, who can afford to be distracted by these matters? The extinction of humanity is also somewhat related to these individuals.
No matter what we face, there are always some people who only care about their own interests. When disaster strikes, they don't think about fighting together, but about profiting from it.
"Just because you don't know how to manage them, does that mean you're just letting them run wild?" Shi Shuai looked at Gu Yu, clearly displeased with Gu Yu's question.
“It’s not that we don’t care, we’ll do something if we see it, but what if we don’t? The world is so big, do you know how many times this kind of thing has happened?” Gu Yu said. “I’m sure it’s everywhere.”
After hearing Gu Yu's words, Shi Shuai felt somewhat depressed. He knew that Gu Yu was right.
“Only if you are strong enough can you intimidate these people. Only by making them afraid will they be wary and dare not continue doing this,” Gu Yu added.
“Powerful.” Shi Shuai clenched his fist. Yes, all of this required a powerful person to deter them. It was impossible to kill all of them, nor did they have the energy. The only way was to kill one to warn a hundred, to make them fearful and dare not continue.
“I think we’ll run into them, but we need to kill a few mutated snow wolves first,” Gu Yu said.
"Alright." Shi Shuai clenched his fist again, determined not to let them off easily if he were to encounter them.
As the two ventured deeper, the temperature grew increasingly cold, the wind picked up, and snowflakes even began to fall.
"Awooo..."
After walking for several hours, the two finally heard the howling of wolves.
Shi Shuai immediately rushed towards the direction from which the wolf howls came. Watching Shi Shuai's back, Gu Yu murmured a few words.
"You're still too young. You'll see things differently in the future."
Gu Yu then sped up and chased after Shi Shuai.
At this moment, more than a dozen mutated snow wolves surrounded a person who was covered in wounds and whose consciousness seemed to be somewhat blurred. There were more than a dozen corpses on the ground, some human and some mutated snow wolves. In particular, there was a mutated snow wolf whose body shape was almost humanoid.
The mutated snow wolves are entirely white, but they are twice the size of normal wild wolves. They have bright red eyes and robust bodies.
"I never thought I, Che Tong, would die at the hands of these beasts today. How ridiculous." Che Tong shook his head to stay awake, looked at the dozen or so mutated snow wolves, and said with some resentment.
Che Tong was a prominent figure in Shangcheng, a local bigwig with a security company of eight hundred people under his command. He originally planned to take the opportunity to come to Beiyuan Snow Mountain to kill a few mutated snow wolves and exchange them for some resources from the country. He never expected that a mutated snow wolf comparable to a grandmaster would suddenly appear.
He shouldn't have been afraid with his skills, but there were too many mutated snow wolves. After a fierce battle, although he successfully killed the mutated snow wolf that was comparable to a grandmaster, he was also seriously injured, and all the people he brought died here.
"Come on! Even if I, Che Tong, die, I'll drag you down with me!" Che Tong suddenly charged towards a mutated snow wolf.
Seeing Che Tong rushing towards it, the mutated snow wolf was still somewhat frightened. Their leader had just been killed, and the person in front of them was very fierce.
However, his injuries were too severe. After taking a few steps, Che Tong staggered and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Seeing this, the mutated snow wolf shook its fur, mustered its courage, and charged towards the car.
It opened its blood-red maw and bit down on Che Tong's head. Seeing this, Che Tong closed his eyes; he had no power to fight back.
Whoosh... Boom...
A roar rang in Che Tong's ears. At that moment, a figure stood in front of him, holding a rifle and blocking his way. In Che Tong's eyes, the figure was like a god descending to earth.
Seeing this, more than a dozen mutated snow wolves turned furious and charged at the two of them.
Shi Shuai frowned as he looked at the mutated snow wolves coming from all directions. If he were alone, he could easily face these snow wolves, but Che Tong was behind him. This man was very injured. He could only defend against the mutated snow wolves in front of him. He had no time to stop the mutated snow wolves that rushed from behind Che Tong.
Just when he was at his wit's end, Gu Yu arrived. Suddenly, Gu Yu was surrounded by an aura. He leaped up and floated into the air, instantly entering the encirclement. Then, the gas surrounding him expanded instantly, and the energy ripples sent the mutated snow wolves rushing from all sides flying away.
"Grandmaster." Che Tong murmured as he watched this scene. The next second, he could no longer hold on and fainted.
After being blasted away by Gu Yu, the dozen or so mutated snow wolves crashed to the ground, immediately stood up, and looked at Gu Yu in fear.
Although their intelligence is not comparable to that of humans, their awareness of scent and danger is dozens of times greater than that of humans.
They clearly sensed Gu Yu's power and invincibility, and without hesitation, they turned to flee.
"Trying to escape?" Seeing the mutated snow wolves trying to flee, Gu Yu moved swiftly, his afterimage flashing by. In just a few breaths, more than a dozen mutated snow wolves lay on the cold snow.
Watching Gu Yu effortlessly complete all of this, Shi Shuai remained silent, but felt a sense of longing within him. A grandmaster was indeed a grandmaster. If he were to face these dozens of mutated snow wolves, although he could kill them all, he would definitely be injured as well.
After killing the mutated snow wolf, Gu Yu flashed to Che Tong's side, placed his hand on Che Tong's back, and sent several strands of Origin Qi into Che Tong's body to begin healing Che Tong's injuries.
"90 blood apertures." After Gu Yu finished doing everything, he frowned. The man in front of him actually had ninety blood apertures, and he was not even thirty years old.
Having 90 blood apertures is already considered genius; in my previous life, at this stage, such people were rare.
"He has filled 90 blood apertures?" Not only was Gu Yu somewhat surprised, but Shi Shuai was also extremely shocked. Shi Shuai was 25 years old and had filled 81 blood apertures, making him an outstanding figure in the Dragon Division. Now, he had encountered two people stronger than him as soon as he came out, which was hard for him to accept for a while.
"How is he?" Although it was hard to accept, Shi Shuai asked, looking at Che Tong who was covered in injuries.
"It's nothing serious. He looks badly injured, but it's not actually that bad. It's just that his source energy has been severely depleted," Gu Yu said.
Contribution:
Talent: 99 (can reach 108)
Combat strength: 2580N
Triple boost: (600 contribution points per use, lasts for three minutes)
Source Qi: (1 wisp for every 10 contribution points)
Source space: 3 cubic meters (1 cubic meter for every 1000 contribution points)
Source Soldier: (108 contribution points, maximum 10)
Gu Yu then sat down to the side. He opened the system template and glanced at his data. Sure enough, killing mutated species would also increase contribution points. However, this time the mutated snow wolves were too weak. Killing one only increased his contribution points by 100. He killed twelve, which would have given him 1200 contribution points. However, healing Che Tong consumed 200 contribution points, but the system gave him another 1000 contribution points. Helping Che Tong heal was considered helping someone else.
"Thank you for saving my life, Grandmaster." Just as Gu Yu was looking at his system template, Che Tong woke up. He first checked his body and found that he was now full of internal energy, even though he had no internal energy left.
This excited him, and he immediately looked at Gu Yu and Shi Shuai, quickly standing up to express his gratitude.
Once your internal energy is depleted, the fastest way to recover is for someone to transfer it to you, but almost no one is willing to do so, since cultivating internal energy is very time-consuming.
Gu Yu was willing, and although Gu Yu was not related to him, Che Tong was extremely grateful for this. Gu Yu was a really good person, a really good person.
Little did Che Tong know that Gu Yu didn't need to consume his own source energy at all.
"You killed the mutated snow wolf, so it's only right that we save you. Hurry up and heal your wounds!" Gu Yu said. In the end, he actually gained by helping Che Tong heal his wounds.
"I, Che Tong, will always remember your kindness, Grandmaster. If you ever need anything in the future, please feel free to ask me, Che Tong. As long as it is within my power, I will not hesitate to help, even if it means going through fire and water," Che Tong said.
Hearing his words, Shi Shuai frowned. He was the one who rushed over to save people first, but now Gu Yu was the one being thanked. Although Shi Shuai didn't care about such things, he still felt a little uncomfortable.
Just as Che Tong was filled with gratitude, a group of four arrived. When they saw the snow wolf carcasses scattered on the ground, their eyes immediately gleamed with greed.
The group quickly walked over, but their expressions changed immediately when they saw Gu Yu and his two companions.
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