The wolves appeared without warning and silently. They probably intended to launch a quick and fierce attack, but their plans were thwarted by alert police dogs that detected their scent.
Thus, the silent ambush turned into a chaotic melee, and when screams rang out along with the howls of the wolves, the melee began.
It was only then that Gou Fugui realized that the faint fishy smell he had caught while gathering firewood was the scent of wolves. However, having lived in the concrete jungle for so long, he had never immediately imagined that there would actually be wolves in the mountains, let alone such a large pack.
In the minds of modern people, humans have occupied the entire world and ascended to the top of the food chain.
All animals were driven to the brink of extinction by them, and thus naturally assumed that when humans appeared, especially when they appeared in large groups, all other life forms should be afraid of them and avoid them.
But here and now, no one would think that way anymore.
When storms ravage the world and survival becomes incredibly difficult, not only does the order of human society begin to crumble, and the gap between the poor and the rich slowly widens, but the overall order of life in the world also begins to move towards true fairness.
Survival of the fittest.
The only way to determine the identity of prey and hunter is by whether they are "weak" or "strong".
When a hungry pack of wolves confronts humans who have stayed in the greenhouse of peace for too long, they naturally possess the advantage of wildness.
Even though Blackback immediately engaged the vanguard wolf that had launched the sneak attack, even though Gou Fugui quickly jumped up and knocked away another hungry wolf that pounced on him, even though Xie Tianlang, Qin Feng, Lu Hu, and Song Sanchuan all met the oncoming pack of wolves at the first moment, people were still gripped by an uncontrollable panic because of the ferocious wolves.
There is great terror between life and death.
Therefore, it is in the face of life and death that human nature is most easily exposed.
Dozens of wolves pounced indiscriminately from different directions toward their targets, hunting and killing them amidst the chaos of the crowd.
In one family, a father screamed and pushed his son away as a hungry wolf was about to bite him, then put his own arm into the wolf's mouth.
His wife beside him screamed uncontrollably, but at the same time, her eyes flashed with immense pain and rage. In that moment, she almost forgot her fear, and slammed what she considered the heaviest box down on the hungry wolf, screaming and cursing:
"Let go of my husband! Let go of him!!"
After the initial shock and stunned silence, the boy who had been pushed away and protected by his father saw his father's right arm covered in blood and his mother acting like a madwoman. In an instant, his eyes turned red. Without thinking, he roared and charged at the wolf, slamming his head into the wolf's waist!
The hungry wolf finally released its grip due to the heavy blow from the suitcase and the excruciating pain in its waist, but it still had a piece of flesh firmly in its mouth.
The family of three and the hungry wolf began a silent standoff. But not far from the family, a vicious wolf dragged away a toddler who was still struggling slightly.
The child's mother was crying her heart out, while the child's father and grandmother were angrily cursing and hitting her.
"Why didn't you save Xiaobao?! How could you hide when the wolf is coming! Shouldn't you have picked up Xiaobao immediately?!"
The woman was beaten and verbally abused by her husband and mother-in-law. At first, she was immersed in grief and had no will to resist, but when her mother-in-law slapped her again, she became angry.
She blocked her mother-in-law's slap, then retaliated fiercely: "You two actually blame me?! You two bastards, how dare you blame me?!"
"I was getting something for Xiaobao when you were holding him! You're the child's grandmother! Why did you throw the child out?! You cherish him the most, yet you used him to shield him from wolves!!"
Then she went berserk and started tearing at her husband, yelling, "You're a man! You're Xiaobao's father! How can you run faster than me!"
"You're a man!"
The family's mutual accusations lasted only a short time, because soon another hungry wolf pounced on them.
So all the arguments turned into screams, causing the family to fall apart once again.
Such scenes of arguing, seeking help, escaping, and confronting each other are constantly repeated in the process.
In this rainy night, the cruelest aspects of human nature are being tested.
Soon the tunnel was filled with the stench of blood, accompanied by a rhythmic, yet more powerful, wolf howl.
He heard the wolf howl when the white-haired rich man knocked down the third wolf with his stick.
His body tensed instantly, as if his blood told him that he had encountered the most powerful enemy, and he looked up in the direction from which the sound came.
At this moment, Xie Tianlang also dropped the fourth wolf carcass beside him, and slowly raised his eyes, which were as sharp and ferocious as the wolf pack in the darkness, to look over.
He met a pair of deep, eerie green beast eyes.
In that instant of eye contact, it was like the silent scrutiny and contest between the kings of two tribes.
Both sides are assessing each other's strength.
Then, the wolf's deep, rhythmic howl rang out again, and the wolf pack, which had been attacking people haphazardly just moments before, suddenly changed its tactics.
They actually avoided Gou Fugui, Xie Tianlang, Qin Feng, Lu Hu, Song Sanchuan and others. They even ignored Lu Chengfeng, the train police, Sister Hua and her husband, who were people who dared to resist, even though they might not be able to kill them but could threaten them and confront them.
They began to gather in twos and threes, pouncing on the weak, those who could only scream and run away, and the elderly, women, and children with low strength. Of course, if a man was too weak and cowardly, the wolf pack would not treat him differently because of his gender.
"Damn it! Boss! Are these wolves possessed?! They only pick on the weak!!" Song Sanchuan looked at the two wolves running past him in disbelief. He took two steps forward but couldn't catch up with their tails.
Clearly, the wolf king was unwilling to give up the food that was offered to him; he wanted to lead his pack to get more food and survive.
So it commanded its flock to avoid the hard bones that couldn't be gnawed, and only to bite off the meat they wanted!
So the wolves in the tunnel were chasing the people, and behind the wolves were people hunting and killing wolves.
Clearly, the wolf king's scheme was effective. Several more mournful cries were heard in a short time, indicating that someone else had been carried off by the wolves and could not be saved.
"Damn it! A bunch of weaklings and idiots!"
After losing control of yet another wolf that was running away from him, Gou Fugui cursed angrily. This couldn't go on. The tunnel environment clearly provided an opportunity for wolves to ambush and run, and those who scattered and fled were even more likely to become their targets.
The hot-tempered Fugui, unable to contain himself any longer, roared, "Stop the hell running around! Come over here, I'll protect you!"
After shouting that, he yelled at Lu Chengfeng and the train police officer over there, "Stop chasing wolves over there! Come over here! Can't we just stick together and protect each other?!"
The two loud shouts from the irritable and wealthy man were strangely clear in the tunnel, instantly snapping the mindless crowd out of their daze.
Lu Chengfeng and all those with combat capabilities quickly moved towards this side, and when they gathered together, they finally formed a barrier representing strength and courage.
Everyone rushed towards this side as if they were chasing after their last straw.
The wolf pack followed the group, but this time their hunt was severely thwarted.
"Woof! Roar!"
The black-backed wolf crouched low, its sharp canines stained with wolf fur and blood. It pounced again on a wolf chasing a young girl, and the two were quickly locked in a fierce struggle.
The German Shepherd looked particularly frightening at that moment, each pounce and bite filled with desperate ferocity. However, the girl who had been rescued looked back at it and felt a sense of peace she had never known before.
The ticket inspector, pale-faced, was running towards us with a chunk of flesh missing from his calf. He had been ambushed by a wolf that suddenly bit his calf. Although he fought back desperately, using his large bag to drive the wolf away, a piece of flesh had been torn from his leg.
With his leg injured, he was clearly no match for most people. As the panicked people screamed and ran in front of him, the ticket inspector gave a wry smile.
But his bad luck wasn't over yet. He was already struggling to run forward when he was suddenly bumped hard from behind. Normally, this bump would only make him stagger a couple of steps but not fall down. But now, with his injured calf and unsteady center of gravity, the bump inevitably caused him to fall directly to the left and land on the ground in a sorry state.
The ticket inspector looked up in anguish, and when he saw the person who had bumped into him, the helplessness and pain in his eyes turned into uncontrollable anger—
It's that couple!
At this moment, the young lady seemed to feel less anxious than before because she was about to enter a safe zone, so she also turned around and looked back.
The moment she met the ticket inspector, the young lady suddenly tilted her head, shrugged, and gave an apologetic smile.
She didn't bump into anyone on purpose; she was just running so fast that she didn't notice there was someone in front of her.
The ticket inspector's hands bulged with veins at that moment; heaven knows how much he wanted to get up and slap that woman hard. However, he heard chilling footsteps coming from behind and even seemed to smell the stench of wolves.
The ticket inspector closed his eyes, awaiting his fate. However, before the sharp wolf teeth arrived, a series of particularly imposing barks came, followed by a large, furry paw stepping on his stomach and a large, furry tail drooping down and sweeping fiercely across his face.
The ticket inspector quickly opened his eyes and turned around. What he saw was a husky standing on his stomach, barely blocking his way, howling wildly at the two wolves that wanted to pounce on him. But the ones actually fighting the two wolves were... the four brave cats.
Perhaps we should also add a half-bald parrot—
"Scratch it! Blackie, don't hold back! Orange, be quick! Use the same ferocity you have when you're eating to smack it to death!"
"Oh, get out of its big mouth! Flip over and kick it! Go, athletes! I believe you will achieve final victory!!"
With the encouragement of the bald parrot and the husky, the four cats worked together in perfect harmony, each pair grabbing a wolf's nose and scratching another's eyes. The two wolves were much larger than the four cats, but as long as they coordinated well and their claws were fast enough, the stupid wolves that only knew how to bite couldn't catch them!
The final result was also very pleasing. Although the four cats did not defeat the two wolves, they successfully made the two wolves give up on the ticket inspector, a troublesome target protected by animals.
As they ran off towards their other destination, the husky that had been standing on the ticket inspector's stomach finally became brave and took two steps forward with great momentum, barking loudly several times, as if it had won a battle against two opponents.
Ticket inspector: "..."
Then he felt a warm touch on his hand and saw the Labrador trying to lift him up by pushing against his arm.
At this moment, the animal team that he had mentally scolded countless times was almost all around him, rubbing against him with their half-dry fur and protecting him.
The ticket inspector's eyes instantly welled up with tears, and with the help of the husky and Labrador pulling on his clothes, he got back up. Surrounded by the animals, he headed back towards the safe circle where the crowd had gathered. Although he wasn't moving fast and one of his legs was still dripping blood, not a single wolf was willing to waste any more time on him.
Although he shouldn't think that way from a work perspective, the ticket inspector walking forward looked at the animals around him and felt from the bottom of his heart that it was really great that he hadn't noticed them getting on the train and had let them come here with the crowd.
By the flickering light of the fire, the ticket inspector saw the large police dog protecting the girl ahead and thought again how wonderful it was that they were there.
Just then, he heard a piercing scream from ahead. He instinctively looked in that direction and saw the young lady who had knocked him down being dragged away by a large gray wolf, its neck being viciously bitten. In the dim light, he couldn't see the young lady's expression, but he heard her dying words, distorted in tone, escaping from her bleeding throat:
"Song Bo! Song Bo—why did you push me! You, cough cough, hurt...me—"
The young lady's boyfriend, Song Bo, who had previously been so devoted to her, now hid pale-faced behind a man holding a retractable baton. Upon hearing this, a flicker of unease crossed his eyes, but his face remained one of sorrow and pain.
"Feifei! Feifei has been carried off by a wolf! Anyone want to save her? Hurry and save her! She's so scared she's talking nonsense. She's so young, she can't die!"
At this moment, everyone was still in a state of panic, and almost no one paid attention to the situation of people other than themselves and their loved ones.
Naturally, not many people will hear Wang Feifei's final screams and resentment, or Song Bo's extremely hypocritical words.
But Song Bo suddenly heard a cold female voice in his ear:
"Aren't you her boyfriend? Since she's still young and shouldn't die, go save her!"
Immediately, Song Bo felt a strong force on his back. The man who had been standing in front of him to protect him suddenly reached out and pushed him away!
In that instant, Song Bo's hair stood on end, and his fear reached its peak. He screamed uncontrollably, then scrambled back to the safety circle.
When he ran back, he looked at the person who pushed him with shock and anger. He was met with Dr. Liu Jin's cold glasses and Hua Yingchun standing next to him with a disdainful expression.
"What is that?!"
"Pushing your girlfriend to shield you from a wolf, and then denying it afterward. Is this what you call rules and character?!"
"Open your eyes and look at the people coming over there! You're not even as good as those animals you're talking about!!"
Song Bo's face flushed red in that instant, but what filled him more was the anger and resentment of having his face stripped away.
But at this moment, he couldn't go against these two formidable couple. He lowered his head, pretending to be submissive, but still stubbornly insisted, "I didn't push Feifei, you must have seen wrong."
Hua Yingchun sneered, but this was not the time to argue about right and wrong. She turned around and faced the wolves again, doing what she could.
When the ticket inspector entered the safe zone, those who were not capable of fighting were almost all surrounded by those who were.
Gou Fugui, Xie Tianlang, Qin Feng, Lu Chengfeng, four train police officers, and martial arts instructors and fitness coaches who had learned combat skills were on the outermost edge of the crowd, facing dozens of wolves surrounding them.
At this moment, the wolves that had launched the attack were covered in blood on their teeth and fur, their eyes fixed on the people in front of them, still eager to pounce.
At this moment, Xie Tianlang slowly narrowed his eyes and took a step forward with his right foot.
Just then, the wolf king, who had been standing on the outermost edge without making a move, suddenly howled again.
This was its third howl, but this time it was no longer a command to attack.
Almost immediately after the howl rang out, the normally aggressive wolf pack turned tail and ran without hesitation.
They dragged away their prey as fast as they could, disappearing into the dark, rainy night in no time.
They left as silently as they had come, leaving only blood and mangled limbs scattered throughout the tunnel.
Only when the last gray wolf entered the forest did the wolf king's gaze shift from Xie Tianlang, and he also glanced at Gou Fugui, whose forehead was covered in white hair.
After an unknown amount of time, a mournful cry broke the silence of the dark, rainy night.
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