At the howl of their alpha wolf, the pack of wolves suddenly pounced on the dozen or so people on horseback.
An Jiu tightened the reins and shouted, "Escort the village chief away! The rest of you, follow me and lure the wolves away!"
Immediately following was the sound of neighing horses.
The situation was critical. Following An Jiu's instructions, Lu Qiqi tightened the reins without stopping and, escorted by two Shadow Guards, charged towards the hill ahead with a clear objective.
Behind me came the sound of blades being drawn one after another, and the powerful hooves of horses pounded the grass.
Ahead was a hill. Lu Qiqi gripped the horse's back tightly, used the momentum of the upward sprint to leap up the hill.
The spirited horse beneath him placed its four hooves on the flat grass.
Then, Lu Qiqi tightened the reins, turned the horse around, and looked down at the dozen or so people who were riding away from the pack of wolves below the hill.
A dozen or so men rode in front, followed closely by dozens of wolves that relentlessly pursued them.
Seeing that An Jiu had successfully led his men away from the wolves, the Shadow Guard escorting Lu Qiqi asked in a low voice, "Lord, what should we do next?"
The speaker was none other than the Shadow Guard who had gone to investigate earlier that day. In his opinion, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Lord of Kang Le Township would definitely let him lead the way first, so that he could find the Crown Prince before the Tatars.
Before Lu Qiqi could reply, another wolf howl echoed across the grassland.
Her eyes were sharp, her gaze fixed on the wolf king who was howling.
The wolves below the hill all obey its command. As the saying goes, to catch a thief, you must first catch the king. Kill the wolf king first, and when the wolves have no leader, their coordination will naturally decrease.
Thinking of this, Lu Qiqi did not hesitate at all. She turned her body on the horse and drew the sword from one of the Shadow Guards.
On the gentle grassland, a young girl in a tight-fitting outfit, riding her horse with one hand and holding a knife in the other, charged straight towards the wolf king on the towering hill!
"Lord of the Village!"
"No!"
The two Shadow Guards were taken aback when the Lord of Kang Le Township drew his sword and charged toward the Wolf King. Both of them showed expressions of terror on their faces.
The two didn't even have time to look at each other before they immediately pulled on the reins and chased after Lu Qiqi.
Wolves are social animals, and the alpha wolf that can stand out in a pack is superior to the other wolves in both alertness and fighting ability.
When the wolf king heard the approaching sound of hooves, he suddenly stopped howling at the moon.
Facing Lu Qiqi, who was charging at him with a knife, the Wolf King immediately bared its sharp fangs, its back taut, ready to launch an attack.
With its final howl, the wolf pack that had been relentlessly pursuing Dark Nine split into more than a dozen wolves, racing towards the hill where the alpha wolf stood.
The commotion of more than a dozen wolves was quite significant; how could they possibly escape Lu Qiqi's notice?
She made a silent vow to herself that she must take the alpha wolf and the dozen or so wild wolves that were coming into her spatial storage before the Shadow Guards arrived.
The sharp blade in her hand was just a decoy; she tightened the reins to stop the wild horse. Just then, the wolf king seized the opportunity and pounced on the horse's hooves.
Just as Lu Qiqi was about to manipulate space with her mind, she heard the sound of the Shadow Guards' hooves.
She cursed under her breath before releasing Wangcai.
Wangcai was originally playing with Xiaoye in the space.
The next second, with tiger fur still in its mouth, it seemed to fall from the sky and crashed directly into something hard.
After rolling around on the grass twice, Wangcai felt a headache coming on.
"Wangcai, bite it to death!"
Suddenly, upon hearing Lu Qiqi's voice, Wangcai opened its eyes and saw a creature that looked exactly like itself in the darkness.
The creature was slowly getting up, arching its back towards Lu Qiqi.
The wolf king, seeing Wangcai suddenly appear, paid no attention to him and charged at Lu Qiqi with all his might.
In the blink of an eye, Wangcai suddenly exerted its strength and, in the instant the wolf king leaped up, slammed its round head, with its strong, steel-like bones, into the wolf king's belly.
The wolf king was thrown several meters away by Wangcai due to inertia.
Seeing the wolf king fall to the ground, Wangcai grabbed the ground with its claws and rushed towards the wolf king in a race against time, tearing at it on the grass.
The belly is the softest spot on an animal. After being badly attacked, the wolf king was no match for Wangcai in terms of strength and was quickly beaten to the ground by Wangcai.
When two male wolves fight, there are only two possibilities: either they are fighting for territory, or one is the other is the other becoming the leader of the pack.
Most of the time, the animals are driven away; it is rare to see them killing each other.
But Wangcai is different. It was raised by Lu Qiqi since it was a cub. In its eyes, anyone who harms Lu Qiqi's kind is an enemy!
We absolutely cannot let this opportunity slip by!
Even without Lu Qiqi's command, it did not retract its fangs and bit directly at the alpha wolf's neck.
With its fangs stained with hot blood, Wangcai's four limbs stepped on the wolf king, its jaw muscles working hard until the wolf king beneath it stopped struggling violently and became completely still.
Wangcai then relented and slashed hard at the wolf king's soft head with its claws, as if venting the wolf king's anger at wanting to hurt Lu Qiqi.
Before long, the Shadow Guards arrived with a dozen or so wild wolves.
When they saw the two wolves fighting, one of them was killed.
The Shadow Guards didn't know why 'Wild Wolves' had suddenly betrayed them, especially since they saw more than a dozen wild wolves nearby.
Worried that they couldn't protect Lu Qiqi completely, the Shadow Guard immediately used his scabbard to pat Lu Qiqi's horse's rump, "Princess, let's go!"
The horse, in pain, galloped forward. The moment the Shadow Guard patted the horse's rump, Lu Qiqi wanted to give the Shadow Guard a couple of roasted chestnuts.
The horse beneath her was galloping wildly, and she had no time to stop it. To keep herself from falling off, she immediately pulled on the reins, turned the horse around, and galloped across the vast plains.
Wangcai looked at Lu Qiqi, who had abandoned it, blinked its round green eyes, and looked around with a puzzled expression.
Before it could even take off to chase after them, a dozen wolves appeared before it.
Wangcai, who grew up drinking the water of the spiritual spring, not only developed spiritual intelligence, but was also naturally smarter than his kind.
Before its kind could even attack, it stepped on the wolf king, letting out low growls, and bared its blood-stained fangs and claws at the wolves.
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Lu Qiqi ran five hundred meters across the grassland before she could stop the wild horse beneath her, which shows how much effort the Shadow Guards put in.
After explaining to the Shadow Guards that it was a wolf she kept in the military camp, she turned her horse around and went back to look for Wangcai.
But they found that on the hill, only the wolf king, who had been killed by Wangcai, remained. Wangcai and more than a dozen wild wolves had all disappeared.
The Shadow Guards knew they had done something wrong. They rode behind Lu Qiqi, remaining calm and waiting for her to give them orders.
Lu Qiqi knew that the most important thing now was to go to Yanlian Mountain to find Song Yanqing's whereabouts.
As for Wangcai, she wasn't worried about its safety. After all, in the animal world, if a wolf defeats the alpha wolf, it can become the new alpha wolf.
I just don't know when we'll be able to find Wangcai.
Looking at the moonlight, Lu Qiqi turned her horse around and shouted in the direction of Yanlian Mountain, "Head to Yanlian Mountain immediately!"
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