It was the first time that the White Wolf King was liked by the cubs, and they praised him so sincerely. For a moment, the whole wolf felt a little dizzy, and even the majestic expression that was usually engraved in his bones seemed to collapse.
The huge white wolf's eyes were wide open, and its ferocious mouth opened and closed slightly, revealing its scarlet tongue and sharp teeth that flashed with cold light.
If someone didn't know the specific situation, they would think it was as ferocious as it could be. The wolf looked like it was going to pounce on the little girl and bite off her neck. Even the wolf cubs around it were frightened by the white wolf king and took a few steps back.
But in fact, the White Wolf King was so shocked that he could hardly close his mouth.
“Wow~!”
As a furry expert, Xia Runrun had handled at least a thousand, if not tens of thousands, of cats and dogs. Among them, there were at least a dozen that looked even more ferocious than the White Wolf King. So, facing the White Wolf King's fierce, bared expression, Xia Runrun was not afraid at all. Instead, she was filled with surprise. Her dark eyes shone brightly at the big white wolf, and her eyes, filled with envy, stared straight at the White Wolf King's sharp teeth. She praised, "Mr. Wolf, your teeth look so sharp! So sharp and pointed, you can tell you've protected many wolf pack members! You're amazing!"
The little girl's eyes were bright and clear, and her gaze flickered as she looked at the White Wolf King. In particular, the glaring envy and wonder in her eyes instantly made the White Wolf King feel like he was soaking in a winter hot spring, warming every strand of hair on his head to the tip of his tail!
"Ah~Ah~" (Well, it's not as good as you say~)
“Ah~ah~” (I just did what the wolf pack leader should do~)
Feeling a little embarrassed by the praise, the White Wolf King rubbed the ground with his front paws, accidentally leaving three scratches of more than ten centimeters in length on the smooth concrete floor, and making a harsh noise.
White Wolf King: “…”
The White Wolf King moved his front paws to block the three scratches, and looked at the cub in front of him guiltily. He was a little worried that his rough action just now would scare the other party.
ah!
In the past, whenever it was among the wolf pack, it would often accidentally break something and scare the nearby cubs. Although it felt that such timid cubs were un-wolf-like, it would be bad if it scared this tiny cub in front of it, which was as white as it was...
“…”
Xia Runrun blinked, pretending not to see the movement of the White Wolf King's front paws. Instead, she deliberately sniffed her nose and sneezed loudly.
“A-choo!——”
The little girl's sneeze was also small and soft, but this sneeze made the other mutant white wolves, who had just been howling and quarreling with their heads raised, stop their quarreling and dozens of pairs of wolf eyes looked at Xia Ruanruan.
The warehouse was already quite dark on a snowy day, and to protect the cubs from frostbite, the wolves had mostly shut the door, leaving only a small gap for ventilation. As a result, the light in the warehouse was quite dim, and the wolf eyes emitted a faint green light in the dim room. If anyone else had stood where Xia Ruanruan was, they would have been howling in fear at the pack of mutant white wolves before them, their faces pale.
But Xia Runrun was able to see full of worry from the lingering green light.
"Yes, I'm sorry... I, I'm just a little cold. No, I didn't mean to sneeze." Xia Ruanruan tilted her head back and looked at the wolves pitifully. "I just walked in the snow for too long. It's really cold outside~"
White Wolf King: "!!!!"
The other white wolves: "!!!!"
How could they, in their quarrel, forget that their cub is still a cub, unable to keep itself warm, and let it freeze?!
The white wolf king stretched out his neck and carefully touched the little girl's cold cheek with the tip of his nose. He hooked her with his big tail with concern to help her keep warm.
White Wolf King: This way the cubs won’t get cold, right?
The other white wolves were jealous: "Damn it! The boss is such a scheming wolf!"
"A-choo! Thank you so much~"
Xia Ruanruan dutifully played the role of a poor little girl. She looked at the White Wolf King with sparkling eyes and waved her little paws at the other white wolves, "Thank you for your concern too~"
White Wolf King: ! ! Baby, this is so cute!
Other white wolves: ! ! Cub, this is so cute!
As expected, he is the dream cub in their minds, cute, polite and particularly attractive to wolves~ Awoo~
Feeling that time was almost up, Xia Ruanruan didn't delay any longer. She stretched out her small hand and poked the White Wolf King, looking eagerly at the huge White Wolf King who was wrapping her in his arms. "Excuse me, Mr. Wolf, do you know where the warehouse with a lot of metal is? My companions and I got separated while looking for something, so we accidentally stumbled here. I'm sorry to have caused you trouble."
White Wolf King: “?”
Looking for metal?
The White Wolf King twitched his ears, feeling something was amiss. What was this fair, tender little wolf cub doing looking for metal? Metal was something a wolf couldn't eat or use; it was too hard to chew.
White and tender, white and tender? ?
The White Wolf King suddenly discovered that the little cub, which was held in the arms of its big tail, although white, had no white wolf hair all over its body. Instead, it was wearing clothes called cloth, just like the two-legged animals it saw every day.
The huge wolf head moved closer to Xia Runrun, looked at her carefully, then looked up at the other dozen or so wolf cubs who wanted to get closer but did not dare to because of the fierce and majestic White Wolf King.
White Wolf King: I finally found out what’s wrong!
It turns out this is a human cub, not a wolf cub at all!
The two majestic eyebrows were wrinkled into an "eight" shape. The big white wolf secretly glanced at his companion next to him, and then secretly glanced again. He found that no other wolf noticed this except him.
The White Wolf King felt relieved, but at the same time he was worried, fearing that the fair and tender little human in front of him, whom the wolves loved, would be caught and eaten by other wolves.
"Awooo~" (You want to use metal to grind your teeth? Come on, I'll take you there~)
The White Wolf King stood up nervously, shook his wolf fur, and prepared to go out with Xia Ruanruan in his mouth. If the cub wanted those teeth-gritting metals, he could give them to her, but he must not let other wolves find out that the cub was a biped!
"Ah!" (Boss, what are you doing?! How can you bring your cubs with you?! You're so scheming!)
"Aoao!" (I want to go too, we want to go too!)
The other white wolves: Damn it! Don't think we don't know you're just trying to impress one wolf! It's just metal, right? If the cub wants it, we can give it all to him!
…
Yang Fan and a group of survivors built a bonfire and put all the food and water they brought out in the morning on the fire to heat and boil.
There is nothing more blissful than drinking a bowl of hot soup in the middle of winter.
But as we were cooking, everyone always felt that something was not right.
"Why hasn't Ruanruan come back for so long? It's been half an hour. Could something have happened?" Someone looked worried.
"Looking at the wolf footprints on the snow, we shouldn't be too far from the wolf pack. Could Little Boss have run into those mutant wolves?" Someone whispered as they worked, "Should we go look for Little Boss?"
Before the virus outbreak, Dahei was already a large dog. Furthermore, as a police dog, he was born with excellent innate conditions and was carefully raised. Therefore, after the outbreak, he was one of the largest and most powerful mutant dogs. Although wolves and dogs may appear to be related, in the public's mind, wild and untamed wolves are always more formidable than dogs.
"But what if that person just took a short walk around, and we just rushed towards the wolf pack? What if something bad happens?" Some of the survivors frowned and disagreed.
"You're still worried about the mission now. The girl is so old, are you willing to let her go alone for such a long time? If we had known earlier, we should have gone together."
Seeing that the dozen or so people who came out this time were about to quarrel, Old Man Yan stood up, patted the snow off his body, frowned and said, "I'd better go look for her. Ruanruan hasn't come back for such a long time, it's really worrying."
Now the world is full of mutated animals and plants, and it is not safe to go anywhere. Even before the virus outbreak, parents would be anxious if they took their children to the amusement park and were out of sight for such a long time, let alone now.
Oh! Why did they all agree to let the child travel alone? Old Man Yan stroked his beard with some worry.
"Actually, this matter is not as serious as everyone thinks..."
Seeing everyone ready to go out and look for Xia Ruanruan, Chu Hang frowned and hurriedly stepped forward to stop them. "Ruanruan may look young, but she's very capable. Before the virus outbreak, wolfhounds were about the same size as regular wolves, and after the mutation, they shouldn't be much different. If the two met at the same time, even if they couldn't win, the mutated wolfhound would have no problem escaping with the child."
Even though Chu Hang had already guessed that Xia Runrun was taking Dahei to find the wolf pack alone, he couldn't show it on his face. In order to deliberately help delay time, Chu Hang even pulled someone aside to say a few more words.
“Thump, thump, thump—”
“Rustle, rustle—”
However, before Chu Hang finished his words, there were sudden noises coming from the quiet ground, and the faces of many survivors changed drastically.
"Wolves! The wolves are coming! And there are so many of them!" The survivors who had dealt with wolves were all pale and their legs were weak.
"No! We can't stay here any longer!"
"Hurry up and get on the horses, or get on the dogs! Let's get out of here!"
The heavy footsteps of the wolves caused the survivors to become agitated, and they all ran towards the mutant dogs that were resting, creating a chaotic scene.
But I don’t know whether these mutant dogs were scared silly, or because their leader Xia Ruanruan was not there. The mutant dogs that had been cooperative before ignored the requests of other survivors, and the anxious survivors were sweating profusely.
"What's going on? What's going on? Why aren't they moving?!"
Huang Haichao climbed onto the Husky's back, sweat dripping down his forehead. He gritted his teeth and reached out to the other survivors, "Come over here! Come to the pork belly!"
No matter how the survivors called out to the other mutant dogs around them, they seemed not to hear anything and did not react at all. Instead, they stood there with their necks tilted back, motionless, as if they were deaf and did not notice the wolves rushing towards them at all.
“Ouch~~~”
As the wolf howls got closer, the survivors climbed onto the mutant dogs of Pork Belly, Maomao, and Wu Wenhua one after another. At that time, a little ball wearing a down jacket and sitting on the head of the white wolf king came into everyone's sight.
Many survivors: “???!!!!!!”
Xia Runrun was held on the head by the White Wolf King. Except for a few adult giant wolves that stayed in the warehouse to take care of the dozen or so wolf cubs, the rest of the mutant white wolves followed the White Wolf King while dragging the metal, listening to Xia Runrun's instructions and running in the direction they came from.
Only Dahei stared at the White Wolf King with a serious and vigilant face. If this wolf did not look taller than it, Dahei would never let Xia Runrun stay on the head of a strange wolf.
"Where are you guys going?"
Xia Runrun sat on top of the White Wolf King, looking down at the survivors below with a hint of confusion.
There were three or four of them sitting on a mutant dog, their eyes wide open, their faces so shocked that they could hardly close their mouths.
"You, you, what are you doing... this is..."
Yang Fan stammered, pointing at the mutant white wolves dragging metal boxes, their heads held high and their fur shining white. He was so shocked that he could hardly finish his words. He stuttered for a long time before he squeezed out a sentence, "What, what's going on?"
"I met this group of mutant wolves on the road, and then asked Little Green to help me ask Mr. Wolf and the others to give me all the metal in the warehouse." The little girl blinked and said in a light and lively tone: "Then they agreed to give me all the metal in the warehouse~"
The survivors: “???!”
The survivors: You said please, so please, I believed you!
“Gaga!…”
The green-feathered parrot, which had been tied to Dahei's backpack by Xia Runrun and used as a tool bird, finally managed to poke its head out. It was still a little dizzy at first, but in a blink of an eye, it saw more than a dozen survivors staring at it. The green-feathered parrot was so scared that it screamed, quickly retracted its neck, and got into the backpack.
Green-feathered parrot: I don't know why, but I feel like those two-legged creatures have strange looks in their eyes. Could it be that they're coveting my beautiful green feathers?!
then……
Four hours later.
At the gate of Longquan Survival Base, there were heavy footsteps coming from far away. The soldiers standing on the city wall holding binoculars were stunned.
"Am I seeing things?! Didn't this team receive a high-level mission this morning to go to the warehouse to fight the mutant wolves and bring back the precious metals in the warehouse?... Why, why are they back today?" The little soldier stammered.
In the past, if the team at their survival base wanted to complete a high-level mission, it would take at least ten days or half a month to return...
"How come these people went and came back on the same day? Could it be that they didn't complete the mission?" Another soldier holding a wooden warehouse next to the young soldier frowned slightly. This kind of team that received a high-level mission and returned after finding that they could not complete the mission at all can be encountered several times every month.
"No, no... they brought it back! They brought back all the metal!" The lookout soldiers on duty on the city wall worked in pairs, sharing a telescope. Knowing that their companions couldn't believe it because they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, the young soldier quickly shoved the telescope in his hand and said, "Look, look! If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't even dream of doing this!"
The young soldier's face flushed with excitement as he patted his companions. "Last time, our Captain He wanted to bring a pack of mutant dogs to do this mission, but they caught the scent of the wolves and didn't dare approach, returning to base in disgrace... I thought this mission would require at least artillery shells. But our base is running out of medium and large artillery shells, and there's no way to produce them. So I thought this mission wouldn't be accomplished within three years. Unexpectedly, a team managed to complete it in a single day!"
The excited tone of the young soldier instantly attracted many patrolling soldiers. Their cheeks flushed with excitement when they heard the words. Everyone is a part of the base, so if the strength of the base can be strengthened a little bit, it means that everyone's future life will be more secure, not only for themselves, but also for their families and the countless human companions in the base.
The mutant dogs set out in the morning and returned in the evening. Countless survivors inside and outside the Longquan base witnessed this scene. In addition, the metal brought back by the mutant dogs made a lot of noise, and many survivors passing by the gate stopped to watch. Even Chu's father and mother, who had just returned from work, stopped and stretched their necks to look outside like everyone else.
"What happened? Did any of the commanders in the base bring back supplies?" Chu's father and mother did not see Xia Runrun and his group leaving the base with a pack of mutant dogs in the morning, so they were not very clear about the specific situation.
Passersby saw the middle-aged couple and explained with a smile, "I just heard that it wasn't one of the captains we know at our base... it was a team that just joined our base yesterday. They're very powerful. They took on a high-level purple mission this morning and returned this afternoon."
"So everyone wants to see the style of the great man!" Someone stretched his neck and came over, laughing.
The stronger the survival base is, the safer the lives of ordinary people like them will be. Therefore, no matter how annoying the enemy is in the survival base, once they meet him during a mission in the wild, as long as they are not mortal enemies, they all hope that he can return to the survival base safely.
“Boom!——”
The mutant dog pack that returned with a large amount of supplies naturally had no way of entering the base through the side door. A team of soldiers armed with wooden warehouses happily opened the gate of the base to welcome them.
"Here it comes, look, look!"
"Oh my god! So many mutant dogs, and each one is so tall! No wonder they are so powerful! They completed a high-level mission in one day!"
"Oh my goodness! Look at these mutant dogs, so full of energy... Hey, look, there's a cat and two birds! Isn't this a complete range of land and air equipment?"
"No, no, no, look carefully. Isn't there a green-feathered bird in the bag on the dog's chest? There are clearly three of them, two small ones and one large one. I wonder what these people were doing before the virus outbreak? Did they run a kennel or a stray dog adoption center? Tsk tsk! These people are so lucky!"
"That's right, if I had known this day would come, I would have sold my house in the city center and opened a kennel..."
"What's your house in the city center? We used to have three villas and two Rolls-Royces! If I had known this day would come, I would have sold them and opened a stray animal adoption center."
"Hey! You guys, who said it wasn't true? It's really worth knowing it earlier."
The survivors on both sides of the street followed Xia Ruanruan and his group into the base and walked on the streets of the base. They started to have heated conversations, some of them were envious, and some were annoyed.
However, mixed in the crowd were two middle-aged couples who were so shocked that their faces were filled with disbelief and they couldn't even make a sound.
"Then, then...then..." Mother Chu pointed at Chu Hang who was sitting on Lightning's back, the shock in her eyes almost overflowing from her eyes.
"That, that's Chu Hang?" Chu's father rubbed his eyes uncertainly, his voice trembling.
"Didn't we send that child underground - um!" Chu's mother was shocked. Before she could utter the last three words of the laboratory, her mouth was severely scolded by Chu's father.
The man glared at Chu's mother and growled, "How could you just casually say that in public? Do you still want to be a human being?!"
"Let's go! Let's go home first!" Father Chu pulled Mother Chu and watched the backs of Chu Hang and his group as they left.
"Let's go back and ask him for help, right?" Mother Chu looked back at her husband expectantly. Their family had been having a very hard time at the Longquan Survival Base these days.
Before the virus broke out, Chu's father was a company owner and Chu's mother was a high school teacher. Although the family was not extremely wealthy, it was not an exaggeration to say that they had some assets. In addition, Chu's mother gave birth to twin sons as her first child, so everyone felt that this family of four were winners in life.
After all, the country implemented family planning back then, and Chu's mother was a school teacher. Logically, she should have only one child, but she had twins, and they were boys. How could others not envy her? Even after Chu Hang became emotionally apathetic, the couple still had a son, Chu Xing, who was obedient and sensible in school and always ranked first in the school.
However, after the virus broke out, not only did their family lose all their money, but even their frail bodies, which usually required them to sit in the office and teach, became a burden to them. Not only were they unable to deal with the mutant beasts, but even some strong ordinary people would sometimes come to steal their food.
Later, even though they traded Chu Hang for food in the underground laboratory and used the food they got to enter the survival base, the food they had was only enough for the three of them to rent a 10-square-meter dark room on the ground floor, and they had to work hard every day to pay the rent for the next month.
The underground room was not only small, damp and dark, but also poorly ventilated.
After only three years of living underground, the well-maintained couple both developed rheumatism. In addition, the mutant beasts had been causing trouble for their son Chu Xing recently, making the family's life even worse.
Chu Hang, who possesses a powerful mutant beast, appears in front of the couple at this moment, as if he is the last straw that they want to grab desperately.
"Let's go. We have to discuss these things carefully after we go back. Don't forget what we did before. If you don't find a good reason, let alone helping us overcome the difficulties, not kicking us when we're down is kindness." Father Chu was obviously much more rational than Mother Chu. He pulled his wife's arm and walked back.
The eldest son has such a strong mutant dog, which will definitely make the lives of the couple much better than they are now. They can even move from the underground black house to live above the base immediately.
When Mr. Chu thought about it, his heart suddenly became hot.
However……
In a corner of the crowd, a young man walked with a slight limp and looked at Chu Hang and his wife from the Chu family with a cold gaze.
Ha! These two old guys want to get rid of him? No way! Chu Hang, on the other hand, is really lucky. There are actually mutant animals that are willing to be his pets.
The young man snorted coldly and limped behind the Chu couple.
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