Gu Yuan held up a torch and searched around, but found no wolves in the bushes.
Gu Yuan searched back and forth again until he reached the river, but also found no trace of the wolf.
Therefore, Gu Yuan had to walk back first and returned to Xue Linger who had redressed.
Xue Linger quickly asked, "How's it going? Have you seen the wolves?"
Gu Yuan shook his head, indicating that he found no trace of the wolf.
After the scare just now, Xue Linger did not dare to stay by the stream to wash up. She could only follow Gu Yuan back to the previous camp. At least there was a bonfire in the camp to strengthen her courage.
Because he suspected that he had seen a wolf just now, Gu Yuan changed the camping environment for him and Xue Linger.
Gu Yuan picked two relatively thick branches from a big tree and handed a torn vine to Xue Ling'er.
The outer disciples of the True Fire Hall camped in the wild. Because their cultivation level was not high, in order to avoid sneak attacks by wild beasts, they often chose a method of tying themselves to the branches of a big tree to sleep.
Watching Xue Ling'er skillfully climb up the big tree and fix herself on the branch.
Gu Yuan then moved the bonfire to a place closer to the big tree.
This allows Gu Yuan to immediately observe the origin of the danger when he senses it.
I just finished setting up the campfire and added some wood that is more resistant to burning.
Before Gu Yuan could climb up the tree, there was suddenly a dense rustling sound in the surrounding bushes.
The appearance of this voice made Gu Yuan look solemn.
Judging from the direction of the sound, the camp may have been surrounded.
Gu Yuan picked up a piece of burning firewood with his foot and kicked it hard towards a bush.
Under the flickering light of the flying firewood, Gu Yuan clearly saw the dense gray figures in the darkness.
Wolf……
But they are not ordinary wolves, each one is as big as a calf.
It's not just one end or two ends.
But a whole group.
Perhaps it was because the fire that Gu Yuan kicked away angered the wolves.
The wolves that were originally hiding in the bushes began to emerge from the bushes one after another.
ah……
Xue Ling'er, who was still asleep on the tree, was so surprised by the scene under the tree that she screamed.
"You stay in the tree and don't come down."
Xue Linger covered her mouth and nodded obediently, trying not to make any sound.
Gu Yuan kept staring at the wolves, seeing that the number of wolves was increasing.
He didn't even dare to distract himself and look at Xue Ling'er who was screaming in the tree. He just told her not to come down from the tree.
If it were an ordinary wolf pack, no matter how many wolves came, Gu Yuan would be sure to kill them off.
But these wolves are not only huge in size, but also have rough skin and thick flesh, so ordinary weapons cannot even cause much damage to them.
On the contrary, they will become more ferocious due to the stimulation of blood.
The only way is to rely on brute force to directly severely damage their inner bones to make them lose their combat effectiveness.
It seemed that the wolves were stimulated by Xue Linger's frightened cry.
After Gu Yuan told Xue Ling'er to stay on the tree and not move, the wolves rushed towards Gu Yuan one after another.
At first, Gu Yuan was able to rely on his heavy blows to beat the biting wolf until its bones were broken, and he died tragically on the spot.
But as more and more wolves attacked, Gu Yuan's attack speed was obviously not as casual as before.
Fewer and fewer wolves were killed by his heavy hand.
Gu Yuan only had time to keep repelling them, and then the vacancies were immediately filled by other wolves that surrounded him.
In this situation, Gu Yuan was still not harmed.
But the wolves were also only injured, not dead.
The wolves that were repulsed by Gu Yuan only retreated for a moment before they attacked again.
Gu Yuan knew that if he continued like this, he was afraid that he would not be able to survive until dawn, and would be eaten by the wolves due to exhaustion.
ah……
At this moment, Xue Linger, who was standing on the tree behind Gu Yuan, screamed again.
Before Gu Yuan could ask what happened, he heard Xue Linger shouting from the tree:
"Gu Yuan, these wolves are very smart. They are stacking things and trying to climb up."
When Gu Yuan heard this, he looked back and his heart suddenly dropped.
Originally, wolves relied on the strength of their numbers and their rough skin and thick flesh to take advantage.
In Gu Yuan's opinion, as long as Xue Ling'er stayed in the tree, the wolves would have nothing to do with her.
But when he turned back, he saw that some wolves were building things under the big tree where Xue Linger was.
Gu Yuan was a little surprised to meet such a smart wolf pack.
"Gu Yuan, they are afraid of fire, they are afraid of fire..."
Just as Gu Yuan was thinking of a solution, Xue Linger, who was hiding in the tree, remembered that the wolves were afraid of the bonfire.
This reminder gave Gu Yuan an idea.
He grabbed a wolf and used it as a weapon, waving it around.
For a moment, the pack of wolves that pounced on Gu Yuan were knocked back, leaving a space for Gu Yuan to move.
Gu Yuan took advantage of this moment and suddenly took a few steps back and came to a pile of firewood.
This is the firewood Xue Linger picked up tonight, but it was abandoned by Gu Yuan because it was not dry enough.
With Xue Linger's reminder just now, Gu Yuan thought of the purpose of this pile of semi-dry firewood.
He threw the wolf out of his hand, causing the wolves to retreat in shock.
Then he hugged it with both hands and carried the pile of firewood left by Xue Linger directly to the campfire.
Seeing that the wolves were trying to come up again, Gu Yuan ignored the temperature of the bonfire and directly took a piece of firewood and dug into the bonfire, dividing the big bonfire into two piles.
After the bonfires were divided, Gu Yuan took advantage of the fact that before the wolves came up, he threw all the half-dried firewood he had brought over into the two piles of bonfires to burn.
By this time, the wolves had already charged.
Gu Yuan did not dare to delay any longer, so he turned around and ran quickly, jumping onto the tree trunk before the wolves pounced on him.
Relying on his own agility, he climbed to a branch that was stable enough.
By this time, the wolves had surrounded the tree.
Looking at the densely packed wolves below, Xue Ling'er was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she repeatedly asked Gu Yuan what to do.
Gu Yuan made a gesture of covering his mouth and nose to tell Xue Ling'er not to worry. Then, Gu Yuan threw the venom-stained clothes and pants he had changed into into the two bonfires.
"Cough cough cough..."
Thick smoke floated out from the two bonfires, and at the same time there was an indescribable strange smell. Although Xue Ling'er had covered her mouth and nose when Gu Yuan reminded her, she still breathed in a little, and now she felt a little dizzy in her head.
faint.
In just a moment, the area around the camp was filled with black smoke.