After Gu Yuan and the others watched the wolves leave, they have been lurking in the dense forest, waiting for the fire to extinguish, waiting to reap the benefits brought by the fire.
"The One-Horned Wind Wolf is not afraid of fire except for the spiral horn on its head. Is there anything else that can withstand fire?"
"You'll know when the fire is out!"
"Do you even need to say this?"
Except for occasional conversations, the four of them waited quietly in the high canopy of the palm tree.
When the fire burned away everything that could be burned, it was naturally extinguished. The grassland that originally contained tall wormwood no longer looked as low as wheat waves in the wind.
As far as the eye can see, everything is dark and desolate, with residual heat rising from the ashes.
The four of them, Gu Yuan, scattered into the ashes-covered wasteland, trying to find the former wolf lair in the wasteland. There must be the remains of the one-horned wind wolf that failed to escape the fire.
"I found one here!"
The little eagle emerged from a pit, holding seven crystal-clear skulls in his hands, each with a jade-like spiral horn on it.
They pushed forward from one side to the other and discovered multiple wolf dens one after another, from which they obtained varying amounts of wind wolf skulls, as well as other medicinal materials and materials that were not afraid of fire.
This exhilarating collection lasted for half a day, and they had only advanced more than half of the wilderness. The big river rushing from the snow mountain pass was already visible in the distance.
The roaring sound of the rushing river became clearer and clearer, and also distantly came the howling of wolves on the other side of the river.
"Stop it!"
Gu Yuan stopped the three people who were still searching, and looked at the rushing river with some worry, as well as the vaguely visible wind wolves on the other side of the river who were trying to cross the river by force.
"Wolves have a very strong sense of revenge. It seems they are still coming to take revenge!"
"Then let's go. At worst, we can just change the direction and keep pushing all the way through."
Li Cheng jumped onto a large raised rock, built a pergola with his hands and looked towards the other side: "I saw a few wolves have already swam over, and we can't delay any longer. It will be troublesome if we let them smell our scent in the wind."
There won’t be any less.”
Li Cheng just jumped off the big rock that was cracked by the fire, and suddenly he shouted, as if something that the four of them hadn't noticed jumped onto the boulder, and flew past quickly.
"What just happened?"
If they hadn't seen a shadow on the ground moving away quickly, Gu Yuan and the others wouldn't have noticed that something swooped down just now, grabbed it, and flew away quickly.
"Is that a giant dragon-headed eagle?"
They had seen this kind of ferocious beast in the illustrated book. Its claws alone were larger than an ordinary person's body. It spread its wings as if it covered the sky and blocked out the sun. It flew extremely fast and pounced on the silent wind-based raptor-like ferocious beast.
"This ferocious beast is proficient in wind elements. It does not make any wind noise when its wings flap. It also feeds on one-horned wind wolves. It can be called an apex predator."
Just as the four people were exchanging information, the giant wolves swimming in the distance were suddenly attacked by the giant eagle that swooped down from the sky. They were lifted off the ground one by one as if they had no reaction at all.
Because they were far enough away, they could clearly see the entire process of predation.
The dragon-headed eagle flying in the sky was obviously extremely huge, but it was as nimble as a petite chaffinch. When it swooped down at high speed, it was facing the sun. The wind wolf on the ground was not even aware of it, and was easily caught in the air.
It's so scary.
Gu Yuan couldn't help but think that the ecological chain in this ferocious beast world was so magical. The one-horned wind wolf had been living among the three-foot-high wormwood. Not only did it hide its huge body from predators in the sky, but also because the dragon-headed eagle swooped
The air brought by the time blew the wormwood and awakened the one-horned wind wolf that was attacked.
Now that the wormwood in this half of the pasture has been burned away, the creatures exposed on the flat ground have become delicacies on the dragon-headed eagle's table.
Staring back to back at the sky, Gu Yuan and the other two hurriedly fled back to the woods in the direction they came from. Otherwise, they would not have been able to spot the dragon-headed eagle that flew down without warning and at extremely fast speeds.
And those dragon-headed eagles obviously didn't focus too much on them, because compared to the one-horned wind wolves that kept swimming across the river, the four of them were too small.
About a dozen dragon-headed eagles guarded both sides of the river, constantly swooping and pecking at the giant one-horned wolves on the bank and in the water.
The four of them gradually moved away from the wasteland, entered the rainforest and climbed back to the short snow-topped mountain on the cliff side. Standing on the mountain peak, they could still vaguely see the huge dragon-headed eagles that kept pecking at the giant wolves in the distance.
"Choo Choo Choo!"
Before the four of them had time to lament their ill-fated fate, from the southern foot of the snow-capped mountain, there were several calls of young birds that pierced through the cracked gold and stone.
"What kind of bird is this?
How can a baby bird's cry, which still has a milky sound, be so loud?"
"Chirp!"
A distant cry of an adult dragon-headed eagle answered Yun Duoduo's question.
I saw a huge dragon-headed eagle flying from a distance, holding one in its beak and two with its feet, bringing a total of three one-horned wind wolves back to feed.
The dragon-headed eagle landed at the southern foot of Xueding Mountain, and soon flew away again with empty claws.
Gu Yuan and the four of them looked at each other, "Yun Duoduo, go down the mountain first and return to the Lei Niu Valley to wait for us. Li Cheng and Little Eagle, you two come with me and have a look."
With the dragon-headed eagle's extremely fast speed, no matter how crazy you are, you can't even think of doing anything detrimental to the dragon-headed eagle's young bird. But here they are, and if you don't even dare to take a look at it, then it's not three people.
character.
The three of them bravely climbed to the top of the snow peak, and saw a huge bird's nest on a short cliff on the other side. In the bird's nest were three dragon-headed eagle cubs with barely full fur, their eyes closed.
It opens its mouth wide and waits for feeding.
"what is that?"
"That seems to be the Blood Eagle's Nest?"
The well-informed Li Cheng looked at the bird's nest with eager eyes. A circle of rocks under the bird's nest was covered with precious herbs, and the entire eagle's nest was blood-red and translucent amber...
"Let's take advantage of the time when the dragon-headed eagle hasn't come back to collect herbs. Is that okay?"
The little eagle could hardly restrain himself from proposing this idea that seemed feasible but was actually absurd.
Looking at the figure flying up and down on the distant river bank from afar, he also nodded inexplicably.
"I'm here to keep a lookout for you two. If there are any problems, I will personally lead them away. You two must not be greedy. You must leave immediately after hearing my warning."
Li Cheng and Little Eagle nodded in agreement, and quickly rushed down the snow peak and climbed up the cliff opposite. Gu Yuan did not dare to relax at all and stared at the figure flying up and down in the distance.
This decision is really too risky, but wealth is gained through danger. If you retreat once, you will retreat again and again.
While Gu Yuan was staring at the sky for a while, the little eagle and Li Cheng had already arrived at the bird's nest, vigorously picking at the treasure growing out of the cracks in the rock.