GBP Chapter 67 Midnight Crisis
Chapter 67 Midnight Crisis
At night, the cold wind howled, but thanks to the walls and the campfire inside the cave, it wasn't cold at all.
The little beastmen were sleeping soundly around the cave. Ever since Sen and Yu no longer needed to block the wind at the cave entrance, the two seemed to have a tacit understanding and surrounded Ruan Mianmian as she slept.
Sen curled himself into a circle, covering one side of Ruan Mianmian. He rested his snake head on his body, his gaze fixed on the cave entrance.
Yu was lying on the other side of Ruan Mianmian, but he was resting in human form.
In this way, Ruan Mianmian is in a state of being surrounded on three sides, with only her front being unobstructed.
Half asleep and half awake, Ruan Mianmian seemed to hear faint wolf howls.
"Awoo! Awoo!..." The howls of wolves woke up some of the little beastmen in the cave. They all looked at Sen and Yu, and were a little scared.
Sen and Yu had woken up at the first howl of the wolf. Sen was now standing upright, coiled at the entrance of the cave, while Yu had transformed into beast form and was listening intently to the sound that seemed both distant and yet not far away.
As if sensing something was amiss outside, Zhiye emerged from the winding stone chamber.
He listened carefully for a while and said, "It seems to be a wolf clan. It seems like something has gone wrong?"
"Maybe I should go out and take a look. Something about the sound is off," Yu said to Zhi.
"Alright, go out and take a look. If things aren't right, come back right away."
Zhi felt a little panicked at this moment. The wolf howl meant injury and death. If the wolf king in the vicinity had a problem, then their valley might also be in danger.
Yu quietly left the cave and flew towards the direction of the wolf's howl.
Upon getting closer, he discovered a pack of wolves surrounding a wounded wolf, the wound still bleeding profusely.
Yu decided to observe the situation first before making any plans.
At this moment, the injured wolf noticed Yu. A look of surprise flashed in its eyes, but then it showed a pained expression.
Yu slowly approached it, trying to calm it down.
"Awooo!..." A slightly smaller wolf suddenly darted out from behind the injured wolf, baring its teeth and warning Yu not to come any closer.
It turns out that the one who was injured was the wolf king, who was attacked by the bear-men while trying to save his mother wolf.
Yu did not back down. He made it clear that he meant no harm and told the mother wolf that he had only come out to see what was happening after hearing the howling of the wolf pack.
The wolf king nuzzled the mother wolf beside him and said in beast language, "Miyue, I know this beastman. He's a pretty good one. He shouldn't mean any harm. Don't be nervous."
After speaking, the wolf king gestured for the wolf pack beside him to step back a little, as he had something to say to Yu.
“I know you, flying orc. You once picked up an unformed orc abandoned by another beast near my territory. Out of curiosity, I followed you back to your tribe and discovered that you had been constantly picking up these cubs. So I believe you came out to investigate because you heard the howls of my companions.”
Yu had indeed picked up baby orcs in the wolf pack's territory before, but he wasn't sure if they were the same wolves in front of him.
"How did you get injured?" Yu asked, looking at his bleeding wound.
The wolf king gave a wry smile and said, "Winter is just around the corner. Our tribe doesn't have a great shaman who can predict the weather; we just hunt and store food as usual. Who knew that the temperature would suddenly drop tonight? I had a premonition that the weather would change drastically, so I organized the wolf pack to hunt. But we encountered two wandering male orcs, and they were injured while protecting my female."
Upon hearing his explanation, Yu immediately asked him where the two male orcs had gone.
Their tribe consisted of weak orcs, and if these two wandering orcs ran into the vicinity, they would be in danger.
The wolf king thought for a moment and said, "It seems they went towards the valley across the plain. That's right, that direction seems to be the same as your tribe's!"
Upon hearing this, Yu hurriedly thanked the Wolf King and said he needed to go back to the tribe to check.
Then he hurriedly flew back.
On his way back, he carefully observed the wild grass on the plain. If the wandering orcs chose to spend the night on the plain, they would definitely stop briefly in the wild grass.
After flying around for a while, they still couldn't find the two wandering orcs.
Without hesitation, he immediately flew back to the valley and entered the cave to discuss with Zhi and Sen what to do.
When he flew back, he made some minor alterations to the entrance of the valley, at least making it look less like an entrance, which might fool them.
After flying back to the cave, Mori and Chi rushed up to him and asked what had happened. Yu told him about the injured wolf king and the two male wandering beastmen he had seen, and Chi quickly found something to perform divination.
Mori immediately swam outside, leaving his scent around the cave as a deterrent.
If those two wandering orcs really did enter the valley and find this cave, they would be more wary of him upon smelling his scent.
The divination results came out quickly; the outcome was somewhat unclear, but it was certainly not bad news.
This was the first time Zhi had gotten such a result from a divination, and now he didn't know what to do.
"Damn it, if only we could find them. Being passively waiting in this cave, with the unknown dangers lurking around, is even more frightening."
Sen scrambled around the cave in a somewhat agitated manner, his scarlet eyes gleaming with a strange light.
"I can find them!" Ruan Mianmian looked at them with bright, sparkling eyes, showing no sign of sleepiness.
"Goddess? No, Chief, do you have any way to find out their exact location?" Zhi couldn't help but ask Ruan Mianmian after hearing her words.