This is apocalyptic

Chapter 108 107: Hunting

The biting wind pierces into the collar like a knife, and it is possible to freeze people to death in the wild in winter.

There was a thin layer of snow. Bai Xiao was in front, and Lin Duoduo followed closely with a gun in her arms, her neck shrunk.

Lin Duoduo never goes out at night because the dark night means danger.

The Zombie King moves freely in the dark.

The short journey from the village to the wilderness had frozen his hands holding the harpoon a little stiff. He was glad that he came back early, otherwise it would have been extremely difficult to be out on the road in winter.

"As long as you can injure one, I can follow the smell of blood and keep it."

Bai Xiao whispered that he had not returned the rifle yet and did not know what he was facing. In this environment, if it was just one animal he could do whatever he wanted, but he was afraid that they would gather in a group or run away.

Lin Duoduo held the gun in her arms, put her hands in her sleeves, and responded.

"Why do I feel like you're leading a hound?" Bai Xiao suddenly had an illusion.

Lin Duoduo smiled and reached out to touch his face. It was cold.

Bai Xiao stopped far away, looked into the darkness, and listened with bated breath.

"It seems like a stupid roe deer..."

Bai Xiao continued to move forward. The distance was not clear enough and Lin Duoduo was unable to aim.

He walked forward a few steps and listened to the noise, "No!" Bai Xiao suddenly reached behind and held down Lin Duoduo.

He had a frightening feeling as if something was lurking in the darkness in the distance, with faint green lights appearing occasionally.

The Zombie King looked at the darkness from afar, motionless in the cold wind. Lin Duoduo squatted beside him, blowing on her hands from time to time.

"It was the wolves that were hunting, and that was the prey they were driving away."

This is a hunting game, the wolves will follow from a distance, forming a circle, using their endurance and speed to tire the prey out, waiting for the right opportunity. The prey will sense something is wrong and be driven away, and when they are exhausted, it is time for the wolves to attack.

Bai Xiao hesitated for a moment. Wolves are not easy to deal with. They hold grudges, are cunning, and move in groups. If it was a settlement, it would be fine. But if they were eyeing an uninhabited village like this, they might often wander around the village and launch sneak attacks.

In his impression, this kind of thing is very patient and will only attack when it has the chance. Bai Xiao would rather encounter a bear than conflict with a group of wolves. There is only a thief who can steal for a thousand days, but you cannot guard against thieves for a thousand days.

It is best if they are lured here by prey, and when the hunt is over they will retreat, wandering to other places or returning deep into the mountains.

The worst thing is that if they mark this place as their territory, they will have no peace.

Bai Xiao weighed whether he had the ability to kill them all, or most of them, and finally retreated slowly with Lin Duoduo. He decided to observe first. If they expanded their activities here, they would either move or have a conflict, and then find a way to drive them away.

He slowly moved away and observed. A faint green light occasionally flashed in the night. With a low roar, the darkness in the distance became chaotic.

In the second half of the night, wolves howled and I don’t know when they stopped. The howling that came one after another seemed even more creepy in this small mountain village.

When it was daybreak, Bai Xiao asked Lin Duoduo to stay in the house, and he put on a helmet and took a knife to check the place where he had been last night. He was not able to face the siege, let alone Lin Duoduo and the old woman. The ground was left with traces of last night, with messy hoof prints and claw prints interlaced, and the dry grass was trampled and stained with blood, emitting a faint fishy smell, and he could still smell the residual smell.

The remains and fur of the prey were scattered far away, leaving only the leftover skin and broken bones scattered on the ground.

Following the traces to the foot of the mountain, the broken grass stems and wolf hair indicated that they had returned to the mountains. Bai Xiao did not take it lightly. He did not know whether the animals in the deep forest were infected and caused them to come out or they were simply chasing prey. He went out again the next day, looking for traces of their activities to see if they had left completely.

When he was first infected last year and was recovering under the shed, this was what Lin Duoduo did every day with a gun in hand. Now Lin Duoduo is preparing for defense in the yard. It is better to be safe than sorry. There was a trap under the wall, which was filled with sharpened bamboo and iron rods. Some of them were old, so she had to repair them.

In the evening, it snowed again. The snow flakes turned into snowflakes. Bai Xiao came back from outside with a small layer of snow on his helmet. He put down his knife and said, "I'll go check it out tomorrow. I've already told Aunt Qian to go out as little as possible."

I have occasionally heard wolves howling before, but they rarely come down, so chasing prey might be an accident.

It snowed all night. When Bai Xiao went out the next day, he saw messy footprints on the snow on the side of the mountain. They looked like dog's footprints, but they were bigger and a little slender.

The traces had not been completely covered by the wind and snow. Bai Xiao checked and estimated their number. Under the heavy snow, the world seemed a little quiet, with only the whistling sound of the wind coming from the air.

Looking up again, I saw seven or eight grey figures on the distant hillside, looking at this side from afar.

This is also a survivor of the infection, appearing fierce and low-key in the wind and snow.

They were following from a distance, still observing, neither leaving nor approaching. After following Bai Xiao for a while, they got closer and closer.

Bai Xiao took the harpoon from behind him and held it in his hand. Fortunately, he was wearing a helmet.

Although it will be infected after being bitten, a bite or two is not something a skinny zombie can easily withstand. Bai Xiao observed his surroundings. Wolves always have enough patience when facing their prey. They like to besiege. There was still some distance from the village, so Bai Xiao retreated to avoid giving them a chance to get around.

He was thinking of some way to scare them away.

These predators spread out in a fan shape and approached step by step. Seven or eight wolves were like large dogs. Bai Xiao could see the murderous light in their eyes, whether far or near.

They approach step by step, and as soon as the prey reveals a weakness, they will swarm over it.

Facing the harpoon wielded by Bai Xiao, two wolves growled to attract his attention, while the rest of the wolves waited for an opportunity to go around behind them.

In the vast snow and wind, Bai Xiao's back was already tense. During the confrontation, a gunshot was faintly heard in the distance.

A flower of blood exploded from the head of the growling wolf in front of them, and it fell to the snow. The sudden change made the other wolves growl uneasily.

The second gunshot followed, and another wolf fell to the ground and twitched, with the blood from its neck dyeing the snow red.

Bai Xiao also jumped forward, roaring like a zombie, threw the harpoon with force, pulled out the dog-leg knife on his body, and started hunting the wolf that posed the greatest threat at close range.

Gunshots, screams, roars, and blood splattered on the snow under the dark clouds.

It's a fight between the predators that survive.

(End of this chapter)