Mountain 2

The first thing Xiao Fan would do when seeing a gaping wolf mouth come biting at him was to swing his sword the Rising Ruler instinctively at the beast.

Swinging his sword, he easily sliced the wold in half, separating the top and bottom half of the wolf.

The Rising Ruler had no problems in cutting down the animal. He hadn't even felt it slow down. It even wounded another wolf that was some way from the first.

This second wolf in question feeling one of its cheeks being opened up more, changed its target from Fei Sun to Xiao Fan.

All the while one wolf had been downed and another one now coming at him, Xiao Fan begins to discern more and more outlines coming towards them from the outside.

His eyes quickly adjusting to the cave and outside light, he could now be sure that there was a pack of wolfs on them.

In the meantime where Xiao Fan was about to finish the second wolf, Fei Sun also turned around to face these wolfs.

Then she spoke but didn't even think about starting some blame contest ¨What are we going to do?¨ Preferring to talk about how to survive this.

Xiao Fan, trying his best to multitask thought about their options. There were not many, either stand one's ground here where they had a small advantage.

Or run deeper into the cave and hope for a more advantageous position or an escape route to be found.

Although they were now holding the wolfs here, noted by how the floor was filling with wolf bodies, Xiao Fan in his headache decided for the latter.

¨Fighting retreat¨ He said, before slicing up another wolf trying to view for Fei Sun from an angle she couldn't deal with.

Thankfully Fei Sun didn't need more commands as she well knew what Xiao Fan meant, and so begun to run backwards while sometimes thrusting her spear into a wolf.

They must have made a number on the wolfs already, killing ten or more each, yet the wolf pack wasn't showing any signs of wavering.

From this Xiao, Fan knew that these wolfs were mutants and not some wild animals. His time within the Monkey Tribe had made him realise that mutants weren't to be taken as animals.

Animals would run after light casualties when they knew that they had lost too much. Mutants were smarter; however, they never stopped coming until their chief was or about to be defeated.

Despite knowing this Xiao Fan didn't get any advantage, for how could they get to the chief? And could they even defeat the chief?

The only thing he knew from this was that if they fought, would they need to fight until one side would be defeated.

And that wasn't really achievable, he thought. Running away was a much-preferred option; he reasoned as they retreat deeper into the cave.

A few minutes of retreating later, Xiao Fan, who was fighting to the best of his capabilities was already heavily leaning onto Fei Sun to hold the line.

Due to Xiao Fan's multiple concussions, his fighting was becoming clouded to the degree that if he was left alone, he would fall in seconds.

In a situation like this, Fei Sun and her spear were proving invaluable.

For a good sweep from her spear in these tight corners was enough stopping power for the horde of wolfs coming at them for a moment.

Moreover, with the reach of it, she could kill any wolf getting too close to Xiao Fan from the side.

To Xiao Fan, a spear seemed a pretty good weapon against mutants.

Because with it, she could stay at a safe distance. He instead needed to get close and personal with his sword that although was long for a sword, yet no spear.

Of course, Xiao Fan didn't think about this other than to note that Fei Sun was the one he needed to work around and not the other way around.

However, retreating backwards all the time wasn't such a good idea as they had no way to know where they were going.

They hadn't even looked behind them for a minute or two now, for the cave that had been small enough only to let three wolfs come at them at a time was now widening.

The cave widening made their job much harder, as because of it they were being enveloped by the wolfs that could now put more numbers on them.

But what neither side had thought was that maybe just maybe this cave had other residents. Human residents.

¨Hey! You there! Why are you bringing the wolfs here!¨ Came a shouting voice behind the two.

Xiao Fan and Fei Sun hearing that there was a human inside this cave glanced at each other before deciding it would be for the best to use this opportunity.

When the glance ended, both of them made a sudden outburst of power towards the wolfs, hoping that it would scare them for a second or two.

They didn't know if it worked since following that outburst of power and killing one wolf each the two of them turned on their heels and ran towards the voice.

At least it did give them enough time to turn around towards the voice that they could see the owner of, it was a human man.

The person who had by now shouted a second time about not leading the wolfs here was standing on top of a makeshift wooden barricade.

It was a hastily made barricade, but that didn't interest Xiao Fan and Fei Sun who ran towards it fast as they could.

Getting close to it despite the shouts not to, they passed it from the gap that was between the top of the rampart and the cave's roof.

Meanwhile, as they did so, the guard, who was ignored now, in turn, ignored the two of them and rang the alarm, for the wolfs were coming at him.

Fei Sun, after getting to the other side of the barricade, looked towards where the wolfs should be soon coming, but seeing that Xiao Fan was making a run even deeper, she followed.

She thought they would fight them here; however, it seemed that Xiao Fan had different ideas.

The last thing she saw before running to cath Xiao Fan was the moment where the wolf tide shook the barricade whilst at the same time more humans were joining the fray.

Already when she had turned her head, she could hear a human screaming in agony as someone was being ripped in part.

'Okay he's right, these people will not hold them for long' She noted.

This was true for the humans at the barricade were being slaughtered by the wolfs. And unlike the mutants wolfs who would show no fear the humans did.

Running among the tents of the encampment Xiao Fan hadn't even thought about joining the defence at the barricade. His head was also filled with the intent to flee as far as possible.

But their run soon came to an end at a second barrier, or more specifically a wall.

No one manned this wall, nor did it have a door. The only thing it had going for it was a mining process in progress marked by the hole in the wall.

Stopping in front of this hole in the wall Xiao Fan frustratedly spoke¨What the hell is this shit!¨

¨Don't think about that!¨ Fei Sun shouted a reply and came next to him.

She could already think what this shit was. It was a wall that was made to block this path into the thing on the other side.

And the hole in the wall that wasn't finished yet was their only chance to escape the wolf pack that would soon be overcoming all resistance still left.

All this in her head, she didn't think before thrusting her spear into the middle of the hole in progress.

Yet her thrust only made one brick that it had directly hit to crack.

¨Come help me!¨ She roared at Xiao Fan, who was having a moment of confusion.

It took another roar of her to Xiao Fan realise what she wanted to do ¨Help me crack this wall with my spear¨ She repeated.

Which finally made Xiao Fan realise why was Fei Sun amongst other things holding the spear so near from the tip.

She wanted him to use the spear as a pick together with her.

¨Got it¨ He said and rushed to take hold of the spear's end.

¨On my say¨ She spoke and begun to count.

Count rapidly as Xiao Fan and Fei Sun being cultivators could they work much faster than a normal counting speed let them.

Her pacing was so fast that every second had multiple pacing shouts.

Nevertheless, the two of them were cultivators who could thanks to the Body Activation realm work even faster if they had trained something like this.

But for now, it was enough for them if by working together, the spear of Fei Sun that had by now become a drill would hit the wall more than once per second.

Fei Sun at the front was directing and pointing the stick while Xiao Fan did physical work of pushing the spear fast as he could.

The speed of them doing this together could clearly be seen in the wall, working great, as every thrust that they did was breaking dozens of bricks.

Now they only needed to hope that this wall hadn't been made too wide as they could hear the noises of battle slowly moving towards them.

When the defenders would be dead, it was sure that the wolfs would hear their operation.

Everything was going well now but could everything go well till the end? Of course, not as some time into the project, they hit something hard.

Hard enough that it didn't break and in turn sent a strong shockwave around the spear's entire length.

¨What the hell was that?¨ Xiao Fan asked after the vibrations were gone from his body.

¨Hit it harder¨ Was the only response he got to his question.

Still, it was a response to which he would comply, and when Xiao Fan felt he had all the power, his body could muster, he rammed the spear.

Yet the only effect was even stronger shockwave hitting him.

¨Come help me¨ Xiao Fan uttered while shuddering in the shock wave.

This time Fei Sun didn't say anything and came to the end of the spear and mimicked the movement of Xiao Fan.

¨Three!¨ Xiao Fan shouted

¨Two¨ Fei Sun and Xiao Fan shouted together while making a small nudge backwards.

¨One¨ Both of them roared.

Their muscles bulging to the max they could, the two of them crashed the spear to the brick that was giving them trouble.

Their efforts would be rewarded, as the brick that was keeping them from continuing shattered into small pieces and crumbled to the floor.

Noting this both of them made a small smile towards each other yet didn't say anything as they needed to continue their work.

After the continuation, the work became easy again as when they countered those bricks that Xiao Fan's force alone couldn't break; they knew what to do.

And soon after Fei Sun's idea about this wall became true as one of the thrusts didn't only break bricks but also went through.

When the spear went through, Xiao Fan, who hadn't expected it faltered a little forward.

¨Now let's widen it enough for us¨ Fei Sun who was at the front spoke her tony distinctly happy.

They were actually getting away from the wolfs.

Xiao Fan who had gotten his footing back also spoke ¨Quickly, quickly the wolfs are soon here¨ He noted because he had been hearing the wolfs being at the last tents already.

¨Then get to work¨ Fei Sun spoke her tone not silenced by Xiao Fan's scepticism.