Wiping Out Mutant Wolves & Taming the Wolf King!

Roaaar!

The first mutant wolf that approached Major General Qian opened its big fanged mouth and struck at him. In the nick of time, Major General Qian regained his wits and hopped back. The sharp claw failed to rip the major general apart but did have left nasty gashes on his shoulder. Blood immediately sprung out.

"Aaaaah!"

Having successfully escaped with his life, Major General Qian stumbled back with one hand covering his wounded shoulder. But another mutant wolf caught him up and took a bite on his neck. Failed to resist or dodge the attack, Major General Qian screamed ghastly into the night. Then, another four wolves jumped onto him.

"Aaaaaaaahh!"

"Qian!"

"Sir!"

The horrible shriek only lasted for a few seconds. Mo Wenyang and the other guys followed the wolves here came to a sudden halt. Everybody's eyes were filled with immense terror. In the blink of an eye, Major General Qian was dismembered by the wolves. It was hard to believe that a level-3 superfunction possessor was so vulnerable to the level-2 mutant wolf pack.

Shock, fear, and panic overwhelmed everybody but the reality didn't give them much time to process the feelings. The mutant wolves didn't gobble Major General Qian up after he got ripped into pieces, instead, they spat out the chunks of his body, turned around, and fixed their bloodthirsty green eyes on Mo Wenyang and the rest.

"Charge! It's either them or us!"

"Charge!"

Forcing himself to hold in all the negative feelings, Mo Wenyang cried. Leng Yehan and his mates nodded. They took the lead to charge at the wolves with their superfunction on. Lei Dashan and Chen Hua, who originally came along to have a look at the mutant beasts, and the soldiers, too, charged without hesitation when they saw Mo and Leng lead the charge. Following the previous tactic, they were divided into individuals or small groups, each person or group drew one wolf's attention.

Oooowhoo!

"Shut up. You call that a gang fight? You mind your own business now."

The Wolf King was clever. It tried to roar out its instruction as soon as the wolf pack broke apart, but Yun Che flung his blade at the Wolf King, forcing it to dodge the attack. The two of them went back to the dogfight again. As a mighty superfunction possessor, Yun Che was flexible and deft with rich field experience. The Wolf King had a strong body, sharp claws and fangs and it, too, was fast and agile. What it wasn't good at, though, was ranged attack, of which Yun Che had shrewdly taken advantage. They were neck and neck in the solo.

Thump!

Meanwhile, Jiang Shang and the other level-3 superfunction possessors were getting the upper hand in the fights with the rest of the wolves. Now that Ye Xingchen had done the most important job, he could briefly control the mutant wolves at critical moments to buy short but precious time for his mates. About half an hour later, one by one, the mutant wolves were killed by Jiang Shang and his mates. But they wouldn't waste time gloating like Major General Qian did. As soon as one wolf died, they immediately joined the nearest group to help others attack the wolves.

"They're mostly dead. Now let's see how Che is doing."

It took the team more than an hour to end the lives of more than 30 wolves. The victory was finally at hand. Xing Feng shifted his attention from all the other fights to the one between Yun Che and the Wolf King.

Roar!

"Shit!"

Maybe Yun Che was tired or maybe the Wolf King was outraged when it realized the entire pack had almost perished, it managed to dodge the shockwaves from Yun Che's blade. The giant wolf jumped zigzag and leaped over Yun. Yun Che swore in a low voice when he saw the claws in front of his face. Yun Che immediately switched to air superfunction, his small boy was pushed away from the Wolf King by the reverse thrust and then zoomed into the sky from the ground.

Grrr!

The Wolf King looked up by instinctand saw a sharp-edged blade drop from the sky, but it was too late to evade. The blade went right into one of its eyes, making it bellow in agony. The Wolf King attempted to forcefully get the blade out of its eye with its forepaws as its massive body stumbled back.

"I see you aren't running away, are you? Tough. How about you yield and be my pet? You get to eat whatever you want, it's way much better than living in the mountains."

Yun Che had gotten the upper hand. He carried the blade and ran toward the Wolf King.

Roaaaar!

The Wolf King's eyeball squirted blood. It crazily roared at Yun Che as if it understood what he said.

"I'll make you yield then."

Booom.

Roaaar.

Yun Che loomed as he threatened the wolf in a deep voice. Then, thunderbolts fell from the sky and hit right on the giant beast. The Wolf King whined and howled in pain as the thunderbolts caused more and more wounds to its body. It was very nasty of Yun Che to keep aiming at those existing open wounds, mashing the flesh of the Wolf King that was already covered in blood.

"God-damn, the home-guarding beast is ruthless!"

"Ruthless? He's nasty! You can't find a nastier man than him."

"Zeyu, is it OK to use that word on your captain? Aren't you worried that he'll do the same thing to you?"

"Shoo! I don't want any of it."

"Haha!"

On the other side, Mo Wenyang and the others sat on the ground, watching Yun Che and the Wolf King fight from afar after their battles were over. The injured Wolf King became more and more sluggish, and its tough body was finally crushed by Yun Che. Soon, it could just lie on the ground twitching. Yun Che stood right in front of the Wolf King's head with the blade in his hand. "One last chance. Will you pledge allegiance to me or not?"

The tip of the pitch-black blade was on its neck. If the Wolf roared like it did just now, Yun Che would chop its head off without question.

"Errrr…"

But even if the Wolf King wanted to roar, it didn't have the strength to do so. Heavily injured, it piteously whined. Ye Xingchen hurriedly walked up to them and explained, "Che, it says OK."

Tamer could not only control but also communicate with animals.

"Good. Trust me, you'll be well-treated."

Yun Che withdrew the blade and turned his head to Ye Xingchen. "Wolves are cunning creatures. Tame it with your superfunction. He's yours to command from now on."

How could a tamer not have his own Warbeast? The Wolf King was a gift for Ye Xingchen from Yun Che. And he would be catching more for Ye if he came across any that he thought was suitable.

"OK."

Ye Xingchen pleasantly accepted. To a tamer, the beasts were their weapons. This was a powerful, highly intelligent wolf, one of best weapons a tamer could possibly possess.

"All right."

Ye Xingchen had hit level 3 in the previous fight. He soon nailed the Wolf King. He stepped up and crouched in front of it, stroking the fur on its head. "Return to your original size."

"Errr."

The Wolf King whined again. The massive body started to shrink and ended up the size of a wolfdog. Unlike Heiyu, a mutant beast couldn't change its size however it wanted. A mutant beast could only change between its original form and the mutant form.

"Here, feed him with this. It should be good for him."

Yun Che handed two bottles of diluted spring water to Ye Xingchen. The tamed wild wolf only accept one human as its master throughout its life, since Yun Che had no intention to be this one's master, he surely wouldn't feed him. Ye Xingchen must bond with the wolf as quickly as possible.

"OK."

Ye Xingchen understood what Yun Che meant. He took over the bottles, held the wolf's head up and fed him with the water. Jiang Shang hurriedly bent down and gave Ye a hand. Yun Che shook his head and walked away.

"I thought the Wolf King was for me."

Xing Feng walked up to Yun Che and facetiously expressed his jealousy. He genuinely thought the Wolf King was for him because Yun Che promised that he'd tame a beast for Xing Feng not long ago.

"The Wolf King doesn't suit you. Let's have a look inside the mountains with Heiyu next time, I think an eagle would suit you. Eagle can fight, and after mutation, it can take you to soar in the sky. It would be much cooler than a wolf."

It seemed Yun Che had perceived what Xing Feng was going to say, so he got soothing words ready in advance. But he wasn't joking, he genuinely intended to catch an eagle with Xing Feng someday. He'd been planning it ever since he knew that any beasts were compliant when Heiyu was around.

"Oh, OK. I'm happy to keep an eagle. Let's catch one someday."

Xing Feng was intrigued as his eyes sparkled. Zhou Zeyu cut in out of the blue, "Che, I want one, too."

How could you count him out when doing something cool?

"You catch your own eagle."

After taking an askance look at Zhou Zeyu, Yun Che walked past him toward those dead mutant wolves. Jumping from one body to another, Yun Che waved his arms to make those dead wolves disappear.

"It makes things a lot easier."

Their blood might draw more beasts here. Troubled, Mo Wenyang didn't know how to solve the problem a moment ago and now he was relieved. Yun Che then asked, "How many casualties do we have?"

"3 dead, 8 badly injured, 30 mildly injured. It's a shame that Major General Qian died."

The numbers were as small as they could get. Mo Wenyang hypocritically felt sorry for Major General Qian in the end. Major General Zeng and the other soldiers didn't notice anything wrong, they just hung their heads, mourning for their dead mates.

"Alright. Let's head back."

After a nod, Yun Che took a bunch of stretchers out of Space. He kept one and gave the rest to Mo Wenyang. Mo didn't decline Yun Che's kindness. He asked his deputies to distribute the stretchers to the soldiers and have them carefully attend to the injured ones. There was no light superfunction possessor on the team so the injured had to bear with the pain. Fortunately, superfunction possessors would recover relatively fast. The ones having mild injuries would be in good shape in 2 or 3 days; those who got heavily injured would be mostly healed in 7 or 8 days provided they weren't dying or infected. The dead ones, however, would need to be buried right here.

While those dutiful soldiers cleaned the battlefield, Yun Che gave the stretcher to Ye Xingche. The Wolf King was terribly injured, it had to be carried back to their room.

"Captain Yun, are you sure those beasts were only level 2?"

Lei Dashan and Chen Hua, both mildly injured, came to Yun Che. As level-3 superfunction possessors, they had a tough time fighting with those level-2 beasts and ended up injured, which, for them, was a heavy blow. If those were level-3 mutant beasts, they would have been dead.

"I'm sure. Wild wolves are supposed to be fiercer than ordinary people, so it's not a surprise that mutant wolves overmatch us."

Yun Che comforted them with a smile after seeing the bad look on their faces. Those were only wolves that they fought, things would get nastier if those were tigers, lions or bears because any level-2 tiger or lion or bear could mercilessly crush them. The good news was, all the bears in the southwest area were locked in the zoo. But southwest got another kind of animal which was as fearsome as bear: panda, one of the southwest natives. Before the doomsday, pandas were cute and sluggish but nowadays, they had become savage creatures.

"So we'll have to keep getting stronger then. God knows when the frigging doomsday will end."

It sure didn't feel great but as captains, they hadn't been and shouldn't be scared. They just got sentimental for a moment.

"The doomsday may be over someday or it'll never end, all we can do is continuously improve ourselves in order to take more living space from other creatures."

Yun Che stood there and looked at them. Under the moonlight, the flicker of resolution and fortitude in his eyes charmed Lei Dashan and Chen Hua. The two captains then nodded at the same time. They must get used to the fact that mankind was no longer the only one at the top of the food chain, and to the neverending fights if they wanted to stay alive.