To my frozen hometown

Chapter 8 is about Yanaghara's food chain hierarchy

The snow on the ground scattered, and the distance between the galloping snowmobile and the running wolves was getting closer.

In the car, Liu Yuan lowered his body slowly, and said to Al behind him.

"Hold on to the car."

"Yeah." Al closed his eyes.

She didn't know what happened at all, but her hand still slowly let go of Liu Yuan's clothes and grabbed the seat of the snowmobile.

After a breath, the wolves had already rushed to the front of the snowmobile.

The wolf who rushed to the front opened the corners of his mouth, showing sharp white teeth towards Liu Yuan. It looked like it was grinning, and its erect eye holes were shining with ferocious light.

It should have the certainty of killing, its hind legs tightened suddenly.

With a roar, the giant wolf flew up.

That huge body directly leapt over a distance of nearly ten meters, opened its foul-smelling mouth, and bit Liu Yuan's upper body with muddy saliva.

Facing the bite of a beast several meters high, what would happen to a human without any equipment?

Disemboweled.

Or die on the spot.

But no one expected that at the same time as the giant wolf was jumping, the person on the snowmobile also jumped up.

The wolf's expression froze for a moment.

Then a shadow covered the sunlight in front of it, and a pair of calm eyes were reflected in its pupils.

There was a trace of bewilderment on the ferocious face of the giant wolf. At this time, it couldn't understand why the human in front of it didn't run away in panic.

I can't understand why, as a predator, it feels like it is the prey for a moment.

A strong sense of crisis enveloped its whole body, and the beast's natural intuition told it that it should run away immediately, but it was already too late.

In mid-air, Liu Yuan drew out the dagger from his waist. It was full of gaps, and even if it was fully opened, it was only as long as a forearm.

Half of the tattered blade popped out, and it was lightly turned in a circle in the slender palm.

The blade reflected the sunlight in the sky, passing the wolf's eyes, and then a clean white light flashed in its sight.

More than twenty wild wolves raised their heads, but what they saw was not the picture of the giant wolf killing the human in one bite.

It was the human who was leaning over in mid-air, stepping on the belly of the wolf leader with one foot, pressing the wolf's mouth with the other hand, and cut the wolf's neck with a small knife.

Under a pure white sky, the blood splashed from the neck is so dazzling.

The scarlet color was reflected in their green pupils, making their breathing stagnate.

As if everything had been frozen suddenly, there were no warning gunshots on the snow field, nor the howling of wild wolves.

All eyes were left blankly staring at the person in mid-air.

"boom!"

One man and one wolf fell to the ground.

The alpha wolf fell there with its mouth open, and never had the strength to stand up again.

The spirit in its pupils gradually faded, and unstoppable blood flowed from the cut throat, seeping into the snow.

The man in the dark brown coat slowly stood up straight, holding the short knife that was still dripping blood quietly, raised his eyes little by little, and looked around at the wolves around him. group.

The snowmobile lost control and stopped after sliding on the snow for a certain distance, not far from the snow slope.

Al in the car still closed his eyes firmly, holding the seat of the car tightly with both hands.

There was no sound for a while.

The wolves on the snow were quiet, and the soldiers on the greenhouse were quiet. They seemed unable to accept the scene in front of them, which made everything fall into an extremely abnormal silence.

It wasn't until after a few breaths that this unusual silence gradually passed.

The wolves still tightly surrounded Liu Yuan and Ai Er, they started to growl again, but they didn't dare to go forward easily.

The dead wolf wolf made them very uneasy, and at the same time, they felt an obvious threat from Liu Yuan.

It was a feeling that frightened them, as if they were facing a higher-level predator. (In a way, that's true.)

There was silence among the wolves for a while, but this silence didn't last long. Soon, hunger and instinct drove them to approach the two in the center again.

"Tsk."

Seeing the movements of the wolves, Liu Yuan spat softly.

She moved her neck slowly as if impatient, then lowered her head, and took out a pistol from her arms.

It was an old revolver, and as could be seen from its style, it was an antique.

The luster of the silver metal gun is dull, and the patterns that should have been exquisite have been worn away by the years, and even the handle has begun to fade, revealing the dark gray lacquered wood inside.

The only thing that people can't help but pay attention to is that it has a surprisingly large muzzle and a barrel that is obviously too thick and long.

"Crack."

Under the watchful eyes of the wolves, the cylinder of the revolver opened, Liu Yuan lowered his head, and pushed a brass-colored bullet into it.

Finally, some wild wolves could stand it no longer, and the smell of flesh and blood almost made them want to go crazy.

Even they themselves can't remember how long it has been since they tasted fresh flesh and blood, and the food in front of them is enough to make them dare to take risks.

A black-haired wild wolf barked a few times, which was like a signal, arousing the fierceness of the wolves.

Several wild wolves broke through the snow on the ground at an extremely fast speed, and attacked the two from all directions.

The difference is that some wild wolves chose to wait and see this time, and the death of the head wolf has already plunged them into fear.

The rushing wolf was divided into two parts, one part rushed towards Liuyuan, and the other part rushed towards Al, who was sitting in the car with his eyes closed.

"Crack!" A crisp voice resounded amidst the chaos.

This was the sound of a pistol being loaded, and Liu Yuan stood still and moved the firing pin on the back of the gun.

Then she didn't look back, but raised the pistol straight up, pointed the black muzzle behind her, and gently pulled the trigger with her index finger.

"boom!"

A huge gunshot sounded, and the sound shook the eardrums of the wolves.

In Liuyuan's hand, the muzzle flames of the revolver swallowed.

A bullet passed through the cold air in the heat, leaving a twisted trail.

Then the bullet hit a wild wolf that had already jumped in front of Al.

The wild wolf's head exploded suddenly, a few drops of warm blood splashed on the girl's hand, while its headless corpse fell powerlessly aside.

Liu Yuan retracted the pistol, and without even looking back, he just swung the wheel out again.

The brass-colored cartridge case fell off the cylinder, sending white smoke into the snow.

When the shot landed, only a moment passed.

Looking at the wolf mouth in front of him that was almost about to bite off.

Liu Yuan quietly pushed the second bullet into the cylinder.

As for why she couldn't load two at once, nonsense, wasn't she in a hurry to shoot just now?

But now, she has only this bullet.

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For the greenhouse guards on the greenhouse, all they saw was that the wolves attacked the two of them again, and drowned them in an instant.

Everyone, including the captain of the guard, looked solemn. They understood that even if they could kill the wolf head, the two trapped by the wolves would have little chance of surviving.

Until there was another gunshot from the pack of wolves.

"boom!"

This gunshot was very dull, echoing empty in the snow field.

Immediately afterwards, the wolves began to riot.

It was a person who killed the wolves, and she held a short knife in her hand, with blood dragging on the blade.

Any wolf that tried to get close to the snowmobile would be killed by her in a very short time, and the way she killed the wolf was completely beyond the imagination of the greenhouse guards.

Or she threw the wolves to the ground, and used the blades as teeth to tear at their flesh.

Or break the mouths of wild wolves and break their jaws with your feet.

Or cut open their stomachs with a single knife, take out the internal organs and crush them, and use them to deter the wolves who still want to come forward.

This way of killing is even more beast than beast, revealing the most primitive brutality and cruelty.

Gradually, wolf blood stained her blade, her coat, and her cheeks red.

The wolves began to fear until none of the wolves barked or growled.

Under the stunned eyes of the greenhouse guards, they backed away slowly.

I don't know which wild wolf uttered the first howl, and the pack of wild wolves scattered and ran away into the distance.

Perhaps after weighing the disproportionate ratio between the food available and the relative danger, or perhaps after giving in completely, the wolves finally gave up this hunting.

All that was left was a mess of footprints and a few corpses that had long been silent.

Among the wild wolf's corpses, the figure with the dagger stood beside the snowmobile, wiping the blood on his face.

Then she raised her head again and glanced at the greenhouse guards on the rampart.

The soldiers on the barrier felt their hearts tighten for no reason, and they held the guns in their hands.

But the man did nothing.

He just turned around, walked to the side of the snowmobile, pushed the car, and slowly walked out from the corpse of the wild wolf with the girl on the car.

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on the snow.

It wasn't until the corpses behind him gradually disappeared that Liu Yuan put away the pistol and short knife in his hand, and said to Al in his usual undisciplined voice.

"Okay, just open your eyes."

Al first opened some eyes timidly, and then she seemed to see something, and opened them completely in disbelief.

She did see something, she stared blankly in front of her eyes.

"We're here." Beside her, Liu Yuan said.

On the snowmobile, the girl looked ahead in a daze, her pure eyes reflecting the light in the sky.

In her eyes, she saw a huge building with gray-black walls soaring into the sky, and a hemispherical isolation cover wrapped a magnificent city.

This is Greenhouse No. [-] in the west, where she has always wanted to come.

It should have been after watching for a long time before a smile appeared on the girl's face, and there may be relief, joy, or anticipation in it.

But Liu Yuan just felt that in the sunshine, she smiled very cleanly.

A loudspeaker was removed from the back seat of the snowmobile.

Liu Yuan stood beside the car, put the loudspeaker to his mouth, and shouted towards the towering wall.

"Excuse me, is it Greenhouse No. [-] in the west? We have letters to deliver, please open the door."

Liu Yuan's voice was not too loud, so the loudspeaker, which would be scrapped from time to time, played a role.

The sound spread intermittently, reaching the ears of the greenhouse guards who were still in a daze on the wall.

Just to deliver letters?

The captain of the greenhouse guard was wearing a dark blue military uniform, and he came back to his senses standing among the soldiers.

Holding his saber, he took a deep look at the man standing under the barrier.

The corpse of the wild wolf in the distance, and the blood on this man's body make this reason unacceptable.

But after being silent for a while, he still retracted the general knife to his waist, and shouted back.

"Open the door!"

"Yes." A soldier replied, turning the valve beside him.

The door under the greenhouse slowly opened.

When opening the door, all the soldiers, including the captain of the guard, had one question in mind.

That's who this traveler is.

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Liu Yuan stood on the snow in a dark brown overcoat. Her clothes looked sloppy and baggy, and the blood stains on her face that hadn't been wiped off looked mottled and hideous.

But her expression was very calm.

Standing next to the snowmobile, she waited silently for the doors of the greenhouse to open.

Who is she?

Her name is Liu Yuan.

Is a person who will not die.

And this is a story about her going home.

(End of this chapter)