Across the distance, the greed in the gray wolf's eyes is still clearly visible.

Winter is a difficult season for any animal, and wolves are naturally no exception. Moreover, as we all know, animals like wolves will not act alone in winter. The colder and more harsh environments are, the more wolves will gather in groups to hunt large preys that they usually dare not offend to survive the severe winter. For example, bears, and humans. It was a common thing to go into the mountains alone and be unfortunately eaten by wolves.

Of course, the bipedal erectus is not easy to deal with. Not to mention this world, on earth, after countless contests, wolves finally learned to keep awe of humans. Usually, wolves avoid people when they see them. The situation in this world is even worse. With the help of magic, the bipedal erectus can have a much higher combat power than the contemporaries on earth.

Of course, if you are completely forced to be forced under the ruthless force of hunger, it is another matter. If a dog is anxious, he will jump over the wall, let alone a wolf.

But hungry wolves usually look very thin. However, this wolf is obviously not the case. At least from this distance, it should be in good condition.

It was hard to tell whether the wolf was targeting a human or a horse, but at least it stayed there for a long time and refused to leave. It was not until Zhang Cheng walked over to the other side that the gray wolf realized that his whereabouts were exposed, and immediately jumped out of the hiding bushes and ran backwards. But he ran not far away, walked for a short distance and turned around, and continued to look at the normal side with a greedy gaze.

Zhang Cheng chased forward for a while, and the wolf turned away unwillingly and finally disappeared at the end of the wilderness.

"Young Master Zhang Cheng, things are not good." Jia watched Lang run away, feeling a little uneasy. "This place is not far from Xiaxu. Under normal circumstances, such beasts would not come here."

"But they are here." Zhang Cheng said.

"There must be a problem. There should be something to attract these beasts in this place." Jia said.

Huchen didn't know where he pulled out a long scimitar, "Why would I go and explore the surrounding area first and see if there was any abnormality."

"Okay," said Zhang Cheng. He was completely confident in Hu Chen's strength. "Go and go quickly."

Speaking of this, he immediately remembered another thing. He had known that he should have bought a drone, and that he could fly into the sky and see it within a radius of dozens of miles.

After temporarily suppressing this idea, Zhang Cheng started setting up a camp with Jia. In fact, their camp was very simple, just set up a few tents, then a warning magic, and finally set up a fire pool in the middle to prepare dinner. Today, there is no need to find a source of water, just make a jar of clean snow around and turn snow into water. In this era without heavy industry and pollution, there is no need to worry about the water quality of snow water.

Zhang Cheng has a dimensional bag with a very considerable capacity inside, and basically all the equipment needed for camping is complete. So it doesn't take long before they have lit a ball of fire and started cooking snow water.

It was getting dark. Hu Chen came back at this time and walked to Zhang Cheng and whispered a few words in Zhang Cheng's ear. Although the light was dim, both the little girl and Jia noticed that Zhang Cheng's expression had changed significantly.

"Brother Zhang Cheng, what's wrong?" the little girl asked.

"No, nothing." Zhang Cheng replied. "So I discovered some situations, Huchen and I will go and see." After saying that, without waiting for an answer, he took out Xiao Huihui from his backpack.

"Xiao Huihui, look at the camp here and protect everyone." He said to Xiao Huihui. Xiao Huihui immediately shook his tail and answered hard, "Wang!"

After doing this, the two left from the direction where Hu Chen had returned before, and their figures soon disappeared into the night.

"What happened...what...thing happened?" the little girl asked reluctantly in local language. However, Jia did not answer. At this moment, he looked confused and lost. After a long time, Jia turned his eyes to his previously injured leg. His injuries had not healed, and walking in a short time was not a problem, but he could not stand the long-distance walking and could not stand the strenuous exercise. It was indeed not suitable to follow Zhang Cheng.

After a long time, the little girl thought she had used the wrong language, so that Jia couldn't understand it at all. Then Jia suddenly answered. "I don't know. But... something unexpected happened."

There is indeed an unexpected situation here. Zhang Cheng looked at the remains of the people and horses lying quietly in the snow in front of him. The blood in the snow was still fresh, proving that the killing did not take long, either in the morning or at noon. The corpse had been bitten by the wolves and was difficult to distinguish, but the broken bow and arrow next to the horse's corpse proved that the real murderer was not these wolf.

There were overturned vehicles beside the wreckage. The wheels fell off and the things in the car had been looted. Moreover, the number of horses was not right. This was a carriage led by a double horse, and there was only one horse corpse at the scene. The belt on the shaft was obviously cut off by a sharp weapon. In other words, someone cut off the reins and took one of the horses away.

Zhang Cheng still has a certain impression of this car. He had seen it in the Xiaxu trade zone. This is a car from a traveler. Zhang Cheng once bought a wooden piece (not a card) next to this car. Although he hadn't been together for a long time, he still had some memory. The owner seemed to be a middle-aged man, but he was more and more familiar with other travelers (such as Xia An) and was a little taciturn. However, although he was taciturn, his offer was really much more affordable than Xia An.

Unfortunately, such a good businessman died here... Well, in fact, everyone knows that the business of traveling is dangerous. Most of the time, traveling merchants go back and forth in the wilderness, with wild animals, diseases, bandits, etc. all tremendous threats.

"Young Master Zhang Cheng, not only that." Hu Chen led Zhang Cheng to a place dozens of meters away from the scene of the tragedy. The dead grass is covered with a layer of snow... But even the dead grass, you can feel that the grass here seems particularly dense.

Hu Chen picked up a dead branch from the ground and used it as a wooden stick. He casually pried a little dead grass and soil, and almost dug out a piece of skeleton. There seemed to be some sticky substances attached to the skeleton that he didn't know.

"This should be one or two months ago." Huchen has enough experience and talent in this regard. After all, you can tell that Hu Fang's vision, smell and hearing are all above the two-legged ape. "After the wolf finished eating, buried them in case they were hungry before eating. But it seemed that they felt that there was no need for this later."

The situation under the ground... If you say that you haven't died a dozen people, you can't even argue with dozens of people. This is...

Zhang Cheng grew up in the Information Age on Earth, so of course he knew what this situation was. This kind of thing, in the word "Earth", is called bandits. Although people usually compare bandits, bandits, bandits, etc., there are actually a little difference. For example, bandits are robbed and robbed, and bandits take the initiative to attack violent robbery, and the bandits occupy the top of the mountain and do everything they can violently rob and robbery.

"This place is not far from Xiaxu." Zhang Cheng said to himself softly. How far can you go by carriage for most of the day? It shouldn't be more than 70 miles, right? This is the case in such a place?

But calm down and think about it, this seems normal. You dare not attack Xia Xu. After all, you should be taboo to the existence of wizards (although the wizard is no longer there). However, even wizards cannot control them outside Xia Xu. And there are so many business trips here, so it is naturally the best hunting ground. It is normal for bandits to settle down in such places.

"But why do they attack merchants?" Zhang Cheng asked. The matter was still unclear. "Bandits and others need merchants to sell spoils and provide supplies." To put it bluntly, robbers and merchants are colluding.

"They don't need to travel," Huchen reminded. "They can go to Xiaxu to trade directly."

So that's it. After saying this, Zhang Cheng fully understood.

"Thuchen," said Zhang Cheng. "Where do you think they should be?" He didn't want to be attacked at night.

"They were unable to take the carriage away this time," said Hu Chen. "I guess everyone will be back to the camp. Once you go back and forth, you will definitely not be here now. If the young master doesn't want to meddle in other people's business, then we can ignore it and just go to the camp early tomorrow morning."

"No," said Zhang Cheng. "I want to meddle in other people's business!"

The night was dark. Zhang Cheng took out the clock from the card and looked at it. He didn't take much time to come all the way. According to the hanging table, it was about twenty-five minutes. Of course, this is because on the one hand, Zhang Cheng is light-fitted, and on the other hand, he has magic to help. Spells such as oiling the soles of his feet are not very helpful to people's feet.

If there is any benefit to having a table, it is that he can clearly know that the time of the two worlds is not equal. In this world, a day is not 24 hours. If a day is forced to be 24 hours, then the second here is different from the second on the earth.

There is a camp ahead.

It is not a small camp with three or five people just set up by Zhang Cheng, but a large camp. This camp is located in a sparse forest land, covering a large area, with at least thirty or fifty people, or even more. But this is not a military camp. After all, Zhang Cheng has seen Doctor Kunwu's army and served as a commander, so he has seen the army camp and the camp set up. Even if the number of people is small, there are naturally rules. This camp looks scattered and unruly, and it is obviously not an army.

There is a flat ground in one corner of the camp, where more than ten horses gathered here. The horses were tied to the trees at random, and then a pile of grass and hay was piled up on the ground for the horses to eat. As for other places in the camp, all kinds of tents were placed randomly. However, in the center of the camp, there is a larger tent not too far from the horses. You can tell at a glance that it was the leader's residence.

At this time, the sky was already dark. However, for Zhang Cheng, with the magic of "Dark Vision", his vision was not affected. Not far ahead of him, several wild wolves were tearing something. Seeing Zhang Cheng approaching, the wild wolves made a threatening "whimper" sound, grinning, trying to stop him from getting closer. But when the tiger came over, the wild wolves did not dare to confront each other and ran away wailingly.

Animals know better how to judge the strength of their opponents than humans. In front of humans, they dare to threaten and try to resist. In front of Rakshasa demons, they dare not even block them.

Now Zhang Cheng can see that the wild wolf just bites it was a human corpse tied to a tree.

It was not an ordinary corpse, but a naked body of a human woman. The deceased had no wrinkles on his face. He looked not very old, his whole body was naked, and his hands were tied to a tree. Her legs were bitten by a wild wolf, revealing bones, but her body was also full of various wounds. These wounds were not left by the wild wolf's minions. Only tools used by smart creatures such as whips, sticks, or flames can cause such wounds.

Was he killed by cruel abuse? Zhang Cheng walked over and looked at the expression on the deceased's last face. This expression frozen with too much pain and despair. Even people like Zhang Cheng who had long been used to life and death felt it was unbearable.

Then Zhang Cheng noticed that it was not just a corpse. Not far away, there were two other women's corpses. The condition of the corpses was basically the same as here, naked, tied to a tree, and the part of the body that was not eaten by the wild wolf was also full of scars. Fortunately, before meeting the wild wolf, they had already died of torture and coldness. So their faces were filled with the last expression before death.

"Tsk..." Zhang Cheng made a sound that he didn't know what he meant.

"Young Master Zhang Cheng, why are you laughing?" Hu Chen asked. Smart creatures do not empathize with the death of aliens as much as theirs, but Hu Chen also knew that Zhang Cheng should not laugh.

"Laugh? I didn't laugh." Zhang Cheng said. He took out the "dark lich" from his body. After thinking for a while, he took out another "Shadow Hunter".

This is an opportunity. You can try whether the tactics you originally imagined are feasible.

Above the clearing, a dark lich in a black robe appeared. Through the spiritual link, Zhang Cheng informed the lich of his thoughts.

"I'm taking the order." Gong Bo immediately obeyed. He didn't know what he did. Just with this wave of his hand, several ghouls were summoned with the blue flames and ran towards one side.

This is not a summoning spell, there is no need to activate spells, nor does it require any preparation. Even such a wave is just a habit rather than a necessity. I saw the ghoul being summoned continuously and encircled the camp from all directions under Gong Bo's command. The ice, snow and darkness are not a problem for the undead creatures. When the encirclement was formed, Gong Bo himself took the initiative to move forward and headed towards the camp.

Zhang Cheng also gave the Shadow Hunter a spiritual order, and the Shadow Hunter sneaked into the darkness.

He and Hu Chen stayed here to observe the situation.

This is the orthodox way of fighting for the brigade masters - such as charging into battle and killing generals and flags is not the style of the brigade masters. What the brigade masters need to do is to plan and win a thousand miles, that is, to send their own biological cards to siege the enemy in an absolutely safe place. After victory, they will patrol the battlefield. Even if they fail, they will never affect their escape.

This is like after the rise of aircraft carriers on Earth, they are rough and attacking high blood and thick battleships, which are behind the times. Aircraft carriers do not need to compete with the enemy face to face. All they have to do is release their own carrier-based aircraft.
Chapter completed!