Chapter 81: Chapter 81: The Strength of the Wolf Father’s Wolf Pack.
Wolf Father’s territory had expanded to nine hundred square kilometers.
That was not a small area.
The variety of prey in this region was also plentiful,
as long as Wolf Father was strong enough,
then without impacting the ecological balance,
this area could supply enough prey to sustain forty to fifty wolves of the Wolf Clan.
Moreover, Wolf Father had once again expanded the clan by six wolves.
The entire Wolf Pack had now reached sixteen wolves.
Arriving at the cave,
he first greeted Wolf Mother affectionately for a while,
then Su Lin noticed that the Wolf Pack was well-managed under Wolf Father’s leadership.
Sixteen wolves of the Wolf Clan, aside from Wolf Father and Wolf Mother,
included six Level 5 wolves and one Level 6 male wolf.
However, this Level 6 wolf’s strength was merely at the threshold of Level 6,
incomparable to Wolf Father’s strength back then.
And even more so when compared to the current Wolf Father.
At present,
within the Wolf Pack, Wolf Father had promoted two more Beta Wolves, in addition to the original two.
There were now four Beta Wolves.
Four Beta Wolves, along with ten Hai Wolves.
That was the current strength of the entire Wolf Pack.
Once mobilized,
they possessed significant might.
With such strength from the Wolf Pack,
and with Wolf Father leading them, it seemed unlikely any Hunter would dare to provoke them,
thus making them the undisputed lords of this hundred-mile radius.
Even the Variant Species Lynx would have to weigh the pros and cons before causing any trouble.
After all, the collective fighting power of the Wolf Pack was far greater than that of an individual.
Moreover, when facing a great enemy, the Wolf Pack was also willing to fight to the death.
Even if injured, they could still rely on the rest of the pack to hunt and obtain food.
But for solitary animals like Lynxes,
unless it was a matter of life and death, they would not choose to fight to the death.
Because injury could lead to an even worse fate.
However, Su Lin still communicated with Wolf Father,
indicating that they should be cautious with further territorial expansion.
If they encountered danger they couldn’t handle, they should contact him.
Wolf Father, having already witnessed his child’s strength, readily agreed with low howls.
Next,
Wolf Father invited Su Lin to eat,
and Wolf Mother brought out the best Reindeer Meat,
nudging it with her nose, pushing it in front of Su Lin for him to eat.
The Evolution Points from this meat had already been reduced to the minimum.
In fact, Su Lin didn’t have much appetite,
but seeing the look in Wolf Dad and Wolf Mom’s eyes, he still took a few bites.
This made Wolf Mother affectionately lick Su Lin’s fur.
Su Lin’s visit this time was just on the way and meant to check on Wolf Dad and Wolf Mom.
Therefore, he did not plan to stay long,
after being affectionate with Wolf Mother for a while, he howled softly to say goodbye.
On the way back to the cave,
the sky had darkened,
but as Su Lin was traveling, he suddenly heard an argument.
The Wolf Clan’s hearing, sense of smell, and vision were all very sharp.
So even though the noise was far away,
he heard it very clearly.
“Hmm? Human voices?”
A glint of light flashed in his wolf eyes,
Then,
Su Lin quickly arrived at a snowy slope,
hiding his wolf body behind a pile of snow and ice.
From his vantage point, he looked towards the source of the voices.
He saw three modified off-road vehicles stopped in the icy snowscape of the Arctic.
Someone was controlling a small drone, buzzing around in the air.
Four or five people who had gotten out of the off-road vehicles all carried rifles in their hands.
Seeing the rifle,
a glint of ferocity flashed across Su Lin’s eyes.
Poachers!
Not long after he had first arrived,
he had discovered poachers in this region, though at that time they had been hunting reindeer.
And they had been using shotguns.
But this time it was rifles,
and there were quite a few people.
“Hmm? Such a big show of force? Are they preparing to capture a Polar Bear alive?”
Su Lin couldn’t help but be a bit curious.
However, his hearing was currently extremely sharp,
and even from a great distance, he could clearly hear the conversation of these people.
“Damn! It’s just an ordinary lynx looking for food! Hurry up and turn off the safety on the rifles! Firing might very well attract the Arctic Guard!”
Now, Slonka, who had got off the off-road vehicle, was scolding his subordinates.
“Slonka, it’s not my fault, you know how ferocious that lynx was. On the first day we tracked it, didn’t it escape from us?
Even two brothers got their throats bitten through by the lynx, and now we already have dead men!
How can I not be afraid? I knew this eighty million ruble reward wouldn’t be easy to get!”
The subordinate who was being scolded was angrily defending himself in the icy wilderness.
The biting cold temperatures of the Arctic, despite him wearing a very thick protective suit, still had him shivering.
Seeing this, Slonka stopped his scolding.
After all, he had thought it would be an easy job,
but only after arriving in the Arctic did he realize it was not as he had imagined.
The Arctic was too cold,
and at night, temperatures could easily drop to minus thirty or forty degrees,
With such temperatures,
they felt bone-chillingly cold even inside their modified off-road vehicle.
Even holding a gun had become a stiff and laborious task.
Besides,
what was even more terrifying was that lynx, which was completely beyond their comprehension.
It had the speed of a cheetah, and its attacks were horrifying, incredibly cunning.
On the first day they arrived,
they had found the lynx’s hiding spot with a drone,
but from two to three kilometers away, it had sensed them,
and in an ambush, it had killed two of their teammates.
The lynx’s speed was too terrifying,
launching an attack from thirty to forty meters away, it was on them in the blink of an eye, giving no time to react!
Moreover, the lynx would cleverly use teammates as shields,
preventing them from daring to shoot out of fear of injuring their own men.
“Damn!”
Slonka, too, vented his anger with a kick against the off-road vehicle’s tire,
and then he turned to Frans’ assistant inside the vehicle, who was operating the drone equipment,
his tone not kind: “Can you track down that lynx or not? Can’t you use satellite detection instead of these outdated drones?”
Frans’ assistant just glanced at the raging Slonka and didn’t provoke him further.
After all, in the icy wilderness of the Arctic, angering Slonka had no benefits for him and Frans.
He just sighed and said, “Sorry, the ice age is coming, and various abnormal natural phenomena are frequent, which is causing signal disruptions in the Arctic,
Not only are satellites ineffective, but even your communication equipment has no signal if you check it.”
“Damn! So now we can’t find the lynx, we’re freezing to death here, and we’re running out of food; this isn’t sustainable!”
Although Slonka was furious, he was still aware of his team’s current predicament.
If they continued to linger in the Arctic, it was likely that before they even caught the lynx,
members of his team would fall due to food shortages and the bitter cold temperatures.
But just as Slonka finished speaking,
Frans interjected: “We can go back, but forget about the payment.”
After a long stare, Slonka, who was concerned about the money,
still didn’t offend his financier.
He simply clenched his teeth and said, “Fine, we’ll search for two more days, if we can’t find it, we must go back! We’re running out of food!”
At this moment, Frans’ assistant said, “This area is very active with wolf packs; it shouldn’t be here. Let’s head toward the ice layers,
even though it’s marked as bear territory, I believe that lynx has the strength to stand up to bears, and it might just be hiding in that area!”
A look of agreement appeared on Skaf’s face,
having had an intimate experience with the lynx’s strength.
So he nodded and said, “Good! Let’s head in that direction!”