Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 23 Wolf

0401 collapsed in the back seat like a deflated ball, staring blankly at the blood moon in the sky through the sunroof. Sun Hang took out his cell phone and opened the web browser.

It’s a pity that the Internet had not yet appeared more than 60 years ago, and even wireless communications were not yet popular. Otherwise, Sun Hang would like to try whether his mobile phone can capture the radio signals of that time.

He typed the words "blood moon" into the search bar of the browser, thought about it, and added the footnote "Class B No. 6 weird creature" at the end.

Sun Hang pressed the "Search" button. After a short delay, 160,000 search results popped up.

He thought about it and added a footnote, "September 4654, 9 in the lunar calendar" - in the blink of an eye, the search results went from 15 to just over .

These thirty-odd records are basically official records of the Xiazhou Federation. Many people who experienced the blood moon sixty-five years ago are no longer alive. At that time, information was blocked and there was no Internet. There were very few clues that could be preserved and searched by Sun Hang on the Internet.

However, among these thirty-odd records, there is not a single one related to Tianfu City.

Sun Hang sighed and could only change the search term to "Tianfu City, September 4654, 9 in the lunar calendar" and deleted everything related to the blood moon.

"Ok?"

Although the search results still had nothing to do with Blood Moon, one piece of information did catch Sun Hang's attention.

This is a scanned copy of a local chronicle, which records that between September 4654 and 9, 15 in the lunar calendar, 20 refugees who were displaced by strange creatures entered Shuzhou from the Yuanmou area.

In that era, Tianfu City was not called Tianfu City, but used the ancient name "Jinguan City". The huge basin with Jinguan City as the center was Shuzhou.

At that time, the boundary of the human activity area extended another four to five hundred kilometers to the southwest. Including Yuanmou City, the entire Yunnan-Yunnan Plateau was the first line of defense against the invasion of monsters.

Just when Sun Hang was about to continue searching along this clue to see if the appearance of these refugees had any connection with the blood moon, Yang Qi's voice suddenly rang out.

"We're being watched by something... I can feel it."

"What is that?" 0401 was so frightened that he sat up straight and grabbed the seat belt in front of him tightly.

"Just a beast." Wang Xiyi pulled the slide of the pistol and pushed the bullet in the magazine into the chamber.

This was an undeveloped countryside sixty-five years ago. There were no people and no roads. The off-road vehicle was driving on the rugged wasteland. Sun Hang looked out of the car window and saw a few scarlet lights flashing in the night and then immediately disappeared from his sight.

"It looks like a wild wolf." said Sun Hang.

"There haven't been any wild wolves near Tianfu City in many years. If it weren't for the strange creatures, this news would probably make the headlines of Tianfu Daily tomorrow." Yang Qi complained casually.

"Then can this wolf be killed? Will it violate the Wildlife Protection Act?" Sun Hang asked.

"When the blood moon appears, the Wildlife Protection Law will not take effect by default," said Yang Qi.

"That's good." "But try not to shoot if you can. I'm worried that it might alert something else." Yang Qi said, and stepped on the accelerator again. "I'll drive faster and see if I can get rid of these wolves."

"It's too late, we are surrounded." Wang Xiyi said lightly.

A dozen scarlet spots of light appeared right in front of the SUV... No, not just in front, but also on the left and right sides and behind. If one counts as one wolf for every two spots of light, there are at least nearly fifty wolves surrounding them.

"So many?" Yang Qi frowned slightly.

Fifty wolves, this number has exceeded the size of most wolf packs... Even in those places that are very suitable for wild wolves to survive, with sufficient food and few natural enemies, the largest wolf pack rarely exceeds thirty.

"Even sixty-five years ago, there weren't such a large wolf pack in the Shuzhou area, right?" Yang Qi asked doubtfully.

"No, they are not a pack of wolves, but many..." Wang Xiyi's nostrils twitched slightly, "I can smell that these beasts belong to several tribes, but driven by the blood moon, they gathered together..."

"Are these all the wolves in this area? Why don't they go find other groups?" 0401's face turned pale.

"Because there are two monster hunters in this car, it is only natural that they will receive special attention." Yang Qi tightly gripped the steering wheel with both hands and said in a deep voice, "Hold on tight, I will speed up and rush out... If they block the car, don't blame me for hitting them to death!"

The engine of the SUV began to emit a deafening roar, and the needle of the tachometer on the dashboard swung wildly to the right. At the same time, the bumps of the car body became more and more intense as the speed increased, giving people the feeling that they would fly out at any time - 0401's head had made "intimate contact" with the roof twice without warning.

The distance gradually shortened, and under the illumination of the car lights, Sun Hang finally saw the appearance of the wild wolves blocking his way.

Their bodies were a whole circle larger than the adult wild wolves that Sun Hang remembered - these wild wolves were generally more than two meters long. If they stood up, they could easily cling to the roof of an off-road vehicle.

"Are you sure that these wolves have just become more irritable and angry?" 0401's voice trembled slightly.

The eyes of these wolves released a captivating red light, just like the blood moon in the sky - the reason why the eyes of nocturnal animals can "glow" is because there is a special reflective layer at the bottom of their retinas, which can gather weak light in the environment and reflect it out in a concentrated manner, forming light spots like phosphorescence in the darkness.

This reflection effect is not obvious when there is sufficient light, but now, the bloody red light in the eyes of these wolves illuminated by the headlights seems to be able to penetrate the light of the headlights, which is extremely dazzling and eye-catching.

Faced with the SUV approaching, the wolves did not dodge but pounced directly! Their hundreds of pounds of bodies slammed heavily into the front windshield, denting the bulletproof glass that could block 7.62mm caliber bullets. Spider-web-like cracks extended from the impact point to the edge of the window.

Two wolves were knocked flying, but one of them hooked the luggage rack on the roof with its front paws, lay directly on the car window, and began to hit the window glass, which was on the verge of shattering, with its head.

"These beasts are strengthened by the blood moon." Yang Qi frowned, "This situation... rarely occurs."

Sun Hang noticed that the wild wolf's body was expanding wildly. The fur on its surface was torn by the rapidly growing muscles, and the bloody subcutaneous tissue was forcibly squeezed out from the torn holes, just like a tumor that was difficult to cover.

"Strengthen? This is a mutation, right?!" 0401 shouted incoherently, "This... This wolf has turned into a monster, right?!"

(End of this chapter)