RWNEFE -Chapter 126 Another Battle with the Wolf Pack!

“Yuanxin, with your father in that state, everyone listens to your eldest sister now. There’s nothing we can do.” Madam Liu had just finished speaking when Shen Conglian shoved her.

Shen Conglian glared angrily at Madam Liu—don’t say things you shouldn’t!

Unwilling, Madam Liu shut her mouth and stepped aside.

Shen Yuanxin took in all their reactions, his gaze growing colder by the moment.

How could Eldest Sister treat them like this? If there were no Eldest Sister, would those people still listen to the Shen family?

In fact, this group would be the same with or without her!

“He left~” Madam Liu muttered softly as she watched Shen Yuanxin’s back.

“Hmph, he shouldn’t have come in the first place. The main branch causes the most trouble,” Madam Miao said unhappily.

Even Old Madam Shen couldn’t help cursing—Eldest Son was muddle-headed, and Yuanxin was just like him, not inheriting anything of her nature at all.

After night fell, wolf howls came frequently from afar, frightening Shen Congwen and his daughter in the pit into silence—they no longer dared curse loudly.

The horses, hearing the wolf howls, grew restless and uneasy.

It seemed this would be another sleepless night!

“Light the fires. Take turns resting!” Shen Lanxi ordered.

“Yes!” Wei Dongzhu replied.

After making the arrangements, he returned to Shen Lanxi’s side.

“You rest first. I’ll keep watch.”

Shen Lanxi nodded and entered the carriage.

In the blink of an eye, two hours passed. The moon was already high in the sky. After a long, drawn-out wolf howl, everything suddenly went quiet.

Everyone sensed that something was off. Those who had been resting were all woken up.

The sound of wind, the rustling of grass leaves, and the thumping of people’s hearts mixed together, making scalps tingle and nerves stretch taut.

Skree—

After Xiao Xue let out a piercing, resounding cry, it circled above them twice, then landed on the carriage where Shen Lanxi was. Its eagle eyes glinted with chilling amber light in the darkness.

Everyone who saw this was shaken.

Qiushuang and Chunxue stood to the left and right of the carriage, keeping a vigilant watch on the surroundings.

Wei Dongzhu shouted loudly, “Add more firewood! Light up all the wood piles from before!”

Earlier, he had ordered people to stack the gathered firewood in a circle. Once lit, they were enclosed within a ring of fire—flames as tall as a zhang, blazing into the sky and illuminating the grassland as bright as day!

With a long pole lifting the carriage curtain aside, Shen Lanxi—dressed in fitted battle attire—leapt down from the carriage.

Even they themselves didn’t realize it, but the moment they saw Shen Lanxi appear holding the long staff, they all let out a collective sigh of relief.

Shen Lanxi looked toward the northeast wind, her gaze instantly sharper than an eagle’s.

“They’re here!”

Wei Dongzhu roared, “Form up!”

Those who had previously followed his commands to slaughter sea bandits almost instinctively gathered together.

“Lesser Three-Talent Formation!”

The group that had just moments ago been like loose sand instantly condensed into a force not to be underestimated!

Shen Lanxi’s voice was icy. “Kill!”

The instant her voice fell, she shot forward like an arrow loosed at the sun, as if carrying the power to shatter heaven and earth—unstoppable, charging straight ahead!

With a single swing of the staff, a streak of crimson flashed through the firelight. A spray of blood mist shot into the air as she cut through the snowy haze, soaring past!

With a thunderous bang, the wolf’s body—severed at the waist—crashed to the ground.

The terrifying combat power stunned everyone.

Using only a staff to smash a ferocious wolf clean in two required not just immense strength, but also extremely profound inner power.

If it were merely brute force, the wolf would have been crushed into pulp on the ground—it would never have been cleaved cleanly in half like chopping melons and vegetables with a single staff.

A sudden flash of insight struck Wei Dongzhu. He finally understood where that lingering sense of incongruity came from.

Though she wielded a staff, she was clearly meant to use a blade!

If the long staff in her hands were replaced with a great saber, the power would be even more terrifying!

The wolf pack arrived in the blink of an eye. With Wei Dongzhu’s arrangements and Shen Lanxi’s fearsome strength, the convicts panicked only briefly before gripping their weapons tightly and joining the slaughter.

Amid the shouts and clamor of battle, two faint cries for help could also be heard.

“Save us, get us out…”

“Eldest Sister, I was wrong! I’ll never dare again—please, someone let me out!”

“Lanxi, Yuanjing, hurry and save me…”

Thump! A wolf fell into the pit near them.

The two no longer had the leisure to beg for help and instead screamed at the top of their lungs.

After confirming the number of wolves, Shen Lanxi immediately used a whistle to stop the people of Peach Blossom Valley from revealing themselves, and also to prevent the Ghost Valley hidden guards nearby from appearing.

Some people can only undergo transformation after being tempered by blazing fire!

Whether they emerge as butterflies from their cocoons or hide inside forever as worms—this journey was the chance she was giving them!

Bang! Shen Yuanjing struck a wolf’s head with his staff.

The members of his team attacked in coordination, aiming at the wolf’s waist, tail, and legs.

Wolves are like humans—once their legs are crippled, no matter how ferocious they are, they’re nothing but paper tigers.

The sounds of slaughter, shouting, and howling blended into one.

After killing the alpha wolf, Shen Lanxi stepped through the wolf blood and returned to the camp.

Two wolves were still howling in resistance, but the constables and convicts hacked at them wildly with blades and sticks.

The two wolves didn’t last long. After two mournful cries, they crashed to the ground!

The ground was littered with wolf corpses—twenty to thirty in total.

Some people were injured; some lay on the ground, unclear whether dead or alive. Fortunately, most were merely exhausted.

Someone finally couldn’t hold it in anymore and broke down, wailing loudly!

Zhang Niu and the women from Liu-Zhao Village moved through the crowd, checking injuries and tending to the wounded.

Everyone was in a sorry state, covered head to toe in blood—no one knew whether it was wolf blood or their own.

Shen Lanxi’s clothes and staff were also dripping with blood. Now was not the time to clean up!

After her subordinates finished reporting the casualties, Wei Dongzhu reported to Shen Lanxi, “Two dead, three severely wounded, five lightly wounded. Wolves killed: fifty-one!”

Thirty had been slain jointly by them; the rest had been killed by her alone!

Shen Lanxi said, “Go inform Liu Laohu.”

Deaths among convicts were handled by Liu Laohu.

“Yes!”

Even Song Niangzi, greedy for money as she was, didn’t dare set her sights on the wolf corpses this time.

Her husband had been injured while fighting the wolves, and her mother-in-law had twisted her leg while protecting the children as they fled.

Fortunately, all were light injuries—some rest would heal them.

The truly devastated ones were the families of the two men who had died—their pillars had fallen, and for them, the sky had collapsed.

Before long, Liu Yanhui came over to ask how the wolf corpses should be handled.

Shen Lanxi glanced at him. “Arrange it yourself.”

Liu Yanhui led the convicts to deal with the wolf carcasses. Their money had almost all been spent while on the boat. They would need money on the road to Dongchuan, and even more to settle down once they arrived—money was needed everywhere.

A good wolf pelt could sell for quite a bit of silver. Even scraps of wolf fur could fetch something. Selling them could at least buy a couple pairs of shoes and socks!

Shen Lanxi sat cross-legged with her eyes closed. Seeing this, no one else dared to rest.

Who said only one wave of wolves would come in a single night? What if there were more later?

The families of the dead and injured didn’t even dare cry aloud!

Second by second, time passed. In the blink of an eye, dawn arrived.

“Pack up. We move out!”

When everyone heard her say this, their tightly wound bodies finally relaxed!