dawn effect

Chapter 6 Xiang Shouchuan

This is a huge dire wolf, with exuberant male hormones, making its hair much longer and thicker than ordinary dire wolves.

But the gray hair on the abdomen and chest showed its age, and in the species of dire wolf, it had entered an old state.

The Dire Wolf King opened his mouth and stared at the opponent in front of him. His body was only supported by his left hind limb and forelimb, and his right hind limb stepped on the ground. A long knife wound.

He only hesitated a little while calling out to the wolves and changing his strategy, and he suffered such a bad result. The wolf king also knew how terrible this opponent was.

"It's over." Tangning softly said three words, and rushed towards the wolf king again.

The wolf king propped up his front body with his left leg, and stretched out his front paws to try to resist. With his big mouth full of sharp teeth, he bit down on Tangning's shoulder and neck.

The weakness brought about by not being able to pounce is fatal. Tangning rushed forward, letting the wolf king's claws rest on her shoulders, raised her left arm, and used her armor to block the wolf king's sharp teeth from biting her.

The long knife in the right hand pierced fiercely into the wolf king's unprotected abdomen, pierced the wolf king's heart, and cut off its spine.

The long blade protruded from the wolf king's back.

"Aww..." The Dire Wolf King uttered his last mournful roar in Tangning's ear.

It is notifying its own group to leave this place quickly and leave the powerful existence here.

This is the way the dire wolves live. Following this unwilling howl, the remaining wolves began to flee towards the jungle to the south like a frightened herd of big-horned deer.

The dense forest instantly became quiet.

The captain on the building continued to nervously search the side area with a sniper rifle.

On the deputy captain's tactical command board, there are two areas where small green dots are concentrated.

That was the remaining position of this small army.

Hundreds of meters away from the two green dots on the board, there is also an isolated small green dot, but it has no number.

A figure came to a small clearing in the forest, still holding the long knife as a primitive weapon in his hand, appeared in the captain's scope, and waved at him.

"Dadong! Go and meet him!"

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Seeing this strangely dressed young man covered in blood and deep eyes, the captain felt incredible at first.

The young man's clothes were ragged, and his body was covered with... It seemed to be made of some kind of reptile skin... Armor?
The claws, tendons, and fur of mutant creatures in the wilderness are also very useful materials. The wilderness hunters in the outskirts of the settlement are sometimes armed with armor, just like what young people do now.

But melee cold weapons... This is a bit beyond recognition.

"The people in the building on the left...because I want to switch to your friendly army identification channel and search for the wolf king, so...it's too late..." The young man seemed a little shy and annoyed in his soft voice.

Only then did the captain come to his senses, it was necessary for young people to do so.

After the identification, the automatic weapon will aim at its own body, and then it will actively stop firing to ensure the safety of comrades in arms.

Otherwise, in the chaotic night battle just now, according to the young man's style of play, the probability of dying in the hands of his own people is far greater than the probability of dying under the claws of the dire wolf.

He stretched out his palm to the young man: "Thanks to your help just now, otherwise the consequences tonight would be disastrous. Which peripheral wilderness hunter are you?"

The young man also reached out to shake hands with him: "I don't know where to start... I came from the south, Manzhou... Apart from those...strange things along the way, I finally met normal people..."

The tone was very calm, but the escaping words could not conceal the excitement in his heart at the moment.

"Aren't you a Revenant Hunter?" Xiang Shouchuan couldn't help but look cold: "Barbarian State? Returner?"

As soon as the three words were uttered, there was a small commotion on the entire floor.

"Returner... what is that? Revenant Hunter, what is it?" There was a hint of confusion in the young man's eyes.

"Your skill really shouldn't be that of a wild hunter." Xiang Shouchuan let go of his hand, took a step back, then solemnly stood at attention facing the young man, then raised his right hand to the edge of his helmet, and performed a standard military salute : "Xiang Shouchuan, Commander of the Third Company of the First Battalion of the Security and Investigation Brigade in the Shudu Inhabited Area! On behalf of my inhabited area, welcome back!"

The young man seemed a little at a loss, raised his hand, wondering if he should learn to return the salute to Shou Chuan: "This..."

Xiang Shouchuan didn't let go of his hand: "If you allow me, I will immediately report to the police headquarters and apply to bring you back to the inhabited area."

"I was here to find someone." The young man nodded, "It's great to see you."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Xiang Shouchuan reached out to his helmet: "Then we will start contacting the headquarters now, please agree to the exchange agreement."

The young man nodded, and soon a series of messages popped up on the screen of the goggles in front of the helmet.

After clicking agree, the system began to import the agreement. On the other side, Xiang Shouchuan first made a brief report to the communication room, and then proceeded layer by layer.

In Tangning's line of sight, the protocol update was completed quickly, and then the video conversion began, which finally turned into an empty room.

Sitting in the room was an old man with pale temples and wearing a military uniform, with three general stars on his epaulettes.

The old man had been signing the document, and only after the image stabilized did he raise his head, showing a calm and majestic Chinese face: "Shou Chuan is back?"

Xiang Shouchuan said excitedly: "The third company of the first battalion of the reconnaissance brigade, report to the commander! We just discovered a...returner!"

"Oh?" The veteran's keen eyes shifted to the young man under the two thick eyebrows: "What's your name?"

Tangning unconsciously imitated Xiang Shouchuan and kept her body straight, "My name is Tangning, and I'm from Manzhou!"

"Manzhou, 28 degrees north latitude." The veteran raised his eyebrows, as if slightly surprised.

"28 degrees [-] [-]," Tangning replied.

"Pretty good." The veteran changed the document on the desktop and picked up the pen again: "Welcome Tangning, I will come to Shuzhou with the guard tomorrow. We haven't seen a returnee for many years."

"Excuse me, what is a returnee?" Tangning asked this question for the second time.

The veteran said: "Specifically, let's talk about it in detail when we arrive at the base tomorrow."

After speaking, he said to Xiang Shouchuan: "Shouchuan, I will leave the job of escorting to you, and I will definitely bring you there."

"Yes! Guaranteed to complete the task!" Xiang Shouchuan stood at attention again.

The video was cut off, the front of the helmet became transparent again, and the communication channel was already boiling.

"Benefactor!" A voice rang out first: "Brother Tang! I am Li Yong from the third team. If it weren't for you just now, the three of us would have confessed like Lao Liu and the others from the second team!"

"Yes, yes, I am Zhang Chao from the third team! Thank you, Brother Tang!"

"I'm Li Jin! Did Brother Tang see me just now..."

Tangning reached out and pressed the communication button, then took off the helmet.

"Don't make noise! ​​Continue to be vigilant!" Xiang Shouchuan reprimanded, and then the other side became quiet.

The deputy captain came over with a glass of drink and said enthusiastically, "Come on, have a drink first."

The rest of Team [-] also gathered around, and Xiang Shouchuan introduced to Tangning, "This is Wei Dadong, my deputy for this mission."

After speaking, he introduced the other team members to Tangning, and then said to Tangning, "Our mission this time was to scout the possibility of going to Longzhou. As a result, the troops encountered a group of dire wolves [-] kilometers away from Longzhou."

"Two teams were sent to attract them before, but now it seems..."

After speaking, he shook his head, shook off the heaviness in his heart, and took a deep breath: "If you hadn't found out where the wolf is hiding, I'm afraid it would be very troublesome tonight."

Tangning raised her hand and tapped her helmet, "My camp is in the south of the city. When I notice any movement here, I immediately search the communication channel before I dare to act."

Wei Dadong asked: "But our channel is encrypted..."

"Dadong." Xiang Shouchuan hurriedly stopped him.

Tangning took a sip of the drink in the cup, "Milk tea?"

"Uh...synthetic."

"It's still delicious." After evaluating the drink, Tangning said, "I found a Heping III server in the warehouse of Manzhou Panorama Company, so it's not difficult to decrypt the channel, but it takes a while, so I couldn't rescue it in time. The one in the east building... the second team..."

Xiang Shouchuan sighed and patted Tangning on the shoulder, "In this day and age, it's easy to lose a life, but not easy to save a life. To deal with a pack of dire wolves, you have to deal with the leader. We all understand that."

He shook everyone with his finger: "We are the Death Squad, and we have made full mental preparations before we came out."

The surrounding soldiers all nodded.

Wei Dadong asked Tangning, "You really came from Manzhou? This journey is dangerous, right?"

"It's true... I encountered a lot of dangers." Holding the cup, Tangning's eyes showed a look of panic, "Fortunately, I have been preparing for this trip for four years."

Xiang Shouchuan was a little excited: "I really didn't expect that there are human settlements in the south of 29 degrees north latitude! Are you sent by the Manzhou settlement to contact us?"

"There are no residential areas." Tangning held the cup and looked out the window of the building quietly, "Actually... I have always been alone."

Xiang Shouchuan and Wei Dadong glanced at each other, and they both saw the incredible expression on each other's face.

"Something strange happened to me..." Tangning took another sip of milk tea, seeming to be talking to herself, "It seems like I slept for a long time, and when I woke up...everything changed..."

Although it was the first time for everyone to see the real returnees, the team members had heard a lot about their legends.

I also know that some weird things have happened to them more or less.

Xiang Shouchuan didn't know how to comfort Tangning. Ever since the four-year catastrophe broke out in Datong, everyone's surroundings...hasn't everything changed?

Everyone fell into silence, and after a while, a voice asked in a low voice, "Then how did you survive alone...?"

(End of this chapter)