Chapter 220: Kill the Wolf King
Chapter 220: Kill the Wolf King
The wolf king finally uttered a painful cry and had to loosen his mouth from biting the gray wild horse. However, his spine was broken and he had no ability to run.
The gray wild horse raised its hooves and stomped down again, stepping on the wolf king.
The wolf king screamed one after another, and the sound became lower and lower until there was no sound at all.
Chu Xiaomu looked at the wolf king's corpse lying on the ground, thinking that as a wolf king who commanded nearly a hundred wolves, he actually died miserably under the horses' hooves. This guy might be the only one in the world.
When the gray wild horse saw that the wolf king was dead, it suddenly stood up again and made a loud chirping sound. The sound echoed throughout the wilderness, desolate and long, as if declaring to the unknown place that it was still powerful enough to fight.
Seeing that the wound on the gray wild horse's right front leg bitten by the wolf king was bleeding continuously, Chu Xiaomu cut a long strip from his robe, jumped off the horse and bandaged the wound.
The gray and white wild horse nodded its head lightly to the ground, as if to express its gratitude.
Chu Xiaomu stroked the horse's back with his hand and said with a smile: "You saved my life, and I haven't thanked you yet, but you thanked me first."
The gray wild horse did not respond to his words and began to trot on the grassland. Chu Xiaomu ran to catch up and said, "We seem to have run dozens of miles. I'd like to trouble you to take me back."
However, the wild horse ignored him and continued to run slowly.
Chu Xiaomu thought, a wild horse is still a wild horse after all, although it has some intelligence, it still can't understand human language and talk to people. I have no choice but to urge it to take me back to Cuilai Lake to find Yingdan and the others.
He put the iron sword into the scabbard, grabbed the horse's mane at the base of its neck, and jumped lightly onto the horse's back.
I looked up at the sky and saw that the dawn had already broken. The weather in the early morning was cold and there was a layer of gray fog everywhere, hiding the mountains in the distance. There was no sun, moon, or stars at this time. It was impossible to identify the direction based on the sun, moon, and stars. I was lost. I had to find a general direction and walked back the way I came. I thought that when the sun came out at noon, I could find Cuilai Lake based on the sun's phase. Now I walked slowly to avoid making too many mistakes.
The gray and white wild horse started out by jogging, then it ran faster and faster, and finally it was running at the speed of lightning.
Chu Xiaomu could only feel the wind whistling in his ears. The cold wind made him unable to open his eyes. He wondered why the horse suddenly ran so fast. What if it was not in the direction of Cuilai Lake? He gently pulled the mane on the horse's neck, trying to slow it down.
However, the wild horse showed no intention of slowing down and continued to gallop.
Chu Xiaomu finally started to get anxious and pulled the mane hard.
The wild horse felt pain and suddenly stopped. Chu Xiaomu on the horse's back couldn't hold on and flew forward, falling to the ground with a thud, causing a sharp pain on his buttocks.
The wild horse lowered its head, breathing heavily through its nose, and seemed quite angry.
Chu Xiaomu got up from the ground groaning, and said, "Let's..." Before he could finish his words, the wild horse suddenly rushed over and knocked him over.
Chu Xiaomu was puzzled and stood up again. Before he could stand firm, the wild horse knocked him to the ground again, but did not attack further. Chu Xiaomu suddenly realized that the wild horse was angry because he had just pulled the mane on its back, so it had to fight back.
Chu Xiaomu slowly got up from the ground. Seeing that the wild horse was about to hit him again, he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Good horse, good horse, it's my fault. I apologize to you..."
The wild horse stopped attacking, but was still breathing heavily and staring at Chu Xiaomu, obviously still angry.
Chu Xiaomu said, "We can't run too fast. If we lose direction, we'll be in trouble." He thought to himself, how could I, Chu Xiaomu, talk seriously to a horse? If Zhang Hou, Zhou Weide and the others saw this, they would definitely laugh at me for days.
The wild horse raised its front hooves high, looked up and chirped a few times, as if to say, "I'm the boss here, you have to listen to me."
Chu Xiaomu naturally didn't know what these actions meant, and said: "My name is Chu Xiaomu. You saved me and our entire horse herding team. I would like to thank you here..." After saying that, he bowed deeply.
The wild horse tilted its head and exhaled heavily twice, looking quite disdainful.
Chu Xiaomu said: "But my brothers are still at Cuilai Lake. We came here to graze more than a hundred military horses and feed them well. But they were besieged by a pack of wolves last night. I don't know how many were injured or dead. I have to go back as soon as possible to check..." His anxiety was evident on his face.
The wild horse fell silent, as if he understood what he meant.
Chu Xiaomu bowed again and said, "We don't know where we are now, and I can't tell the directions. I have no choice but to ask you to take me back. Thank you... Thank you..." He wanted to say, "I will definitely repay your kindness," but when he thought that the horse in front of him was just a wild horse, he couldn't say such words.
The wild horse was silent for a while, then suddenly stood up, raised its neck and let out several long cries. The sound was loud and long, and could be heard from far away.
Chu Xiaomu didn't know what it meant, and he was very anxious. He tried to ride on the horse several times, but the wild horse always avoided him and didn't let him sit on it. Chu Xiaomu had no choice but to sit on the ground and worry.
After sitting for half an hour, there was a rumbling sound of thunder in the distance. Chu Xiaomu's heart moved, knowing that the wild horses had arrived. It turned out that the gray wild horse's long cry was to call the horses to come over.
Chu Xiaomu thought that when the wolf pack was scattered, he saw the military horses mixed into the herd of wild horses, and wondered if they followed along as well.
The herd of wild horses gradually approached and stopped more than ten feet in front of the gray-white wild horse and Chu Xiaomu. There were at least one or two thousand of them.
Chu Xiaomu saw people sitting on several horses. Upon closer inspection, he saw that it was Yingdan, Lin Zhen and others, so he hurried to meet them.
Yingdan and the others also dismounted to meet Chu Xiaomu. Chu Xiaomu was shocked to see that three people were missing and asked, "Where are Su Mishun, Zhou Weide, and Ling Weidou?"
Yingdan said: "Xiaomu, don't worry. The three of them were bitten by wild wolves, but their lives are not in danger for the time being..."
Zhou Weiyi rarely spoke, but at this moment he couldn't help but say, "My brother lost a lot of blood, and he couldn't stop it..."
When Chu Xiaomu saw the three men lying on the horses' backs, he felt relieved and hurriedly asked Zhang Hou and others to lead the horses they were riding out and carefully check the wounds of the three men.
Su Mishun and Ling Weidou were both slightly injured. Although they had bite wounds on their bodies, they stopped bleeding after being wrapped with cloth strips and their mental state was still good.
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