Tang Si was currently walking forward in a huff, holding a wooden branch in her hand. As she walked, she swung the branch vigorously, striking at things on the side.

She muttered angrily, “Damn Muruo, stinking Muruo! If this young lady didn’t like you, I’d definitely skin you alive! What’s wrong with me? Why do you despise me so much!”

Just thinking about it made her angry!

“You just wait. Sooner or later, I’ll make you kneel before this young lady, crying and begging me to have you. I refuse to believe I can’t handle even you…”

Before she could finish speaking, she suddenly stopped in her tracks, and her hand movements ceased as well. Her ear twitched as she leaned forward, as if she’d heard some sound.

She became alert!

She threw away the wooden branch in her hand and walked forward lightly on her toes.

There was a ball of firelight ahead. As she approached, the light grew brighter and the voices grew louder.

There were screams of agony, wolf howls, and human laughter.

Years of experience traveling through mountain forests told her this was definitely not a good thing!

She hid behind a large tree and looked toward the small stream. She was instantly stunned by what she saw.

Right by the stream, a very vigorous fire was burning. Around it gathered more than ten burly men wearing tiger-skin coats, each exposing half a shoulder, all covered in tattoos. One person had disheveled hair and a hulking build. Beside them was a large cage containing more than ten white snow wolves. The wolves howled frantically, ramming their bodies against the iron cage in front of them, causing themselves injuries all over. Their snow-white fur was covered in bloodstains.

“Let them go, please, I beg you…”

Four people bound with ropes on the ground desperately pleaded for mercy, their eyes full of tears.

But those men completely ignored them.

Some were excitedly adding firewood to the fire.

Some were fetching water by the river.

Others dragged wolves out of the cage, pulled out daggers, and stabbed them into the wolves’ bellies, slicing open their entire abdomens. Blood flowed profusely.

It was especially shocking to see!

Immediately after, they killed several more snow wolves in succession.

The wolf-killing men had both hands covered in fresh blood, laughing with genuine joy, even spreading their five fingers and putting them in their mouths, using their tongues to continuously lick the blood on them.

Such behavior was absolutely nauseating.

Tang Si covered her mouth, watching helplessly as those noble breed snow wolves were skinned alive. Their blood-streaked bodies were then skewered on wooden poles and placed over the fire to be roasted. When that scene fell into her eyes, she dry-heaved several times and nearly vomited.

As for those people who were tied up, they could only watch helplessly as the snow wolves they had raised were gutted alive and skinned.

They cried out in anguish, “Don’t kill them, please, I beg you. Spare my wolves. Whatever you want, I can give you. Please, I beg you…”

Their voices were hoarse with desperation!

But those nearly perverted people were unmoved. Instead, they opened their bloody mouths wide in laughter, revealing mouthfuls of blood-stained teeth.

It was bizarre and terrifying.

Tang Si had been born on the grasslands since childhood. She knew well the temperament of snow wolves—they were the most loyal breed. When she was young, she had also raised one. But one year when she took the snow wolf to the Tianshan Mountains, they encountered an avalanche. The snow wolf couldn’t escape and was buried alive.

Since then, she had never raised a wolf again.

Now seeing this scene, she was both angry and heartbroken. She bit her teeth, clenched her fists, and stomped her foot hard, stepping on a wooden branch beneath her.

“Crack!” went the sound!

Those people by the stream had very sensitive ears. Suddenly hearing the sound from this direction, they all became alert and looked this way. Fortunately, Tang Si was behind the large tree, and since there was no firelight on this side, it was pitch black. They could only see a faint, indistinct shadow and couldn’t make out clearly what it was.

Tang Si hid behind the tree, holding her breath. Though she was accustomed to being bold, she wasn’t brainless. Setting aside how skilled her martial arts were, just the fact that she was outnumbered meant she would suffer a loss.

Someone shouted, “Who’s there?”

No response!

“Go check it out.”

So several people picked up their large blades, grabbed torches, and approached this direction.

Tang Si’s chest rose and fell rapidly. She thought to herself that she definitely couldn’t escape now. At worst, she’d fight with everything she had—killing even one would count.

She reached toward her waist and grabbed her whip. Gritting her teeth and preparing to have a big fight, she had just revealed half her body from behind the tree when a hand covered her mouth from behind, then lightly leaped upward, jumping onto the tree.

Two figures were hidden by the leaves.

Tang Si was still struggling when a voice came to her ear: “If you don’t want to die, don’t move.”

It was Muruo!

She quickly quieted down, and Muruo also removed his hand from her mouth.

Turning her head, she saw Muruo’s face close at hand.

“How did you get here?” she asked in a soft voice.

Muruo didn’t respond to her, his expression tense as he watched below.

Those few men stood below, waving their torches around, but saw no one.

“No one!”

“Probably just the wind. Making a big fuss over nothing.”

“Who cares who it is—let’s eat wolf first!”

“Let’s go, let’s go. Hurry up and kill the wolves.”

The several men let down their guard and turned back.

In the tree, the two also breathed a sigh of relief.

Only then did Tang Si realize she was being held tightly from behind by him. That earlier feeling of anger and tension swept away, and she lowered her head, secretly smiling.

“Still smiling! Do you know how dangerous that was just now? If I hadn’t come, you would have become their extra meat dish.” Muruo scolded in a low voice.

She put away her smile and said aggrievedly, “I didn’t want to either!”

“Enough, let’s go back quickly.”

“Go back?” She turned her head and pointed with one finger toward the stream, saying angrily, “Those people are killing snow wolves. Didn’t you see? They’re absolutely perverted and cruel! If we just leave like this, what about those snow wolves? And what about the people they’ve tied up? Maybe as soon as we leave, they’ll kill those people too.”

“The two of us can’t do anything at all. If you want to save people, fine, but we also need to protect ourselves. If something happens to us, how can we save anyone? Let’s go back first and discuss with Jingrong about what to do.” Muruo said.

That was true—the two of them couldn’t do anything at all. Rushing forward like this would just be a dead end.

Muruo held her and lightly descended to the ground again, pulling her along as they left.

Returning to the camp, everyone was still chatting idly about something, talking and laughing.

Seeing the two rush back with poor expressions on their faces, everyone instantly became serious.

“What’s wrong?” Jingrong asked.

Tang Si panted, pointing in a direction, “Over there… over there are many people killing wolves, and they might kill people too. Quick, you all need to come with me quickly, or it’ll be too late.”

What was going on?

Everyone didn’t understand.

Jingrong cast his gaze toward Muruo. “What exactly happened?”

Muruo said calmly, “By the stream over there, there’s a group of people. By the looks of it, they should be people who live in the forest year-round. They’ve captured some people and also caught many snow wolves. They’re skinning them one by one and roasting them over the fire. As for the specific situation, it’s not very clear.”

How disgusting!