What was going on?

Everyone didn’t understand.

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

“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!

These guards weren’t inexperienced—they had seen scenes of killing—but hearing Muruo describe it this way, they still couldn’t help but feel their stomachs churn.

They could almost imagine that scene!

Tang Si hurriedly said, “Then hurry up and come with me! Rescue both the people and the snow wolves. If you keep dawdling, they’re going to kill people.”

The situation was urgent!

But they couldn’t rush forward recklessly. Jingrong considered, “We still don’t know clearly what the situation is right now. We can’t go directly—we must investigate the situation first.”

“What time is it, and you’re still thinking about these things? Anyway, rescuing the people first is the most important thing.” Tang Si said, “If you won’t go, then I’ll go by myself.”

She turned to leave immediately!

Muruo grabbed her. “Can you crazy girl be quiet for a bit? If it wasn’t for me just now, you’d already be dead.”

Thinking about it, she restrained her excited emotions.

“Then what do we do now?”

Jingrong said, “We definitely need to rescue the people, and the snow wolves too.” As he spoke, he ordered Lang Bo, “You take people along with Muruo and Miss Tang. If possible, rescue them immediately.”

Lang Bo: “Yes.”

Ji Yinshu was worried and said to him, “You should go with them too.”

“This prince will stay to look after you.”

“I’m fine. This place is near the official road—nothing will happen.”

Jingrong thought about it and instructed several guards, “You all take good care of Master Ji. Don’t let anything happen to him.”

“Your Highness, rest assured. We’ll take good care of His Highness.”

The group hurried off.

By the time they reached the stream, that group had already slaughtered five snow wolves and were dividing them up to eat.

The remaining snow wolves locked in the cage kept howling at them continuously. At the same time, the people bound together were also crying out.

The sounds mingled together, extremely miserable.

Jingrong and the others hid in the darkness, still assessing the situation.

“Looking at their clothing and build, they shouldn’t be Dalin people.” Jingrong observed for a while longer and said to Muruo, “Also, look—the curved blades they’re holding aren’t from the Central Plains either. See that?”

“I’m not blind. I can see.”

Pfft—

Jingrong didn’t want to argue with him now.

Muruo nudged him. “Well, say something. What do we do now? Do we just charge in and kill them? Or observe a bit more?”

“Observe a bit more.”

Tang Si grew anxious. “Observe what? If you ask me, we should just charge straight in and kill them all, leaving none alive, to avenge those snow wolves.”

She gritted her teeth!

But Muruo shot back at her, “Brainless.”

“You’re the brainless one.”

Jingrong glanced at both of them. “Can you two be quiet?”

Both fell silent.

Uh!

He didn’t have time to think further when a harsh voice came from over there: “Keep making noise, and believe me, I’ll twist your heads off right now!”

The owners of those snow wolves weren’t afraid and continued shouting loudly, “You things worse than pigs and dogs! You might as well just kill us with one stroke and eat our flesh! Those snow wolves were raised by us from when they were young. Killing them is the same as taking our lives.”

Those people laughed coldly, tore off a whole piece of roasted snow wolf meat, and walked toward those people bound on the ground.

“We don’t eat human flesh—we only eat wolf meat. Since these wolves were raised by you, surely you can’t not even taste the wolves you raised yourselves?”

“What are you going to do?”

“What?” That person laughed loudly. “Of course, I’m going to have you taste whether this wolf meat is good or not.”

One of the slightly older men cursed harshly, “You beasts.”

Haha!

The more fiercely these wolf herders cursed, the more joyfully they laughed.

He ordered people, “Come, pry open their mouths and let them properly taste the roasted wolf meat.”

Several burly men shouted and went to grab the mouths of those four wolf herders.

The person holding the wolf meat walked forward with a bloodthirsty expression on his face, tore off another piece of meat from his hand, and forcefully stuffed it into those people’s mouths.

Mmph—

Their mouths were stuffed full of meat.

Tang Si couldn’t hold back any longer. Gripping her whip, she glanced at the people around her. “It’s already come to this—what are you all still doing?”

Jingrong and the others still didn’t move.

So Tang Si charged out by herself.

Hearing the commotion from this direction, all the people by the stream looked over and saw Tang Si swinging the whip in her hand, lashing it hard across the body of the most muscular man.

The whip had considerable force!

The direction was also very accurate.

It struck directly on that person’s head.

But these people seemed indestructible. One lash of the whip had absolutely no effect at all.

That person shook his head as if nothing had happened.

And just as Tang Si was about to swing her second whip, it was grabbed firmly by that person.

Seeing this situation, Jingrong and the others had no choice but to emerge as well.

More than ten people charged out from the forest, each holding a sword in their hands.

Seeing this, those people quickly pulled out the torches they had piled up. The fire pile immediately collapsed, and sparks flew everywhere.

Some of them held torches while others took large blades and began hacking.

More than ten people against more than ten people!

Muruo was first to kick away the burly man Tang Si had struck earlier. Tang Si’s whip in her hand finally broke free from that person’s grip.

“Are you looking for death?” Muruo shouted at her harshly.

She was speechless, admitting that she had indeed been just a tiny bit impulsive earlier.

“I know, it won’t happen again.”

“There’ll be a next time?”

“No more.”

After saying this, she swung the whip in her hand and continued lashing it at those people.

The two groups fought one round!

Zero casualties.

No one gained the upper hand.

They separated and stopped on opposite sides.

“Who are you people?” asked the leader among those burly men.

Before Jingrong could speak, Tang Si said, “We should be the ones asking you. Why are you eating these snow wolves and capturing people?”

Haha!

They threw back their heads and laughed.

“Aren’t these wolves raised just to be eaten?”

The logic was sound.

“But these snow wolves aren’t yours at all, and your methods are too cruel.”

“We caught these snow wolves. We can eat them however we like. Where do you get off managing us?”

The people bound over there cried out, “These snow wolves were stolen by them. Please, we beg you, save our wolves.”

At this moment, those wolves locked in the cage were howling loudly.