Chapter Ninety-Nine: Encounter

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“Britt, Remington!” Qiufeng Yu shouted loudly toward Britt.

Britt instinctively looked toward Qiufeng Yu and saw his ******* being tossed toward him. Without hesitation, he threw his Remington shotgun back.

A dull “thud!” sounded as a wolf lunging at Qiufeng Yu was struck by an arrow from Mizokura Ryoko. The wolf staggered sideways a few steps before collapsing just three or four meters from Qiufeng Yu.

Qiufeng Yu raised his Remington 700, aimed at the wolf, and pulled the trigger.

A crisp shot rang out—no bullet. He cursed under his breath, “Damn it!” as the wolf leapt toward him. He slammed the rifle butt into the wolf, sending it sprawling, but immediately two more wolves charged from the front.

“Bullets!” he shouted to Britt.

“Shit—” Britt cursed, bashing the incoming wolves with his gun butt. Missing a beat, he fumbled in his pocket for bullets and shouted, “Cover me!”

At that moment, Mizokura Ryoko loosed another arrow, hitting a charging wolf mid-air, which then crashed against a tree with a loud “thud.”

Ryoko wanted to shoot the alpha wolf with her crossbow, but the distance was too great, and the wolf was cunning, refusing to approach and instead controlling the pack’s attack by its howls.

“Cover me! Reload!” Britt shouted desperately. He tried several times to pass bullets to Qiufeng Yu but kept getting interrupted by the damned wolves. Three bullets slipped from his hands to the ground.

Ryoko hurried over. The three of them formed a triangle, standing back-to-back to maximize mutual protection and coverage.

A swift arrow whizzed just past Britt’s eyebrow, making the hairs on his arm stand on end but hitting a charging wolf squarely, which dropped to the ground, howling in pain.

Britt pointed to the jacket pocket next to Qiufeng Yu’s. “Right here, you grab it yourself.”

Qiufeng Yu quickly pulled out the bullets, loaded one with lightning speed, and raised his rifle to aim. The window to attack was short—he had less than three seconds to aim and fire.

“God help me,” he muttered silently.

At that moment, Mizokura Ryoko shot another wolf charging at him. The alpha wolf was still howling, its neck thrown back, when Qiufeng Yu’s gun cracked.

The alpha wolf, confident it was at a safe distance to attack these three humans, did not realize the humans possessed such long-range weapons. Its fate was sealed.

“Bang!” The bullet erupted from the rifle.

It tore through the wolf’s raised neck, producing a faint ripping sound only the wolf could hear. It tried to howl but couldn’t anymore.

The bullet pierced its neck, unleashing a spray of blood.

The alpha wolf’s body, propelled by the bullet’s immense kinetic energy, slammed against a tree with a “thud” and lay motionless.

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