Chapter 1096: Thunder claps sings under my rhythm
Lang was already breathing heavily as she looked at the pack of coyotes. She did not know what the other party that was chasing after her did but after being attacked by a smoke bomb, Lang had been attracting a bunch of wild animals.
At first, it was wolves and then it was a pair of tigers, she had somehow managed to escape them with the person she was actually asked to save but now she was surrounded by a pack of coyotes.
If she was completely well she would have dealt with these things but the injuries on her arms and legs were too severe. Now even if she had the will to fight, she did not dare to fight, now all she could do was to try her best to keep the mer behind her protected. She had a sword in her hand as Lang stared at the coyotes with a fierce expression.
Since she stopped moving, the coyotes started to attack her one by one. The pack of coyotes was really good at fighting and with hunger and starvation due to the incoming drought, the coyotes were even more than willing to fight a long battle.
Lang knew that since the coyotes were hungry, it was impossible for her to escape but she could not allow the mer behind her to die!
The coyotes attacked Lang but they did not attack her at the same time, they attacked her one at a time to wear her down.
Yu Dong quickly dismounted from the horse and then slowly snuck behind the coyotes but even so her presence was detected by the coyotes. They turned to look at her with mean amber eyes that were glowing in the dark as they howled loudly causing the forest to be filled with their howls.
" So noisy!" Yu Dong sneered as she looked at the coyotes that were surrounding Lang and then charged towards them with a long sword in her hand which was surrounded with wire that looked like one of those fences that had electric current within them.
It was a special sword that Yu Dong bought in the apocalypse world but since it used a lot of spiritual energy to charge, she did not use it much and kept it in her space.
Given that the pack of coyotes was large she did not want to waste her time taking care of them one at a time and thus she decided to use this special sword.
The pack of wild coyotes did not expect that Yu Dong would charge towards them as they had only seen beings like her running away from them. But when they saw that Yu Dong was charging at them, they crouched down and charged back at her before the one in the lead jumped in the air and then pounced at Yu Dong.
With the long sword in her hand, Yu Dong waited for it to get charged before she swung it. No sooner did she wave the sword, the sky started to rumble and then ——
BOOM!
A thunderclap resounded in the forest and in a blink of an eye more than ten coyotes were on the ground while convulsing.
The thunderclap was artificial and something that was made through the core of two S-grade zombie cores that were found by Yu Dong. Though the thunder was not as deadly as the natural one, it was good enough to deal with this large pack of coyotes.
Yu Dong felt a wave of exhaustion wash over her as she finished using the sword.
The alpha of the coyotes realized that it was more difficult to deal with Yu Dong who just arrived, he glanced at Lang whose breathing was shallow and was about to vanish before turning to look at Yu Dong who was standing tall. The leader of the coyotes was smart, they had fought many battles and knew that Yu Dong was the one they needed to deal with.
Humans that smelled like blood could be killed but those who did not smell of blood would run away.
The leader of the coyotes was a wild animal that depended on his pack's hunt to eat. But now that the drought was here they could not hunt anymore, with half of the pack now they would not allow any prey to leave!
No matter what as long as it could be eaten, they would kill it and eat it.
The leader of the coyotes took the rest of the coyotes to attack Yu Dong. But as soon as they arrived in front of Yu Dong, the same thing happened all over again, Yu Dong extended the baton and summoned the thunder again. One after another coyotes fell on the ground, but even so, the coyotes did not retreat and continued to attack Yu Dong.
They kept pouncing on Yu Dong but ended up falling on the ground when it was only their leader left they could not help but panic.
The leader growled at Yu Dong, even after watching its pack fall, it did not back down and then attacked Yu Dong. However, the same thing happened to him, a bolt of thunder fell from the sky and then he too like others collapsed on the ground because he did not have any strength left.
" You all stay down, I am tired," Yu Dong told the coyotes as she released spiritual energy, sensing the spiritual energy the coyotes calmed a little but they did not stop growling as they were still hungry. They were not willing to die but what could they do when their opponent was this strong?
Yu Dong did not care about the coyotes she walked towards Lang who was still standing up straight with a sword in her hand.
" It's all right, you are safe," Yu Dong knew that at this moment, Lang was in a very bad place. She could smell the scent of a pollen that made wild animals crazy and though it was not strong with the senses of the wild animals they could easily trace this scent down.
Only Lang knew how much she wanted to hear these words, as soon as she heard Yu Dong say that she was safe, her expression turned pale and she collapsed no longer strenuously propping herself up.
She leaned against Yu Dong and whimpered, " Mistress! I… I thought I was going to die." These past few days Lang had been fighting bravely, but upon seeing Yu Dong whom she treated like a big sister, she could not help but sigh in relief, she thought that she was going to die tonight.
Yu Dong looked at Lang whose body was covered in bite marks of all shapes and sizes and frowned. Fortunately, Lang was still alive and she could be saved, she only collapsed because she was too tired and had lost too much blood.
She turned to look at the mer who was lying on the ground and knew that it must be Jiang Ye. He was the poison expert and medicine master that the second princess wanted, according to Magistrate Li, Jiang Ye was the only legitimate son of the Jiang family and thus he inherited the skills handed to him by his parents.
He was an expert poisoner and could help Xuan Zhenya a lot which was why he was locked up in the town next to the imperial city. It could be said that Lang must have used all her luck and skills to get this mer out of prison.
Yu Dong helped Lang on the side and then went forward to check Jiang Ye's condition, as soon as she touched his skin she found out that he was suffering from fever and his breathing was shallow as well, if she had come any later this man would have passed away.
Both of the people she saved were not in good condition, which made Yu Dong frown. She took out a bag of spiritual water and then placed it against Jiang Ye's lips before helping him drink the spiritual water. She also instilled some spiritual energy in Jiang Ye's body before she turned to do the same with Lang.
Once she was done with the two of them, she turned to look at the coyotes. They were still growling at her, seeing this she arched a brow and then said, " Do you know I can kill you if I want."
The coyotes have gained a sort of sentience after absorbing the spiritual energy they understood what Yu Dong said and stopped growling. They did not understand how it was possible but neither of them thought anything more.
Yu Dong looked at the coyotes and then she snapped her fingers before a bunch of dried branches along with flowers tied themselves around the necks of the coyotes.
She then said, " You all better to listen to me, if you don't want to die or else…." The second she spoke the small wooden collars squeezed the necks of the coyotes until they howled for their lives.