Chapter 46: Individual Combat

  "What?" Rutuba's face turned iron-green as he stared at the deputy officer in front of him. In just a short hour, his side had lost over 10,000 men and horses. Rutuba watched as the soldiers continued to carry up the corpses, his heart bleeding incessantly.

  "Ruttle, I don't care what methods you use, just do your best to find these people for me and eliminate them." Ruttle's face was also iron-green at this moment, his eyes filled with raging fire as he roared.

  "Yes, General." Luteba nodded in response. The next moment, he turned to a werewolf leader beside him and said: "Wolf Five, I don't care what method you use, wipe out this small squad for me."

  "Yes, Captain." Wolf Five responded with a single word. The next moment, his figure was like a wild wolf on the prairie, quickly leaving the military camp.

  "Pursue, I like." Leng Xiao Yao saw the enemy soldiers chasing behind him, a cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and with a wave of his hand, more than 300 people around him plunged into the forest.

  After a chase, Wolf Five arrived at the outer edge of the forest with more than 5,000 people. With a big wave of his hand, the more than 5,000 people stopped in their tracks.

  In the pitch-black night, the gloomy forest was like a primordial giant beast, with its huge mouth open, waiting for prey to enter.

  "Pass down the order, every hundred men as a small team, search for me."

  "Yes, Captain." More than 5,000 people quickly divided into fifty small teams and carefully searched the forest.

  The massacre is quietly underway, with Leng Xiangyang leading over 300 people in small teams of 50, sneaking into the forest and secretly assassinating any lagging beastman soldiers.

  As soon as Wolf Five entered the forest, he had a bad premonition in his heart, but where this bad premonition came from, he couldn't say.

  Suddenly, a colorful flame burst into the sky above the forest. Wolf Five saw the flame and his expression changed slightly. He shouted to his subordinates who were following him: "Follow me quickly."

  A pack of werewolf troops searching around in the forest saw this flame and moved one after another, running towards the flame.

  Lang Wu raised his hand in a stopping gesture, his face pale as he stared at the scene before him. A pile of werewolf corpses had appeared in front of him, deliberately arranged to form two characters that read "Garbage" in the universal script of the Maya continent.

  "Damn it, don't let me catch you." Wolf Five cursed viciously.

  Several soldiers seemed to be displeased with the two words, and before their commander could speak, they voluntarily walked forward, wanting to move away the corpses of their comrades. For the beastmen, they would rather die in battle than suffer humiliation at the hands of humans.

  "Not right." Wolf Five suddenly felt a sense of unease. If all his subordinates had been killed in battle, how could there still be a distress signal fire? If no one had sent it out, then there was only one possibility - humans had set up an ambush here.

  "A trap?" The two words flashed through Wolf's mind, and suddenly he remembered the secret weapon used by humans a few days ago. His face changed instantly, and he shouted at his subordinates who were about to move the corpse: "Don't move!"

  Unfortunately, Wolf Five's shout was a step too late. When his voice fell, several soldiers were moving their companions by hand, standing stupidly on the spot, but when the bodies left the ground, a small pile of packages that would make Wolf Five unforgettable for life appeared on the ground.

  "Quick retreat." Wolf Five let out a loud roar, and before the sound had even faded away, his own figure was already the first to flash towards the rear, moving at an extremely fast speed.

  "Boom!!!" A deafening explosion erupted, and the werewolf soldiers who had not yet reacted were blown to pieces like balloons, spewing out a rain of blood and flesh into the air. After a moment, the air around the blast point was filled with the stench of blood.

  "Captain, isn't this a bit despicable?" A soldier asked in a low voice hundreds of meters away from the explosion point.

  Before the soldier could finish speaking, a veteran captain-level officer standing next to him slapped his subordinate's head and scolded with an expression of disappointment: "You little brat, what is despicable? On the battlefield, if you have this idea in your mind, then wait for death."

  "Yes, Captain." The soldier, rebuked by his captain, suddenly recalled the comrades who had fallen beside him in recent days and a hint of hatred flashed across his face.

  The old soldier of the captain saw that his subordinate understood him, and a hint of comfort appeared on his face. He immediately raised his hand to the subordinates behind him: "Get ready, it's our turn again."

  This situation is not only happening to this team of soldiers, but also in other teams, where similar situations are emerging. However, the words of advice from the team leaders are roughly the same, they all uphold the saying by Deng Xiaoping: "White cat or black cat, it doesn't matter what kind of cat, as long as it can catch mice, it's a good cat."

  It's really cool and unexpected that a casual remark I made would eventually become the motto for these soldiers' lives.

  "Xiaoyao, what's our next move?" Qin Hao asked excitedly, his face filled with anticipation. Not just him, but the fifty soldiers following behind him also looked expectant.

  Leng Xiao Yao's mouth curled up into a cold smile as he said, "Continue with the plan."

  "Yes." Qin Hao and others responded in unison, with only respect and trust visible on their faces.

  "Assemble." Wolf Five's face was ferocious, and at this moment, he hated Cold Skye and the others so much that he wanted to tear them into pieces. In less than two hours, more than 5,000 people he brought had been reduced to less than 2,000. If they continued to disperse, it would not take an hour for all his men to be defeated here. Under the pressure of the situation, Wolf Five could only choose to concentrate his forces and search.

  "Xiaoyao, the beastmen have gathered, what should we do?" The six teams led by Xiezuo all returned to Leng Xiaoyao's side, waiting for his next instruction.

  "We will suspend all actions, retreat, and recharge for the battle tomorrow." Leng Xiao stood up, took a deep breath, he also wanted to leave the remaining 2,000 enemy soldiers here, but currently with his mere 300 people going head-to-head with the 2,000, even if they won, how many of these 300 would be left? This kind of mutually destructive battle, Leng Xiao did not want to fight.

  Xing Zixue nodded slightly after hearing Leng Xiang's words, and then more than 300 people dispersed and entered the depths of the forest.

  He gazed indifferently at the retreating troops, a cold smile playing on his lips. With a flick of his wrist, a short and slender sword appeared in his hand, its blade glinting brightly under the moonlight as if awaiting the enemy's blood.

  Brush, in a flash of cold and carefree shadow disappeared into the forest.

  Leng Xiao Yao was confident that he could take down the remaining 2,000 wolfmen by himself, as long as he didn't encounter any high-level swordsmen.

  "Ahh" A lone beastman soldier felt his neck tighten, and just as he let out a nasal sound, he felt a chill on the back of his neck. The next moment, this beastman soldier clutched at his neck with both hands, his body slowly falling backwards, his eyes filled with an unwilling gaze.

  Leng Xiao Yao gazed calmly at the enemy lying on the ground, gradually losing his life. A cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and in the next moment, his figure disappeared into the forest again.

  One-man operation, haha, Leng Xiangyao was extremely confident in this aspect. Think back to the graduation assessment at Hunter School, where he single-handedly killed over 400 of the more than 600 elite students from all over the world, graduating with a record-breaking perfect score. This showed just how high Leng Xiangyao's ability in one-man operations was, not to mention the trash tactics in this space.

  Lang Wu saw that his subordinates were gradually decreasing, and he was also anxious. Several times, he deliberately let a few subordinates fall behind, with the intention of luring out Leng Xiao Yao. However, when he deliberately left behind the isolated subordinates and felt that something was amiss, he led the main force to surround them, only to see the corpses of his intentionally abandoned soldiers, with not a single person remaining.

  "Wooooo..." Wolf Five let out a wolf howl, the howl full of angry tones.

  On a towering tree five hundred meters away from the wolf, a pair of cold and unfeeling eyes were appreciating the howling Wolf Five.

  "Withdraw." Wolf Five's face turned iron-green, unwilling to issue the order to retreat. Wolf Five wasn't a fool; the enemy had killed the bait he had deliberately set right in front of him, showing just how confident they were. So far, all ten batches of subordinates he had sent out as bait had been wiped out, and yet he still hadn't discovered any signs of the enemy. If he didn't retreat now, he was afraid that everyone he had brought with him would end up dying here."

  "It's surprising that in this situation, he can still maintain such rationality. It seems that the beastmen are not as foolish a race as others have said." Coldly, Xiao Yao gazed at the departing figure of Wolf Five, thinking to himself.

  "13,700 souls' power, heh, today's harvest is quite substantial." A hint of a smile appeared at the corner of Leng Xiangyang's mouth. He discovered that tonight's sneak attack had allowed him to absorb over 10,000 souls' power, which had inflated his body to the point of slight discomfort. This was the reason he let Wolf Five and his men leave without killing them.

  "I must hurry to digest this spiritual power, in the final battle tomorrow, I hope to kill more enemies, so that those poor people can safely retreat to Huangshan City." Leng Xiao thought of this and suddenly disappeared like a ghost on top of the vast sky tree.

  Thank you to DaDa Ling Yu and Qing You 020 for the rewards! I hope everyone will support me, thank you. Since I have something to attend to in the afternoon, I'll post an update ahead of time, and another one will be updated around evening.