Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lin Ming followed the sound to a bush that had been slightly pressed down and saw seven gray, furry animals.
They had soft, delicate grayish-black fur. Sharp, little ears stood upright obstinately from their round and white triangular-shaped heads.
Seeing Lin Ming approaching, the seven little fellows turned their sad hows into low growls as a warning.
Seven pairs of sharp, golden eyes were filled with spirit. They looked unusually intelligent.
However, they looked like they were slightly weak.
“Young wolf pups?”
They looked like puppies, but dogs did not have such sharp and vicious looks in their eyes.
Lin Ming looked around him and noticed that was no mother wolf nearby, not to mention any signs of a wolf pack.
How did these seven little fellows end up here?
The Adorable Little Snake flicked its tongue lazily and look at them in curiosity and interest.
Before Lin Ming could figure out what to do next, the seven wolf pups suddenly howled together.
They made their way to Lin Ming in tiny steps and laid down with their clean, white tummies displayed. Their little heads nuzzled at Lin Ming’s bamboo roots.
“Does…this mean they’ve yielded to me?”
Lin Ming was just deciding if he wanted to use the Razor Leaf to end them or convince them to yield to him when they took it upon themselves to surrender.
In the eyes of the wolf pups, Lin Ming was considered very powerful because of the spiritual aura emanating from him.
Under these circumstances when the mother was missing, it was an animal’s instinct to surrender and depend on Lin Ming, a powerhouse.
When the Adorable Little Snake saw all seven of the wolf pups playing happily beneath Lin Ming, it slithered down from the bamboo branch in an attempt to join them. Before it could get near them, the wolf pups snarled, showing their little fangs while lunging at it together!
Lin Ming immediately pressed down to stop the wolf pups with his bamboo branches and his Razor Leaf fell at the same time, shooting at a giant tree in front!
Boom!!
The was a loud explosion and a giant tree fell booming to the ground!
The wolf pups shuddered as they stared at the fallen tree. They turned to look at the Adorable Little Snake, who was looking at them with curiosity, and understood that it was also a dependent of their master.
The wolf pups’ tails drooped, as they howled softly as if asking for forgiveness.
Lin Ming let go of his bamboo branches.
He had managed to get the wolf pups to understand the fact that Adorable Little Snake was just like them, and was his dependent.
“Howl howl!” Two of the wolf pups reached out their furry front paw and gently touched the Adorable Little Snake’s tail, which was so much smaller than they were. They glanced at Lin Ming with a shudder.
The Adorable Little Snake was excited as it quickly joined in the fun with the wolf pups.
Wolf.
They could grow up to fifty kilograms in weight, and 1.3 meters in length; their biting capacity could go up to 360 pounds [TN: Possible typo by author, meaning to write ‘lbs’ (pounds) and not ‘ibs’], which was equivalent to 170 kilograms; speed-wise, they could run as fast as 60 kilometers per hour!
Even though their overall abilities were quite balanced and could not compare to tigers and panthers, but as social animals that move together in packs, wolves wield more power!
Now that animals and plants were mutating, would these wolves grow to have more powerful attacks, quicker speeds, and become vicious hunters if he brought up all seven of these fellows?
When that time comes, he could have a lot of help!
This was just a thought that he had.
It would take time to see if they possessed such potential in the future.
Although, what was funny about this was there were seven wolf pups altogether. Once they grew up, they would become “Septwolves”, or Wolves of Septenary. [TN: Septwolves is a fashion brand in China that is known as ‘Seven Wolves’ in Mandarin].
He was looking forward to it.
Lin Ming lifted his taproot and continued moving forward.
Giant trees were all around him and it was still quite far from the water source. It also seemed like there were not a lot of insects and beasts here.
It was not a great place to stay for long. There were no more gunshots, but Lin Ming still wanted to see and find out what had happened.
The wolf pups followed behind Lin Ming obediently. The Adorable Little Snake seemed to have found himself a new playmate as it laid on one of the slightly taller wolf pups, observing its surroundings.
Growl…
Lin Ming stopped and looked at the wolf pups who had also stopped. The growling sound was still going on.
Were they hungry?
Lin Ming realized he had forgotten something.
Without their mother, these wolf pups had looked a little out of sorts.
Well then…
He checked his surroundings. There were only some insects within fifty meters.
Lin Ming went into the bushes and released his Razor Leaf. Using his bamboo branches, he cut up some grasshoppers and threw them at the wolf pups.
The wolf pups ran toward it happily and sniffed the grasshoppers. They lifted their heads to whine but did not eat it.
Lin Ming laughed. So, they were picky about food.
However, he knew very well that these insects were not enough for a few wolf pups.
They continued moving forward for a while more when Lin Ming noticed that the wolf pups were falling behind him. They seemed like they could no longer move any more.
Lin Ming stopped and reached out a bamboo root toward them, indicating for them to climb up. However, the wolf pups looked at each other and did not seem to want to do so.
“Wow, you guys are quite principled.” Lin Ming was impressed. He looked at the Adorable Little Snake. Just take a look at them!
That said, they were affecting the speed of his journey.
He was about to pull them up with a bamboo branch when he suddenly heard some loud rustling. It was not long before a big, fat rabbit leaped out.
The rabbit’s size could no longer be described as normal. After all, a forest such as this would not have a rabbit the size of a middle-sized dog appearing, right?
Lin Ming was naturally much faster than the rabbit was.
His Razor Leaf flew out in a swoosh and following that, the sound of something falling to the ground was heard. The rabbit had been sliced into a few pieces.
[You have killed a grey rabbit, you receive 5 Evolution Points.]
Lin Ming was speechless at the System for announcing its presence at such a time. What was the point for him to accumulate so many Evolution Points, but could not use them to evolve anything?
[You can strengthen your bamboo branches!]
The System’s voice was heard once again. Lin Ming now did not have the time to watch the pack of wolf pups fighting over the rabbit’s carcass.
Lin Ming felt that strengthening his branches would be the most important matter for him to handle right now.
After all, his bamboo branches were not solid enough. Even though he could move them around with flexibility, they were quite brittle and too short.
Its Control Range was only a radius of approximately three meters.
This had also affected the Razor Leaf’s attack range.
“Let’s strengthen the bamboo branches!” Lin Ming gave a conscious instruction, and a surge of power suddenly flowed into his thin and weak bamboo branches.
A fine light flickered between a short bamboo branch and that bamboo branch suddenly extended close to two meters in lightning speed!
Numerous little branches followed as they grew quickly on the branch and out popped more tender bamboo leaves.
Lin Ming realized this strengthening had only required 20 Evolution Points!
He looked at the remaining 208 Evolution Points and Lin Ming suddenly felt he could now grow stronger.