29: Chapter 29 Crisis! What will you use to protect her?

Zhao Lei! You're fucking looking for death!!!

Qin Yu's roar, like a rolling thunderclap, tore through the chaotic battlefield!

The boundless killing intent contained within that voice even caused a monster that had just scaled the wall nearby to stiffen momentarily, only to be instantly impaled into a sieve by several spears!

The entire battlefield—the clamor of shouts and battle cries, the roars of monsters, the sounds of weapons piercing flesh—experienced an eerie, brief pause.

Everyone's gaze was drawn by that furious roar, instinctively looking in the direction Qin Yu was staring.

Then, they saw a sight that chilled their very souls!

The west side!

That narrowest passageway, which should have been guarded by Zhao Lei and her group, now lay wide open!

A few discarded spears lay lonely on the ground, next to which was even a flattened water skin, its contents seeping into the mud, silently speaking of the cowardice and betrayal of those who were supposed to guard it!

Several giant wolves, each over two meters long, agile as the wind, their eyes gleaming with a faint green light, were silently filing in through that breach!

Their bodies were pressed low to the ground, their paws making almost no sound as they landed, like a group of phantoms from hell.

Dire Wolves!

A top-tier predator even more cunning and skilled at teamwork than the Saber-toothed Tiger!

Unlike other beasts, they were not drawn to the bloody melee of the main battlefield, nor were they intoxicated by the overwhelming scent of blood.

Their objective, from the very beginning, was crystal clear!

They bypassed the fiercest fighting on the front lines, like several gray phantoms, darting at high speed through the shadows at the camp's edge, deftly avoiding one monster corpse after another.

Their target was straight toward the rear!

There lay the heart of the entire Tribe—the totem pillar!

And there too was the Life Priest, Lin Waner, who had just cast the Group Healing Spell and was now sitting cross-legged on the ground, her face pale, her mental strength severely depleted!

And beside Lin Waner was the still deeply unconscious Holy Priestess, Su Qingyao, whose body exuded a pure, enticing energy aura that drove beasts wild with desire!

That aura, for these energy-sensitive, demonized creatures, was like the brightest beacon in the darkest night—an irresistible temptation!

"No!"

A girl closest to them finally reacted, letting out a terrified scream.

She wanted to rush over and block their path, but in her earlier fight with a shelled mantis, a deep, bone-revealing gash had been sliced into her thigh. Although it had stopped bleeding under the effects of the Group Healing Spell, every movement tugged at the wound with excruciating pain, severely limiting her mobility!

She could only watch helplessly as those Dire Wolves drew closer and closer to the two defenseless treasures of the Tribe!

Fifty meters!

Forty meters!

Thirty meters!

The Dire Wolves were too fast!

Their forms cast long shadows in the firelight, crossing half the camp in just a few breaths!

So fast that Chen Xiao, having just cleaved a shelled mantis's head and half its body in two, turned her head to see the lead Dire Wolf had already cleared the final obstacle. Its powerful hind legs launched it into a high leap!

Its sharp claws glinted with a cold light under the firelight!

Its foul, drooling maw was aimed directly at Su Qingyao's utterly defenseless, swan-like, pale, and fragile neck!

It's over!

The hearts of all who witnessed this scene felt as if gripped by an invisible hand, plummeting to the depths!

Too far!

Too fast!

Was the hope they had bought with their lives about to be extinguished like this?

No one could save her now!

Chen Xiao's eyes nearly burst from their sockets. She wanted to hurl her spear, but her hand reached back and grasped only air! Her spear, along with the shelled mantis's corpse, had already rolled outside the wall!

She wanted to charge over, but dozens of meters separated them, filled with countless monsters locked in combat and stunned companions frozen in horror!

People and people, monsters and monsters, were piled together. There was simply no path!

"No—!!!"

Chen Xiao let out a despairing, hoarse roar, her voice tinged with the taste of blood!

Lin Waner also sensed the crisis. She forcibly interrupted her recovery; the intense mental pain made her vision go dark, nearly causing her to faint again.

She struggled to rise, wanting to use her frail body to block the way.

But having just cast the Group Healing Spell, she had exhausted her last ounce of strength. Her overextended body refused to obey; she couldn't even stand up!

She could only extend a weak, trembling hand, watching in despair as that ferocious Dire Wolf loomed larger and larger in her pupils!

The shadow of death descended upon everyone with unprecedented intensity.

Could it be that everything they had fought so desperately to protect was about to be shattered here and now, in the most humiliating way, all because of one traitor's selfishness?

At this critical juncture!

At the very moment the lead Dire Wolf's fangs were about to touch Su Qingyao's delicate, flawless skin!

"Beast, you dare?"

An icy voice, devoid of any emotion, seemed to resonate directly within the depths of everyone's soul.

Immediately after!

A sound that tore through the air, sharp to the extreme, suddenly came from the other end of the battlefield!

*Whoosh—!!!*

That sound even drowned out all the roars and bellows on the battlefield, piercing eardrums painfully!

The Dire Wolf, mid-leap, had all its fur stand on end!

A sense of lethal crisis, originating from the depths of its soul, a thousand times more terrifying than facing a Titan Python, instantly seized its heart! Causing its movement to stiffen for a mere fraction of a second in mid-air!

Its cunning beastly eyes instinctively flicked toward the direction of the sound.

Then, it saw.

Fifty meters away, the man bathed in blood, looking like a demon god, had just retracted his throwing arm. The bulging muscle lines on his arm looked as if cast from steel.

At his feet, a three-meter-long hardwood spear, originally deeply embedded in the ground to reinforce the wall, was now gone.

Only a bowl-sized, deep hole remained.

And that spear... where was it now?

This was the last thought this Dire Wolf would ever have in this world.

The next second.

*Thud!*

Its entire world was utterly and completely pierced by an indescribable, destructive force!