Urban Martial Saint Chapter 1480: Released Wolf Pack

Under the moonlit night grassland, Ye Qing walked alone, the surroundings appearing indescribably vast.

In such an environnt, if anyone were patrolling nearby, Ye Qing would have no chance of escape and would definitely be discovered. The saying 'the grass bows low, revealing the cattle and sheep' also depends on the season. In the winter grassland, where is there any talk of 'the grass bows low, revealing the cattle and sheep'? Except for so low grass and shrub patches, most of the grass had already withered yellow. Fortunately, there wasn't much snow around Hung City, so the grassland was only covered with a thin layer of snow. Therefore, Ye Qing didn't leave many footprints as he walked on it.

After walking along the road for about twenty minutes with no unexpected incidents, Ye Qing felt slightly reassured. However, just as he climbed over a small hill, his ears suddenly caught a low beastly howl. Ye Qing couldn't help but shiver at the mory of the taxi driver's ntion of grassland wolves, imdiately heightening his vigilance.

Initially, Ye Qing didn't pay much attention to what the taxi driver had said. After all, this place was so close to Hung City's urban area, even if wolves existed on the grassland, it was unlikely they would co here to forage. Wolves generally hunt far away from human habitation unless food becos scarce, pushing them closer to human activity zones. How could a large city like Hung have wolves nearby?

Yet, the beastly howl snapped Ye Qing back to reality. He imdiately leaned against a giant rock, turning his head warily in the direction from where the howl had co.

This small hill was quite an exception in the grassland, surrounded by nurous boulders, making it a good place for hiding. The howl ca from behind a giant rock to Ye Qing's left, but even after waiting for a while, nothing appeared. Instead, another low beastly howl was heard.

Upon hearing the second howl, Ye Qing listened carefully and realized that the reason for the low sound wasn't because the beast was hiding its presence but instead because it lacked the strength to produce a louder sound.

This situation reassured Ye Qing slightly. Since the beast lacked strength, it posed no real threat. He retrieved the Wu Hong Dagger from his body and cautiously made his way around the rock to see what was happening.

After passing by the rock, Ye Qing didn't see the beast but caught a scent of blood. The sll surprised him; could it be that soone was injured?

Ye Qing quickened his pace, making his way around two more boulders until he finally found the animal making the sound.

It was a wolf, a wounded wolf lying on the ground, unable even to open its eyes. The bloody scent ca from it because its abdon had a foot-long gash, with fresh blood dying the soil around it red. The reason for its low howl wasn't a lack of strength but because it was seriously injured, nearing death.

Seeing the wolf's injured state, Ye Qing beca less guarded but also had more questions in his mind.

On this grassland, wolves should be considered top predators. There weren't any animals that could harm a wolf typically. This severely injured wolf clearly wasn't attacked by other animals, aning it must have been wounded by humans. In other words, soone had passed through here before Ye Qing and injured this wild wolf.

Soone capable of injuring a wolf must be a Martial Artist; there was no doubt about this. Given Hung City's current situation, if a Martial Artist was indeed traveling through here, that would make sense. The matter of the Sun Shooting Bow was enough to attract most of the world's Martial Artists here.

However, what truly puzzled Ye Qing was the wolf's condition. Ye Qing wasn't very knowledgeable about animals, but having lived near the border for five years, he had encountered many jungle wolves. Therefore, he had so understanding of wolf species. Seeing this wolf, he could make so distinctions.

This wolf wasn't a grassland wolf as ntioned by the taxi driver because it was slightly larger, whereas grassland wolves aren't large. Furthermore, grassland wolves are rare, almost extinct, so there couldn't be so many living around Hung City. Judging from its size and fur color, this wolf likely ca from soplace else, probably a jungle wolf.

If this wolf was indeed a jungle wolf, then the issue erged. Jungle wolves' habitat range doesn't include the Mongolian Region Grassland. Additionally, wolf pack migrations only occur to environnts similar and close to their previous habitats. For a jungle wolf to migrate to the Mongolian grassland, it couldn't be a spontaneous act; it must involve human interference—soone introduced jungle wolves to the grassland.

Previously, Ye Qing wondered how a city like Hung could have wolf packs nearby. Now, seeing this jungle wolf, he finally understood the reason: it was all due to human actions, with soone purposely releasing this jungle wolf around Hung City. And being unafraid of humans, it's unsurprising jungle wolves would live sowhat close to human settlents!

But who exactly released these forest wolves around Hung City? You know, if the wolf pack is too close to human living environnts, it will inevitably affect human life. However, the people here in Hung City didn't drive these wolves away, so what is going on?

This was Ye Qing's first visit to Hung City, and also the first ti seeing the situation around the city. To be honest, just seeing this forest wolf filled his heart with doubt; his intuition told him there was definitely sothing wrong with this.

After a careful analysis, soone capable of releasing so many wolves around Hung City must have considerable wealth and power; otherwise, it couldn't be done. Moreover, Hung City is still the core location of the Seven Steering Committees of the Hong Alliance, and people who can release wolf packs here are very few. Ye Qing could basically conclude that these wolf packs were either released by the officials to protect the grasslands, or by the people of the Seven Rudders of Hong Alliance. Who else would dare to ss around on the land of the Seven Rudders of Hong Alliance?

However, if they were released by the officials to protect the grasslands, the wolf packs wouldn't be placed so close to the urban area. After all, it also causes a great impact on human life. It can be seen that these wolf packs were most likely released by the people of the Seven Rudders of Hong Alliance. But why on earth did the people of the Seven Rudders do this? What is the deeper aning behind releasing these wolf packs around the core force?

Could it be that the people of the Seven Rudders are planning to use these wolf packs to prevent outsiders from entering Hung City? How is that possible? Ordinary people entering the city would at least drive a car. Those who don't drive are at least Martial Artists. How could these wolves pose any threat to Martial Artists?

Ye Qing was full of doubts and couldn't co up with a reasonable explanation even after thinking for a long ti, so he simply stopped thinking about it. After all, he ca here this ti to find Huangfu Ziyu, not to probe into the secrets of the Seven Rudders of Hong Alliance.

Walking up to the forest wolf, Ye Qing bent down, wanting to see what kind of sharp weapon had injured the wolf. However, when he looked closely at the forest wolf's wound, Ye Qing's expression suddenly changed.

The forest wolf's wound had five marks; they looked very much like scratches made by a beast's sharp claws, definitely not from a sharp weapon!

This situation made Ye Qing even more puzzled. Could it be that this wolf was scratched by another beast, rather than being injured by a human? But how is that possible? There's no other beast on the grassland, and wolves rarely fight among themselves, so what animal scratched this wolf? Could it be that the people of Seven Rudders of Hong Alliance also released other beasts on the grassland? That shouldn't be the case, releasing other beasts would certainly impact the survival environnt here, and Seven Rudders wouldn't do such a thing, would they?

After carefully examining the condition of the forest wolf, just as Ye Qing suspected, there were other wounds on its body, all of which were claw marks from beasts.

Ye Qing stood by, pondering for a while, but still couldn't understand what was going on. However, in the end, he also gave up thinking further. Even if there really were so other large beasts, they posed little threat to Ye Qing. Last ti, when he entered Beimang Mountain, he even fought a tiger; what other beasts could be more formidable than a tiger?

The forest wolf was seriously injured. Before Ye Qing could clearly see all its wounds, its head drooped to the side, and it died. Ye Qing couldn't save it; he just sighed lightly and stood up to continue walking toward Dragon Burial Mountain. However, this ti Ye Qing was much more vigilant because he didn't know if there were any more powerful beasts on this grassland, and encountering one would be troubleso.

After passing this small hill, he didn't encounter any danger along the way. He did co across another wolf midway, but this wolf didn't co close to Ye Qing at all; it ran away from afar.

Ye Qing saw clearly that this wolf, like the previous one, was also a forest wolf, not a grassland wolf. This was proof that his inference was correct, and the wolf pack around Hung City was entirely artificially released, most likely by the Seven Rudders of Hong Alliance.

Since the wolf didn't attack Ye Qing, he didn't pay attention to it and continued heading in the direction of Dragon Burial Mountain. After walking about ten kiloters, Ye Qing arrived near a small mound. Here, there were stones or earth mounds everywhere, each about ten to twenty ters high. Looking ahead, there were almost a hundred of them, resembling a maze.

There aren't many high mountains on this grassland, mostly these stone mounds. Moreover, these stone mounds often appear in clusters; Ye Qing had been walking for a while and had gotten used to it.

However, as soon as Ye Qing stepped into the range of these stone mounds, he caught a faint scent of blood in the air.