Chapter 53
Chapter 53 – Wild Wolves
Translated by Sunyancai
A herd of giant-antlered deers was wandering along a stream, while some predator’s movements nearby was making them anxious.
About a few hundred meters away from the herd, Shao Xuan hid himself behind some dense branches as he stood on a tall tree. He looked in the deers’ direction through the leaves.
It was the fifth day since they came out for hunting, and since they had hunted enough game already around their first location, Mai planned to take the hunting group to head to the second location.
The second location was located at the other side of the basin, so they had to go through the basin and then climb over yet another mountain to reach it. With Shao Xuan and Mao tagging along with the hunting group, Mai did not intend to move straight through the basin. Instead, Mai told the group to march along the basin’s edge. The distance was longer this way, but it was not as dangerous as walking straight through.
During their journey, the group encountered a large herd of giant-antlered deers, with a pack of wolves following them. Mai commanded the others to hide themselves first and then asked Shao Xuan to observe the wolves in the forest. Shao Xuan kept a wolf himself, and Mai was worried that he hadn’t seen a real wolf in the wild. In fact, Caesar was not considered a real wolf in most of warriors’ eyes, so he would hate it if Shao Xuan’s impression of wolves was based on Caesar’s tame behaviour.
However, Mai and the others actually worried for nothing. Of course Shao Xuan knew what wolves were like in the wild, or else he wouldn’t be treating Caesar as a dog.
As they were running and jumping on the boughs, Shao Xuan looked back at the wolf pack that had started eating.
The strong leader howled and brutally bit the others that approached to the prey. It used that way to defend its dominant position in the pack. While the others that were not bitten by the leader yet, quickly nibbled on the giant-antlered deer, as if the prey would stand up and run away if they were to slow to eat.
Compared with that, what was Caesar doing now, as he was treated and kept like a dog since its childhood? Was he lazily gnawing on a bone while bathing in the sun?