Chapter 470 - Loss
Evil Wolf looked at Magic Wolf and asked him to explain their predicament to Shen Yanxiao.
Magic Wolf took a deep breath before he asked, “Huo Xiao, do you remember when you asked our leader to find something for you, about two months ago?”
“Yes, I do,” Shen Yanxiao said.
“Our leader has been searching for that item. About half a month ago, he received a tip that the item was at the Graveyard of the Sun.”
Shen Yanxiao’s heart skipped a beat.
Magic Wolf continued with his explanation.
When he knew about the location of Skeleton Flower, Du Lang immediately started to collect more information about the Graveyard of the Sun. He had spent a week in preparation before he led the Cave Wolves Mercenary Group toward that place.
Everything went smoothly along the way. The Cave Wolves Mercenary Group’s members were not nervous about their mission. They were not on high alert since they knew that their target was a lesser-known plant.
Before they arrived at the Graveyard of the Sun, they reached a small village on their way there. At first, they did not overthink it. They rested for a night at the tavern in the village. However, when all the mercenaries were fast asleep, the nightmare had commenced.
The seemingly ordinary villagers went into a crazed state. They had swarmed into the mercenaries’ rooms and launched multiple wild attacks on the mercenaries.
It was in the wee hours of the night, and the attacks had startled Cave Wolves Mercenary Group from their dreams. Then they found themselves under attack by a group of crazy people.
The mercenaries were in a tight siege for quite some time.
It would not be as bad if those villagers were regular people. However, many of them seemed to have been born with immense strength. One punch and they could break an adult’s leg.
The massive crowd had many strong and crazy people, and they had managed to cause severe injuries to the members of the Cave Wolves Mercenary Group.
The Cave Wolves Mercenary Group had less than 100 members. However, the surprise raid had more than 1000 attackers. The group’s members were also in different rooms in groups of four. About a hundred people had stormed each of their individual rooms.
Two fits would not be enough to defeat four enemy hands. The Cave Wolves Mercenary Group had been caught off guard.
Almost all of the mercenaries were injured in the raid. Three of them would never step out from that insignificant small village again. In the end, Du Lang led the six wolves and broke out from the encirclement so that the Cave Wolves Mercenary Group could evacuate safely.
However, the incident had brought irreparable losses to the Cave Wolves Mercenary Group.
Several strong villagers had attacked Du Lang while they were making their escape, and he had been in a coma since.
Magic Wolf told the story in a quiet tone. Even though he sounded calm, that look in his eyes was a strong indication that he would not accept such a result.
Shen Yanxiao was shocked as well when she heard the story. The incident that happened to the Cave Wolf Mercenary Group was just far too bizarre. As Magic Wolf had said, they noticed nothing out of place when they entered the village in the day. The villagers were quite unsophisticated and hospitable. They did not detect a single hint of danger when they were there.
However, as night fell, the beautiful dreams turned into the prelude of a nightmare.
The villagers who had been smiling and greeting them in the day had suddenly wielded knives against them. Shen Yanxiao understood how stunned and confused the mercenaries must have been.
“Brother Magic Wolf, can you tell me more details about the attack? I have a feeling that something was not right.” Shen Yanxiao stroked her chin. Du Lang was a smart person. If the villagers pretended to be kind in the day, it would not have escaped Du Lang’s precise judgment.
However, Du Lang had noticed nothing, which was particularly unusual.