Chapter 353 Do You Think I Will Be Fooled?
As soon as the war cat appeared, Xueyi knew that he was in trouble.
It turned out that the blood power was being targeted.
As a former neighbor, Xueyi knew that the blood power had always been strong and acted without scruples.
It not only robbed the territories discovered or developed by other blood ancestors, but also sent blood beasts to intervene in the land area outside the blood lake, and privately executed some war cat soldiers who dared to approach the blood lake.
This time, the war cats seized the opportunity and took the opportunity to attack.
Xueyi took a look. The war cats this time dispatched experienced old cats, not the new recruits and auxiliary soldiers in the past. It looked like they were going to kill the blood power.
"Damn it! You dare to unite with the war cats to plot against me!" The blood power was wide-eyed and gnashed its teeth.
Xueyi did not argue and immediately led his men to evacuate the blood lake.
It wanted to leave, but the blood power could not spare anyone to stop it. With a big enemy at hand, it was important to protect the territory.
At this juncture, the nomadic and command experience accumulated by Xueyi in the past few years played a role. The younger brothers followed the order resolutely and responded quickly. They left the battlefield quickly and retreated to the hills behind.
Xueyi began to count the men.
Although the proactive attack caught the enemy off guard and caused heavy losses, many of his own men were killed. A total of 2 blood servants and 41 blood beasts were lost.
However, the enemy suffered a worse fate.
Xueyi looked down the mountain.
The war cats entered the field one after another.
Those old cats came out from under the soil, cracks in the rocks, and trees. They quickly changed their shape and walked upright, holding scimitars and short spears.
The new recruits in the rear held longbows, tightened the bone arrows on the bowstrings, and were ready to fight at any time.
The bloody forces, which had just been severely injured, gathered their men and horses. Facing the cats surrounding them from all directions, it did not feel timid at all.
Xue Shi called out, "Which legion are you from?"
An old cat with a scar on its nose laughed and said, "The Third Legion, the Fifth Battalion."
Xue Shi was silent for a moment: "This is the Second Legion's jurisdiction, why are there war cats from the Third Legion?"
"It's very simple."
The old cat said, "Because there was a problem within the Second Legion, so our Third Legion was ordered to come here to deal with some troubles in the jurisdiction and avoid them from getting into trouble."
Xue Shi said coldly, "Then there's nothing to talk about?"
"We are here only to perform the mission, and we don't know anything else."
The old cat smiled and said, "Please forgive me."
It waved its hand.
A whoosh whoosh sound of breaking through the air came from behind, and a rain of arrows covered the entire sky above the Blood Lake.
Xue Shi and his group also quickly dived into the Blood Lake.
Generally speaking, the cat tribe is strong on land, and once they come to the home of blood elements like the Blood Lake, if they dare to go into the water, they will face life and death threats at any time.
Xueyi was paying attention to the situation on the battlefield. He was sure that the War Cats must have come prepared and would never retreat so easily.
So, how would the War Cats attack?
The actions of the old cats next made Xueyi a little confused.
Under the command of the veterans, the War Cat recruits and auxiliary soldiers on the periphery began to move. They used ropes to lead a group of dark brown creatures that looked like bison.
This creature had a wide and wrinkled nose - or mouth, no eyes, and its whole body moved on the protruding feet under its belly.
How could blood-sucking worms grow so big?
Xueyi didn't understand, but was shocked.
He had been herding blood-sucking worms with his men for the past few years, and he knew about this creature.
The size of blood-sucking worms has a limit. Once their bodies are stretched tight, they will burrow into the muddy bottom of the blood pool and sleep until they are hungry after digestion.
The blood-sucking worms as big as bisons, or blood-sucking cows, were now sticking their big mouthparts into the blood lake, greedily sucking the blood elements in the lake.
In addition, the war cats also adopted an extreme method.
A large amount of livestock feces were dumped into the blood lake by the carts they pushed, making the entire blood lake surrounded and blended with filth, attracting a large number of mosquitoes and flies.
Xue Yi took a breath of cold air when he saw this scene. What a cruel cat!
The feces offensive was rapidly diluting and turbid the red lake. Due to instinctive reasons, both blood servants and blood beasts would clean the blood lake to ensure the purity of blood elements, so that the power of blood will could be fed back to each blood clan.
The war cats were not only polluting the blood lake, but also feeding the blood clan with shit!
Not only were the younger blood servants and blood beasts eating, but the blood power was inevitable as long as it was still in the lake...
Xue Yi thought hard, but could not find a solution.
Only by removing the polluters on land can the blood lake be prevented from being polluted.
From this perspective, nomads like me are not easily threatened. At most, we can settle in a small pond.
The blood force, which has been operating in the local area for many years, did not make such a choice. It finally couldn't stand the humiliation and slow death, and led the blood servants and blood beasts to launch a crazy counterattack, launching a tragic charge at the blood sucking insects and war cats on the shore.
The war cats seemed to have expected all this. The rain of arrows fell and quickly shot down the blood beasts. The old cats entered the battle and changed their forms. They held various weapons and killed the blood servants and blood beasts.
Under the persistent hunting of the war cats, the blood force died after killing two old cats. Its body returned to the will of blood and turned into a blood element that merged into the earth.
Xueyi, who watched the battle remotely, gained a lot of experience.
It didn't deal with the war cats much. This was the first time it saw the life and death attack and defense between the war cats and the blood ancestors, and it couldn't help but feel a little worried.
Facing the war cat clan, the initiative of the blood clan was still a little poor.
In addition, there is another essential difference between the two tribes: it is difficult for the blood ancestors to trust each other, but the war cats work closely together.
They have a tribe base like Maoqiu, where the marshals and counselors of the three major legions of the war cats work together to decide the overall strategy of the entire tribe through the Maoqiu meeting.
And the blood ancestors are usually considered close friends if nothing happens.
Suddenly, Xueyi realized that something was wrong.
It was too quiet on the post, and even birds and insects could not be heard.
"Be alert, there are enemies!"
It shouted: "Occupy the terrain, don't disperse!"
The blood servants and blood beasts under his command immediately took action and surrounded Xueyi in the middle.
"Don't be nervous."
A war cat jumped down from the tree next to it. It was Sanhuashi, with black, white and red colors on its body, and amber eyes that looked very calm.
Sanhuashi wore a soft leather armor, a small knife inserted diagonally at his waist, and a leather hat with two green feathers on it.
It opened its arms to indicate that it had no ill intentions: "It's just me. Of course, there may be my companions hiding behind me."
Xueyi stared at the other party coldly.
The newcomer can switch forms and is also an old cat.
"My name is Maocao, the captain of the second squadron of the fifth battalion of the third army. It's our first meeting, let's get acquainted."
Maocao said: "I know your name is Xueyi, the leader of another blood pool next to it, but it seems that the blood pool was destroyed in the earthquake, what a pity."
Xuechi interrupted the other party: "You want to delay us and wait for the subsequent war cats to come?"
It was not panicked at all.
In the past few years, Xueyi has suffered a lot, constantly going back and forth between hope and despair, and has learned a lot of skills. For example, it now knows how to enter the underground from streams or pools of water and transfer all the way through the underground dark river.
As long as I don't have a territory, I will gain absolute freedom!
"That's not the case."
Mao Cao looked calm: "The mission of the Fifth Battalion is to assist the Third and Fourth Battalions in destroying the Blood Ancestor and Blood Force gangs. We have not received any other orders. Actions across the jurisdiction itself require caution... I want to ask, do you want to consider coming to my jurisdiction?"
"My jurisdiction is in the northern snowy area. There is a glacier forest that looks like a claw, called the Cat's Claw Forest. My jurisdiction is nearby."
"Not long ago, the Blood Ancestor in the Blood Lake there died because of the daylight tide, and the location became vacant. It is a large blood lake. Although it was frozen into an ice block, you should be able to use it after you go there to clean it up."
Mao Cao spread his claws: "Since there will always be a Blood Ancestor in the Blood Lake, why not find one that is more pleasing to the eye? From my observation, you are not the stubborn type of the Blood Force. You can endure hardships and your temper is not bad. Maybe you can get along well with me."
"Do you think I will be fooled? It's so funny."
Xue Yi led the team and left without looking back.
...
Lu Yao, who saw through everything, felt a little more praise in his heart. Not bad, he saw through the ambush at a glance.
Maocao was indeed delaying Xueyi's steps. The old cats behind were approaching here, forming a siege. If Xueyi hadn't retreated quickly, his fate would not have been much better than Xueshi's.
Lu Yao ate dried sweet potatoes and continued to pay attention to Xueyi's movements.
This young blood ancestor lived a hard nomadic life, freely hungry and weak.
It led the team to bravely cross the dry death desert, was hunted and beaten by its own kind among the mountains, and also tried to gain a foothold in the jungle where blood-sucking insects were rampant... but all these efforts failed.
In the end, it drifted north to the cold snowy mountain area with its men who had been killed along the way.
"Before, there were many brothers outside, all watching, give me face... Brothers here, I apologize to Captain Maocao, it's all misunderstandings."
"Then, I'll trouble Captain Maocao to take care of you in the future."
Xueyi said to Maocao, with a flattering smile on his head.
Lu Yao almost choked on the dried sweet potatoes.
The calico cat was stunned, and an exclamation mark lit up on his head.
A cloud of thoughts floated above its head: "This guy actually fell into the trap... Keep him stable first, and find a suitable opportunity to exchange him for military merit later."
Just like that, Xueyi moved to Maocao's jurisdiction, led the team into the local blood lake cave that had just been attacked by the daylight tide, and began a new life where it was difficult to distinguish good from bad.