Chapter 56

Ahh... Just as he pounced, the other party immediately fled, which was beyond the Scavenger's expectations. Watching the werewolf mech retreat, the Scavenger did not chase after it. Instead, he retracted his mech, presenting a harmless appearance as he approached the besieged werewolf. However, as soon as he got close, the werewolf let out an angry roar, filled with warning.

Hearing the werewolf's roar, the Scavenger immediately raised his hands and took a few steps back, indicating that he had no hostile intentions. The wariness in the werewolf's eyes disappeared. After licking its wounds to stop the bleeding, the werewolf glanced at the Scavenger and then turned to disappear into the forest.

"Captain, what's going on? We saved him, yet he doesn't appreciate it. Should we chase after him?" Kantu came to the Scavenger's side and asked.

"Did you notice that the werewolf's eyes when it left resembled someone's?" The Scavenger frowned, his expression serious.

"Resemble someone? Who?" Kantu looked puzzled, clearly not having that feeling.

"Let's go. It's getting late, let's head back and see. Perhaps we'll find the answer there." The Scavenger patted Kantu's shoulder. After checking the surroundings and confirming there was no danger, they began to use the return scroll to head back to the city.

Upon arriving in the city, the Scavenger threw his backpack to the Fat Man, then pulled Kantu to replenish all their supplies before heading towards the villa.

"Captain, why are we here? You said the werewolf's eyes when it left resembled someone. Who?"

"The servant in this villa. The werewolf you shot, not the one we saved. When that werewolf saw me, there was panic in its eyes. It's a werewolf, and I'm human; we should be enemies, so why the panic? And his eyes are very familiar, very much like one of the servants in this villa."

"Captain, don't joke around. It's already dark, and talking about werewolves turning into humans is creepy." Kantu shivered, looking at the bright moon in the sky.

The game has a weather simulation system with four seasons and clear or rainy days, so naturally, there are also day and night. At night, players' attributes decrease, even for mutants. However, the attributes of monsters increase slightly.

Especially those monsters that can see clearly in the dark without any equipment become even more dangerous at night. Of course, increased danger also means potentially more rewards, as the drop rate of monsters at night is higher than during the day. Therefore, many players still fight in the wild at night, while the safety base feels somewhat eerie with few players moving around.

"Today's moon is so full, what's the date?" The Scavenger couldn't help but look up at the bright moon and asked casually.

"The 15th, what's the matter?"

"Didn't you hear stories as a child about werewolves transforming into humans on the night of a full moon and howling at the moon?" The Scavenger's eyes sparkled, as if he had thought of something.

"About this..."

Before Kantu could finish his sentence, the Scavenger's expression changed, and he pulled Kantu into a shadow. This was the outer wall of the villa, not far from a back door. At that moment, a figure hurriedly came out of the back door, looking very anxious. After coming out, it didn't even close the door and rushed away.

"It's him, follow him." The Scavenger patted Kantu's shoulder and whispered. The two followed the figure into the distance. However, even the Scavenger didn't notice that after they left, another figure came out of the back door and quickly left in another direction.

The Scavenger and Kantu followed the figure to a garbage dump. This was a remote area of the safety base, with no one living around. Occasionally, scavengers would appear here, but at this late hour, they were probably hiding somewhere to sleep.

Ahh... The figure, who had rushed over, couldn't suppress the changes in his body as he entered the garbage dump. He looked up at the moon and began to howl. As he howled, his ears began to elongate and stand up, his mouth protruded, his limbs turned into wolf paws, and his body hair grew wildly, eventually covering his entire body.

"It's him, he has a wound on his back." Seeing the figure truly transform into a werewolf, the Scavenger and Kantu, hiding nearby, looked at each other in disbelief. People in the safety base were clearing out mutated creatures everywhere, but who would have thought that a werewolf had disguised itself as a human and hidden in human society? When the figure transformed into a werewolf, the clothes on his body were torn, revealing the wound on his back, which immediately confirmed his identity to Kantu.

"Sniper rifle." The Scavenger whispered to Kantu. Kantu's gun space could store the sniper rifle, so when not in use, the Scavenger always kept the loaded rifle with Kantu to avoid the hassle of disassembling and reassembling it from his backpack.

Click! Taking out the sniper rifle, the Scavenger carefully switched the magazine. Ordinary sniper bullets were limited in their damage to werewolves, while armor-piercing rounds were much more effective.

Click! After switching the magazine, the Scavenger slowly pulled the bolt, signaling Kantu to wait for his attack. The Scavenger aimed the sniper rifle at the werewolf's knee joint, intending to capture a live werewolf to ask some questions, not to kill it outright. This suddenly transformed werewolf was Sangshan, the servant they had met in the villa. The Scavenger felt that there was a secret hidden in this, so he needed to find out.

As the Scavenger raised his rifle, Sangshan's transformation was complete, and he howled at the full moon. However, just as the Scavenger aimed at Sangshan's knee joint, Sangshan's howl suddenly stopped. The transformed Sangshan was extremely sensitive to the surrounding atmosphere. Stopping his howl, he sniffed the air, seemingly sensing some danger.

Bang! Just as Sangshan seemed to have detected something and was sniffing to confirm, the Scavenger pulled the trigger. After firing, he immediately loaded the second bullet. At this moment, Kantu's attack also arrived. Unlike the Scavenger's sniper rifle, Kantu used a submachine gun, continuously firing at the werewolf.

Ahh... Sangshan's knee joint was pierced by the armor-piercing round, but the werewolf's powerful physique only made him stagger. He immediately turned and let out an angry roar at the Scavenger. A layer of moonlight shone on Sangshan, enveloping him in a hazy glow. The bullets from Kantu's submachine gun were all blocked by this layer of moonlight.

"Aim for his left leg, don't let him escape. I'll distract him." The Scavenger threw the sniper rifle to Kantu and released his mech, charging forward. Seeing the Scavenger in the cockpit of the mech, Sangshan was taken aback, his face showing panic.

Bang! The sniper rifle, already loaded by the Scavenger, was in Kantu's hands. Kantu immediately went prone. This position was a vantage point relative to the werewolf, and there were no obstacles even when lying down. After following the Scavenger for over a week, Kantu had given up on cool poses and focused on practicality.

Click! The armor-piercing round was powerful. The submachine gun bullets couldn't penetrate the moonlight barrier around Sangshan, but the armor-piercing round shattered it and hit Sangshan's left leg. However, after passing through the moonlight, the round's power was significantly reduced, and it didn't penetrate the werewolf's thigh like the Scavenger's previous shot.

Ahh... Sangshan, who had been hesitant and panicked as if his greatest secret had been discovered, now had bloodshot eyes, filled with wildness, contrasting sharply with the bright moonlight on his body.

Bang! The Scavenger, operating the mech, charged forward and punched the werewolf in the chest. The werewolf didn't dodge, surprising the Scavenger. However, after the surprise, the Scavenger's expression changed, and he accelerated the mech's movements to make it jump back.

However, the mech's movements were a bit slow. The werewolf extended its two large wolf paws, grabbing the Scavenger's fist that had not yet retracted. Then, with a twist of its body, it threw the heavy mech over its shoulder.

Boom! The heavy mech crashed to the ground, the safety belt around the Scavenger's body stretching several times to stabilize him. The impact left a deep trench in the ground.

Ahh... The werewolf, having thrown the mech, howled at the full moon again. However, this howl was short, as if it was a roar to vent something. The werewolf then charged at the fallen mech, appearing in front of it in a flash. Its two sharp claws crossed and aimed at the bulletproof glass of the mech's cockpit.

Tear! This was a skill the Scavenger was very familiar with. Given the werewolf's strength, especially on a full moon night when its power was greatly increased, the mech could be torn apart by this claw.

Jump! In this critical moment, the Scavenger used this skill. A fallen mech cannot normally use the jump skill because it needs to use its legs to gain leverage to jump.

However, not every player can position the mech to jump before using the skill. Therefore, the mech's skills have a forced effect, meaning that no matter what state the mech is in, using the skill will force it into a position suitable for jumping.

So, if the Scavenger had tried to make the mech stand up, it might have taken some time. But by directly using the jump skill, the fallen mech, due to the skill's forced effect, immediately stood up, its legs bent into a jumping position.

Bang! As the mech quickly jumped due to the skill, the Scavenger seized the moment when the mech's feet left the ground and the skill's forced effect disappeared. He bent the mech's right leg and directly collided with the werewolf's claw.

The immense force made the mech's jump only half-complete, as it was stopped by the werewolf's attack. The jump skill can force the mech into a jumping position and then jump, but once the mech's feet leave the ground, the skill's forced effect ends.

Therefore, if there is a force blocking the mech's upward jump, the mech cannot complete the entire jump. However, the Scavenger didn't intend to complete the entire jump; he just wanted to make the fallen mech stand up quickly.

The jump was stopped by the werewolf's claw, and at the same time, the Scavenger's bent right leg completed a knee strike. The metal at the mech's knee joint was harder than other parts. Although the knee left several deep scratches, the mech was not torn apart.

Another week has passed. I've been diligently writing each chapter and correcting previous errors. I'm asking for your support with the weekly recommendation votes. The recommendation votes for this book are indeed quite low, and I hope all the readers can show the spirit of mutual assistance and help to bridge the gap between the recommendations and the word count. Thank you very much.

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