Just then, a distant howling echoed through the air.
"Wait," Yang Ruxin suddenly pulled Gu Qingheng to a stop.
Gu Qingheng halted in his tracks and looked at Yang Ruxin.
"It’s Xiaobai." Yang Ruxin revealed a smile, then placed her fingers to her lips and let out a whistle.
Soon, the jackals sensed danger and began to retreat slowly, but before they had taken more than a few steps back, they realized they were surrounded by a wolf pack.
A White Wolf sat atop a nearby boulder, regal as a king, flanked by two sidekicks, one black and one white.
The jackals wanted to leave, they outnumbered the wolves, but they were no match for the wolf pack, especially not in a fight, so they decided to leave the food for the wolves.
However, the wolf pack did not let them leave. Following the White Wolf’s howl, the wolves attacked, rushing towards the jackals.
To their dying breath, the jackals didn’t understand why they were being attacked, even after they had abandoned their prey. Of course, they also never realized that their so-called prey was a friend of the Wolf King.
"Xiaobai..." Yang Ruxin, looking at the nearly annihilated jackal group, ran over joyfully.
Xiaobai leapt down from the boulder and pounced.
But before Xiaobai could reach Yang Ruxin, Gu Qingheng intercepted, stepping aside to avoid the approaching wolf.
Xiaobai looked at Gu Qingheng with frustration, and Yang Ruxin also stared at him strangely.
"You’re a male, and she’s my woman, you’re not allowed to hug her or lick her face," Gu Qingheng, knowing Xiaobai could understand human speech, issued a direct warning.
Xiaobai let out a sad whine, looking pitifully at Yang Ruxin.
Yang Ruxin, her forehead creased, thought this jealousy had gone too far. To even be jealous of Xiaobai, she couldn’t help but slap him lightly, "Come on, be serious."
Gu Qingheng had no choice but to release his hold.
"Xiaobai, thank you, you saved me again." Yang Ruxin went over to pat Xiaobai’s head, then took the bottle from his neck to check it, noting that half of the medicine powder inside was used, obviously indicating he had been wounded, "Did you get hurt? Are you alright now?"
Xiaobai licked Yang Ruxin’s hand and let out a sound in response.
"It was the Snow Wolf who got injured, huh?" Yang Ruxin looked back at one of Xiaobai’s companions, the white wolf. To distinguish him from Xiaobai, she referred to him as Snow Wolf, while the other black one was called Ink Wolf, "Are you okay now?"
Snow Wolf shook his head slightly.
Yang Ruxin refilled the bottle with wound medicine and also added another one, which she filled with two Medicine Pills, "These pills are also life-saving, swallow one if necessary."
Xiaobai licked Yang Ruxin’s hand again, then growled towards his side.
And then Xiaolun hesitantly emerged from behind the large stone, and what was even stranger was that Xiaoyin, the little silver snake that had fought with him in the ancient tomb, also shyly slithered out following him.
Yang Ruxin’s eyes widened in astonishment.
Xiaolun hesitantly made his way towards Yang Ruxin, and when he was about a meter away, he lay his head on the ground in a pose reminiscent of a child who had done something wrong.
"What’s going on?" Yang Ruxin looked at Xiaobai.
Xiaobai walked over and slapped Xiaolun with his paw before growling a few times.
Zizi weakly flicked her tongue out, then attempted to touch Yang Ruxin’s foot. Seeing that she didn’t object, she climbed up her wrist and rubbed her little head against Yang Ruxin affectionately.