CHAPTER 443: CHAPTER 412: STRIKING ALONE

Mountain Eagle sliced open the skin behind the giant wolf’s ear, pulling out an antenna the size of a miniature diode...

Following the antenna, he cut all the way down the giant wolf’s thick neck and found a black box the size of a matchbox on the back of its skull.

A few wires protruded from the front of the box, connected to the giant wolf’s nerves via minimally invasive surgery.

This discovery made Mountain Eagle furrow his brows deeply...

He quickly checked the remaining giant wolves and found that they all exhibited the same condition.

Old Qiao was right; these giant wolves wouldn’t survive the Alaskan winter, but with human breeding and training, the situation would be different.

From the beginning, Mountain Eagle felt something was wrong because these giant wolves’ behavioral patterns were completely different from any wolves he had known in the past.

Wolf Packs are highly organized, but they definitely couldn’t act as uniformly as these giant wolves...

Firstly, these giant wolves had no alpha. They split into three groups of four and launched their attacks from three different directions, almost perfectly synchronized!

Circus-trained beasts can achieve such discipline, but to maintain a wild beast like the giant wolf’s ferocity while also having such strong discipline would require more than just a Beast Tamer; it would need something like a Police Dog Controller to assist...

This was what made Mountain Eagle uneasy because he felt this device was from the same system as a Police Dog Controller, albeit more primitive compared to the type Balang used.

However, the device didn’t care about being primitive; what mattered was the ability to enforce compliance through neural signals, allowing animals to understand human language or even gestures.

For example, a normal dog trainer would need a command or gesture to make a police dog sit, which the dog needs to hear or see...

But this device could allow a trainer to remotely control a police dog’s actions once a tacit understanding is established.

That is, even if the dog cannot see the trainer, when the trainer issues a command or makes a gesture, the controller would provide the corresponding stimulation, letting the police dog understand what it is supposed to do.

At this moment, Mountain Eagle suddenly remembered the werewolf legend Quida had mentioned earlier, claiming someone had seen a werewolf hunting Polar Bears barehanded with a few wolves...

Perhaps it wasn’t a legend but someone wearing a Wolf Skin, leading a domesticated and modified giant wolf in hunting or, to say, conducting experiments.

Of course, to Mountain Eagle, the controller on these giant wolves was extremely primitive; with his rudimentary knowledge of physics, he surmised it likely had remote control capabilities.

However, since they lacked the advanced auxiliary devices of a standard Police Dog Controller, the giant wolves must have GPS chips inside their bodies or within the controllers themselves to allow the people behind them to track their location, as it would be difficult for these wild beasts to remain in an area devoid of prey.

Mountain Eagle searched through the belly of the giant wolf in front of him without finding anything else, confirming that the matchbox-sized box was the key.

This discovery made Mountain Eagle realize that they could no longer stay here...

Once the other party discovers these giant wolves gathering near the Waterfront for an extended period, they will quickly deploy drones or personnel to check on it.

Just as Mountain Eagle was hesitating on how to persuade Butcher and Daria to protect Old Qiao and Quida and make a tactical retreat, Balang suddenly stood up alertly and looked towards the direction of the distant mountain. Then his Police Dog Controller unexpectedly started up, detecting 12 signal terminals...

"FUCK..."

This discovery made Mountain Eagle tense yet somewhat excited. Watching the giant wolf’s spinal nerves pulse with the signals, he decisively had everyone help to extract the boxes and then packed them into a bag, which was secured onto Balang’s Bullet-Proof Vest...

Cradling the restless Balang, Mountain Eagle firmly rubbed its neck, pointing towards the direction of a nearby hill...

"Go..."

Watching Balang dart into the dark forest like an arrow from the string, Butcher frowned and said to Mountain Eagle, "Boss, we should retreat...

These things are manmade, and we’re already struggling to deal with them; we can’t risk going in."

Mountain Eagle nodded, then shook his head, replying, "Our communicators have a range of 50 kilometers. You and Daria escort Old Qiao and Quida and run a bit further north to find a suitable wetland to hide.

I’ll check the mountains. As soon as I signal you, come to pick me up by boat..."

Upon hearing this, Butcher firmly shook his head and said, "Boss, I can’t let you risk it alone..."

"Risk?"

Mountain Eagle smirked and shook his head, replying, "If it weren’t for Old Qiao, us going into the mountains to hunt together would indeed be a risk—facing the risk of not finding prey and going hungry.

But if it’s combat, that’s another story!

Butcher, I now have a clear target, I’ll pick up the pace..."

Butcher paused, then slightly bowed his head...

He had seen his boss in full force before, and he knew that once the rhythm was set, he would quickly be left behind and become a burden.

He was special forces trained, and knew that there shouldn’t be the slightest hesitation at this time...

Seeing the boss also rejected Daria, Butcher grabbed Daria and said to Mountain Eagle, "We won’t run too far..."

Ever since Mountain Eagle pulled a tech product from the neck of a giant wolf, Old Qiao and Quida knew that the situation was out of their control...

Seeing Mountain Eagle quickly come to an agreement with Butcher, Old Qiao and Quida exchanged looks, then said, "We’ll take these giant wolf carcasses deep into the swamp, then wait on the wetlands to the north.

Two days, if there’s no news after two days, we will report it to the police..."

Mountain Eagle listened and smiled shaking his head...

If calling the police worked, why would the natives be oppressed so miserably?

He looked at the complicated expressions of Old Qiao and Quida and said with a smile, "I have a hunch that this time I can find the key to solving the problems of the natives...

The mountains aren’t too far from here, wait for me for three days, and if I don’t show up, Butcher and Daria know who to contact!"

Mountain Eagle then glanced at the tent that hadn’t yet been slept in, and said, "You still have enough time to clean up the campsite and reduce traces as much as possible."

After receiving a confirmed response, Mountain Eagle went into the tent, emptied his backpack, packed some food and water, then took the VSS and ran into the woods...

This time he truly went light!

After he was out of sight of the others, he put away all the items manufactured by the Sergeant System, except for food and water...

The Sergeant System could take care of everything a soldier needs, with the exception of food and water!

At this moment, Mountain Eagle had Crow for aerial surveillance and monitoring, Balang on the ground for assistance, and he himself could bring out powerful weapons at any moment...

This was Mountain Eagle at his strongest!

Especially when the Police Dog Controller could analyze and decode the opponent’s signals, and intervene with their Evil Beast Terminal, the people in the mountains no longer had their defenses up against him.

The Police Dog Controller might not be able to accurately decode the opponent’s control signals, but that’s alright – some key signals, like ’stop’, were sure to be very close.

With the support of tactical glasses and now equipped with night vision abilities, Mountain Eagle quickly ran through the woods...

Balang, carrying those GPS-equipped controllers, rushed up the east side of the hill, which is where the giant wolves first gathered...

Mountain Eagle didn’t know if this tactic could completely fool the opponent, so he needed to quickly meet up with Balang and then figure out a way to cause some trouble for the people in the mountains to ease his own infiltration.

Waterfront was only one or two kilometers away from the hillock, and the forests of Alaska were not like the rainforests near the equator. When Mountain Eagle sped up, a distance of one or two kilometers took him only about half an hour.

After climbing a few hundred meters high hillock and meeting up with Balang on the east side, Mountain Eagle then saw a terrifying feeding site...

It wasn’t accurate to call it a feeding trough, rather, it was a big pit on the mountain side.

This huge pit was littered with animal skeletons – moose, reindeer, musk oxen, and even human-raised beef cattle...

These animals had been gnawed to the bone, leaving only the harder to digest parts like skulls and spines.

An overwhelming stench of decay and blood made Mountain Eagle step back, then he moved upwind.

Just as Mountain Eagle had suspected earlier, someone regularly fed these giant wolves and kept them in this area to deter outsiders from entering. Whenever these giant wolves left the place, after driving away or killing animals or humans, they would be summoned back.

Last night, Wayne’s son Jesse mentioned to Mountain Eagle that the people from Dimension Card Company used hounds to drive prey far away, making their hunting much harder.

This might not have been the deliberate intent of Dimension Card Company — they wanted to keep outsiders away, but these ferocious giant wolves could not tolerate humans or even animals near their territory.

Mountain Eagle conducted a thorough reconnaissance of the surroundings and discovered a beast path, which should be the route used by people in the mountains to herd prey for feeding the giant wolves.

Up to now, Crow had not detected any drone activity from the opponent or anyone trying to approach, which meant the other party may not have realized that these giant wolves were dead.

In order to delay further, Mountain Eagle controlled Crow, sending those GPS devices one by one into the tree holes at the tops of nearby large trees.

After finishing everything, Mountain Eagle gave the exceptionally excited Balang a vigorous rub and pointed to the beast path, cluttered with footsteps, then man and dog quickly advanced along the path.

Mountain Eagle was relieved that he had eaten a hearty meal before the action. He had progressed through the steep valley filled with loose stones and weeds for nearly 4 hours, and when the day began to dawn, he finally arrived at a valley that was a bit warmer than outside.

Crow, acting as the scout pioneer, flew low through the dense fog to conduct detailed reconnaissance of the valley...

And then Mountain Eagle witnessed a truly shocking scene...