"We found our way to Graycliff and kept walking, but the forest was as evil as the creatures that inhabited it. The trees would redirect us, seduce and prevent us from finding our way out, and the mountain wolves stood in the way like thickets. As we go, they will keep stopping and slowing us down until the wolves get their way, and the only way is to hold on and keep going down.”
Bahram glanced at the wound on his arm and shook his head.
"But even so, the wolves will get you."
"Wolves are really not a good thing."
Hao Mo suddenly spoke, and deep fear could be seen in his eyes.
"Old people always say they are predators and they eat everything."
For the first time, Soshyan paid attention to this boy who looked very naughty.
"Are you afraid of scavengers?"
Hearing Soshyan ask himself a question, Haomo shook excitedly, then shook his head.
"I'm not afraid, but they are ugly and their pecks hurt."
"What about Grox (the most common meat animal in the empire, shaped like a carnivorous dinosaur)?"
"They're also dangerous."
The boy nodded.
"But you're not afraid of them?"
"I'll be careful if I meet you."
"Are you afraid of Gila monsters?"
"Not afraid."
"Why."
"Because they are animals."
The boy said, moving a little, they had been standing for some time.
"What?"
"The ones you mentioned just now, scavengers, grox, etc., I think they are all animals, some of them are very dangerous... I don't like spiders, and scorpions, especially the big red scorpions. , but I’m not afraid of them.”
"Aren't you afraid?"
"I caught a big red scorpion and put it in a glass bottle in a locker. I'm not afraid of it, but I am afraid of wolves because they are not animals."
"Oh? What are they?"
The boy frowned, as if having trouble deciding how to describe it appropriately.
"They are... how should I say, they are ghosts or something, they are evil spirits, just like the old people said."
"You mean, they're supernatural?"
"Yes, they only know how to destroy and devour, because that is their nature, their only nature...and they can either transform into wolves or humans and walk upright."
Soshyan looked at him, nodded thoughtfully, and said:
"You might get a chance to see them."
"What?"
"A wild wolf that walks upright."
He then turned to Bahram and motioned for him to continue, while the Thunderhawks had been landing for a moment, and the warriors were waiting for their Chapter Master.
"I've spent two sunsets by the time they got to us."
Bahram recalls the scene with gasps.
"There were two of them, one pure black and one dark gray. They were huge, scarred and roaring. I knew I couldn't avoid them, and I couldn't shake them off."
Soshyan turned his attention to the other two people, and they quickly waved their hands and said:
"We are also dealing with one end each!"
Soshyan turned his attention back to Bahram.
"So, if you couldn't run away or hide, what did you do?"
"I'm standing there."
Bahram whispered:
"Hold my dagger and gun in a defensive stance and wait for them to come to me."
Then he took a deep breath, as if that bloody moment had happened not long ago.
"They closed their mouths and growled low. They tried to let me run away, but I wouldn't do it. I shouted to them until our voices became hoarse. This made the black wolf become cautious and started to keep a distance from me. , but the gray wolf was angered by me, and it jumped directly towards me. I fired all the bullets in the gun, but it still knocked me to the ground before it died."
He placed his right hand flat on his left chest, touching his bones and almost touching his throat.
"The black wolf saw that I had been knocked down, so it left and rushed up. It bit a piece of me and tried to shake my head, intending to throw me to death or tear me apart."
Saying,
He pulled out the dagger.
"But I also had my teeth to use, so I stabbed back. The cry it made seemed to shout out all the pain at once. Although it caused more damage to me, it still escaped from me. ”
Recalling that scene, the boy shook his head.
"I don't know how I did it, but I stood up again and he looked at me first and then at the wolves."
"They didn't roar or growl, they just looked at me. The gray end's blood flowed to the ground, like a stream, but I wasn't much better."
"That's just what they are."
Soshyan said with approval:
"They're afraid of more costs."
"That's right."
The boy responded with uncontrollable exhaustion:
"Perhaps that was enough, because as I stepped forward the wolves turned and scurried away, and after that we continued moving east... All I remember is walking and bleeding, and the wolf's fangs opened a hole in me. It’s so hard for me to breathe.”
He opened the collar of his coat, revealing a horrific wound. The torn flesh hung on the edge of the wound, and the scarlet flesh had begun to fester.
Soshyan knows what it feels like, as does a gunshot wound or serious trauma.
He couldn't help but think back to the past. When he was injured for the first time after serving, he struggled for air around him and wheezed from the hole in his punctured lung.
He still remembers it.
"But you still got here."
The boy was indeed tenacious, and Soshyan ticked more and more boxes on him.
"Although the sun has set very low, it has not yet sunk into the earth."
He paused, his eyes softening unconsciously.
"You didn't miss the registration time."
"Very good!"
Vayu and Haoma hugged each other and jumped up, but Bahram could not say a word. He almost fainted because of pain and hunger.
"but."
Soshyan looked at the two people.
"This time does not belong to you."
"ah!?"
"Why!"
Hao Mo pushed Vayu away hard, walked quickly to Soshi Yang, and asked loudly and unwillingly:
"Obviously we came with him! Without our climbing equipment, he wouldn't even be able to climb up! Why only him!"
But Astartes just stared at him indifferently without any response.
"I'm not convinced! This isn't fair!"
Soshyan glanced at Bahram, who was already swaying, and then said to the guard who was still kneeling on the ground:
"Take him to the Thunderhawk."
"As you command, my lord."
After the two guards helped Bahram walk towards Thunder Eagle, Soshyan looked at Haoma and said calmly:
"Since you are so insistent, then I will give you another chance and a quota. Whoever can kill the other two of you will have this quota."
For a moment, both boys were stunned.
