The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

: Tracking down

Lothar was walking in the forest, he lowered his body, looking for the trace of the prey.

I don’t know if it’s because the winter is approaching, or because this area is too close to the bear hunting grounds. Lothar walked for a long time and didn’t find any trace of the prey. At most, he saw a few chipmunks storing food for the winter, but Lothar didn’t Shoot them.

“I have to show Udyr how powerful I am. I won’t go back until I find prey bigger than roe deer.” Lothar looked at Zoe, “Is there any big prey around here?”

Zoe played with a flashing yo-yo: “Yes, Bearman.”

“Except for the bear man.” Lothar stared at the thing in Zoe’s hand, “What is this?”

“Toy, it’s very fun. Do you want to play with it?”

“No need, there are other prey besides the bear man. The bigger ones can’t be smaller than the roe deer.”

“I’ll look for it.” Zoe flashed into the wormhole, and before Lothar could finish blinking, she ran back again, “Yes, behind you.”

“Behind me” Lothar looked back, and a black figure quickly hid behind the tree.

“I’m being followed!” Lothar was taken aback. He thought he was quite sharp, but he didn’t expect to notice it at all. “What kind of beast can still follow me!”

Lothar turned around quickly, pretending that he didn’t notice the stalker, and walked forward at a leisurely pace.

He pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the movement behind him. All sounds on the snow would become extremely weak, and Lothar had to keep his full attention.

He walked slowly, eliminating the interference of his breathing, heartbeat and footsteps in his mind, carefully capturing the noises other than these sounds.

He slowly drew out the knife.

Lothar’s eyes were fixed, and he heard a slight noise coming from the right rear of him.

Lothar quickly threw the knife to his left hand, turned around sharply, the handle of the knife dropped from his hand, and flew towards the place where the sound came from.

“Hey!” The knife thrown by Lothar was slapped away by one hand, and a half-grown boy hurriedly shouted, “It’s me! Don’t hit me!”

“Human” Lothar looked at the boy, who was obviously one of Udyr’s disciples.

The boy picked up the knife, patted his head in embarrassment and walked towards Lothar: “Give it back to you, but you discovered it, you are really amazing.”

Losa retracted the knife, frowned and asked, “Why are you following me?”

The young man rubbed his head. He seemed to be very shy. He was a little shy towards Lothar, a boy who was several years younger than him: “It’s Master, he told me to follow you, for fear of you…”

“Does Udyr have this kind of character?” Lothar looked at the boy, “What’s your name?”

“Nazak.” The boy replied, “As you can see, he is a beast spirit walker under Master, but he is not very good at learning…”

Lothar recalled the situation at the bear hunting ground: “You joined Udyr after he took me out of the hunting ground, right? Why didn’t you enter the hunting ground?”

“You still remember this kind of thing.” Nazak lowered his head in shame, “There are some reasons…”

Seeing that Nazak didn’t want to say anything, Lothar didn’t ask further: “Udyr told you to follow me, then follow, but don’t disturb my hunting.”

“Okay, I will follow you quietly.” Nazak seemed relieved.

Lothar left Nazak at a distance, and secretly complained to Zoe: “Why are you talking nonsense that there is a prey behind me? He is human.”

“Aren’t humans counted as prey? But he’s bigger than a roe deer?” Zooey licked the ice cream and said.

“I want to hunt, not kill.”

A question mark appeared on Zoe’s head: “Is there a difference?”

Lothar was speechless: “Find me a beast prey this time, not humans.”

“No problem!” Zooey gave Lothar the half-licked ice cream, “I’ll give you the rest!”

Watching Zoe disappear into the wormhole, Lothar ate the ice cream that Zoe gave in one gulp. Lothar refused when she first gave Lothar this kind of food. Everyone in the Freljord thought about what to do. Let yourself be warmer, who would want to eat ice cubes in a hurry.

But it turns out that things related to Zoe are not normal. Although the ice cream she gave is icy, it will turn into a warm current once it enters the stomach, and even the fingers and toes will become warm.

As before, Zoe teleported back immediately: “It’s just under the slope ahead.”

Just to be on the safe side, this time Losardo asked, “What kind of beast is it?”

Zooey blinked, put her fingers into her mouth and dipped some saliva, and turned into dots of starlight to draw a strange beast in the air.

“Don’t scribble, what is this?” Lothar looked at Zoe’s painting. She depicted a beast with thick forelimbs and huge fangs. It looked rather weird. Lothar had never seen a beast with long hair. This way.

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“Hmph!” Zooey puffed up her face angrily, “If you don’t believe me, go and see for yourself! If what I said is true, I will draw a big tabby cat on your face! ”

“Okay, let’s go and have a look first.” Lothar quickened his pace.

When approaching the location Zoe mentioned, he lowered his footsteps and slowly looked down the slope.

“How can there be any beast?” Lothar looked left and right, but found nothing, “How big is it?”

Zoe recalled for a moment: “It’s bigger than the biggest of those bear people.”

“It’s so big.” Lothar recalled the terrifying mirror scene he saw in the Bearman’s hunting ground. “It’s at least as big as two Juvask wild boars, but where is it?”

After watching for a long time, Lothar didn’t find any trace of the giant beast. He simply rowed down the slope, took a closer look, and sure enough, he found it.

There is a string of huge beast footprints on the snow.

Lothar took a breath. These footprints were ridiculously big, bigger than Lothar’s body: “What kind of shape is this monster that has never seen before?”

Lothar was a little hesitant to continue tracking. He looked up, and on the snowy slope, Nazak was watching him from a distance.

“Udyr sent him to say that maybe he wanted to test me. I can’t back down.” Lothar made up his mind, carefully observed the direction of the footprints, and moved forward cautiously.

The footprints were finally broken in front of a cave. The opening of the cave was very small, and it should have been dug out by a wolf or a bigger wolf.

“It’s strange that it went inside, but such a big monster can get in.” Lothar looked left and right, but he didn’t find any new footprints. The monster could only go inside.

“Forget it, let’s work hard.” Lothar lay on the ground, and with his child’s size, it was still very easy to get into the hole.

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Lothar stood up. Although the entrance of the cave was small, the interior space was quite large. Lothar felt that it wouldn’t be a problem to squeeze in a few bearmen.

It was very dark in the cave. Lothar touched his body and looked for fire pockets, but Zoe snapped his fingers directly, and the starlight directly illuminated the cave brightly.

“You can give me a grateful kiss!” Zooey laughed.

Lothar patted Zooey’s head: “We’ll talk about it after I catch the prey.”

The cave was longer than he had imagined. He walked slowly into it, and unexpectedly saw some patterns on the rock wall.

“This is… a mural.” Lothar saw a bunch of crooked paintings. The painters were so poor that they couldn’t tell what the paintings were.

Zooey watched it with relish, as if she really saw something.

Lothar walked in lightly, and finally, the largest space at the end of the grotto was displayed in front of him.

The space is clean, but there is still nothing.

The only thing there was a small orange-haired beast lying on its stomach in the middle of the cave.

“Where is the cub big prey?” Losa was disappointed, put away the knife, and walked towards the cave, “Sister Zoe, you are really talking nonsense.”

“I’m not talking nonsense!” Zoe pounded Lothar’s head back and forth with her two fists. “I did see a huge monster.”

“But there’s nothing here, only a cub.” Lothar picked up the sleeping little beast, “It looks so strange, I’ve never seen it before, what kind of beast is this?”

The little beast seemed to have been woken up. It opened its dark eyes and looked like it was not awake.

Lothar touched the little beast’s head: “Hi, little guy.”

The little beast tilted its head and let out a confused cry: “Gnar… How big is it?”

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Karma… oh… bang bang… 歘… woo kar…

——Writings on murals with unknown meanings