novelden Chapter 325: Ambush at Hougu Ridge
Chapter 325: Ambush at Hougu Ridge
"What?" Chen Xian was very surprised by the news, but then he felt something was wrong and immediately asked, "Is it the person Prince Teddy captured?"
Lucy nodded with tears in her eyes.
Chen Xian's eyes flashed with a golden light, "Before I even thought about dealing with them, they came to me on their own."
Chen Xian then took out a sound transmission token. After a moment of mental activation, a hearty laugh emanated from the token, "Haha, Brother Shixin! I thought you had forgotten about me!"
"Do you want to buy me a drink?..."
Hearing the voice, Lucy frowned slightly. She recognized it as the voice of Tiger, the second prince of the Lion Clan. However, she was puzzled as to why Chen Xian had such a good relationship with him.
Chen Xian interrupted Prince Tiger's greetings and asked, "Drinking is a small matter. Let me ask first, what has your eldest brother been doing recently?"
"My eldest brother has been very quiet lately and hardly goes out."
"He doesn't even argue with me in front of the Lion King. Do you think he has given up fighting for the throne?"
Looking at the sound transmission magic card, Chen Xian's mouth twitched.
Is this guy brainless?
Would a prince who gave up fighting for the throne kidnap old Fox?
They are just acting with you, but you take it seriously.
It would be strange if he didn't get killed in the end.
Chen Xian was a little angry at Tiger's incompetence and said unhappily, "Old Fox has been arrested."
The person on the other side of the sound transmission card was obviously stunned for a moment, and then Tiger's angry shouting was heard.
"That guy is still so insidious!"
"You've been deceiving me all this time."
"You dare to kidnap my future father-in-law..."
"Who is your father-in-law? You silly cat." Lucy, who was originally nervous about the old fox king, immediately took out her anger on Prince Tiger.
"Well... Lucy is here too. I was just saying that my idiot brother dared to kidnap Old Fox. I'm going to teach him a lesson."
Although the sound transmission card could not transmit images, a vivid image of Prince Tiger scratching his head and pretending to be stupid appeared in the minds of both Chen Xian and Lucy.
"Alright." Chen Xian didn't want to joke around with this guy either, so he said directly, "Let's meet at the transaction location agreed upon by your Lion Clan later."
"Since your eldest brother kidnapped the old Fox King, he must be heading for the Fox Brewery."
"Bring a few experts with you, and let's find a way to rescue them first."
Prince Tiger was eager to beat up his elder brother immediately, so he agreed readily.
The two parties agreed to meet at midnight.
"It's still some time before Li Ye arrives, let's eat first! I'll cook a good meal for you today." Chen Xian calmly took out the barbecue utensils and monster meat from the space ring.
Chen Xian was roasting it patiently, and soon an enticing aroma filled the air.
Chen Xian cut off some of the roasted monster meat and handed it to Lucy, who was standing beside him with a heavy heart.
"Level 6 Red Flame Python meat is tender and has a warming effect. It's best eaten while hot."
Faced with the fragrant barbecue, Lucy's nose twitched involuntarily, but when she thought of her old father being kidnapped, she suppressed her appetite.
She stared at Chen Xian with some resentment and said, "I don't want to eat." She said while swallowing.
Chen Xian chuckled, "There's still a big event tonight. If you don't eat enough, what will you do if you don't have the energy?"
Hearing this, Lucy took the barbecue and took a small bite with reservation at first. Then she was conquered by the wonderful taste. She threw away all her reservations and started to gobble it up.
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Midnight.
Hougu Ridge.
This is a small mountain range located at the farthest junction of the Wolf Fang Mountains and the Orc Grassland.
There are no trees on the mountain, and there are bare boulders everywhere.
No orc race would choose to live here, but this stone ridge is a natural barrier to entering the orc grassland after leaving the Wolf Fang Mountains.
Naturally, this mountain became the primary defense for the lion people to guard against werewolves.
The entire stone mountain has been developed by the Lion Clan and built into a fortress.
Inside the carved stone cave, there are guards of the lion clan stationed.
"Brother, didn't we make an appointment with that stupid cat Tiger? Why don't we just go straight to the Houguling Pass?"
Lucy and Chen Xian lay on a hidden boulder near Hougu Ridge.
"You said he's a stupid cat. If we just go in, wouldn't we be stupid cats too?"
Chen Xian had a faint smile on his face, and as he spoke, his spiritual sense had already covered the entire mountain.
He used all his strength to use his spiritual sense to investigate, and his spiritual energy was consumed rapidly.
Chen Xian felt a little pain, but there was nothing he could do.
Although Old Fox was a bit unkind, he always hid things from him.
But this old fox was quite cunning. After realizing that Chen Xian wanted to collect the beast secret key, he brought the entire fox clan to bear on him.
Although the fox tribe was in decline, most of its members became slaves of other tribes.
But the fox tribe is still the top intelligent race among the orcs. With the appeal of the Fox King, as long as the fox people are rescued, it will be a great help.
He calculated that Chen Xian would not refuse, so he put the fate of the entire family at risk.
Even with Chen Xian's experience, he could see these clearly.
Everyone is just being exploited.
But after spending a few months together, Chen Xian was moved by Lucy's innocence and the hard work of the foxes, young and old.
He then taught Lucy the Nine-Tailed Technique and asked the foxes, young and old, to participate in the brewing.
As for Old Fox, although this old guy likes to keep secrets, he is not stingy in telling Chen Xian most of the information.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to understand this race that is older than humans just by relying on those ancient animal skin books.
Gradually, the fox clan played an increasingly important role in collecting the beast secret keys.
And Lucy's innocent dependence, and those cute fox dolls.
All of this made Chen Xian feel unable to let go.
Now, whether for the sake of Beast God's secret key or his own feelings, he must rescue the old fox.
The entire Hougu Ridge is not very big. Chen Xian's abnormal spiritual sense with a diameter of six kilometers covers most of the area except the area near the orc grassland.
As his spiritual sense was used to investigate, a holographic image of Houguling appeared in Chen Xian's sea of consciousness.
Houguling is just a small pass. When Chen Xian first led the fox people and the Mad Wolf Group through it to look for the address of the winery, there were only four or five lion guards there.
The holographic image in the sea of consciousness now shows that in the huge cave inside the mountain, there is a troop of 3,000 lion men hiding.
As the top fighting race among the beastmen, a random army of 3,000 lionmen is enough to deal with an army of 20,000 to 30,000 from other races.
Some small races can be directly crushed by these three thousand lion people.
However, the number of lion people is small, and the entire lion tribe has less than 20,000 troops.
It is a bit abnormal to place more than one-tenth of the troops in this remote pass.
When Lucy learned that there was a 3,000-strong Lionman force, she said with some concern, "Could they be planning to attack the werewolf tribe? The werewolves' strength demonstrated during the Wolf King Trials must have made the Lionmen feel threatened!"
Chen Xian shook his head. "Although the lionmen are strong, three thousand lionmen are not enough to attack the werewolf tribe. Unless..."
Lucy looked curious, her eyes unusually bright in the darkness, "Unless what?"
"Unless they have an insider." Chen Xian thought of what the wolf tribe's great elder said today about the wolf tribe's rebellion.
If it is really the werewolves who oppose the Mad Wolf who contact the Lion Clan and work together from inside and outside to disrupt the Wolf King Ceremony.
The situation is really dangerous.