When the wolves howled, Captain Zhou, Lin Qi, and the others felt their hearts sink. When they were pursuing the wolves, none of them had treated them as a threat.
In their opinion, the wolves should be somewhere very far away. They had clearly gathered more troops to encircle the wolves, but now they were horrified to discover that the wolves' range of activity was actually in their vicinity!
How could this be? The outpost that the wolves had attacked was very far away from here. If this was the wolves' range of activity, then why did Ren Xiaosu's outpost remain unscathed?
Captain Zhou thought for two seconds before saying coldly, "It's probably because the scale of the operation at the neighboring outpost was too large that they were alarmed. We underestimated the wolves' sense of danger."
"That might be the case." Lin Qi said fearfully, "Then what should we do now?"
"What else can we do? Retreat quickly!" Captain Zhou lowered his voice and shouted, "Leave quickly if you don't want to die. Head in the direction of the outpost. The wolves might be attracted to those people there, and that's your only chance of survival!"
As he spoke, Captain Zhou reactivated his nanomachines. He moved as fast and powerful as a machine. When the others saw this, they could not care less and quickly followed him!
But not everyone in the platoon had nanomachines. The soldier who had controlled the nanomachines earlier shouted from behind, "Take me with you!"
Without the nanomachines, he was just a normal person. There was no way he could escape the wolves' pursuit, so he needed someone to help him.
But when his comrades, who were supposed to be his brothers, heard his shout, not a single one of them was willing to turn around to look at him.
This was the consequence of not going through formal military training. In the face of danger, they were no different from refugees!
Seeing the backs of his teammates getting further and further away, the lone nanosoldier became more and more desperate. He could even hear the sound of the wolves moving through the forest behind him!
For some reason, he regretted becoming a nanosoldier a little. Although he would become a refugee if he did not become a nanosoldier, he might have been able to live a little longer.
But when he turned around, he was stunned. That was because not only did he see the wolves, but he also saw that young man in the middle of them!
He saw that young man walking towards him with the wolves. The young man and the alpha wolf were walking side by side while the other wolves followed behind them. It was as though this young man had a very high status.
But wasn't this youth the Ren Xiaosu they had looked down on at the outpost?
Ren Xiaosu said, "There's no need to be afraid that they'll escape. I've calculated their speed and even used the shadow clone to lure them deep into the mountains. Now that they're running for their lives at full speed, the nanomachines will run out of power in about ten minutes. By then, there'll only be a few dozen normal people left."
Just as Ren Xiaosu had speculated, the most fatal weakness of the nanomachines was their energy source. Relying on bioenergy to charge them was too slow and could not keep up with their consumption.
Therefore, nanosoldiers were most suitable for blitzkrieg battles, not conventional battles.
Of course, Ren Xiaosu was not sure whether the Li family had a solution to this problem.
The Wolf King and Ren Xiaosu came up to the nanosoldier. The man and wolf communicated by guessing. However, the nanosoldier suddenly felt like he had been forgotten. Weren't they looking down on him too much?
Moreover, why was this young man in front of him able to coexist peacefully with the pack of wolves? This was too unbelievable, wasn't it?
Wait a minute, could the attack on the neighboring outpost also have something to do with this young man?
Suddenly, the Wolf King glanced at the nanosoldier and raised its paw to look at Ren Xiaosu, asking for something.
Ren Xiaosu's expression changed. "He doesn't have any more nanomachines on him, so I'm not going to trade them with you. Besides, I was the one who found a way to get the nanomachines on him!"
The nanosoldier listened to Ren Xiaosu with a dumbfounded look on his face. He suddenly realized that Ren Xiaosu was also responsible for the black shadow earlier. So this young man was actually a supernatural being!
But the Wolf King shook its head. "I don't care!"
Ren Xiaosu took out a bottle of black medicine with a dark expression and handed it to it. "Forget it, I won't stoop to your level."
The Wolf King was very happy to see the black medicine. Ren Xiaosu said, "Alright, I'll head forward first. You guys can catch up to me after you've dealt with him."
With that, Ren Xiaosu prepared to leave, leaving the nanosoldier behind with a look of horror on his face. "Don't go, we're all the same kind. How could you let the wolves eat me?"
Ren Xiaosu turned around and said with a smile, "I might as well dance with the wolves instead of keeping you guys company."
After that, Ren Xiaosu walked into the forest. The nanosoldier looked at the young man's back, lonely but determined.
In an instant, the nanosoldier figured out a lot of things. So it turned out that the people at the outpost were not lying when they said their staple food was meat.
So the wolves did not attack the outpost here only because Ren Xiaosu was there. That was all!
Furthermore, he noticed that this person called Ren Xiaosu clearly knew a lot about nanomachines.
Previously, they were wondering why the shadow clone would snatch the nanomachines. Even if he did, he wouldn't be able to use them anyway.
But now, he was no longer so sure!
As Ren Xiaosu continued walking forward, he heard a scream behind him. However, his expression did not change at all.
The five silver snakes had already covered his entire wrist with his armor. There was still a long way to go before he could assemble a full set of armor.
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Lin Qi and the others ran as fast as they could through the forest. They did not care even if their faces and bodies were cut by the bushes.
The nanomachines in their bodies were not enough to support their entire body structure, so their skin was still no different from a normal person's.
As they ran, Captain Zhou slowed down a little. "It seems like the wolves aren't chasing after us?"
"Yeah." Lin Qi said in surprise, "Could it be that they haven't discovered us yet?"
"That's impossible." Captain Zhou retorted coldly, "There must be a reason."
Captain Zhou came up with a guess. Could it be that the wolves knew their nanomachines were lacking in endurance, so they were waiting for them to run out of battery before attacking?
However, he immediately denied this idea. After all, how could the wolves possibly know about this? Even among the Li Consortium's troops, not many people knew about this besides the nanosoldiers.
At this moment, Lin Qi and the others had already thrown away some of their supplies. They were not stupid enough to not throw away their firearms and only threw away their individual rations.
But Lin Qi suddenly realized something. Captain Zhou had not opened his backpack at all. While the silver glow from the blood vessels of the others had dimmed a little, Captain Zhou's blood vessels did not seem to be the same.
Lin Qi asked, "Captain, do you have some kind of charging device in your backpack?"
Captain Zhou looked at him. "Don't ask about things you're not supposed to know."
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