"Like you're the smart one here," the Ranger scoffed. "With so many of us, how much fire would it even take to form a protective ring? Besides, we would need enough time to set it up."
"Wait, didn't someone give us an early warning? How is there no time? And I heard wolves are extremely vengeful. We were just walking properly on the main road at the foot of the mountain; we certainly didn't offend them. Who exactly spotted this wolf pack? Did they lure the wolves here?"
Hearing this, the crowd felt it made some sense. Some immediately thought of Gu Kaiyuan. "Their group goes up the mountain to hunt every day. Could it be they killed a wolf cub, and now the pack is here for revenge?"
Surprisingly, this theory gained a lot of traction, and everyone started chiming in all at once to condemn Gu Kaiyuan.
"All of you, shut up!" Liu Pingkang yelled. "You should have just been silently dragged away by the wolves, you ungrateful bunch.
