Clouds and Moon Shadow

Chapter 84 Wolf Pack Attack

Mu Nan nodded in agreement. They were all a team personally trained by Captain Mu. Together they had resisted countless attacks by the Nanzhao people, and their level of teamwork was unmatched by other soldiers.

After lunch, they walked until dark, crossing three mountains. This amount of exercise almost killed Gu Qingyue on the spot. She has now basically recovered her strength from her previous life, and she is almost unable to keep up.

Gu Qingyue looked around and found that most of the soldiers seemed to be doing well, and no one had fallen behind. Could it be that the difference in physical strength between men and women is so great?

By the time everyone found a cave to take shelter in, the forest was already pitch black.

Sitting by the fire, Gu Qingyue thought of Liu Feng and the boys, wondering how their kung fu practice was going.

After successfully tempering your bodies, everyone's progress was rapid. By now, your martial arts skills must have improved a lot!

Lost in thought, Gu Qingyue unconsciously held the purple jade pendant around her neck in her hand and rubbed it repeatedly. After wearing it for many days, the purple jade pendant had become even more lustrous. Gu Qingyue looked down at the thing in her hand, slightly lost in thought.

"Qingyue," Mu Yun Chu slowly walked in from outside the cave. As soon as he entered, he saw Gu Qingyue leaning against the stone wall, staring blankly at the fire. He had never seen the boy with such an expression before, and he unconsciously walked over.

Gu Qingyue snapped out of her daze, calmly sat up straight, and moved to the side. "Mu Xiaoqi," she said without thinking, blurting out the name.

However, the sound wasn't loud; the others probably didn't hear it.

After Gu Qingyue finished speaking, she coughed a little embarrassedly.

To everyone's surprise, upon hearing this name, Mu Yun Chu smiled.

"It's alright, we don't need to be so polite. You can call me Mu Xiaoqi, or—" Mu Yun Chu noticed Gu Qing Yue's embarrassment and spoke up to defuse the situation, "You can call me by my full name, Mu Yun Chu." After saying that, she lifted her robe and sat down next to Gu Qing Yue.

"Mu Yun Chu?" Gu Qing Yue was dumbfounded. Wasn't her name Mu Xiao Qi? She changed her name? Her formal name? So she'd been calling her by her nickname all along?

How embarrassing!

Were they really that close? Could it be that he...?

It must be said that Gu Qingyue, the top agent who was decisive and ruthless in her previous life, had a little-known habit: she was good at making connections and letting her imagination run wild, commonly known as: overthinking.

Knowing she was a woman, she naturally thought about relationships between men and women, while the man beside her watched her constantly changing and conflicted expression, completely bewildered.

Then, an awkward silence ensued...

Mu Yun Chu looked at the boy who was sitting stiffly, holding a piece of purple jade in his hand, and asked at the right moment, "What is that in your hand?"

"Huh? What?" Gu Qingyue was awakened by the question in her ear, immediately came back to her senses, and cursed herself for her carelessness in her heart.

If it were an enemy in front of me, I would have been dead many times over by now.

She spent the whole day with these soldiers without incident, and she let her guard down.

Gu Qingyue composed herself and said, "It's a family heirloom purple jade pendant." She opened her palm and gestured towards the fire so that Mu Yun Chu could see it more clearly.

She had originally planned to find an opportunity for someone to see the jade pendant, and this could be considered an opportunity.

Mu Yun Chu carefully examined the jade pendant in the boy's hand. It was made of top-grade Kunlun purple jade, and the entire pendant was semi-circular in shape. It seemed that there should be another half.

But wasn't this boy a child who grew up in a mountain village? How could he have such a valuable jade pendant?

Mu Yun Chu frowned slightly, lost in thought.

“This top-grade Kunlun purple jade is rare, and the carving is also exceptional,” Mu Yunchu said after a few breaths.

Gu Qingyue paused for a moment, "I was separated from my family when I was young, and this is all I have left."

"Separated since childhood? Do you still remember things from before?" Mu Yun Chu asked.

Gu Qingyue gently stroked the pattern on the back of the jade pendant and said softly, "Well, I was about three years old. I don't remember anything before that. I was adopted by my foster parents when I was little and grew up in Xinghua Village."

After saying that, Gu Qingyue sighed in her heart. The little girl who longed for her family was no longer alive. Even if she found her family, she would only be left with a lifetime of regret.

However, in order to fulfill the original owner's dream, she still had to find her parents and relatives so that she could see with her own eyes the expectations and concerns her parents had for her. In the worst case, if she was deliberately abandoned back then, she would still ask on behalf of the original owner: Why?

Seeing the boy's somewhat forlorn expression, Mu Yun Chu understood. No wonder he didn't go back after coming out to find his relatives; so that was the reason.

He examined the jade pendant in the boy's hand again, his expression shifting slightly: "May I take a closer look? Perhaps I can help you find some clues."

Upon hearing this, Gu Qingyue was overjoyed and quickly took off the jade pendant and handed it to Mu Yun Chu.

Mu Yun Chu carefully examined the jade pendant and found a unique character for "moon" on the back, which must be the boy's name.

Just as I was about to examine the pattern closely, a long wolf howl suddenly came from outside.

The distance must have been quite far, but both of them were sharp-eared and sharp-eyed, and they heard it immediately.

Mu Yun Chu stuffed the jade pendant into Gu Qing Yue's hand, stood up, and strode towards the cave entrance. Gu Qing Yue quickly got up and followed.

"Be on guard! Wolves are approaching!" Mu Yun Chu shouted loudly from outside the cave entrance.

Upon hearing this, the soldiers who had been sleeping soundly against the trees outside the cave immediately grabbed their weapons and stood up. In a short while, they formed a semicircle, with their weapons facing outwards, surrounding Mu Yun Chu and Gu Qing Yue inside, ready for battle.

Several men in black got up and rushed towards the direction of the wolf howl.

In the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, the group returned.

"Master, we are surrounded by wolves. We can't see the exact number of wolves, but we estimate there are more than a hundred," the man in black said, his expression extremely grave.

How could such a large wolf pack be such a coincidence? Mu Yun Chu lowered her head and pondered.

Gu Qingyue: Over a hundred wolves? Holy crap!

Gu Qingyue looked up at the man beside her and saw that he had his brows furrowed. He made a gesture, and Mu Nan and the man in black approached, bowing slightly to Mu Yun Chu.

Gu Qingyue consciously took two steps back.

She had no intention of eavesdropping at this moment, so she turned her gaze elsewhere and saw that the soldiers in the distance were also rushing towards this side, spontaneously finding good positions on the outer perimeter and waiting for the wolf pack to arrive.

Watching Mu Nan and the man in black walk towards the outer perimeter to give instructions, Gu Qingyue took two steps closer to Mu Yun Chu and asked, "Just tell me what you need me to do."

After saying that, she took out the long dagger she always carried in her backpack. It was specially made in Lizhou Prefecture, and it was slightly longer than an ordinary dagger, with a fine blood groove.

Mu Yun Chu glanced at her dagger but didn't say anything, only gesturing for her to calm down.

When Mu Nan approached again and whispered in Mu Yun Chu's ear, the fleeting cold storm in his eyes made Gu Qing Yue secretly startled.

What happened?

Gu Qingyue tightened her grip on the dagger, placed her other hand on the backpack on her back, and quietly put the heavier items, such as medicinal herbs, into her spatial storage.

Since a bloody battle was inevitable, she should travel light, especially since there were several rare pills she had personally crafted in her backpack that she didn't want to be destroyed by the wolf claws.

As the wolf howls grew closer and closer, the atmosphere at the cave entrance became increasingly tense, but no one panicked.

"Awooo-------", with a sharp wolf howl, several gray-brown figures darted into the crowd.

"Kill—" Mu Nan shouted, raising his longsword and charging into the wolf pack first.

In an instant, spears, halberds, and swords were drawn, and the air was filled with shouts. The wolf pack charged left and right, and in a short while, the outermost soldiers were engaged in battle with the wolves.