Elvis laughed softly and said, “right, you’re right for being weak.”
Lea was also not angered, and leaned deeper into Gu Mengmeng’s arms, with three of them forming a circle.
The next day morning, Gu Mengmeng woke up in Elvis’ arms. When she opened her eyes, she saw that Elvis was looking at her as though his eyes were glazed with honey. Lea was preparing food nearby and Auretin was circling the wok as usual. It seemed that Wabei was still scared of her as he was standing even further away from her.
There were many wolves around them but they did not come close and only patrolled around outside, as though they were guarding the place.
Gu Mengmeng pointed at those wolves and asked, “they…”
Elvis tidied Gu Mengmeng’s hair and replied, “do you remember the colourful snakes around Snakel in the past?”
Gu Mengmeng nodded. Those snakes had also been following her for a period of time afterwards, but because she was not used to having them around her all the time, and she had always been travelling, the weather was a threatening problem to those small snakes, so she commanded them to return to the Snake King valley before they stopped following her.
Elvis continued, “after becoming the Beast King, my body seem to be exuding an attractive aura that is important to the wolves. As they yearn for their king, it is part of their instinct to gather around me. Even though they are just beasts, they have their own way of thinking and communication method. Surprisingly… I can sense what they are thinking now.”
Gu Mengmeng also understood this feeling, so after she became the Snake King, she insisted on not eating snake meat.
Even though she never ate it in the past, but the feeling is even more different now.
Elvis laughed and said, “this is great. Even though you don’t like eating wolf meat and complained that it was tough, but in the situation that we cannot hunt, at least you won’t have to starve.”
Gu Mengmeng’s mouth twitched. “You still dare to eat wolves?”
Elvis lowered his head and laughed. He narrowed his eyes and said, “don’t forget, when I was in the stray beast camp, I eat even orcs. Even if I can sense their thoughts and understand their language, but they are still just beasts. To quote Snakel, ‘they are my people, so I can kill them if I want, and eat them if I want’. It is their honour that they can fill up my wife’s stomach. If you don’t believe, you can ask if they are willing to become the food in my stomach.”
Elvis howled and the surrounding wolves all bent their front limbs as though to show their submission and obedience to him.
Gu Mengmeng held her forehead. Were their thoughts this different because of gender or clan? This was a strange rhetorical question that she would never have an answer to.
Gu Mengmeng shook her head and said, “forget it. From today onwards, we shall not eat any wolf meat, otherwise I will feel disgusted.”
“I’ll do just as you say,” Elvis was not concerned, after all there were so many beasts that they could eat so it did not make much difference.
After breakfast, everyone were preparing to set off. Lea handed over the cutleries to Auretin to clean up, whereas he swayed his tail and walked to Gu Mengmeng’s side, asking, “should we head directly to Motou mountains or return to the tribe first?”
Gu Mengmeng held her cheek in dilemma.
Go to Motou mountains first? But they did not have the means to ascend the mountain yet?
Return to the tribe…
It was unlikely that there would be vulture falling from a sky if they waited at their tribe.
“Let’s go to Sauder first,” Elvis suggested. “Now that I am the wolf king, the wolves in different tribes most likely would slowly gather around me. Even though Saint Nazaire and Zacharias are our tribes, their territory areas are quite limited. I’m afraid that they are not large enough to house so many wolves. Only Sauder that has been merged from 16 tribes would have the sufficient resources.”