Wilderness Redemption Tour

"Yeah," Hamish, who was concentrating on skinning, said, "If there were only two or three wolves, I could still deal with them, but if a whole group of wolves set their sights on me, then I would just be waiting to die."

It was around four o'clock in the afternoon when Lin Yan and his friends set out from Hamish's house. They took a walk around the mountain and fought with the wolves. Before they knew it, another hour had passed.

Seeing that it was getting late, Lin Yan looked up at the darkening sky, then looked at the busy veterans, and asked, "It's getting dark, you're not going to skin all the wolves here, are you?"

"Yes, that's what I thought." Hamish, who was skinning the animals, seemed extremely excited. He was completely different from when he saw the wolves just now.

"But it's getting dark, and we can't rule out the possibility of other ferocious beasts nearby..." Lin Yan's words were like pouring cold water on Hamish.

"Well... That's right..." Hamish gradually calmed down after being reminded by Lin Yan. Looking at the half-peeled wolf skin, Hamish asked: "Can you wait for me a little longer? We will leave after I peel its skin. I think I will never meet such a beast again. It doesn't make sense not to leave something as a souvenir."

Lin Yan nodded in agreement. "It's okay to just peel this one."

Hamish took out a pair of pliers from somewhere and handed them to Lin Yan. "Do you want to leave something behind? Like teeth, claws, or something?" He touched the sleeves of his coat. After being pounced on by the wolf, the sleeves of his coat had become tattered. "This guy's claws are really strong. It just rubbed against my clothes and it became like this."

Lin Yan waved his hand at him, but didn't reach out to take it. "No, I don't have the habit of collecting spoils."

"Let me do it." Sadie said eagerly, "It would be nice to extract a tooth and make it into a decoration."

Taking the pliers, Sadie walked to the bloody head of the black wolf, squatted down, and pried open its mouth without changing her expression and started tinkering with it.

Lin Yan watched speechlessly as the number of people working on the wolf changed from one to two. He had never worn any jewelry before, so he didn't understand why these two people were so enthusiastic about this. Wolf skin can be used to make clothes, so it's understandable that you peeled it, but what's the use of pulling out its teeth and nails? There is no relevant culture and customs in the United States. Does wearing teeth and claws really look good?

After Sadie started, she pulled out four teeth in a row before she chose the one she was most satisfied with. After choosing the teeth, Lin Yan saw that she was eyeing the wolf's paws again. She picked up a front paw and looked at it, but after a while she shook her head and gave up. It was unknown what she didn't like.

Hamish's skinning work was coming to an end. Since the wolf's head had been beaten to pieces by Lin Yan, he had to discard the fur on the head. But since he was going to use it for himself, he didn't care much about this defect.

Blowing a whistle to call the three people's horses, Hamish placed the rolled wolfskin on the horse's back, and returned triumphantly with Lin Yan and Sadie in the sunset.

Nearing Hamish's cabin, Lin Yan once again rejected the other party's kindness in staying for dinner.

Hamish tried to persuade him, "No, no, you've helped me twice in a row, and you saved my life today. You should at least give me a chance to thank you, right?"

"Next time." Lin Yan declined politely, "We have to go back quickly. If we go back too late, our companions will be worried."

"How about you take this wolf skin away?" Hamish held up the wolf skin on the horse's back. "As long as you find someone to tan it, it will be a fine fur coat. Don't worry, I can skin the rest of the wolves tomorrow."

"Well... okay." Lin Yan was afraid that refusing again would hurt the other party's feelings, so he had to bite the bullet and take the roll of wolf skin.

"You deserve this." Seeing Lin Yan accept his thank you gift, Hamish happily stretched out his right hand and said, "I still say the same thing. You two are always welcome to come here."

"No problem, see you next time." Lin Yan also smiled and stretched out his right hand to shake hands with the other party, but what he was thinking in his heart: This task is really long. I didn't receive any rewards after coming here twice. It seems I have to come here for the third time.

"Are you going to come again?" Sadie asked in confusion after parting with Hamish. She didn't understand why Lin Yan was so obsessed with this veteran. There were veterans like Hamish in Valentine, Rhodes, and St. Denis, but she had never seen Lin Yan so obsessed with others.

Lin Yan thought about it. He couldn't tell Sadie that he had a feeling that Hamish was an important NPC and that he would be rewarded if he completed a series of tasks related to him. If this happened in modern society, the other party would definitely think he was mentally ill. Although Sadie was also a virtual character, he was not sure if Sadie could understand this, so he could only answer vaguely: "I was just being polite to him. I can't tell him I'll never see him again when I leave."

Sadie thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case, so she didn't ask any further questions.

When Lin Yan returned to the camp, he found that there were many fewer people in the camp tonight, including Dutch and Micah, who had not returned with him at noon; there were also Arthur, who came back and went out again; and Sean and Lenny, who usually went out in the morning and came back before dusk, but today they were all missing as if they had agreed on it.

At this time, it is not a good thing for so many people to disappear at the same time. After Lin Yan discovered this problem, he didn't even have time to eat. He immediately found Hosea and gave him the wolf skin that Hamish had sent him.

"Oh, such a big wolf skin is rare." Hosea happily stroked the gift Lin Yan gave him. Hearing Lin Yan's question, he first signaled Lin Yan not to worry, and then pointed to the cooking pot on the campfire: "Go and get the rice first, and listen to me while you eat."

Seeing Hosea's calmness, Lin Yan felt relieved, knowing that nothing serious had happened. Under Hosea's instructions, he and Sadie each filled a bowl of stew, and then came to Hosea again with the bowls.

After the two sat down, Hosea put the wolf skin aside and said calmly, "Let's talk about Sean and Lenny first. When Sean came back in the afternoon and saw that Dutch was not there, he came to me and said he was leaving too. He told me that he was embarrassed to face Dutch directly, but he didn't want to leave without saying goodbye, so he chose to leave when Dutch was not around."

"Since Sean learned that Karen had left, he has become a different person. He is absent-minded all day long. In my eyes, he used to be a child who never grew up. He was rebellious, dreamy, and liked to be lively, but he didn't like to study. I advised him to have a practical goal in life like Lenny, and I also advised him to leave the gang as soon as possible and not to lose his life because of unrealistic fantasies. In the past, he always refused without even thinking about it. Now I feel relieved to see that he has come to his senses."