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Attibute Panel: Evolution from an Artic Wolf

40 - An unknown predator

Time passed very quickly.

After three days, Luke had not gone out hunting again and preferred to stay in the cave recovering.

His injury had largely healed.

As long as he wasn't in a fierce fight, his injury wouldn't affect his daily life at all.

With his passive talent, his wound, which should have taken more than a month to heal, had now almost completely healed in just a few days.

"Auuuuu!"

Luke, who had returned from inspecting the surroundings, stood at the entrance of the cave and let out a powerful howl from this side of the cave.

The howl of a wolf echoed in the darkness for a long time. With this, dangerous predators would think twice before approaching their cave. Luke made sure that the predators wouldn't attack the cave when he was gone.

But even so, the strength attributes of Ardad and Anie were also constantly improving.

Baxter was already getting closer to level five.

As for Ardad and Anie, they were the ones who reached level three.

During the last few days, Ardad had significantly raised his statistics.

As for little Ondina, she had grown a lot, showing off her beautiful white hair like snow, just like her brother.

During all the nights, especially in these extremely cold seasons, Ondina preferred to sleep next to her brother and Anie.

Ardad, on the other hand, slept next to Baxter, who had also increased the size of their bodies.

But now everyone's hair was very long and furry, perfectly protecting them from the waves of cold that could affect their bodies.

With this, the general strength of the pack had increased a lot, and although they were all still growing, they didn't differ much from other packs.

"But this is something never seen in other packs..." Luke watched as Ardad and Baxter started fighting again.

Baxter's thick claws brought down Ardad's attack, who received the blow directly and flew back.

Then, Baxter pressed him to the ground.

"Awawawawa!"

This made Ardad howl in the usual way, asking for mercy.

Ondina and Anie were lazily lounging, watching these two wolves put on a show.

Ondina occasionally howled to cheer on Ardad, who always lost.

In the cave, it could be said that the atmosphere was relaxed and harmonious.

...

But at that moment, in a completely different place about thirty kilometers from Luke's cave, an all-terrain vehicle stopped.

Rue and her team were trying to search the area where they had lost the drone last time with the help of another drone.

But they soon discovered that the female deaf bear who had recently given birth was not found.

Even Brad, with his group's insistence, manipulated the drone to enter the den of the female brown bear and try to observe, but there was nothing.

Everyone thought that the brown bear had taken the cubs out to eat, and while taking shots of some creatures that appeared from time to time, they also searched for the female brown bear's trail.

And finally, not far from the deaf bear's den, small traces of blood were found scattered on bushes and steep ice.

Although the ice had mostly covered any traces of blood, Brad and Caesar got out of the car and headed in that direction.

After scanning the area, it was found that the bloodstains were not only here, there were many traces of blood all around that point.

"I'm just the photographer, but if you ask me, I have to say that something really messed up happened here."

"Yes, everything seems to indicate that there was a fight here..." Caesar crouched down and began to clear the snow with a wooden stick.

Brad took advantage of the moment to show off and said, "Just look at this, what a spectacular shot... Wow!"

"The fight in this place was extremely fierce..."

"Brad, stop fooling around and show us the ground," Rue said, trying to draw her own conclusions.

"It's getting dark, you should go back and film everything with the drone," Finnick said as they watched the sky slowly darken.

Minutes later, Brad and Caesar returned to the car and shortly after, the drone arrived at the scene while scenes that could be considered for their documentary were being taken.

"Looking at the amount of blood, it cannot be from a single animal, and we also should not consider small animals..." Rue mentioned this special point.

"Do you think it's the female deaf bear?" Finnick asked as he took off his glasses.

"What are you talking about?"

"It makes sense, what other animal would be weak after a female brown bear gives birth?"

Caesar shook his head and pointed out, "I don't think any predator is that intelligent, and the female brown bear chose a good time to have a baby when predators and dangerous animals are not as active."

"But it makes sense, otherwise, where is the female brown bear? We haven't thought that finding a large refuge is now difficult, so that wouldn't come to the mind of a female brown bear considering her cubs."

...

Several hours later, everyone had finished their work for the day and decided to return since the day wasn't very good.

On the way, Rue remained thoughtful about it.

What kind of animal or group of animals could kill an adult female brown bear? If so, many others should have died and there would be visible traces at least.

However, when they looked around, there was absolutely no trace, as if every part of the brown bear and other animals had disappeared.

"This is very strange..."