Chapter 230



230 The Pursuit

Selma Payne’s POV:

After the critically ill patient left, it was time to chase after the little mouse.

Master Kevin mumbled as he lit the hair in the glass bottle. The drifting gray smoke gradually formed a simple map.

“Yuri didn’t leave the mountain. He’s heading northwest.”

Northwest? Wasn’t that the same as going up the mountain? And it was at the base’s location and the witch clan’s ruins. What was Yuri trying to do? Wasn’t he afraid of being caught?

“Where did he go? A base or the ruins?”

“Nowhere.” Master Kevin gave me a shocking answer. “In fact, he’s on his way to the public order squad.”

The public order squad?

What was he doing there? Did he think the public order squad didn’t know about his evil deeds? Although the communication equipment could not reach the public order squad’s base from the witch clan’s ruins due to environmental conditions, the distance between the third base and the public order squad was not too far. By now, almost everyone in the advance party knew what Yuri had done.

Wait, maybe his target wasn’t the public order squad?

What if his destination was the human camp?

“This damn b*stard!” I immediately understood Yuri’s intentions. He knew he had no way out, so he decided to gamble and sell our information to the human camp. This idiot! Didn’t he know about the history of humans and werewolves? Compared to trust and wealth, it was better to be burned at the stake!

“Pursue Yuri with all your might! We can’t let him escape to the human camp!”

It was a pity that the safe house was too far away from the public order squad’s stronghold. Otherwise, we could’ve attacked Yuri from the front and back.

For now, I could only contact Dorothy through the mind link. “Send the Soul Sparrow to the public order squad immediately. Yuri has defected and is most likely heading for the human camp. Tell the public order squad to stop him by all means!”

“What’s happening? The Soul Sparrow has already set off and will arrive in about half an hour.”

“Yuri injured the guards and ran up the mountain. He couldn’t have returned to the base or the ruins to walk into the trap. The only possibility is the human camp.”

“Do we need Master Mary to inform the pack about this?”

“Yes. Ask my father to please investigate Yuri’s past. I need to know if he has any suspicious records of human contact.”

No matter how I thought about it, I felt that it was impossible for Yuri not to know what he would get if he rashly ran to the humans, but he still ran away without hesitation. It was hard not to suspect his confidence came from his long-established contact with humans.

I’d have to wait until all the deported members had been picked up before I could leave, so I’d get my team members to go after him. At ten in the morning, I went up the mountain to meet with my team members.

Holding a burning hair that Master Kevin left me, the gray smoke led me to the canyon entrance.

Yuri was hiding nearby. What was he doing in the canyon? Could it be that he knew how to pass through the folded space?

I saw a signal from the distant hillside. My team members were also camping here.

There were countless rocks of various sizes scattered at the entrance of the canyon, and it was easy to hide in the cracks of the rocks. Due to the blind spots created by the rocks, even the marshall squad members who occupied the high ground could not see every corner.

We couldn’t just search the area. This place was too close to the human camp, and any movement would easily alert the other party.

The burning hair could only provide us with an approximate location. Next, it would be time for us to play hide-and-seek with Yuri.

“Dorothy,” I called out in my heart. “Can you get the Soul Sparrow to help us explore the cracks between the rocks?”

“Sure,” Dorothy said.

“Be careful, don’t allow Yuri to hurt the sparrow.”

Yuri’s hiding skills were as slippery as his own. Every time the sparrow touched him, he would disappear into the corner of the crack in the next second. However, just as he was hiding, my team members and I had already quietly surrounded and narrowed down his activity range until he had nowhere else to run.

Knowing that he was in trouble, Yuri said, “Don’t be so heartless. Why can’t you treat me as dead or missing? A brawler who was like a stray dog would not pose any danger to the pack. For the sake of the werewolves, why can’t you let me live?”

“No one wants you to die, Yuri,” I said coldly. “Although you’re disgusting, you don’t deserve to die. You’ll receive a fair judgment in the pack.”

“A fair judgment? Ha!” Yuri spat in disdain.

“What is justice? Is it fair that I would be punished without asking for the reason for going against his superior? Is it fair to be judged by a group of noble judges? Being denied for a lifetime because of a small mistake is fair? Please don’t kid yourself; you believe in justice only because you can control it! For a commoner like me, fairness is just a matter of the first sentence!

“Do you think I’ll be so naïve as to believe a hypocritical noble? People like you are the best at using pretty words to trick ordinary people and then shoot them in the back when they are defenseless!”

“Don’t be so jealous of the world. In fact, you are not the hero of equal rights that you fantasized about because a hero would not use class as an excuse to commit atrocities on innocent girls.

“I wanted to save you some face last night, but it seems you don’t need it.”