Chapter 21: The Mighty Wayfarer

The two black wolves closed in towards Allen and Jennifer, and they opened their mouths wide enough to see sharp fangs that could surely tear someone to pieces.

Allen picked up Webber's gun from the ground and stood with Jennifer.

"When exactly will your backup be here?" Allen asked.

"It'll be about ten minutes before the nearest patrol car arrives." Jennifer's voice trembled.

One black wolf had made her and Allen fight to block it, but now there were two and an eagle, which was dangerous.

"What kind of monster is this guy? A wizard?" Jennifer asked.

"How would I know if you ask me?" Allen was a bit speechless, and two black wolves rushed over as soon as his words fell. "Look out!" Allen shrieked, his dynamic vision catching the black wolf's trajectory. He raised his gun, but he ignored the weapon's recoil.

A gunshot rang out, and the bullet missed, originally aiming at the black wolf's stomach but hitting the black wolf's paw instead.

Jennifer immediately shot for support, but an eagle appeared overhead and attacked her.

The eagle's talons were sharp and ripped open Jennifer's shirt, revealing a large expanse of snow-white skin and a few claw marks.

"We'd better get back-to-back. That might be safer." Allen had just finished his proposal when he got Jennifer's affirmation.

The two men cautiously avoided the black wolves back-to-back and used bullets to push the beasts back, but the situation was still not promising.

"At this rate, we're screwed. Can't we take out that guy first?" Jennifer fired a shot toward the far side of the phalanx, but a black wolf jumped up and blocked his bullet.

"Damn, these animals, unless they hit the vitals, they have no effect at all." Allen found out how complex these beasts were.

Suddenly, Allen and Jennifer's pistols made the hollow sound of a firing pin; something terrible had happened. They were out of bullets.

The spare magazines were still on Webber's person, and it was obvious that the Black Wolf wouldn't give Allen a chance to change them.

A black wolf jumped up and bit at Jennifer's throat, and just as Jennifer was too late to block and felt desperate, Allen knocked her out of the way, but the consequence of doing so was that the black wolf bit his arm.

A sharp pain came from Allen's arm, and he frantically smashed the black wolf's head, but the damn vicious wolf's bite got tighter and tighter, and blood flowed out of his arm like crazy.

At this critical moment, a knife suddenly flew over and stuck in the head of the black wolf, which immediately turned into smoke and dissipated, and the knife fell to the ground, a fruit knife.

Everyone in the room looked in the direction from which the fruit knife flew. There was a figure in a grey hooded sweatshirt, which should be a lady judging from the dress.

Allen saw the lady's face under the mask, and it was beautiful, a bit like Anne Hathaway's.

The lady was carrying a Wal-Mart shopping bag in her hand, and she walked towards the speckled snake, not moving fast, just as casually as a passerby who had just returned from shopping at the supermarket.

The speckled snake sensed a threat in the woman. He commanded the remaining black wolves and eagles to pounce towards the woman.

The black wolf opened its mouth to bite at the woman, its sharp claws trying to rip the woman's clothes off, but the woman's hands lit up with golden patterns, and the fist emitting golden light slammed hard into the jaws of the wolf's mouth.

Blackwolf's mouth was knocked askew, and he fell to the ground.

The woman grabbed the black wolf's tail and swung it hard, slamming it into the swooping eagle.

The moment the two beasts collided. Their bodies turned into black smoke.

The woman walked over to Allen, picked up the fruit knife on the ground, and flung it at the garter snake.

Before the knife's tip touched the speckled snake's skin, its body became smoke and burrowed into a side sewer.

"Dirty rats." The woman said in a slightly raspy voice.

When the woman finished, she looked at Allen and Jennifer and asked, "Why don't you hide in the police car if you can't beat them?"

Allen and Jennifer were embarrassed because they were so nervous that they forgot.

That's when the woman heard sirens in the distance and headed toward another alley.

"Please wait!" Jennifer chased after the other woman, wanting to know her identity, but the woman was fast, and she quickly lost her.

Allen is tending to his injuries at the hospital when Jerome, who has received word, rushes over.

"Hey man, you know how worried I was when I got your message!" Jerome yelled as soon as he saw Allen.

"Man, you’re more worried about me, but can you zipper up your pants first?" Allen looked at Jerome's open crotch and shook his head. The guy must have just come from a woman's bed; he still had lipstick marks on his face.

The nurses around them looked at Jerome with strange eyes, but the guy was too thick-skinned to care about their stares.

Jerome zipped up his zipper and bragged, "Hey man, you know, I'm so big down there, I'm always holding my zipper open."

Allen rolled his eyes, not bothering to spit at the shameless guy.

"By the way, I have a few things to trouble you with!" Allen said seriously to Jerome.