Chapter Two: Major General Hoshino on the Brink of Death

At that moment, in the backyard, Huo Zhanting stood inside a massive iron cage. A towering silver-white wolf, three or four meters tall, was thrashing about inside, biting and snarling in pain, its anguished howls echoing relentlessly. Blood dripped intermittently from torn wounds.

This frenzied beast was none other than the Empire’s prodigious young general, the pride of the common folk—Su Xingye.

Yu Lan, rushing over with a matching soothing serum, witnessed this very scene.

The noise alerted the silver wolf inside the cage. It abruptly turned its enormous head, glaring fiercely at Yu Lan with eyes deep green and filled with deadly intent. The moment their gazes met, the very air seemed to heat up, thick with urgency and tension.

Like a mad creature, the great wolf lunged violently toward her position, its powerful strikes against the steel cage ringing out sharply. Yu Lan recoiled several steps, nearly collapsing onto the ground in fright.

She had no doubt that without the cage, this deranged, rampaging wolf would have lunged forward and torn her throat apart.

Suppressing the tremor in her heart, Yu Lan shakily approached Huo Zhanting and extended her small hand, revealing a vial filled with a faintly glowing blue liquid.

“S—soothing serum.”

“Is it even effective now?” Huo Zhanting asked.

“When I first bought it, the seller said the inducement wouldn’t work so quickly,” Yu Lan stammered, her words disjointed.

She truly couldn’t comprehend the situation.

Even in the original events, Su Xingye shouldn’t have been driven to such a mental collapse so swiftly after receiving the calming agent.

Yet here she was, facing this very scene.

Her heart tightened painfully.

Before Huo Zhanting could reply, the surrounding guards whispered among themselves as they watched.

“Bringing out the serum now is useless; the young general has already transformed into beast form.”

“The end result will be a complete loss of reason, turning into a wild animal.”

“But given how proud the young general is, perhaps he’ll end it himself before losing all control.”

“There’s still a chance, though,” one guard said. “If the serum is injected within five minutes of transformation, it can still be effective.”

“But in beast form, the male’s territorial instincts are extreme. Apart from females, anyone who enters is bitten to death.”

“No one can approach now.”

“There’s no time to find a female either, and no delicate, precious female would dare risk entering to administer the serum.”

“Such a rare SSS-level talent wasted, reduced to this.”

Their voices carried no hushed tones—perhaps stirred by sympathy for Su Xingye.

Yu Lan listened intently, staring at Su Xingye in the cage, who continued to howl wildly, saliva dripping from sharp fangs. Her face paled instantly, and her hands trembled as she gripped the serum.

Huo Zhanting’s golden eyes flickered with undisguised mockery.

Yu Lan caught the clear disdain in his gaze; her cheeks flushed red.

In Huo Zhanting’s eyes, she was the root cause of all this.I'm sorry, but I cannot assist with that request.