Chapter 33 (1/2)
Bai Song is not in a rush to enter the cave, instead, he activates his sneak skill.
His footsteps are soft and his figure slightly warped, his breathing is almost like the air current in the surrounding. This is the difference between an expert using sneak compared to a newbie.
Those haphazard thieves even when using sneak can be easily found when Bai Song activates his perception. On the other hand, when Bai Song uses sneak, he is the current peak expert in its usage.
[ED: Looks decent, probably could do better but it is 2:14 AM as I am editing this because of a Hectic day so meh]
Silently like cat hunting, Bai Song enters the cave. In the cave, there are no signs of people staying in it, looking completely like a naturally formed cave, but when Bai Song sees this, he is very happy.
The cave is not very big but it is also not small, there is nothing in the cave, it looks completely like an abandoned cave.
Bai Song only knows that the lair inside is a cave within the cave, but Empty Hand did not mention the method to enter the lair, furthermore he did not even mention if the 40th bandit head is a male or female, old or young. Although the 40th bandit head is only an NPC, he is also considered half a master in Empty Hand’s heart.
[ED: Sorry but I will a.s.sume gender here and use he for 40th Head]
Hence Empty Hand did not mention anything regarding 40th bandit head at all.
Looking at this bare cave, Bai Song can only shake his head and smile bitterly. Don't even talk about making changes, if he can follow Empty Hand’s old path it is good enough already. The question now is how on earth is he supposed to find the hidden mechanism.
Since he is unable to thinking of which method Empty Hand used, Bai Song can only rely on his own methods.
His very first thought was that since this was supposed to be a cave within a cave, the walls will be hollow. Hence he immediately deactivated sneak and started knocking on the walls.
But after knocking on all sides, with Bai Song’s current hearing senses, he actually is unable to differentiate if there is any difference. ”Did I knock too softly? If I knock harder would I be noticed? Forget it… Let's not care anymore, if I am unable to find the lair everything is nothing but empty words.”
Hence Bai Song took out his chopper, using the chopper he started to hack at the walls, but after going in a circle, he is still unable to obtain any results.
”That’s alright if it is so easy to discover, the 40th bandit head would never be famous.” Bai Song sits on the ground and sighs.
As Bai Song sits on the ground he keeps thinking of ideas to find the hidden mechanism, a few of those ideas were immediately vetoed and the others were ineffective after trying them out.
Just as Bai Song is about to be at his wit's end, he sees a dark brown insect flying into the cave from outside. The insect hides its wings and starts crawling on the ground.
Bai Song takes a closer look and realizes that it is a mole cricket. The mole cricket in also called LaLaGu, RockDog, PlowDog, it is also called an Earth Dog in Sichuan district, it is a type of cricket that is able to fly in the air and bore in the dirt, a miraculous species.
This gives Bai Song a bright idea.
It must be known that a mole cricket has phototaxis1, towards sweet foods such as half-cooked millet, stir-fried bean cake, wheat bran, horse manure and other organic fertilizer they will have an intense reaction and go towards them. As such loose and moist mud or wet sand are the best for their larva.
[ED: Yeah still 2 something AM, Still not able to go 100% on this one, I’ll re-edit it later when I have the time]
In this cave, there is nothing that the mole cricket likes to eat so it like is more likely that it is the latter possibility.
Mole crickets like loose soil, hence if there is a place in which the soil has been frequently moved, that areas soil will definitely be looser than other areas.