Chapter 64 Haze Flowers (2/2)
The next thing I heard was a loud bang in the place I stood. It was the caterpillar looking creature that tried to ram into me. I sprinted towards Shelly and could hear more of those creatures popping out from the ground. There were at least 4 of them behind me now.
When I arrived next to Shelly who was still a bit dizzy, I picked Shelly up and ran towards the forest. I ran like crazy, as if the devil himself was chasing me. After about 30 minutes of such running, I finally stopped. When I looked behind, I saw nothing and when I put my ear to the ground I also heard no digging or noises coming from underground.
I placed Shelly down and said ”That was dangerous. These creatures are quite sturdy. My daggers do nothing against them”. I looked at Shelly's shell and said ”Wait a minute, I will give you some medicine to recover”. Shelly seemed happy about that and I gave it some Vital Liquid to drink while I rubbed another vial on the shell. I then said ”Alright, we have all the ingredients we need. Let's return to where the cave is and I will make the poison there”. Shelly nodded it's head and followed after me.
Walking back towards the mountain cave that the furry deer creatures occupied, I noticed some strange tracks. When I examined them, the seemed to be made by humans. I though 'Probably hunters, it is possible they are here for the furry goats'. I then said to Shelly ”We need to look out, those tracks probably belong to hunters who are not greatly experienced. From what I know, hunters would leave almost no tracks behind them and I probably wouldn't be able to find them. We need to be on our guard”.
Shelly nodded it's head and we moved forward towards the cave. When we were about 10 minutes away from the cave, I could see some frightened furry deers, Shelly called out to them and the furry deer came over to interact with Shelly. I looked with interest at the interaction and wondered if Shelly can actually communicate with all animals.
After a while, Shelly pointed at me and then draw something on the ground. When it finished, I saw a sword again. I asked ”Are the hunters here for the furry deer to harm them again?” to which Shelly nodded it's head. I said ”Alright, I already promised to resolve this and so I shall take care of those hunters as well”.
I moved towards the cave and could see furry deer hidden everywhere. I then noticed couple of humans holding 3 furry deers that were tied with a rope while around them were couple of carcasses of said creatures. I could see that they were laughing and joking about something, so I pricked my ears to listen in on the conversation.
”Hey, Denis. If we bring him more than 3, will we get bonus money?”
”HA! As if! This old miser will never give us additional money, he would just take it as a donation. Don't be greedy Mark, we still get good money for that task”.
”True, let's just stick with 3 of them and it will be easier to carry them as well”.
After hearing this conversation, I was now sure that someone needed those furry deer for some kind of experiments. He even paid for them to be delivered. I didn't wait for them to leave as I simply drew my daggers and threw one after another.
These people may have been beginner hunters of some sort but against my daggers they were nothing. All the daggers connected the unexpecting targets and all of them died. When the animals saw this, they stopped trembling or hidding and ran towards me.
I could see that all the furry deer were grateful for my help and some even licked me like dogs. I said ”That is enough, I promised you to take care of this problem”, I then walked towards the three furry deer that were tied and undid the ropes. I took the ropes with me because they were not that heavy and one or two more ropes would always be useful.
I then said to Shelly ”I shall make the poison now, when I'm done with it, we will got to that village and take care of it”. Shelly nodded it's head and communicated this to other animals.