Chapter 28 – I want to learn stone crafting (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

Lang Ga choked.

At first Lang Ga had guessed a few possible answers that Shao Xuan might come up with, and he planned to judge and guide him in detail no matter which answer he had. Just the same as every time in the past when there was someone newly joined the hunting team. However, Lang Ga did not expect Shao Xuan to have such an implausible answer and to go way off script.

What did one’s left hand have anything to do with it?

But Lang Ga did not overthink it, instead, he just corrected it with a serious face, “It’s stone!”

“You should know that a long time ago, when we first started a life here, we were just living in the cave. Stone was something that we saw and touched every day. It could keep us sheltered, and help us to cut and chop wood.”

As he spoke, Lang Ga’s face turned even more serious, and he seemed quite emotional with his fists clenched, “In the meantime, we also used those stones. We could pierce those ferocious beasts through with stones, and smash their heads with stones! Even when we were in danger, stones would also be the thing that accompanied us by our side, until our last breath.”.

Providing shelter; accompanying by one’s side; never to betray nor to abandon. People in the tribe had been dealing with stones from their births. They played with stones, and used stones in their daily life, almost all tools and appliances were made from stones. As for warriors who often went out for hunting missions, they could not be more familiar with stones, and they could never be separated from stoneware. So no wonder Lang Ga said all that.

Certainly, Shao Xuan prefered to call the stones as tools, after all stones had no life.

“Now, you know what is supposed to be our most intimate partner, right?” Lang Ga stared at Shao Xuan and asked again. His expression indicated that this time he would not accept any wrong answer.

Shao Xuan nodded pretty seriously and earnestly, “It’s stone!”

“Ha, you got it right this time!” Lang Ga showed a satisfied smile immediately, and then continued on the topic of hunting.

“Oh, Ah-Xuan, now since you just got awakened this year, you are not allowed to participate in the first hunting mission of this year. Perhaps you would also miss the second one as well. As for the third hunting mission, you are the only one who could decide whether you could join us or not. It’s all up to your ability.” Said Lang Ga.

Hmm? Was there such a thing? Shao Xuan was not aware of that.

Seeing Shao Xuan’s curiosity, Lang Ga explained, “You just awakened, so you and the other newly awakened totemic warriors may be rough in using your powers and strength. You have to go through some training first.”

Lang Ga even put it mildly, but Shao Xuan could speculate the reason hidden in his words.

However, the second reason was because the newly awakened warriors like Shao Xuan had not achieved some certain level of ability. Hunting teams valued team-working a lot. Therefore, someone with no guaranteed personal abilities would be a heavy liability to the team, who could bring no help but instead appeared to be a burden.

“Understood!” Shao Xuan did not feel disappointed when he had thought things through. Also, he felt that he should have his foundation properly built first. It’s not a bad thing that he could have the time to practice more.

Lang Ga was relieved with Shao Xuan’s reaction, originally he thought that Shao Xuan might be disappointed or reluctant as the other kids, and he did not expect him to have cleared the dots so soon. When he asked Shao Xuan to come to the party and meet his future teammates, he also planned to tell Shao Xuan about the first two hunting missions. In the past, many newly awakened warriors would make a scene when they were told that they were not allowed to join the first two hunting missions after they had become fully excited about the hunting. When those circumstances happened, in most cases, the kids’ parents would discipline them with a few slaps on the face. After that, they would behave much better. However, Shao Xuan came from orphan cave and both his parents had died long before. What’s more, he appeared to be much more emaciated than the other kids, so Lang Ga was worried that perhaps he would hurt him if he had to give Shao Xuan a few slaps.

“Good! I’m glad that you can think it through. By the way, I have a few fine stone cores here. I’ll give them to you, you may craft them yourself, or just go and find a stoneware crafter.”

Lang Ga took out a few stones in different sizes from his animal skin bag, those were the stone cores that Lang Ga mentioned earlier.

The materials to make stoneware could be obtained after hitting and forging the stones, and people in the tribe would call those stone cores.

After giving the stone cores to Shao Xuan, Lang Ga shared some training experiences with him as well. The others at the party did not hold back their experiences either, they did not have that kind of thought in their minds.

Shao Xuan kept their advices in mind silently, and then sincerely thanked them for the sharing.

“Your father used to help me when he was alive.” Lang Ga said. People in hunting teams were just like that, each of them was willing to lend a hand to others when possible. Even though they could not help Shao Xuan a lot on his training, their advices could make it easier anyway.

After having some grilled meat, Shao Xuan excused himself from the party, he had other things that needed to be done. While Lang Ga and the others kept on discussing about the coming hunting mission in five days.

Shao Xuan was called to stop, not long after he had come out from Lang Ga’s house.

“Are you Xuan?”

Shao Xuan looked at the voice’s direction and saw a kid older than himself. He looked the same age as Sai, but much stronger. The animal skin clothes on him seemed to be of good quality, Shao Xuan assumed that he wasn’t someone from the mountain foot district. Instead, he seemed more like someone living in the mountain side or mountaintop district. Shao Xuan had some memory of him, they were awakened at the same ritual ceremony, but Shao Xuan did not know his name yet.

At the same time, the kid raised his head high, and seemed pretty proud, and he was measuring Shao Xuan with his eyes.

Standing on a high ground and keeping his chin up, didn’t his eyes feel tired? Shao Xuan glimpsed at him and asked, “Who are you?”

At first, Shao Xuan thought that he would stand on his dignity and answer with something like “It doesn’t matter who I am” to keep the appearances. However, the kid answered directly, “My name is Fei. After five days, I will be joining the hunting team to attend the first mission of this year. I bet you still have to wait for a long time before you can tag along, right?”

After his declaration, he sneered at Shao Xuan and then jumped up high above Shao Xuan’s head. When he landed with his tip toes, he soon jumped up again. After a few leaps, he had already placed himself in front of Lang Ga’s door. Apparently he had something to discuss with Lang Ga.