Chapter 40 – Entering (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

After resting a while, the main leader entered the forest, together with forty warriors, while the remaining people waited outside.

The other warriors were divided into five smaller groups. Instead of entering the forest together, they would enter their own hunting areas according to the originally planned routes.

As Shao Xuan was listening to Lang Ga’s words, he looked up and saw that Mai was leading Mao in their direction.

“That kid was not in our group. Why is he here now? Wants to change a route?” Ang whispered to some of his pals in a low voice.

“Just a minute ago I saw Mao went to the leader, and right after that, Mai was called upon.” Kui, who was pretty close with Lang Ga and Ang, explained. Kui was not much older than Shao Xuan, however, he grew fast after his awakening, so now he was almost the same height as Lang Ga.

Lang Ga and Ang curled their mouths at the same time.

Shao Xuan knew it in his heart, that the leader of the hunting team was Mao’s old man. He learnt it from Lang Ga and his friends’ talks.

Mao had considerable ability of his own, which was one of the reasons that he could have the chance to tag along with the hunting team. He was indeed much better than most of his peers, and he behaved quite well during the previous hunting mission. The other reason that he could be part of the hunting team was because of his father. With these two factors combined, other warriors in the hunting team surely had no problem with Mao’s presence in the team.

Apparently it was Mao’s own idea to come to their group, and the leader had approved that.

“Ah-Xuan, come here and see. You and Mao awakened at the same time, and you are similar in ages. However, Mao has more hunting experience than you, so you guys should communicate more with each other when it’s time to hunting.” Said Mai.

“Sure.” Shao Xuan did not show any reluctant expression, for he had no reason, nor qualification to do that.

To Shao Xuan’s surprise, Mao did not reveal the “I am the world’s king” kind of attitude that he used to reveal, nor did he look at Shao Xuan provocatively. Instead, he was quite obedient and he paid extra attention when Mai was arranging the plans of their mission. Judging from that, he was indeed much smarter than Fei.

After a while, there were sounds of a wood-whistle from deep in forest. The whistle sounded like a bird or deer’s wail, so it didn’t feel out of place from the forest.

That was the signal sent from the advance party, meaning that there were no wild beasts ahead that were beyond the warriors’ ability, and there was nothing unusual from before. So the follow-up team could advance.

“Okay, now it’s time for us to enter!” Mai called on the others in the group, “As usual, we have to arrive at the other side of the mountain before sunset!”

Shao Xuan looked at the mountain that Mai pointed out, which was a big, tall mountain. If Shao Xuan were in his last life, it would be totally impossible for him to even think about that. However, here, he had already gotten used to it.

The other groups had other hunting routes, and some of them would take detours in other directions, instead of climbing a mountain.

The thirty-warrior team entered the deep forest, while each and every one of them carried a lot of equipment. However, as they were travelling between the trees, not much sound was created.

Above, there were numerous ancient trees, whose stretching branches and wide leaves almost covered the sky. Beneath those trees there were many unidentified shrubs clustering together. Between the spaces of the shrubs, there were roots of giant ancient trees exposing themselves above the ground.

Warriors all jumped on the trunk from the ground, and then energetically leaped among the branches. About thirty people jumping over one by one, while the branches merely shook slightly. The sound of leaves in the forest did not attract any creature’s special attention.

Shao Xuan followed the man ahead of him and jumped from the ground to the trunk. And a short time later he jumped on a huge vine from the branch where he stood at.