Chapter 46 – Pale faces (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

The giant stone blocking the entrance of the cave moved a little more, and the shaking sound become more intense and clear.

Based on that sound, Mao had already figured out what creature was moving that stone outside.

Because of that, Mao’s face immediately turned pale. All his blood seemed to have frozen over, as he stood still at his spot, with his eyes fixed on the entrance of the cave.

After examining the vents above, Shao Xuan jumped down and tapped on Mao’s shoulder, which almost made Mao jump up out of fear.

With trembling lips, Mao did not know what to say. After all, he and Shao Xuan were merely two newly-awakened kids, who could never be a proper opponent to that giant creature outside based on their own strength. It was such a big gap between their strength, no matter how brave they were, they could not deny the truth.

Shao Xuan took his knife, and indicated to Mao to escape from above. He had inspected roughly, and no dangerous animals were to be seen by the vent for now. Even if there were some dangerous animals around, there was no other option for them. Going out was far better than waiting inside and be eaten alive.

As the gap by the entrance grew bigger, the wind blew inside, and the flames began to dance more violently.

There was no time for panic, or thinking. Mao tried with great effort to calm himself down, then he followed Shao Xuan to climb up with a bone knife. Even though the experienced hunting warriors warned that night in the forest was filled with danger, they still had to go out.

Anyway, they had a chance of survival if they managed to escape through the vent. Staying inside, they would just die in a very stupid way. Perhaps, before they could even stimulate and gather their strength, they would already be slapped down by that Thorn Black Wind.

The vent barely allowed Shao Xuan and Mao to worm their way out. If they were older with stronger bodies, they would be stuck in.

When Shao Xuan and Mao were worming their way out, half of the entrance was opened.

The sound of shaking thorns was echoing through the cave, for that Thorn Black Wind was too excited. The whole cave was filled by that sound.

Animals in the forests feared the fire, but not all of them. Also, the bonfire in the cave was not big. For a Thorn Black Wind whose body length was over ten meters, such a small flame was no threat at all.

It seemed that it did not expect to find an empty cave. The Thorn Black Wind was curious. It stepped forward slowly. It poked out its long forked tongue to sense the smell inside, and scanned the whole cave with its radar-like sight. It felt that the bonfire seemed annoying, so with sudden speed, it approached the bonfire like a gust of black wind, and stepped on that flame.

Bang!

There was nobody inside, while a heavy smell of bloody meat of the four-fanged wild boar filled the air. However, it could still recognize many people’s smells, among which some of the people he was rather familiar with.

Thinking about its last encounter with those people, the thorns on its body began to shake again.

Sha-Sha-sha!

The sound of shaking thorns was even more rapid than before.

Outside the vent, Shao Xuan and Mao stood there with their backs against the cliff. Now, all they wanted was for the Thorn Black Wind to leave after it confirmed there was nobody inside. When Mai and the others returned, they could go inside the cave again.

Shao Xuan held his breath, as he focused on listening to the sounds in the cave. Aside from the sha-sha sound that occasionally entered his ears, he had no way to find what was happening inside. The sound of it stepping on the bonfire was also heard by Shao Xuan. He flexed his muscles, just in case.

After some time, there was no other sound from the cave. They did not know whether the Thorn Black Wind had left. The sky grew darker. Even if there were still traces of light, it was not bright enough for them to see the situation of the entrance of the cave. Plus, because of their perspective, they couldn’t see the entrance.

Shao Xuan suddenly felt a chill on his scalp as he was thinking. A sense of coldness quickly spread all along his spine, which made him quiver out of trepidation.

He quickly stepped away a few steps from the vent, he did not forget to drag Mao away as he moved, and warned him not to stay so close to the vent.

Mao moved his sight from the vent, and stepped back a little. He looked at Shao Xuan and raised up his arms to ask Shao Xuan through body language. Suddenly, he felt a gust of wind by his ear, and an icy killing breath was mixed in that wind. Mao felt that the pores on the back of his neck were about to explode.

Ding!

The beast’s claw nailed on the cliff, and flying stone shards fell all over Mao’s body. His arms got scratched by some sharp edged stone shards. But Mao did not care about that little injury, nor did he had the time to care about it.

At that time, he felt like he got heavily hammered in his heart.

He did not see when the beast’s claw raised out from the vent!!

Nor had he heard any sound!!

It all happened so fast, and so quiet. If Shao Xuan hadn’t dragged him aside a moment ago; if the vent was bigger to let the whole claw raise out; Mao would have been nailed onto the cliff by that giant black scaled claw, and would’ve gotten smashed to death.

The silent claw reached out of the went and wrenched on the cliff, and grabbed a giant stone piece as it pulled back. As it closed its claw, that stone immediately got smashed to pieces.

It did not catch any person, but still, it smashed down a large piece of stone by the vent, when the Thorn Black Wind retrieved its claw. Originally the vent was only big enough for a small kid, now it suddenly became two times bigger!