Chapter 47 – Nasty environmen (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

“What the fuck!!”

“This is the one from last time! It is! It must be the one! The two Thorn Black Winds down the mountain must have been called by it as well!”

Taking what happened down the mountain into consideration, now people had figured out some of the clues. However, they never expected that the beast they encountered last time would be so persistent!

In the past, they only knew that Thorn Black Winds had a stubborn character and were very territorial. To their surprise, it could also call for others’ help to take revenge. People always say that you may get stuck with an unwanted guest if you invite random ones into your home. Those two helpers down the mountain probably would just take the place by the pool.

To everyone’s surprise, the Thorn Black Wind from last time would rather lose its territory to get its vengeance!

“I knew it… I knew that it would not easily let go.” Qiao stared at the chaos and murmured depressedly.

During the last hunting mission, Ah-Fei was tagging along Mai’s hunting group together with another kid. They were brought to the mission by the other mid-level warriors. In accordance with the rules in the past, if the new guys were brought in by mid-level warriors, Mai would not reject their participation. The other teams did the same as well.

Later when they were hunting in that basin, Ah-Fei set his eyes on a baby Thorn Black Wind which came out during the daylight, alone. Perhaps its parent was sleeping by the pool, while the little one did not sleep. Out of curiosity, it came out during daylight, and chased a fox to somewhere far from that pool. Ah-Fei and the others found it there.

Compared with adult Thorn Black Winds, newly-born babies were of course easy to be dealt with.

In the tribe, newly-awakened warriors would wear the quarry they hunted during the last year in the next ritual ceremony on Snow Festival, to compete with each other. Even though the Shaman and the Chief did not include that into the ritual ceremony, it had gradually became a publicly recognized standard practice.

That was the problem.

Ah-Fei insisted on hunting down that baby Thorn Black Wind. With the help of a few other warriors, he succeeded in killing it, but just when they were skinning the little one, the big one came.

That’s when the trouble began.

The two badly-injured warriors from last hunting mission were hurt during that incident. If Mai hadn’t arrived on time, they probably would have lost their lives.

The reason that they did not bring those kids from the last hunting mission except for Mao this time, was because they were worried similar incidents might happen. Shao Xuan was an exception, for Mai valued his ability and he wanted him to get used to the environment sooner. Also, Mai figured that Shao Xuan was sensible and obedient. So he brought him along in his hunting group. Hence why there were only two kids in the whole hunting team this time, and those two kids were both in the protection of his hunting group… If anything happened to them…

One was the kid that awakened early and had the Shaman’s favor; while the other was quite talented, being the son of the hunting team leader, and grandson of the Chief. It would be a great strike for the tribe if any of them died out there. If both of them died in the accident, they would not have the courage to go back to the tribe, for they would not be able to face the Shaman and the Chief.

“It racked its brain, just to get back at us by killing the kids in our group!” A warrior punched at the cliff angrily.

Last time, they killed its kid, and this time, it came after the human kids. It didn’t care about coming out of hiding during daylight, climb up the mountain and risk losing its territory doing so.

Indeed, you should never underestimate Ferocious Beasts.

“We should not have taken this road.” Mai was filled with regret in his heart, for somehow he had underestimated the Thorn Black Wind. There would’ve been new unknown dangers if they took a new route, but if he had anticipated such an incident, he would rather take those risks!

However, now there’s no time for regret. After examining all those marks and traces, people began to go up the mountain searching for the kids as separate smaller groups. It was dark at night, so searching was not easy, and they had to be aware of other threats at the same time.

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Shao Xuan and Mao almost used all their energy to escape.