Chapter 58 – The skeletons in the cave (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

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Perhaps it was because of the existence of the king stone worm, but up to now, the only creature Shao Xuan encountered was the insect which dragged him away earlier. All the rest of the other creatures and worms seemed to have disappeared.

Probably all those eyeless spiders and other worms hid in their dens since the king stone worm woke up and took a walk around.

As for the insect which was just beheaded by Shao Xuan, perhaps it was just too anxious to take revenge.

If that was true, perhaps Shao Xuan should go back to the three-forked crossing and choose a new path?

Never mind. Shao Xuan shook his head, and continued to follow the intuition. It was very strange and weird in this mountain.

Shao Xuan grabbed the antenna that he had chopped off and coiled it around one of his arms. Except for the hook with serrations on the top, the other parts of the antenna were quite soft, and Shao Xuan felt no pain when he coiled it around his arm.

Now, Shao Xuan had no idea which part of the mountain he was in, because he was very clear that he absolutely had no sense of direction inside, as he spent more and more time in the tunnels. It was quite peculiar, he had quite a strong sense of direction, but it didn’t work in here.

In fact, Shao Xuan loved to play maze games in his former life, and he could memorize every place he had been to. When the others were having a headache about the messed-up directions, Shao Xuan could always find the right one correctly. Even now, if he needed to get back to the tribe along the hunting route, he wouldn’t have the slightest hesitation, however, in this mountain, he was confused.

There were many tunnels and creatures in the mountain. Aside from the king stone worm, there were also many other kinds of creatures, the eyeless spiders and the insect killed by Shao Xuan were only two of the many kinds.

In theory, there should be traces of many different creatures living together. Unfortunately, none of those traces could be found. There were no scratches, no remains, no cobwebs, no pieces of shells, nothing, as if nothing ever existed. Just like when hunting groups created some marks to show the right route, it would be totally erased by the time someone came in again.

If the totem’s power really could guide those who lost their way to the right direction and path, how could their ancestors then have been lost in the mountain?

Shao Xuan kept walking forward following this feeling. When there was a crossing or a fork, he would carefully sense the surroundings with this special ability to choose which way to go. Shao Xuan only hoped that his intuition doesn’t go wrong or lie to him, else he would be doomed. Just as the ancestors in Lang Ga’s stories, he won’t be able to come back once he lost his way in here.

He felt that he was moving down, and probably, he had left the mountain side long ago and he almost reached the foot of the mountain. However, his intuition told him to keep walking.

Later on, he saw some small worms which were the same size as an adult’s fist. In his vision, they were just balls of pale grey, and the vague rough outlines were the only thing that Shao Xuan could see with his special ability.

When the worms approached Shao Xuan, he would use the antenna to whip them away. In fact, those little worms seemed to be quite afraid of the smell of that antenna. When Shao Xuan whipped them with the antenna, they tended to run away promptly, quite frightened.

Shao Xuan speculated that perhaps those little worms were the food that the insect usually ate, which should be a reasonable explanation for their panicked behavior.

Along with the antenna whip, the tooth sword also held the essence of the insect.

Fist-sized worms were crawling all over the wall, and Shao Xuan could even hear the faint but numerous sounds as they wriggled on the wall.

But wherever Shao Xuan went, those worms would keep away from him.

If he had not killed that insect and chopped down its antenna, wouldn’t it have been troublesome for him now? Even though the worms were not big in size, in large quantities, they could be pretty difficult to deal with.

At first, Shao Xuan only cut off that antenna for revenge, however, unexpectedly, it was quite useful in this situation.

The unique feeling was gradually getting intenser. If we say that earlier, his feeling was like a little breeze, now it could be considered as a gust of strong wind, indicating the right direction.

It shouldn’t be the way out, but both the totemic power and that special ability told him to go along the same way.

Why was that exactly?

Some kind of a treasure?

Even with a clear indication, Shao Xuan didn’t proceed faster, but kept to the same pace, while being alert of the surroundings.

Luckily, aside from those little worms, there was no other creature.

It was closer…