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

Shao Xuan clenched his tooth sword and was a little bit tense.

After walking in the cave for so long, Shao Xuan could always feel the breeze and slight sounds. However, the more he moved forward, the more he felt that he was heading to a dead end.

Shao Xuan continued to walk along the way, and soon enough, there were no more worms on the wall.

t was very quiet around here, and when all the sounds of the worms faded away, it was complete silence.

It was not only the silence, there wasn’t even air-flow in the surroundings.

There seemed to be light, in the front…

Shao Xuan hesitated.

Light?

Shao Xuan switched to the normal view, it was still dark. He realized that he could only see the light spot in the darkness when he used his special ability to switch to the special view.

Shao Xuan went towards that light spot, and all of a sudden, he felt kind of suffocated in his heart.

He could not tell what exactly that feeling was… It was like something ancient, desolate and with endless sadness.

The light spot grew bigger and now it seemed like a light cover, shrouding that small piece of land.

When Shao Xuan finally reached the spot and was able to see the situation inside the light cover clearly, one of his eyelids twitched suddenly.

Inside the light cover there were four skeletons, at least it was so in Shao Xuan’s view.

In the middle of the cover, there was a skeleton on its knees, and the other three were surrounding him.

The four skeletons were genuflected in the same gesture, which was also the most respectful salute in the ritual in the tribe, on their knees, with two hands crossed before the forehead, and kowtowed in the same direction.

Around those four skeletons, there were long spears and stone knifes buried underneath the ground. Those stone weapons were all in a very dark color, especially the long spear beside the man in the middle, which was almost black. Obviously they were all excellent stone tools, which can only mean that all four warriors used to be strong and powerful ones in the tribe, especially the one in the middle. He must have had quite a high position.

And the direction in which they were worshiping… Even though Shao Xuan had a confused sense of direction, he had a feeling that it was the tribe.

Shao Xuan glanced over those four skeletons and their stoneware, and then his sight focused on the skeleton in the middle.

There was a bone ornament in front of his chest. Shao Xuan did not know what kind of bone it was made from, but it had a brighter color than any of the skeletons in Shao Xuan’s special view.

Ever since he had obtained that special capability, Shao Xuan had given serious thought and done much research about the special view. In his special view, different warriors of different level had bones of different colors. For instance, junior warriors had pale gray skeletons, while intermediate warriors had white skeletons. For senior warriors, such as the Chief Ao, he had bright white skeletons. However, right now, all those four skeletons were in the color of bright white. Although they were in different shades, it was true that they were all quite advanced warriors. Among them, the one in the middle had the brightest color. But even so, these four skeletons could never be compared with the bone ornament.

But that wasn’t the most important thing he had observed.

The thing that caught Shao Xuan’s undivided attention was a ball beset in the bone ornament. It was no bone, but it lit up the surroundings like a light bulb, which created the light cover that Shao Xuan saw earlier.

Once again, he switched the view and withdrew his special ability. This time he tried to look at it with the normal view, only to find that it was still nothing but darkness, with no trace of light. However, when he used his special ability to see, he noticed that the ball was as bright as always, and the light it created enveloped the surroundings into its cover.

With a little more observation, Shao Xuan also found that unlike the other three skeletons, the skeleton in the middle was the most complete one in good condition. The others had sunk into the ground to some extent. The things that were located closer to the edge of the light cover sank deeper into the ground.

In the range of the light cover, some scattered stoneware could also be seen. They were all made out of fine stones, but some of them had already submerged under the ground with only parts of them still above to be seen.

However, outside the range of the light cover, Shao Xuan had not seen any stoneware, skeletons, or bones.

This mountain was ‘eating’ people. Not only people, it was “eating” other things as well. If the insect killed by Shao Xuan wasn’t eaten by other creatures, it’s remains probably would also be swallowed by the mountain gradually.

In fact, this mountain had “eaten” a lot, for instance, the long-lost humans, dead worms or insects, and other things in here. Aside from those caves and tunnels, nothing had been left.