Chapter 60 – Don’t get so worked up! Let’s talk like adults! (2/2)

Warriors in the hunting group who were heading to the second stronghold hesitated at the sound, especially Qiao, Mai and the other few intermediate totemic warriors. Their hearing was a little better than junior warriors. When others could only hear a vague sound, they could hear it clearly in their ears.

“Mai! That is…” Qiao pulled on Mai’s arm excitedly.

Mai hinted her to calm down, and listened to the distant sound carefully. It was distant, but still, Mai figured that it was a signal of the hunting team. Also, it seemed that only Ah-Xuan could blow the whistle in that way!

However, they had just left the exit of the cave, and the whistle was obviously not from the cave, but down the mountain…

“You wait here for a moment!” Mai said and in a hurry, he rushed down the mountain. After only a few leaps, his figure disappeared in the forest.

“Is it really Ah-Xuan?” Lang Ga was thrilled as well as stunned. Although he could not hear it clearly, it was not his first time hearing that whistle. When he found those two kids after the Thorn Black Wind, he was following that similar whistle.

“Not possible. How could Ah-Xuan come out, while all our ancestors were lost inside?!” a warrior said. He wasn’t wishing Ah-Xuan not to come back, it was just his respect and worship towards the ancestors that stopped him from believing in Shao Xuan’s capability.

“But the sound was exactly the same as the one that we heard when we found him the last time!” Ang said.

Lang Ga could hardly restrain himself thinking that Ah-Xuan was still alive.

Not only Lang Ga, the others wanted to know the answer as badly as him.

“Let’s go and see!”

“Yeah, let’s go. As long as we are still in the mountain, we won’t encounter any large-sized ferocious beasts. We can go to the cave later.”

“I want to go, too!”

Normally, warriors in the hunting group always followed the leader’s command and they respected the rules. When the leader asked to wait, they would just wait. However, it wasn’t normal circumstances now. Ever since the hunting route was established, almost nobody had succeeded in finding a way out after getting lost inside! Even the ancestors could not manage to do that!

The few intermediate totemic warriors discussed for a moment and they all chose to go and see.

So, after Mai rushed towards that direction, the others in the hunting group followed his footsteps.

Mai followed the sound and arrived at the mountain foot, only to find someone covered in gray standing there.

At first, Mai paid no attention to the things Shao Xuan was carrying, nor the stoneware laid besides his feet, for he was totally stunned.

Although covered in a layer of gray stone powder, Shao Xuan was merely a kid, and one could easily recognize him by his size.

“You are all right, Ah-Xuan!” The others in the hunting group soon followed Mai here and all of them recognized Shao Xuan as well.

Lang Ga approached him quickly and planned to give him a warrior’s hug to celebrate his survival. But after he saw what was on his back, Lang Ga stammered, “Ah-Xuan…what…what is…on your back…?”

All the attention was fixed on Shao Xuan’s back.

“Well, this.” Shao Xuan turned so that the other could have a clearer picture of the people he was carrying. He pointed at them and said, “They are the ancestors.”

However, Shao Xuan indeed underestimated the weight of the word “ancestor” in people’s hearts.

Once the word “ancestor” was spoken out loud, Shao Xuan found that all the warriors in the hunting group seemed to be frozen. They just stood still, but all the eyes turned red, and their breaths turned heavy. Their faces began to convulse, which was a little twisted. What’s more, almost all of their bodies began to shake.

A second earlier they were quite normal, but now, they weren’t themselves!