Chapter 71 – Continue on (2/2)

Seeing Ah-Suo’s weird glance, Shao Xuan answered, “I’m fine.”

In fact, Shao Xuan was taking rapid and short breaths out of fatigue a minute ago, but he recovered fast, and the sweat had dried in the air as well. Feeling the quickly-restored energy inside, Shao Xuan could pull out some strength to pay attention to the environment.

After some careful observation, Ah-Suo realized that this kid was not struggling to act like that at all. That was odd.

Seeing that Ah-Xuan had no intention to ask questions, Ah-Suo felt bored instead. In the past, he would go exploring with Ta, however, now he had to stay and wait. This place was not so dangerous after all, so they had the luxury to have a conversation.

“Aren’t you curious about what the advance group’s tasks are?” asked Ah-Suo.

“You won’t answer me anyway, so why bother asking…” Shao Xuan had asked before, but Ta, Tuo, and Keke all avoided answering directly. All they told him was, “You will know when it’s time.”

“That was when we were still with the other hunting groups! Of course we wouldn’t tell you then. What if you told the others? The Shaman would hate if too many people knew it…However, now I can tell you if you want to know.” Ah-Suo said proudly.

He assumed that Shao Xuan was somewhat capable, so he was much nicer in attitude. When he resumed the fine attitude, he retained the old habit of his, which was blabbering about the advance group to the new recruits. Answering related questions made him feel proud of himself, especially when seeing the astonished faces of newly-recruited warriors. It felt so good.

“We have our own tasks in the advance group, tasks directly given from the Shaman.” Ah-Suo explained. It was an extremely high honor for them, and during this process, there were benefits as well, “We get to eat the things that are not accessible to the others in the tribe. Also, we can be stronger than the others in the future.”

Shao Xuan endured Ah-Suo’s blabbering for a while, but then he couldn’t help but interrupt, “So what are the tasks exactly?”

Ah-Suo was a little upset for being interrupted while he was soaked in the self-pride, so he hummed, “Do you think that the herbs in the tribe were obtained by people randomly?”

The herbs?!

Shao Xuan had noticed this strange thing since he got the pack of herbs from the Shaman. Although he had no idea what the origin of the herbs was, he could tell that some of them smelled like plants and leaves. He had never seen anything similar in the past, even during hunting missions.

“So, all the time, you were ‘hunting’ and ‘killing’…plants?”

“Not all the time, but yes.” Said Ah-Suo.

So it was really the plants?!

Shao Xuan was stunned. How could they use words like “hunt” and “kill” for plants?

What kind of plants could they be?!

As they were talking, Shao Xuan heard a vague sound of a whistle from afar. Later on, more whistles appeared from other locations. Some were near, while some weren’t. Some of the sounds were even quite far, and could barely be heard only by paying attention closely.

When the whistling sounds stopped, warriors began gathering at the rendezvous point. Ta was the last person here, for he had to go back to deliver the information to the other hunting groups. They could not hear the whistles if they were too far away.

After a short break, Ta led the others to continue the hunting trip.