Chapter 77 – Pictures at the end of the scroll (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

Shao Xuan had a sound sleep after midnight. It had been a while since he had last dreamt about something. However, tonight he had a dream.

As a matter of fact, Shao Xuan himself also had no idea what was exactly in the dream. He dreamt of something green, which gradually covered his whole view. It was a flowing green, and he was drifting in the sea of green. The green entered his chest every time he breathed, which made him feel cozy all over the body. It felt like every part of his body had been cleansed. Let’s say that his body was the ground covered in dirt and dust, but then got all washed clean by the cool water. He felt purified all over.

Unlike the tense and depressing feeling in the past, Shao Xuan only felt totally free from inhibitions this time. It was a kind of comfort which Shao Xuan had never experienced before. All the fatigue and bad mood in this hunting mission had been washed away, and Shao Xuan wanted to howl to the heaven.

All changes happened in silence, but they were breathtaking!

Early in the morning, when the sun came out, the warriors slumber was disturbed by various kinds of sounds in this green land. However, it was the rushed voice of a warrior that woke up everyone.

“Boss! Boss, come here! Check this out!” That warrior had climbed down the tree a minute ago, and he was shouting at Ta from the entrance of the tree hole. Ta was reading a roll of animal skin before he looked at the warrior.

All the warriors became clear-headed even though they were yawning a second ago.

Given the voice of the warrior who just spoke, obviously he had found something quite special. It couldn’t be a threat, but should be peculiar enough.

Not only Ta, the other warriors all climbed down quickly.

Shao Xuan was the last person to exit the tree hole. He looked down from the entrance, and found that all warriors that rushed down were circling around the trap he had set last night.

“What the hell is this?!”

“It looks funny. Is this its limb?”

“The limbs of a tree?”

“Is it dead already?”

“I poked at it, but it didn’t move. Perhaps dead.”

“You should untie this thing, and then we can have a clear look at it.”

“…but how to untie this knot?”

“Oh you stupid thing, you can just tear it apart…”

“Stop it, Keke! Stay away! You are such a tactless moron!”

Ta had told them to untie the thing trapped in the rope, but only to find that they had nowhere to start with. The thread strapping the thing was made from the white hairs from yesterday, which meant that it was hard to cut. Also, they needed to be careful not to break the thing trapped inside.

The clamorous crowd immediately quieted down.

The trap was set by Shao Xuan last night, however, within the night it captured something. Last night there were even warriors taunting him.

Ah-Suo glimpsed at the team leader standing beside him, only to find that the boss was thinking about something with a poker face. He acted as if he had not heard Tuo calling upon Shao Xuan.

Shao Xuan walked towards the circle, and warriors quickly cleared a passage for him to approach the trap.

Last night, Shao Xuan did not set many traps, for he was not familiar with the place after all. Only two traps were set casually, since he received no support from the others, and time was limited. He couldn’t ask people to wait for him. He had found a tree nearby that had some sticky resin secretion, so he put some at a trap.

Well, now on the place where he daubed the resin, there was something glued there. It looked like a simple skeleton formed by green branches. There were legs, and hands without complicated fingers. There were three ‘toes’, long like claws.

Shao Xuan did not expect this resin to be so sticky after it got dried in the air. Yesterday when he put it here, it was like normal glue, however now it was totally superglue. He thought that if there was some creature that could run fast, he could use the resin to slow it down. For even if it was fast, the sticky glue would decline its speed. Meanwhile, it would allow the snare to tie the creature tight.

While in the other trap, there was a football-sized taupe ball trapped inside. When there’s a gust of wind, the ball trapped in the net of white threads would suddenly create a buzzing sound. It would fly along the wind, but since it was trapped within the net of white threads, it was pulled back again. Because of the rebounding force, the white thread created sounds of vibrating strings.

“So the sound from last night was created by this thing!” one of the night guards said.