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

“I heard it too yesterday! Unexpectedly it was caused by this ball.”

“What is it, boss?” asked Ah-Suo

Ta moved his sight from the odd green skeleton, and then took a look at the bouncing ball in this net of white threads. He took out the roll of animal skin, and opened it to the last one third part.

The first two thirds of the scroll had the pictures of all the things that they would search for. Every time when they come to the woods, they would be able to find most of the creatures as long as it was the right season. However, the latter one third of the scroll recorded all those rare things. In the Shaman’s words, one could only be considered blessed if encountering them.

Because of that, they never paid extra attention to finding them. In the past, their ancestors would rarely encounter one or two creatures on the end of the scroll. A few years ago, the team leader of the other hunting team had found a plant pictured on the end of the scroll. His name is Gui-He. Being the team leader of the other hunting team, he is also a candidate-in-running for the Chief’s position in the future. Obviously he had received high praise and hence improved his impression with the Shaman with that rare plant.

Gui-He got his name directly from the Shaman. If you carefully explored his family, you’ll find that Gui-He was the son of the Shaman’s nephew. Naturally Gui-He was more close with the Shaman with his ties of blood. If Ta’s father weren’t the Chief, he would not have been qualified enough to compete with Gui-He at all. Especially since recent years, Gui-He had much more glorious harvests than before. That was the reason why Ta was eager to find the rare plants. He even brought Shao Xuan in his advance group, just to take advantage of ancestor’s blessing.

However, Ta did not anticipate that they would encounter something rare. Ta’s mood became complex, as all the rare things were captured by Shao Xuan.

Just yesterday, he was complaining that those traps were little tricks that would wear down one’s willpower… Today, he received an invisible slap on the face, and it was a good one.

If he had known that traps could help catch the plants on the end of the scroll, Ta would never despise those “little tricks”.

“This is the Wind Ball from the end of the scroll.” Ta pointed at a picture of a ball near the end of the scroll.

Shao Xuan reached over to take a look at it. The pictures on the animal skin roll were quite simple, but the holes on the ball were exactly the same as the ones on the ball he captured.

“Hey, that’s terrific!” Ah-Suo rubbed his hands and laughed. You know, they would have higher status in front of the Shaman if any plants from the end of the scroll were found.

The others all seemed delighted.

“What about the other one?” asked Tuo.

They all quieted down again as they waited for Ta’s answer. Before when they were checking the Wind Ball, they did not find anything on the scroll like the other one in the trap.

That thing’s “feet” were glued by the resin, and below its waist, there were lots of white threads winding around. Just because of that, it would not manage to escape even if it could lift a ‘foot’.

Aside from that, people found that this thing had ‘arms’ and ‘legs’, besides, the torso was made from a few branches. But, there was no ‘head’.

Ta stared at the ‘headless’ skeleton with an inexplicable look.

“When I first joined the advance group, the Shaman and the former Chief had told me something.” Ta pointed at the tied green skeleton and said, “It looks like the plant that the Shaman had talked about. The Green Thief.”

“Green Thief?”

“What is that?”

“Is it useful? The Shaman did not add it on the animal skin roll.”

There were a lot of clamors of comments.

Ta was smiling in a weird way.

“Is it useful? Damn right it is! It can’t be any more useful! If it is indeed the Green Thief, we would be received as heroes of the tribe when we return! It’s said that the herbs made from the Green Thief would allow people to see in the darkness!”

All warriors took a deep breath, and then, their breaths became more and more rapid.

Night vision. It was something that all of them had been craving for.

Why was everyone so afraid of the night? Because at night, they would lose their vision. Even intermediate totem warriors, or even senior totem warriors would freak out when faced with darkness. Hence, instead of hunting at night, warriors in the hunting team would hide in a tree hole or mountain cave.

Warriors in the tribe had hunted down various kinds of animals and ferocious beasts, among which many of them were nocturnal ones. People said that you could have a clearer vision in the dark if you ate the eyes of those nocturnal animals. However, it was not true. At least, those who had eaten the eyes did not feel much progress in their night vision. Or perhaps it worked, just produced minor effect.