Chapter 81 – Massacre (2/2)

They had been chopped on the vines several times earlier before they were seriously injured by the snare. One of the Fire Lances quickly collected all its broken and half broken vines together and drilled down into the ground like a screw. The earth shook for some moments and then became calm again, while the Fire Lance disappeared.

The other Fire Lance was not so badly wounded as the first one, but still, it was no longer obsessed with intertwining with the warriors as well, and drilled into the ground a moment later. Perhaps it felt dread by the earlier attack, or perhaps it just lost its appetite for fighting.

The rumbling battlefield quieted down again, with broken branches and red liquid everywhere on the ground.

Shao Xuan was breathing heavily, as the totem strength in his body was running crazily. He almost reached his limit when he was setting the trap, and all his strength was used up by the final strike. Due to the overuse of his totem strength, his arms, shoulders and legs all felt extremely sore after all was done. He had to finish setting the trap as quickly as he could. Earlier he did not feel it, but after he relaxed, his fingers began to tremble uncontrollably. He estimated that the trembling wouldn’t stop for a long time.

Shao Xuan was completely worn out and he did not want to keep standing anymore. He shook off the red liquid on his feet, before he looked around and found a bucket-thick branch right behind him. It was broken by the Fire Lances earlier. Shao Xuan directly sat down on the branch, ignoring that there was still red liquid on its surface. Also, he put down the stone box that he had been holding in his arms all along.

The sound of the stone box touching the ground brought people back to their senses.

Tuo looked at the chaos on the ground and then looked at Shao Xuan as he was resting. Before he could ask Shao Xuan anything, his arm was grasped by Keke. Tuo was still quite nervous from the earlier shock, so he was frightened by Keke’s sudden grasp as well. He felt that his arm became the Fire Lance’s vine, while Keke was about to strangle him as the thread. He almost slapped on Keke’s hand reflexively.

“Wh…What?!” Tuo shook off Keke’s hand from his arm, and he wanted to shake off the creepy feeling of being strangled like the Fire Lances as well.

“Er…I’m getting cold feet now.” Keke’s face was twisted. It was rarely seen this bold lubber getting scared like that. A short while ago he was standing near the edge of the snare, and he planned to chop down one of the vines then. However, before he could do that, he saw the massacre in person. Some vines near him spilled their “blood” all over Keke’s body. Unlike the pleasure he felt while chopping on the vines himself, this time it gave him the creeps.

“Ah-Xuan, what was that?” Tuo calmed himself down while down and then asked.

The others all stared at Shao Xuan at the question.

“That? Well, it’s a trap.” Shao Xuan answered.

Tuo and the others were reluctant to believe that. What kind of traps could behave like that?

Shao Xuan did not give any further explanation.

In fact, those kinds of large-scaled traps and snares did exist in early times, and some warriors in the tribe would use them constantly. However, Old Ke had said that out of the pursuit and admiration for physical strength, people gradually abandoned the skill. Also, since the ferocious beasts grew stronger as time went by, efficient traps required higher quality raw materials, which were not so easy to find. Later on, some more experienced trap-setters chose not to use those traps and snares. So even fewer skills got passed down through generations.

Looking up at the sky, people noticed that almost all the tall branches were splashed down on the ground, and there was a big “window” above their heads.

Beneath the blue sky, the broken branches and sawdust had fallen down already, and there were only light white threads dancing in the wind.

Shao Xuan reached out his hand and caught a piece of it. The broken white thread was only half its original length. The big roll of the white thread had been broken into small pieces, although that they were tied with each other earlier. Most of them became small ends like that.

It was not real steel wire after all, and it was reasonable enough that it was broken like that.

If the white thread had been more tenacious, or if Shao Xuan was given enough time when setting the trap, it would close faster, so as to cut the vines in a split-second, avoiding the splashing of the “blood”. Then it would’ve been a certain kill for sure.

Of course, just because the thread of white hairs had its limit and flaws, the visual effects and shock it created became much stronger.

Ta and the others weren’t the only ones that were stunned. Shao Xuan himself was shocked as well.

He literally did not expect to see such results.

This was the first time that he set such a big-scaled snare, and it was more powerful than he thought. Luckily he had the white thread prepared. However, it was such a pity that the materials were difficult to obtain, just as Old Ke had said.

Ta glimpsed at Shao Xuan with a complicated expression, and then called on the others to clean up the battle field. The broken vines were neither edible nor listed on the animal skin roll, so they were tossed away.

As for the red liquid on the ground…Ta did not mind it at all.

Fire Lance was a “predator” in this forest, and the blood of the predator would send a natural signal of danger to the other species, until the “blood” disappears in the future.