Chapter 88 – The river beast Dread” (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

The rain was pouring down hard.

The raindrops were falling from the sky and splashing on the ground, creating loud noises everywhere.

The tree leaves created scratching noises as they were hit by the rain, and it somehow struck people with a feeling that perhaps the leaves were being pierced through by the water.

Among the curtains of rain, a figure quickly went through the woods, while a toothpick-like stone needle pierced through the curtains of rain, and came out from the dense branches. At the ‘thud’ sound, it stabbed into an arm-thick short wooden bar that hung there.

At that time, there were already plenty of similar stone needles pinned on the bar in different angles, which made the hanging stake looked like a hedgehog.

Many bars like that were hanging nearby. Some of them were placed in the thick undergrowth, while some of them were hanging in the trees.

Shila~ (This is a sound, didn’t know what else to make of it)

There was the sound of a quick pull, and the wooden bars in different places immediately moved promptly together. As they moved, more stone needles flew towards them.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

There were wooden bars in the grass, in the bushes, and in the air…

No matter where they were, they had many stone needles stabbed on them.

The heavy rain that poured down from the sky did not affect the path of the flying stone needles at all!

Whoosh!

The figure running in the woods and the rain curtains jumped, and landed safely after jumping over the branches that blocked him. The sound of landing could hardly be heard because of the rain in the surroundings.

Shao Xuan wiped his face, and then went to collect the wooden bars.

[He wiped his face in the heavy rain? How pointless!]

He had been doing such training for several days now. At first, he used spearhead darts, and then the stone shivs, which were thinner. Now, he was using stone needles, they were even thinner than the stone shivs.

The white hairs that they had encountered in the green forest while hunting were obviously very soft, yet they could pierce through thick wood bars, and appeared to have no resistance when they pierced into the bodies of intermediate totem warriors. One of the reasons behind that was the materials of the white hair, but the other more important reason was that the speed of the white hairs was too fast!

Shao Xuan was experimenting on that point. He wished that, perhaps someday in the future, he would be able to pierce a thick wood bar with a thin grass needle. However, for now, he had to take baby steps. If he couldn’t pierce the wood with stone, he shouldn’t even bother trying that with grass.

There was still a long way to go.

Now, every time when Ge went to Old Ke’s place for some stoneware, he would mock Old Ke for becoming “tender”. In the past, Old Ke would always use his cane to help himself struggle up the mountain when he had to go up. Also, he would never ask for anyone else’s help. But now? Now Old Ke rides on Caesar’s back when he goes out, and Shao Xuan would carry him when he has to go up the mountain. When it rains, Old Ke would not even step out of his house! That was too fucking effeminate!

Old Ke did not get agitated, and he would keep doing whatever he was doing, totally ignoring Ge’s comments. In his mind, Ge was only being jealous and pretending to be the green-eyed monster!

Old Ke would not tell Ge that Shao Xuan asked for some herbs for him from the Shaman. Now Old Ke was in the phase of recuperating. In the past, he was living with a bad mindset, and he could not care less about his life. However, now he had a strong desire to live longer, for he wanted to watch Shao Xuan as he gradually grows up.

Caesar and Chacha were both left in Old Ke’s house. Sometimes, Shao Xuan would think that whether he should do some expansions on his cabin, so that Old Ke could come and live with him. After all, Shao Xuan was living alone, and Old Ke had no one else living with him right now. If they moved in together, it would save a lot of time, for Shao Xuan won’t have to travel between the two places.

As he thought about that, Shao Xuan was gathering those wood bars and tangled straw ropes.

Last year, the wet reason only began after another hunting trip, however, unfortunately, it came early this year. The Shaman told everybody to stay prepared for it, and the hunting team, that was about to set out, postponed their time for leaving.

Behind Shao Xuan’s back, a snake-like insect came out from a tree. Unlike a real snake, it had a lot of feet on its body.

It stared at Shao Xuan in silence, while spitting out its forked tongue like a snake. Its body quietly slid down along the trunk, but the thin feet allowed it to stay firmly on the tree.