Chapter 91 – Changes in the rainy season (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

Lang Ga and the others were trying to attract its attention.

Shao Xuan could feel its sight fixed on himself, and finally it looked away after staring at him for about two minutes.

“Run, Ah-Xuan, run!” Lang Ga shouted from the other side.

In fact, Lang Ga didn’t need to shout. Shao Xuan’s legs suddenly bent his knees and then jumped up high with all his strength the second when it looked away. He basically ejected himself in the blink of an eye.

Kah!

The stone pillar that he stood on immediately cracked on the top, while Shao Xuan’s body shot out like an arrow.

The moment Shao Xuan moved away from the stone pillar, he glimpsed a long shadow which shot out and promptly retracted back. If Shao Xuan was a little slower, he would probably have been pulled down by the long shadow.

Shao Xuan knew what that long shadow was. If touched by it, he would’ve been dragged into the water.

Meanwhile, Lang Ga and the others had tossed the long spears they had at hand towards the creature in the river. Earlier, they dared not to do that, because Shao Xuan was standing in a really delicate position, and he could easily get hurt accidentally. Now, since Shao Xuan was not there anymore, they did not need to be overcautious. The veins on their upper arms popped up as they tossed out the long spears.

Stone spears flew through the curtains of rain, and Shao Xuan could hear the “whoosh” sounds as the spears flew in the air.

Puff! Puff! Puff!

Three long spears stabbed into the creature’s body, and red blood poured out immediately after that. If those piranhas were around, they would already have gathered around by the attraction of fresh blood. However, now, except for the struggling noise made by that injured creature, there was nothing else.

Whoosh, whoosh!

Another two long spears were tossed there.

Long straw ropes were attached at the end of the long spears. Apparently, they were attached so that the wounded game could be dragged to the bank.

As people dragged it up with the straw ropes, Shao Xuan finally got to see what that thing looked like.

And although like his earlier speculation, the thing that was dragged to the bank did look like a frog, but surprisedly it also had a long tail!

Was it a tadpole? The kind that hadn’t grown into a frog, but had the limbs?

Judging by its call earlier, Shao Xuan did not expect to see something like this.

The long-tailed frog that had become a pincushion was still struggling, but not as strongly as before. Its four limbs were thrashing around, leaving trails on the bank.

When the long-tailed frog was stabbed once again and stopped struggling, Shao Xuan went closer for a detailed observation.

Not only that, the size of the long-tailed frog surprised Shao Xuan a lot. If the long tail was not included, its body was over five meters long! No wonder that Lang Ga and the others were so nervous.

It was Shao Xuan’s first time seeing such a big frog with a long tail and sharp teeth.

“You almost frightened me to death!” Seeing that Shao Xuan was unharmed, Lang Ga was quite relieved. He warned Shao Xuan, “Now that this thing came out, you need to be extra cautious from now on. Do not go to check on the fish fences for now.”

Whether they could catch any fish was not a big deal. The important thing was their own safety.

Lang Ga still had a lingering fear, for he did not expect the thing to come out so quickly. When he saw those two bloated eyes appear in the water near Shao Xuan. Lang Ga felt as if a jar of icy water was poured on his body.

Some people in the patrolling team had been dragged into the river in the past, and none of them ever returned alive. Even though people became more careful lately, and they were able to kill some of them every year, they would still be dragged down once they reduced their vigilance. You cannot let down your guard in front of the game.

Watching the others kill and dissect the long tailed frog, Lang Ga shared more things with him about the things he needs to pay attention to. Also, he told him some tragedies that happened in the past, to draw Shao Xuan’s attention.

“But this thing has its merits. It’s delicious! We can now kill some of them, but in a few days it will become very hard.” Said Lang Ga.

On that day, Shao Xuan killed three long tailed frogs together with the others. Those three frogs had different patterns and colors, but all of them had long tails, and seemed to belong to the same strange species.

People in the same duty all shared the meat, and later, they brought some of the frog meat back after finishing patrolling. It was delicious. Although it was not as tender as the frog meat that Shao Xuan had tried in his last life, it contained more energy than the river snails.