Chapter 93 – The overlapping of the two moons (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

Keke was brought away by Tuo, but only after he got beaten up as hell.

Before they left, Tuo and Keke both promised that they would pay Shao Xuan a lot of food if Shao Xuan helped make another two for them.

Boomerangs were said to have been invented by indigenous people, but here, it was of no big help at hunting, given that there were quite a lot of ferocious beasts in the forests. Boomerangs had no actual lethal power to them.

However, it could be used to drive away the irrelevant animals and birds, or to be used as bait to draw the attention of ferocious beasts.

As for the question brought up by Tuo before he left, about whether he would be willing to rejoin the advance group, Shao Xuan provided no absolute answer. Because, what he wanted to do for now was to upgrade his strength.

Tuo and Keke might not have come here under Ta’s order, but Ta must have known it in advance, and he did not stop them from coming.

No matter what Ta was thinking, Shao Xuan had no intention in rejoining the advance group, for he felt more comfortable staying in Mai’s hunting group. Because of Shao Xuan’s harvest and merits before, the Shaman would provide him with the herbs he needed. Shao Xuan had given all the herbs to Old Ke, and Old Ke looked far better than last few years.

When he came back to himself, he saw Caesar sitting on the ground, staring at the broken boomerang. Shao Xuan went over to collect the broken boomerang and threw it inside to be used as firewood. He tapped on the wolf’s head gently as comfort, “I’ll make a new one for you tomorrow.”

Perhaps because of the exercise during the day, Caesar’s energy was consumed a lot, and he became a lot quieter at night.

Shao Xuan stood at his door, staring at the sky.

The moons were almost round, and they were gradually overlapping. According to the stories of experienced old warriors, the river would sink quickly once the two moons joined.

The change was pretty obvious.

In the following day, when Shao Xuan came to the riverside, he noticed that the water-level had indeed dropped a lot. The river was running towards the regular downstream rapidly, as if the water was being flushed somewhere.

would “disappear” when the moons turned full.

After the river dropped, a lot of silt was revealed to the outside. People could even see something moving around inside that silt. Sometimes, some unknown birds would fly into those silts and peck into the dirt. But occasionally, some giant mouth would open from the silts and drag the flying bird into the mud.

In the following few days, the two moons would gradually overlap each other some more, and the river would be flowing more rapidly, and sink even more rapidly. Now, when you stood beside the first fish fence, you would see nothing aside from the silt. However, if it weren’t for the dropped water-level, people would never have been able to see what it was like at the riverbed.

Besides silt, there were some odd-looking river plants standing there, just like coral. Some other river plants could move like ordinary aquatic plants.

Less than ten meters ahead of the first fish fence, there was a steep slope, while a hundred meters away, it became very deep. People even had the feeling that they couldn’t see the bottom.

Because the lords of the river lived in it, it was definitely not a normal river. It was hard to imagine how deep the river actually was.

Before the water “vanished”, Shao Xuan would toss a piece of wood into the river, and watch it drift away downstream. Before they went too far to be seen, none of the woods sank. Obviously, the wood-eating creatures were not in the river anymore for now.

With the complete overlap of the moons approaching, Caesar and Chacha were not the only ones that became more and more abnormal. The night swallows were more ferocious than ever.

Other people could not hear the screams of the night swallows, but Shao Xuan could. He could hear traces of excitement in their calls. It was a thirst for blood, a maddening thirst for blood, which helped them overcome their fear of fire. Even when someone traveled at night with a torch in their hand, he would still be madly attacked by the night swallows. Many night swallows would be burnt because of that, but they were acting as if all they could see was the target of the attack.

Caesar would also keep howling at night in these days, just like the wolves in the forest. Last year, Caesar’s symptoms were not so obvious because of his young age. But this year, things were different.

At first, the patrolling warriors thought that some wolf packs might have entered the tribe, but they realized that it was Caesar after they had seen him with their own eyes. Because, Caesar didn’t used to howl in the past.