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

Chacha would remain in his nest and not go nowhere, doing nothing, as if he thought that outside was dangerous. Shao Xuan would even have assume him to be sick if he hadn’t had a growing appetite.

However, the big river down the mountain was gradually disappearing. The most intuitive feeling that people had was that the water was going away, as if there never was such a big river down the mountain, and the only thing left was an abyss filled with silt.

If you raised your head and look afar, you would find nothing. No river, no bank, no boundary.

If he hadn’t been warned about this by some experienced old warriors, Shao Xuan would have had a psychological panic of the unknown because of the abnormal phenomenon.

At the very night that the two moons fully overlapped, it was as bright as day.

After the two moons overlapped, it looked like that they were merged together into a larger moon.

One giant round moon hanging in the sky, it was like huge pale eyeball looking down at everything down below.

At that night, night swallows were wildly dancing above the empty riverbed, but they never returned to the tribe.

On the mountaintop of the tribe, the Shaman was murmuring something beside the fire pit. While inside the fire pit, the originally small ball of flame had grown into a big one, which filled up the whole fire pit. The tall flames kept dancing in the air, which made the mountaintop look like a massive torch. It somehow lightened people’s mood and eased their nerves.

It was horribly quite in the whole tribe. Aside from the Shaman, who was standing on the mountaintop, no one was allowed outside. Shao Xuan had been told to stay in his cabin and behave himself, long before tonight. Caesar was howling in the room, while Chacha curved himself up in a ball of feather in his nest. He would totally shrink his head under his shoulders if he could.

Even in the cabin, the could hear the vague roars of animals from the forest afar.

People only came out the next day, when the moons disappeared and the sun came out. Everyone had a delightful expression on their faces. The overlapping of two moons clearly did not have any actual harm physically, but the sense of fear that it created had clouded everyone’s heart. They could only find comfort in the flame on the mountaintop. Now, with the two overlapped moons gone, everyone seemed to have come back to life again.

On the following night of the overlapping of the two moons, there was also only one moon in the sky, but not as large as the night before. If you watched closely, you could slightly see the two moons slowly separating.

While in the late night, Shao Xuan noticed that the ground beneath his feet was trembling, and it was getting worse and worse. He had learned some more about the events from Old Ke, so he was not worried this time. Thinking about last year when he was still in the orphan cave, he thought it was an earthquake, so he ran outside the cave, but got dragged back in and got laughed at by the other kids.

Late at night, Shao Xuan was awoken up by the trembling ground again. Along with the trembling, there were loud noises, like ten thousand horses galloping together, very overwhelming.

It became more and more moist, for more and more vapor was forming in the air.

The wind was blowing hard outside, and gravel was thrown around, hitting the wooden walls, which created cracking sounds. Shao Xuan even wondered whether the wooden walls would be pierced through by the gravel.

The rumbling noise grew bigger.

The rumbling sound, accompanied by severe tremors on the ground beneath one’s feet, and the moist air…Obviously, like the experienced old warriors had said, the “disappeared” river was coming back.

After a while.

“Woo~~!”

It was a shrill scream, and it stood out in the midst of the rumbling sounds. Right after the whistle-like shrill scream, came the familiar thundering sound, which covered the earlier rumbling. It was the declaration of the lord, and all other sounds must show deference!

However, it was like a signal, a signal of a glorious return.

All those creatures that disappeared during the rainy season, all came back with the water.