Chapter 94 – Speculation (2/2)

People were chatting in the surroundings. Shao Xuan was observing while he heard Lang Ga shout from the other fish fence, “I think I have seen that while hunting! But not totally the same….”

Shao Xuan looked at where he pointed, and suddenly he laughed once he saw the thing that Lang Ga was pointing at.

Oh, my goodness, there was a turtle!

Specifically, it looked more like a crocodile turtle. When Shao Xuan was looking at it, it was biting the tail of a big piranha and directly tore a slice of meat off.

“I’ll keep that one and cook it in my cabin!” Shao Xuan pointed at the crocodile turtle with his long spear and said to Lang Ga.

“Okay, then it’s yours.” Lang Ga was thrilled with today’s harvest, and he could not care less about this thing that he had seen in the past. In fact, he was now paying no attention to whether the things he caught were edible or how much energy they contained. He felt that it was a very glorious thing to be surrounded by people like that. It was a sense of accomplishment, as if he were walking on the path of glory again.

Check on that! I can not only set ground traps! I can set traps to catch fish as well!

Lang Ga was acting as a commander there, and many residents in the mountain foot district were surrounding him, learning from him. Lang Ga stood on the stone pillar of the fish fence, and he had been talking ever since he got there.

Shao Xuan looked around, and he chose not to steal Lang Ga’s spotlight. Although he and Lang Ga were the joint owners of the catch, all he wanted to see was what else there was in the river besides those piranhas. Aside from that crocodile turtle and a few fish in the fish fence, he left all the other things at Lang Ga’s disposal.

Shao Xuan squeezed out from the crowd and walked along the riverside.

In the little woods near the river, many branches were broken. Maybe that was caused by last night.

When the water rose, clearly there would be big tides. There were obvious marks that indicated that the bank had been washed, and the things in the fish fences were brought back by the tides.

There were no broken branches in the water, and there were no floating things on the river.

Shao Xuan walked into the woods. He broke off a branch and tossed it into the river.

The branch floated on the surface and drifted along the tides. But after only a few breaths’ time, the branch sank, and a series of bubbles came up.

Those wood-eating worms had returned as well.

During the rainy season, perhaps those worms had swum downstream together with the river monsters, or perhaps, like those long-tailed frogs, they had their own places to go to. But after the full moon, they had returned with the water.

If his speculation was right, Shao Xuan believed that maybe a boat could float in the river safely from the end of the rainy season to the full moon.

In the middle of that period, the river seemed very rough, but only those piranhas were active. There was a saying, that the monkey reigns in the mountains when the tiger is absent. It made sense. Without their natural predators, of course those piranhas would stay active all day long, and they would fight each other over slight traces of blood.

Shao Xuan could not confirm whether the truth was the same as his speculation. It was a shame that this phenomenon only happened once a year. He had to wait until the next rainy season to confirm his theory.

When he got back to the cabin, Shao Xuan carefully recorded todays observation and his speculation in his secret notebook. After he was done, he carefully rolled the animal skin roll, and tied it with a leather rope, before placing it into a stone box. He sealed it, and put the stone box under his bed.

There were a lot of things recorded in that animal skin roll. For now, Shao Xuan could not let the others in the tribe learn about it, for the information inside would probably cause a panic, as well as some unnecessary troubles. Now, since Shao Xuan’s strength was limited, he could not bear the consequences. So, there was no other option but to keep it well-hidden.

“Hopefully, it will be useful someday in the future.” Shao Xuan whispered to himself.

Is their tribe the only tribe in this world?

Now, everyone in the tribe, together with their ancestors, had only had connections with the other people in this tribe for their whole lives. From birth to death, no one had ever encountered any outsider. When they talked about the other tribes, it was like when people were talking about aliens in Shao Xuan’s previous life. It was too remote, and aliens only existed in legends instead of in real life.

Where were the others? Were they any other people besides them? Shao Xuan could see something from the pictures on the stone room’s walls.

But, how could he get out from this tribe and meet someone from other tribes?