Chapter 95 – Intention (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

When everything in the tribe went back to normal, Shao Xuan’s life resumed its old pattern.

He would go out on hunting trips every twenty or thirty days, then return to the tribe, and do stone crafting, learn about setting traps from Old Ke, and train with Caesar and Chacha.

In the blink of an eye, half a year passed by. During that time, Shao Xuan extended out his cabin. Under the guidance of Old Ke, he even integrated stone materials into his cabin, and turned his little shelter into a wood-stone house. It was tougher than before. In the aspect of architecture, he indeed wasn’t as talented as Old Ke and the others. So, all he could do was to build the house following Old Ke’s guidance.

The newly-built wooden stone house was one time larger than Old Ke’s place, and even had space for a separate stone crafting workshop. Old Ke’s equipment had already been moved into that room. When Shao Xuan was doing the stone crafting, Old Ke would just sleep in the next room. He didn’t mind the noise, and would always come to teach Shao Xuan a thing or two when he woke up.

When Shao Xuan went out hunting, Old Ke would constantly sit beside the window to bathe under the sun when he wasn’t doing stone crafting or training Caesar and Chacha. Every time Ge stopped by, he would sigh with satisfaction, seeing that Old Ke was enjoying his life like that. Just over a year ago, who would have expected Old Ke to have such changes in his life?

Chacha was growing fast. It had been almost half a year since it hatched.

Caesar’s den was built somewhere near the main door so he would be able to learn about the outside situation once there was movement. Shao Xuan was completely keeping him as a dog. However, Chacha had his nest built on the roof. Shao Xuan made it especially for Chacha.

With Chacha’s presence, no night swallow would ever dare to get close to the house. Sometimes, a few night swallow’s bodies would be found in the morning besides Chacha’s nest. He had no intention of eating them. When he pecked them to pieces, he would take the remains to the river and drop them into the river for all those big-head piranhas to fight over the remains. He wasn’t only fierce, but also had creepy hobbies.

One time, when Shao Xuan got back from a hunting mission, he was summoned by the Shaman. At the mountaintop, when he took Chacha to the Shaman, he encountered Chief Ao, who was speaking with the Shaman about some matters.

Chief Ao said that Chacha might be the relative of a bird called Giant Mountain Eagle. He might even be a close relative of that eagle, but not as large as that. Even so, Chacha was still one of the predators, and compared with the other kinds of birds, he was big in size.

The first idea that Shao Xuan had when he learnt about that was…Well, no wonder he had such a fucking big appetite!

The little bastard could eat a lot while he was still a baby bird. Also, he was very picky. Now, as time went by, it grew larger and larger, and could now fly on his own. But most of the times, he would get food from Shao Xuan, and would occasionally hunt for snacks, because Shao Xuan wouldn’t allow him to fly too far.

As for the exact look of the Giant Mountain Eagle, Shao Xuan had no idea, for he had never seen it before. Most people in the tribe had never seen it, but it was said that in a place far away, there was an Eagle Mountain, and the Giant Mountain Eagle lived there.

With no confirmation on Chacha’s species, Shao Xuan could only speculate his character based on the living habits and characters of Giant Mountain Eagle. If he really was a close relative as Chief Ao had said, then they must have something in common.

The Giant Mountain Eagle was famous for its cold-blood cruelty, and they would fight each other even if they were blood-related. When there was an inner fight, they wouldn’t have a death fight. But for those non-related birds or animals, they would definitely aim for their lives. Even when they won, they would chase their competition to death in the end.

Based on Shao Xuan’s observation, Chacha was developing the same character as the Giant Mountain Eagle. Luckily, he was tamed and trained since childhood, so his temperament was not so aggressive.

“Have you found good stone cores, again?”

Old Ke stood by the window, and he noticed Shao Xuan carrying back two giant stones from the training ground.

“Yep. I think they are good enough to make a few spearheads, and the remaining stone flakes can be made into stone needles for setting traps later.”