Chapter 115 – The Giant Pi (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

There was still some time before it would become dark. In order to find the missing men as soon as possible, the hunting group leader immediately showed Shao Xuan around.

“I would like to know whether they went straight to the water spot after they left the cave.” Cheng told Shao Xuan.

Although they knew that the missing men were fetching water for the group, Cheng still wanted Caesar to help him confirm on that.

“Okay.” Shao Xuan answered.

From inside the cave, Shao Xuan asked someone to bring the items that those missing men had used for Caesar to sniff, so that Caesar could memorize their smell.

Cheng and Mai each took a dozen warriors, and they headed out with Shao Xuan.

“We tried to follow those things, thinking to find their old nests. However, we followed a few groups of bats, only to find that they had different nests.” Said Cheng.

The first reason that Cha went to find Mai and the others for help was to borrow Caesar, and see if they could find their missing men with the wolf’s help. For starters, they needed to make sure where they were when they were taken by the giant bats. However, there was also a second reason. No matter whether or not they would manage to find their missing men, they still had to look for help, given that they lost three warriors out of blue, and the current situation couldn’t be more abnormal. The resources that they could turn to for help were of course Mai and his men in his hunting group. They were very close to each other.

Cheng sighed deeply as he stared at the wolf that was walking in the very front.

Caesar walked in front of everyone, and he was sniffing around as he walked.

After they left the cave, they indeed walked directly towards the water spot. However, Caesar made a sudden stop along the way.

Shao Xuan closely observed Caesar’s reaction, and interpreted, “One of the three went that way.”

Cheng looked at the direction that Shao Xuan pointed towards, and shook his head, “There are no forests, no caves, and no water over there. Normally, no one would enter that area.”

“We haven’t searched that area thoroughly.” Said Cha.

Cheng kept silent for a few seconds, and then said, “Let’s go to the water spot first.” One out of the three left in between, but all three of them went missing. What did the other two encounter on their way while fetching water?

The water spot that Cheng’s hunting group used was a naturally formed water pool near the mountain side. It was not far from the cave at the first location.

There were some pressure marks on the grass, which were probably caused by the missing men when they fell down on the ground. Many grassleaves got crushed down, and there were claw marks and blade scratches on a stone nearby.

The blade scratches were made by the stone swords of the missing warriors, and the claw marks were identified as similar with the claw marks of the giant bats. The only difference was that they were much bigger.

If the missing warriors were taken from the air, then it’s no wonder that no one in Cheng’s hunting group could track them down. Because aside from the traces and marks here, there were no other useful clues.

However, if they were taken from the air, even Caesar with his good sense of smell would find it hard to continue the searching mission.

“Let’s go check that lone one.” Cheng was a little disappointed.

“Okay.” That was the only option left.

People walked back and returned to the spot where the three warriors split up earlier. Here, one of the warriors left in advance. Caesar carefully identified the smell and led people deeper into that area.

At first, they were wandering around the mountain side, but later, they headed up towards the mountaintop.

“I remember. There are a lot of rocks and only have narrow paths. We have been here once in the past.” Said Cha.

Cheng looked around, and added, “Sometimes, mountain antelopes would appear in this area.”

“There’s smell of blood.” Cha suddenly claimed.

Not only Cha, Mai and some others detected that smell as well.

However, now the wind was not blowing in the same direction. At the moment it was difficult for them to tell where the smell of blood came from.

People continued following Caesar until they reached a giant rock, where there was the dead body of a mountain antelope.

There were a lot of torn-up wounds on the mountain antelope’s body. Judging from the traces, the wounds were caused by those giant bats. There were blood stains on the ground, but there weren’t many of them. Most of the blood was sucked up by the bats.

If they hadn’t followed Caesar to this place, people in the hunting group would have hardly thought of searching in this region. After all, they rarely came to this place in the past. Neither would they ever have guessed that someone from the water-fetching group would come here.

“He must have heard something, so he chased after the sound.” Said Cha.

The one that came here was the strongest person among the three missing warriors. He probably wouldn’t have thought that he would encounter those giant bats in the middle of their hunt. Then he himself became a prey, and now, no one knew whether he was still alive, and no one knew where he was brought to.

“If they had eaten the food, the food would be left here. Whenever a being was taken by them means that they did not eat it yet.” Said Mai.

Disappearance was better than dead. At least, they had a chance of being alive.

People looked at Caesar, seeing that he was sniffing on the ground. Caesar walked towards some direction, sniffed on the ground again, and then looked up at Shao Xuan.

“Judging from that, Caesar seems to have found something.” Said Shao Xuan.

“Something on the ground?”

Cha walked towards Caesar quickly, and poked his finger into the earth beneath Caesar’s nose. He then put his finger under his nose to smell carefully. Cha couldn’t help but frown, it was smelly. “So what is this odd smell?”

“Perhaps it’s the things’…urine.” Shao Xuan made a quick guess.

“Their urine?”

“Yes. They need to let out the liquid when they have eaten too much in order to make their bodies lighter, and to fly easier.” Shao Xuan explained.

Hearing Shao Xuan’s speculation, Mai and some other warriors all nodded. They thought that the guess and explanation were reasonable.