Chapter 122 – I absorbed i (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

Since the warriors spent most of their time digging up Fire Crystals and dealing with the giant bats, they did not do much hunting during this trip. Aside from hunting for the food they needed, basically no one had been hunting for storage in the five hunting groups.

With the approaching of the convening day, there were only a few days left that they could go hunting. However, the five group leaders almost spent every moment together, guarding that small bag of Fire Crystals.

As for the game that they should be bringing back. All five group leaders would tell you aloud, that they did not have time to care about those minor things!

Finally, the convening day came.

Ta had led the advance group deep into the green land, and they had a nice harvest. Aside from all the prey and meat, they had found a rare flat-tailed plant as well. Gui He’s hunting team also brought back a lot of things from the first hunting mission this year, and Ta hated to lose to them. Luckily, they had fortune on their side.

However, Ta was indeed a little concerned, about what might have happened with Mai’s hunting group. After all, he brought a wolf along with his group.

This time, they were going back sooner than expected. He was prepared to wait for another two or three days before every hunting group in his team gathered together. However, unexpectedly, the five hunting groups arrived together.

That was a scenario that had never happened in the past. Hunting groups would only ask for help from other hunting groups when they encountered a major crisis. But judging from the vigorous steps of the groups, they shouldn’t have been into any fatal dangers, although there were indeed a lot of wounded people.

Looking at the wolf, Ta assumed that it was getting along well with the other warriors.

After seeing that they were generally in good health, Ta again felt it hard to breathe when he found that they had so little game with them.

“What is wrong?” Ta asked in a bad mood.

The five group leaders stood there together, showing their big white teeth to Ta together, smiling…like idiots…

……

Inside the tribe.

Old Ke hadn’t been sleeping very well lately, especially around the time that the hunting team was about to return. Every day, he would take a few walks around the Path of Glory.

He wondered whether Ah-Xuan was doing okay, and whether Caesar was behaving well. After all, it was Caesar’s first time travelling outside. Would he be okay with so many ferocious beasts nearby?

As he let his mind drift, Old Ke heard an eagle cry from the air. Looking at Chacha in the sky, Old Ke stopped walking.

Had the hunting team returned?!

“I heard that many people got badly injured this time.”

“From which hunting group?”

“I do not know.”

“……”

Old Ke did not have a good feeling about it. Perhaps, were they talking about Mai’s hunting group? Someone had predicted that Mai and his hunting group would meet some serious trouble when they took the wolf along at the beginning.

Some other guys mentioned Caesar’s name while discussing, but they were not talking about Caesar’s merits. Old Ke almost got into a fight because of that.

Soon, the badly injured people got sent back, and there were indeed quite a lot of them.

After about another half a day, the hunting team showed up.

“Aside from the advance group, the other hunting groups seem to have little game…” Someone said.

It was hard for people to believe that they brought back so little game!

“What the hell happened?”

As people were whispering, warriors from the other hunting team were also thinking about something secretly. Indeed, they were the stronger team! Compared with their harvest, Ta’s hunting team was merely a sad joke.

No one had ever anticipated that there would be such a big difference in the game that they brought back. In the past, Ta’s hunting team would always bring back packs of dead animals and meat. Even at their worst times, they would bring back more.

Well, forget it. It is good enough that they came back alive.

It was their first hunting trip this year, and many families had pretty high expectations towards their return. Now, they couldn’t help but feel somewhat disappointed. The winter had ended, but it seemed that they were still going to suffer from hunger for quite some time. They did not have enough food.

Although disappointed, people still decided to properly comfort the returning warriors. However, after they finally managed to control their emotions and prepared their nice words, they found that every warrior on the Path of Glory was smiling like champions, without any sign of being upset. They waved their fists to their families standing on the sides of the path, not bringing back much game, and wearing giant dumb smiles.

People had to swallow all the comforting words that they had already prepared.

“What is wrong with them?”

“Was the blow of such a pitiful result of hunting too much for them?”

People had no clue why they were acting like that.

Old Ke finally became relieved seeing that both Shao Xuan and Caesar were alright. It really didn’t matter whether they had a good harvest. The most important thing was that they came back, safe and sound.

However, Old Ke noticed that the team leader, Ta, who was walking at the very front of the line, had a very delicate expression…It was faint. If you said that he was happy, he wasn’t too happy. Yet he was also not upset.

What on earth happened?

When they finished the sword cleansing ritual at the mountaintop, they all rushed down the mountain like crazy. Some warriors even forgot to take their game back.

Soon, people learnt the reason why the hunting team was acting so weirdly.

“The Fire Crystals?!!”

Old Ke was very excited, and he only believed that Shao Xuan was telling the truth after hearing it several times.