Chapter 126 – Hatred (2/2)

Shao Xuan was listening while Lang Ga was talking about his experience at that time, when a shout broke out.

“Watch out!”

“Attention!”

“A wolf pack!”

Shao Xuan suddenly rose and looked around.

The laying Caesar disappeared.

Mai was nervously paying attention to the move of those wolves. They had intended to surround them, but soon Mai found Caesar rush out. Instead of confronting them head on, he bit the wolf at the border of its group and ran away immediately.

Mai felt that the wolves were planning to attack them, but the attack wasn’t targeted at Caesar. On seeing Caesar, the wolves hesitated for a moment, but in response to the call of the head, they changed the target to chasing Caesar.

When they went hunting, Caesar usually helped attract the attention from the prey as planned. But the prey was not such a threat like the wolves. Why did Caesar suddenly rush out?

“Ah-Xuan, ask Caesar to come back…” Mai glanced around, but did not see Shao Xuan. His face turned blue and said, “Where is Ah-Xuan?!”

Jumping out of the high bushes, Lang Ga was out of breath and said, “I couldn’t catch up with him.”

When he saw Shao Xuan leave, he followed him without delay in order to stop him. Unexpectedly, he was left behind and had no choice but to come back.

“He…runs too fast!” Said Lang Ga. He never thought that he, who had advanced to a intermediate totem warrior, and had a speed that was the fastest in the group, would unexpectedly be left behind in such a short time!

Mai took a deep breath. And then he looked at a few young warriors, and said, “You go back first to the cave! Qiao, take them away!”

Mai led a few warriors into the woods and followed the direction Lang Ga pointed at.

At the same time, Shao Xuan chased the wolves following the traces on the ground.

Caesar probably found the wolves before Mai and moved very fast. Perhaps he had been waiting, or he couldn’t have so decisively rushed out.

Due to a delay, Shao Xuan couldn’t see the wolves and just searched for them according to the nearby traces on the ground.

They didn’t know until now that these wolves could run with such high speeds.

Shao Xuan was worried about Caesar, because if he fought against the wolves he had a slim chance to win and escape.

Lang Ga said Caesar did not hold a grudge, but Shao Xuan believed Caesar still remembered. As to how much Caesar remembered, Shao Xuan did not know.

While chasing, Shao Xuan looked in the direction of the wolves and thought of something.

Between the first holdout and the second one, there was a remote area near a mountain, where ferocious beasts seldom appeared, Lang Ga and Shao Xuan had set up traps there.

During the hunting period they might encounter some troubles, so they set up some traps in remote areas to handle such situations. If they encountered some ferocious beasts and other beasts that were difficult to handle, members of the hunting group would go to the trap zone, where those traps served as obstacles to the beasts, so they were given more time to escape.

It was Lang Ga that initially set those traps, later Shao Xuan and Lang Ga studied together to repair and even improve several of them. Those traps were set to hurt, and even kill, the ferocious beasts.

Each time they came hunting, they had to check these trap zones. On the first day of this hunting mission, they had come to check them, and Caesar had watched them.

Many beasts stayed away from the places where the wolves often appeared, and some ferocious beasts there were afraid of getting into trouble and avoided confronting the wolves. This also facilitated Shao Xuan in catching up with the wolves.

Screams could be heard coming from the trap zone.

Shao Xuan sped up again.

When Shao Xuan arrived there, he saw the thorn pit, a wolf was lying in there.

The thorns did not pierce it deeply, but the harder it struggled to leave, the deeper the thorns went into its body. More and more blood was flowing out. As the thorns went deeper, it became weaker and weaker, because the thorns were smeared with a kind of herb juice that had an anesthetic effect. If no one took the thorn out, it would not take long for it to die. Shao Xuan did not care about it and just left.

Not far from the pit, a wolf was hanging in the air with a rope tied around its neck. The harder it struggled to leave, the tighter the rope became. This kind of rope was very strong because it was specially soaked in animal blood and herb essence. The hanging wolf struggled to bite the rope but failed again and again. When Shao Xuan saw it, its neck was deformed a little.

When Shao Xuan passed by, he cut it with his knife, so it no longer struggled.

A dead or a struggling wolf could be seen in the pits, lassos, nets and even near the knife piles. All of these wolves had spots close to their backs.