Chapter 164 – Pu tribe (2/2)
After making a head count of the trading group, Qing Yi waved, “Set out!”
The crocodiles that were floating used their tails to start moving across the river.
A few moments later, Shao Xuan heard a call from behind and he turned. At the river shore, where the group was sending them off, was a crocodile floating above the water. There was a dark-brown-eyed baby crocodile at its side, too. Its call could not be heard by anybody else, so when Shao Xuan turned back, Fu Shi was confused.
Seeing the baby crocodile, Fu Shi grinned, “It’s sending us off.”
Turning back to look forward, Shao Xuan signalled Chacha in the sky, asking him to keep up with them.
A hundred crocodiles were accompanying the two-hundred-people trading group. The procession may not have looked like much, but it was definitely peculiar.
These crocodiles were, after all, not real boats. Therefore, they couldn’t be floating above the water surface all the time. There would be times when they would sink into the river a little and the person standing on top will have their two legs soaked. However, the Drumming tribe’s members would not feel uncomfortable. After all, they were as hydrophilic as they could be.
Shao Xuan looked down at the duckweeds on the surface of the water. These green plants had everything below the water covered up. When looking at the trading group from ashore, it looked just like they were travelling alone with only the wandering waves. Only when someone mentioned it would they know that there were creatures under the water.
The river also had other fish species, even dangerous ones. However, when they were confronted with the line of crocodiles, they would quickly retreat and swim away as far as possible.
Sometimes, there were some marine animals, or even other animals, that were playing in the water. Some of them needed to be avoided and others not. They could just go straight towards them and they would automatically make way for them.
Feeling an itch, Shao Xuan moved the spear he was holding a bit, only hearing the sound of water splashing, and a finger-long insect was stabbed into the spear’s head.
It was a mouth sucker kind of insect. Its body was reddish-brown, a yellow pattern on it, it’s abdomen extremely small.
“Pay attention, these insects suck blood.” Fu Shi, who was standing close, explained.
Shao Xuan had reacted immediately when he felt something, so the blood the insect sucked was not his. He didn’t know who it belonged to.
It looked like in that river, the threatening dangers were not a lot, but the bothersome matters were many.
The river flowed over a wetland, between the towering mountains, passing by them.
To the Drumming tribe’s members, these mountains were already quite high. However, to Shao Xuan, compared to the Eagle Mountain, or even the ones where he was hunting, the difference was like heaven and earth.
Half a day later, Shao Xuan felt his sight become dimmer. The group went towards the two cliffs on the side of the towering mountains and into the narrow waterway between them. They blocked most of the sunlight, leaving only a narrow opening on the top
The water path was especially quiet, only the sound of crocodile tails moving in the river could be heard.
“We will arrive soon after passing through here.” Fu Shi informed.
The light in front of them was slowly getting nearer.
When the group got out, everything was different. There were large tracts of lotus leafs.
“From here on, it is the Pu tribe’s territory. “ Fu Shi said.
Shao Xuan was planning to ask more questions, but at that moment, he suddenly saw something on the water heading towards them at high speed. It somehow stopped the moment it reached the tracts of lotus leaves.
The large tracts of lotus leaves blocked the shadow underwater.
“Gua!”
A frog-like cry sounded out and Shao Xuan reflexively pulled out a knife.
Whisk!
A silhouette broke out from the water. Yet, it did not rush towards the Drumming tribe’s trading group. It instead landed on a large lotus leaf which looked like a small bed.