Chapter 170 – The ‘wanderer’ Yan Shuo (1/2)

Translated by Joycelyn

Although Shao Xuan was puzzled about the slaves and slave master that appeared here, first he still had to settle down with the travel team before he could talk about anything else.

That slave master had quite a few housings here. At such an intersection, it was a common sight to see many people come and go. Every day, many travel teams like the Pu tribe settled here, he would then charge a certain ‘fee’ on them.

Everything that was said was done by the slaves though.

But Shao Xuan had discovered that the slaves that had been despised by the Pu tribe, their body condition may be poor, but compared to those wanderers, they seemed to have something else.

Yes, power. It’s power!

Those slaves somehow had more power than the wanderers! It wasn’t necessarily strength, it could be something like speed, reaction speed or something else.

There was pain on the slaves’ faces. Some were so numb that they could turn a blind eye to the contempt in the eyes of the surrounding people.

Becoming a slave, they had abandoned all their beliefs they had in the past, and from now on, there was only one belief they could have: their master.

The night deepened.

Fan Ning did not talk more to that slave master as he still had a team to arrange.

For now, the place where they had settled down didn’t have very good conditions. The area was small, with everybody squeezing together. But this was still better than having been bitten by mosquitos by the river side. Also, when its night time, the outside was not very safe. Who’s to say that you won’t be cut down by the wanderers; it is always good to have preparations, so it is still better to huddle together.

As for Chacha, there was absolutely no need for Shao Xuan to worry. This brat could survive even when they were hunting. Here, those beasts were not any threat to him. Even if he met with any danger, he would also look for Shao Xuan.

At this time, in the surrounding area, the differently shaped houses that Shao Xuan had seen before, each had started building fires. The people who had gone out came back with the results of a day’s worth of labour. Some came from the forest, some came from the river where the travel teams stayed. They knew how to do rough work, however their rewards were small.

A slim figure walked in the nightfall. The wooden stick in his hands waved like in a dance. The buzzing mosquitoes were driven away like a big slap by it.

Coming to a not very big wooden house, he moved away a block of thick wood, and in a flash he went in. In the same way, he quickly put up that block of wood again to keep the mosquitoes away.

“You’re back!?”

In the house, there was a similarly skinny women inside, carrying a young child sitting there. Her face showing exhaustion. The child in her arms sleeping.

“En.” The man who had just returned put his beast skin bag, that had many holes, at the side, and took out today’s harvest.

It was a fruit, a fish and a rabbit from the forrest area.

The surrounding beasts that could be hunted had already been almost wiped clean. They had limited strength, if they went any further out, they would die. There was not much else but fruits, many of which were still not ripe or had been picked by others already. Today was still counted as a lucky day, he found some big fruits at a not easily found area in a corner.

Seeing the fish and the rabbit, the woman’s eyes lighted up. This was already very good.

The woman laid the child carefully onto the wooden plank. She cooked the fish and the rabbit, as they were already cleaned up when they were slaughtered outside, there wasn’t any need to do any more treatment to them. They could be directly cooked.

After having them cooked, she came back and took a bite from one of the fruits, and after a while, the woman then chose a fruit with more juice in it and placed them on the wooden bed near the one year old child’s mouth.

Having food, that child also didn’t care to sleep. Just hugged the fruit and chewed quietly.

The woman then again placed two fruits on the wooden bed with her daughter on it and said: “First eat a little.”

“How was today?” The woman asked.

The man sighed and shook his head.

At first, there were his family and ten more other people. Three among them had joined other tribes, one managed to successfully stay behind, while two others were driven away and did not survive; four formed a group and went to the mountains to hunt and were forced to stay behind forever by the beasts; two had become slaves. The remaining one joined their family and had always stayed here, almost for ten years already.

“If it is really impossible, I plan to find people to leave together. We should change to some other place, I have already spoken with them today.” The man said.

While talking, a few knocks sounded on the block of wood that was blocking the entrance.

“Yan Shuo, open the door!”

Once hearing the guy’s voice, the man immediately relaxed his originally tense muscles, letting go of the stone knife, that was full of notches on it.

The person who came in was shorter than Yan Shuo by a little, skinnier than Yan Shuo too, like he was only wrapped in skin. HIs two eyes were bloodshot, breathing unstably, looking like he had just made an important decision.

“What is wrong?” Yan Shuo asked.

The guy came in and suddenly raised his head. Because he was too excited, the expression on his face became a little distorted.

“Yan Shuo, I….decided to……go over!” The guy exclaimed while looking in another direction.