Chapter 171 – Li (2/2)

The guy who came to Yan Shuo last night with broken arms and fractures was wounded by Li.

Maybe to show his power and show off the strength he regained, or maybe for some personal grudges, Li was merciless to his previous partners. If it wasn’t that a commotion had happened on the river bank that Li had to immediately settle, that man would have otherwise died.

From those who came here at the beginning, some left, some died, and others were wounded. Except for Yan Shuo and his families, the last man couldn’t bear the pressure and instead chose to become a slave last night. Now, Yan Shuo was the only one to hold out.

Li headed straight towards Yan Shuo, step by step, with a long whip in hand, wearing a malicious smile on his face.

If they were both the slaves of the same slaveholder, Li may not dare to kill him directly. Although, sometimes the slaveholder would not care about whether a lower level slave was alive or dead, Li was afraid that the slaveholder would have another idea. It had taken a long way for him to get promoted, so Li would not try to annoy his slaveholder. In spite of the smiling face all day, the slaveholder would be extremely cruel when he took actions. When thinking about the slaves effortlessly killed by the slaveholder with no hesitation or mercy, Li would feel a chill climbing up his back.

Anyway, in the case of wanderers, the slaveholder would not interfere. These wanderers were ungrateful people, who couldn’t tell what was good for them. There were some who even refused the slaveholder when they were picked out.

At the beginning, the first one that the slaveholder actually picked out was Yan Shuo, who had the greatest strength among them. But it’s a pity that Yan Shuo didn’t know what was good for him and refused. Yet Li took the chance; he chose to follow the slaveholder and left Yan Shuo and the others.

Yan Shuo just had greater strength, wasn’t it? We are all wanderers without our own tribe. The flame was extinguished a long time ago. Then what’s the difference between us?

As to the “Flaming Horns tribe” that Yan Shuo always talked about on the way here, Li didn’t believe even one word he said.

If the tribe still exists, why is he in such dire straits?

If the tribe still exists, why doesn’t Yan Shuo go out and look for it?

If the “Flaming Horns tribe” really exists, why does no one in the traveling groups coming and going know about its existence?

At that time, Yan Shuo appeared to be one of the sanest amongst them. But in fact, in the eyes of the others, Yan Shuo was a madman, always dreaming about something that was impossible.

What Li was most disgusted with was the way Yan Shuo’s eyes filled with hope as he talked about the “Flaming Horns tribe”. In the past, he was no match for Yan Shuo, but Li gained strength after becoming a slave. It’s only that he had had no time to come over and “chat” with these men who used to be his partners. Yet now, he had plenty of free time. Yesterday, he came over for one of them; today he came for Yan Shuo.

In order to avoid being called away in the middle of his ‘chat’ like he was yesterday, he asked another ‘promoted’ slave to keep his eyes on the slaves on the river bank.

With a whip in one hand, Li brought a palm-sized shell in the other hand for amusement.

It’s said that in some place in the central area, delicate shells could be exchanged for things. What a pity that the shells in this place were far from being delicate, but were ugly and fragile, just like the people here!

Ka!

The shell in his hand crumbled into pieces instantly.

“Someone told me that you are badly off now?” Li sneered at Yan Shuo as he stood in front of his messy wooden hut; a hut that looked like it could be blown down by a gust of wind. The next moment, he raised his hand and gave a heavy slash.

The whip fell on the fragile wooden hut; some of the wood blocks cracked and fell down immediately, one corner of the roof was ripped down.

“Li!”

Seeing Li intending to ruin his house, Yan Shuo couldn’t bear it any more, as his wife and kids were inside. If the house was ruined, where would they sleep tonight? There were too many dangers in the surroundings; moreover, his two kids were too small and vulnerable to accidents.

Li came to kill him. Yan Shuo knew the reason, so he didn’t expect a peaceful talk.

With the chipped stone knife he usually used, Yan Shuo rushed at Li.

Li looked at Yan Shuo with a flicker of confusion. Yan Shuo seemed different from how he was in the past? It should not be so, after all, what could have happened to Yan Shuo?

Still, Li was not worried. No matter what had changed, Yan Shuo, a wanderer, was still no match to him.

Yan Shuo, who had dashed out in an instant, was waving his knife based on his experience from hunting beasts; thoughts of fighting welling up in his mind beyond control.

In the past, Yan Shuo had greater strength than the others, but there seemed to be a big stone inside his body, preventing him from generating more strength. But it was different now. Although there was some feeling of obstruction as before, Yan Shuo felt the resistance was smaller. He had a pleasant feeling hard to express in words when waving his knife.

Is this the so called power?

The knife had the power of destruction. Yan Shuo slashed towards Li as if he was hunting a prey, while the totem patterns on his face became clearer and appeared.

Almost at the same time, Shao Xuan, who was taken away to see the poison frog by Yu and the others, moved his eyes away from the poison frog and looked over to the direction where the wanderers lived.

“Yu, I have something that I need to do and need to be excused for a moment. Help me get some poison.” Shao Xuan gave a water moonstone to Yu and quickly went away.