Chapter 183 – Courage is not small (1/2)

Edited by EvilGurl, Ilesyt

Da- Da- Da-

Footsteps came from a hole inside.

The person inside the cave walked forward, step by step, not urgent, not slow, with a small hint of carelessness.

He didn’t seem to panic because of all the strangers in the cave.

There was no fire burning inside the cave, it was dark, so at first, the people couldn’t see the person inside. Because of his sudden appearance, they became vigilant and picked up their weapons while facing him.

In this place, you could not afford to underestimate even a single person, or you might end up regretting it.

Inside the cave, where the light was brighter, the person gradually revealed his shadow.

The man looked very young, wearing a linen dress. Although it was somewhat wrinkled, but you could still see it, compared to the piece of linen Shao Xuan saw in the Pu tribe, these linen clothes were much better, weaved more finely. In the collar, there were some series of decorations made from small bamboo pieces, so that piece of linen cloth did not lookso simple.

The man lazily stretched his arms and his waist as the light shone on him. He fixed his hair with his hand and looked at the people standing in the cave, and said: “Hey, switched?”

“And you are?” Several leaders of the group looked at each other and then one asked.

“This hole is ours! You get out quickly!”

There was a youth standing next to him. He originally intended to grab a better place in the cave, but then he became shocked when a sound came from within the cave. As a result, the person behind him grabbed the place. Thus his mood was disgruntled and the tone of his voice also sounded somewhat angry.

But he did not notice that his teamleader’s arrogance had toned down a lot, he also did not notice the sudden discolored faces of some of the experienced travelers.

Seeing the other did not answer, he was about to say something else, but several older people next to him covered his mouth. Dragging him to the middle of the team.

Shao Xuan looked at the person who came out.

He knows that although linen has become popular in the central region, and that there were many people wearing them in the market, but not many can wear linen that fine, even having polished bamboo ornaments. But the most important thing of all was the piece of jade hanging from his waist.

The experienced members of the team had said that everyone in the Mang tribe wore jade pieces. But those pieces could be of better or lower quality, types ranging from full rings to half rings, to even quarter rings. It could be said that status and jade were associated with eachother.

It can be presumed that this person was not a small character. Although they did not know why he came to sleep in this cave, but he could not be offended, which is what was going through the minds of the several team leaders at the same time.

The man seemed to sweep his gaze over the team, then said: “I have already slept well, you go in.”

No one from the team went inside, but the man started stepping forward. The group blocking the entrance of the hole quickly opened a path. Several young people that didn’t move were quickly dragged back by the older ones.

With no one blocking the entrance, more light shone inside, and it allowed the people to see this strange young man more clearly.

He had quite the fair and frail. He also didn’t give off a strong momentum like that of Fan Ning. But his clothes were pretty good.

Some wondered why they were so afraid. But when their eyes, that were looking at each other, swept over the hanging piece of jade, they scolded themselves in the heart and lowered their eyes. Not daring to look up.

For a while, the cave became quiet. The happily discussing people also closed their mouths.

The atmosphere became tense.

Da..da..da….

The sound of him moving slowly could be heard very clearly. Even the noise from outside the cave could not cover up this footsteps.

Suddenly, the man walking outside the cave stopped and paused, and looked sideways to look inside the travelers group.

The several leaders’ hearts suddenly became tight. They glanced at each other, thinking about what to do if an accident happened.

But the other just looked inside the group and said with a meaningful smile: “Your courage is not small, but when you go out, do not go alone.”

The other people in the group followed the man’s gaze, and there they saw Shao Xuan, frowning.

After that sentence, the man left. He stood outside and lazily stretched his waist and arms, looked to the foot of the mountain, and then jumped.

The slope of the mountain’s side was steep, there was quite some height from the ground below.

However, when the people went outside the cave to look below, they did not find that person’s shadow.

“Fan Ning came to the front of Shao Xuan with a cold face, probably because of the internal injuries he looked even more ugly, and said: “You messed with the people of the Mang tribe?”

“No, this is my first time here. I have not seen people of the Mang tribe before.” Shao Xuan was also wondering, that person only spoke in mystery, who knows what he meant in the end?

“Did not mess with would be the best!” Fan Ning heavily harumphed. Because this harumph affected the body’s injury, he even coughed a number of times, almost coughing up some blood. But in order to maintain his face and a stable morale, he held back the blood.

“Clean up the cave.” Said one of the leaders.

Worried that there might be other people in the cave, they put up a fire, and took torches into the inside, carefully checking around and throwing out some garbage, and then they took up a place to rest. Being on the road to the central region for so long, they had had tight nerves. And now they were finally able to grab a cave, they could finally have a good rest, some people with an injury also needed some care.

Shao Xuan and a few other people also found a place to rest, lit a small fire, and grilled some meat, to regain some strength.

“Shao Xuan, you really do not know that person?” Yu asked.

“I don’t know him, I have no idea what he meant.” Shao Xuan had been thinking about the reasons. He thought maybe he found out that he is from the Flaming Horns tribe, but he did not hear of any resentment between their and the Mang tribe. Moreover, Shao Xuan did not feel malicious intent from him, of course, no goodwill either. Just a stranger.

On the other side, the person who left the cave was near the market. He did not go into the market, but was about a hundred of meters away.

Whoosh!

A thin spear shot out, inserted in the ground in front of him, nearly half the spear shot into the ground.

“Qu Ce! Hand over Bai Ling!”

In the blink of an eye, a white figure appeared a 100 meters away. Arriving in front of Qu Ce.

This was a woman wearing white silk. With anger on her beautiful face, she looked at Qu Ce.

“Is it not just one spider? How many days do you have to try to kill me?” Qu Ce yawned, and said without care: “You care about your spider, but then what do I do about my difficultly raised bamboo rats? Compensate me? I also intended to keep them for a few days to cook in a pot of soup for good meal. But after I took a look a while later, all that was left were bones!”

Talking about the past, Qu Ce’s face became cold.