Chapter 192 – The traps in the fores (1/2)

Edited by Ilesyt

In the early morning, Shao Xuan woke up and sat on the tall stone pillar. He yawned, stretched and looked around.

At the first glance, he found everything was the same as yesterday. But when he observed, he saw the “lines” running from the bushes to six different directions.

Going down from the pillar, he ate the carnivore bird’s egg which the Lu tribe had given him.

After having fed itself in the early morning, Chacha didn’t sense any potential danger in the surrounding area while flying.

The old flame pit was different now and was covered by layers of mud and stones. Shao Xuan had intended to uncover it but he thought that the flame had nothing to do with whether the flame pit was covered.

Let it be.

Shao Xuan recalled the vision he had seen last night and walked along the flame pit.

It changed a lot. If he hadn’t seen the vision last night, he couldn’t have imagined where the original buildings stood in this place.

He was looking to uncover some special items, but after walking around he found nothing. Maybe something was buried under the ground. Maybe these things had already been ruined. Maybe they had been taken away by the members of the Flaming Horns tribe.

Shao Xuan had planned to look for them carefully and suddenly he heard an eagle scream.

He stopped and put aside a broken pottery jar which he had just found. He entered the forest in the direction of Chacha’s scream.

In the early morning, the Wan Shi tribe sent over one hundred people into the forest to search for people of other tribes. They were divided into five groups. The shaman and the chief had ordered them to kill whoever they met as long as they weren’t members of their tribe.

If they could bring back their heads, the shaman and the chief would reward them.

Even though the shaman and the chief didn’t tell them who was in the forest and how many people there were, they were motivated to finish the task to get the rewards.

Those who had just taken part in the tribe war weren’t sent to search for the people in the forest. The shaman and the chief had discussed about it and finally decided to send more than one hundred people to carry out a search and get some information.

The rest stayed in the tribe and with envy looked at those walking towards the Ferocious Beasts Mountain Forest. This shouldn’t be a dangerous task, because so many people went there together with the Wan Shi beasts.

Those who would enter the forest set out with the Wan Shi beasts cheerfully while the rest looked at them with envy.

Not many cows, goats or horses were raised in the Wan Shi tribe. For one thing, they showed no interest. For another, more importantly, they focused on raising Wan Shi beasts.

The Wan Shi beast was bred selectively, so over the previous hundreds of years some genes could be passed on. They needed some powerful beasts and this came as their first standard. Therefore, some abnormal species and even some with many flaws were selected and preserved. But those weak species with dominant genes were abandoned and cooked for food.

These Wan Shi beasts were bigger than hounds trained by the other tribes and looked different. Some looked like dogs while others looked like cats. Their patterns were various, but they had one thing in common. That was their eyes looked cruel as if they would rush to bite anyone they caught.

When this tribe launched war against the other tribes, the members of this tribe often sent the Wan Shi beasts to chase those enemies who posed threat to them and had to be killed.

These Wan Shi beasts were tied by some strong and thick straw ropes, which had been specially made and soaked in special liquid. Only the strong totem warriors in this tribe could pull and control them and they also had to prevent them from biting the ropes.

Over one hundred people divided into five groups entered in the forest. Each group went with three or four Wan Shi beasts and wouldn’t stay too close or too far from each other. If one group met something unusual, its member could whistle so the other groups would hurry over to help them.

When they left the tribe they were excited by what the shaman and the chief said, But they were still anxious when stepping into the forest.

All kept silent and only the Wan Shi beasts roared in a deep voice from time to time. They didn’t find anything unusual or any trace left by men. They had thought that after entering the forest with the Wan Shi beasts, they could find the targets, but in fact, after walking for a long time, they still found nothing except several ferocious beasts.

Shao Xuan got used to hunting in the forest so he had learned how to manage to not to reveal his trace and presence. There were so many ferocious beasts that were good at tracing, but he wasn’t found by them. That was why he wasn’t be found by the Wan Shi beasts.

All the group members who had set out in the early morning felt tired at noon. They didn’t find anyone, but were attacked by some plants and animals. They couldn’t hide themselves, for there were more than twenty warriors in each group with Wan Shi beasts. Not to mention, they were not good at hiding themselves.

“Why can’t we find anyone?” A warrior said while resting.

“I really hope that I can take the head back to get the reward sooner. ” Another warrior said in an optimistic tone.

“It depends on whether you can act quickly enough. I won’t give the prey to you. ”

“Maybe there isn’t only one man here. Several men, maybe. Even if there is only one man, we can cut him into pieces.” Some cut in.

“Yes, you are right. It all depends on your ability.”

When they were talking about it, a warrior suddenly said, “Hey, what’s that?”

The warrior stood up and went next to a big stone. When they normally saw such a stone they would have ignored it. But now, this stone seemed to be an unusual one.

They only saw one side of this big stone from their original location, but when they changed their position, they found the scratches on the other side of the uncovered stone.

“Who did that?” That warrior asked.

The others shook their heads.

The scratches on the moss of the stone were newly left. If they weren’t left by the warriors of their tribe, it showed someone else had been here.

Not just that warrior thought so, the others had a similar thought.

“Someone has been here.”

“That’s great. ”

“Well, what is Flaming Horns?” The warrior saw the words on the stone and asked.

“It is said that here was a big tribe here, but it disappeared long ago. Perhaps the tribe was called Flaming Horns. ”

“Possibly.”

When talking about this, everyone became very excited.

A big tribe. Although they didn’t know what a big tribe was like thousands of years ago, every tribe had precious things, like the tribes in the central region. Perhaps some gems, jade and even fire crystals were preserved.

Thinking about this, everyone in the group became excited. They knew it was dangerous for them to stay in the forest where many ferocious beasts lived. But there were many warriors in this group, so if they were careful enough, they would be safe.

“Those who entered and hid in the forest might be looking for the precious things of this big tribe.” A warrior said.