Chapter 267 (2/2)

When he was learning traps with Lao Ke (TL: Loki?), he also learned a few new ways to tie knots. And the pair of hands that he was seeing, was tying knots with a rope.

It was only tying knots, is it really that mysterious?

Shao Xuan didn’t understand, but after looking at it for a while, he noticed something was going on. The knots that it was tying were not the ones used to set traps but instead are more like the ones to transmit a message. A very important, serious and powerful message.

After a long time, Shao Xuan still couldn’t see the hands tie any knot. It was just there twirling chaotically.

Shao Xuan was staring at the pair of hands in his mind. However, in reality, he was inside the stone house of some sorcerers.

The leader, two elders and some other people were all here. Their attention was totally directed at a person, lying down on some animal skin.

“Leader, what happened to Shao Xuan? Did he get ambushed by some people?”, Ke ke whispered quietly.

The leader glared at him and said nothing, but he had an ugly expression.

Not only in the tower, but in the house, nobody had a kind expression. Especially Gui He. Gui He brings the people of the flaming horn tribe out and does head counts every day, and even searched the house of those two suspects. He didn’t find anything abnormal, but just as he finished at wanted to leave, he heard that Shao Xuan was heading this way. When he didn’t see much happening, he left. However, Gui He wanted to see if Shao Xuan went back to the house of the two traitors, so he headed back.

Unexpectedly, when he entered, he saw Shao Xuan lying down on the ground. He was scared out of his wits. Shao Xuan was promoted as elder just a while ago, and if something were to happened to him, the sorcerer and the leader would go insane. Good thing is, Shao Xuan’s breathing patterns were normal. Yet he was not responding to his name being called. Gui He could only carry him to the sorcerer for help.

Unfortunately, even when he brought him to the sorcerer, he still couldn’t wake him up either.

Gui He reported some details to the sorcerer and approached the holes with empty containers and sprinkled some of the gold powder onto it.

The two elders started to suspect that maybe the two traitors had returned. Maybe they decided to dig up some stuff, but when Shao Xuan touched it, he fainted. However, upon closer investigation, the facts just didn’t line up. Shao Xuan didn’t even have any signs of injuries on his body, so he didn’t get into a fight. Even more, if these two can knock out Shao Xuan so easily, why didn’t they just kill him?

They couldn’t come up with any conclusive evidence, so everyone just stood in silence.

The sorcerer touched some of the golden powder inside the empty container. When he touched it, his eyes started to sparkle.

“He is moving! Look! He moved!” Gui He yelled in astonishment.

Everyone gazed at Shao Xuan, who was lying on some animal skin. They saw that Shao Xuan’s fingers were twitching. There was no pattern in the movement, however, it was clearly very fast. The originally jittering fingers started to move to a larger area, and the wrists were starting to move. It seemed like Shao Xuan was enduring something very exhausting because he was drenched in sweat.

He didn’t fight, nor did he do anything other than lie there. What was draining his energy?

Everyone was astounded.

“Did he have a bad dream?” Ke ke said quietly. Looking at this man’s sweat-covered face, one could even assume that he was hunting some savage animal inside a dense forest.

The sorcerer saw the movement of his hand and felt that what Ke Ke said was wrong. It seemed familiar…. what is it? The sorcerer’s pupils contracted violently and raised his hand and started waving.

We must get everyone out of here.

The two elders kicked everyone out and returned to look at Shao Xuan’s situation. They also bolted the door shut so no one could enter.

Gui He was reluctant to leave, but after getting a firm stare from one of the elders, he turned around and left.

After confirming that everyone has left, and the door was firmly shut, the elders asked the sorcerer, “What do you think happened?”

The sorcerer looked at Shao Xuan’s hand movements and signed in vain. “Judging by his movements, I can conclude that he is fighting with something, and it seems to be tying knots.”