Chapter 336 (1/2)

Core Seed

Shao Xuan stared at the other person’s horrified look and whispered into his ear, “Answer me! I’m asking you a question”

His captive nodded repeatedly.

Shao Xuan slowly loosened his hold on his captive’s throat. He saw that the man heaved a sigh of relief and asked, “What is Dao Yu doing down there?”

The man suddenly looked up with eyes filled with fear. He did not expect Shao Xuan to mention Dao Yu’s name directly. It was obvious that he was very afraid of the name Dao Yu.

Shao Xuan tightened his grip on the man’s throat once again, as if he was planning to slash his throat right on the spot.

The man nodded and shook his head at the same time, as if he had something to say but couldn’t make a sound. When Shao Xuan released him, the man kept coughing.

“Tell me now.”

“He is at… at… go to hell!”

All of a sudden, the horrified expression on the man’s face disappeared and was replaced with a murderous look. The man stepped back abruptly, twisted his legs and swept towards Shao Xuan like a whirlwind. A sharp bone piece was sandwiched between the toes of his foot. And if anyone was cut by the sharp bone, it would certainly be a bloody tragedy for him.

However, Shao Xuan was prepared. He did not attack, but only moved his hands slightly.

A wooden thorn pierced the man’s throat.

While in the desert, Shao Xuan had broken off this wooden thorn from a tree covered in hard thorns. The thorn itself was hard and Shao Xuan smeared poison on it. The person stabbed by this wooden thorn would feel drowsy, then fall into a deep sleep.

After the man fell, Shao Xuan killed him with his knife and buried him. Then he went to the place where the man came from. He imitated the man’s movements by brushing off the sand and knocked on the slate a few times.

The slate opened a slit, and a guard on duty who was standing below looked outside, but did not see anyone. The guard opened the slate in disbelief and craned his neck for a closer look. Not long after, he felt a sudden burst of pain on his neck and his sight quickly blurred.

After the man fell on the ground, Shao Xuan waited outside the silt for a while to see if there was anyone nearby. When he was sure that he was alone, he slipped through and carried the fainted man to the side. He arranged the man into a position to look as if he had fallen asleep on the ground.

When Shao Xuan pulled the slate back to its original position, he saw a small opening behind the slate. He then picked up a polished stone stick next to it, and stuck it there to prevent other people outside from pulling the slate to enter. After the slate was pulled up, the passage below became dark.

There was a fire torch next to the slate.

But Shao Xuan did not need the fire torch.

He continued walking forward and reached a fork at the tunnel, which led to three branch passages.

Shao Xuan chose one passage intuitively and walked in. As he walked further in the tunnel, the image of the shell of the totem flames in his mind became brighter. But at the same time, he was feeling uncomfortable. Every nerve fibres in his body were screaming danger. The danger he sensed did not come from any human beings, but due to different reasons.

The further he walked in, the wider the tunnel became. There was wind blowing through the passage, perhaps there were other exits available. The tunnel did not seem like a newly built one, but looked like an ancient tunnel built a long time ago.

Shao Xian moved a little forward and found that there were a lot of warehouses, and there were people guarding them. There was a fire torch nearby, three guards were leaning on the torch while sitting on the ground. However, the guards looked like they were dozing off.

Shao Xuan sneaked into one of the warehouses, the three guards standing outside the warehouse were oblivious to this.

There was no door in the warehouse. Inside the warehouse, there were many stones of different sizes and the stones were of high quality. The first thought that came into Shao Xuan's mind was that this was the place where White Stone City stored their stone materials, to make stoneware. But he thought it was quite suspicious that the stones were stored so far away from the city. It seemed like these people were plotting something.

At that moment, Shao Xian heard a noise outside. He then hid himself behind some rocks and peered through the cracks of the rock to see what was going on outside.

A group of people came towards the same direction and were holding torches that illuminated the interior of the warehouses.

”Hurry, hurry, move more of these over there!” a man said.