Chapter 353 (1/2)

Meet Someone

The further Shao Xuan went, the fog around grew thinner but still hung in the air. Unlike the places that he had come across, there were fewer active small beasts here. The surrounding atmosphere was not as harmless as before, full of quiet tension.

Shao Xuan tied up the animal skin bag, held his only short knife, and walked cautiously with light steps.

Then, Shao Xuan heard someone approaching.

He hadn’t encountered a human in a long time. Now that he finally got to hear someone's voice, despite being cautious, Shao Xuan felt great relief in his heart. It was great to have someone here; he was worried that this place was just a desolate piece of land.

He turned around and moved towards the direction where he heard the voice. The fog was heavier over there.

Listening carefully, there were voices of two people, and Shao Xuan could understand their conversation. The language here, was closer to the language used by the slave masters, proving that the slave masters may have come from here in the past .

His speculations were proved once again, Shao Xuan was in a better mood.

The two people were collecting dew, as well as plants that absorbed it.

”Is it enough?” A young woman clad in a thick cloth looked at her basket and asked the person next to her.

Standing next to her, the young man took a quick glance over the basket while keeping a watchful eye on surrounding, shook his head and said, ”Find some more, it hasn’t rained for a long time, and it's going to be hard if this continues.”

”Yeah, well, then let’s find some more. Be careful.”

”I know… Careful! Step back!” The young man took two steps forward, held the young woman behind and stared ahead with a long-handled strange knife in his hand.

A few meters away, there was some movement of sand and stones, which had made a rustling sound. Something was crawling down there.

But quickly, the movement grew so large that it seemed to know it had been discovered, it came out of hiding. “Pff---” a long tube bulged out of the ground. Like water vapour, sand flew while the long tube formed into a long beast.

A three-meter-wide, 10-meter-long, dark-brown giant worm burst out of the ground. There were many feet on its body, and the body was segmented and covered with hard sheets like armours. It charged at the two humans.

There was a sudden burst of energy in the young man. With this energy, soil-coloured patterns emerged on his body. He was a totem warrior.

The giant beast arched up like a snake and attacked the two. Apparently sensing that the man was harder to fight with, and after two unsuccessful attacks, it shifted the target. It evaded the young man and attacked the young woman holding a basket with its mouth wide-open, baring its sharp fangs.

As the giant bug switched its target, the young man got anxious and ran over, trying to stop it before it attacked, or at least catch its attention.

And just when the two were greatly anxious, with a loud bang, the giant bug which was about to attack the young woman was hit by a sudden big rock.

Not expecting to be attacked like this, the giant bug was confused. Before it could understand the situation, it was again hit by another rock. This time, the rock went over was more violent, more accurate, and it directly hit its two sharp fangs, almost knocking it over.

The giant bug tried to hold itself steady.

Crack--!

A tooth fell from the mouth of the giant bug.

And its other fang was badly hurt. Even if it was covered with hard armours, it couldn’t bear the strike of one big stone after another. Plus, one of its teeth had been smashed off. This must be stopped!

There were no cries but you could tell its rage from its movements. No one would be able to keep calm if they were knocked over while hunting for food.

Casting aside its original prey, the giant bug turned to find out where the stone came from. It could already sense the position of the stone thrower. An average person would have limited vision in this fog, but the giant bug was different, it could even accurately localize its prey within a few hundred meters in a thicker fog.

The giant bug rushed toward Shao Xuan's direction in fury, and it thought the tiny little stone-thrower would definitely run away quickly when he saw it. But reality was completely different from what it thought, not only did the stone-throwing human not run away, he rushed right over to it, and he was not afraid at all.

Shao Xuan had hunted for a long time. When he was on the seafloor, he had been repeating boring activities like eating, drinking, sleeping and running. And as a Flaming Horn tribesman who had been used to the exciting hunting life in the mountain forest, he was itching to hunt after he had landed, and almost wanted to kill the camels he came across. If it was not for conserving his energy, he would’ve done something. And now, with this scene in front of him, he certainly would take action.