Chapter 466 (2/2)

“Should we go out and check?” asked the Taihe chief. Although he was afraid and worried, he was also curious.

“Wait first!” Shao Xuan stopped them. “Listen.”

Grrr-----

The boulders were an efficient medium for sound travel. It sounded like something was moving below.

It was silent within the cave. Everyone could sense danger, holding their breaths. The rumbles in the cave were very clear, sending goosebumps.

“It’s a big one! Are we really not going outside? The top layer of the cave isn’t as solid as the bottom layer, what if it collapses?” asked the Mountain Wind chief.

Zheng Luo and the rest looked at Shao Xuan.

Shao Xuan was under a lot of pressure. His decision would determine the fate of three thousand people.

Instinct. He had to trust his instinct.

“Stay inside,” said Shao Xuan again.

“Then we stay in the cave!” Zheng Luo made a gesture to Duo Kang.

Duo Kang gulped and turned to pass the message. The people who usually didn’t blink in the presence of forest beasts were now shaking.

The Taihe and Mountain Wind chiefs looked at each other, their internal struggle showing in their eyes. The upper layer of the cave was not very solid, especially the part near the mouth. This was why it easily collapsed when Fox and Shen destroyed this place. It cannot withstand a giant beast’s attack, especially not a king beast. One smash and it would collapse. Then everyone would be buried inside. However, they might have a chance to live if they run now?

Who would want to stay? To wait for death? They’d either be buried or frozen to death!

“We…”

The Mountain Wind chief was about to say something when Taihe’s chief turned to his men, “We will do the same as Flaming Horn. Tell everyone we’ll do whatever Flaming Horn does!”

Mountain Wind’s chief, Lanmu swallowed his words. He had wanted to tell his people to escape but…

He hesitated!

“Chief!” the people around him were starting to hurry him. Even his men were divided into two sides, one side agreed with Flaming Horn and Taihe while the rest wanted to leave while they still could.

“We should…”

Before Lanmu finished, the rumbles grew louder and the ground shook more.

“It’s coming out!” said Shao Xuan in a low voice.

It’s out? What now? We wanted to escape! Lanmu was anxious.

The blanket of snow outside the cave was shaken off. The path they cleared was covered in even more snow. They could not see the outside anymore. The cave plunged into darkness.

Crackle crackle crackle----

A long, continuous sound of rough salt grains rubbing against rock grew louder until it was rough, yet sharp, and deafening. It was like nails on a chalkboard, sending goosebumps all over, piercing into their brains as every hair stood on their heads.

The sounds echoed within the cave. The weaker warriors bled through their ears with a dazed look in their eyes. It took a while before they snapped back and their hearing was temporarily affected. Since they could not hear whispers, they solely relied on lip-reading.

There was a long whistle like a strong gust of wind was blowing outside, then all the snow outside the mines was suddenly carried into the air.

The ten-meter tall layer of snow outside the mines seemed to break off into unequal flakes, then as if time was reversed, they all flew up into the air. The air currents flung the snow far away.

In a moment, half of the solid wall of snow at the mouth of the cave disappeared.

Shao Xuan reached out to push the snow at the gap between the cave mouth and the boulder aside. A gust of cold wind rushed into the cave but he had no time to care. Shao Xuan, the three chiefs, everyone near the entrance all stood tip-toed or climbed on a rock to see the outside through the gaps.

The layer of snow outside was now only two-meters thick.