Chapter 529 (1/2)

The Cabbage Thief

It was nearing the end of the year, they should be entering autumn with the temperature decreasing slightly each day. Instead, the temperature was rising with the Fearsome Beast Forest was even more active than before.

“It was the same situation last year.” The old shaman sat atop a boulder and sighed as she looked at the faraway forest, “No, this year is hotter than last year.”

The more unpredictable the weather was, the more anxious they people were.

However, their experience from last year assured the people and with the two tribes merging, they felt comfort in knowing they were in this together.

After experiencing the freezing winters on the other side of the sea, Zheng Luo and the rest weren’t used to this summer-like weather. The warmth should be better than the cold right?

The warmth also brought along its fair share of problems. The animals that were supposed to settle for the cold were now all oddly energetic. The flying insects were one of them, they annoyed the hunters whenever they entered the forest. Animals that were supposed to hibernate such as poisonous snakes were all energetic which were troublesome for the hunters.

“What is happening there?” The old shamaness noticed a group of warriors rushing out from the forest.

“Young man, what happened over there?” The old shamaness stopped Ke Ke that was running towards that direction.

After hearing the shamaness call for him Ke Ke immediately went to explain, “Shamaness, we were told the bugs were eating the cabbages and the chief wanted us there to help with the situation.”

“Bugs?” The two shamans were shocked. They immediately thought of the Veins of the Sky in the forest and rushed to the lands to check on them.

Luckily, not a single flying bug was in sight near the Veins of the Sky. Not many bugs were there in general. It seemed that the plants were naturally pest repellent. Of course, this was limited to unbroken Veins fo the Sky.

The two shamans felt great relief and went on to help with the insect infestation. They had planted many seeds with some not even germinating. They were afraid the cabbages were in trouble too.

“These insects weren’t this active in the past years.” The shaman had worry seeping out of her eyes,

Except for last year, the current situation was out of character for the area. They never had a problem with insects until the odd weather kicked in and caused the insects to skip their hibernation period.

In addition to that, the fields were close to the forest so many insects were attracted to it.

They would face the occasional wave of attacks from flying insects but it was nothing more than the farmers could handle. They never needed help from warriors like this.

Shao Xuan arrived to a mess in the fields.

Swords, knives, batons and hammers were flung around.

It was light yellowish-green in colour, with two large protruding eyes, a wide torso matched with a thin abdomen. Two neatly transparent wings with web patterns sprouted on its back. Five pairs of thin feet that had claws. The frontmost pair was used to hold items like when they grabbed leaves.

This bug had a mouth that was capable of chewing things, it was especially great at chewing leaves.

These were the bugs that were troubling those mightly warriors that had no trouble fighting huge beasts. When the large swarm came at once, they were flustered because there wasn’t a way to deal with these flying critters. Shooting arrows at them didn’t seem suitable.

They didn’t exactly soar in the sky but the warriors had no way of flying so the bugs still had the height advantage.