Chapter 652 Cooked (1/2)
Just as a preventative measure, as soon as he landed, he got as far away from the beast as possible.
He didn’t dare to let go of the still glowing string in his hand.
The beast was fully burnt now with none of its stripes visible anymore. So scales were flipped over to let out hot air that was trapped inside and … the smell of deliciously cooked meat.
Was this it?
The shaman let down his guard first. From the first strike up until now, he had used way too much of his energy. Even if he hadn’t died, a good half of his remaining life was gone. He looked much older and the peppered hair he had was all white now.
Shao Xuan soon followed suit.
When Shao Xuan let go of the string, it was still burning. It only stopped when Shao Xuan fully retracted all the powers he let out.
“Shaman, are you alright?!”
Every Gu tribe member that was able to walk rushed forward to check on the shaman.
The Flaming Horn tribespeople did that same to Shao Xuan.
“Are you alright, Grand Elder?”
“Yes.” Shao Xuan sat on the ground, catching his breath. He pointed to the beast and said, “Go and check.”
Ah Guang carried the bow that was nearly as tall as she was and shot an arrow there.
The green arrowhead pierced its skin but it didn’t make it far.
The beast had no reaction.
Wei threw his stone weapon at the beast. It wrapped around the spear that was still attached to the body. He pulled the spear out forcefully. There was no reaction from the beast but blood started flowing out.
During the expansion, the second spear had dropped out from the body while the first one was still attached but it was much looser now.
“It’s not thoroughly cooked yet,” said Duo Li.
The skin of the beast was really burnt to crisps but there were some places where the flesh of the beast was still raw.
“Let it bleed,” said Tuo.
There were no objections.
Many beasts would fake their deaths in the forest, they had seen their fair share of those. The beasts would sacrifice a part of their body and when it was safer, they ran for their escape.
This beast didn’t seem like the kind that would fake its death but there was no harm in being careful.
However, this beast wasn’t the Flaming Horn tribe’s game. It was a collaborative effort between the two tribes so they had to ask the other tribe on how they wanted to deal with it.
The Gu people agreed, they didn’t have much experience in this factor anyway.
“Do… Do you need help?” the person carrying Bo Gu on his back asked. He couldn’t move but the other Gu warriors could.
“No.” Wei shook his hand and took out his blade as he walked towards the beast.
The net made from the white worm silk had broken into smaller pieces due to the fire. With a little more force they would crumble into dust.
Not just Shao Xuan's string. The ones made by the Gu tribe all changed into grass pulp as soon as the fire was extinguished. They had done what they were meant to do.
Wei lifted up more scales at the part of its neck where the string was.
He cut along the burn wounds left by the string on the beast’s neck. With one slash, the scales pointed outwards to reveal flesh underneath. It made slicing much easier.
The slash was half his knife’s width deep. Deep red flesh could be seen when the wound split open.
”No blood?” Ask Bo Gu.
”Don't you see it's cooked? Of course, there's no blood.” Duo Li wanted to take a piece of meat to try but he knew now wasn't the time to do it so he waited at the side.
”It's just the surface.” Wei looked at Tuo. After looking at Tuo nodding, he cut the beast again at the same spot.
Two cuts in, the wound was much deeper now. One could see the cross-section of the blood vessels that were sliced open.
”Still no blood?”
”Another cut!”
”There's still nothing?!”
”Again!”
……
Bo Gu looked at the Flaming Horn tribespeople. They were much more familiar with beasts than his own tribe. Remembering how the Gu tribe had treated the Flaming Horns, it was an awkward situation. Should he apologize or should he thank them? But it seemed that the Flaming Horn people were much more interested in the beast at the moment.