Chapter 703 - Wings and Claws (2/2)

“The Hui tribesmen are here,” Shao Xuan said after he heard the cry.

He was familiar with this sound. One of the Hui tribesmen, Gu La, had a pet eagle called Dao Shan. This was that eagle.

The land was slowly becoming visible as they advanced. They could see the high mountains on land, and also the eagles that were flying in the sky.

Shao Xuan got on Cha Cha’s back and flew over first.

“You guys are finally back!” Gu La was on Dao Shan’s back. He shouted when he saw them flying over.

“When did you guys come here?” Shao Xuan asked.

“Our chief was worried that you guys couldn’t find anyone here after arriving, so ever since you guys left, people would come over everyday to check. People still came over despite the winter, sometimes with eagles, sometimes without. Now that winter passed, we also came, but we never thought we could actually meet you guys today!”

Gu La examined the fleet of ships on sea. “I see more ships.”

“Yup, we made five new ships. One of these ships had some problems on the way, so only twenty-four are left now,” Shao Xuan explained. On the way back, they encountered a sea beast that was hunting for food. It crashed into the ship, destroying almost half of it. It didn’t sink right away, but they could no longer use that ship.

After they transferred the people over to the other ships, the twenty-four ships continued to advance. These were the ships that Gu La saw.

“You guys got the people?” Gu La asked.

“Yup, we got them. They haven’t adapted to life at sea so they’re not doing very well now. We need to rest for a few days before we depart again.”

“We found a perfect resting spot nearby. It’s a cave. Not everyone can fit inside, but it can still hold around five hundred people.”

“Five hundred? That’s enough,” Shao Xuan said.

Those people who are feeling most unwell would rest in the cave while the others would continue staying on the ships or find a place to rest near the cave. The totemic warriors could withstand the cold.

Many of the Taihe tribesmen who were feeling sick finally recovered when they stepped on solid ground. Out of curiosity, many of them even had conversations with the people of the Hui tribe. They were still not familiar with the language here, so they spoke slower than the locals.

Since the people of the Taihe tribe were allies with the Flaming Horns and the Hui tribe were also allies with them, an ally’s ally was naturally a friend. That was why Gu La and the others from the Hui tribe embraced them with warmth and passion. They even went to hunt for fresh wild beast meat to serve them.

Shao Xuan let Cha Cha deliver the wooden boxes full of ice up to the snowy mountaintops. There were many high mountains nearby. He wasn’t sure whether it was because the temperature had not risen, but the distance halfway up the mountains was still snowy white.

Atop the cold mountaintops, the melted water froze into ice once again. The insects and wild beasts inside also froze with the ice.

Shao Xuan wore a beast hide glove and used his hands to wipe away the mud that covered the unknown creature within the ice.

It didn’t look like it but the creature was acutally covered in dense mud.

After wiping the mud away, he could finally see what the creature looked like.

Wings?

Shao Xuan looked at what seemed like wings that were covering the creature. There were still short thin hairs on the wings.

He tried to pull the wings but he couldn’t move it at all. Shao Xuan didn’t plan on forcefully spreading them apart. He stopped once he noticed he couldn’t pull it anymore. Instead, he examined the sharp claws that were revealed.

It was similar to a bat’s wings. The claws were attached to the creature’s wings.

He recalled all the wounds on the frozen insects and wild beasts. He looked at these claws again. Perhaps these claws caused those injuries.

After Shao Xuan looked at them for a while, he put the creature back into the wooden box and closed the lid. Tomorrow, these would all become frozen again.