Chapter 756 - How The Desert Came About (2 in 1 Chapter) (1/2)

Chapter 756

How The Desert Came About (2 in 1 Chapter)

They watched with stunned expressions as the monster scraped off all the meat on the bones and sucked out all of the bone marrow.

This monster’s appearance had changed, and he was very different compared to the first time Shao Xuan moved him here. The most obvious difference was that the monster no longer looked dry anymore. His skin resembled a normal human’s, and although he did not have any bulging muscles or looked strong, none of them dared to doubt his strength after seeing how effortlessly he broke the beast bones in half.

His skin was no longer green-grey in colour. It was greenish-white now, and it was still pale, resembling the dead. However, he was a little different from Yi Si’s half-beast slave. At least the slave looked like that since the beginning, but this monster gave them an unnerving feeling, as if he was seriously ill, but still quite dangerous.

After eating, the skin on the monster’s face became much softer in texture. Besides some dried traces and weird bluish-white faint marks on his face, he seemed almost like an ordinary person. At least he didn’t look like a corpse anymore. His movements were no longer rigid and stiff, and if he was breathing normally like other humans and had a heartbeat, he wouldn’t be much different from other humans.

After he ate, the monster looked with eyes full of gratitude at Shao Xuan, and became less vigilant towards Zheng Luo and the other Flaming Horn warrior.

“Where…am…I?”

Perhaps it was because his body had begun to recover. His voice was no longer as scratchy as before, but it still didn’t sound smooth. His tone was still strange, but at least they could guess what he was saying now.

“This is the Flaming Horn tribe,” Shao Xuan said.

“Flaming Horn…tribe?” the monster looked doubtful, as if this phrase brought back some long-forgotten memories. He looked like he was trying to remember but couldn’t.

“Who are you? Which tribe do you belong to?” Shao Xuan asked. Shao Xuan enunciated every word to ensure that this monster understood what he said.

“Who am…I?” the monster looked even more dazed now. He didn’t know what to say for a long while. He lowered his head and began to think hard.

“Then do you remember your tribe’s totemic sign? Totem, can you try drawing it?” Shao Xuan asked.

“Totem…Totem…” The monster repeated this phrase continuously. The more he said it, the clearer his pronunciation became. He lifted his head suddenly as a bright light flashed across his bloodshot eyes. “Totem!”

“Yes, yes. Totem. Do you remember?” Shao Xuan walked into the secret room and took out the paint from a wooden cabinet on the side. He added water to the paint and stirred. Stretching out a finger, he dipped it inside the paint and started to draw on a piece of linen fabric on the side. After a few strokes, a black marking appeared on the greyish-yellow linen.

At first, Shao Xuan thought about using a brush, but after he judged the monster, he thought this was probably more convenient for him.

The monster looked at Shao Xuan’s movements and he seemed to have understood what he meant. He extended his right thumb and dipped it into the paint. Many tribesmen liked to paint with their thumbs. This was an ancient habit that many of them had. This monster was no different. However, since he could not control his strength, he almost tipped over the small paint container. Luckily Shao Xuan was holding onto it from the other side.

After observing the dark liquid on his finger, the monster walked up to the stone table and scratched a few markings on the linen cloth. Somehow he felt like drawing on the linen cloth was too bothersome, so he began to draw directly on the stone table.

When he started to move his fingers, he moved it slightly and paused for a while, as if trying to recall a memory. Gradually, he began to draw with much smoother movements and at the end, he did not even hesitate when he finished his final stroke. It was finally complete.

Zheng Luo was so curious that he took a few steps forward and craned his neck to look. He didn’t dare to get too close because the monster still seemed a little vigilant towards him.

“This is…?” Zheng Luo asked as he looked at the drawing on the stone table.

The monster looked at Zheng Luo and made a sound. His tone was a little unclear and strange, so Shao Xuan couldn’t catch what he said.

The drawing on the table looked like a human with both his arms raised. The human was looking upwards, and right above that human was a circle. Judging by the way it was drawn, this circle was most likely a symbol of the sun.

This was the monster’s totemic sign. Even if a tribesman could not remember his tribe’s name, he could never forget his totemic sign, especially if they belonged to a tribe that still had a primitive fire seed.

It seemed as if this man could not remember anything else, but he completed this drawing of the totemic sign. After he finished drawing, he continued to stare blankly at his work.

Shao Xuan was positive he had never seen this totemic sign before, so he could not determine this person’s identity.

He turned around to look at Zheng Luo. He had the same puzzled expression. He had never seen such a sign too, but if this person drew it out even when he had forgotten his own name, it was very likely that this totemic sign really existed.

However, it was common for tribes to exist and go extinct. Perhaps this monster belonged to one of these extinct tribes.

“Was your tribe in the desert before?” Shao Xuan asked again.

“Desert?” the monster was not familiar with the word. He could not understand what Shao Xuan said at all.

Realizing this, Shao Xuan tried to describe what a desert looked like. “It almost never rains there, and there’s not much wood or plants. It’s all yellow sand.”

After he heard this, the monster nodded continuously, “Yes! It’s there!”

The monster knew that Shao Xuan belonged to a different tribe, but since Shao Xuan’s energy was somewhat similar to his own, he almost took Shao Xuan to be his own tribesmen. After he finished an entire beast limb, his body had recovered and his senses became keener. Now he could tell that Shao Xuan belonged to a different tribe, but he did not act at all defensive towards him.

The monster realised that Shao Xuan was related to his own waking up so he hurriedly asked, “I…tribe…go back…”

Shao Xuan only understood a few words in the monster’s sentence. “You want to go back?”

The monster nodded.

“But there are no more tribes in the desert,” Shao Xuan said.

The monster was taken aback. He shook his head and denied, “No! That’s impo…impossible!” But suddenly, it was as if he thought of something, but couldn’t recall the memory clearly. His face revealed a twisted expression as he knelt down suddenly with his head in his arms. He looked as if he was in deep pain. Blue veins surfaced to his greenish-white skin as he roared loudly like a fierce beast in the forest. This sound also resembled the noise they would hear in a cave whenever a breeze blew in. How uncommon!

Small bits of stone scraps and dust fell to the ground. The clay pot filled with water in one corner of the room cracked. Not much water was left inside, but most of the pottery exploded and clinked against the walls of the room.

The roar echoed in the hallways outside. Duo Kang and the others who were guarding at the stairway felt the chills go down their spines.

The insulation of the building was pretty well done, but even so, this sound could be heard from anywhere in the Flaming River Castle. Even some people outside who were close to the Flaming River Castle heard the muffled roar. They shivered unconsciously at the sound. It was as if a cold gust of wind blew right across their backs.

Where Yi Si lived, the spikes on the half-beast’s back also erected when he heard the roar. He glanced nervously in the Flaming River Castle’s direction.

Yi Si felt it too. “What happened over there?”

Within the Flaming River Castle, the people who heard the sound rushed over and saw Duo Kang and the others guarding there.

“Hunt Leader, who made that sound? Was that a human?” someone asked Duo Kang.

“How would I know?!” Duo Kang was anxious too. What was going on down there?! It’s making them all anxious!

Underground in the secret room, Shao Xuan and Zheng Luo’s heart rate suddenly sped up as their hands reached for the hilts of their blades. If this monster suddenly went wild, they could only kill him right away. No matter how curious they were about this man, their safety was priority.

However, this monster only squatted on the ground with his head in his arms. He howled in pain for a while, and his voice gradually weakened and finally stopped.

Shao Xuan waited. The person was no longer moving.

“Hey, what’s wrong?” Shao Xuan asked.

He didn’t wait for a reply, and repeated his question again. Still, there was no response.

He could sense the irritation calming and subsiding within the monster. If they didn’t notice him squatting there, they wouldn’t have sensed a person there at all. He had no breath or heartbeat. Besides the slight breath of air that was present in his roar, it seemed as if he had no need for air. If he was locked in a sealed space without air, perhaps he could still stay alive on the inside.

Shao Xuan walked over with a blade in his hand. His other hand extended and patted on the shoulder of the person who squatted there.

The person immediately fell backwards. He remained in the same position as he fell, like a stone statue. His hands and legs seemed frozen and did not move one bit.

Zheng Luo wanted to ask if the person was dead, but thinking how this person was different from most others, he asked, “What happened to him?”

Shao Xuan shook his head. Judging by the pattern energy flowed within his body and all around him, it seemed like he was asleep.

“Maybe……he fell asleep?” Shao Xuan guessed.