Chapter 550 - Sounds of the Wind
It was true. It was what Shi Shi had guessed.
The green-faced fanged beasts had an acute sense of time. They hunted at night and slept during the day. They were disciplined for each season of the year.
During the winter season, the forests were covered in snow. The green-faced fanged beasts were not fans of the snow so they would hibernate just like bears. To ensure they were kept warm, they would hibernate together in the same cave. They would only appear once again in the spring of the next year.
With the extreme changes in the weather these two years, there was no snow to be seen during the winter season. Instead, it was hotter than before. Many animals in the forest gave up on the idea of hibernating but the green-faced fanged beasts stuck to their yearly schedule. They all fell into that deep sleep together, only to wake up if they were unbearably hungry to hunt.
That was the reason why it was hard to find any green-faced fanged beasts then, they were all hibernating.
Only a few of them woke up from the hunger and went out to hunt. After they filled their stomachs, they headed back to the cave.
“Did you hear anything?” Shao Xuan asked the two guards.
“I think so. Are those the screams of the Rock Hill people?” asked one of them.
“No, it should be …wind? That doesn’t sound right… but it does sound a lot like wind.”
“Wind?”
Shao Xuan was even more confused by listening to their conversation.
Was there a problem with the wind sounds?
Huff–
The sound of wind blowing came from the cave.
The three instinctively looked at the cave.
“It sounds like that?” asked the tribesmen as he pointed at the mouth of the cave.
Shao Xuan paid closer attention to the sound. There was a difference between that sound and the sound of a gush of wind. What he was hearing was a green-faced fanged beast but the source was too far away for him to differentiate.
He looked at the endless mountains connected to one another. He listened again and urgently grabbed his whistle.
The piercing sound of a whistle broke the silence of the night. It didn’t matter if the person was in or out of the cave, they were all awakened by the whistle.
“What is it?”
“What happened?”
“Who blew the whistle?!”
Everyone rushed to gather at the source of the sound.
Duo Kang noticed the person holding the whistle and asked, “Shao Xuan, what happened?”
“Right, what’s so urgent that you used the whistle,” asked someone while yawning.
Shao Xuan looked at the forest and said, “If I’m not wrong, your prey is coming.”
Everyone snapped to their senses.
“The prey is here? Do you mean the beast?”
“That’s a good thing!”
“How many of them?”
Shao Xuan took a deep breath. “… Many!”