Chapter 539 - The Search
Chapter 539
The Search
A strange tree without leaves and branches stood alone like a bare wooden pile. The only special thing was that it had hundreds of fist-sized holes.
Chop!
The waved axe brought with it a sharp air current. The strange tree was chopped down.
“This is the last one.” Qu Ce wiped the sweat on his forehead, and then a few chops, he cut the tree into sections. With each chop, strange things that looked like flower buds grew out from those holes on the tree. It looked like two leaves that were folded together and it was opening up like it was ready to bite.
It was this species. Earlier today, a plant like this one bit off a piece of flesh from a warrior who belonged to the Mang tribe. The bite was poisonous and the phytotoxin prevented blood from clotting. If the wound was left untreated, blood would have flowed continuously without stopping.
After they cut the tree into smaller pieces, the large flower buds on the tree seemed to have lost their energy and dropped down weakly. Qu Ce had just picked up the pieces of wood that they cut up from the tree and threw them into the woven net. He wanted to keep it as firewood. As long as the “buds” were plucked, wood from this type of tree would be highly flammable. It was the perfect material for starting fires.
They followed Shao Xuan and the other Flaming Horns into a hilly place and then took a rest on another mountain near the people from Rock Hill City.
“What preparations?” The people in the cave looked at Shao Xuan.
“According to the situation Gu La had seen from the sky, the people from Rock Hill City had built houses and walls, and it looked like they had been preparing to stay for a long time.”
They prepared to stay for a long time?”
There was a moment of silence in the cave.
The slaves from Rock Hill City could live in wooden houses, and yet, all they got was a cave?
“Why don’t we build some houses too?” Huang Ye suggested.
The people of the Feather tribe had something to say, given the rare opportunity to express their opinion, “If we build the houses on the ground, it would be too obvious. Why don’t we build it on top of trees in the forest and disguise it so it wouldn’t be easily seen?”
“Then you guys build a house, we’ll go search for the beast first. We’ll see where we can find this kind of grass.” Huang Yee distributed the patch of grass that Shao Xuan handed over to him to everyone. Since the green-faced fanged beast liked eating this grass, then they just needed to find a place where this grass grew in abundance. Then the animal would definitely be there!
They split up and started working. Everyone in the cave left at once, leaving only a few injured people behind to guard the cave. If something went wrong, all they needed to do was sound a whistle.
Shao Xuan and his team of five walked together. Without the other tribes following, Duo Kang could finally speak comfortably.
“Shao Xuan, do we not have to worry about the others catching all the green-faced fanged beasts?” Duo Kang didn’t like working with the other tribes and he didn’t trust them.
“Let’s see if we can even find one first.” Only five members from the Flaming Horn tribe came, and since the others were all searching for the green-faced fanged beast, there was no need for them to hide anything because the most important thing at the moment was to make sure whether the beast really was here. If the green-faced fanged beast was really here, then the Flaming Horns would have more opportunities to find one in the future. This was their home anyways.
Duokang gave it some thought and said no more.
At first glance, the grass taken from the trap didn’t look any special, but when they took a closer look, they noticed a clear difference compared to the normal grass in the forest. The biggest difference was that it had a light fragrance that made it easier to tell apart from the other grass.
But the difficulty lied in the fact that there were too many similar types of grass growing in the forest, and it wouldn’t make any sense if they went to smell the fragrance of every bit of grass, right? What if some had poison?”
As experienced hunters, the five Flaming Horn members had great eyesight. Their eyesight was sharper than the others, but even after a day, they went back to the cave with only five blades of this grass. In that region of the forest, they searched for a day and could only find five. This type of grass was so rare that it was clear the probability of a green-faced fanged beast appearing here was very low.
“No hurry. We’ll just continue tomorrow,” Shao Xuan comforted them.
Outside, the people of the Feather tribe were working with good efficiency. They had already built small huts on the trees, each about ten square meters, covered with vines and branches. It was well disguised and not easily noticed.
However, compared to those huts, the five Flaming Horn members still preferred to live inside the stone cave.
Tonight, half of them were outside and half of them remained in the cave.
Compared to the others who suffered from insomnia, Shao Xuan slept very well that night and even had a dream.