Chronicles of Primordial Wars

The team originally planned to stay in a cave that night. They found this cave before when they went for a hunt, but the cave was too small and couldn’t be used for storing larger prey. After making comparisons between the different caves, the Flaming Horn hunting team chose another location as their resting point for the night and reserved this one for other purposes.

Shao Xuan and his team definitely wouldn’t take these people to their private resting points, so they could only come here. They could choose to set up their camps here. Only fools would bring outsiders to their own private bases. Shao Xuan did not trust these people.

They prepared some firewood, boiled some water in a pot they just made, cooked a pot of soup, and roasted some meat.

In the woods outside the cave, there were some creaky sounds echoing from a distance. They weren’t sure what creature was calling out, but it sure made their hairs stand on end.

The mud they pasted on the body had dried and became solid pieces on their bodies. They didn’t know whether they would encounter another scourge of mosquitoes again, so they didn’t dare peel off the mud crumbs. The good thing was that the smell of the mud after it dried wasn’t as bad so it was easier for them to bear.

As the saying went, people could grow used to anything as time went by. They were already accustomed to it.

At first, some people worried that Shao Xuan was trying to play a trick on them by telling them to apply some poop mixture onto their own skin. Later, they found out that this mud mixture actually came from a pit near the stream. Inside the pit lived a beast that preyed on mosquitoes. Mosquitoes were scared of this beast, so as soon as they sensed this smell, they would think that the beast was near and would avoid getting close to it.

The third day.

The sun continued to shine brightly, scorching the great earth.

Mu You grew even more uncomfortable. He kept his head down and didn’t dare to look at anyone. The people from the Longboat tribe stayed silent and pretended to be mute.

On the fourth day, there was still no sign of rain. But still, no one made fun of Mu You and his forecast. After they entered the heart of the forest, there was no time for jokes or mockery. They sensed greater danger and did not want to be distracted.

What Shao Xuan did not explain to them was that the weather in Fearsome Beast Forest was changing so fast that the closer they got to the heart of the forest, the harder it was for them to make predictions based on the usual signs. Unless Yang Sui of the Rain tribe was here. Perhaps he could’ve made more accurate predictions. The people from the Longboat? Just forget it. Their experience was accumulated under normal conditions and can’t really be applied here.

Plus, Shao Xuan felt that the ever-increasing temperature was already defying the usual laws of nature and it was hard to predict. Even if Shao Xuan learned how to observe the sky, without the help of his rope and his fortune-telling, he wouldn’t be able to accurately forecast the weather.

Shao Xuan didn’t bother to explain this to them because if he did, they wouldn’t even give Mu You a chance. Who told him to be so arrogant?

Meanwhile, bugs hiding in the leaves were actively making noises.

“Xuan!” Mai who was atop a tree pointed in one direction. His facial expression was serious.

Shao Xuan jumped up onto the tree and looked in the direction Mai pointed at.

Not far in front of them, between the green bushes, some grey figures were flying.

“Let’s go and find out”

Those grey figures were scavenger birds.

When Shao Xuan arrived, the ground was almost covered with a grey layer.

As they sensed the people’s presence, the grey figure called out loudly and flew in flocks into the sky. The grey layer that originally covered the ground was also revealed.

There were bones that belonged to a beast, and some belonged to humans.

Whether it was human or beast was no longer important. Their original appearance could no longer be recognized. There was less than one-fifth of their original corpse left on the ground.
On one of the beast’s bones, stuck a broken end of a spear. It was made of gold instead of the usual stone.

“Are these the slaves?!!”

When they saw this, people from the different tribes expressed their joy.

The Flaming Horns were right indeed! They walked in this direction and found the group of slaves sent by Rock Hill City, as predicted.