Chapter 474 - Ducklings
Chapter 474
Ducklings
They hatched?
It had been a long time since the fat duck stole eggs. Compared to other eggs, these were very late.
They were from the same nest, yet why would an egg taken by the fat duck take so long to hatch? There were too many coincidences to be explained that way. One couldn’t say that the fat duck was just untalented at brooding either, for the difference should not be this huge.
“I’ll go check it out.” Shao Xuan passed the things he was holding to Zheng Luo and the rest, squeezed through the crowd and followed the duck keeper to the duck house.
“It has been snowing so much, we sweep more than three times every day. We sometimes have to get up at night too.” The duck keeper was worried. “Many ducks froze to death too.”
The ducks that refused to approach the tribe, living in the forest outside died from the cold. The older ducklings did not survive too. There were also many more ducks that brought their ducklings into the tribe’s duck house for shelter.
Shao Xuan observed the duck house as he listened to the keeper.
It had planned to roar twice, maybe thump its tail as a warning to this bunch, but it hadn’t expected these puny things to retaliate, even aiming their weapons at it!
This was a show of disrespect! So, it raged.
The people carrying sacks full of salt and fire crystals ran for their lives amidst the snow. The ones who couldn’t run were frozen to death. The rest were blasted into the air. No one knew where they landed.
The Fox and Shen people all ran. They didn’t expect to beat the beast, just as they were returning with sacks of salt and crystals.
The people that Fox used as bait were all frozen into blocks of ice. They shattered in the wind. Without the baits, the number of survivors from the tribes dwindled quickly.
The Fox chief and his lover sprinted across the snow. He did not care about everyone else. The Fox people were separated into three teams, running in three directions. He didn’t know how they were doing.
This time, one thousand two hundred people from the Fox tribe came. However, there were probably around three hundred left now. They hadn’t escaped the salt flats yet. Some of the Shen people helped a little.
The Fox chief was heartbroken by their losses. Forget about their salt and fire crystals, that were already gone, he had enough deaths in the tribe. This was enough for him to be dethroned as the chief. He could not imagine what would happen when he returned.
“It’s all the Flaming Horn’s fault!” cursed the lady.
Yep, all their fault.
If it wasn’t for them, they would have been following their plan. The caves would collapse, the tribes would freeze. They might fight to their deaths with the Shen tribe while the Fox people over here would just pick up the pieces after war.
The king beast was an accident.
However, they had run so far and did not see any bodies left behind by the Flaming Horns, Taihe or Mountain Wind. Unless… did they escape alive?
They even chose the direction where Flaming Horn travelled in, only to see one part with thinner snow. Other than that, there was no evidence of these tribesmen.
No, they must’ve been eaten by the beast, they must!
Although they all secretly believed the three tribes survived, the Fox chief refused to admit this.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he got.
If he got out of this alive, the Fox chief would never let the Flaming Horns live. NEVER!