Chapter 453 - Fighting Over Eggs
In the past, only female ducks brooded eggs and this fat male duck would not care if the tribesmen took eggs from their next. When the second generation of ducklings hatched, it wasn’t interested either. While he patrolled the woods, he did not slow down for the ducklings.
But now, the fat duck was brooding eggs?!
Where did these eggs come from?
The ducklings were all grown now, where could the eggs be?
He thought about the egg Bai Guo found, were these laid by the new ducks?
The duck watched Shao Xuan closely, guarding against him. When Shao Xuan took one step forward, it seemed even more anxious, opening its beak to reveal sharp teeth.
Other wild ducks did not have sharp teeth or claws like this duck. Other than its general resemblance to a duck, it still had many peculiar characteristics. Perhaps its previous behaviour was not what the tribe thought they were?
“The the beginning, they just aimed to chase everyone out so they did not really kill and so many returned alive. However, Mountain Wind tribe was angered and returned to the mountain to fight. Since then, both Fox and Shen tribe became more violent and many Mountain Wind tribesmen who went died,” explained Zheng Luo to Shao Xuan. “Yesterday, Mountain Win sent us a letter inviting Taihe and us to visit their tribe and discuss. They want revenge but they can’t fight alone. We want the salt mines too, plus we want to investigate why Fox and Shen did this, therefore we have agreed to meet.”
“The sudden change of attitude between Fox and Shen… Why?” Shao Xuan wondered. If it was just to take over the salt mines for themselves, they would not have shown mercy the first time. “Unless… there’s something else in the mines?!”
Zheng Luo nodded. “I think so too but I don’t know what’s inside that’s worth making three tribes as their enemy. If that is true, if it’s something worth betraying three tribes for, it must be very important! And there must be a huge volume of it!”
Zheng Luo’s eyes were ablaze. The Flaming Horn tribe must not miss out! If peace did not work, then they shall take it!
Shao Xuan understood. Perhaps in the beginning, Fox and Shen tribes only discovered the thing and banded together to chase the other three tribes away. Since they didn’t want to offend the other tribes too greatly, they showed restraint in their attacks. That was to give themselves space to turn around. However, perhaps they’d found more of the good stuff and since the Wind Mountain people returned, they chose to kill– because the stuff in the mines was worth launching war for!
“Fox and Shen talked to other tribes and promised that if they helped, the two tribes would gift them a huge volume of salt. That’s why Wind Mountain is looking to ally with us and Taihe to fight.”
“Tomorrow, I’ll go with you,” said Shao Xuan.
Everyone felt safer with Shao Xuan and Guang Yi back. The presence of two powers was reassuring.
However, before that, Shao Xuan planned to talk to the guards who were at the salt mines to know the details.
The guards, in order to protect their team when they escaped, had gotten shot by multiple arrows. They almost died, hanging on by a thread when they returned. They must still be quite weak now. An injury taking such a long time to heal was enough to make a buff man turn into a matchstick.
Shao Xuan was prepared to see a sickly man but when he went with Zheng Luo, what he saw was completely different from what he imagined. The patient had a rosy glow and had gained weight!
Seeing Shao Xuan’s surprise, the patient pursed his lips. “I ate many eggs.”