Chapter 170
Chapter 170 – The ‘wanderer’ Yan Shuo
Translated by Joycelyn
Although Shao Xuan was puzzled about the slaves and slave master that appeared here, first he still had to settle down with the travel team before he could talk about anything else.
That slave master had quite a few housings here. At such an intersection, it was a common sight to see many people come and go. Every day, many travel teams like the Pu tribe settled here, he would then charge a certain ‘fee’ on them.
Everything that was said was done by the slaves though.
But Shao Xuan had discovered that the slaves that had been despised by the Pu tribe, their body condition may be poor, but compared to those wanderers, they seemed to have something else.
Yes, power. It’s power!
Those slaves somehow had more power than the wanderers! It wasn’t necessarily strength, it could be something like speed, reaction speed or something else.
“Flaming Horns tribe members, each are strong and big warriors. They can easily lift a bear, sporting the flame’s twin horns totem pattern. They are able to cover their entire body with it, the Flaming Horns tribe flame, it can cover an entire mountain….”
Yan Shuo originally only mumbled while talking to himself, his tone was still considered calm, just like narrating a story. But slowly his tone brought along depression, his eyes reddening.
Because of obsession, Yan Shuo’s ancestors has added a ‘Yan’ [“炎”] or a ‘Jiao’ [�[角]n their descendants’ names. This is so that they could always remember their own tribe’s name [�[炎角部]if one day they could find their tribe, their wishes would be fulfilled. Therefore, the descendants were not allowed to join other tribes, not allowed to become slaves. Even if they died, they were not allowed to betray their own tribe.
However, so many years had passed, the Flaming Horns tribe was already no longer remembered by people. The people around had no one who had heard of this kind of tribe. No matter how many times Yan Shuo had said that the Flaming Horns tribe still exists, the totem flame was still burning, the others just would not believe.
But Yan Shuo’s power was indeed stronger than the others, also, he could slightly reveal totem patterns. He could stick around until the present, this was also one of the reasons he could continue.
But now, he felt at a loss.
They came with the other ten people at first, all of them did not manage to endure through, now there was only his family left.
Leave?
If there were not enough people, once their family leaves, before reaching their destination, they would probably die.
Two days ago someone left, but the next day, he had been found by someone in a nearby river. His body drained of blood, it was the deed of those mosquitoes. His bottom half had been chewed up, the deed of the wild beasts that came from the woods at night during their activities. If, let’s say if, another day had passed, he probably would not even have his head intact either.
Even if Yan Shuo was stronger than the rest by a bit, but it was only compared to the other wanderers; against those totem warriors, it was not even able to compare.
Power!
Only when you have power, then can you live a better life in this world.
This was also one of the reasons why the wanderers that could not endure anymore became slaves. Becoming a slave means you lose your freedom and much more, but at least they could be awarded power from their masters!
Only, how to choose?
Is it to continue to endure, keep on looking, or wait for the Flaming Horns tribe’s news to come, or be like those wanderers who gave up enduring and find a tribe to lean on, or become a slave.
No, definitely not!
Yan Shuo’s both hand held his head.
Cannot give up, no! Dad has said that the tribe is still here, definitely here!
The woman sitting on the wooden plank, after seeing her husband this way, hesitantly wanted to comfort him, but she had also wondered if should they should be like the rest and choose another path?
But, when the woman wanted to speak up, the woman realised that on her own husband’s body, there were some patterns along his face, extending to his neck, then his arms; a pattern like flames started appearing from the shoulders down to his entire upper arm, then after some time….
“That…..That…..” The woman was overly shocked, no words could come out.
Yan Shuo, who was hugging his head in thought lifted his head up when he heard her. his eyes were still stained with blood red strands. Seeing his own wife being like this, he felt a bit uncertain, but seeing where his wife was pointing at, the moment when he looked at himself, he had also seen the totem patterns that had spread out.
From the moment he was born till now, other than the time when he was ten years old, only translucent patterns had appeared, there were no other such instances. But now, these totem patterns that had appeared….
These patterns, were just like prepared firewood that had not been lit, but today they had ignited, although not clear, but the outlines of the patterns could still be seen
Yan Shuo remembered about what his own father had said: “You must believe, in our blood the power still exists, it is only in a dormant state. When one day, the time is ripe, it will start to slowly be awakened.
At the same time, Shao Xuan, who had closed his eyes to rest in a small crowded room with the others, suddenly opened his eyes, and turned his head sharply to look in the direction of where Yan Shuo was.