Chapter 131
Chapter 131 – The New Route
Translated by Sunyancai
If Shao Xuan did not go hunting, every few days he would go up the mountain to hand in the animal skin volumes that the Shaman asked him to draw.
This time, Shao Xuan drew common volumes, rather than the Shaman volumes.
The Shaman planned to tell everyone that the ancestors had also kept hunting animals. In this way, he could stimulate them to raise and train cubs. But some content in the ancient volumes could not be disclosed, and he would reveal the rest, which would be drawn by Shao Xuan, who had more excellent drawing skills than the others. The annotations were derived from part of the original version of the ancient volumes.
It was much simpler to draw the common volumes, for drawing the Shaman Volumes needed the power of inheritance.
Unexpectedly, one hundred copies of the volume with annotations were finished by Shao Xuan within ten days.
Today, Shao Xuan took the last ten copies to the Shaman, up the mountain.
No more than five people in the tribe knew the right answer, and among them, the Shaman was undoubtedly clearest about it. After all, he could read and understand the Shaman Volumes that were passed down, and knew more than the others. However, he remembered he never showed any of the volumes about the other tribes to Shao Xuan!
“I have come from the cave near the the mountain foot. In that cave, there is a stone room whose walls had some drawings.” Said Shao Xuan.
The Shaman felt his heart beating fast suddenly. He was not clear about whether there were drawings inside the cave. Someone once had been to the cave, but found nothing apart from some old and broken stone tools.
“The drawing is covered.” Said Shao Xuan, and talked about how he found the drawing, “I re-coated it with a layer of stone powder when I left the hole. Until now, no one else has seen it besides me.”
The Shaman felt reassured, but he was also curious about the drawing in the cave at the mountain foot, for he did not remember the relevant records.
“What are the drawings?” The Shaman asked.
“There are hunting animals, farmland… and fine pottery…”
“And what else?” The Shaman continued asking.
Shao Xuan paused for a moment and said: “One day, we will return. The glory still exists. Long live the Flaming Horns tribe.”
From the first word of this sentence that Shao Xuan said, the Shaman’s hands began to tremble, which showed that he could not control his emotions.
“…Zan.” The Shaman said with a hoarse voice. In the ancient volumes, the third name in the ancestors’ list was “Zan”. The sentence Shao Xuan mentioned was also recorded.
He no longer felt excited about starting a new route, and said with bitterness on his face, “If we could go out…why would we start a new route!”
Shao Xuan looked at the the Shaman, whose eyes had turned red, he almost shed tears. He could not calm down in a short time.
After thinking about it, Shao Xuan did not tell him the records in his notebook.
When Shao Xuan walked out of the stone house, the Shaman was still in a low mood. Originally, Shao Xuan did not intend to tell him about the drawing in the cave. He did not expect a program for a new route, so he told him about the drawing after considering it.
It seemed that the Shaman also wanted to go out, many of our ancestors probably had also tried, but they failed.
Well, there was still a long way to go.
While walking, Shao Xuan suddenly heard a scream from above, and he looked up. Shao Xuan was so anxious that he might have thrown a spear at what made the noise.
At this moment, Chacha was holding a cub which was trained by someone in the tribe, which was crying scaredly.
“Chacha, come here!!”