Chapter 118
Chapter 118 – Smoke
Translated by Sunyancai
Every day, the five hunting groups would send people to check the situation of the giant pit. There was still no news of the three missing men from Cheng’s hunting group since.
The warrior checking on the giant pit would always observe from afar, as they did not have the chance to enter the caves of those bats. There were flying bats everywhere around the cave’s entrance, and it was a lot more than those around the crevices in the giant pit.
It had already been seven days. According to the people’s speculation, those three missing men had slim chances of survival. However, since it concerned the Fire Crystal, and that now it was a joint operation of five hunting groups, it was impossible for them to act impulsively without sufficient preparation. Or else it won’t be just three men that they lost. It probably would be three teams that went missing.
“A lot of prey was brought inside, but nothing could be seen to have been tossed out.” A scout from the giant pit said.
Those bats would never take away the things that they already chewed on. Besides, they had never finished eating any creature, because it was the blood that appealed to them. Once they finished draining out the blood, they would lose their interest in it.
During these seven days, Shao Xuan went to the giant pit together with the most experienced and excellent warriors. That was an even more careful mission.
Some of the smoke got out from the cave, while most of the smoke went inside.
Scree, scree, scree~~
Loud screams came out from the cave, and they were heard by Lang Ga and the others.
Seeing that the smoke began to fly out, people knew that that the bats inside were fluttering their wings.
The warriors, that threw the spears before, were ready.
Whoosh, whoosh…
One after another, bats quickly flew out from the cave, and there were hundreds of them in the blink of an eye.
The bats were not happy about being driven out from their caves. Some of them were screaming aloud. They looked around and saw a group of people standing there.
Screee!
Together with the sharp screams, those crazy bats flew towards the warriors that threw the spears earlier.
“Run!!”
The few warriors that did the throwing were the fastest among their peers. They saw the bats coming, and instantly started to run.
Along their direction of escape, there was a grey zone. In the past, Cheng took the hunting group there to show the area. They knew that a group of giant spiders were living in the gray zone. It was not in their hunting route. So normally, they wouldn’t be there. However now, they used those giant spiders.
They planned to lure the bats over there, so that they could fight with the giant spiders.
When large batches of bats chased after the people afar, warriors that were hiding behind the bushes came out and entered the cave. Before they went inside, they did not forget to throw more smoking herbs at the entrance of the cave.
Normally, in such a sunny day, with sunlight shining down on the ground, all those bats should be hiding deep inside the caves, resting. However, now it was totally different.
Some bats were already flying outside, while some of them just came out and chased after the warriors. The rest of them flew to the deeper part of the cave, so now there were only a few bats left.
They were not difficult to dealt with. Mai took a torch and put down the bats in the cave easily together with some other warriors. Those bats had big round eyes, but their eyes were not useful in that dark cave. They relied more on their good sense of smell and hearing.
The hunting team warriors wore thick leather shoes. Many warriors were not used to wearing shoes, but they were forced to put them on before the mission.
Thick layers of bat feces were covering the ground, in which there some small insects crawling around.
Puff!
Lang Ga speared a coming insect into two pieces. Frowning his eyebrows he said, “This place stinks!”
Mai said nothing, but led the others deeper into the cave, with a torch in his hand. When clearing out the bats, they would toss out some balls of smoking herbs.
Just like Mai and his companions, people in the other four hunting groups were entering different bat caves. They hurried in case of unforeseen changes.
All of them marched down quickly as they were putting up with the smelly scent in the cave together with the smoke of the smoking herbs. It was not smooth inside, with stones and rocks lying around everywhere. Some of them were very sharp. If there weren’t a torch lighting up the path, they wouldn’t have been able to move.
Before, people guessed that the stone crevices were connected to the other bat caves. Well, not for long, they heard the voices from the other hunting groups.
“As expected, they are all connected inside.”