Chapter 112
Chapter 112 – The rat wood
Translated by Sunyancai
From the mountaintop until they finally stepped out of the region of the tribe, Caesar received much attention.
When they were walking down along the Path of Glory, people on both sides almost all fixed their attention on Caesar.
Why was the wolf accompanying the hunting team?
Were they out of their damn mind?!
Such an abnormal thing would totally keep people talking about it for a long time in the tribe.
During Shao Xuan’s first hunting mission, Lang Ga told him that his only task would be to “keep up”. He would not need to do anything else, except for keeping up with the team. Hence, now, the first challenge that Caesar faced was also the same, to keep up.
“We can give it a shot.” Said Shao Xuan.
At his words, the crowd became excited again.
“Can it really help?”
“How would it do that? The wolf has never seen a grass rat!”
“Okay, okay, we just let Caesar try it first.” Mai stopped the others from asking all those questions. The two kids in his family had already been awakened, so he did not need the seedlings for his kids anymore. However, due to its detoxication effect, it was worth trying to find them.
Under Shao Xuan’s command, Caesar went to the entrance of the hole to sniff, and then walked around the hole. He seemed to have confirmed something. Although Caesar had never seen a grass rat in his life, he identified its smell around the hole.
Caesar walked towards a direction, and then looked back at Shao Xuan.
“They should be over there, uncle Mai.” Said Shao Xuan.
“Follow!”
People followed Caesar’s pace. They were not fast, and sometimes when there were ferocious beasts lingering around, Caesar would give a warning.
Caesar seemed to be quite excited while tracking. With him speeding up, Shao Xuan knew that they were getting close to the grass rats.
Whoosh!
Caesar shot out like an arrow, and jumped high to leap over a row of bushes, and drilled into a pile of grass that was even higher than a human.
“Caesar!” Shao Xuan was a little worried. He was afraid that Caesar might have become too excited, so that he might ignore some dangers hiding behind the grass.
The grass was dense, and no one could see what was hiding inside, or know what was happening inside. After Caesar rushed into it, there was a hasty rustling.
“Squeak!”
Soon enough, Caesar jumped out from the bushes again.
Seeing Caesar, people’s tense muscles loosened up a little bit. But quickly, their focus was on the green fuzzy ball that Caesar was carrying in his mouth.
“It’s a grass rat!”
“Quick, quick! Ah-Xuan, check the grass rat, see if there’s still a rat wood on its body!”
All the warriors were very excited.
Caesar held the grass rat between his lips, but he did not kill it or even wound it.
Shao Xuan took over the grass rat from Caesar’s mouth. If it weren’t for the green fur, the grass rat would only be the size of two fists. However, with the green fur, it grew three times bigger than its original size.
Weighing the grass rat in his hands, Shao Xuan could feel that it was a bony one. Perhaps it was only that skinny because of the rat wood’s parasitism.
He did not see any bald spots on its body. After a careful search, Shao Xuan laid his eyes on a special “fur” that was a little thicker than the others. He put his stone knife back on his waist, and grabbed the “fur” with his bare hands to check near the root of the green “fur”. There was a thin lignified circle. Shao Xuan was positive, “It’s still there!”
He passed the grass rat to another warrior besides him, so that the other warrior could cut down that fur-liked green seedling of rat wood, and then he looked around.
When Caesar was digging into the grass, he got some creepy feelings. Luckily, Caesar came out soon. However now, the creepy feeling grew even stronger instead of fading away.
Glimpsing at Caesar, he noticed that the wolf’s hairs were standing on ends, even though a moment earlier, he was excited with the grass rat.
“Uncle Mai!” Shao Xuan shouted out in a low voice.
Mai was watching his men cutting off the rat wood. Seeing Shao Xuan behaving like that, Mai realized that something was wrong, and he immediately made a gesture to the others with his hand.