Chapter 111
Chapter 111 – Qualifications to join
Translated by Sunyancai
Now, the first Flame! The Soaring Flame! The totem appears!
The totem power in his body became active, even without him deliberately stimulating it. Totem patterns appeared on every totem warrior’s face.
The blue and white colors in Shao Xuan’s mind danced together with the flame.
Perhaps it was his illusion, but Shao Xuan felt that the flame in the fire pit grew higher than last year, and it was also dancing more violently, as if it was trying hard to get out.
Those standing beside the timber piles shouldn’t move willfully, so now, Shao Xuan was unable to watch the others’ facial expressions. Perhaps, the others were sharing similar thoughts, but he could not sense any abnormal situation from the Shaman’s voice. He could only have his suspicions.
At that time, everyone at the scene was already void from other thoughts. All they could see was the totem in the center above the fire pit.
Shao Xuan intended to take Caesar on a hunting mission this year. He had spent nearly one year in the hunting group, and had done assessments about risks and potential gains if he brought Caesar on board. Of course, they were only in theory, and anything could happen in the real forest. No one could ever guarantee anything, and it was always better to be more careful.
So, Shao Xuan made a safe plan. If Caesar did not behave well after he was taken out in the wild, he would stay in the first location with Caesar, in order to not be the others’ burden later.
In the following days, Shao Xuan took Caesar to the Shaman’s place to share his thoughts with the Shaman. The result was just the same as Shao Xuan predicted, the Shaman did not reject his proposal. Instead, the Shaman was quite looking forward to it. He gave a special pardon to Shao Xuan that he could stay in the first location with Caesar if there was anything wrong.
Since the Shaman was positive about the proposal, Ta did not say anything about it. Moreover, in private, he was a little excited about Shao Xuan’s theory that “A good hound might be the eyes and ears of the huntsmen”. He wanted to see how Caesar would behave himself, and whether the wolf could turn out to be a surprise, even though he had been kept in the tribe since childhood by Shao Xuan and was tame.
After setting up things with the Shaman and Ta, Shao Xuan asked all the others in Mai’s hunting group to gather together at the training ground, so that they could see Caesar during his training, and thus learn about Caesar’s behavior.
The others were thinking that they wouldn’t reject Shao Xuan’s proposal anyway, since the Shaman, the team leader, and Mai all agreed in the first place. Plus, Shao Xuan was one of the fifty during this year’s ritual ceremony. That was not someone that they wanted to displease.
After watching Caesar in the training, some of them were talking about getting their own wolf cub in the future. Anyway, wolf packs in the forests constantly fight against each other, and the pack that lost the fight would hardly have any members surviving. They had encountered a few fights themselves, and it shouldn’t be too hard to steal a cub or two during the mess.
After handling things with the hunting group, Shao Xuan began to prepare for the coming hunting mission. All the stone tools had been prepared during winter time, so now he did not need to spend more time on stone crafting. The training for Caesar went on day by day, and Shao Xuan had changed some of the traps to see his reactions.
Caesar was very smart. Aside from those that were too complicated, Caesar could manage most of the skills and tasks that Shao Xuan taught or assigned him.
“Have you ever thought about what would be Chacha’s future?” Asked Old Ke.
“Chacha is not as gentle as Caesar, and who knows whether he has already flown outside the tribe’s territory without us even knowing about it?” Said Shao Xuan. He once found some grass residue on Chacha’s beak which did not belong to any plants in the tribe. It only existed in the forest where they went hunting.
At that time, Shao Xuan rebuked him harshly, and so he behaved quite well in the following few days. However now, he was probably turning back to his nature. Chacha had grown a lot in size, and perhaps Shao Xuan’s arm won’t be secure enough for him to land on after half a year. According to the Shaman, the naughty bird was still in his youth. It had so much curiosity, that no one would ever manage to control him. He could just fly up to the sky. Who could compare with that?
Now, Chacha had already gone to the riverside to play. Sometimes he would suddenly fly over the river in a pretty fast speed, and catch some fish swimming in the upper layer of water. He would just rip the fish into pieces, and then toss it back into the water, to watch the piranhas fight over the flesh.
That bird was not easy to tame. No one knew how long it would take to tame it into the level that could be brought out into the wild like Caesar.
After twenty days, though Gui He’s hunting team hadn’t returned, Ta already completed the name list of the second hunting mission, and announced it.
Seeing Caesar following Shao Xuan up to the mountaintop, Old Ke suddenly felt that he was a little reluctant. How time flew, within the blink of an eye, the little fussy cub brought back by Lang Ga had turned into a handsome young wolf.