Chapter 96
Chapter 96 – A present for the Shaman
Translated by Sunyancai
With the end of the last hunting mission, it grew colder and colder as time went by.
Shao Xuan walked down from the mountaintop as he was dragging home the prey he hunted down during the last hunting trip.
The weather was colder than before, and winter was about thirty days away. He stored some of the food in the mountaintop storage cave, and brought down the remainder.
The other hunting team was preparing for their last hunting mission. They had to hurry up, because by the time they returned, it would official be winter.
Old Ke was meeting a friend in the mountainside district, and Caesar was waiting for him there as he would be Old Ke’s ride for going back home. As for Chacha… Shao Xuan saw him flying through the sky on his way back to the tribe. However, hadn’t seen him since the end of Sword Cleansing Ritual.
When stepping through the door, Shao Xuan noticed a falcon lying on the stone table. The eagle’s head was at the edge of the table as it remained still. Shao Xuan became stunned for a moment, because he thought that the eagle’s neck had been broken by someone. However, that thing immediately got up and jumped down from the table, as if it knew Shao Xuan came back. When flapping his wings, he knocked down quite a few wooden chairs around him.
On the mountaintop.
The Shaman was sitting in the stone room, recording something on an animal skin roll with a pen made from animal hair. He was a little curious when Shao Xuan said that he had some food to present. After all, it had been already some days since Shao Xuan’s hunting team came back. What would he have now to present?
The Shaman placed his pen on the side. He looked at the turtle which was in Shao Xuan’s hand and he was about to say something.
But the Shaman’s old face sudden twisted a little, as he swallowed the words he was about to say.
In the past, when other people in the tribe presented food to the Shaman, the food would be meat bulks, which had already been processed, neat and clean. However, Shao Xuan brought him a whole turtle, an alive one with eagle-hooked mouth, and there were still wood chips at the corners of its mouth.
Obviously, the turtle had great destructive power. As it was brought in by Shao Xuan, a clear murderous look could be seen on its face, as if it was prepared to bite on anything that was in front of its eyes.