Chapter 91
Chapter 91 – Changes in the rainy season
Translated by Sunyancai
Lang Ga and the others were trying to attract its attention.
Shao Xuan could feel its sight fixed on himself, and finally it looked away after staring at him for about two minutes.
“Run, Ah-Xuan, run!” Lang Ga shouted from the other side.
In fact, Lang Ga didn’t need to shout. Shao Xuan’s legs suddenly bent his knees and then jumped up high with all his strength the second when it looked away. He basically ejected himself in the blink of an eye.
Kah!
The stone pillar that he stood on immediately cracked on the top, while Shao Xuan’s body shot out like an arrow.
However, Shao Xuan noticed that there were a lot of trees growing in a place that was flooded by the water, but they were not chewed on much. But if you tossed a bulk of wood into the river, in over an hour, you could see it being dragged down. Normally, the wood bulk would disappear from the surface within two minutes.
Apparently, those wood-eating insects were acting abnormally during rainy seasons.
So, every time when Shao Xuan was patrolling, he would place a piece of wood on the river to see how long it would take for it to be dragged down. On the wood bulk, he attached a thin straw rope, with the other end tied on a stone pillar so that the wood bulk doesn’t drift away. When he returns home that day, he would write the observation down in his secret notebook.
This rainy season only lasted for twenty-seven days, and it was shorter than last year. It was a normal situation. According to the experienced warriors, the longest rainy season in their lives lasted for about forty days, while the shortest rainy season was no more than twenty-five days.
When it stopped raining and the haunting dark clouds finally faded away, the precious sun finally shined again above people’s heads. Everyone in the tribe was feeling refreshed from the fine weather.
Having been cooped up in their houses for nearly thirty days, the kids now were running around excitedly outside their houses. Children in the orphan cave also began to prepare things again. With the end of the rainy season, they could start fishing as usual. Temporarily, they did not have to worry about the disturbing noises that might hurt their chests.
Why temporarily?
Because, the disappeared water demons would appear again after some time, and then they would scream again.
“Let’s go, Ah-Xuan!”
Lang Ga and the others were packing their things and preparing to leave.
“I’m almost done! You guys go ahead!” Shao Xuan answered.
After the rainy season ended, you weren’t in danger anymore so long you didn’t step into the river. So, Lang Ga and the others were not worried.
When Lang Ga and the others had left, Shao Xuan took out a small wooden boat from the animal skin bag. It was made by him during these last few days after he came back from his patrolling duties. It was a simple sailboat, and he made it with some wood he had and some tiny stone needles.
The sail was made from the leaf of some plant, and the wood planks were all normal timbers. The body of the little sailboat was only two palm’s long.
The wind was blowing from the bank towards the river. Shao Xuan placed the simple little sailing boat on the surface of the river. With a slight push from his fingers, the little boat moved away from the bank and was sailing away from the shore, drifting towards the center of the limitless river. The dot of green on the boat was particularly conspicuous.
There were a lot of piranhas in the river. Those big fellows with low IQ, that had disappeared during the whole rainy season, had now finally come back, and became more active than before. One single slice of meat or blood would cause chaos for a long time within the river. They were very energetic. Luckily, they had no interest in wood, while the wood-eating insects that were obsessed with wooden objects seemed to have disappeared.
After standing on the bank staring at the green dot for a while, Shao Xuan collected his things and left. When he was climbing up the mountain, he looked back at the river and could still see the little dot drifting