Chapter 80
Chapter 80 – Falling into the trap
Translated by Sunyancai
Promptly, Shao Xuan ran back with the stone box, which contained the body of the Green Thief. Earlier, he planned to flee the battlefield as far as possible, because he knew in his heart that he would be a heavy liability even if he stayed at where he was due to his limited ability. However, he did not run far before he had a sudden sense of danger. Using his special view, he saw some light green creature approaching him fast from beneath the ground, and it was in the same shape as the Fire Lance that they had encountered already.
Since he woke up this morning, Shao Xuan realized that almost all the plants were in the color of green in his special view. But most of them were pale green, sometimes even crystal-like. However, the color of the Fire Lance was deeper to light green.
His path of escape was blocked. Shao Xuan intended to change his direction, only to find that this approaching Fire Lance seemed to be focusing on him. So was the earlier Fire Lance. He was their sole target.
Was that for the Green Thief?
Or perhaps they were only after Shao Xuan himself?
No matter whether their target was the Green Thief, or Shao Xuan himself, he couldn’t handle their attack anyway. His only option was to retreat to seek help.
Bang!
There was a crashing sound like two stones hitting each other.
Tuo and the others saw that Shao Xuan was flying in the air because of the recoil.
Keke was the closest one to Shao Xuan, and he planned to rescue him by catching him there. He would be falling directly onto the ground if no one helped him.
However, Keke found out in shock that the boy stopped in the middle of the air. He was supposed to be flying down in a parabola.
Yes, he stopped mid-air.
Steady and still.
In the meantime, people heard something. It was like when wood got strangled tight.
Not only Keke, even Ta and the others were surprisingly shocked with their eyes wide open. But at a second look, they found that Shao Xuan was not standing in the air. He was standing on a white thread.
When did the white thread exist there?
All the warriors were confused, but they thought about Shao Xuan’s earlier claim of “setting a trap”. It might work, seeing such circumstances.
“Everybody retreat! Tuo, Keke, Suo! You go back a little more!” Shao Xuan asked the ones in the circle of the trap to step down. He wanted to be safe, even if they weren’t in danger in the first place.
Standing on a white thread, the snare in Shao Xuan’s mind became clearer than ever.
Some vines were shooting towards him. And at least one of them fell into the trap.
Although there were two separated individual Fire Lances, half of their vines were strangled in the snare that Shao Xuan set. Any single vine falling into the trap would trigger a series of reactions on the snare. It was a chain trap.
Shao Xuan felt that everything was moving slower than usual, and time seemed to have been frozen. All he could see now were the few vines shooting at him, along with some threads, which might not be so clear in other people’s eyes. They became more and more clear in Shao Xuan’s vision. Besides that, everything else merged into the vague background.
It’s near!
Nearer!
One of the vine twisted, and it flew through the thread in Shao Xuan’s vision.
It fell into the trap!