Chapter 76
Chapter 76 – Playing a small role
Translated by Sunyancai
“What?”
Seeing that Shao Xuan literally removed the poison caps on the white hairs, Keke couldn’t help but shout out “what”. Also, he used a pitched tone, showing his astonishment.
The other resting warriors all became quite curious by Keke’s “what”. They felt like there was a cat scratching their hearts, for not knowing what exactly happened. They wanted to take a look, but were afraid to be despised by the team leader. All they could do was to sit there in silence, while staring in Shao Xuan’s direction.
Unfortunately, Keke was a big fellow, who blocked everyone’s sight completely. The crowd wanted to swing a hammer on his head. You just observe closely all you want, but why block the sight of others?
Tuo did not mind it. He arrived at Keke’s side and squatted after he had taken care of the wounded warrior. He watched Shao Xuan being busy.
In fact, Shao Xuan was merely experimenting. Even though those white hairs were not easy to cut, they were still plants, so they were supposed to be afraid of fire. Unexpectedly, it worked.
When they were tossing burnt fruits into the holes, Shao Xuan took out the thread and kept himself busy nearby.
Someone in the advance group would be responsible for the guarding, so Shao Xuan worried about nothing. It’s just that Ta was very unsatisfied with Shao Xuan’s behavior. When Shao Xuan asked for Ta’s permission, Ta had a poker face all the time, and it took him quite some time to say yes in a very rude way, as if Shao Xuan had done something shameful.
In fact, Shao Xuan knew it at heart, that Ta did not plan to take him out during the next hunting mission. He also didn’t want to tag along the next time. Although there are quite some advantages of being a member of the advance group, he preferred staying with Mai’s hunting group. He was treated as a mascot in this advance group, and Ta was a strict but stubborn person. It was not comfortable staying in the advance group, doing nothing. Compared to that, it was real hunting that thrilled him.
As some warriors were throwing the burnt fruits into the trunk, they found Shao Xuan rushing back and forth not far in the woods as they looked back. So they asked their teammates, “What is he doing?”
“Setting a trap, I guess?” the other said unsure.
“What could be trapped at night? We can’t use the prey anyway. By the way, doesn’t he know that the boss hates setting traps and that stuff?”
“Who knows? He might as well play hard while he can. Have you seen boss’ attitude? It’s doubtable whether he could tag along for the next hunting trip.”
“Then we won’t care what he does.”
For most warriors in the advance group, Shao Xuan was no relative or friend. Later on they did not plan to be attached with him, either. So he was totally shut out from their small cliques.
There were factions even within the tribe.
When there was no more bug dropping out from above, Ta called on the crowd, “Now let’s go up. It’s almost dark.”
Shao Xuan had just finished his job, so he followed the others climbing up.
Just as Keke said before, in this place they would rarely start a fire. So during the night when they were sleeping in the tree, there was no bonfire.
People used giant leaves to block the entrance, and all of them started to feel drowsy. Of course some would take turns to be on duty as to guard against the surroundings, which was more than necessary.
Shao Xuan was not hungry as he had eaten something while outside. As night fell, the vast green land outside became noisy again. All kinds of sounds were created from near and afar, which indicated that some leaves and flowers were closing and opening.
With the waves of sounds, Shao Xuan gradually fell asleep, until he was woken up by sounds of clattering and buzzing. Some others woke up at the sound as well, but seeing the guarding warriors show no signal of danger, they fell back to sleep again.
Shao Xuan paid extra attention to those sounds, as he was trying to figure out what creatures had fallen into the traps, and how many of them were captured. However, he was not as experienced as old Ke, and his estimation was without accuracy.
Since it was already night, it was impossible for Shao Xuan to go outside and check on the traps. He had to wait until tomorrow. In fact, he did not wish for something precious, all he wanted to do was to see what kind of nocturnal creatures existed in this land. It’s probably his only and last chance to be here, he wanted to see more.
Just wait, he’ll have his answers tomorrow.