Chapter 74
Chapter 74 – The Jumping Fruit Tree
Translated by Sunyancai
Shao Xuan felt very comfortable after drinking that liquid in his gourd. It was cool and refreshing, as if it had driven away the fatigue of the long march. His mind was cleared, and the bones in his body were about to shake out of pleasure.
“How’s that? Feeling good?” Ah-Suo tossed Shao Xuan a fruit, and added, “This is not bad, either.”
Shao Xuan had no idea what kind of plant was edible, so he did not touch anything. A moment earlier when they were fetching the water, he noticed that Ah-Suo and some other warriors took a detour. It turned out that they were collecting fruits.
“These are all fine stuff!” Ah-Suo explained, “I’m not exaggerating, anyone who eats this will make faster progress than others.
You know, there’s a saying in our advance group.”
In a lower voice, Ah-Suo continued, “Only those in the advance group are able to become senior totem warriors. Every single senior totem warrior had served in the advance group for some time.”
Shao Xuan was brought up to some tall plant. Warriors were divided into five-people groups, and two of the groups tried hard to pull the thick leaves together as shields. They created a small enclosed space with the leaves. When they were pulling, Shao Xuan heard the sound of cracking as if thick wooden planks were being folded.
At the last moment when the leaves were folding, Shao Xuan finally saw what the things in the air were. They were like dandelions, with ‘soft white hairs’. It’s just that the white hairs were much longer. Each one was about two palm’s length.
They densely filled the air, and flew everywhere in the sky as well as in the woods. From afar there came ‘poof’ sounds.
When all the leaves met each other, it became very dark inside. Not much light was able to pierce through the thick leaves. The visions of the warriors became vague.
It was very tense in this enclosed space, and Shao Xuan could hear people’s intense breathing. It seemed that it consumed them a lot of energy running there.
Not only the others, Shao Xuan smelled the danger as well. His eyelids twitched hard, while he couldn’t help but raise his head.
As he was thinking, Shao Xuan heard ‘poof’ sounds around them. With those sounds, numerous white hairs pierced through the thick leaves as if they were thorns. One of the furs was only half an inch away from Shao Xuan’s eyes.