Chapter 72
Chapter 72 – Aircraft fleet
Translated by Sunyancai
The speed of the advance group became rapid again, and the route was not the one that Shao Xuan knew from before.
They strode at a speed which was almost two to three times faster than the other hunting groups. It was a long process, during which they only had one little break to have something to eat. After that, they kept on marching, and then spent the night in a cave when the night came. It was also the place that Ta and the others had used to rest at during hunting missions.
Shao Xuan indeed was not used to this kind of running during the first day. Even though he was much better than his peers regarding strength, endurance and speed, he was only a junior warrior who awakened this year after all. In the advance group, the weakest warrior was someone only one step away from becoming a intermediate warrior. Shao Xuan could not be comparable with them after all.
So when they finally arrived at the cave to rest on the first night, Shao Xuan was completely exhausted. He laid down there, unable to even lift his feet. All his muscles hurt while twitching, and his brain felt like it was swollen.
The other warriors in the advance group were also tired, but they were already used to it, and the soreness was not the same as Shao Xuan was experiencing now. Looking at Shao Xuan’s behavior, they all guessed that this lad could finally see the gap between him and the others. The advance group was not for everyone to join, and those with low ability could never keep up with the crew, even if he used every effort to become a part of the group. However, Shao Xuan was already impressive enough to keep up during his first day.
So, some of the warriors in the advance group had a better impression of Shao Xuan. In their eyes, Shao Xuan was only a kid, and people in the tribe had a relatively higher tolerance for kids. Ta and the others, ranking top in the advance group already discussed about taking turns to carry Shao Xuan during the next day. After all, it seemed impossible for Shao Xuan to keep running by himself tomorrow.
Shao Xuan took a closer look, and found that something was moving in the black lake, it was too far for people to notice easily.
Sure enough, the black lake was not as calm as before, and it began to spread out.
Numerous black dots rose up. At first there were only a few of them, but after several breaths, dense black patches began to rise up in the air.
And the lake, which was covered by those black dots, finally revealed itself in Shao Xuan’s sight.
It was an open lake and there seemed to be a lot of plants of different colors inside. Yellow, green, brown, red…many colors mixed in the pool, and together with the shape of the pool, it was like a pair of compound eyes, like those of some insect.
The mountain on the other side was much higher than the one Shao Xuan was standing at, and it poked right into the sky.
Those rising black dots did not fly upwards, but flew in their direction, as if a ball of dancing black cloud.
“Get ready, everyone!!” Ta said to the crew and then to Shao Xuan, “You follow me, Ah-Xuan!”
The black cloud approached and Shao Xuan could basically hear the wings flapping, and he finally saw what those black dots were.
Dragonflies?!
Just before, they were too far away to identify, but now, Shao Xuan’s heart was fluttering like hell, seeing that it was a group of dragonflies.
Shao Xuan had seen dragonflies before, but not in this size and quantity!
It was a huge aircraft fleet!
The small ones had wingspans of at least three meters, while most of them had wingspans of five meters! Some of them were even bigger, while numerous giant dragonflies were flying towards them in large numbers. Obviously Shao Xuan was looking at something he had never seen before.
They were going to take them from one side of the mountain to the other side, where the green kingdom of plants was located.
When the “aircraft fleet” flew above their heads, Shao Xuan could see the reticulate veins in their wings.
They were like gliders!
“Let’s go!”
With the favorable terrain, warriors in the advance group leaped down the cliff and landed on the backs of dragonflies.
Before Shao Xuan had the chance to move, he was lifted by Ta and landed on a big dragonfly’s back.
For the first time in his life, Shao Xuan experienced the giant dragonfly flight.