The man who should have been heavily smashed to the ground instead, as if the moment of landing suddenly changed, turned from hard stone into a soft sponge.
Shao Xuan could even see the strange changes that have taken place in this moment to the person who has been caught in his wrist.
The original tall and strong man turned soft and fat. At this moment, the sounds of the bones could be heard, accompanied by a blast flow.
Shao Xuan once thought that these people, because of their special physique and ability, could change their skeleton’s shape to disguised in another person’s appearance and could even blur the sense of the totem veins in their blood, so that they were not found out by the tribe. But he still underestimated the man in front of him.
Meanwhile, back to the side of the slender woman, she was staring at Shao Xuan, surprised.
She knew that Shao Xuan was sharp, and that was why, when they found Shao Xuan following them, they immediately changed their plans. Usually, they also avoid the patrol team, especially if Shao Xuan was with the team, but they did not expect today’s bad luck which, unexpectedly, with just a look, they were followed. How the hell did this kid find them out? If everyone else is like that, how will they ever get out of here?
Shao Xuan also paid attention as he stood close to the thin woman to observe her movements in case she attacked, but the other person was not in a rush, after a slight consternation, she calmed down and only stood next to them to watch the situation.
When he turned back to the person in front of him, Shao Xuan was startled.
Not waiting for Shao Xuan to react, in the next moment, the man’s attack was fierce and murderous. Shao Xuan only felt the wrist he was holding buckle abruptly, then the contraction made him loosen his hold, which was convenient for the person to hastily move away.
The man who escaped from Shao Xuan’s hands, since his bones have not yet been restored, revealed a smile with a twisted face. If it was like normal, one could see the pride in his face, but with his distorted face, the laughter was strange and horrible.
About to say something, the other man smiled, but then looked up to the sky. He became irritated. This is bad! Unexpectedly, they forgot about the birds!
The communication between the patrols was not just a whistle. Sometimes, the two birds in the sky also play a role. Usually, Chacha was not in the tribe, but with the snow, it is, so it quietly went to call other people.
“Someone’s coming! Let’s go!” The thin woman had her feet grind the ground, then she flew away like an arrow, completely unlike her usual delicate appearance. The seemingly frail body had a hidden great explosive force.
The man who had just fought with Shao Xuan quickly left the place too, but the two of them went in different directions.
The next moment after they left, ten people came and they chased the two, separating in two batches.
Shao Xuan did not join the chase. He knew that with the strength of those two people, he was afraid that it was difficult to catch up. He was now able to ascertain that the man who had just fought against him was the man he had met last year in the Drumming tribe, and perhaps he had stolen the Drumming tribe’s things.
What was strange for Shao Xuan was that these two people did not reveal killing intent, whether in the Drumming tribe or while lurking in the Flaming Horns tribe.
It wasn’t long before the others came back and from the look on their faces, he knew they were unable to catch up with the two.
“What happened?” Shao Xuan asked.
“They ran away and we saw them running out of the woods.” Gui He said.
The white falcon has also returned, and it has not been able to trace those people.
“Those two, were they also ‘thieves’?”
“They should be.” Shao Xuan answered.
Upon their return, additional staff were handed over to strengthen the patrol team’s vigilance and to prevent the two people from returning again.
Going to the place where the new people live, Shao Xuan went to ask around while describing the two men’s faces. Not long after, with the help of the people, he found the place where the two impostors lived.
“Is this it?” Disregarding politeness, Gui He kicked the door open.
There were some people who heard the movement, and they did not understand what was going on, but they knew that Shao Xuan and Gui He were the young elder and one of the team leaders of the tribe. They were high status figures of the tribe so they dared not ask.
Shao Xuan whispered to Tuo, then walked into the room.
Tuo did not immediately followed in, but, to the surrounding people, he “revealed” that the couple living here secretly left and before leaving, they also stole something from the tribe. They did not tell them the whole truth. If they knew that there were people from other tribes inside in disguise, it might cause panic. These new people who had just awakened could have thought and talked of their own suspicions, and this was not what the Shaman and the Chief would want to see. So Shao Xuan asked Tuo to just “reveal” a little.
Knowing the “defection” of the two people, the others were also indignant. People who had contact with these two were also angry and said a lot of things about the two. At the same time, they separated themselves from these two people, for fear of being misunderstood. They would never be a defector.
In the room, Shao Xuan looked at the furnishings inside. There was no big difference from the rest of the households, and everything looked normal.
Returning outside to join the others, he listened to the information provided by the people around Tuo. If the speculation was correct, these two people were already in the tribe before the start of winter!
They passed the winter without being found, and joined them in the ritual ceremony? If they got something from the ceremony…
Thinking about it, a few people could not help but be frightened. Then, their anger soared, the slap caused the wooden table to smash.
After looking around the room and finding nothing useful, Shao Xuan and Gui He went to the chief and reported it.
The thief entered the tribe, and was well hidden, which made Chief Ao angry and vigilant.
“Go and re-register the list of every family in the tribe now. Ta and Gui He, these are in your hands!”
“Yes.”
Last year, because many things were done too hastily, they became negligent of a lot, giving people a loophole, and now, this kind of thing happened. Ao needed to clean up the people in the tribe again. Not only the people of the Flaming Horns tribe, but also the people who lived in the periphery. They have to re-check the registration, and check it every once in a while.
When the two team leaders together with the other people left, Ao looked at Shao Xuan, and asked, “Ah-Xuan, how did you find them?”
“Intuition,” Shao Xuan said. He also could not say why, after seeing those two people, he felt that something was wrong. When he followed up, he felt more suspicious. At the time in the Drumming tribe, he was able to find the man, also because of his state, he could feel the people around with a different totem so the person was exposed. After that, Shao Xuan rarely had such a state, so when they saw the couple, Shao Xuan was only puzzled, then checked the other non-Flaming Horns tribe.
From Shao Xuan’s answer, Ao could not think anything about the two disguised people. He didn’t want to be like the Drumming tribe, but he didn’t know what they were trying to steal.
“I’ll have more people in the Shaman’s house during this period, and you should pay more attention too.” Ao said as he stared what was around Shao Xuan’s neck, meaning: You also have a precious treasure left by the ancestor, be more defensive, do not lose it.
After leaving Ao’s place, Shao Xuan followed the patrol as they circled the place. When they passed by the road through the corner of the new people’s residential area, he left the team, intending to go to see if he could find some clues.
Then, inside the impostors’ house, the room still had the broken wooden table. Next to some of the items that have been moved for the people searching to take a look on the ground, there were a lot of wood slags, about 20 square meters in the cabin, simple, easy to see. The wood wall has been knocked over and the tools were left. The ground was also planed. Probably not finding anything, the wooden stool was also crushed.
There were no abnormalities found. It was really just like the other people around here who had not awakened to the totem power, nothing special.
But no, it was still there.
Shao Xuan carefully smelled. While following the Shaman and his contact with a lot of herbs, his knowledge of herbal medicine was also relatively strong. There was a faint scent of grass, not the bitter drug, not easy to be detected.
A simple stone was built by a fire stove, and there were some green crumbs.
Shao Xuan touched it a little, and lifted his hand to his nose to smell.
Those two were hurt? It should have been a recent injury.
Thinking of the ritual ceremony from the previous days, Shao Xuan thought if it was because of the ceremony’s fire exclusion. But were the thief so bold? In order to steal things, they were willing to feel the pain of rejection from the fire seed? They were really dedicated.
If the two of them knew what Shao Xuan was thinking at the moment, they would be mad. If it weren’t for you, the boy who suddenly caused a change in the ritual, it wouldn’t hurt and make them vomit!
After another circle and not finding anything suspicious except for those dregs, Shao Xuan was going to leave, but before leaving, Shao Xuan turned back to use his special sight, to sweep the room.
All around was dark, the wood walls and stones and other items also changed color and became gray … There is only one exception!
The sight of Shao Xuan passed a wooden wall, where it was different from the gray around, and there was a little faint light. It was not bright, but in the surrounding gray contrast, it was very obvious.
Cloding the door of the wooden house, Shao Xuan walked over and looked at the hazy light past the wall. It seemed to have been from underground.
Unable to see what was buried underneath, Shao Xuan directly pulled out a dagger and began digging.
As the earth and stone were dug up, the light was getting stronger, and finally, Shao Xuan saw a light-glowing object.
Exiting from his special vision, Shao Xuan looked at the object in his hands.
It was an animal hide bag which contained something that was about as long as a small arm. Cylindrical shaped.
Untying the hide bag, he took out the object inside.
It was a wooden tube, but he could not determine from what kind of wood. Not bamboo, and also not any ordinaru wood Shao Xuan had seen, with slightly higher hardness.
There was a wooden stopper at one end of the barrel, which was tightly blocked, and there was a golden mark in the place near the mouth of the wooden stopper.
There’s this kind of glitter paint? Or is that some kind of metal?
It was really hidden by those two people. Is it a treasure stolen from another tribe?
Shao Xuan was curious so he intended to pull out the cork. It didn’t look just like a wooden plug. He had to use more force to really pull it out, at least the strength of most wanderers would not be enough.
In order to prevent the inside of the object to pour out, Shao Xuan positioned the wooden stopper upward and vigorously pulled it out.
The golden powder in the wooden barrel, if put in the sunlight, was dazzling.
Gold?
No, not gold, not even any metal. Shao Xuan slightly weighed the wooden barrel with a stone knife to check.
These gold dust was not as heavy as metal and stone, more like wood!
The Golden wood?
It’s not like a dyed color, it’s more like a natural gold.
What kind of tree was golden? Shao Xuan really didn’t know.
But what were these gold dust used for, and was it worth the two of them to be so careful to even bury these? Probably buried it when the house was built.
Generally speaking, those two people who wanted to sneak into the Flaming Horns tribe should have hidden their other stolen things in a safe place, then entered the tribe. But it may be because these were too precious so they dared not randomly put it on the side.
Inside the territory of the tribe, they were afraid of being found suspicious, so they hid it in their room, a foot from the wall, hiding it quite deep.
With the wooden plug out, he touched the gold dust inside the wooden barrel.
Shao Xuan stained himself with a bit of gold dust, waited a little but did not feel any pain, which was bold of him.
In his special vision, this wooden tube and the gold powder inside all had a little light. The light of gold dust slightly brightening the wooden barrel, but not as bright as the real “light source” which was still inside!
Looking around, Shao Xuan brought over a wooden plate. The wooden plate had a lot of defects, imperfect, which looked like it waa made by a person with insufficient capacity, so people who saw it would not doubt them.
With these details, the two people did a really good job.
Wiping the wooden plate, Shao Xuan got the dust in the wooden barrel.
When the gold dust fell on the wooden plate, it made a fine sound like sand, but not as heavy as sand.
While pouring the gold dust, a square of dark green things with the gold dust was poured out too.
It was like some kind of leaf blade part, just cut to resemble a square piece with both ends having cut traces, the veins could be seen clearly.
The wooden barrel gives Shao Xuan a feeling that it was very old, but this leaf was like newly picked. It did not have a yellow appearance, and after a careful smell, he could also tell that it has a light odor.
The smell was a shock. Even if the smell was not strong, it could make people feel fresh. It seemed that his exhaustion disappeared.
What made Shao Xuan more curious was the painting on the blade.
He could not determine what it was. The lines winding up were a little messy, not like paintings.
Words?
Not likely.
Shao Xuan carefully blew away the gold dust that covers the blades, wanting to see the picture on the blade more clearly. But, looking at it, he found that in the green leaves, the gold dust forming the golden words were gradually fading. But Shao Xuan was no longer blowing and around him, the doors and windows were closed. Even if there was wind blowing in, it should not be as fast as the dust had been blown. Not to mention, beside him was the wooden plate with the gold dust and these were all right, but the gold words on the blade were different.
Shao Xuan wanted to re-bury the blades in those gold dust inside, thinking that this would be better to let the dissipation of the gold dust stop. However, before he could act, his sight turned black and he fell unconscious.
Note: This was from a machine translated version of the raws and edited with only one pass. Please let me know if there were grammar errors or typos. Thanks!
Wander Wonders 