When Shao Xuan was in the free trade area, before he took out the crystal stones, he would spend his free time every night polishing stone tools.
Because the animal skins sold quickly, many of the Yanjiao people were idle for the next few days. Shao Xuan asked them to find stones, and then choose the stones they were satisfied with and polish them into the required stone tools.
Shao Xuan learned from Duo Kang and the others what kind of terrain the road back was, how high the mountains were, how much vegetation was distributed, how many species of animals and plants there were, and so on. Therefore, when he was polishing the stone tools, he had already thought about what kind of traps and nooses to set up. Even if there were no crystal stones, according to Duo Kang's past experience, they would still encounter a lot of robbers. In the free trade area of Anba City, many people could talk and laugh with you one day, but the next day they could ambush you in the mountains and kill you.
When going out to trade, it was necessary to be vigilant. Therefore, Shao Xuan made these stone tools to prevent too many people from chasing after them.
Stone tools were not like gold tools. As long as there were no special requirements, the requirements for stone were not very high. Usable stone materials were everywhere in the mountains and forests, unlike gold tools, which were not distressed to waste. For many tribesmen, a small dagger could be precious. Of course, it was impossible to throw out gold tools like darts or hidden weapons. If they threw them away and couldn't get them back, they would definitely be distressed.
Obviously, the people sent out by An Yan to chase after them had the same idea. They inquired about the Yanjiao people's previous style of conduct and inquired about their past deeds, but they had never heard that they would use large-scale traps and hidden weapons on their way back, so they didn't care about chasing after them. At first, because the Yanjiao people did not follow the original route, they didn't see any figures. Later, when they saw footprints and other traces of walking, they excitedly continued to chase until they heard the slight sound of a string bouncing.
It was as if a bird had flown up from a tree, and then they were faced with dense wooden thorns.
It was really too sudden. Even if they reacted quickly, they couldn't completely avoid the sudden attack of the wooden thorns.
One of the members of the team waved the sword in his hand, and the sword shadows formed a shield, blocking the wooden thorns that were shot at him. At the same time, he kicked the ground with the tip of his foot and quickly bounced away, trying to avoid these wooden thorns. However, when he landed again, he stepped on something. He felt as if there was a thin rope suddenly pulled out from under his feet, and then there were wooden thorns coming at him from the side. Not only that, every time he took a step back, he would trigger a hidden noose, and then round after round of attacks.
There were so many people in the team. As long as one or two of them triggered the trap, once they panicked, they would trigger the other traps. It would be impossible to guard against them.
Wooden thorns were not as hard as metal, but when they were shot out at high speed, they could still injure people. Furthermore, there were other things on the wooden thorns. Once they broke through the skin, the poison on the thorns would spread through the blood. It would not kill them, but it would cause them a lot of trouble. It would also affect the speed of their pursuit.
Bang!
With a soft sound, a cloud of light yellow powder suddenly exploded in the air. Like a fog, it quickly spread out.
Those who could escape from the battle hurriedly jumped away. No matter what it was, it was better to avoid it. The people who were attacked by the wooden thorns thought that it was some kind of poison. They held their breath and waited until they blocked the wooden thorns and jumped out of the attack range. When they saw the light yellow smoke dissipate, they breathed again.
When everything finally stopped, the leader looked at the people who were rolling on the ground and secretly said, "Trash." His gaze shifted to a tree beside him. There, there were more than ten thin wooden thorns nailed to it. He carefully moved over, and after making sure that nothing else was triggered, he quickly reached out and plucked a leaf. He wrapped it around a wooden thorn and pulled it out of the tree trunk.
This was a wooden thorn from a plant in the mountains. The end of the wooden thorn still had some greenish-brown marks, indicating that it hadn't been long since it was pulled out.
In the forest, there were many such plants, but many animals had rough skin and dry flesh. These wooden thorns weren't much of a threat to the animals with thick fur, but humans were different. They didn't have thick fur to protect them, nor did they wear armor. After being hit, they would be affected by the poison on the wooden thorns. Fortunately, the poison wasn't strong and wouldn't kill them.
The tribesmen liked to use these little things! The leader sneered.
However, who was the one who had set up the continuous attacks that were as dense as raindrops?
Was it an ambush by others? Or was it the Yanjiao people who left?
There was a faint sweet fragrance in the air. He didn't know if it was the fragrance of the flowers on the tree or something else.
The leader threw away the wooden thorn in his hand and frowned. He glanced around with hazy eyes. Even after several rounds of attacks, they still couldn't find any traces of a trap.
"Keep chasing!" Ignoring the people on the ground who were affected by the poison, the others planned to continue forward.
"Everyone, be careful. Those tribesmen like to use these little things!" The leader said. In their eyes, these were all little tricks made of wood and flowers.
But, after just two steps, they didn't know who stepped on something, but there was a short sound of rattling vines. Everyone's nerves suddenly tightened, and they clenched the weapons in their hands. The leader grabbed a bronze shield from one of the team members and vigilantly looked in the direction of the sound.
However, they did not receive a new wave of wooden spikes. Instead, they saw a few strange wooden objects that resembled crescent moons fly out. Furthermore, they did not fly towards them. Instead, they flew in a direction far away from them.
The flying wooden objects accurately passed through the gaps between the branches in the forest. They weren't blocked by the thick trunks and dense branches. Instead, they rushed out of the cover of the leaves and flew in an arc into the distance.
Bang bang bang!
They didn't know what the flying wooden objects hit, but when they heard the sound, the pursuers' hearts jumped and their nerves tightened again.
After the wooden objects hit something, they flew in other directions. Then, some dense whooshing sounds came.
Realizing what it was, the leader shouted, "It's the leaf-piercing bee! Dodge! "
Unlike the buzzing sound made by other mountain bees, the flying sound of the leaf-piercing bee was very special. It was similar to the whooshing sound of an arrow passing through. They were two to three times larger than ordinary bees and flew very fast. Because of the cone-shaped hard armor in front of their heads, they could easily pass through the leaves. Being stung by them, the consequences were much worse than the wooden thorns.
"There's actually a leaf-piercing bee's hive around here!" The leader said angrily.
The leaf-piercing bee generally didn't take the initiative to attack, but once it got angry, it was very aggressive. Moreover, the leaf-piercing bee's hive was very large. Almost every hive in the forest occupied a whole tree, so the number of bees was naturally large. Except for those beasts with thick skin who liked to steal honey and were talented, other beasts in the forest kept a respectful distance from the leaf-piercing bee's hive.
And these pursuers obviously didn't expect that the Yanjiao people would take the path of the leaf-piercing bee. The wooden objects that flew out just now were targeted at the leaf-piercing bee's hive!
The hive was attacked, and the leaf-piercing bees were angry.
Just by listening to the sound of the leaves being passed through, one could know the mood of the leaf-piercing bee at this time.
As soon as they heard that it was the leaf-piercing bee, the others in the team panicked and quickly spread out to distract the attention of the leaf-piercing bees. If those leaf-piercing bees went after the others, they could also escape this disaster.
However, even if they spread out, there were always leaf-piercing bees chasing after them.
It was the light yellow powder with a slightly sweet smell!!
Thinking of the reason, the leader was angry and aggrieved. If it was a head-on fight, then it was nothing. He was annoyed that the tribesmen's little tricks could kill people!
Many of those leaf-piercing bees were slapped to the ground with a sword, but the more it was like this, the angrier the leaf-piercing bees were. The whooshing sound in the forest continued.
A man touched the noose because he was trying to avoid the wasps and was hung up by his feet. Before he could use his sword to cut the vines, he was clamped by two large clamps with sharp stone awls on both sides, like the mouth of a giant beast. He didn't even have the chance to scream.
In an instant, the blood spread.
Similar situations happened everywhere else. Some were tied up, some fell into the potholes, and then what greeted them was the real killing move.
The whooshing sound of the leaf-piercing bees, the dense whooshing sound like rain, and the panicked screams of the pursuers mixed together in the forest.
At the foot of the mountain, two groups of people were hurrying on. It was the Yanjiao and the Taihe tribe.
They could hear a little of the movement on the mountain. Not only the Yanjiao people, but the Taihe tribe people also glanced at Shao Xuan from time to time.
They didn't know what Shao Xuan had done. After changing paths, Shao Xuan told them to hurry on with all their might, ignoring the traces left on the ground. Then Shao Xuan brought a few people to cover their backs. Before leaving, he asked the Taihe tribe people for some medicine.
Because it was for the safety of the two teams, the Taihe tribe people didn't hide anything. They gave Shao Xuan everything he asked for. The powder that attracted the leaf-piercing bees was made by the Taihe people. They dared to walk near the leaf-piercing bee's nest because the Taihe people had a way to avoid the leaf-piercing bees.
The team waited for a while at the foot of the mountain. Shao Xuan came back with people, but the expressions on the faces of the people who came back were very strange. Some were at a loss, but some were looking forward to it.
Duo Kang was one of them. He originally thought that Shao Xuan brought them to block the pursuers, but he didn't expect that when they reached the mountainside, Shao Xuan told them to stop and then assigned tasks. They were to break wood thorns, cut wood, find vines, and then Shao Xuan carried his wooden box and continued to walk up the mountain with those things, starting to arrange them.
Shao Xuan said that he could block the pursuers, but Duo Kang didn't believe it. Now that he heard the movement on the mountain, it might really be like what Shao Xuan said.
Flap flap —
A flock of birds flew over the team in the sky.
"Those birds …" The Taihe tribesmen's eyes narrowed as they looked at the sky. Their gazes followed the birds, and they looked at the mountain behind them that was constantly moving.
Those birds were scavenger birds. They could smell blood from far away and then follow the smell to find food.
When hunting in the forest, they would also judge what was happening based on the movements of the scavenger birds. Now, the place where the scavenger birds were flying was the place where the Yanjiao people had set up the trap.
"Are those people all dead?" someone in the team asked Shao Xuan.
"It's not that easy," Shao Xuan replied, "but after a few more times, there shouldn't be many left."
A few more times …
The Yanjiao people and the Taihe people looked up at Shao Xuan at the same time, then looked away and hurried on in silence.
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