It was raining cats and dogs.
The raindrops were densely packed, hitting the ground rapidly. The sound of muddy water splashing could be heard everywhere.
The leaves rustled as they were hit by the rain, and the sound made people wonder if the raindrops would pierce through the leaves.
In the curtain of rain, a figure flashed through the forest. A stone needle as thin as a toothpick pierced through the curtain of rain and pierced through the dense branches at an extremely fast speed. With a "tut" sound, it pierced into a short wooden stake as thick as an arm hanging there.
At this time, there were many similar stone needles piercing the wooden stake from different angles, making it look like a hedgehog.
There were many such wooden stakes hanging nearby. Some were in the grass, some were hidden in the bushes, and some were hanging on the trees.
Whoosh —
After a quick dragging sound, the wooden stakes in different places moved faster. At the same time, more stone needles flew out.
Tut, tut, tut!
On the grass, in the bushes, in the air … Everywhere, there were more stone needles on the stumps.
The pitter-patter of raindrops hitting the ground did not cause the stone needles to deviate at all!
Whoosh!
The figure in the rain turned over, jumped over the branches in front of him, and landed steadily. The sound of landing was inaudible in the surrounding raindrops.
Shao Xuan wiped his face and went to pick up the wooden stakes.
He had been training like this these days. At first, he practiced spearhead darts, then he practiced thinner stone thorns, and now he was practicing stone needles that were thinner than stone thorns.
He thought of the white hairs he encountered in the Greenland Hunting Ground. They were so soft, but they could pierce through thick planks. Even the body of a mid-level totem warrior could not resist them. One of the reasons was the material of the white hairs. Another, more important reason was that the white hairs were very fast.
This was something that Shao Xuan was trying to do. He hoped that one day he would be able to use a thin blade of grass to pierce through a thick wooden board. But for now, he could only practice step by step. If he couldn't even use stone, then he wouldn't be able to use grass.
There was still a long way to go.
Because it had been raining these days, Shao Xuan did not let Old Ke come out. It was a torture to come out in such heavy rain.
Every time Ge went to Old Ke to get some stone tools, he would mock Old Ke for becoming "weak". In the past, he used to walk up the mountain step by step with his crutches. He did not ask for help when he went out, but now? Old Ke rode Caesar when he went out and relied on Shao Xuan when he went up the mountain. He did not even go out when it was raining. He was so damn delicate!
Old Ke was not annoyed. He did what he was supposed to do and pretended that he did not hear anything. Ge Na was filled with jealousy and jealousy! He would not tell Ge that Shao Xuan had asked for some herbs from the Shaman. He was in the recuperation period. In the past, he had a negative mentality and did not care whether he lived or died. But now, he wanted to live a few more years and see how far Shao Xuan could go.
Caesar and Chacha were left at Old Ke's place. Shao Xuan sometimes wondered if he should expand the house and let Old Ke move in with him. Anyway, he was alone, and Old Ke was alone. It would save him the trouble of running between the two places every day.
While thinking, Shao Xuan was tidying up the wooden stakes and the grass ropes.
Last year, the rainy season would start after the next hunting trip. Unfortunately, it was earlier this year. The Shaman asked everyone to be prepared, and the hunting team that was going to set off had to postpone their trip.
Behind Shao Xuan, a slender worm like a snake slithered out from a tree. Different from a snake, it had many legs.
Sticking out its tongue like a snake, it stared at Shao Xuan who was under the tree. Its body slid down the trunk silently, and its slender legs allowed it to stay on the trunk steadily.
When it got close to Shao Xuan, it twisted its body and coiled its front half, forming an "S" shape. Then it aimed at Shao Xuan and opened its mouth to bite the back of Shao Xuan's neck like an arrow released from a bow.
Shao Xuan didn't even look behind him. He just casually raised his hand, and when it was only half a palm away from his neck, he had already blocked in front of it, and tightly choked its neck.
His fingers tightened slightly.
Crack! Crack!
The worm's head was separated from its body.
Shao Xuan flicked his finger and flicked the worm's head to one side of the grass, while the headless worm's body was flung to the other side of the forest when he withdrew his hand.
During the whole process, Shao Xuan did not look at the worm at all.
After tidying up the stone needles, Shao Xuan stood up and glanced around.
He had seen those worms several times in the past two days. He heard that they would come out of the ground every year during the rainy season. Not only these worms, but other creatures would also come out of the ground one after another. But except during the rainy season, these worms would almost never appear in the mountains of the training ground.
Stepping on the muddy ground, Shao Xuan suddenly lifted his foot and kicked a stone away. The stone that was kicked away was mixed with muddy water, and it shot straight to the grass.
A two-palm-long scorpion-like worm that had just come out of the ground was pierced through by the stone.
Old Ke said that the worms that came out of the ground during the rainy season would take the initiative to hurt people, and they were very poisonous. Don't get bitten or stung by them, and kill every one you see.
It was said that some worms would run to the tribe, so during the rainy season, the children in the tribe who had not awakened their totemic power were locked up at home. Everyone would sprinkle some kind of grass juice around the house, which had a certain effect of repelling worms.
"Woo —"
A loud noise came from the other side of the river.
The warriors in the training ground only felt a chill go straight to their heads. They all stopped what they were doing and jumped to a high place to look at the other side of the river.
Shao Xuan had almost reached the place where he lived, and there were no hills to hide him. He climbed up a tree and looked at the river in front of the tribe.
In the curtain of rain, the figure that jumped out of the river was not clear, because it was too far away. But even if the figure was far away from the tribe, and was not completely exposed, one could still guess its huge size.
This was the decisive factor that stopped the tribesmen from exploring the river.
The Riverfear Beast was the overlord of this boundless river. The word "Dread" that the tribesmen gave it showed how much they feared it.
Although the huge Dread Beast was not clear what it looked like, just by looking at its size and hearing its voice, people already felt an unparalleled sense of oppression.
When they appeared, it meant that the real rainy season had begun, and not just an occasional storm. This was just as the witch predicted.
The rainy season really came early.
When the Dread Beast jumped up, its roar was like a siren in people's ears, and it was so loud that people felt like their eardrums were about to burst. But when the huge Dread Beast dived into the water again, it would make a muffled sound like thunder. It was not harsh, but it was even louder than the previous one. It made people feel like their chests were hit by a heavy hammer again and again. If you put a cup of water in the room, you would see the water in the cup shake violently.
At this time last year, Shao Xuan, like other kids in the orphan cave, covered their ears and hid in the cave. That kind of sound was torturous for them, and many of them were shivering.
Not only the kids in the orphan cave, but also the kids in the tribe would hide in their own homes and block their ears with things. But they still could not relieve the uncomfortable feeling caused by the sound. Some of them even bled from their ears and noses.
Maybe for those Dread Beasts, the rainy season was a happy season. They frequently jumped out of the water, as if they were very happy. Even if they were far away from the river bank, the image they brought was not reduced. For the tribe, the rainy season was a disaster. The only good thing was that the Dread Beasts would not get close to the bank, let alone go ashore. Otherwise, the tribe might have already ceased to exist.
When the huge Dread Beast appeared, the tribe would hold an emergency meeting. The team leaders of the two hunting groups would assign people to go down the mountain to be responsible for the defense. This was also the annual defense battle in the rainy season.
During the rainy season, something might come out of the river. That was why the tribe's hunting group delayed going out, because they had to guard against the creatures in the river.
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