It was said that worms living in different place had different characteristics. The slaves who specialized in the beast cote thought that they were very experienced and very familiar with the beetles that often appeared in the beast cote to clean up the waste. But this time, the movement of those beetles made them wonder.
The beetles suddenly disappeared in the past few days but they didn't care. Later, the waste in the beast cote began to decrease, and there were more beetles. The small beetles were often seen to be active in the beast cote. In this regard, the slaves are quite happy because their work got much easier. And sometimes they could find several large dung b.a.l.l.s. However, this situation did not last long and it changed again.
The waste in the beast cote were more, and the beetles that had been originally active in the beast cote became less. And such change was continuing.
Where were the beetles going? The slaves were puzzled.
In one beast cote, two slaves had just cleaned up the waste in the beast cote and sat down to rest.
“How do I feel that waste are getting more and more? ” a slave complained.
“I also think. It may be because the Coliseum is about to open. In those days, the beasts are fed more so s.h.i.+t much.” Another slave sighed.
They could only complain in private when the slave masters were not paying attention.
“Hey, how have these beetles become less in these two days?” asked a slave. He saw a beetle creeping over his feet, and stretched his legs to kick it with his feet.
“How would I know? They may have gone underground for the winter. Forget it, let's just look after the beasts.”
“You are right… oh!” A slave who was playing the beetle screamed.
“What's wrong? “Another slave was shocked by his companion.
The slave who had just screamed bend his legs and looked at his ankles. The front of his st.u.r.dy shoes made of coa.r.s.e cloth and gra.s.s broke a big hole and his toes were exposed. He thought it's OK to wear the shoes usually. But when he kicked the beetle he felt a little itchy.
“I don't know if I was bitten or scratched,” said the slave.
“It must have been scratched. These beetles eat waste. How can they bite people?” Another slave said carelessly. They had been with these beetles for many years since they worked in the beast cote. They had never been bitten.
“Oh, it's bleeding.”
“It's fine, the beetle just scratched.”
The two slaves didn't pay attention. The slaves who were busy in other beast cote did not carefully observe the changes of the beetles in the beast cote. Therefore, they would not find the beetles who were more and more wired. They gradually abandoned the waste and turned to other food.
On the other hand, Shao Xuan took a message to Su Gu and left the station of the Leaves City.
Shao Xuan could use the pa.s.s token here to enter and exit anywhere in the station of the Leaves City outside Beast City.
Although he might encounter people from the White Rock City, he decided to take a risk out. The other side was very calm and might have investigated the Shao Xuan, Lei and Tuo. On the contrary, Shao Xuan knew very little about them. Since the other side did not take the initiative, Shao Xuan decided to take a step as a temptation, which helped to speculate on the other side's intention.
Su Gu, who was staying in the beast cote, heard the news from the slave, and he could not continue to pay attention on the scorpion.
“Did he say where to go?” Su Gu asked the slave who came to report.
“No… He didn't say it. He just said to go out.” The slave snarled.
“It must be the White Rock City!” Su Gu said angrily. He did not expect Shao Xuan said him to be relaxed yesterday, and then today ran away so quickly. He still counted on Shao Xuan's help, so he could not let Shao Xuan get killed by people from the White Rock City now.
After leaving, Shao Xuan sat on the back of Zha Zha and flew a few laps around the station of the Leaves City to get familiar with the terrain. Although Zha Zha was already familiar with this place, he had to take a look personally.
After a look around, Shao Xuan let Zha Zha fly to the White Rock City. The closer he was to the other side, the more cautious he was.
Once seeing the station of the White Rock City, Shao Xuan order Zha Zha to hold on and hover.
A shadow flew from the station of the White Rock.
It was a bird that looks slightly smaller and less strong than Zha Zha. But it's fast. It was flying to Shao Xuan at a very fast speed. There were people on the bird's back.
Shao Xuan suddenly felt a chill and an alarm sounded in his heart.
“Go!” Shao Xuan patted Zha Zha to retrace.
Several shadows appeared.
These shadows suddenly appeared from ground. They should have dug a hidden spot in the undulating dune nearby.
One, two, three… five… ten!
In all ten birds took off from the ground and besieged Shao Xuan.
Fortunately, Shao Xuan had not let Zha Zha get closer to the White Rock City and he retreated in time. So he escaped.
Shao Xuan lowered his body and kept watching the chasers around. It seemed that they had waited here especially for him. Probably they only caught Lei and Tuo and lost him last time, so they had waited him to come.
A harsher alarm sounded in Shao Xuan's heart again. He felt being targeted.
Whoosh——
An arrow broke through the wind. The person from the White Rock City shot it out on the bird's back.
Generally, people would regard Zha Zha as the main target, but the person's goal was Shao Xuan!
Being aware of the threat, Shao Xuan pat Zha Zha to evade, and he himself also took out a knife to defend.
The arrow almost grazed his arm. The coldness caused by the arrow was like a stirring storm which stung him. The sleeves that swayed with the wind were also pierced through.
Although the arrow only went through the sleeves, and even did not directly touch his skin, if Shao Xuan fold up the sleeves at this moment, definitely there was already a print on his arm which almost bled.
Shao Xuan avoided and quickly looked at the chaser behind him.
Although the chaser flitted by, Shao Xuan thought the chaser behind him, who just shot the absolute killing arrow, was Dao Yu!
The ability of prejudging target's behavior as soon as the decisive shooting, shown that the chaser must be a shrewd hunter and a killer who had hunted countless prey. Moreover, the power of his arrow was stronger than his a.s.sociates. His strength was definitely not under the Tian Shan tribes who were good at using bows and arrows, and even higher.
Other chasers with bows were aiming at Zha Zha.
Zha Zha had to keep avoiding those shootings. But the good luck was that all of their shootings were weaker than Dao Yu's, whether the power, the speed or the accuracy. Otherwise, Zha Zha might not be able to escape successfully.
Even if Dao Yu was alone here, Shao Xuan still felt quite stressful, let alone now a dozen chasers.
The second powerful arrow flew straight toward Shao Xuan's back.
Shao Xuan's wrist moved, and the angle of the knife was changed slightly.
Clank!
The arrow bounced away when it reached the knife because of the angle of the knife.
Shao Xuan could clearly feel the stone splatter on the knife at the moment when the tip of the arrow and the stone knife collided. His wrist of holding the knife handle was sorely hurt. He almost couldn't catch the knife. His arm was numb and painful.
Ignoring that powerful bow, Dao Yu must have been a senior totem warrior!
How long had it been? It's ten years ago when Dao Yu betrayed the three of the Burning Horn Tribe. And ever since he, a vagrant, had been able to improve himself so fast! Without the help of the Fire Crystal, and before the fire returned to the old haunt, even a totem warrior in a tribe could improve as so fast as him.
Dao Yu was preparing to shoot the third arrow, but he looked that Shao Xuan was farther and farther from him, and finally put down the bow and arrow. The third arrow couldn't catch up with Shao Xuan. He did not want to waste his arrows each of which was expensive for such situation.
When taking the arrow back, Dao Yu lifted his hand and the few hawks behind him also stop chasing.
“Should we let him go?” someone asked.
“A coward is not worthy of us wasting energy.” Another said.
“It's a pity that we couldn't catch him. It's better to see the three of the Burning Horn Tribe play in the Coliseum. It must be very interesting.” The person who came over laughed, looking at Dao Yu. Given Dao Yu's good face, he asked: “How do you think?”
In the slave cla.s.s, their rank was lower than Dao Yu. Strictly speaking, they were under the charge of Dao Yu. Therefore, when Dao Yu asked them to ambush here, they only dare complain in heart even if staying in the cold whole day. They knew how powerful Dao Yu was, and once they offended Dao Yu, they would not see the sun of tomorrow.
For Shao Xuan, who had escaped from their chasing, Dao Yu had a brief judgement. “Nothing special.” His tone was arrogant and complacent. The totem warriors, so what? Was not he still in my suppression?
In fact, Dao Yu didn't know too much about Shao Xuan. He only knew that the two people that they had caught seemed to listen to Shao Xuan. According to Shao Xuan's age, he believed that Shao Xuan was one leader's descendant in the tribe, just like other tribes.
“Send for monitoring the Leaves City and see what he's going to do.” Dao Yu said.
“Yes!” The person next to Dao Yu hurriedly said.
“Are you worried that he will ask other tribes for help?” someone asked.
Dao Yu scornfully smiled. “The other tribes? In addition to the two people caught, others are so busy. How would they like to help? As for the Burning Horn Tribe, it is too far away for them to catch up. The two people caught will just die.”
“What if the guy who escaped rushes into the Coliseum?” one asked.
“That will be great.” Dao Yu smiled happier. The Coliseum was a battle field full of danger. The beasts that can be in the Coliseum were not easy to kill. Even he not only had reached the level of senior totem tribe warrior, but also had done various preparations before entering the Coliseum last year, to win in the battle was still expended him lots of cost. And how could these intermediate totem tribe warriors be able to survive?
