Entry Without Exit
Chapter 519
Entry Without Exit
With the news of the intruder, tensions were rising in the Flaming Horn tribe. The excitement from the victory faded.
They defeated Wanshi and were famous now. They got the attention of others so they shouldn’t relax, especially now.
"The road is complete, someone went over with their cart and said it was fine."
"Ten beast enclosures done outside, should we continue?"
"The field is done, we gave some to the travellers as planned and the rest is ours to use…"
In a stone house, two shamans, two chiefs, three hunt leaders and many team leaders were gathered here to discuss the progress of things. Of course, the Grand Elder wasn’t excluded.
As they spoke, Ao noticed Shao Xuan wasn’t paying much attention and said, "Ah Xuan, about the things we discussed earlier, what do you think of it?"
"Well, continue on as we planned. Even if we can’t plant much this year, we should work on the soil to make it more nutritional. The instructions on how to do that were given out already, I’ll go over and check in two days. No need to continue building beasts enclosures. Wait for the Lu tribe to send over the cubs. We shouldn’t have too many of them at once," said Shao Xuan.
Ao didn’t expect Shao Xuan to be that attentive to the conversation.
"Then let’s follow what you said, about the gold weapons… I discussed with Zheng Luo, we should build a larger casting room when the nomads in the forest move away."
Shao Xuan didn’t oppose the idea because after knowing the secrets of the core seed, the tribespeople were very sensitive towards the smelting and casting of ores. Maybe they heard stories about the slave masters near the sea or the potential of the gold weapons.
"Right, other than the tribespeople from Lu were there any other visitors?" asked Shao Xuan.
"I haven’t heard of any."
"None."
"I haven’t’ seen any."
The rest replied.
"However, there was some suspicious activity nearby, maybe there were from the larger tribes," said Duo Kang. He saw some movement when he was patrolling the outskirts but the person ran as soon as they spotted him.
"Why, are you waiting for someone?" asked Zheng Luo.
Shao Xuan shook his head, "I just think, during these times, they may send over some people to inspect us. If they haven’t appeared, maybe they have other plans or maybe they are waiting."
"Waiting for what?" asked Ao.
"Maybe they are waiting to come together," guessed Shao Xuan.
A few people in the house smirked. If they could make those tribes fear them like this, this meant that the tribe’s position in their minds increased a lot. This satisfied them but the thoughts of the prevailing danger killed the smugness. They were willing to accept any challenges thrown in their direction anyway.
"If anyone from the Hui tribe comes, tell me," said Shao Xuan.
"Sure, I sent someone to you when that happened," Ao knew the reason Shao Xuan wanted to know if the people from the Hui tribe were here so he immediately replied.
Two days later, just as Shao Xuan predicted, a few people from different tribes arrived in a group. The team leaders from Mang tribe, Eight Limbs tribe and Feather tribe were the same from before but this time they were accompanied by the Thousand Masks tribe, Tianshan tribe and Longboat tribe. The team from the Hui tribe didn’t arrive with them but arrived slightly later.
In this area where news didn’t travel fast, the fact that they could gather like this meant that they probably had a special way of communicating.
When the seven tribes reached Flaming Horn, Shao Xuan was in the casting room with a few smiths discussing how to improve their bronze weapons. They knew how things worked in theory but it was hard to replicate it in reality. The weapons were faulty and few barely passed the test.
"Already here?" Shao Xuan put down a bronze axe and followed the warrior that informed him of the news.