C336 – Seed
Posted on February 16, 2019 by AzureOrchid92
Looking at the other person’s frightened eyes, Shao Xuan whispered, “I’ll ask you a few questions, you better answer!”
The other side nodded multiple times.
Shao Xuan opened his hand to free the other’s throat. Seeing the other relieved, he then asked, “What is Dao Yu doing down there?”
The other side jerked up, obviously not expecting Shao Xuan to directly to say Dao Yu’s name. A deep hue colored the man’s eyes when he heard the name, obviously out of fear.
Shao Xuan held the other’s throat again, as if he would break it directly.
The man nodded and shook his head, like he had something to say, but could not make a sound. Shao Xuan loosened again and the man coughed incessantly.
“Tell me!”
“In the… In…… Die!”
The frightened eyes of the man suddenly dispersed, only to turn murderous. He jerked back a step, twisted his legs, then swept it towards Shao Xuan like whirlwind. At the front of the leg he swept out, the toe was covered with a sharp piece of bone. If it had successfully cut, the blood that would gush out would be a lot.
However, Shao Xuan guarded early. He did not move forward and retreat, only his hands moved.
A wooden thorn was stabbed in the other person’s neck.
This was something Shao Xuan found in the desert. A kind of hard thorn in the tree he had smashed down. Aside from the thorns’ certain hardness, Shao Xuan also wiped a poison on the wooden thorn. A person stabbed would be in a dizzy state then, would eventually fall asleep.
When the man fell, Shao Xuan took out a knife after burying the man, then came to the place where the man had just come out from. Learning from the man’s practice last night, he pulled out the sand and buckled the slate there.
The slate opened a seam. Inside, the person who was guarding the bottom looked out, but did not see anyone. He was puzzled but opened the seam a little more, then stretched his neck to look outside. Just as he let out his head, he felt a sudden pain in his neck. His sight then quickly blurred.
Shao Xuan waited a little after the man fell. He did not hear any movement below, hence, he went down from the open seam while positioning the sleeping man to sit down beside him. He had given it a pose to look as if he was just sleeping.
After pulling the slate closed, he saw a polished stone stick next to the entrance. Shao Xuan picked up the stone stick to position it at the closed seam, so as to prevent people outside from pulling the slate open.
After the slate was closed up, the passage below was dark.
There were ignition torches next to it, but Shao Xuan doesn’t need it.
The passage was nearly two meters high and a metre wide. Shao Xuan listened to the movements inside the passage, before going forward. The dark environment was not much of a difficulty for him when he changed his view.
He went straight all the way until he encountered a fork, where there were three branches.
Shao Xuan intuitively chose one, and the more he went in, the “shell” wrapped in his totem flame in his mind grew brighter. However, at the same time, Shao Xuan also has a very uncomfortable feeling. Every nerve in the body was clamoring that it was dangerous. This danger did not come from men, but from other reasons.
The farther he went, the wider the road was. The wind flow in the passage proved that there should be other exits. It’s not like it’s just been built. It’s more like it’s been here for a long time.
Further ahead, Shao Xuan found that there were many warehouses. There were guards next to the warehouses with a burning torch beside them, but all three were sitting on the ground by torches. However, looking at the way they had their chins slightly down, he knew that they were dozing off.
Shao Xuan sneaked into one of the warehouses, while the three people who were outside were unaware.
There was no door blocking the warehouse, just a lot of stones of different sizes. The stones were not bad, at least middle level. Shao Xuan first thought was that this was where Baishi City was storing their stones and used the place to polish stone tools. However, that wasn’t the case when he thought further about it. When storing stones, they won’t run so far away to hide it. Hiding it so well meant that they have another plan for these.
Just then, Shao Xuan heard a noise outside. He hid behind a few stones, then observed the outside from the gap in the stone.
A team of people came over outside, and the torch they were holding lit up the inside.
“Hurry up. Move a few more!” someone said.
“Still moving? There are already a lot of stones there.”
“Master Dao Yu told us to move and move quickly! He’s checking for us over there.”
Outside a warehouse came the sound of moving stones. Someone lowered his voice as he spoke. “I heard a few more were dead, covered in rotten, dried skin… Do you think that we will become like that?”
“But as long as we get through these days, we can ascend, which was what Dao Yu’s master has promised. He will speak to the young master.”
The men moved the stones and gradually left, until the outside darkened again.
The three guards outside said something. One was going to take care of his business and leave for a while. This was where the stones were placed, therefore, they were afraid to scatter around here.
Of the remaining two guards, one yawning and the other continuing to sleep, the former had been feeling particularly ill lately while the latter looked like several patches of his skin had begun to fester. He looked at the face of his sleeping companion, sitting on the ground, and his heart grew more and more frightened. He knew that the other man was afraid he would not persist for a long time.
Just when he was despairing, he suddenly heard the sound of a stone clattering. He was startled, but still looked over there to check. However, he did not see anything, so he went back to his original place, then continued to think deeply.
Shao Xuan has already come out of the warehouse, and quickly left. The noise earlier, with the stone clattering, was him getting out.
Shao Xuan remembered the direction where the men who moved the stones went then, also went straight over there.
The feeling of danger was getting stronger, which may be related to the sickness of those people.
What the hell was hidden here?
Was Dao Yu and his “master” here like what those people said?
Just as Shao Xuan continued to sneak in, Dao Yu was staring at a small piece of something not far away. His eyes were feverish.
Beside Dao Yu, there were a lot of piled up large and small stones. The stones were at least medium level.
It was originally built by a former Baishi king to hide his gems and as a graveyard after his own death. Hundreds of slaves were killed in order to build such a palace-like cemetery. The remaining slaves were all killed after the palace was built. Therefore, there were very few people who knew the place. Only the succeeding Baishi king could know it, while the others, even if they learned that there was such a place, did not know the exact location.
Later, the Baishi king who had died had opened it before, throwing his deceased ancestor into the corner in a coffin and turning the underground palace into a stone-hiding place. Because he knew a secret, a secret that the three major cities had been hiding, he thought that one day, he could steal things from the hands of the three major cities.
Unfortunately, he did not wait for the succeeding Baishi king to implement his own ambitions. He was killed by one he was in partnership with, presumably he died unexpectedly. His end would be that he was killed by the slaves beside him. There were more than one traitor among his three close guards. Two betrayed him and the only one who was loyal had been killed.
Dao Yu looked at that thing that was not much bigger than a fist. That was the “seed” that the Baishi king had been cherishing. Dao Yu had given sparse help while those tribesmen was provoking trouble when they had stolen something at Snowfield City. But, being allowed to have this seed, he was really ecstatic.
The shiny weapons used by the three cities, such as the armor and weapons used by the Snowfield young master that day, came from this seed. It could turn stones into ores and then extract what was needed from these ores.
It’s all his after that!
This was now the underground palace where he was the master!
Afraid of the vengeance of the Flaming Horns tribe?
At first, he was naturally worried when he heard the news of the Flaming Horns tribe. However, as his strength grew, with more and more of what he had in his hands, he knew some secrets about the tribal fires and did not have the tribesmen in his sights. Slave owners were the hegemon of the future!
And he, Dao Yu, would do everything he could to become a slave owner!
Thinking of that one called Shao Xuan actually having that ability, Dao Yu’s clear mood suddenly clouded, but soon, he was happy again. With the Baishi City, with this seed, he did not have to be afraid. If he really couldn’t solve the difficulties, he could also go find help.
The desert was undergoing a purge. After this cleaning, there may not be the three major cities. As for the other cities, only a few could exist and Dao Yu did not know whether Luoye City may continue to exist. But he, Dao Yu would take over Baishi City… No, he wouldn’t call it Baishi City in the future. He has to change the name.
Dao Yu, who was fantasizing about a better future, did not know that one of his most unliked person was coming towards his side.
I don’t know what to call that “seed”. It was translated as “nuclear species” which I find weird… or was that just me? (^_^ ‘)