801: Chapter 792 Not a Coincidence 801: Chapter 792 Not a Coincidence The reunion with the Chieftain was not only a surprise but a super delight.
Gao Yang shouted, “I’m here, don’t move, stay put and don’t move!”
Fearing that enemies might still be alive, Gao Yang switched on his headlamp as he sprinted out.
When he reached where the enemies were clustered, he saw about a dozen of them lying haphazardly in the cave, most with half-eaten food beside them.
There were bodies facing away and bodies facing towards Gao Yang, and several were not yet dead, writhing and crying out in pain.
Under normal circumstances, Gao Yang would surely have inquired about their condition, but in his haste, he didn’t want to try to extract information from the wounded anymore.
He simply fired his gun, giving an extra shot to everyone, whether they were moving or not.
After shooting, Gao Yang continued to run outside, and then he quickly saw three figures crawling on the ground.
Gao Yang said with a quivering voice, “Chieftain, is that you?”
“White Child!
It is you, ha ha!”
Gao Yang had wanted to rush over and embrace the Chieftain and the others, but after casting the light from his headlamp and realizing that there were only three people running toward him from a hundred meters away, he couldn’t move his feet.
He just stood still, trembling, “Where’s Kusto?
Where is Kusto?”
Balix was the first to reach Gao Yang, gun in one hand, hugging Gao Yang’s neck with the other, and said loudly, “Kusto is outside, we told him to stay outside.”
Gao Yang’s heart settled back in his stomach, and joy finally took over all his thoughts.
Yet, in his excitement, he didn’t know what to say.
He simply stretched his mouth into a foolish, non-stop grin.
The Chieftain approached Gao Yang and, seeing his face striped with red, grinned as well.
Gao Yang was filled with emotion, but despite the excitement, he couldn’t lose his reasoning.
He rushed to say, “It’s too dangerous here, hurry and leave, we can talk more outside, I’ll grab some things and be right out.”
Gao Yang wouldn’t be trapped in the cave again, with Kusto guarding the entrance alone, the strength was surely too thin.
However, the Chieftain simply pointed behind Gao Yang, saying, “We’re going to pick up the guns, we’re almost out of bullets.”
Gao Yang immediately responded, “Okay, grab the guns and let’s leave together.”
The Chieftain and the other two happily picked up guns beside the bodies.
As Gao Yang looked over the corpses while the Chieftain and the others were picking up the weapons, he noticed something wrong after just one glance.
There were only three Tuareg people in black robes.
Gao Yang immediately pulled down the veils from the faces of the three bodies clothed in black robes.
They were all in their thirties or forties.
Looking at their guns, he didn’t find the broken one he most wanted to see.
The old man wasn’t in the cave, and after taking a sharp intake of cold air, Gao Yang turned to the Chieftain and urged, “Hurry up with picking things!
We need to leave right away!”
After waving his hand outward, Gao Yang dashed back into the cave.
This time, he turned the headlamp to its brightest setting.
Reaching the spot where he dropped his rifle and camera, he slung the AKM over his shoulder, put the camera in his bag, and hurriedly slipped on his boots before rushing out of the cave.
With his belongings in hand, Gao Yang was about to leave when he looked up and noticed some patterns carved on the cave wall, some painted with white clay or something similar.
It was hard to notice the patterns carved into the black stone unless you looked closely.
Gao Yang hadn’t noticed them when he entered, but after glancing a few times, he saw that the cave paintings were numerous and scattered.
But Gao Yang no longer had the heart to inspect the paintings.
After reconvening with the others waiting for him, he didn’t bother to speak, just hurriedly ran out of the cave.
When they reached the pit at the cave entrance, Gao Yang noticed that the layer of soil covering it had not been cleared away and even the hole he had collapsed hadn’t widened much.
Standing below the hole, the Chieftain whispered, “Kusto, Kusto.”
“I’m here, come on up.”
Hearing Kusto’s reply, the Chieftain smiled and waved at Gao Yang.
Gao Yang was the first to leave the pit, and just as he reached the surface, Kusto leapt out from the forest, following the rustling of the branches, and shouted to Gao Yang, “Haha!
White Child, I knew it was you!
I told you it had to be!”
It had been more than two years since they last saw each other, and Kusto had grown much taller.
Although Gao Yang was excited, he made a silent gesture to Kusto and whispered, “Keep it down, there’s danger.
Help the Chieftain and the others get out.”
The people of the Akuri tribe were quite short, mostly around one meter sixty in height, so a pit that wasn’t too deep for Gao Yang was quite high for the Chieftain and the others, which meant Kusto had to help, while Gao Yang had to stay on guard.
Once the Chieftain and the others had all climbed out of the pit, Gao Yang whispered, “There are still some of those bastards left, we have to be careful.
Let’s set up an ambush nearby, and if we spot those bad guys, we’ll kill them.”
After finding a hidden spot nearby to hide with the Chieftain and the others, the very excited Chieftain whispered, “When we found this place, we saw many people leaving.
White Child, how many did you kill?”
Gao Yang thought for a moment and said, “A lot, a whole lot.
Why?”
In the language of the Akuri tribe, there were no words for large numbers like fifty or a hundred, so Gao Yang couldn’t tell them how many people he had killed exactly because there were no specific terms for it.
The Chieftain stretched out both hands, frowned, then had Balix raise both his hands, and Little Balix smartly extended three fingers.
The Chieftain said, “We need to kill this many more to complete our revenge.
So far, we have killed…
have…”
After thinking for a while, the Chieftain retracted his hands and, pointing to Balix’s hands, said, “We still need to kill this many.
If you’ve killed this many in the revenge battle, then we don’t need to fight anymore.
Our revenge is complete.”
Gao Yang’s face was painted for revenge, so he came representing the Akuri tribe’s quest for revenge.
Every person he killed counted towards the Akuri tribe’s vengeance.
In the eyes of the Akuri tribe, if they had killed an equal number of enemies to their own people, then the revenge was over.
Gao Yang nodded and said, “It’s enough, way more than necessary.
Our battle for revenge can now end.”
Everyone looked pleased.
They were obliged to avenge their wrongs, but the Chieftain and the others were eager to return to a peaceful life, so the end of their revenge was certainly welcome news.
Gao Yang then excitedly and curiously asked, “Chieftain, how did you find me?
How did you know I was in that cave?”
The Chieftain pointed at Gao Yang’s foot and laughed, “Kusto found your footprints.
He insisted they were yours, then we found your footprints in that cave, and I felt you were inside.”
Gao Yang looked at his feet in disbelief, then realized what had happened.
Gao Yang was someone who cherished memories.
The boots he was wearing were definitely not the old ones that had accompanied him through three years on the steppe, but the ones he wore now were of the same model, and the pattern on the soles was identical.
For the Chieftain and the rest, even after such a long time, it was easy to identify the footprints he had left.
After flashing a grin, Gao Yang said softly, “Start from the beginning, how did you manage to find this place?”
The Chieftain whispered, “We’ve been in this area for a long time.
We took the opportunity to kill three enemies, but the day before yesterday, we were discovered.
Those people chased us in cars, and we ran.
Then, when it was time to sleep at night, they were still chasing us, firing at us all the time, but we hid in the woods.
No matter how we ran, they found us, but we had no idea where they were.”
Just as excited, Kusto whispered, “We didn’t know what to do, but then they suddenly left.
They had something very bright, and when they suddenly used that bright thing to look for their way, they were very close to us.
When dawn broke, we started following their tracks, trying to kill a few more, and then we traced them all the way here.
The place where there should have been many of them, there was no one.
We found many footprints, and then I saw a footprint by the river, I recognized immediately that it was left by you, and then, we followed it up here.”
Gao Yang had incorporated words like ‘gun’ and ‘car’ into the Akuri language system, but he never mentioned flashlights, so Kusto did not know how to describe a flashlight.
Although his account was brief, Gao Yang still managed to piece together the sequence of events.
His desperate attempt to draw Sadiq’s attention worked, forcing Sadiq to abandon the chase and return.
The Chieftain’s quest for revenge was not finished.
Following the principle of ‘advance when the enemy retreats and retreat when the enemy approaches’, they returned after dawn to continue their vengeance.
Discovering his footprints, they bravely entered the cave and turned the tables, saving his life.
This was no coincidence; it was the result of both parties actively choosing to care for each other.
Nodding repeatedly, Gao Yang felt both reassured and excited as he said, “I went to the tribe first, knowing you were here for revenge, but I couldn’t find you right away.
Now that we’re finally together, our revenge can’t end yet, though.
We have to kill the leader of an enemy, um, kill the leader of an enemy.
If he doesn’t die, then our tribe will still be in danger.”
Gao Yang could only refer to Sadiq as the leader of their enemies.
Knowing that life in the cave was not good, he assumed Sadiq wouldn’t be waiting in the cave with his men.
Whether it was to avenge the innocent girls of the Akuri tribe who were killed or to eliminate the root cause of their troubles once and for all, it was clear that Sadiq, the main culprit, had to be dealt with.
Upon hearing from Gao Yang that their revenge was not yet complete, the Chieftain immediately became serious and asked, “So what do we do?
Do we stay here and hunt?” (To be continued.
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