Chapter 441 - 146: Bountiful Harvest
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Last time, when escaping, from leaving the village to reaching the cave, Chen Yan took a whole day.
This time, he was prepared, with sufficient cold-resistant gear and a Light Body Talisman to lighten his burden and speed up his movement.
Chen Yan took less than four hours to reach the outskirts of the Fierce Beast Race village.
When passing through a muddy area in the woods, Chen Yan smeared another layer of mud on his clothes to mask his scent.
Upon reaching the outskirts of the Fierce Beast Race village, Chen Yan lay on a tree and took out binoculars to observe for a while, grasping some information.
His binoculars had a range-finding function, and at this moment, he was approximately three hundred meters away from the village.
The woods outside the village had already started to bustle, and from this, one could deduce that it was considered "daytime" here.
Near the edge of the woods close to the village, quite a few human slaves were laboring, chopping trees, with several monster-like supervisors patrolling around.
Chen Yan patiently lay on the tree observing, and after a while, he saw a "familiar face."
A burly monster, Chen Yan recognized it as a supervisor, the one who had taken over after Supervisor Black Stone and had tried several times to cause trouble for him.
This fellow was still patrolling in its responsible area.
However, what surprised Chen Yan was that the forest area belonging to Wooden Bowl’s private property had no one working.
No slaves were there, nor was Wooden Bowl’s figure seen.
From Chen Yan’s observations over a few days’ stay here, if there were wealthy monsters in the village, those who kept slaves, they would have slaves chop trees to work.
The poorer monsters needed to personally chop the trees themselves—Wooden Bowl used to chop trees herself before she caught me.
Chen Yan lay on the tree, waiting for several hours, confirming one thing: in Wooden Bowl’s private area, no one was chopping trees.
He thought for a moment, then quietly climbed down the tree, retreated into the depths of the woods, found a leeward slope, and snuggled himself behind a solid dirt mound to rest and nourish his spirit.
His resolve for revenge was firm, but Chen Yan had plenty of patience for the process of revenge!
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After closing his eyes and entering a meditative state, Chen Yan rested like this for four or five hours,
when the wristwatch hidden under the cold-resistant gloves vibrated slightly, Chen Yan opened his eyes.
He first listened intently for a while, ensuring there was no danger around, then took out clean drinking water and high-calorie food from his backpack and filled his stomach with the cold water.
He also moved his limbs to invigorate the blood flow in his legs that had become somewhat numb from long rest, restoring his entire body’s agility to its best state.
Chen Yan climbed back up a strange tree, crouched on it, and observed with his binoculars.
The slaves working in the forest had already returned; it was the time for "end of work."
However, in the village, many houses were still lit with lanterns.
Chen Yan patiently lay on the tree, waiting until one by one, the lanterns in the village went out, and he waited another hour.
When the village had fallen completely silent, even through the binoculars, where previously there were a few monsters leading porcupine-like Hunting Beasts patrolling, they too went back, and the village seemed to fall into a deep silence...
Only then did Chen Yan jump down from the tree.
That night, Chen Yan did not enter the village.
He just walked two laps around the edge of the village in the woods, thoroughly familiarizing himself with the terrain surrounding the village...
Chen Yan also took out a pen and paper he carried, drew the terrain he had measured, and then put it away.
The terrain near the village was generally high in the west and low in the east, with denser forests in the east and sparser woods in the west.
The stream at the head of the village flowed from the upstream in the west, seemingly originating from mountains at the western end of the forest, with the stream likely coming down from the mountains.
There was also a road extending into the forest from the village—just a dirt road, with no evidence of infrastructure. It became a road simply because it was frequently traveled.
This road extended deep into the west side of the forest, leading to an unknown destination for Chen Yan.
However, he circled to the west end of the village, found a hill, climbed a strange tree, and from this highest point of terrain, he could overlook the entire village.
Chen Yan identified the layout of the buildings in the village bit by bit.
In the southeast of the village, Chen Yan found the place most familiar to him—it should be Wooden Bowl’s home.
But from tonight’s observation, Wooden Bowl’s home was not lit.
In the central part of the village, a little to the north, there was a group of two-story wooden houses, considered the largest building in the village. Its structure seemed more orderly as well.
Chen Yan guessed, it should belong to the leader monster’s residence.
This guess was confirmed by Chen Yan the next morning.
He waited in the tree all night, and in the morning, saw through the binoculars a light coming on in that two-story wooden house.
Soon after, the door on the first floor opened, and a leader monster nearly three meters tall came out.
His tall yet not bulky figure appeared particularly fit.
Moreover, he was not wearing armor when he came out, instead baring his upper body, revealing firm muscles; although his skin was still a gray-black color, his entire appearance was filled with a sense of fitness.