Chapter 238

Chapter 238 - Things change

Translated by Lesyt Team

Edited by Ilesyt

Shao Xuan had intended to go with Yan Shuo to bring those wanderers who had stayed with Yan Shuo here . The original route did not include that place, they wouldn’t pass by there . But there were many forks in the river, so the tribe’s fleet decided to use a different stream .

Before they set out, the Shaman stopped them from leaving .

The Shaman told the fleet to go past where Yan Shuo had once lived . Shao Xuan had told him that there were many wanderers and slaves, who had a very tough life .

“Let’s go there to have a look . ”

This was what the Shaman said at the time .

He wanted to let the people of the Flaming Horns tribe, who had been isolated, to learn about the lives of those whose tribes had been extinct- wanderers and slaves .

The Shaman wanted to give a lesson to the members of the Flaming Horns tribe .

The Shaman hadn’t drawn much attention since they had crossed the river . In the past, many things were decided by the chief and the Shaman after discussing . But since then, the Shaman seldom got involved, and it was Ao who often gave orders .

The Shaman gave his opinion again now, no one disagreed with him .

The fleet took the longer route, different from the original planned route, and came to the waterway which the traveling team of the Pu tribe often traveled .

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On the land next to the Y-shaped river fork, slaves were called to rise early in the morning to work one by one .

There were many large and small bamboo rafts on the river, and the slaves were fishing . When they were there, the wanderers did not dare to snatch the things and fight with them, because they would be besieged . At the shore, some supervisors with whips were staring at the river to keep the slaves working and be vigilant against the wanderers .

The life of these supervisors was only a little better than that of the slaves of the lowest rank . They couldn’t order the slaves but at least they were given strength by the slave owners . They were more powerful than those who had not awakened their totem power, so their presence here could deter those wanderers who wanted to cause trouble .

Promoted to be supervisors, all of them were vicious judging from their eyes .

In a place a little further from the slaves, some wanderers became active .

Several wanderers wearing decent clothes yawned and slowly walked to the river . They drank a little water and washed their faces directly with the river to become sober .

Looking at the slaves who had started working, the leader spat there .

“Boss, recently, some of the wanderers have been active, right?” Someone asked .

“There are more wanderers and we can also get some work from the slaves . ” Another man said .

The leader got up and wiped his face, “Keep an eye out . ”

Now in the wanderer area, the only people who could fight against them were the those who had been brought by Yan Shuo here . Both sides did not fight directly, but they stayed vigilant against each other .

“Haven’t you heard that they will leave in the future? They will go to Yan Shuo’s tribe . ” Someone said .

A bearded man next to them said with scorn, “Leave?” and sneered . “They just talk about it here . How long can they live if they left here? They may be eaten by wild beasts or killed by other tribes . ”

“Yep . ” The leader nodded approvingly, “Not to mention that they have no ability to survive after leaving . Even if they are able to leave, they will meet the Flaming Horns tribe . What is that? Who knows? The wanderers will live under the tribe’s control, so it is a more difficult life . The people in the tribe will kill anyone who they don’t like directly, especially in those small tribes without enough food . They may eat the wanderers for food, we have seen this before . Go to a big tribe in the central region instead . ”

“What is the big tribe in the central region like?” A younger man asked .

The leader suddenly became complacent, raised his chin, and made gestures to make those near him move away . He went to sit on a tall stone and then told some of the scenes he had seen while drifting outside .

In fact, there were many scenes he did not remember . His memory was too vague, but it did not matter . He just needed to shock his subordinates .

“ . . . especially the members of the Longboat tribe . They are really good at building ships . Their ships are much higher than our houses, different from those used by the slaves . Those are just simple and broken rafts . The ships of those traveling tribes are not good, either . ”

When talking, the leader suddenly noticed that he had told this to them for a long time, but they were still calm and indifferent! Moreover, each looked at somewhere else . Were they looking at those slaves who were fishing with the nets?

“What are you looking at?!” The leader became dissatisfied .

“No, boss . There’s a ship over there . ” One of them pointed there and trembled .

“How many times have I said? Those slaves are on boats rather than ships!”  The man became even more angry .

“Yes, boss . The ship is as high as our house . ” Another man said .

“Yep!” The others nodded .

Bigger than our house?

The man sitting with crossed legs on the stone turned around and looked at the direction they pointed to .

What he saw shocked him so much he almost twisted his waist .

On the distant river, ships came over, one by one, and each was higher than the house they lived in, especially the three largest ones . They reminded the leader of the vague memory of when he had met the fleet of the Longboat tribe .

“The Longboat tribe?!” The leader exclaimed .

“No, no, the Longboat tribe doesn’t have such a totem, but it looks like . . . ”A thin man next to the leader pulled his long beard that he had not cut for a long time . “The pattern on the ship seems familiar, as if I have seen it . ”

“Maybe, I have seen it too,” Someone replied, “in the wanderer area . ”

“In the wanderer area? Impossible!”

“Come on! Will they stop here? If they stop, we will get into trouble, right?”

At the first sight, they knew they shouldn’t provoke them . They gave up the idea of robbing them immediately . They fixed their eyes on the approaching fleet .

And on the river, the slaves were yelling, and theirs raft were floating towards the bank of the river . If the rafts were left on the river, they would block the way . They didn’t even dare to offend travelers on rafts, not to mention such a fleet .

Before the supervisors could even use the whips, each of the slaves tried to hurry to avoid getting in trouble .

The emergence of a fleet could be considered a major event, so it must be reported . The supervisor had shouted to tell the leader what happened on the river . The slave owner was not here, but he asked a man in charge .

Many who still stayed in the wanderers area came close to the bank . They had a look at the fleet which suddenly appeared . Many of them had always been here and had never seen such big ships, so they naturally felt it was very rare .

The fleet gradually docked, and the waves washed the sand on the bank .

The slaves had waited there, and those supervisors holding the whips now had different facial expression . They no longer looked ruthless . Instead, they wanted to please the lords . If they did it well, they would be rewarded .

After the ship docked, they did not put down the ladder, but one after another, some warriors jumped from the ship . The one at the front was Yan Shuo .

Looking at this familiar but also strange place, Yan Shuo had a mixed feeling .

A supervisor hung the whip on his back, trotted forward and intended to say something . But he said nothing when he saw Yan Shuo . He knew Yan Shuo, for he had stood on the bank of the river when Yan Shuo had left with the others .

Yan Shuo glanced around, he fixed his eyes on those few wanderers who were as stiff as a stone not far from him for a moment . He then looked to the wanderers area .

“This is where you lived, right?” Another warrior jumped down and asked Yan Shuo .

“Yes, it changed a lot . ”

While speaking, Yan Shuo brought them to look for the friends who had stayed here with him .

Shao Xuan did not go down, he stood on board, watching a distant stone house which was about ten meters high . When he had left, it had not been built . It was clear that the slaves had been ordered to build it in the past years, it belonged to the slave owner .

The wanderers only lived in some simple huts, and the slaves lived in even worse places . Unike the camp-like buildings behind the woods .

“The slave owner seems to be very greedy . ” Shao Xuan thought . They just came here to pick up a few people, but he did not expect to see so many camp-like stone houses . If he was not on board and stood on the ground, he wouldn’t have been able to see the house because of the trees .

It did not take long before Yan Shuo brought back a dozen people . He was familiar with some of them . There were also those who joined this small group in the past two years . They all wanted to leave with the Flaming Horns tribe . Ao permitted it .

Those who were brought to the ship were so happy that they cried, for they could have a new life . Those standing and watching on the bank were very envious of  their leaving .

Unexpectedly, those miserable people could have such an experience . No one expected that the stubborn man leading a hard life with his wife and children could  become a totem warrior .

Everything was possible .

The Flaming Horns tribe fleet did not stay there for a long time, and when they picked up those wanderers, they left there . The Shaman just wanted the tribesmen to learn about the hard life of the wanderers and slaves here and gave them a lesson .

The Shaman’s goal had been achieved . Everyone was shocked, not only those who followed Yan Shuo to the wanderers area, but also the people standing on board saw those numb working slaves who were being whipped .

In the war, the losers may die or lead such a life .

So, no matter who they would face in the future, they could not be defeated! Absolutely not!

The Flaming Horns tribe arrived here and then left . They continued to sail along the new route they had planned . And wanderers and slaves in this land remembered the name of the tribe called “Flaming Horns” and the two-horned totem pattern wrapped in flames on the sail .

The man who was ordered by the slave owner to stay there, after the fleet left, went back . He took out animal skin volume left by the slave owner from the box and dipped the animal hair brush in the colored water to record today’s event . The slave owner said that if the Flaming Horns tribe really appeared, he must write to him .

The Flaming Horns tribe really existed!