Ancient Eden

Chapter 98

(31.3)

Mu Qing touched Youyou’s forehead, her temperature had already cooled down. She was delighted in her heart. She put a piece of the wild honeycomb that Li Mang had brought back a few days ago into warm water, waited for the honey to dissolve in the water, stirred it around a few times, and gave it to Youyou to drink.

Youyou drank it all, licked her lips, and smiled sweetly at her.

At noon, Mu Qing, feeling sorry for Youyou, rummaged through her hut’s pots and jars. She found a few pieces of leftover potato root and a bowl of millet seeds, which she threw in the jar with water and honeycomb pieces in order to cook a sweet porridge, which she then shared with them.

While she was lighting the fire to cook the porridge, seven or eight women left behind in the settlement were squinting their eyes at her. Mu Qing knew that they most likely did not like the fact that she was cooking something for lunch, but she didn’t bother to pay attention to them.

Youyou ate too much liquid food, so she was in a hurry to go to the northwest corner of the settlement to the trench to go pee, and Mu Qing went with her. When they arrived, they saw Tiger Tooth and another man patrolling the area with spears.

During the day, two men stayed in the settlement in rotation in case of emergency, this was their usual practice here.

Mu Qing nodded her head and smiled at Tiger Tooth. Tiger Tooth stood still, and his brown face slightly flushed red.

He was on good terms with Li Mang and had always been friendly to Mu Qing as well. Mu Qing also felt that he was a straightforward person, so she would occasionally greet him when she came across him.

When she got close to the trench, she smelled a strange odor.

Mu Qing was waiting for Youyou when she suddenly heard a woman’s scream, extremely frightened, from the other side of the settlement, interspersed with the howling voices of unfamiliar men.

Mu Qing was startled and turned around. Tiger Tooth shouted at her “Don’t go there”, while he himself was already darting towards the direction of the noise.

The strange noise resounded continuously. It sounded like the shouting happening during a fight.

Youyou turned white with fear and could no longer stand up.

Mu Qing practically dragged her to hide in the bushes on the side, telling her not to come out, while she herself quickly ran to the other side of the settlement, taking cover in the bushes at the edge of the settlement.

The scene she saw through the gap in the bushes made her breath almost stop. ｂ𝚎ｄｎ𝚘ｖ𝚎𝚕．𝚘𝚛𝚐

Gang Tu was sweeping through the settlement with his people.

Women and children were tied up together. Tiger Tooth was struggling with a few of Gang Tu’s men, and on the ground beside him, his partner had fallen, stabbed in the stomach.

Tiger Tooth’s eyes widened in fury, and he seemed to turn crazy as the sharp spear in his hand plunged into the chest of one of the intruders. But at the same time, his own back was deeply stabbed. He let out a roar of rage and slowly collapsed on the ground.

A cruel smile appeared on Gang Tu’s face, which could no longer be considered a human face. He looked up and saw that his clan members were dragging Da Wu and Naonao out.

Naonao, who had been cursing angrily without stopping, let out a cry of horror when she saw Gang Tu’s face in front of her own face, and her whole body trembled unceasingly, no longer able to utter a single word other than whimpers.

Da Wu glared angrily at him as Gang Tu circled around him with a grim face. Without any hesitation, he raised the bone knife in his hand and slashed him with force.

The women let out sharp wails and the children started crying.

Gang Tu suddenly turned his head back, and the women immediately stilled, shivering as they coaxed their children.

His men rummaged through the cellar and packed almost everything into leather bags, before finally departing with the women and children they had captured, cheering.

At last, there was silence again in the plundered settlement, so silent it seemed like it no longer was earth.

With a trembling hand, Mu Qing touched the noses of the fallen Tiger Tooth, his partner, and Da Wu, one by one.

They were no longer breathing.

They were only guarding themselves against a night attack, thinking that the enemy would raid at night. No one had expected that Gang Tu would lead an attack on the settlement during the daytime.

Mu Qing suddenly hated herself in this moment.

She felt like she should have thought of that possibility, but she didn’t think about it either.

As she was wiping the weeping Youyou’s face with her hand, she realized that she was also crying tears as well.

Translator : Laura

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