Book 1: Chapter 174

Book 1: Chapter 174

I told Liu Sang that the sound of the wind blowing through the snakeskins was definitely different from how it blew through the animal skins. Although it was almost unnoticeable, his ears were so good that he should be able to hear the sound of snakeskins or animal skins in the distance.

Liu Sang looked at me like I was an idiot, but I merely looked back at him and said, This is the only way.

He sighed, I can't hear it. I can only gather information that comes from the sounds I hear. When theres no sound, I'm just like you.

"Try harder." I patted him. "The world is most afraid of those who are serious." (1) Then I started shaking the nearby branches so that the animal skins sounded like they were blowing in the wind. "Come on, listen carefully."

Liu Sang rolled his eyes at me. I kept shaking the skins every which way, but he completely ignored me.

When I finally stopped, he said to me, "Can you be more serious? I already told you that I can't hear it. Theres no wind here. I could try it if there was wind."

I looked at his expression and realized that he really couldn't hear it. I sighed and looked at Kan Jian, who took out a mud ball from his pocket and knocked it against the tree until it broke into fragments. He then shot them directly at the animal skins.

These mud fragments hit the animal skins with a very dull sound before rolling down.

"You just need to remember this sound," I said as I patted him.

Our group of four set out and started walking through the tree canopies. Kan Jian thought the paraglider might still be useful, so he packed it away. Liu Sang sighed again. He obviously still didnt agree with my methods.

There was a cliff just two meters away from the tree, and under the cliff was even more dense forest that was full of miasma.

It was a valley within a valley.

No wonder someone wanted to paraglide down.

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TN Notes:

(1) Its apparently the first part of a quote from Mao Zedongs 1957 speech to students at Moscow University. According to google, the full quote is something like: the world is afraid of those who are serious, and the Communist Party is the most serious."

(2) I think fairy trees () are hawthorn or ash trees. Or they might be part of the mint family? Science is not my forte lol.

(3) Wu Xie's over here like:

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So, episode-wise, this is the best I can do: Episode 15 18:43-21:00. Instead of them finding it themselves, sexy man spills the beans to Wu Xie. Our chapters-long adventure was reduced to like 3 minutes in the drama