In the valley, Wu Tie sat on a large stone.
The big leader lay sprawled unconscious in the grass, all four limbs broken, knocked out brutally by Wu Tie.
Several mischievous grasshoppers hopped happily through his tangled hair.
Wu Tie squinted his eyes, sitting quietly, gazing at the forest not far away.
Between three large trees, beneath a slightly raised mound of earth, the burrow of a yellow-skinned rat was faintly visible.
Wu Tie counted on his fingers in secret.
About 120 zhang away, in the bushes, five red honey fruit trees had been ripe for three days.
In another fifteen minutes, the pair of yellow-skinned rats inside the burrow—a male and a female—would leave their den to harvest the red honey fruits.
Of course, there was another possibility.
Based on Wu Tie’s observations, the female yellow-skinned rat might give birth today.
If that were the case, at the break of dawn this morning, only the male would leave the burrow to gather food.
Now, this made things interesting.
Eighty zhang away in the grass, a bronze-spotted tiger snake had been lurking for three days and nine hours and 45 minutes.
It had been eyeing the small male yellow-skinned rat hungrily, but because of the presence of the plump female, the snake hadn’t dared to strike.