Chapter 38 (1/2)

The crowd immediately split into groups of dozens of people. Under Li’s lead, they took a large number of arrows and walked deeper into the fog.

“Rui, what should we do, meow?”

The great battle was about to occur. As a result, Yuan couldn’t help but feel a bit nervous.

Fu Rui patted her on the back to appease her. Then, he said, “The rest of you, take out your spears and set up defenses at the newly built watchtower in the village. Once you find any traces of porcupine scouts, shoot them down without mercy!”

“Yes, Lord Village Chief!”

The village had covered a large area during this period of construction.

Under the cover of the dense fog, it was very difficult to judge the entire area with one’s vision alone.

However, there were pros and cons to this.

They could not see what was happening outside. However, it was definitely the same for the porcupine scouts.

With limited vision, the effect of the traps would be infinitely magnified.

The trenches outside the village would be the slaughterhouse for the porcupine scouts.

All that was left was to wait.

Fu Rui took out the bamboo whistle again and blew a combination of a long whistle and a short whistle. Then, he blew another two whistles.

These two prefixes represented the two teams. The whistle was a signal for Xia and Wei Wei to retreat and lead their subordinates back to the village.

To prevent them from losing their way in the fog, he would blow a whistle every once in a while. On the eighth blow, Wei Wei finally appeared not far away.

“How’s the situation?” Fu Rui hurriedly asked.

Wei Wei had been running throughout. Thus, she was exhausted and out of breath. “It’s… it’s the scouts from the porcupine tribe. They’re here, assembling just outside the trenches.”

Yuan quickly handed her a glass of water.

Wei Wei finished it in one gulp and took a few deep breaths before calming down.

Fu Rui was not in a hurry after hearing Wei Wei’s message.

However, Xi Xi couldn’t help but feel curious upon seeing his calm expression. “The porcupine tribe is just outside your village. What are you going to do about it?”

“I’m going to ignore them.”

“Did you ask Li to bring some people out because you knew that the village was going to fall?” Xi Xi speculated.

Fu Rui’s gaze suddenly became sharp and he raised his head, “If you have good intentions for the beast-eared tribe, I advise you not to disturb the morale of the tribe.”

Xi Xi’s aura was instantly greatly diminished by his powerful glare. “Why are you so fierce? Hmph…”

Fu Rui ignored her and closed his eyes to rest.

After a while, Xia returned with her team.

The news she brought was similar to Wei Wei’s. A large number of members from the porcupine tribe had gathered outside. There were at least a few hundred porcupines present, several times more than them.

The good news was that the enemy’s vanguard army had been killed in batches by the trenches outside, causing heavy casualties.

The other party must have heard Fu Rui’s whistle and moved towards their position, thus falling into the hidden traps.

This was all part of Fu Rui’s plan. He waited for a while more. About ten minutes later, urgent whistles came from the north of the village.

It still meant that they needed reinforcements. Thus, Fu Rui waved his hand. “Let’s go meet the porcupine tribe!”

More than twenty beast-eared girls mightily followed him.

Everyone was equipped with two spears, but no bows.

“Roar!”

They could hear the porcupine scouts shouting from afar.

Immediately after, there was the sound of metal objects hitting the barriers.

The beast-eared females on the watchtowers nearby began throwing spears to defend themselves, but there were little results.

The porcupine scouts’ backs were filled with spikes. They were offensive, but also provided strong defensive capabilities.

Every time the beast-eared females raised their spears and threw the spears at them, they would curl up their bodies and use their hardest parts to block the attacks.