I am the one running the game

Chapter 514: Insect Infestation Outside the Hunting Area
Lu Xingshi and Wo packed their bags and set off quickly.

The larvae of the blood copper beetle were frozen by some kind of totem magic. They would be fine even if they didn't eat or drink for a month. When they arrived at the Fire Copper Tribe, the witch of their tribe would be able to unseal them herself.

"I heard that after Ke came back, his face looked very ugly when he found out that you were arranged by Hui to go to the Fire Copper Tribe to exchange for Fire Copper." Wo said with some gloating.

"When did he come back? How come I didn't know?" Lu Xingshi thought that Ke had run away, but he didn't expect that he actually came back.

After all, he left in a sneaky manner, which was not much different from committing a crime and running away.

"He came back when you and Hui went to the tunnel behind the tribe to catch larvae."

"You came to me as soon as you caught me, so you definitely didn't meet."

"But this kid is really lucky. I don't know where he picked up a piece of blood copper. After eating it, he actually developed bloodline abilities." There was envy on Snail's face.

"Oh, he has always had good luck." Lu Xingshi was not surprised. The other party really had great willpower and ate it directly. He thought he would wait until the blood concentration was higher before taking it.

Snail was chattering to Lu Xingshi about things in the tribe, but Lu Xingshi also knew about these things.

The Tongshu tribe is quite small, and he helps with various tasks every day, so he can hear a lot of gossip.

However, once gossip is spread, it can easily become an outrageous version. Fortunately, there are not many people, otherwise it will become a different news from one end of the village to the other.

"But I always feel like there's something odd about Ke." Wo opened his mouth and brought the topic back to Ke.

"Strange? Where?" Lu Xingshi asked puzzledly. He knew there was something wrong with Ke, but how could an eight-year-old man tell?

"I feel like he wants to kill me." Snail hesitated and expressed his thoughts.

This made Lu Xingshi frown. Wo dared to say this only when they were far away from the Tongshu tribe, and when Lu Xingshi was alone. Otherwise, in the tribe, he would just treat it as an accident.

"He wants to kill you? That shouldn't be the case. You haven't offended him."

"Do you have any ideas?" Lu Xingshi continued to ask.

Although Ke was a loner, he was not bullied. The bullies were too disappointing, so after a while, no one wanted to play with him anymore and gradually ignored him.

It’s not that everyone hasn’t looked for him, but he just doesn’t want to interact with them. So what else can we do? We can’t just stick our heads in the cold shoulder.

Furthermore, life is indeed less when you are a minor, but it is not zero, and no one wants to play with an indifferent person after finishing work.

It's not like I owe him anything.

As time went by, Ke became more and more withdrawn.

As for the adults in the tribe? They live longer, and the entire tribe is like a free-range situation. For the livelihood of the entire tribe, how can they have the time to take care of these things?

"No, it's just a feeling." Wo said in embarrassment. He really had no clues or evidence, not even any ideas.

"Then just ignore him. You can't just do something just because you feel the same way." Lu Xingshi smiled.

He was not telling the truth. Wo's perception was indeed sharp and he could actually detect Ke's malicious intentions.

Lu Xingshi suspected that Ke might have intercepted Wo's opportunity, and that this opportunity was not small, so he was worried about it being leaked, which led to his malicious intent.

The initial guess is that it was Ke who obtained the qualifications of a witch, and this opportunity might have originally belonged to Wo.

But now that he had obtained it, he couldn't take it out now. It was impossible for Lu Xingshi to break up with Ke over something that had no evidence to support it.

If we really want to bring it up, it is actually a complete fabrication.

"Yeah, maybe it's my illusion."

"I had this feeling for a period of time after my bloodline awakened, and then it gradually disappeared." When Wo heard what Lu Xingshi said, he felt a little uncomfortable, but he also let go of some of his thoughts.

The two soon left the hunting range of the Tongshu tribe. After leaving here, everything was unknown.

They had never left. In fact, most people in the tribe had never left the Copper Tree Tribe and its hunting range. Their understanding of everything depended on this.

They can't even make a living, so it's impossible for them to think about poetry and distant places. What they have to consider is filling their stomachs and granaries.

Before he had taken two steps, Lu Xingshi suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" Snail asked puzzledly.

Lu Xingshi did not answer, but his eyes fell on the roots of the trees exposed above the soil.

"The roots of the tree are hollow." Lu Xingshi said as he squatted down and pulled. Only a layer of bark remained of the originally raised roots, and the inside was empty, as if it had been completely eaten away by something.

“This thing only eats tree roots.”

After checking several more trees, Lu Xingshi came to a conclusion.

"What kind of ferocious beast is this? Why is it so cruel?" Snail was also a little bit unbelievable.

"It must be an insect. I suspect that the other eye of the blood copper beetle queen was probably blinded by this insect beast." Lu Xingshi responded and picked up the remaining bark of the tree root to examine it carefully. He could see some kind of bite mark on it.

"No, no..." Lu Xingshi overturned it again.

This is not a single insect-like beast, but a group of insect-like beasts. They are not large in size but extremely numerous.

Just now he thought it was a larva eating and growing, but now it seems that is not the case. It looks more like a swarm of locusts passing through.

However, compared to locusts, the diet of these insect beasts is extremely limited. They only choose to eat tree roots instead of trees.

"The good news is that this group of insect-like beasts left by passing through our tribe's hunting area and did not enter our tribe's territory."

Based on the traces formed by many tree roots, Lu Xingshi calculated that this group of insect-like beasts had been gone for some time, and there was no Bronze Tree Tribe in their route.

"Then should we go and remind them?" Snail said worriedly.

"No need. We have already left. There is no need for us to go back." Lu Xingshi responded.

It has already happened, why remind me? Wouldn't it be very embarrassing if I end up fighting a battle of wits with the air?

"It won't be too late to talk about it after we return from the Fire Copper Tribe. It's not a big deal anyway."

"Also, even if you encounter them, don't worry too much. This group of unknown insect beasts will probably only eat tree roots."

"If they really wanted to eat meat, they wouldn't have missed even a skeleton of another beast. They couldn't have eaten all the bones."

"And there have been no problems with hunting these days, which means that the number of ferocious beasts in the hunting area has not decreased." Lu Xingshi came to this conclusion based on the data at hand.

"Lu, what if this group of ferocious beasts are circling the forest to devour, and we just didn't encounter them." Snail said worriedly.

When Lu Xingshi heard this, he also fell silent.

"Then we can't just walk around the hunting area...it will take a long time to finish the walk."

"You and I can hold on, but the larvae of the blood-copper beetles can't." Lu Xingshi also noticed something, but the problem is that unless he turns back, he can't solve it now.

What he couldn't wait for was not only the larvae of the blood copper beetles, but also the top-level fire copper of the Fire Copper Tribe. If he was a step late and it was eaten by others, Lu Xingshi would suffer a great loss.

"Okay, then wait until I come back." Snail did not continue to argue with Lu Xingshi. Just as Lu Xingshi said, it doesn't eat people, so what could happen? Besides, it has not entered the hunting area, so the impact is not big and can be ignored.

Otherwise, if you are too serious, there are all kinds of unknowns not only outside the hunting area, but also inside the hunting area. Isn't everyone just muddling along?

However, although Lu Xingshi said that it didn't matter, he kept the matter in mind. It would not be too late to investigate it when he came back next time.

"Let's go, let's go and come back quickly, don't delay on the way."

After noticing something strange, Lu Xingshi no longer had much thought of walking slowly. He just wanted to make a quick decision to avoid any unexpected events.

Wo naturally had no objection, but when Lu Xingshi started running, he almost couldn't keep up.

"It's worthy of being a bronze bloodline of perfect concentration, and it also has bloodline abilities accompanying it. It's indeed extraordinary." Snail sighed.

Compared with Lu Xingshi's, his bronze bloodline was so inferior that it was embarrassing. You have to know that Lu Xingshi had only guided his bloodline through the totem once, while it was his third time, but the gap was still so huge.

...

"Top-grade fire copper..." Ke gritted his teeth. When he heard Hui arrange for Lu and Wo to go to the Fire Copper Tribe to exchange blood copper beetle larvae for fire copper, his face turned very ugly.

Of course he knew about this matter. It had caused a lot of uproar in his previous life. Later, this piece of top-grade fire copper disappeared. It was said that it was intercepted by people from the Silver Royal Court and later fell back into the hands of the Bronze Royal Court.

However, now, it is taken away before any trouble even arises, and there will definitely be no follow-up.

"But judging by the time, the White Disaster should have finished its first round of feeding and started to hibernate."

"The Black Disaster may have already lurked underground..."

Thinking of this, he was terrified. The two disasters of black and white were the culprits that destroyed the Tongshu tribe.

The Black Disaster is a huge underground beast, while the White Disaster is a swarm of insects only the size of a thumb.

These two disasters not only destroyed the Copper Tree Tribe, but also many surrounding tribes. However, the Copper Tree Tribe was the first to be destroyed, and later even severely damaged the Bronze Court. If the Bronze Court had not defeated the Gold and Silver Courts at that time, the outcome would be uncertain.

"There is still time. I hope Lu will bring back the top-grade Fire Copper instead of eating it on the way." A gleam of light appeared in Ke's eyes. He would then take away the Fire Copper and leave the Copper Tree Tribe.

It is worth leaving the tribe early for this top-grade fire copper.

As for being eaten, well…there was nothing he could do about it.

This piece of top-grade fire copper was actually within his reach, but he did not expect that Lu Xingshi would have such a coincidence, and with Hui's help, this disrupted his plan.

He didn't even have time to react and he missed it.

(End of this chapter)