Little Gian didn't mind the words of Kunzi.
The two of them had been friends since a long time and were brothers in crime. Besides it had indeed been his fault that they had been captured that time.
"I'll make sure that I don't make the mistake again." Little Gian stated.
"Good. Now watch the surroundings while I prepare more things. I can only do so much without any materials." Kunzi replied before getting to work.
He sat back down and picked up slabs of stones that were roughly shaped like a square. If one looked closely though, they would see that there was actually a small crystal in the center of the stone slab.
The crystal was pale white in color and looked similar to spirit stones. But at the same time, there were no spirit Qi fluctuations coming from it.
Kunzi held the stone slab between his palms and channel his energy into it. A couple minutes later, he put the stone slab down. The pale white crystal on it had increased in size slightly and cracks were also present around its edges now.
'If only I had proper materials I would have been able to make better talismans. I can only use this crude method for now…' Kunzi thought to himself before picking up another stone slab.
While he did this, Little Gian was peeking his head out of the hole and watched the surroundings.
The camp of the Haima Tribe scouts was a few kilometer away and also behind a large boulder so Little Gian could not see it. But he did know those strange people were still observing them.
Kunzi had been preparing so that they could fight against them better, but to do that they needed more time.
There was no saying when they would be attacked, thus they needed to be fast.
'Are there really no humans other than us here? What happened to the ones that arrived before us?' Little Gian wondered.
While doing this thought, he suddenly felt like something flickered at from the corner of his eye.
"Huh?" His eyes narrowed, and he gazed in the distance, finding things to be normal.
'Was that rock always there?' Little Gian shook his head. "Everything looks the same here…"
But just to confirm it, he spread out his spirit sense. Taking Kunzi's advice Little Gian didn't forget to be thorough and checked the rock that he had seen too.
~shua~
His spirit sense probed the rock, finding it to be normal. There was nothing behind it and neither was there anything in it. It was just… rock.
~Phew~
'Nothing there.' Little Gian took a breath of relief.
He then turned around to look in the other direction. After all, they were in a hole, so anything could come from a 360 degree angle and every spot needed to be monitored. And since he wasn't as talented with spirit sense as Kunzi, Little Gian depended on his eyes more.
A couple minutes later, Little Gian turned around again, repeating the cycle.
"Huh?" But this time he felt like he had really seen something.
"What happened?" Kunzi heard the Little Gian's voice and stopped his task.
"Can you come up here a second?" Little Gian wondered if he was mistaken.
Kunzi stood up and looked out of the hole.
"Do you see those three rocks?" Little Gian pointed.
"Yeah, what about them?" Kunzi asked. "Did you see someone there?"
"No… but I think there were only two rocks just a minute ago." Little Gian replied.
"Two rocks?" Kunzi said in confusion. "Let me check." He narrowed his eyes and extended his spirit sense.
It traveled quickly and soon reached the three rocks that Little Gian had pointed.
All of them were unassuming and easily melded in the vast barren landscape of the Land of Exile.
This was another thing that caused a lot of people to die. They would simply get lost due to a lack of markers. Even if they had found a source of water, they would have to run away due to Chasm beasts eventually, and then they weren't able to find their way back.
"Did you find anything?" Little Gian questioned.
"No… they seem to be fine. They're just rocks." Kunzi said having checked them with his spirit sense.
"Guess I was just mistaken then." Little Gian replied.
"Hmm…" Kunzi hummed in response and was just about to sit back down, when he thought of something. "Hang on, did you see anything like this before?" he asked just in case.
"No. I did feel like some rock had appeared where it was not before, but when I checked it was fine." Little Gian answered, evoking doubts in Kunzi.
"Where was that rock?" Kunzi questioned.
"There," Little Gian pointed in the distance.
Kunzi followed his gaze and saw the unassuming rock lying there lifelessly. His spirit sense extended once more, but came up with the same conclusion.
It was just a rock.
"Strange…" Kunzi didn't find anything there either, but he felt like there was still something wrong.
It wasn't normal for Little Gian to feel mistaken twice in a row that too in a short period of time.
While he may seem a little silly, one mustn't forget the man was still a Dao Shell realm cultivator and had good senses.
"Let me confirm it just in case." Kunzi said and bent down to pick up something.
Little Gian watched him pick up one of the stone slabs.
"Huh, what are you doing with that?" Little Gian asked in confusion, but the realized. "Don't tell me you are going to use one right away?" he knew just how much effort it took to make those.
"Better safe than sorry. We don't know what kind of dangers hide here, it may be something unknown that can hide well." Kunzi said before lifting his hand back and throwing the stone slab.
~shua~
The stone slab soared through the air and accurately landed where the three rocks were located.
A couple seconds later though, it activated.
~BOOM~
