Nezha's escape (3)

Nezha thought of going back to confirm thing with the patriarch, but he hesitated and wanted to lead all the people to the base of the cave first.

From the map, the base of the cave was large enough for everyone to rest and there also a pond running with fresh water suitable for the resting place.

Nezha saw his men looking exhausted and believe that was the base option. He was the one with a map and there was the problem of trust with this new guest. He too also felt exhausted after walking through the cave, there was a lack of sleep on his and everybody face as the departure was done in the evening.

"Did anyone learn about the biological clock trick?" Nezha asked from the group whether anyone learn the trick.

Biological clock trick was not a spell, it was more of martial art where people used a force of nature they gathered inside the body to determine the time. It was an easy-to-learn skill but also useless skill in most situation, many people did not waste their time learning lowly servant skill, unless they were commoner or prepare to be servant from the start.

Since people could learn this skill at any time in their life, most of younger people in the sect did not care to bother until they grew up but could not join the rank yet still wanted to be on the mountain.

Even Nezha did not bother learning as he did not like watching the water dropping a few hours every day for a week, it was a waste of time when there were many new things to learn.

There was no one responding to Nezha's question since he could not use the trick to accurately estimated the time he roughly guessed that the time should be around two or three o'clock. The time that most people started to lose against their sleepiness.

"Everybody, let's us hurry and rest at the base. We are close and it would not take to much time." Nezha looked at the map, stopped hesitating and told the group to hurry to the base.

The Akkee sect young people began to move again and after an hour had passed, they arrived at the base and prepare for a camp. Some started to munch the provision they received, some did not bother putting a camp and just slept on the floor like that, it was not surprising that they forget to put people on night guard.

If it was the forest or other cave with a sign of predators, these groups of greenhorns would easily get attacked by night-hunting animals.

In the worst case, they would fall under the attack of most ferocious predators, a human. It was true that under the attack of predators, death may await but only attacked by bandits a fate worse than death was await, especially for women.

An irony for Akkee sect escapee who had to run from the empire invasion was that the empire did not have that many bandits. In another point of view, Akkee sect who did not obey the words of a supreme ruler was the mountain bandits instead.

While Nezha was preparing the resting place for his mother, the man who was his biological father came to him and asked him with an easy going attitude. Nezha did not like this guy at all, it was to the point that he almost wanted to kill the man himself, yet he was a reincanator who was living in a peaceful world before he came here and his experience in killing people was zero.

Also, the man was his biological father, how could a pious Buddhist like him killed his own father?

"Shut up! Get out of my sight! My mother needs a rest, having someone like you here only make her health worse." Nezha berated the man, chasing him away.

"Eh! Such an unfilial child, I never remember I thought you this way." In the opposite, the man did not get away and tried to inquire on the thing he was curious about, the treasures of the Akkee sect.

"Thought me this way! How dare you?" Nezha was angry at the man's words, he did not even receive any teaching from the man yet this man reproached his manner.

"I was not a good father before, but now that the situation becomes like this why don't we repair our relation now." The man spoke of repairing the relationship between them, he really wanted to.

However, that did not come from his goodwill. It was true that he did not hate Nezha but he did not treat Nezha any better than air. He even did not remember Nezha's name until he heard it from his nephew just a moment ago when they met. He was lucky as the cave was not complicated but that was pure luck, it was too terrible when he did not know the right way and could end up dead.

"Why don't you let me look at the map and told me what I need to know. Well, you see father just push me here without explaining anything. It seems he afraid that you will reject if you see me. He even sends me an order by a letter instead of talking with me for the last time, you know." One thing for sure, the man acting skill was top notch.

"Nezha, don't only tell the third uncle. You should tell me too, I somehow become sort of the girls' leader. I believe that I should know."

Seeing his cousin too wanted to know more about the patriarch order, Nezha reluctantly told about the origin of the Akkee sect and the story so far.

Nezha also told them about the next course of actions, since he too could not decide a good place for retreat. He knew only that the ancestor recorded of the others two black hair black eyes tribe, the Juan and the Wa.

Nezha was amusing that his ancestor in this world did not dismiss their attitude even when they faced with such a new environment. The Juan was an alternate Chinese name for the Rouran which was an old enemy of Chinese after the Xiongnu meaning an unpleasantly wriggling insects, while the Wa was an alternate Chinese name for the Japanese meaning shorty.

He did not tell the secret formula but he did not hide the existence of them either. Although he knew the effect of gunpowder and its advantage he came from the place where black powder was nothing and did not think much about it.

However, the other two were shocked by the things they just knew.