"Did I just hear him say he can see the future?" The leader suddenly looked at his companion, seeking confirmation of what he had just heard.
They nodded, and one of them said, "Looks like my ears aren't failing me at all. I heard it clearly too!"
"So that's why the village chief and the elders were respectful to him." They seem to have realized why they are here now. "I see, so this is the reason."
One of them seems to have come to a deeper realization than his friends, as they immediately asked him what he understood.
"It's actually like this. Before we left the village at the village chief's command for this mission, The village was actually in a dangerous situation. An invisible illness is slowly spreading. And we have no cure to treat it."
"What?! How come I did not know that?" The others were shocked to hear that. However, the leader immediately understood. "Of course you won't, because you were so busy hunting that you mostly stayed in the forest than in the village," he said.
"I see. So that's the reason, huh?" They immediately realized it and found it correct. Then they suddenly reacted and thought of something: "Then what is the purpose of this trip? Are we escaping?"
Many of them immediately had a change of expression; their hearts sank as they thought they had been pulled under the deep, suffocating sea at the thought of leaving their loved ones to die in agony. "No! Let's go back."
"Are you an idiot or what? Don't you hear what the old man just said? He can see the future! There's a possibility that he found where the cure can be found!" The leader slapped the one who had just made the whole group almost panic.
What he had just said immediately calmed the restless crowd as they looked at the goods on their backs. Their eyes shone with intelligence as they immediately thought of something: "Are we using this to trade for the cure?".
The old man in front nodded as he said to Nai, "My friend Nai, you heard me and them. Our only purpose of coming here is to exchange our goods for the cure— the miraculous water."
To actually see the future, this world is the real deal! Nai had just realized that there was more for this world to see!
Just the first people he met, and he already came upon a person who had the ability to see the future!
That means those unreal abilities weren't impossible here! Back to the topic, he wasn't shocked by the old man's divulging of his secret. "Okay, but I want all the goods and two of your water buffalos."
"Even if you want them all, we can give them to you." The leader stepped forward and spoke forthrightly. "What's important is our village. We can always have as many as we want of this livestock."
The old man nodded at the man, satisfied by his thinking and decisions. "Good, we can give it to you."
Nai nodded. "Actually, I only need two. A male and a female. The goods too; I want them all."
The old man then made a signal, and two water buffalos bound in the nose by ropes with two carts fully loaded with all kinds of goods passed to Nai.
Nai, in turn, put his two leather bags on his back and opened them. There was twenty kilograms worth of pond water in one of them. Nai passed it on to them.
"Here's the thing you want." Nai said as he looked at them, thinking. They are more civilized than he had thought after seeing their crafts and technology. That means he wasn't in some super primitive era where dinosaur run rampant.
He can rest assured that they were fond of peaceful talks instead of fighting like barbarians. When he thought that he was just a lone man right now, he shudder instinctly. He glanced at them calmly, afraid that they would notice any weakness he has and attract their greed plus evilness.
The old man immediately took it. With a lift, the old man actually lifted up the twenty kilograms worth of water with his old, boney-skinned arms!
Nai was surprised, and so were the old man's companions. There were really more things he had to learn about this world, he thought. However, he wasn't shocked for he can do it too easily.
Even if he was strong, Nai still keep a low profile. At least, prevent any aggressive stance that may cause the others to misunderstand him and mark him as an enemy. For him, this trade is important to connect to their village.
"Hey, checked it for me." The old man ordered the leader beside him. The leader immediately understood what he meant. "This is the miracle water?" He took out a stone knife and injured his hand with a slash.
In the next second, blood flowed down from his injured hand.
The man gritted his teeth in pain, not wanting to cry his voice out at all. "Hurry!"
The old man scooped some water from the bag and poured it on the leader's injured, bloody hand.
In the next few seconds, a miracle occurred. Although Nai had already known the amazing properties of the pond water, he was still surprised by the decisiveness of the natives.
What's more, the scene right now has made him reevaluate the importance of the pond in his home much more. The leader's hand, which had a bloody wound just now, suddenly started healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. "It's working!"
In just a minute, the wound had already disappeared. If not for the blood on his hand, they might have thought of it as an illusion. "It's the cure!" "We found it! Hahaha."
The old man was trembling as he spoke with a stuttering voice. "Quick, We will be returning back today! Protect the bag!" He said it in the most strict voice he had ever mustered in his life. "Carefully." This water is their sole hope for saving the whole village!
The group didn't care about Nai and the old man anymore, as they immediately placed the bag of water into a big basket and placed it on the side of one of the mounts carefully.
The old man knows that it's time to return; he has already found what they want. Although their interaction was short, he came to like Nai's straightforward personality and the way he spoke.
"It's time to leave. Well, visit again if we ever need more. Do you have anything to ask?" Before leaving, he naturally just couldn't go away after the exchange. There's a need to gather information about the lone man in the grassland.
Nai naturally had questions, but he decided to reply first to his first question a while ago. "My home is in that direction; you can see it from here." Pointing his home, Nai suddenly felt something was wrong but he shook it out for now.
The old man nodded as he saw some kind of structure far away. He narrowed his eyes, no one knows what he was thinking.
"My question is, do you have something like this?" Nai pointed at his chest, at the moon's blessing he was wearing.
The old man looked at it closer. Nai didn't back away. Then he saw the old man suddenly wear a shocked expression as he pointed at him. "This?! ....Yeah, you're also like me!"
The old man was shocked, but he was speaking at Nai with a voice only they could hear. Apparently, even the old man knows how important their conversation was.
"You know this?" Nai asked with anticipation. It looks like it wasn't uncommon in this world. So it wasn't a cheat item for him.
"Old man!" The old man nodded at his companions to wait for a bit. He knew they were already restless, so he turned back to Nai as he stared at him before taking out a necklace made from the fangs of some animals from his cape.
He showed it to Nai as he said, "I can feel something special on your thing. It should be the same as mine, though it looks completely different."
After that, Nai explained to him what he could do. There's no need to keep it a secret, as he can't even fully understand what it is. Plus, the old man was also straightforward in revealing his trump card.
He said just now that they were the same. "Yes, I can't take it off when I want it too." The old man just confirmed the same constraints their necklace has. Or he could be lying.
"I see." Then Nai asked many questions before the old man finally left with his companions. Nai bid them farewell, as he knew they had a village to save.
Looking at the direction they were leaving, he suddenly felt this day seemed much more eventful than the daily days he had in the past three years.
After a while of standing dazedly in place, he pulled the two water buffaloes with the carts full of loads back home. "I can see that fate doesn't agree with me leaving this place right now."
When the two water buffalos entered, they passed through his territory and saw the big space of mud not far away where he made mud bricks for architecture.
They immediately slipped out of his hand and walked towards it. Nai immediately undid the carts connected to them to prevent them from taking the goods as they swam along the mud too.
Nai wiped the sweat from his forehead as he looked around him helplessly and said, "Home sweet home." He still came back huh.