Chapter Fourteen: Dwarves Appeared

Yes, there was a trap set on the open ground in front of Chen Ming.

The sound came from a rabbit trapped in the trap.

Its right leg was tightly held by the trap, unable to escape.

Chen Ming walked slowly towards it. When the rabbit saw him, it struggled even more fiercely, and blood started to seep from its right leg.

Without directly attacking the rabbit, he squatted down to examine the craftsmanship of the trap.

After a brief observation, Chen Ming found that the trap was very well-crafted and did not look like an ordinary item.

He accessed the system interface to check.

[Fine Trap (Silver Grade): Well-crafted, capable of controlling prey for a long time, terrifying biting force.]

It was actually a Silver Grade trap!

Chen Ming forcibly suppressed the idea of claiming the trap as his own, then slowly backed away.

As he left, he also carefully erased his footprints.

He quietly hid behind a big tree, sticking his head out cautiously to observe.

From the injury on the rabbit's right leg, it had been trapped for some time, indicating that the trap had been there for a while.

The owner would definitely come to collect it, and then he would know the true identity of his "neighbor"!

Time passed quietly.

In the blink of an eye, half an hour had passed.

Just as Chen Ming was thinking whether the owner would come again tomorrow morning, there was finally some movement in the distance.

In an instant, Chen Ming's whole body tensed up, leaning against the big tree, using the surrounding bushes as cover, looking towards the direction of the trap.

Half a minute later, two figures arrived at the trap one after the other. When they saw the rabbit inside, they were ecstatic, shouting words that Chen Ming couldn't understand. When he saw the appearance of the two, Chen Ming was shocked, his eyes widened in surprise.

These two people were very short, about 1.2 meters tall, with quite a bit of flesh on them, clear muscle lines on their arms, long beards on their faces, and each holding a large hammer in their right hand.

Dwarves!

In an instant, Chen Ming guessed their identity.

Indeed, they were the local indigenous people, but he didn't know their strength or scale!

Guided by Chen Ming's comment, the two dwarves picked up the captured rabbit, moved the trap to a different location, and then headed back with their catch.

After about twenty seconds, Chen Ming followed their footprints and caught up quickly.

He wanted to confirm the scale of the dwarves!

Being prepared mentally, he tracked them while marking the way. Soon, a small hill appeared in front of him.

At the foot of the hill, there was a small tribe. Chen Ming briefly assessed their scale, about 50-70 people, a relatively large number!

"Oh, this mountain?"

Suddenly, Chen Ming's peripheral vision caught sight of another mountain beside the tribe, with about ten caves on it, where dwarves were shuttling back and forth with small carts.

Some carts were golden, and some were silver.

By their colors, Chen Ming quickly recognized the contents of the carts.

Gold and iron ore!

All were resources he lacked!

Judging from the number of caves, the dwarves had been mining this mountain for a while, and there was probably a large storage of gold and iron in the tribe!

If he could take it all for himself, the benefits would be enormous!

But he quickly suppressed that idea. Ridiculous!

If he dared to steal, and the dwarves found the resources missing, they would definitely go crazy.

Who knows, they might not even spare his own little hut!

Dealing with the dwarves required careful planning.

After considering his strategy, Chen Ming slowly retreated, returning along the same path back to his little hut.

"Woah woah woah!"

Before he could even walk out for a quarter of an hour, a piercing voice suddenly sounded beside him.

Chen Ming quickly turned around and saw an adult dwarf with a backpack shouting and waving a hammer in his hand.

"Darn it!"

Seeing the dwarf coming at him with the hammer, Chen Ming cursed silently and quickly ran away in the opposite direction.

He didn't expect there would be other dwarves on this path, and he had been discovered carelessly!

As for the fight?

Glancing at the thick arms of the dwarf, Chen Ming gave up directly.

How could he possibly win this?!

To avoid revealing the direction of his hut, he had no choice but to plunge in another direction.

To lighten his burden while running, he put away his stone axe in his backpack and sped up to shake off the dwarf behind him.

Unfortunately, the dwarf seemed familiar with the terrain and kept on tailing him closely.

Chased for about half an hour, Chen Ming felt like his lungs were about to burst.

However, the situation of the dwarf behind him was not good either. Gasping for air, his speed was noticeably slower. The dwarves had strong explosive power, but they were weak in endurance.

Soon, Chen Ming stopped, took out his water bottle from the bag, took a few big gulps, stood in place to calm his breathing, then took out his stone axe again.

After finishing these actions, the dwarf had come within ten meters of him.

Seeing Chen Ming suddenly stop, the dwarf also slowed down, continuously waving his hammer in his hand.

"Watch the axe!"

Chen Ming wouldn't give the dwarf a chance to catch his breath, striking first with his axe.

The distance of ten meters passed in an instant.

This place was quite far from the gathering point of the dwarves and even further from his hut.

Moreover, after the dwarf had been running for a long time, his physical strength must have declined significantly, and his strength was surely not as strong as before.

He didn't want to miss such a great opportunity!

Before the dwarf could catch his breath, Chen Ming's axe had reached him.

Seeing this scene, the dwarf hurriedly tried to defend but was already too late to react!

His remaining strength couldn't support him to react in a short time.

The stone axe struck hard on the dwarf's right leg, a stream of blood spurted out.

Hitting his target, Chen Ming quickly moved back, not giving the dwarf a chance to counterattack.

"Woah woah woah!"

In pain from the leg injury, the dwarf subconsciously grabbed his wound with both hands.

The hammer in his hand dropped to the ground.

"Die!"

Taking advantage of his weakness!

Chen Ming showed no mercy as he mercilessly struck down with the stone axe.