The spring thunder awakens the hibernating insects.
During the Awakening of Insects, the first spring thunder rumbles. It wakes the small creatures that hibernated underground all winter, and they now begin to stir.
Li Xiang set out as well. It was a good time to scour the mountain.
He rose at two in the morning and set out without a sound. His figure was like a phantom; not even the dogs or the Little Fox noticed.
Passing the mountain peak of his previous "secret base," Li Xiang stopped. He moved aside the massive, seven- to eight-hundred-pound Stone that blocked the entrance and slipped inside.
'As expected, just digging a hole like this won't work. It's too damp.'
It was still very dry when he'd come last year. But after the continuous spring rain these past few days, water was now seeping through in many places inside the cave.
