Chapter 110 Primal Orc 7
Xie Yunsui's cave would become freezing cold if he didn't stay there for a day.
Fortunately, Xie Yunsui brought back a burning stick, found the firewood he had stored by the wall, and rekindled the fire.
Only then did Xier see the whole picture of the cave.
There weren't many things there. The broad leaves on the ground still bore traces of food. There was a charred patch in the middle, probably where the fire had been started. At the innermost part was a bed of hay, which looked warm.
The more Xier watched, the happier he became.
He was used to living in large communal caves, and this was the first time he lived in a separate cave with only demihumans. Everything seemed so new and wonderful.
Xier jumped up and down excitedly, circling around Xie Yunsui: "Yunsui, Yunsui."
What should I do if my big cat at home is too clingy?
Kiss him, of course.
Xie Yunsui held the cat's head with one hand, kissed it a few times, and said, "Be good, I'll warm up the cave."
He made four fires to warm the ground and stone walls, and finally planned to put one in front of the bed to prevent it from being too cold at night.
"Come and see if this space is enough." Xie Yunsui pushed Xier to lie on the hay, fearing that the fire would be too close and burn his fur at night.
Xierrang did whatever he was told to do, and then fell down on the hay with a thud, his four paws hanging in the air, not daring to move.
Xie Yunsui smiled and said, "Turn over."
Xier turned over as usual, another huge movement.
Xie Yunsui calculated the distance and set up the fire.
Xier just looked at him and liked him more and more.
His subhuman is really good looking, and his skin is very white, just as white as his own hair.
Yun Sui is right, we are really a match made in heaven.
Xieryi Cricket Pupa stood up and gently bit the hide of the demi-human with his teeth. He said, "Come and sleep. You can sleep in my fur and I will block the wind for you."
It was only dark outside, and Xie Yunsui was not used to going to bed so early.
The nights during the snow season are very long, and it’s often dark when you wake up.
Xie Yunsui said, "I still have some things to do. If you're tired, go to bed first."
"Let me help you." Xier said immediately.
He didn't want to sleep, he just wanted to cuddle with his demihuman, or have the demihuman sleep on top of him like yesterday.
Xie Yunsui smiled and said, "Okay, I just want you to do me a favor."
Xier held his head high.
Xie Yunsui took him out to look for stones.
Xie Yunsui had explored the area before and knew of a pile of fallen rocks with all kinds of stones and rubble.
Xie Yunsui wanted to get some stone pots and stone bowls. Eating barbecue all day was too irritating, and he couldn't just keep chewing snow to quench his thirst.
The little bees have detected that these stones are fire-resistant and will not explode after being burned twice.
"Pick some stones like this." Xie Yunsui held up a torch and found a few stones of the style he wanted. After Xier memorized them, he jumped around in the pile of fallen rocks looking for his target.
After a while, the two men returned to the cave with their spoils.
"Are you using this as a stone pot? It's different from the ones in the tribe." Xier tilted his head and watched Xie Yunsui put a large concave stone aside.
Xie Yunsui smiled and said, "This one is not good enough yet. It needs to be polished."
The entrance to the cave was half covered by a large rock, so not much cold wind blew in, leaving half open for ventilation.
Xie Yunsui moved the stones he was going to use to the fire in front of the bed, and asked Xier to lie on the hay bed to serve as a cushion for him.
He placed some stones of similar size in a circle around the fire to block the wind and prevent sparks from flying around. Xie Yunsui picked out a large stone that could be placed flat on the fire and began to grind grooves on it with small stones.
"Sir, are you asleep?"
Xier squinted his eyes: "I won't sleep."
Xie Yunsui leaned against the soft, temperature-controlled cushion and asked him, "You're a tiger beastman, but why isn't there a tiger in your name?"
Although in this world, as long as you fall in love with each other, you can live together, but Xie Yunsui still wants to know more about Xier, so that chatting on boring nights with no other entertainment activities can enhance their relationship.
Xier lowered his head and said, "Because I'm not a complete tiger beastman, Hu Zhao and the others all have a coming-of-age ceremony."
The entertainment activities in tribal life are to hold various ceremonies.
When an adult orc is hunting, he or she will capture a prey alone. Regardless of the size, he or she can then participate in the coming-of-age ceremony and officially declare that he or she has grown up to become a qualified orc warrior.
Of course, the larger the orc warrior captured, the more powerful he is recognized to be, and the more favored he is by the demihumans.
After the coming-of-age ceremony, beastmen can add their beast form before their names.
When Xier was a child, his name was "Xi". He was unable to participate in this ceremony. The tribe did not recognize him as a qualified orc warrior, so he could not add the tiger sound in front of his name. So he added the "er" sound at the end of his name himself.
"That's what Eminem called me when I was a kid," said Sill.
When Xi'er's Eminem was a child, his ending tone was a little strange. Xie Yunsui guessed that it was probably similar to the erhua sound.
"Xi'er's voice is also very good. Unlike Hu Zhao and the others, it's very special the moment you hear it."
Xie Yunsui guided Xier in asking about his past life and quickly carved the desired groove on the large stone in his hand.
He put the stone on the fire to heat it up, and went outside to get a large piece of ice.
The top layer of ice was a little dirty, so Xie Yunsui placed it on a stone slab. The heated stone slab slowly melted the ice, and the melted water slid down the grooves.
Xie Yunsui quickly used a stone with a hole in it to collect the water, and thus a simple water boiling device was made.
The water is not hot, so you can only use it as it is.
The first layer of dirty water is discarded, and there is also loss in the subsequent water boiling process. A large block of ice will only result in a few bowls of water.
Xie Yunsui drank a bowl and gave the rest to Xier to quench his thirst.
The next day, Xie Yunsui woke up early. Four of the five fires had gone out, and only the fire next to the bed still had a little flame.
Xie Yunsui added two pieces of wood and put them in. Xier woke up, sat up and stretched. As he started to move, his stomach growled.
"Are you hungry? Wait until I grill the meat before you eat."
Seeing him roasting the belly meat that was given to him last night, Xier hurriedly said, "I'll eat my share."
Xie Yunsui said, "That little bit of meat you have is not enough. Be good, eat your fill and come with me to work today."
Xier was no match for Xie Yunsui, and he finished the meat with just a few coaxings.
Xie Yunsui was right, he did have a lot of plans for today.
After finding Xier and confirming that we can survive in the valley, the next step is to prepare everything that needs to be prepared.
It may snow heavily again at any time. Before the heavy snow, every minute and every second cannot be wasted.
In the big cave, everyone woke up one after another.
Some people were woken up by the cold. Everyone went to check the fires and found that two of the three fires were extinguished, and only the deepest one still had a few sparks.
"Oh no, I forgot to add more wood."
"The dry wood I picked up yesterday is all used up!"
So everyone rushed out to find wood, and those who stayed in the cave watched it carefully. When someone urgently brought back a piece of wood, he didn't pay attention to the remaining snow on it, and threw the wood into the fire as usual, and then the spark went out.
Everyone was silent for a moment. Chi Yu carefully fiddled with the fire and found that there was indeed no spark at all.
They had encountered such situations many times in previous years, and they just had to borrow some fire from other families. Now they only had one neighbor in the valley, so Hu Zhao immediately went to find Priest Yun and came back after a while.
"The Cloud Priest is not here, and neither is Sil. The fire in the cave is out."
"They're out."
Yesterday everyone was so hungry that they had to eat raw meat that was frozen solid. They had thought that since they had nothing to do today, they could roast the meat, but now that was no longer possible, they had to eat raw meat again.
Without a fire, even locked in a windproof cave, it was so cold that it made people shiver.
After eating the meat, everyone divided the work and went out to collect dry wood, agreeing to come back when the sun was overhead.
The thorns under the snow were annoying. We didn't walk far and didn't gain much in the morning. We finally saw a piece of wood exposed in the snow. We ran over to take a look and found that the wood buried under the snow was wet, rotten and black. If we burned it, there would definitely be thick smoke.
When they came back at noon, they had another meal of raw meat.
It’s strange. The food is so delicious, why are they not enjoying it?
Because of the loss of fire, a vague fear spread in their hearts.
Shi Yan chewed his meat and said, "Dry firewood is so hard to find during the snowy season. The longer we work outside, the hungrier we get. Should we still go out this afternoon?"
This was also what Chi Yu thought. He said, "We will have to meet the Beast God sooner or later. Maybe we won't have to work so hard."
There was another moment of silence in the cave. It was obvious that everyone's thoughts were not entirely the same.
Hu Zhao said, "I want to survive. We have food now, plenty of it. We can survive by just going out and looking for firewood. Why not? When we were in the Golden Tiger Tribe, we didn't have enough to eat every day, but we managed to survive through snowy seasons."
"But this isn't the Golden Tiger Tribe. Without the tribe's protection, how are we going to survive this snowy season?"
"We have cloud priests." Hu Zhao said, "Even the Black Wolf Tribe doesn't have priests, but we do."
Hu Zhao finished his meat and looked at everyone with a gleaming gaze. He said, "Priest Yun can preserve fire and brew herbal juice. He saved my life. I believe he can help us get through this snowy season. I would like to bless the bond ceremony between Priest Yun and Xi'er."
After saying this, he changed into a beast and jumped out to look for firewood.
The rest of the people looked at each other.
Humans are very strange creatures. The tribe has followed traditions for many years, and they accepted them without blinking an eye, resignedly coming to the abandoned valley to wait for death.
But once they came into contact with fire and food again and had hope of life, their determination to wait for death began to waver again.
After the demihumans finished eating, they stood up and said, "Let's go out and look for some wood. What if we can find some? If we don't have any wood, even if Priest Cloud gives us some fire, we won't be able to start a fire."
Several people left one after another, and the number of people left was getting smaller and smaller. It was so cold to stay in the cave anyway, so why not go out and move around? What’s the big deal about the energy consumption? We still have the Luo Luo beast, right?
In the end, even Hu Ji left.
Only Shi Yan and Chi Yu were left in the cave, along with Zu Yang who was silently chewing an apple.
Zuyang can't eat meat, so he can only eat these fruits for two days at most, and then he will have no food left.
He didn't care whether there was fire or not; for him, death would be a matter of a day or two after eating the fruit.
He said to the bewildered orcs and demihumans, "As long as you want to eat, you want to live."
Shi Yan and Chi Yu were stunned when they looked at the beast meat in their hands.
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