Yagu curled his lips and said, "Tsk tsk~ I didn't expect this golden lion to react so quickly."

He lowered his head slightly and saw Ji Nuan's face showing an unconcealable joy. He lowered his head and looked at her coldly with mockery: "You want this lion to save you? Ha~"

After all, he actually looked at Ji Nuan with some mockery.

"Dolly, you go stop the lion! I will take the female back!" Yagu looked up and said to a big tree.

Then, Ji Nuan was stunned to see a huge, long-haired gorilla jumping down from the tree canopy and transforming into a tall orc with thick body hair.

The beastman named Dolly glanced at Ji Nuan in surprise, then ran towards the place where Ge Tai had just roared with his strong legs.

Watching Dolly's figure gradually disappearing into the distance, Ya Gu still picked up Ji Nuan, who looked a little depressed, and swam forward quickly.

"Don't even think about it. I will not let you go back, and no orc will be able to save you from my Yagu."

Ji Nuan gave up struggling and obediently let the snake-beast man roll her forward.

Around noon, the snake-beast man put Ji Nuan down by a small river, shook his thick snake tail covered with black scales, and then he completely transformed into a tall and gentle beastman about 1.9 meters tall.

But Ji Nuan would not be deceived by his appearance. She could see clearly the coldness that flashed in the beastman's eyes from time to time.

"Stay here and don't go anywhere. I'm going hunting."

After saying that, he bent down, with a cold smile on his face: "Don't try to run away. Believe me, you can't run faster than me."

After saying this, he turned around and walked towards the jungle without paying any attention to Ji Nuan's ugly expression.

The snake-beast man disappeared into the jungle, and a cunning look flashed in Ji Nuan's eyes.

She stood up and gathered a pile of dry firewood. She took a small stick sharpened with a stone, stepped on a thick stick to fix it, smashed a small hole, and started to make fire.

The weather was hot, and even though the moisture in the dead branches had almost evaporated, it still took Ji Nuan nearly 15 minutes to make the down grass around the pit begin to emit clouds of steam.

Then, the tender little flame began to ignite, shaking its little body timidly.

Carefully, he put the dry firewood he had collected back on the rack, and the flames, fueled by sufficient fuel, gradually grew larger.

When Yagu came back from killing a humming beast, he saw a pile of fire burning in front of the little female cub.

His pupils suddenly shrank and he quickly dropped the prey in his hand. His legs turned into a thick snake tail, which wrapped around the little female cub and retreated far away.

"How could there be a fire here? Won't you leave after seeing the fire?" Yagu's tone was a little solemn. Fire is a very precious and scary thing. It can keep the beastmen warm in winter, but it can also easily take away many lives.

Ji Nuan struggled for a moment, and there was no panic in her tone: "Don't worry, I was the one who started the fire, let me go."

"What!" Yagu was shocked. Did this little female just say that she was the one who created the fire?

Although he was confused, Ya Gu still let go of Ji Nuan and turned back to his legs.

Ji Nuan walked back to the fire and added a few more pieces of firewood.

She turned her head and looked at Yagu who was standing far away. "I don't eat raw meat. Please give me my piece of meat. I can make barbecue myself."

There was still fear of fire in Yagu's eyes. He nodded, picked up the Hengheng beast thrown aside, and walked towards the river.

“If you also want to eat barbecue, you can bring your portion over, but don’t eat too much, or I can’t grill it.” Ji Nuan stood up and said to Ya Gu.

He looked at the little female cub with some surprise, and felt a little wary of her sudden change of attitude.

"Yeah." He responded in a low voice while calmly lowering his head to deal with the prey.

"Then I'll go collect some cumin nuts. Mashing them into a paste and brushing them on the barbecue will be delicious." When she was collecting firewood, she saw a cumin tree not far to the right.

A dozen meters away, Ji Nuan placed the cumin fruits she had collected on a clean stone slab and mashed them into a puree. While mashing, she opened a small hole in the small animal skin package around her waist and shook some green powder into it.

After dealing with the prey, Yagu carried the cleaned humming beast to a meter away from the fire, placed the prey on the large leaves laid out by Ji Nuan, stretched out his right hand, and sharp nails instantly appeared on the tops of his five fingers.

With a wave of his fingers, a huge humming beast was cut into pieces of appropriate size.

Ji Nuan was stunned watching from the side. Who could tell her where a snake's sharp claws came from...

Variant?

Twitching her lips, Ji Nuan expressed awe for this magical world.

Take a piece of beast meat from the big leaf, put it on the wooden stick, and place both sides on the wooden frame.

The flames kept flickering, and the bright red meat made a sizzling sound as fat burned. Oil droplets dripped into the fire along the fat and tender pieces of meat, emitting waves of tempting barbecue aroma.

When the meat was golden brown and shiny, Ji Nuan took it down from the wooden rack, used a large leaf to dip the mashed cumin into the meat and brushed it little by little on the barbecue, turning it to make sure every part was brushed before putting the meat back on the rack.

Now, the already fragrant barbecue has an even more exotic and strong aroma because of the cumin puree.

Ji Nuan often uses cumin nuts as food. Although he also salivates over the smell, he has developed a certain resistance to the aroma.

Yagu on the other side was looking at the sizzling barbecue on the fire with shining eyes. His Adam's apple kept rolling up and down, and the sound of "gulp gulp" of swallowing saliva was heard incessantly, which made Ji Nuan laugh secretly in her heart.

With a smile in his eyes, he handed the barbecue in his hand to Yagu: "You can eat it first, I'll roast another piece, it will be quick."

Yagu didn't hesitate to take the barbecue from Ji Nuan's hand. He didn't care about the scalding temperature and took a bite. He tore off a large piece and held it in his mouth, blowing on it. He was unwilling to spit it out even though he was grimacing from the heat.

After finally swallowing the barbecue in his mouth, he couldn't wait to start eating more.

Ji Nuan said "tsk tsk" in her heart. She didn't expect that he looked so scary just now, but he turned out to be a big foodie.

He absentmindedly turned the barbecue in his hand, glancing at the snake beastman from time to time, with a hint of anxiety in his eyes. Was the amount too small?

"Plop~" Suddenly, there was a sound of something heavy falling to the ground. A hint of joy flashed across Ji Nuan's eyes. She no longer cared about the barbecue and immediately stood up and looked in the direction of the snake beastman.

Sure enough, the orc who was enjoying his meal just now was now lying on the ground with his eyes wide open, with half of the barbecue still in his right hand.

Looking at Ji Nuan who was walking towards him slowly, his eyes were sinister: "What did you do?"

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