Zhou Ji didn't go out today. Why go out on a rainy day? He didn't want to get wet in the rain at all.
However, after seeing Kumano and the others coming back, he smeared some honey and spices on the remaining pentacron meat that Kumano had not finished eating, and grilled it again for him.
The people of the Big Bear Tribe use several methods to preserve food, but the two most commonly used methods are salting and roasting over fire.
They would salt food that they intended to store for a long time, then hang it in a cool, ventilated place to air dry; as for food that they intended to store for a short period of time, they would bake it, even repeatedly.
Zhou Ji doesn't like these two kinds of meat.
Because salt is very precious, the meat pickled with salt by the people in the tribe usually has a stale and corrupt smell. As for barbecued meat... just imagine how unpalatable it would be if it had been left for a few days.
But food is scarce in this place, so this seems to be the only way. Fortunately, the temperature is not high during this period, so food is easy to preserve.
After grilling the meat again, Zhou Ji cooked some mushrooms with the marinated ridgeback dragon meat that Kumano gave him.
Probably because they don’t know how to tell whether a mushroom is poisonous or not, the people in this tribe do not eat mushrooms, but this does not include Zhou Ji.
He made some delicious food, but didn't eat a single bite of it. He continued to eat fruits and vegetables - there was only dinosaur meat today, and he didn't want to taste it at all.
When Xiong Ye came back, Zhou Ji was already full: "I roasted your meat again and made some soup. Eat it while it's hot."
Kumano quickly noticed the processed grilled meat and the hot soup.
When he was a child and lived with his mother, his mother would never prepare food for him like this - at that time his mother would usually just tear off a piece of the meat when she grilled it herself and give it to him.
Kumano couldn't tell what he felt for a moment, and whispered, "Thank you."
"No need to thank me, you have helped me a lot." Zhou Ji said.
Xiong Ye put down the roasted meat that he had given to him today, and gave Zhou Ji the two pounds of minced meat that he had helped him get: "You didn't go to get the meat, so I got it for you! Also, you cooked your meat for me, this is not good."
When Xiongye put the meat in, he noticed that the meat he had saved was not missing at all. What Zhou Ji cooked for him should be the meat he gave Zhou Ji yesterday.
"I don't like eating meat, so I'll give it to you." Zhou Ji said.
"Don't like eating meat?" Xiong Ye looked at Zhou Ji in shock.
Zhou Ji nodded calmly.
Kumano: “…” There are people in this world who don’t like to eat meat? !
"Can you grow strong without eating meat?" Kumano was worried.
Zhou Ji felt that he was very strong: "It should be okay." When he first crossed over into this body, he felt that this body was full of energy and very powerful. Maybe it was because he had absorbed a lot of energy from the air recently, the white crystal core in his body had become much larger, and the energy contained in his body was even more abundant.
Although Zhou Ji said so, Xiong Ye still disagreed with him not eating meat - he would have no strength at all without eating meat!
"You still have to eat meat! Didn't you eat fish yesterday?" Kumano said. Even if Zhou Ji didn't participate in hunting and didn't need to change into animal form, he should still eat some meat.
"Fish meat tastes better than dinosaur meat." Zhou Ji said.
When Xiong Ye heard this, he couldn't help but envy Zhou Ji.
It was difficult for them to even get enough to eat, and Zhou Ji was actually a picky eater!
Zhou Ji's mother was really good to Zhou Ji.
Thinking of this, Kumano took the piece of pentagonal dragon meat that Zhou Ji had grilled for him again and took a bite.
He was given about 40 kilograms of pentaceratops meat. He ate 20 kilograms on the first day, 10 kilograms yesterday, and now has 10 kilograms left.
Generally speaking, meat that has been stored for two days is no longer very tasty, but when Kumano took a bite, he actually tasted a sweetness.
The sweet taste spread in his mouth and Kumano opened his eyes wide in surprise.
"This meat is sweet!" Kumano couldn't help but say.
"Yeah." Zhou Ji nodded. When he grilled the meat, he put some honey he had stolen from the beehive in it...and the little bear really liked it.
Xiong Ye was a little reluctant to eat the meat, and then he looked at the bowl of soup, a little surprised: "There are mushrooms in this soup? This kind of thing is poisonous and can't be eaten!"
"Some mushrooms are poisonous, some are not. This one is not poisonous and can be eaten." Zhou Ji said.
Xiong Ye glanced at Zhou Ji, poked a mushroom with chopsticks, sniffed it carefully, licked it, and finally took a small bite...
Zhou Ji added: "I have eaten it, it is not poisonous."
After studying it, Xiong Ye also felt that it was not poisonous. He put the mushroom into his mouth and said, "You must be careful in the future and don't eat messy things."
Zhou Ji agreed, and then saw Xiong Ye quickly eating all the soup and roasted meat he had cooked.
What a good appetite! It makes him hungry. He will go to his "room" early and buy himself something to eat.
Xiong Ye finished eating ten pounds of pentacron meat and a large pot of ridgeback dragon stewed with mushrooms, and stopped eating. He said to Zhou Ji, "I have an appointment with Hu Yue and Xiong Bai to go hunting tomorrow, so I'm going to sleep first."
He had always thought that Zhou Ji was stupid and foolish, but now it seems that is not the case.
Zhou Ji is actually very smart, but he just doesn’t like to communicate with others - he has never seen Zhou Ji talking to anyone other than him!
"Okay." Zhou Ji nodded.
Kumano slept very well again that night.
Zhou Ji, who put some juice of sedative plants in the barbecue and threw some grass with sedative effects into the fire, kept his achievements and fame to himself.
He prefers people who are full of energy, so let Kumano sleep well and stop being depressed.
Zhou Ji, who had been sleeping most of the day, ate something and continued to sleep.
It’s not necessarily true that he was sleeping... When he was "sleeping" with his eyes closed, he was using his mental power to capture the surrounding energy and then stuff it into his body.
After doing this, he would feel satisfied, as if he had had a full meal.
The next day, Zhou Ji woke up before dawn.
He yawned, sat down at the entrance of the cave, and then got out two vines and rubbed two stones to make a fire.
It is not easy to light a fire like this. People in the tribe usually go directly to the collective cave below where the fire is always lit to barbecue or start a fire, but he uses his mental power to speed up the friction, so he can still light the fire.
After the fire was lit, he put the meat that Zhou Ji had helped him get yesterday into the pot to make soup. By the way, he cut a piece of the roasted meat that Kumano brought back last night, spread some seasoning on it and roasted it.
The orcs in the Big Bear Tribe were used to eating one meal a day, but Zhou Ji thought that was not a good idea, so he just made some breakfast.
When Kumano woke up in the morning, he felt full of energy.
He slept very well again last night!
Kumano was a little confused about this situation, but he was still very happy. When he smelled the fragrance in the house, he felt even more inexplicably happy.
After seeing that Shi Li was really together with Lang Yin, he thought he would be very sad, but in fact he was not.
He ate well and slept well these two days.
"When did you get up?" Xiong Ye looked at Zhou Ji curiously. Zhou Ji had already gotten up, but he didn't even notice!
"I just got up not long ago." Zhou Ji said: "Are you too tired? You slept very soundly."
"It should be." Kumano scratched his hair, feeling a little embarrassed.
Zhou Ji hardly talked to the people in the tribe before, because he didn't know how to speak very well at that time, but he talked a lot with Xiong Ye in the past two days, and he spoke more fluently: "Drink some soup, you can take the barbecue with you on the road."
"Thank you... But forget about bringing barbecue. The smell of meat will attract carnivorous dinosaurs." Kumano said.
After hearing what Kumano said, Zhou Ji suddenly realized that orcs in this world are not actually at the top of the food chain.
There are all kinds of dinosaurs in this place. If so, there must be Tyrannosaurus Rex, Tarbosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus and other dinosaurs that are more than ten meters long. Compared with these dinosaurs, even if humans can become wild beasts, they are extremely small...
And he remembered that the largest dinosaur was thirty or forty meters long.
While Zhou Ji was thinking this, Xiong Ye had already eaten all the broth and barbecue. At this time, Xiong Bai also came.
"It smells so good! Xiong Ye, are you grilling meat?" Xiong Bai asked.
"Zhou Ji made barbecue and soup for me." said Xiong Ye.
Xiong Bai then looked at Zhou Ji: "You are quite well behaved! You will live here in Xiongye from now on, so you must take good care of Xiongye!"
Zhou Ji nodded, but Xiong Ye said, "I don't need anyone to take care of me."
Xiong Bai said: "Xiong Ye, he lives in your cave, he should help you with some work... We are too late, let's go."
Xiong Ye nodded, washed the stone pot briefly, and then said, "Let's go."
After Xiong Ye and Xiong Bai left, Zhou Ji climbed down the cave without taking anything with him.
The rain has stopped today, but there is no sun. Looking at the weather, it might rain again in the afternoon.
Zhou Ji didn't care and walked out slowly.
No one stopped him, but some people looked at him enviously.
"Zhou Ji is so lucky that he can live with Xiong Ye."
"Kumano is the most generous. Maybe he will share his food with him."
"Not necessarily? Kumano has always hated lazy people."
…
While these people were talking, Yang Su came out from somewhere and spit at Zhou Ji.
Zhou Ji dodged. This naughty kid was really annoying. No, this wasn’t a naughty kid, this was a sheep kid…
Yang Su fell again for unknown reasons and fell into a pile of feces, which made him feel sick and vomit.
When Zhou Ji arrived outside the tribe, his mental power spread around his body and he began to observe the surrounding situation.
He seemed to be walking leisurely and slowly, but actually he was not slow because every step he took was in the right place. Not only was he never tripped by plants, but there were even plants under his feet to help him walk steadily.
He just walked like that, as if he was taking a stroll, and his whole body was completely integrated into the forest.
Along the way, he encountered some small dinosaurs the size of turkeys, as well as some snakes, insects, rats, ants, frogs and lizards. He watched with great interest but did not take any action.
The lively little guy, he liked it as soon as he saw it!
Zhou Ji walked to a huge beehive and started...stealing honey.
He found a relatively large bamboo, cleaned it and made it into a container, and used a thin bamboo tube to steal some honey from the hive.
After collecting a bamboo tube of honey, he continued walking forward, observing the plants around him as he walked to see if there was anything he could use.
Whenever he came across something usable, he would ripen it and then get the seeds.
His plant power was rapidly depleted, but the surrounding energy was replenished into his body.
This is a very magical place.
While Zhou Ji was strolling slowly, Xiong Ye and Hu Yue Xiong Bai encountered an elephant bird.
The elephant bird is three meters long and weighs about the same as Kumano's current beast form, at least four to five hundred kilograms. Its thick legs are much thicker than those of Kumano's human form.
"The elephant bird is very strong and has sharp claws, making it difficult to deal with... Why don't we change the target?" Xiong Bai suggested as he looked at the elephant bird, which was several times larger than himself - this bird was too big and its claws were too sharp.
But Kumano stared at the elephant bird for a while and said, "I want to catch it!"
Hu Yue was a belligerent by nature, and after hearing what Kumano said, he also became interested: "I want to catch it, too! When I catch it, give me the feathers of this bird!"
"Sure." Xiong Ye said, and then asked: "What do you want the hair for?"
Hu Yue said: "I want to have a baby, so I need to prepare something to make a nest for him!"
"Who are you going to have a baby with?" Kumano couldn't help but be curious.
Hu Yue said, "I haven't thought about it yet. Let's wait until the salt exchange team comes back." Xiong Ye and Shi Li are the two strongest men in the younger generation, but some older people in the tribe are still a little stronger than them - even if their beast forms are similar to theirs, the older people are always more experienced.
These people went out to exchange for salt.
Hu Yue looks down on men of the same age, so if she wants to find a suitable partner, she can only look for one in the salt changing team.
The three of them discussed it and set up an ambush again.
They were lucky as the elephant bird actually fell into their ambush!
Xiong Ye and Xiong Bai jumped onto the elephant bird's back, while Hu Yue attacked the elephant bird's neck...
Their attack immediately angered the elephant bird.
The elephant bird flapped its wings and kicked at Kumano with its strong legs.
In addition, Hu Yue's bite failed to capture the thick feathers on its body, and he only bit off a few feathers.
The two sides immediately started fighting...
In the end, the three Kumano men won, but they looked a little embarrassed because of the elephant bird.
There was a long cut on Kumano's belly caused by the elephant bird's sharp claws.
"This elephant bird is not easy to deal with, but it can train our ability to cooperate, which is good." Hu Yue turned into a human form, rubbed his shoulder that was pecked black by the elephant bird, and felt that he had learned a lot: "We will definitely be able to cooperate better and better in the future!"
"I didn't think too much about it. I just thought that this elephant bird... should be delicious." Kumano turned into a human form, looked at the wound on his stomach, and put some mud on it to stop the bleeding.
Hu Yue and Xiong Bai: "..." When did you start to care about taste?
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The elephant bird was still alive in the 17th century, weighing 500 kilograms. It was not as powerful as it was written to be, and then it was eaten by humans...
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